Hogwarts and the Unspeakable

Chapter 128 At the bottom of the world (5)

Snape was silent for a few seconds.

There was no light here, but Alan could see Snape's lips quivering.

His expression looked cold and sharp.

while in the sky,

The dragon is flying with the tapeworm. . .

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"Silence is golden in the night sky." - Nico Bostrom.

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"let us start."

Snape said silently.

There is no need to go to a darker place. It seems that this is the darkest place in the universe.

There's no place where the main organism would be maggots, right?

Except for the sewers and the world at large.

Maybe the whole world is a sewer, a joke.

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"Let's first find two concepts: Hawking's paradox and Fermi's paradox."

"I don't know whether you know it, but since your father is Sir Humphrey Appleby, I assume that you know."

(Iwonderweatheryoureallyknow sentence pattern)

"Perhaps it won't surprise you that Stephen Hawking is British."

(butitmaynotsupriseyouthat)

Allen's eyes suddenly widened.

In a previous life, Britain seemed to be a far away place.

But now it suddenly becomes a corner within easy reach.

In fact, he was not clearly prepared in his heart, and he did not even realize this accurately.

However, Snape was right.

Allen knows,

Stephen Hawking, student at Oxford University and alumnus of Sir Humphrey.

Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CH) and Commander of the Order of Merit (CBE) (C.M.G).

Yes, it was the C.M.G that Bernard had met before.

In the department, C.M.G. is known as callmegod (call me God).

When thinking about this,

Only then did Allen truly realize that the imaginary past world had intertwined with the current Britain.

At this moment, Allen's mind went back and forth.

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"Looking at your expression, you should also know something about Dr. Hawking."

Snape spoke with a silent and suppressed expression.

"He worked in Cambridge, and we met once a few years ago, probably in 1983."

"He was facing the public, and I was hiding in the shadow of the lights."

"I had a conversation with him in 83."

"In 1975, God. I was 15 years old."

"He proposed the 'black hole' hypothesis at that time."

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"Black hole?"

Allen's eyes brightened.

With the popularization of science by Dr. Hawking, the term "black hole" has become popular.

Snape continued to elaborate.

"There is such a celestial body in the universe."

"His gravity is so great that it can attract everything, including light."

“The black hole is the most peculiar and mysterious celestial body in the universe. It is a source of super strong gravity and a distorter of space and time. Its super strong gravity makes even the fastest light in the universe be pulled by it and cannot escape from it. "Devil's Palm". It is a "hole" formed in time and space. It is constantly accreting the surrounding matter and increasing its mass. It is also a "robber" in the air and a "cage" of photons. It is insatiable and never-ending. Devouring everything around it.”

"For this reason, humans will never be able to specifically detect black holes. Perhaps they can only photograph them, but not further study them."

"To humans, it seems forever unknowable."

"Perhaps, in the foreseeable future, humans will never be able to know what is where."

Snape paused again.

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"Then here comes the problem."

"For a physicist, a black hole or a sugar cube are extremely complex objects, because their complete description, including their atomic and nuclear structure, requires billions of parameters. With this, billions of parameters are required. In contrast, a physicist studying the outside of a black hole has no such problem. A black hole is an extremely simple object, and if you know its mass, angular momentum and charge, you know everything about it."

Allen was a little confused.

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"simply put."

"A black hole absorbs everything. Where does the stuff it absorbs go?"

Snape asked seriously.

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Allen shook his head in confusion.

"You do not know?"

Snape asked.

Allen shook his head again.

"I don't know either. No one knows."

"But maybe today, I already know."

Snape's eyes were confused and a little desperate.

His eyes looked to the sky.

Of course, at the "bottom of the world", the sky does not exist, he just raises his neck.

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“Does it matter where the food the black hole eats goes?”

Allen asked confused.

He thought Snape was only interested in becoming the Headmaster of Hogwarts and taking revenge on Team James.

Snape nodded.

"important."

"Very important."

"Because he's relevant to the next question."

"The Fermi Paradox."

Alan remembered what Snape had just said.

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"Exactly."

"Dude, you look a little down. But I still know about the Fermi Paradox."

"Oh? It's a pity that I was born a little late and didn't get to meet Fermi."

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“There are two things which, the more often and permanently we think about them, the more they fill the mind with an ever-new and ever-increasing admiration and awe: the starry sky above me, and the moral law that dwells within me.” - Kant, "Practical Reason" criticism"

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"Some people see stars when they look up at the sky."

"When some people look up at the stars, they see haze."

“When some people look up at the stars, they see the moral law.”

"Some people asked a question while looking up at the stars."

"In 1950, when the physicist Enrico Fermi was chatting with his colleagues, the topic turned to UFOs and aliens. During the conversation, Fermi raised this famous paradox: "So where are they? Woolen cloth? "

"Where are they?"

"There are only three simple words, but they bring us endless imagination."

"It has considerable influence in the astronomical community because it is based on scientifically discovered facts: the ancient Milky Way is about 100 billion years old, but the space diameter of the Milky Way is only about 10 light-years. That is to say, even if Aliens soar through space at only one thousandth of the speed of light, and it only takes them about 1 million years to cross the Milky Way—this time is far shorter than the age of the Milky Way. And based solely on mathematical probability analysis, In the vast universe, there should be many stars similar to the earth that are suitable for the existence of life. And among them, some stars are much older than the earth. Therefore, the life on them has evolved much earlier than on the earth. of human beings.”

"In 1969, humans even landed on the moon."

"For decades, we have detected most of the planets and their major moons in the solar system, tracking the microwave signals emitted by thousands of planets."

"But nothing was found, nothing, no information at all."

"Nothing at all."

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"The Milky Way is so big."

"There should have been thousands, millions of civilizations in the Milky Way."

"Why, we didn't find anything?"

"Dear aliens, where the hell are you?"

Snape cursed.

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"Isn't the Dragonborn an alien?"

Alan asked.

Don't ask.