Super Dimension Technology Era

His eyes returned to the cold and dark cypress belt.

The dead silence of hundreds of millions of years was broken by a faint blue light, which was the Exploration 0016 satellite.

The Cooper Belt is extremely empty. Apart from the Plutoid celestial bodies, there are particles floating in the void and high-energy rays coming from all directions.

In the void that is difficult to observe with the naked eye, gravitational waves are like ocean waves, filling every corner.

They may come from the sun, Neptune, Pluto... and the mysterious hole in the void.

The Exploration 0016 satellite, which has modified its flight destination, is using its plasma engine to accelerate towards the wormhole while absorbing the surrounding free particles.

Originally, the exploration of the 0016 satellite did not require acceleration. However, after the destination was changed from the previous 9 billion-kilometer orbit of the sun to the 37.1 billion-kilometer orbit of the sun, the voyage has increased by more than four times. It cannot be done without accelerating.

Through the continuous acceleration of the plasma engine, the speed of the Exploration 0016 satellite has increased to 844 kilometers per second.

As it gets closer to the wormhole, the satellite receives more and more gravitational wave signals, and the data from the wormhole becomes clearer and clearer.

This mysterious wormhole was named "Nemesis" by the Astronomical Association.

The reason why it is called the Nemesis is actually related to the "Nemesis Hypothesis" of the last century.

In the long 4.6 billion-year history of Blue Star, numerous large and small extinction events have occurred. Putting these extinction events together, we can vaguely see some patterns.

Geologists, paleontologists and astrophysicists have conducted detailed statistical analysis of the decline in biodiversity in different historical periods, and a rough cycle can be seen.

This mysterious phenomenon has led many scientists to believe that the extinction events on the blue star follow a peculiar pattern of recurring cycles of 26 million years.

It seems that a mysterious force appears regularly, erasing the main species on the Blue Star to make way for new species, and the forces within the Blue Star cannot provide an explanation for the periodic extinctions.

So in the last century, some scientists opened their minds to outer space and proposed the "Nemesis Hypothesis."

In short, the Nemesis hypothesis is that the sun has a brown dwarf or red dwarf companion that revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit with a very high eccentricity.

According to its revolution period, it can be calculated that the far end of its orbit is 1.5 light-years away from the sun, outside the Oort cloud.

When it enters the solar system, its gravity will disturb the objects in the Oort cloud, causing a large number of comets and asteroids to enter the inner solar system and bombard all the planets.

Comets and meteorites are incredibly destructive to the biosphere, and if this theory were true, periodic extinctions would be no surprise.

This mysterious killer hidden in the solar system is called the Nemesis.

Although there are indeed strange disturbances in the Oort Cloud and the Cypress Belt, the search for Nemesis has not gone smoothly.

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, multiple searches by different teams failed.

At the same time, most paleontologists have gradually reached a consensus: mass extinction events are not cyclical.

As a result, the hypothesis of the Nemesis Star came to an end.

However, the strange disturbances of the Oort Cloud and the cliff phenomenon of the Cooper Belt have become a mystery in the mind of an astronomer.

The Kuiper belt cliff zone refers to the distance at the 2:5 resonance that is approximately near the sun's 8.25 billion-kilometer orbit. The early Kuiper belt model believed that the number of large celestial bodies beyond the sun's 7.5 billion-kilometer orbit should increase by two orders of magnitude.

But in fact, the number of large celestial bodies in this area did not increase but decreased. It is called the "cypress belt cliff". It was completely unexpected, and its cause is still unclear.

Astronomers of the new era have found evidence that celestial bodies with a diameter of 100 kilometers or larger do indeed suddenly decrease in a large area behind the 7.5 billion-kilometer orbit of the sun. This is not a deviation caused by observation.

Some astronomers once proposed the "dark blue star hypothesis", believing that there is a celestial body about the same size as a blue star in the Kuiper belt cliff zone, which may explain this phenomenon.

It is a pity that the high-precision astronomical telescopes, radio telescopes, infrared telescopes and neutrino detectors of the new era have not detected the existence of "dark blue stars" in this area.

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After introducing the gravitational field of the wormhole, the causes of the Cooper Belt cliff phenomenon and the Oort cloud disturbance were finally revealed.

No wonder astronomical telescopes have been unable to observe this celestial body. It turns out to be a wormhole hidden in the void.

If it is a natural wormhole, it cannot appear so close to the solar system, because the gravitational strength of a natural wormhole is not weaker than that of a black hole.

A natural wormhole with a diameter of 3,734 meters generates a gravitational field that is enough to destroy the solar system, and even neutron stars cannot withstand it.

If the wormhole was created by the Nibelungs, this means that the wormhole must allow normal matter to pass safely (the Nibelungs are also made of normal matter). Otherwise, what is the purpose of this wormhole?

As for how the Nibelungs created wormholes, Huang Mingzhe had some speculations in his mind, such as the energy siphon effect, which may be the key technology for lighting artificial wormholes.

Unfortunately, the terrible consequences of the energy siphon effect have discouraged new humans.

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The Exploration 0016 satellite continues to fly outside the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt ranges between the 6 billion-kilometer orbit and the 30 billion-kilometer orbit of the sun. Beyond the 30 billion-kilometer orbit is the Oort cloud area.

The Nemesis wormhole is located right at the junction of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt, which is why the wormhole's gravitational field disrupts surrounding celestial bodies.

Data along the way is continuously fed back to the Lunar Space Communication Center.

These iron-clad data force all astrophysicists and astronomers to accept Huang Mingzhe's model.

After all impossibilities have been eliminated, what remains is the truth, no matter how unreasonable it may be.

What exactly is on the other side of the wormhole? The unknown horror makes all those who know the truth full of curiosity and inexplicable uneasiness.

Even if they know that curiosity may kill the cat, no one will sit idly by. The existence of the Nemesis wormhole itself is a huge threat to the solar system.

New humanity will not give up until they understand the secret behind the Nemesis Wormhole.

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The external disturbances did not affect Huang Mingzhe's research work. He continued to study degenerate materials in depth with Ma Zhili, Li Qun and others.

The Nibelungs are what new humanity will face sooner or later. Whether they are dead or alive is crucial to the new humanity.

Huang Mingzhe did not rely on the black hole bomb. The speed of this thing was a flaw.

In the interstellar age, speed is king.

Nowadays, the speed of the new humanity's spaceship cannot even exceed one thousandth of the speed of light. How can it face the Nibelungs who can develop the speed of the spacecraft to 10% of the speed of light?

Forging iron requires one's own hardness. Huang Mingzhe needs to upgrade the materials for new humans. Degeneracy is a very clear general direction.

March 11, 3rd year of the New Era.

The large particle collider in Lunar Sea City is once again surging with violent energy, like an unprecedented flow of particles, creating the most terrifying celestial bodies in the universe and the strongest materials.

He has figured out why the N16 material of the Nibelung spacecraft can have such a long life.

Today's experiment is to verify his theory.

Li Qun and others on the side were also full of expectations and apprehension.

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