novel-books Chapter 726 Block Universe
Chapter 726 Block Universe
Chapter 726 Block Universe (4000 words)
"What?! My little sister isn't here?!"
"What?! Xiao He went to another boundary marker?!"
"What?! The boundary marker is near the Eridanus Cave?!"
That was so exciting, wasn't it?!
The Lin family looked disappointed; Xiao He was not in the Star Alliance.
Heartbroken, sad, disappointed, distressed...
Changqing wanted to say something more, but then Star Alliance received a public message.
"It was sent by the Suixing Civilization. Did you receive it?" Weasley asked Chang Qing.
Chang Qing: "Received it, it seems to be related to some kind of apocalypse."
Weasley...
Even if it's the end of the world, how can you still be so calm?
Chang Qingmu said with a blank face, "Otherwise what? It's not like this is the first time we've experienced the end of the world."
Weasley and Dong Yuxuan were taken aback; what he said made sense. Although that apocalypse wasn't the real apocalypse, being in that situation certainly made it feel like the end of the world.
Thinking about it this way, there's really no need to be nervous about the end of the world.
Chang Qing refused to enter the Star Alliance and stated that he would not hand over the Lin family members if Lin Xiaohe was not present.
"Suit yourself." Weasley wasn't even welcoming this troublemaker into the Covenant.
The two tacitly maintained a certain distance until Weasley finally received Melina's message.
[The Eridanus Confluence has an abnormal void, and the boundary marker node is in danger! We must proceed to the boundary marker node immediately.]
I'll bang it!
Weasley immediately convened an emergency Covenant meeting, with all civilizations focusing their attention on the Eridanus Void.
"The Eridanus Void is indeed expanding. We recommend that all Covenant civilizations maintain their current positions and refrain from large-scale spatial maneuvers or gathering towards the boundary marker. Any mass migration could further disturb the rift and accelerate the annihilation process."
The movement of a massive object generates gravitational wave disturbances, and with the Eridanus Crack already extremely fragile, any additional disturbance could be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
More importantly, it's too dangerous over there.
As the chief scientific advisor of the Star Alliance, Xue Pingping, a pure-blooded human, should have been sitting by the central computing pool, performing various calculations. However, she chose to stand at the highest point of the Eden Ring, overlooking the entire starry sea.
She knew that no matter what the attitudes of the representatives of each civilization were, the final decision of the conference would not change.
As expected, after the meeting, the Covenant activated its highest-level operational command for the first time.
"Star Alliance, all convert!"
The command spread across hundreds of light-years in a fraction of a second.
Every node, every star, every starport, every root of the World Tree, every abyssal whale swimming in Jupiter's helium sea, every sleeping or awakened stardust human, cultivator, rock race, or insectoid giant tomb all received the same command simultaneously.
[Switch to Starship Mode. Destination: Node Boundary Marker. Proceed!]
The World Tree was the first to respond.
Hundreds of "star roots" connecting star systems began to contract, like the tentacles of an octopus, coiling back from the far end to the trunk at an astonishing speed.
One by one, the stargates along the way closed, and the ships that were "traversing the network" were gently ejected and reappeared in normal space.
The captains stared blankly at the star map.
The World Tree is disappearing; the once luminous network that covered hundreds of light-years is shrinking at a visible speed into a huge, dense, pulsating core.
Then comes the Eden Ring.
The luminous ring, whose diameter exceeded that of Jupiter's orbit, began to slowly rotate and accelerate, while tens of thousands of ports inside the ring simultaneously released all the docked ships.
A deep rumble came from the direction of Jupiter. Tens of thousands of Rock Race Awakeners were distributed at different depths of Jupiter, their bodies resonating with the metallic hydrogen ocean inside Jupiter, using technology accumulated over hundreds of years to shift the entire planet's center of mass in one direction.
Jupiter is no longer a planet; it is becoming a gravitational lens, a thruster, and the combustion chamber of a Covenant-class engine.
The Zerg Graveyard simultaneously began to metamorphose.
Those living, breathing ports rearranged their biomass, stretching from disc-shaped to streamlined long shuttles, clinging tightly to the outside of the Eden Ring.
Inside the giant tomb's hatching chamber, hundreds of millions of Zerg worker bees swarmed out, using biomass ropes to bind and secure the loose Covenant components, attaching them to the giant tomb's carapace like barnacles.
Almost simultaneously, the most fundamental change occurred on the planet Guixu.
After evacuating life from the planet's surface, Guixu Star was compressed from a planet with a diameter of several thousand kilometers into a neutron star core with a diameter of less than ten kilometers and a density of almost infinite matter!
Its surface is no longer rock and metal, but a dense, luminous plasma with a pulse frequency perfectly synchronized with the collective consciousness of the Stardust Humans.
At this moment, if someone were to observe from a sufficiently great distance, they would witness a spectacle on a cosmic scale.
Everything within a range of hundreds of light-years, including stars, planets, starports, fleets, and living beings, is converging and reorganizing at the same point, forging a physical network of civilizations into a single, complete, and living spacecraft.
The stars were not moved, but the Covenant turned each star into its own "lighthouse".
Through gravitational wave relay, the gravitational field of each star is recoded, becoming a navigational beacon for Star Alliance navigation.
As the Covenant began to transform, it slowly moved toward the boundary marker.
The same applies to any movement involving an enormous volume: it starts slowly, even at a snail's pace, but once the transformation is complete and the engine is ignited, its massive size becomes part of the power source.
Evergreen's piercing boat, like a passerby, calmly observed this transformation.
"You guys are absolutely insane..."
These people are creating the largest mass migration in the history of the entire Local Supercluster. This will irreversibly alter local spacetime.
If it fails...
The chaotic gravitational waves would be torn to shreds by the neutron engine.
“Yes, we’re crazy.” Xue Pingping said, looking at the screen in the research lab.
Everyone in the lab was incredibly busy.
A single transformation could unleash the full power of the Star Alliance, including its technology and resource reserves.
Every inch the Covenant-class starship moves consumes enough resources to make the two great divine kingdoms go numb.
They need to calculate a star route that allows them to receive supplies at any time.
In order to save time, the initial star route sacrificed some of its supply lines.
Xue Pingping let out a long sigh. Well, the ideological imprint that Weasley and Melina had left on her for many years had a remarkable effect.
The moment the star path was determined, the Eden Ring began to spin wildly at near-light speed.
The rotation generates gravitational waves powerful enough to move an object three light-years in diameter. The shift in Jupiter's center of mass amplifies this effect.
The Covenant has moved! Like an object in a painting suddenly deciding to leave the canvas, the Covenant sphere, with a counterintuitive smoothness, silently glided out of its original spatial position and slowly headed towards the Eridanus constellation.
The Covenant's spherical outline moved slowly across the starry sky. On its surface, the psionic purple light of the Zerg Graveyard intertwined with the golden glow of the Eden Ring.
The blue-white pulses of the Guixu Star radiate outward at a constant frequency.
……
Inside the boundary marker, not many people chose to walk with Lin Xiaohe.
The last time they didn't join her in attacking the City of No Return, they had already lost the courage to follow.
This time, the collapse of the underworld completely crushed them.
They would rather wallow in despair here than embark on a path with no clear direction or future.
Lin Xiaohe ignored the people who stayed behind and resolutely entered the circular passage.
In the passage, there was no light, no walls, no direction, and even the concept of "darkness" was removed.
Then, the passage ended.
The perspective was pulled out of some kind of container, like a drop of water rising from the ocean, and everyone saw a strange sight.
"What is this?" Xinbao's CPU was about to burn out.
Xiao Hei clung tightly to Lin Xiaohe, oblivious to everything around him.
This is a geometric solid.
It hovered in front of Lin Xiaohe's consciousness, crystal clear and still.
Billions of rivers of light crisscross within the geometry, each one a world line.
The complete journey of a photon from birth to annihilation, the entire existence of a proton from the dawn of the universe to the end of time.
These rivers do not flow; they are solidified, like patterns in amber, eternally preserving the form in which they once "flowed."
Light is neither wave nor particle within it, but rather the texture of spacetime itself.
Stars are not burning spheres, but bright spots on the surface of geometric shapes.
Galaxies are not rotating disks, but rather swirling patterns formed by clusters of bright spots.
The past and the future unfolded simultaneously before Lin Xiaohe's eyes.
She could see dinosaurs walking on Earth, and at the same time, she could see the last star going out in the distant future.
She saw the origin of the gods and the divine heirs sealed inside the boundary markers.
There are also mutated Star Alliance-class starships and arrival markers, which coexist with the high-level Domain Venerables of the Primordial God Kingdom who are lying in ambush nearby.
This……
Lin Xiaohe stared blankly as she experienced everything.
The understanding of the universe by this interstellar civilization has been completely overturned.
She thought the universe was expanding, evolving, and moving in a certain direction.
She believed that her choice could change the future.
She once thought that free will had meaning.
But everything she saw before her told her that she was completely wrong!
The universe is not a blank sheet of paper being written on. It is a book that has already been written, bound, and can never be revised.
Xinbao saw herself, that trembling Stardust Wheat plant hidden in the Stardust Wheat field, thirsting for life.
I also saw that wheat stalk was pretending to bump into something, and Xiao He held it in her hands.
Seeing them grow up together, experience things together, separate and reunite.
Xiao Hei also found itself. In the thick fog, it was taken away by Xiao He. It quietly grew, watching with envy as Xiao He and Xin Bao interacted with Dou Dou.
That was a life it had never experienced or seen before.
Those initial encounters were found by it at first glance!
Xinbao asked the question that was on everyone's mind: "Xiaohe, what is this?"
Lin Xiaohe twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a wry smile: "A block of universes."
"Past, present, and future coexist. You think you're making choices, but you're just slowly gliding along a pre-carved track. Time doesn't flow; the future is already written."
Xinbao: "Huh?!"
Lin Xiaohe: "Time itself does not flow. The entire universe is just a flat layer of all time in a four-dimensional spacetime, without any sequence. If there really is an eye of God... sigh, we are the eye of God now."
"Therefore, we can see these things. This universe is like a piece of amber, preserving all of spacetime."
Xinbao seemed to understand, yet also seemed not to: "If everything is already predetermined, then what is the point of our memories? Why can we remember the past, but not foresee the future?"
Lin Xiaohe: "Because of the law of entropy increase. Everything spontaneously moves from order (low entropy) to chaos (high entropy). Our brains are also locked by this law, and can only proceed in the direction of entropy increase. Only those high-entropy states that have already happened and become established facts can leave stable traces in the brain. For those low-entropy states that have not yet happened and are full of possibilities, they cannot form residual neural memories."
Xinbao understood: "It's not time that's flowing, but rather our consciousness is like a small flashlight that can only shine forward. The point it illuminates is our present perception. The path it has traversed is our past and memories. The dark areas it doesn't illuminate are the future we think hasn't arrived yet."
"Yes, that's exactly what I mean."
Everyone fell silent.
If fate is predetermined, and if effort is futile, is it meaningful for them to persist for so long and endure so much suffering?
They looked at the last point in time in the amber, which was nothingness.
Nothingness remains.
My Dao heart is shattered!
Xiao Hei rubbed against Lin Xiaohe's leg and suddenly said, "The block universe is not the only one."
"Ok?"
Xiao Hei: "If there were only one universe, we could never have the eye of God and would never be able to see the scene we are in now."
Listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books.
Xinbao snapped out of her confusion and shock: "Yes! According to the many universes theory, the universe is like an amoeba. After the electron passes through the double slits, the worm splits and multiplies into two almost identical amoebas. The only difference is that one worm only remembers that the electron passed from the left, and the other worm only remembers that the electron passed from the right. The two worlds are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other."
"The block universe may not be just one piece, but countless overlapping slices of spacetime. Every quantum observation, every tiny choice, can give rise to entirely new branches of spacetime. And the spacetime of each branch, like the block universe, is complete and fixed!"
Doesn't that connect the dots?!
Lin Xiaohe summarized: "We came here by reverse-direction through the boundary markers and gained the Eye of God. The boundary markers are products of extraterrestrial demons. Based on this, we can infer that the universe of these extraterrestrial demons and our block universe partially overlap! The boundary markers are part of this overlap. Therefore, we can break free from the block universe perspective and see the true universe of our own!"
Two books that were originally independent and would never intersect were read and placed together.
This is the origin of the extraterrestrial demons!