I farmed in military academy and crushed the entire intergalactic world.

Chapter 474 The Theory of Three Locks

Luna looked down and saw Professor Chen's bald head and a few sparse white hairs scattered around it.

"Professor Chen, we all hope you can live."

Professor Chen was breathing heavily.

Every breath should be taken with all your might.

The shadow of death had already loomed over him.

"Luna, there's an old saying in the East: 'To be old and not die is to be a thief.'"

Luna retorted, "There's an old saying in the East: 'An elder in the family is a treasure.' Professor Liu has already had a mechanical heart and an artificial kidney, and his recovery is going very well. Aren't you and Professor Liu good friends? Why don't you give it a try?"

Professor Chen stood in front of the Meridian Gate, seemingly across time and space, seeing the crowds of tourists of yesteryear.

"Luna, I'm dying. Please don't make things difficult for an old woman who's about to die, okay?"

His pursuits and Lao Liu's pursuits have never been the same.

Old Liu has endured until now, just to see Lin Xiaohe one more time.

I am different; I pursue science and truth.

Luna simply couldn't persuade him.

No one on the entire planet could persuade him.

After visiting the Forbidden City, Professor Chen wanted to see the vegetable garden that Lin Xiaohe had cultivated at the military academy.

The requirement was simple: Ah Lian was in charge of the vegetable garden.

A-Lian patted the dirt off her hands and welcomed Luna and Professor Chen in, saying apologetically, "This is a top-secret unit, so taking photos is not allowed."

Luna gave an OK sign: "I understand."

The two did not chat; instead, they devoted themselves to accompanying Professor Chen.

Professor Chen didn't do anything; he simply went to the shady spot where Lin Xiaohe often stayed and stared blankly at the sky.

His life force was constantly slipping away.

"What do you think Lin Xiaohe was thinking when she stood here?"

Luna and Alian looked at each other, both sensing the other's predicament.

Fortunately, Professor Chen didn't need their answers; he was talking to himself instead.

“I have been doing scientific research for many years, from basic science to applied science, a wide range and a broad scope. However, the more I research, the more desperate I become.”

"In times of peace, many science fiction works have appeared on Earth, and governments around the world have spent a lot of money to explore the stars."

"They have proposed many theories and made many discoveries, but in fact, they are all lies. The truth is that humanity will never be able to leave the Milky Way. It's not that we can't do it in 1 years, it's not that we can't do it in 1 million years, it's that we will never be able to do it."

what?
The illiterate A-Lian stammered, "Really? Many contestants from the Eastern Kingdom, including Li Dawei, have said that the cosmic journey of Guixu Star has already reached outside the Milky Way."

Professor Chen's lips curled up slightly, his smile strange and meaningful: "Yes, that's what they all say. But various mathematical theorems and physical laws tell us that the universe sentenced Blue Star to death 46 billion years ago."

"The three locks have completely blocked Earth's exploration of beyond the Milky Way."

Luna's eyelids twitched, and she gave A-Lian a meaningful look.

After hesitating for a moment, Ah Lian nodded slightly.

Luna silently turned on the communicator in her hand and put it on silent mode.

Professor Chen speaks very slowly, pausing to catch his breath after each sentence.

"These three locks are the light-speed wall, the energy black hole, and the time trap." "The edge of the Milky Way is expanding at a speed of 200 kilometers per second. According to special relativity, the universe has set an ultimate speed for every object: 30 kilometers per second. At this speed, it would take 4.2 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, and 26 years to reach the center of the Milky Way. To escape the Milky Way, it would take at least 000 years. And this is not a technological problem, but a physical rule."

"Huh?! How did the Star Alliance do that?" A-Lian's mind was completely confused.

Professor Chen glanced at her and coughed twice: "That's a good question. Remember it."

He continued, "When you try to accelerate an object with mass, the faster it goes, the greater its mass becomes. If you accelerate a tiny screw to near the speed of light, its mass is infinite. If you want to accelerate it further, you might need the energy of the entire universe."

So, how did the Covenant manage to travel faster than the speed of light with so many magnificent starships?
Professor Chen lowered his eyes.

These questions had been on his mind for a long time.

To accelerate a 1-kilogram object to 90% of the speed of light, the energy required is equivalent to detonating 2000 atomic bombs.

A manned spacecraft weighs at least 100 tons, which means that the entire mass of Jupiter would need to be converted into pure energy.

Jupiter is a gas giant with a mass 318 times that of Earth. There are only eight gas giants in the entire Milky Way galaxy.

This is only for acceleration; the spaceship will need the same amount of energy to decelerate.

To complete one round trip, at least 1400 Jupiters would need to be burned up.

Professor Chen said in a heavy tone, "This is the second lock, the energy black hole."

Upon hearing this, Luna, Alian, and Yuan Lang on the other end of the communicator all felt an overwhelming sense of insignificance and powerlessness.

Professor Chen jokingly spoke about the third lock: "Suppose we really do board a spaceship that travels close to the speed of light. When we fly to the center of the Milky Way, it may only take 20 years, but for Earth, it would take 50,000 years."

The "three locks" theory left everyone speechless.

Luna broke out in a cold sweat, her voice hoarse as she said, "Perhaps the Covenant's starships came here through a wormhole."

Professor Chen said quietly, "Opening a stable wormhole requires negative energy matter. We have never caught a trace of negative energy matter; it seems to exist only in theory."

Ah Lian hugged her arms and rubbed the goosebumps that had risen on them.

She understood Professor Chen's core question: if Earth is a prisoner of the universe, why was the Star Alliance able to enter the Milky Way? Why did Li Dawei and the other contestants from the Eastern Kingdom say that the space force of Guixu Star had already flown out of the Milky Way?

If we set aside the extreme admiration for Principal Lin and think about this issue with extremely calm scientific thinking, the implications are chilling.

Luna crouched down beside him, raised her head slightly, looked up at Professor Chen, and said softly, "Professor Chen, what do you think are the possibilities?"

Professor Chen: "It is possible that our fundamental physical rules and basic disciplines have been fixed by some kind of entity."

Luna was speechless. If such a being truly existed, it would be even more powerful than a god.

Professor Chen's eyes were unfocused: "It's also possible that what we see isn't real. Or even that we ourselves are unreal. It's like a giant online game where we control our characters to fly from city A to city B, which theoretically takes 10 days, but online it only takes a second."

Luna pinched herself hard without making it obvious.

pain.

It hurts.

Pain shouldn't lie, right? I must really exist, right?
The communicator on my wrist was vibrating incessantly.

Luna licked her dry lips and asked in a softer voice, "Professor Chen, which one do you think it is?"

Professor Chen's pupils began to dilate, his voice barely audible: "Ants can't see a human finger hovering above them, so they're two-dimensional beings. We're like ants, unable to see the true nature of the universe. I think..."

Luna waited a long time for what was to come, and when she looked closely, she saw that Professor Chen was no longer breathing.

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　　This article is more theoretical, but it's not just filler; it touches on some later settings and relates to the Ruins of Return, etc.
　　(End of this chapter)