Suddenly, the lighting disappeared and the space inside the furnace returned to its original appearance.
Jiang Ling disconnected the shared visual signal between the two, and the world transformed into a virtual state simulated by brain nerves. The first wall of unknown material blocked the natural expansion of psychic perception, but enhanced the intensity of perception within the known area. Coupled with the synergistic effect of the exoskeleton's modules, psychic abilities were instantly strengthened to an unprecedented level.
Now I can touch time and space.
Jiang Ling muttered to herself.
She could now clearly sense that the things that helped her were alive.
For thousands of years, in order to enable other awakened people to reach the same level, the community's top scientists and engineers have used universal quantum supercomputers to work day and night to manufacture and test hundreds of thousands of special materials, including natural, artificial, inorganic, and organic ones. Finally, they found several possible configurations, but the raw material that actually went on the production line was an ancient bacterium from the Earth's oceans.
While human civilization might be able to break away from its home planet and soar into the universe, if it wishes to further its development, it will inevitably be unable to escape the pull of planetary gravity. The value a planet can generate far exceeds that of a massive, long-distance ship. Not to mention the various resources a planet possesses, the changes its natural environment alone can bring to human society are immeasurable. Change increases complexity, and the greater the complexity, the greater the tolerance for change.
People need change, and therefore they also need gravity. But it is clear that the method of creating simulated gravity by spin is definitely very rudimentary, and a more promising method may be what Jiang Ling is about to see.
In the silent, lightless darkness, the small drum on her right suddenly raised all four arms and pointed the palms of her hands at the three people. She cried out, as if crying but also as if happily, "No, I'm going to lose it!", and then a huge pulling force suddenly appeared there.
Jiang Ling quickly used her telekinesis to support herself against the wall and steady her body.
"Number three, let's get started." Zheng reminded, "And don't forget to collect data."
Lin Yi's body started up, and Jiang Ling quickly felt the vibration coming from her waist through the exoskeleton.
A countdown flashed across her field of vision, and she easily guessed it was the duration of the snare drum. There was a long string of digits after the decimal point, accurate to the nanosecond scale, but before it was only a two-digit number: just now it was "15," now it was "14," and soon it would be "13."
Jiang Ling felt that time was slowing down.
This wasn't an illusion. Seconds differed a thousandfold from milliseconds, milliseconds a thousandfold from microseconds, microseconds another thousandfold from nanoseconds. Furthermore, further subdividing time into picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, and finally Planck time. When a person's reaction speed doubled, their life span doubled. And now she possessed nanoseconds, these hundreds of millions of extra lives, enough to allow her to "see" clearly all the changes taking place in this tiny world.
Up ahead, the spiritual power technique displayed by Xiaogu looked somewhat like some kind of multi-stage compression machine. Each stage's corresponding force was modest, but the force generated by each stage simultaneously increased that of the next, so that the power at the center increased exponentially, quickly reaching near-infinity over time. This caused the few remaining gas molecules in the extremely high vacuum within the furnace to approach each other, gradually coalescing into a hazy cloud of low-temperature nitrogen and oxygen.
The diameter of the gas cloud is only 7 centimeters and its mass does not exceed 5 micrograms, but in a short time scale, it still condenses into a solid dust under the powerful and invisible attraction. The force will generate energy, and the extra energy causes its surface to liquefy into an ocean. Then, the ocean evaporates into an extremely thin atmosphere due to energy disorder - as if it has turned into a star the size of a grain of sand, and after 400 nanoseconds, a thermonuclear reaction occurs, igniting the dense core inside it.
Jiang Ling "saw" countless atomic nuclei combining together, releasing rapidly moving high-energy particles and liberating huge amounts of energy. These energies pushed space-time, squeezing it into various folds. Countless new substances were produced, and most of them became light.
Photons have been traveling at the speed of light since their birth, but it is difficult for these light beams to escape. The matter in the stellar core is too dense. Even though it is so small and even though the speed of light is extremely fast, only a very small number of photons escape. And among these few photons, except for a small part absorbed by the surface coating of the three people's exoskeleton, the vast majority of the remaining photons are collected into the two light ports reserved on the first wall after several refractions and reflections, and are transmitted to a huge optical system and disappear.
Unlike other giants in the universe, the evolution of this tiny star is extremely fast. It took only 20 nanoseconds for nitrogen to no longer be the mainstream element in its composition. Then, after the same amount of time, even oxygen disappeared. Metal elements that are difficult to fuse quickly accumulated in its core. If we infer based on the experience summarized by astronomers, the life of this star is obviously very short.
Yet the allure continues to grow.
Sixty milliseconds later, the fusion reaction within the star died down. In countless tiny locations, the quantum cloud of charge outside the nucleus began to be forcibly degenerate, losing its unpredictability. At the same time, it generated a terrifyingly strong magnetic field around the white dwarf, a star-turned-white dwarf. Suddenly, the interior of the furnace was as bright as day. This burst of energy lasted for 1.5 seconds, but as the degenerate state continued to evolve, the light suddenly disappeared, replaced by various high-energy radiation and regular electromagnetic pulses. The newly formed object was a neutron star, with a slightly longer lifespan than the previous state, but not much longer. Within three seconds, the strong interaction between neutrons could no longer withstand the continuous output of the drum. Collapse occurred instantly, and the matter and information contained within it were swallowed by the event horizon, disappearing into the endless end of time.
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