Cognition Black Hole

Matt was busy registering the company. It wasn't just the Order Society; following Bai Jing's instructions, he had to register the company in a cross-shareholding structure.

For example, the Order Society would be held by Jumei Technology and the America First Foundation.

Above Jumei Technology and the America First Foundation would be companies like Huanyu Technology and Xingchen Technology.

Above Xingchen Technology and Huanyu Technology were...

It was the kind of structure where you could trace back eighteen generations.

Was there anything above that? Yes, and it went overseas!

This approach wasn't new; in fact, it was quite common. Many major capital families in America operated this way. They hid behind the scenes, largely unknown to the public, yet they controlled a massive amount of wealth in America.

Frank rushed off to train his subordinates. He had no good feelings towards gangsters, so being trained by him meant death if you didn't behave!

If you were nice to a nigga, he'd take advantage of you.

But if you ran into someone like Frank, who would kill you if you talked back, The nigga would obediently put on a basket and go pick cotton without a word.

This was why Bai Jing insisted on finding Frank. In the entire Marvel Universe, there was no one else who could fill this role!

Banner bought a computer and started reading papers published in recent years.

He had been away from the research community for too long and needed time to catch up with the current scientific progress.

Meanwhile, Bai Jing went to Columbia University to read.

Books about black holes.

The most well-known books about black holes were probably Hawking's A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell, and Einstein's General Relativity. The reading list also included Einstein's Cosmic New Horizons, Rudolf's A Hundred Billion Suns, Lawrence's The Fifth Element - The Mystery of the Universe's Missing Mass, Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps - Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, and so on.

In reality, Einstein never admitted to the existence of black holes, yet all his findings pointed to the possibility of their existence.

If Einstein wrote web novels, he'd probably write "I Really Didn't Want to Prove Black Holes Exist" or "I Really Didn't Want to Prove the Wave Nature of Light" or "I Really Didn't Want to Admit Quantum Mechanics."

He wasn't being humble; he was stating facts.

Incidentally, Einstein was born into a Catholic family and was Jewish, but he only believed in God until he was 12. After reading some popular science articles at 12, he stopped believing. In his later years, he even published a paper specifically explaining this.

A black hole is a hole in space with a definite boundary, into which anything can fall, but from which nothing can escape.

A hole with such strong gravity that it can firmly grasp light, a hole that can warp space and curve time.

In the starry sky, people can observe gas atoms scattered in interstellar space being drawn towards a black hole from all directions due to its influence.

At a distance from the black hole, they move slowly; closer, they move faster.

Near the black hole, the atoms' speed becomes extremely fast, even approaching the speed of light.

Under high-speed collisions and friction, these atomic streams are heated to thousands of degrees.

Anyone who has studied physics knows that the hotter matter is, the more violently its molecules move.

Due to the high temperature, these atoms vibrate extremely rapidly, emitting waves with very high frequencies and short wavelengths, which are what we commonly perceive as light: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Closer to the black hole, the gravity is stronger, the atomic streams move faster, the collisions are more intense, and the temperature is higher.

The electromagnetic waves produced will also have higher frequencies.

So, what waves have higher frequencies than the seven colors of light? X-rays!

Following this line of reasoning, intelligent children can easily continue the deduction.

Moving even closer to the black hole, the frequency of the waves generated by the atomic stream collisions will be even higher. What waves have frequencies higher than X-rays?

Gamma rays!

Scientists detect the existence of black holes by observing X-rays and gamma rays in the universe.

As for getting even closer, could higher frequency electromagnetic waves be produced?

Unfortunately, no. At that distance, any closer, and light can no longer resist the black hole's gravity.

Therefore, perhaps the atomic stream collisions produced higher frequency waves, but because they are within the black hole's event horizon, humans can no longer observe them.

This is also why, on the electromagnetic spectrum, we find rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible light (seven colors), infrared, and so on, from left to right.

Why are there no rays to the left of X-rays?

Because the conditions for generating X-rays are already so extreme. They are rays that only black holes can produce. There is no environment in the universe more extreme than a black hole, and if there were, it would only be the black hole itself.

Human technology is far from being able to observe a black hole, let alone surpass one. Therefore, the electromagnetic spectrum ends at gamma rays, with no higher frequency light recorded.

"So, are my eyes black holes?" Bai Jing compared the description of black holes in the book with his own eyes, continuing his research.

He called his eyes black holes because he could control gravity and repulsion, and had the ability to devour everything, making them seem like black holes at first glance.

But in reality, he didn't know much about black holes. After all, he wasn't a professional researcher; at most, he'd read a few articles from popular science accounts when he had free time.

So, to know if his eyes were black holes, he needed more examples to confirm.

For instance, did his eyes have an event horizon?

This was the first time Bai Jing used gravity to probe his own eyes.

Logically, this should have been a fundamental check, something he should have tried immediately after getting his golden finger. But for some reason, Bai Jing never thought of it (the brain-dead author blames himself).

Just like needing to eat when hungry and drink when thirsty, the simplest things are often the most easily overlooked.

By definition, with the basic functions of swallowing and gravity established, the next thing to determine was the event horizon.

Because after a certain distance from a black hole, its gravity is so immense that it can directly swallow light, while outside this distance, light can still orbit the black hole. Therefore, with this distance as a boundary, there must be a distinct event horizon, with one side bright and the other dark.

And in Bai Jing's eyes...

There really was such a boundary!

Before, Bai Jing would just look in the mirror and see a pure black iris and pupil in the center of his white sclera.

But upon careful observation now, he realized that the entire iris wasn't black. There was a 0.01-millimeter edge that maintained its original color. However, because the original color was also close to black, it wasn't very clear.

"So, this is a black hole with an event horizon diameter of 12mm, existing within my pupils?" Bai Jing wondered. If it's a black hole, why can it exist in his eyes without devouring them?

Moreover, there wasn't just one black hole, but one in each eye!

Filled with deep curiosity, Bai Jing continued his research.

Using Newton's formulas to calculate, the circumference of this black hole's event horizon was 12mm.

Black hole mass = event horizon / 18.5km = 3.4 * 10^-7 solar masses = 0.68 * 10^24 kg.

The mass of the Earth is 5.96 * 10^24 kg.

The Earth's mass is 8.7 times that of the black hole in his eyes!

Logically, such a small mass shouldn't be able to form a black hole, yet it had.

This also validated a previous guess of Bai Jing's. He believed there was no need to swallow objects to grow his eyes, because even if he swallowed the entire Earth, the black hole wouldn't increase much.

The facts proved this to be true. The Earth's mass was 8.7 times the mass of his single eye, or 4.35 times the mass of both eyes.

If he swallowed the entire Earth, his black holes would only strengthen a few times over.

But because the base value was so small, even doubling it would result in a negligible increase.

"Speaking of which, if the black hole continues to grow and the event horizon engulfs me entirely, won't I turn into a blob of darkness?" Bai Jing suddenly thought of this problem.

"However, if I can control the range of gravity, I might as well be able to control the edge of the event horizon..." Bai Jing kept thinking about shrinking the event horizon. As he willed it, the pitch-black event horizon in his eyes indeed began to shrink, revealing Bai Jing's original dark brown pupils!

"It really can be controlled!" Although it was very stiff, just like when he first learned to move his ears at will, with frequent practice, he should be able to master it!

"But brown eyes don't look as cool as black ones!" Bai Jing then widened the event horizon, and his irises instantly turned into a mass of blackness again.

Yeah, this looked much cooler.

What a strange black hole, it felt very scientific, yet also very metaphysical.