Matt was busy registering companies. It would not be just the Order Society; following Bai Jing's instructions, he also had to register the companies 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 Universal Technology and Stellar Technology.
And above Stellar Technology and Universal Technology, there would be even more...
The kind where, if you traced it upward, you could dig up eighteen generations of ancestors.
Was there anything further up? Of course there was—it just led overseas!
This approach was nothing new. Or rather, it was actually quite common. Many major American capitalist families operated this way, hiding behind the scenes and remaining virtually unknown to the public while controlling enormous amounts of America's wealth.
Frank hurried off to train his subordinates. He had no fondness whatsoever for gang members, so anyone who truly refused to obey during his training could end up dead!
If you treated him well, he would really take advantage of you.
But when they ran into someone like Frank, who would kill them if they dared to talk back...
Nigga would obediently carry a basket to pick cotton, not daring to utter a single word of nonsense.
That was why Bai Jing had to find Frank. In the entire Marvel Universe, there was no second person capable of filling this position!
Banner bought himself a computer and began reading papers published in recent years.
He had been away from the research world for too long and needed time to catch up with current scientific progress.
Bai Jing, meanwhile, went to Columbia University to read.
Books about black holes.
The best-known books on black holes were probably Hawking's A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell, Einstein's General Relativity. But 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 many more.
Einstein had never truly acknowledged the existence of black holes, yet every conclusion he reached pointed to the possibility that black holes existed.
If Einstein wrote web novels too, he would probably write I Really Don't Want to Prove That Black Holes Exist, I Really Don't Want to Prove the Wave Nature of Light, and I Really Don't Want to Admit Quantum Mechanics.
He was not showing off. He was simply telling the truth.
Incidentally, Einstein came from a Catholic family and was also Jewish. Yet he only believed in God before the age of twelve. After reading some popular science articles at twelve, he stopped believing, and he even published a paper in his later years specifically explaining the matter.
A black hole was a hole with a certain boundary in space. Anything could fall into it, but nothing could escape.
A hole with such powerful gravity that it could firmly seize light, a hole capable of twisting space and curling time.
In the starry sky, people could observe gaseous atoms scattered through interstellar space being affected by black holes and rushing toward them from every direction.
The farther they were from a black hole, the slower they moved. The nearer they were, the faster they moved.
Near a black hole, atoms could move at incredible speeds, even approaching the speed of light.
As these atomic streams collided and rubbed against one another at high speed, they would be heated to thousands of degrees.
Anyone who had studied physics knew that the hotter matter became, the more violently its molecules moved.
Because of the high temperatures, these atoms vibrated extremely quickly and emitted waves with extremely high frequencies and short wavelengths—the light we commonly recognized as red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.
Closer to a black hole, gravity grew stronger, atomic streams moved faster, collisions became more violent, and temperatures rose even higher.
The electromagnetic waves produced would also have higher frequencies.
So what waves had frequencies higher than the seven colors of light? X-rays!
Following that line of thought, clever children could easily continue the deduction.
A little closer to the black hole, the waves produced by collisions between atomic streams would have even higher frequencies. So what waves had frequencies even higher than X-rays?
Gamma rays.
Scientists detected the existence of black holes by detecting X-rays and gamma rays in the universe.
As for getting even closer, could electromagnetic waves with still higher frequencies be produced?
Sorry, no. At that distance, moving any closer meant even light could no longer resist the black hole's gravity.
So perhaps the collisions of atomic streams produced waves with even higher frequencies, but because they were within the black hole's event horizon, humanity could no longer observe them.
That was also why, on the electromagnetic spectrum, one could find, from left to right, gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, the seven visible colors of light, infrared rays...
Why was there nothing to the left of gamma rays?
Because the conditions required to produce gamma rays were already so demanding. They were rays that only black holes could produce. There was no more extreme environment in the universe than a black hole—if there was one, it could only be the black hole itself.
Human technology was nowhere near capable of observing black holes, much less surpassing them. That was why the electromagnetic spectrum stopped at gamma rays, with no higher-frequency light listed beyond them.
"So, are my eyes black holes?" Bai Jing compared the descriptions of black holes in the books as he continued studying his own eyes.
He called his eyes black holes because they could control gravity and repulsion, and possessed the ability to devour all things. At first glance, they really did resemble black holes.
But in truth, he did not know much about black holes. After all, he was not a professional researcher. At most, he had read a few articles written by clickbait accounts when he had spare time.
So if he wanted to know whether his eyes were black holes, he needed more evidence.
For example, did his eyes have event horizons?
This was Bai Jing's first time using gravity to examine his own eyes.
Logically, this should have been the most basic operation, something he ought to have tried as soon as he obtained his golden finger. Yet Bai Jing had somehow never thought of it until now. The brain-dead author passed the blame.
Just like eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty, the simplest things were often the easiest to overlook.
By definition, the basic functions of devouring and gravity had already been confirmed. The next thing to confirm was the event horizon.
Once one came within a certain distance of a black hole, its gravity became powerful enough to devour light directly. Outside that distance, however, light could still travel around the black hole. Therefore, that distance had to form a distinct event horizon, bright on one side and dark on the other.
And in Bai Jing's eyes...
There really was such a boundary!
Before, Bai Jing had only looked in the mirror, where he could see nothing but pitch-black irises and pupils in the middle of his eyes.
But when he observed carefully now, he discovered that not all of the iris was black. Along the edge, there was a 0.01-millimeter strip that still retained its original color. It was simply difficult to see because that original color was also close to black.
"So this is a black hole inside my pupil, with an event horizon diameter of 12 millimeters?" Bai Jing wondered. Then why, if it's a black hole, can it exist inside my eyes without devouring them?
There were even two black holes rather than one, with one in each eye!
Filled with deep confusion, Bai Jing continued his research.
Plugging the values into Newton's formula, the event horizon circumference of this black hole was 12 millimeters.
Black hole mass = event horizon / 18.5 km = 3.4 × 10^-7 solar masses = 0.68 × 10^24 kg.
The mass of Earth was 5.96 × 10^24 kg.
Earth's mass was 8.7 times that of the black hole in his eye!
Logically, such a small mass should not have been enough to create a black hole, yet it had indeed been created.
This also confirmed one of Bai Jing's earlier guesses. He believed there was no need to devour objects to make his eyes grow, because even if he swallowed the entire Earth, the black holes might not grow by much.
And that was indeed the case. Earth's mass was 8.7 times the mass of one of his eyes' black holes, or 4.35 times the combined mass of both.
Even if he swallowed the entire Earth, his black holes would only grow several times stronger.
But because the base value was so small, even multiplying it would still leave them incredibly weak.
"Come to think of it, if the black holes keep growing in the future and their event horizons cover my entire body, won't I turn into a lump of blackness?" Bai Jing suddenly thought of this problem.
"But I can control the range of gravity. Perhaps I can control the edge of the event horizon too..." As Bai Jing focused intently on shrinking the event horizon, the pitch-black horizon in his eyes truly began to contract, revealing his original brown-black pupils!
"I really can control it!" It was rather sluggish, like when he had first learned the divine art of moving his ears, but with regular practice, he should be able to master it!
"Still, brown-black eyes don't feel as cool as black ones!" Bai Jing opened the event horizon again, and his irises instantly became pitch-black once more.
Mm, this looked much cooler.
What a strange black hole. It felt scientific, yet deeply idealistic.
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