Once inside the black hole, if anyone was most worried, it would undoubtedly be Luo Zhigao. But if anyone was happy, it would be the group of academicians from the Academy of Sciences led by Gao Zhengyang.
Luo Zhigao often called Gao Zhengyang a madman, not because Academician Gao was particularly insane, but because of Academician Gao's fascination and immersion in science. Like Academician Zeng, he was willing to disregard his own life for the sake of a scientific phenomenon, just like now, even knowing that he was in a dangerous situation, he was not afraid at all.
This is a strange place. The fleet is like being trapped in a sealed room, and the walls of the room are a death trap. It is absolutely forbidden to get close. Once trapped in the spacetime closure near the strange ring, not to mention whether they can go back to the past, it is absolutely impossible for the fleet to get out with its current strength.
This is an absolute vacuum, where not only can no elementary particles be found, but even Basic Energy cannot be found. With the technology shared with Hu Yu's fleet, Academician Gao and his team have also mastered the use of Basic Energy and energy spheres, but they have been trapped ever since they separated and have not been able to find any opportunity to use it.
There isn't even a Basic Energy to be found here, meaning the fleet's resources can't be replenished. Academician Gao Zhengyang immediately used a detector to explore this airspace. Because the space here is compressed, its actual size is impossible to know; only its relative size can be detected.
After exploration, Academician Gao confirmed that this is a vast space with a diameter of 5 million kilometers. Of course, from the outside, it may just appear as a hollow space a few meters in size.
Five million kilometers away lies Closed Spacetime Curve, or a spacetime loop. The powerful beams of light from the warship seem to be swallowed by darkness, unable to even escape. However, if visible, the light within the Closed Spacetime Curve has transformed into a winding, continuous ribbon. The strange light's speed has decreased to a level visible to the naked eye. In other words, the speed of light decreases within the spacetime loop, or time slows down, or perhaps time accelerates, but the light constantly travels between the past and the future, making the perceived time seem slower.
Academician Gao considered many ways to try to cross the Closed Spacetime Curve to see what the odd ring looks like. That is the ultimate end of everything, and perhaps there one can understand the ultimate secret of the universe.
However, the Closed Spacetime Curve is like an insurmountable wall. After various calculations, Academician Gao believes that to break through the Closed Spacetime Curve, it is necessary to use energy of a higher order than that of a black hole. But the current situation of the fleet is predictable, like the difference between a candle flame and the light of a star.
The fleet's energy and supplies were being depleted day by day, and there was no energy left in the surrounding space for the fleet to use. Gao Zhengyang and a group of academicians were working day and night, trying to find a way to escape the black hole, but no matter how hard they tried, it was like an unsolvable equation.
If we had enough energy, we might be able to try to break through to the fourth dimension, but right now the fleet is struggling to even ensure the survival of the civilian population, let alone have enough energy to conduct high-energy physics experiments.
Gao Zhengyang tried to trace the origin, but it seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace whatsoever. Gao Zhengyang conducted a detailed examination of every corner of the entire space but found nothing unusual. The entire space was even more peaceful than the outer universe.
" Old Gao, what should we do? The minister won't be able to hold out much longer," said Jiang Moyan, an academician of space physics who was with Gao Zhengyang.
" Old Jiang, I have an idea. I discussed it with Academician Zheng Kaiping before."
" Academician Zheng Kaiping? What does that have to do with the biology department?"
"No matter what we do, we can't leave this place. Not only can we not leave, but no electric field, magnetic field, gravitational field, or anything else can leave. This is the end of space."
"Yes, any possibility of leaving this place represents hope."
"There might be something that can help us leave this place."
"Does such a thing exist? Unless it's the fourth dimension, but our energy is simply not enough to open up the fourth dimension."
"Besides the fourth dimension, there's also the Consciousness Field!"
" Consciousness Field? You went to Academician Zheng Kaiping to discuss this?"
"Yes, Academician Xiao Yi has conducted in-depth research on the Consciousness Field. Last time, Academician Zheng and Academician Xiao also had exchanges on this topic. I asked Academician Zheng Kaiping, and although the Consciousness Field can be affected by matter and energy, the degree of influence is far less severe than other fields. The key is that the Consciousness Field is not bound by physical laws. Perhaps the Consciousness Field can penetrate the Closed Spacetime Curve to reach the Singular Ring, or even penetrate the Singular Ring to enter the inner horizon."
" Old Gao, even if it succeeds, what's the point?"
"If we obtain data on regions such as the singularity, the Closed Spacetime Curve, and the inner horizon, we might be able to use our limited energy to open a spacetime passage and return to the past."
"What?! You want to go back to the past? How can events that have already happened be changed?"
"We're not trying to change the past, but rather to create a new timeline. If the timeline of the universe is a straight highway, our timeline is like taking a detour along a side road and then returning to the main highway. Or, to put it another way, there are two points, A and B, on the road. We've already traveled from point A to the current point B. Now, we're using a black hole to create a new path next to point B back to point A. From the perspective of the universe's timeline, we're still at point A, but from our perspective, we've traveled back and forth between A and B, which means we've essentially gained over ten thousand years of free time."
"I understand what you mean. If that's the case, it might really work. However, we might not be able to waste so much time. Have you forgotten where we are now?" Jiang Moyan said with a smile.
"Oh." Academician Gao slapped his forehead. "I forgot we're still inside the black hole. Maybe tens of thousands or even millions of years have passed outside by now. Sigh."
" Old Gao, what did Academician Zheng Kaiping say? Is there any way to send the Consciousness Field into the Closed Spacetime Curve?"
"That's what's troubling me."
"Tell me, what could be more difficult than being inside a black hole?"
" Academician Zheng said the only way is..."
Send someone in!
"Yes, within Closed Spacetime Curve, a person will lose vital signs in an instant. It is precisely because spacetime is closed that the Consciousness Field may not dissipate and has a chance to remain. This space is extremely quiet. The instrument developed by Academician Zheng can clearly capture the fluctuations of the Consciousness Field. If the Consciousness Field can remain, it can evade the laws of physics and provide us with some information about what's inside, helping us to get out."