Age of Cosmic Exploration

Chapter 386: Hypothesis!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ivan studied these living animals closely. The sheep and cow had the small parts that had entered the green light and turned inside-out. To put it simply, the skin had completely disappeared while the blood vessels and internal organs were on the surface. These vessels and organs too showed signs of weird twisting and inversion.

Of course, if it was only just that, Ivan wouldn't have been so shocked. The scariest thing was these two animals were still alive and their organs and blood vessels were still functioning. Yes, even in their state, they didn't stop working.

This was truly a creepy situation. After all, a creature's internal organs were actually very fragile; even a slight tear or damage, much less twisting, would cause them to stop working. The fact that they could still work after being completely transformed was impossible, unless…

Demonization!

However, after a closer look at these two animals, Ivan confirmed that their surface vessels and organs had gone though more than the simple act of demonization. This was because the cellular samples picked from the organs had a completely different make-up from demonization. There was a highly confidential document file on the Hope that kept track of the details of demonized creatures. Demonization was a total conversion of organs and cells, it was different from the situation that was happening before them.

In the next few hours, Ivan focused on examining these "wounds" and conducted an autopsy on one of the animals. At the same time, other scientists conducted isotope and other chemical experiments on the animal that were exposed to the green light. In any case, when the shuttle returned to the Hope, the experiments hadn't finished yet.

However, Ivan's research had reached its critical stage. When he spliced the skin cells, he suddenly discovered a curious phenomenon. Other than the inversion and twisting of the skin cells, some of the cells had fused together… No, that might be a wrong way of putting it. Instead of fusing together, it was more like they had overlapped over each other, because if given a closer look, the individual cell was still functioning as normal…

If all of these observations and clues were strung together, then the logical conclusion was…

Ivan was also a Whisperer. Even though he was a biological expert, it did not mean that he was not knowledgeable in other fields. Whisperers had a natural affinity for everything science-related, so they would have scientific clues whispered in their ears. When he was conducting the autopsy, he immediately used the communicator to call several physicists, including the Whisperer, Bo Li.

"Hello, everyone, I will not waste time on pleasantries. The only reason I've called for everyone is because I've discovered a curious discrepancy. Of course, I'm not an expert in this field, the only thing I can work with are these cells, blood vessels, and small amount of organs. Therefore, I need a confirmation from the rest of you, to see whether the hypothesis is correct or not…"

This group of scientists was hurried into Ivan's lab. Ivan did not stand on ceremony and instantly brought them up to speed. Then he brought them to the enlarged picture under the microscope and explained his hypothesis. It shocked everyone there. After a long discussion and questioning in his lab, the probability of this hypothesis was slowly confirmed. If this was the truth, then the situation with the nanoline, the disappearance of all those spaceships, and the curious changes of these creatures could be logically explained. However, if that was the case, this green light would be a great opportunity, but at the same time, a great danger.

In the next 20 hours, the number of people that joined the discussion gradually grew. After getting the permission from Yao Yuan, they had even taken a great section of the AI task force to conduct a simulation to confirm their hypothesis. When all of this was over and reliable and valuable data was found, Yao Yuan's group had already waited for a long time.

Just like that, on the third day of the animal experimentation, after a night's rest for those scientists involved, they appeared at the Hope's government hearing, refreshed. In contrast, Yao Yuan, Guang Zhen, and the rest had already waited until their eyes were red with tiredness. The person leading the scientists was none other than Ivan. As the leader, he began, "Dear respected government officers who are gathered here, I will explain in detail the existence of this green light. Of course, this is merely our scientific hypothesis; whether it is true or not, we are unable to say for sure. However, under the condition where no actual experiments can be done, we are 80 percent confident this is how the green light works.

"First, we need to predicate this with a big condition… This green light is not a normal cosmic space."

The people in the meeting room were silent. This first sentence was practically half useless, because this was almost confirmed already. This green light was definitely not a normal cosmic space; why else wouldn't the Hope's surveillance be able to detect its interior? Beyond that, the disappearance, collapse, or weird twists as mass entered the green light, could those happen in a normal space?

Ivan studied the gathered people before him and continued, "After our discussion and experiments, the hypothesis we settled upon is that… This green light is hiding a four-dimensional space!"

Yao Yuan's group didn't react in any unusual way to this announcement, but the great amount of scientists in the room started to hustle and bustle. There was even a scream that stated, "Impossible!" Pandemonium descended upon the room.

Thankfully, the chaos didn't last for long. As the room quieted down again, Ivan continued, "I know this answer is hard to believe, but this is the only logical hypothesis that we have. It is the only explanation to why even though the green light isn't a creator's particle, we are still unable to detect beyond it. Us looking at the green light is similar to how the people in paintings looking out at us in reality, they wouldn't be able to. Similarly, we are unable to look into the green light."

Finally, a middle-aged scientist could not stand it anymore and asked loudly, "Professor Ivan, it is not that we want to question your hypothesis, but have you thought about one serious issue? That of space size? If this green light is as you said, a four dimensional space, then how big is it really? If this whole green light area hides a four dimensional space, then its scale could be large enough to envelope this entire solar system… no, probably several hundred solar systems, right?"

Right then, Silewei, the famed physicist who stood beside Ivan took the podium, "Let me answer that. Indeed, if the entire green light we see covers a four dimensional space, then its scale and density is bigger than we can possibly imagine. However, is it not possible that only the outermost layer is the four dimensional space and the interior is the star path entrance and the ruin? As everyone knows, with the advancement in technology and the increase in space civilization level, the creations will improve accordingly. Just look at our defensive shield; from the electromagnetic shield we've mastered, it has evolved to plasma energy. And there's that space distortion shield we see on the level 4 space civilizations. Is it not possible for higher level space civilizations to use a four dimensional shield?

"From the information we gathered from the battlefield ruin a few months ago, this space ruin is blocking the entrance to the star path, so couldn't this green light before us be a shield of the space ruin? And beyond it is the ruin itself?"

"But how is this four dimensional shield maintained?" This time, another scientist stood up to ask. "How to create a four dimensional space within a three dimensional space, that itself is beyond our scientific comprehension. At least we humans definitely do not have the technology to do anything like that. Regarding this hypothesis… maybe you're right, perhaps with the increase in space civilization level, this might be doable, but I want to ask, where would the energy to maintain this four dimensional space come from? Since this is a ruin, even if it has an internal energy supply, it couldn't last forever, right? However, to maintain a four dimensional space, even just a one millimeter of space, the energy requirement would be greater than the energy exhaustion of this whole spaceship, much greater in fact."

"Why couldn't it be a permanent energy source? Like a perpetual motion machine…"

"Are you sure you're a scientist and not a sci-fi writer or a madman? How can there be a perpetual motion machine in space? Unless the whole cosmos collapses and the total space mass fluctuates, that kind of creation is impossible…"

Then the whole meeting became a shouting match between the scientists on the stage and those below it. Their technical term-filled arguments confused Yao Yuan's group.

Therefore, Yao Yuan whispered to Bo Li, who was sitting beside him, "What if the green light's a four dimensional space? Is that so hard to accept? Also… why would a green light this size be able to contain several hundred solar systems?"

Bo Li glanced at him before whispering in return, "Use your Thinker power to mull over it. One dimensional is line and two dimensional is plane. Think about it, how many lines can be used to fill up a plane? A millimeter plane can contain innumerable nanometer-wide lines. Of course, the first dimension doesn't abide by the concept of length; therefore, the number of lines in a plane is literally infinite. Similarly, in a three dimensional space, how many planes could there be? Since the second dimension doesn't have height, a three dimensional space could also have infinite number of planes…

"Similarly, a four dimensional space will have an infinity amount of three dimensional spaces…

"Saying it can contain several hundred solar systems is already an understatement. If this green light is really a four dimensional space, then it is actually the size of a cosmos…

"An unnatural cosmos created by life!"