Chapter 25

"It's as if Penacony isn't your responsibility." Opal's slightly low voice came from the meeting communication.

"It's not my turn to play yet." Aventurine laughed: "If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."

"Ratio told me that if the Disaster Empire tries to lower the speed of light, the scene produced will be more brilliant than raising it."

"I don't want to miss this scene."

"Lower it? According to theory, if it's lowered, the mass of matter will increase?" Topaz asked suspiciously: "What result will this produce?"

"Hehehe, your basic physics is average."

Aventurine shook his head and said:

"Look at the light screen, you will see."

Saying that, Aventurine hung up the communication, and his eyes fell on the light screen in front of him.

He saw the Contingency fleet in the light screen almost stalled in the space of the universe.

It could only continue to fly at sub-light speed relying on inertia.

The holes that occupied three-quarters of the hull were constantly being repaired by living metal.

But the Disaster Empire strangely did not continue to adjust the speed of light, and the starlight of the entire universe did not become brighter.

Even, it seemed to be becoming dim little by little...

"Hmm?"

At the First Truth University, Dr. Ratio noticed that the starlight in the light screen was becoming dim.

"Is it starting?"

Dr. Ratio watched the Contingency fleet in the light screen become slower and slower, becoming sluggish.

The holes on it gradually recovered, as if the evaporated mass had suddenly returned.

【"Your Majesty, the superluminal experiment has been verified and completed, and the results are fully in line with our predictions."】

【"Next, we will start to lower the speed of light of the entire universe, which is expected to have a greater impact."】

The Emperor of the Disaster Empire, held high on the throne, nodded slightly and said with a chuckle:

【"Then, go ahead and do it."】

36. 【Matter. rar】

The stars in the light screen suddenly dimmed, and the brilliance of the stars became restrained.

Those Contingency ships that were flying at sub-light speed relying on inertia gradually became sluggish.

It was as if space had become as viscous as a swamp, and every step of activity became extremely difficult.

Gradually, the speed of these ships could not even reach the third cosmic speed necessary to break through the gravity of the stars, and they were captured by the surrounding stars and became part of the star system.

But this state did not last long.

Millions of stars in the universe became increasingly dim, but their mass became larger and larger, the Schwarzschild radius also increased with the continuous increase of mass, and the gravity produced became larger and larger..

"If you are not fools, you should still remember what I said... the slower the speed of light, the greater the mass."

At the First Truth University, Dr. Ratio looked at this scene in the light screen and glanced at the students below.

"This is a rare spectacle in the universe. Millions of stars cannot bear their own mass and are captured by their own gravity."

"You know what the result is."

The students nodded heavily.

Although they were called fools by Dr. Ratio, these students were all dragons and phoenixes among people on various planets, so they naturally knew one thing: if the mass of an object is too large, but the volume is too small, what will happen.

When the volume of matter is smaller than its Schwarzschild radius...

it will be crushed by its own existence and collapse into a black hole.

This is not unfamiliar knowledge for sentient beings in the universe.

But in the light screen...

Millions of stars, unable to bear their own mass, collapsed at a constant speed under the action of their own gravity, swallowing everything around them into their bodies, turning into black holes hovering in the void.

These black holes were entrenched in half of the universe, and their event horizon area, where even light could not escape, was like black holes eaten through, ugly and hideous, lying across the structure of space.

The Contingency hurriedly mobilized the superluminal engines of the remaining fleet, trying to overcome the massive gravitational field produced by these black holes.

But the speed of light became slower than before, and the ships of the Contingency also became heavier than before.

The energy required to cross the speed of light rose linearly. The ships of the Contingency that were relatively close to the black holes were soon swept into them, stretched into long strips, and fell into endless falling.

But more ships started their superluminal engines in time to overcome the horizon collapse.

【"Error! Error! Error! Error!"】

The core of the Contingency kept reporting errors. The speed of light in the universe was constantly slowing down, which made the Contingency difficult to digest for a while.

【"The current vacuum speed of light is... 1m/s!!!"】

The error report of the Contingency rang out, and the sentient beings who were watching this scene in the universe were suddenly noisy.

"Lower the speed of light to 1m/s?! Are you kidding me?!"

"At a speed of light of 1m/s, the light of the stars will take millions of years to reach the planets!"

"More than that! If you don't use superluminal engines, the maximum speed of all transportation tools can only be 1m/s, which is no different from walking!"

"Even the human eye will have a delay when looking at things around it. I will have a ten-second delay when looking at things ten meters away!"

Just when the sentient beings in the universe were noisy, some smarter brains started simple calculations.

There is a concept in physics called the Schwarzschild radius, also known as the collapse radius.

Anything smaller than its Schwarzschild radius will collapse into a black hole.

And the Schwarzschild radius is positively correlated with the mass of the object.

When the speed of light is reduced to 1m/s, the mass of any matter will increase significantly.

This means that the Schwarzschild radius will be very, very small.

"A normal-weight human being, in a universe where the speed of light is only one meter per second, has a Schwarzschild radius of 2.5 meters."

Dr. Ratio raised his head and looked at the students in front of him:

"All of you who are less than 2.5 meters tall will collapse into a small black hole."

Just as Dr. Ratio's voice fell,

all the Contingency ships in the light screen slowly stalled in the air.

They suddenly distorted themselves, just like small stones sinking into a pond of space.

In an instant, the horizon expanded, matter collapsed, and all the Contingency ships collapsed into small black holes at the same time, hovering in the void.

These black holes collided, crossed, and merged into larger black holes.

They were absorbed and strengthened by the black holes formed by stars.

Finally, the black holes that compressed the matter of half the universe gathered into one, turning into a massive black hole, hovering in space without any matter.

【"Our slow-light experiment was successful."】

【"Consistent with the predicted results, the matter of half the universe collapsed into a huge black hole."】

【"This largest black hole in history has been named 'Matter. rar'."】

【"This name comes from the compressed file format commonly used by the Empire."】

The three scientific research arrays reported to Zhou Xuan. They gave a humorous name to this black hole that was born after destroying half the universe,

to represent that this black hole was a compressed package of half the universe's matter.

This name made a smile appear on the corner of Zhou Xuan's mouth. He waved his hand and said:

【"Now, go build a matter uncompressor to decompress this compressed package."】

37. 【We plan to poke the matter uncompressor into the Nihility Aeon....】

On a cold mountain peak near Jarilo-VI,

Zhou Xuan, wearing pajamas and a black coat, stood on this cold mountain that had been silent for hundreds of years, looking at the distant plains.

There, a few frozen cities were scattered.

Zhou Xuan visited them not long ago, and the cities were full of frozen Antimatter Legion.

His sociology array was very interested in this and moved several of them back as specimens.

Zhou Xuan brushed the snowflakes on his coat, sat on a rock protruding from the ground, and looked at the silent sky in the distance.

Above the sky, his horizon probes were looming.

And on one side of the horizon probe, a huge space station array in the shape of a mushroom was hovering.

That was the megastructure "Sentry Array" built by the Empire. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====