11/11/2022 0 Comments Antimatter dimensions zero deaths![]() ![]() Halo engaged the fusion reactor, and the silence on the ship was broken. As Halo began decelerating, it still looked like an ordinary star, but by the time the curvature engine shut off, the star appeared as a disk whose light seemed redder than the Sun’s. The star called DX3906 was about the Sun’s size. It was best to not think about it too much. Right: When-if ever-did it stop? Was there an instruction within that small, packaged two-dimensional foil that would eventually stop it? Cheng Xin and AA had no theoretical understanding of how three-dimensional space collapsed into two dimensions, but they instinctively thought the idea of an instruction embedded into two-dimensional space to halt its infinite expansion was too magical, the kind of magic that seemed impossible. The question made AA speechless, as well. “When did the collapse into two dimensions stop?” For the Solar System in its current condition, was there a difference between 286 years and 2.86 million years? But she thought of something. “Yes, if you are using their frame of reference.”Ĭheng Xin sighed. She looked as if she had just awakened from a dream. “So two hundred eighty-six years has already passed back there?” AA asked. “We’re now two hundred eighty-six point five light-years from the Solar System,” said the ship’s AI. ![]() Cheng Xin and AA saw that the Milky Way ahead of them still looked about the same, but behind them, none of the stars looked familiar. The slowing down of the ship also gradually erased the red and blue shifts. As the ship decelerated, the blue and red clusters began to spread out like two clusters of exploding fireworks, and soon evolved into a sea of stars distributed evenly around the ship. ![]() It turned 180 degrees and activated the curvature engine for deceleration-in fact, the ship was pushing against its own trail. Eventually, she fell asleep.īy the time Cheng Xin awakened, Halo was close to its destination. She counted the stars and watched as they turned from blue to red-the sight was hypnotic. She understood that each time a star leapt out of the blue cluster in front, swept past the ship, and joined the red cluster behind the ship, it meant that Halo had passed it. Everything felt unreal to Cheng Xin, as though she had already died and gone to another world.Ĭheng Xin spent a long time gazing out of the portholes at space. In her mind, a journey of 287 light- years would take a long time, but the ship’s AI informed her that the trip would only take fifty-two hours in the ship’s frame of reference. Cheng Xin’s only thought was to find Yun Tianming and tell him everything. “Even if Halo City had managed to achieve independence, continued to research curvature propulsion, discovered the slowing effects of the trails, and finally collaborated with the Federation Government to build more than a thousand lightspeed ships in time, do you think people would have agreed to build the black domain? Remember how confident people were that the Bunker World would survive a dark forest strike- why would they have agreed to isolate themselves in the black domain?”ĪA’s words slid across Cheng Xin’s thoughts like drops of water across a lily pad, leaving no trace. And in that version of history, there would be no Mercury base, no second chance. Could the Federation Government and Fleet really have been scared of a few antimatter bullets? Maybe Halo City could have destroyed a few warships, or even a space city, but ultimately, Halo City would have been exterminated by the Federation Fleet. “Could Halo City really have achieved independence? Even Wade couldn’t be certain of that. Who do you think you are? Do you think if you stand on your hands, you’ve lifted the Earth? Even if you hadn’t stopped Wade, the outcome of that war would have been hard to predict. “It’s ridiculous for you to blame yourself for the destruction of the Solar System. Halo shut off the curvature engine and coasted at lightspeed.ĭuring the voyage, AA tried to comfort Cheng Xin, even though she knew this was a hopeless task. ![]()
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