150: Chapter 150: Is Our Universe a...Black Hole?

Jiang Zhe's words caused Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes to widen and her pupils to shrink.

A powerful sensation split open in her mind; she felt as if the answer was right before her eyes, almost within reach, yet remained elusive!

"I feel like... it's close, very close!" Xiao Yu took a deep breath, her breathing quickening with a tremble. "But I just... I don't know what it is!!"

Not just her, but even the millions of viewers felt a faint, ethereal sense of realization wash over them.

"What is it? What exactly is it? I feel the same way."

"Holy crap, the description our bro gave feels so familiar!"

"A speed that even light can't beat, never being able to rush out in a lifetime, flat, and no measurable curvature..."

"Does such a thing really exist in the universe?"

"I'm dying of suspense here, what is it exactly?"

"I think I have a feeling too, but I just can't put it into words!"

...

Meanwhile, in the Principal's office.

Principal Fu, Old Wang, Xiao Wang, and the other teachers all had that same feeling of the answer being on the tip of their tongues.

"What is it? What exactly is it?" Old Wang gasped in anxiety, his brows tightly furrowed. "Even light cannot escape it, it looks flat when standing on it, and no curvature can be measured!!!"

Principal Fu, Xiao Wang, and the others were all frowning, thinking hard.

Just then, the physics teacher, Old Yu, suddenly bolted upright from his chair.

He stared fixedly at the large screen, his eyes filled with shock as his breathing grew heavy!

"Old Yu, Old Yu, what's wrong?" Principal Fu was startled by Old Yu's reaction and hurriedly asked.

But Old Yu acted as if he hadn't heard. His gaze slowly swept across the teachers present. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out, and finally, he slowly sat back down.

An incredible thought was frantically battering physics teacher Old Yu's brain!

It left him unable to even speak for a moment!

...

In the Kyoto residential compound.

The four old professors looked at each other, their faces filled with anxiety and confusion.

"Light cannot escape, it's flat, and you can never get out!" Professor Liu repeated these words. "This description... sounds like an absolute cage!"

"Yes," Professor Chen Runzhi gasped. "Yet it's something inside the universe. How can it have such contradictory characteristics?"

They vaguely felt that the answer seemed to be something everyone knew!

Inside Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming, Celestial Master Zhang, and Wang Chongyang all had very serious expressions.

They felt that what Jiang Zhe was referring to was definitely a recognized fact!!

Meanwhile, at the Huaqing University seminar room.

This place was filled with top physics students, and the atmosphere was extremely tense!

The top students looked at one another, every face etched with solemnity.

"The escape velocity exceeds the speed of light!"

"He might be talking about a boundary, a flat membrane, where even the speed of light cannot escape this acceleration!"

"Once you enter, there is no return..."

Fragmented keywords came from the mouths of various students.

Before long, an unbelievable, inconceivable answer surfaced in every student's mind!

"It's!!!" A man with glasses stared blankly. Just before the answer could leave his mouth, he suddenly covered it.

Another female top student said tremblingly, "Is it... could it be..."

In the room, heavy breathing sounds rose in unison as the students' vision vibrated wildly!

Professor Wu's expression was very ugly; he had known almost instantly what Jiang Zhe was implying.

But the subversive and absurd nature of this answer made him instinctively feel anger and resistance!

"Nonsense, absolute nonsense!" Professor Wu slammed the table. "Is he implying that thing? Impossible, absolutely impossible; this is science fiction, not science!"

Li Mo and Professor Guan glanced at each other. "What exactly is it?"

After a long while, Professor Ouyang slowly stood up. He took a deep breath, his eyes clear, and said word by word, "It's a black hole."

He paused for a moment, as if confirming he was correct, and then his tone grew heavier.

"Xiao Yu's Brother is implying... a black hole!!!"

With a "Boom—" sound.

Even though they had a premonition, the moment those two words left Professor Ouyang's mouth...

The lounge fell into a state of unbelievable frenzy and incredulity, with voices rising one after another!

"Is it really a black hole?"

"Oh my god!"

"How... how could these things be connected?"

Li Mo and Professor Guan felt their scalps go numb. They looked at each other, both seeing the shock on the other's face.

Soon, Li Mo gasped and pressed, "Professor, why a black hole? Don't black holes have curvature? Everything Xiao Yu's Brother said fits a black hole, but black holes have curvature, and they aren't flat!"

Professor Ouyang took a deep breath, his gaze falling on Li Mo before sweeping across all the students.

"Perhaps you are right to think so; but the key point lies in the premise of [standing on top of it]."

"Xiao Yu's Brother isn't talking about humans falling into a black hole, nor observing a black hole from a distance—because when we observe a black hole, we indeed see curvature."

"He is hypothesizing: [When we stand on the surface of a black hole, that is, on the event horizon, and look outward]."

"At that point, if someone could stand on it and observe it..."

"They would also never be able to measure curvature in their lifetime!"

As his words fell, the room instantly became pin-drop silent, every face filled with horror.

They all knew a principle—

Observing the outside world from the surface of a black hole, the outside world would be an infinitely magnified plane, and one could never measure the curvature of where they are.

This is...

Humans live inside the universe, and can likewise never measure the curvature of the universe!

Only by jumping outside the universe can one... measure it!

The top physics students couldn't help but swallow hard, their voices trembling as they spoke.

"That's... that's right..."

"Standing on the event horizon of a sufficiently large black hole, in all directions... it truly is flat!"

"The speed of light cannot escape a black hole because the black hole's massive gravity holds back light's escape velocity; if it's the universe... how do we prove that the speed of the universe exceeding three times the speed of light isn't the universe's own [velocity]?"

"My god, this is simply..."

As the students reached this point, their scalps went numb with a chilling realization!

Professor Wu opened his mouth, wanting to rebut, but then closed it again.

Even he couldn't find a strong argument at the moment to refute the terrifying thought experiment Jiang Zhe had proposed!

The impact of this thought experiment didn't lie in the details; rather, it made even professionals feel it was inconceivable and beyond words!

...

Just then, on the large screen.

Xiao Yu, on the sofa, suddenly stood up. Her eyes were wide, as if she had just woken from a dream.

"Bro, Bro, it's a black hole, it's a black hole!!!"

Jiang Zhe met her horrified gaze and simply nodded calmly.

"Yes."

The moment those words fell, the live stream room erupted with hundreds of thousands of comments, like a tsunami drowning everything!

“????!!!!”

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, it's really a black hole?"

"I'm totally stunned!"

"A black hole, the universe is a black hole??"

"Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Holy shit, this is terrifying to think about, it's shocking, big brother!"

"So are we inside the black hole, or on it?"

"My worldview has been shattered!"

...

With Jiang Zhe's admission, the four old professors in the residential compound instinctively covered their mouths, their vision shaking.

"A black... black hole?" Professor Qian's voice was trembling. "Something we talk about every day, something that's in the textbooks... is actually a black hole, and it's exactly the same as the universe?"

In Qingfeng Temple, Zheng Ming suddenly stood up, his face pale. "Impossible, this is impossible, it's too absurd!"

Although he didn't understand astrophysics, he knew that the term 'black hole' represented devouring, annihilation, the end of everything!

A massive black hole is our universe?

How could such a viewpoint be convincing?

Celestial Master Zhang and Wang Chongyang looked at each other, both seeing the shock on the other's face.

"This... he really dares to say it!"

"But for a moment, I actually feel a sense of agreement!"

Not just those two, but even in the live stream with millions of fans, many people felt it was terrifying yet somehow very logical!

On the screen, on the sofa.

Xiao Yu couldn't help but swallow hard, her body trembling uncontrollably. "Why, why Bro, why a black hole? Is our universe just a super massive black hole?"

Jiang Zhe explained unhurriedly:

"Calling it a super massive black hole isn't quite right; you could say it's a higher-dimensional object similar to a super massive black hole!"

"Xiao Yu, let's take it step by step, and you'll see that the properties of the universe and the properties of a black hole are, in fact, identical!"

Xiao Yu and countless viewers sat up straight and began to listen with bated breath.