168: Chapter 168: The Sun Is Not Evidence of Nuclear Fusion

Jiang Zhe's words were like demonic music ringing in their ears, leaving the viewers in a daze.

"The Sun isn't nuclear fusion?"

"A black hole's infinite gravity isn't caused by its infinite density, but rather because the black hole itself has the attribute of absorbing [Time], which is why light cannot escape it?"

These two viewpoints...

If anyone else had said them, they would be regarded as a lunatic.

But, this is our Big Brother!

"The Sun isn't nuclear fusion???"

"Black holes don't slow down time through gravity, they are swallowing time?"

“Holy crap, our Big Brother isn't just telling stories; he really wants to overturn physics!”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"This is too far-fetched. Even though everything Big Brother said before was divine, I'm sorry, I cannot accept this!"

"To the person above, if universal gravitation can be a byproduct of the Time Stream, why can't the Sun be one too?"

"I need some quiet time!"

"..."

In the History Staff Quarters of Kyoto.

The four old professors looked at each other, their faces filled with disbelief.

"The Sun... isn't nuclear fusion?" Professor Chen Runzhi took a sharp breath and looked at his three shocked old friends. "This viewpoint is too shocking—so shocking that it feels like nonsense. But is it possible? This isn't just a bold hypothesis; it's tearing the roof off modern astrophysics."

Old Qian, Old Wang, and Old Liu all pursed their lips, nodding with furrowed brows.

This step was indeed too large, large enough to make one's head spin!

Meanwhile, inside the Principal's office.

"Hiss—" Principal Fu's face was full of disbelief as he looked at Old Wang and Xiao Wang. "Is Jiang Zhe being too outrageous this time?"

Old Wang couldn't help but sigh. "It's more than outrageous; it's a denial of the common sense we've learned since childhood. It's even possible... that he's wrong!"

Xiao Wang turned his gaze to Old Yu. "Uncle Yu, the Sun being nuclear fusion... that should be true, right? After all, it's printed in the textbooks."

Old Yu took a deep breath for a long time before saying reluctantly, "I don't know anymore. His logic is a self-contained system derived from the Time Stream."

Resting his chin on his hand, he said thoughtfully, "Nuclear fusion is the accepted benchmark of modern physics. However, if we look at it according to his theoretical framework—the Sun does not have to be nuclear fusion. But according to our modern physics, the Sun must be nuclear fusion!"

Speaking to this point, Old Yu couldn't help but shake his head. "I don't know what to say. He could be right, or he could be wrong."

The people in the office didn't dwell on it any further.

This might involve a collision of theories!

...

Inside the Qingfeng Temple on the outskirts of Kyoto.

The atmosphere here was somewhat solemn. Celestial Master Zhang and Wang Chongyang looked at each other, their faces filled with incredulity.

Zheng Ming shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this. "That's impossible. The Sun is nuclear fusion; that's an ironclad fact. Textbooks and evidence have laid it out clearly!"

The gaze of the three finally landed on Professor Zhang Qinian.

Professor Zhang's lips curled slightly; he acknowledged that Jiang Zhe had some skill, but that was all.

"A bit of grandstanding. But I have to say, his viewpoint is startling, and his imagination is terrifying!"

"However, his viewpoint fundamentally conflicts with the observations of the Sun and the knowledge we've built up over generations!"

"Currently, our astrophysical community judges that the Sun comes from nuclear fusion based on several 'ironclad proofs' that cannot be bypassed. First: the Sun's spectral characteristics... this is evidence that it is burning."

"Second: we have detected neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrinos are a group of highly penetrative particles that can be used for [Neutrino Communication]—a person in China could connect to the USA's wireless network; in the future, neutrino-based Wi-Fi can be realized."

"Neutrinos traveling through the Sun and interstellar space to reach Earth is the second piece of evidence saying, 'I am undergoing nuclear fusion.'"

"There is a lot of evidence!"

Professor Zhang scanned the group. "To say the Sun's primary energy comes from the Time Stream would mean these neutrinos are fake, or our interpretation of them is entirely wrong. The evidence he can provide for that is far from enough!"

After he finished, the three people present relaxed slightly from their state of shock.

...

On the other side, in the physics lounge of Huaqing University.

The students here were practically exploding with debate.

"The Sun isn't nuclear fusion? Then what have we been studying? A joke?"

"I admit, Big Brother's explanation of gravity through the Time Stream is pretty impressive, but to directly replace nuclear fusion is just insane!"

"But his logical chain is really terrifyingly self-consistent!"

"What's the use of being self-consistent? It has to match reality! Evidence!!!"

Professor Wu frowned as he listened to the students argue. "Students, please be quiet."

After the noise level dropped slightly, he said with a serious face, "The scientific understanding of the Sun has traveled a long road. From the celestial fire of ancient times to chemical combustion, and finally to nuclear fusion today—every step was built on more solid evidence."

He looked at Professor Ouyang, Li Mo, and Professor Guan. "Xiao Yu's Brother's claim about it being a byproduct of the Time Stream currently has no testable predictions and contradicts the data we observe."

"I think this time, he might really... have fallen into talking nonsense!"

Li Mo and Professor Guan nodded with solemn expressions.

Professor Ouyang, however, defended Jiang Zhe as always.

"Every era has its limitations!"

"Primitive humans hundreds of thousands of years ago believed that fire was sent by the gods."

"Tribal people tens of thousands of years ago believed that fire was something they obtained by drilling wood."

"Scientists one or two hundred years ago believed fire came from chemical energy and thermal energy."

"Modern scientists believe fire is a new form of energy derived from nuclear fusion."

"But what you need to know is, what will the scientists of the future believe fire is?"

After he spoke, Professor Wu and the students only nodded, taking Professor Ouyang's words as mere inspiration, while deep down believing that this time, a crack would appear in Jiang Zhe's brilliance!

On the big screen.

Xiao Yu couldn't help but take a deep breath. "Big Brother, although the two cases you explained were very exciting, the Sun... it can't possibly NOT be nuclear fusion, right? Scientists have so much evidence..."

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiao Yu's troubled expression and smiled slightly. "You find it hard to accept, don't you?"

Xiao Yu nodded repeatedly.

He said calmly, "That's because you've been trapped by the idea of 'combustion' for too long!"

"As long as it's burning, you feel that something must be 'on fire' to emit light and heat."

He stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked up at the starry sky.

"But in the universe, many phenomena do not follow our ideas."

After saying that, he turned around, his gaze falling on Xiao Yu. "For example, the Solar Wind!"

"Solar Wind?" Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes blinked. "I've learned about this in textbooks; it's a wind of charged particles that the Sun blows into space."

"Correct." Jiang Zhe nodded. "According to common sense, after it leaves the Sun, it should be like the breath you blow out—getting slower and more dispersed, right?"

"Yes." Xiao Yu nodded repeatedly, seeing nothing wrong with that.

"But what about actual observations?" Jiang Zhe walked to the sofa, picked up a tablet, and found a conceptual image of the Solar Wind blowing in all directions. "After the Solar Wind leaves the Sun, its speed doesn't decrease; instead, it accelerates."

"When the Solar Wind moves away from the Sun and enters interstellar space, it can reach speeds of hundreds or even thousands of kilometers per second, far faster than it was near the Sun!"

"In space, it's clearly empty!"

He drew circles and increasingly thick arrows in all directions around the picture of the Sun. "So why is the Solar Wind getting faster and faster?"

Without waiting for Xiao Yu to speak, he directly revealed the secret: "Doesn't this seem like there's an invisible hand pushing this [Solar Wind], making it run faster and faster?"

"According to common sense—when a pebble falls on the water's surface, the ripples it creates will get shorter and shorter until they decay and disappear."

"But what about the Solar Wind?"

Xiao Yu was stunned upon hearing this; she had never thought about this detail.

"The Solar Wind is like a handful of sand you throw out." Jiang Zhe waved his hand forward. "Common sense tells you that in space, the sand you throw will move at a constant speed and then eventually stop—but if the sand flies faster and faster after being thrown, with more and more energy..."

At this point in his narration, he nodded slightly. "Xiao Yu, would you suspect that there's something invisible in space dragging this sand, or even accelerating it?"

"This..." Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed as she subconsciously nodded.

Because the model of the Sun as nuclear fusion truly cannot explain why the Solar Wind gets faster and faster!!!

Theoretically, in a nuclear fusion model, the Solar Wind should get slower and slower.

But the observed fact is—after the Solar Wind is triggered from the Sun, it gets faster and faster, eventually becoming several times faster than its original speed, as if a mysterious force is pushing the Solar Wind to accelerate out of interstellar space!

At this moment, countless people were lost and distressed—Could it be that everything we've learned is wrong?