171: Chapter 171: A Coincidence Like a Deliberately Designed Sun

At this moment, inside the Huaqing University lounge.

The entire lounge was dead silent for a moment before suddenly erupting in a roar!

“Holy crap, ahhhh!”

“36 degrees? Is this a damn star or a thermos? The tomato egg soup I just finished was hotter than the core of the Sun!”

“I’ve studied astrophysics for five years, and today I'm told the Sun's core is at hot spring temperature. Am I crazy, or are you?”

“Someone hit me, I must be having a nightmare!”

Professor Wu took a deep breath and turned his head away. “I'm tired. Just let the world end!”

Dr. Li Mo and Professor Guan exchanged a look, both seeing shock and a hint of fear on each other's faces.

If this analogy holds true, if there is even a one-in-ten-thousand chance for this calculation...

It would be enough to overturn humanity's understanding of every star in the entire universe!

Just then.

Professor Ouyang seemed to have thought of something. He rushed to the whiteboard, grabbed a marker, and began writing down the numbers frantically:

[Actual Observation: Corona / Solar Surface = 1,000,000 / 6,000 ≈ 167 times!]

[Conceptual Hypothesis: Solar Surface / Solar Core = 6,000 / 167 ≈ 35.9 times → 6,000 / 35.9 = 167 times!]

“167!” Professor Ouyang said with a solemn expression. “It’s 167 times again. The same ratio. From the corona to the surface is 167 times—if it's also 167 times from the surface to the core—then the Sun's core could indeed be at a temperature of 35.9.”

Professor Ouyang turned around, scanning the shocked faces of the dozens of people present.

“For now, let’s temporarily set aside the physical debate between candles and nuclear fusion, and just look at this result.”

He took a deep breath and posed an even sharper question: “Why is it exactly 167 times? Why couldn't the ratio between the solar corona and the surface be 166 times, 168 times, or even just a rough estimate of over a hundred times?”

Ouyang’s hand slammed heavily against the glaring '35.9 degrees' on the whiteboard.

“If the temperature difference between the solar corona and the surface were 16.7 times, then the calculated core temperature would be 359 degrees—while still revolutionary, at least it would be considered high.”

“If this multiple were 100 times, the core would be 60 degrees, which could barely be classified as ‘warm’.”

“But why is it exactly the ratio of 167? By dividing through the layers, the final number we get...”

“Is exactly 36 degrees Celsius?”

Looking at everyone's bewildered and uncomprehending expressions, Professor Ouyang said solemnly, “I’m not shocked by what the core's temperature is—but rather by the 167-fold difference between the corona and the surface. Once you divide the surface temperature of 6,000 degrees by 167, you get a temperature that is extremely habitable!!!”

“A temperature that highly overlaps with the core body temperature of intelligent life, and is incredibly suitable?”

“I’m asking you all, students and colleagues—is that possible?”

“Isn't this far too coincidental? So coincidental it almost seems... artificial?”

At this point, Professor Ouyang stopped speaking.

He looked around again and found that everyone's face was more or less filled with horror.

His point was exactly this—if the ratio were even slightly higher or lower than 167, the internal environment of the Sun would not be suitable for intelligent life.

The corona could have been 100,000 degrees or 900,000 degrees—why is it exactly 1,000,000 degrees?

Only with a temperature of 1 million degrees is there a 167-fold difference with the surface, and only when the surface is 6,000 degrees can there be a 167-fold difference with the core.

The coincidence in all of this is truly unbearable!

Dr. Li Mo and Professor Guan were covered in goosebumps. Terrified, Li Mo grabbed the black cotton coat Professor Guan had brought, pulled it over to himself, and put it on.

Professor Guan rubbed his cold arms. “???”

Hearing Ouyang’s analysis, the students and colleagues present couldn't stop shivering.

Professor Wu exhaled deeply. “Ouyang, your words are sending chills down my spine. If—and I mean if—this isn't just a mathematical game, then what do the 167 times and 36 degrees signify?”

A physics student raised their hand, their voice trembling with fear. “It means... if the temperature difference between the surface and the corona is 167 times, then the difference between the surface and the interior could indeed result in 36 degrees after another 167-fold reduction. And it might not be a natural formation, but something deliberately calibrated by someone?”

As the words fell, the air in the room became silent once more.

The effect of this chilling answer had already taken root in everyone's hearts.

Meanwhile, on the large screen.

Xiao Yu finally snapped out of her initial shock and regained her composure.

“167 times... the ratio between the corona and the solar surface is 167—if the ratio between the surface and the core is also 167...”

“Big brother, what is this 167? Why is it specifically this multiple?”

Just then, a series of inconceivable ideas and insights surfaced in Xiao Yu's mind.

“Big brother, is it possible that the Sun isn't a naturally formed star at all?”

“Could it be... something set up in the Solar System a long, long, long time ago by some advanced civilization we can't comprehend?”

“A shell that looks like a star, but actually contains another world inside?”

Jiang Zhe smiled upon hearing this; he was truly satisfied with Xiao Yu's train of thought.

As long as Xiao Yu wasn't constrained by conventions and dared to think, it was enough.

“Not bad. Your idea is bold—perhaps too bold.” However, he still shook his head. “I never said the Sun was created by another civilization. Even if various mythologies have sun gods like Ra or Apollo, those are just the views of ancient people, not our modern perspective.”

“What I'm expressing is always a possibility on a theoretical level.”

“In traditional physics, the Sun is powered by nuclear fusion. That is the explanation based on all observations and models.”

“But within the framework of the Time Stream theory I proposed, the Sun's energy doesn't come from nuclear fusion. Instead, it comes from the Time Stream that exists everywhere in the universe. The Sun is like a battery, constantly absorbing temporal energy drifting through the cosmos.”

“As for the coincidence of the 167-fold ratio and the 36 degrees inferred from it, I can't guarantee that people are living inside the Sun.”

At this point, he paused, and his gaze became serious.

In the Astronomical Observation Department of the Hidden Dragon Base in his past life—within those encrypted files—there were indeed records of many unexplainable traces.

Strange shadows passing through the corona, moving points of light that didn't conform to known celestial dynamics, and even images sent back by certain deep-space probes.

Disc-shaped, cigar-shaped, spherical—all sorts of shapes that were difficult to categorize.

All these inconceivable things were telling Jiang Zhe that the universe was not as simple as ordinary people imagined!

After a long while, Jiang Zhe withdrew his thoughts and checked his watch; it was nearly midnight.

“My point is that it's a possibility, but not a certainty. After all, no one can directly see that the temperature inside the Sun is 36 degrees!”

“Just as no one can see whether the Earth's interior is hollow or solid; even if modern people believe the Earth is solid—how can we prove it's not like how ancient people believed the Earth was flat, until Columbus's voyage discovered the Earth was round?”

“Every era gradually refreshes the knowledge of the previous one.”

“Perhaps one day in the future, all our current understanding—the Big Bang theory, the Earth, the Sun—will be rejected by our descendants, who will then provide a more rational theory and truth. Just like what I am doing now: bringing you shock while offering a slightly more reasonable, ultra-cutting-edge hypothesis.”

Xiao Yu finally emerged from her lingering fear upon hearing this.

Her big brother really dared to say anything. If he hadn't reeled it back in at the end, he would probably be in the headlines tomorrow, and a wave of notoriety would arise online.

Jiang Zhe's words were well-spoken, allowing the previously tense Professor Wu, Professor Ouyang, and Professor Zhang Qinian to breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Jiang Zhe knew where the boundaries were. Although he pointed out the cracks in traditional theories, proposed a startling alternative hypothesis, and even displayed chilling mathematical coincidences...

In the end, Jiang Zhe still stepped away from the scientific core.

This was more like an intellectual enlightenment rather than a dogmatic inference!

This caused their evaluation of Jiang Zhe to shift from shock back to a more realistic level—at least Jiang Zhe knew which of his claims could be deduced with evidence and which were bold conjectures.

A subverter who understands the weight of his own words is far more worthy of being taken seriously than a fanatical mystic!

At this moment, in the livestream room, the previously surging bullet comments suddenly went silent.

“Damn, I thought there really was life inside the Sun. After all, it's warmer in there than in spring!”

“To the person above, our big brother is being very responsible, okay? It's just a suspicion. The key points of 167 times and 36 degrees are too coincidental—so coincidental that the Sun might not have formed naturally but was placed here intentionally.”

“So, you're saying there's a possibility?”

[Li Mo from Huaqing University tipped a rocket and left a message: “Yes, there is a possibility, provided that—you accept Big Brother's time theory. Then the Sun isn't powered by nuclear fusion, and the interior is very likely 36 degrees. As long as you find the entrance on the Sun, you can go inside to find out for yourself whether it's a spring paradise or sweltering heat!”]

“Hiss~ Anyway, I feel like both the Sun and the Moon are quite unnatural!”

“+1”

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