225: Chapter 225: Light is the secret to anti-gravity!

"Impossible!"

These three words instantly appeared in the minds of everyone who heard them.

At this moment, millions of bullet comments flooded the live stream.

"What? Light???"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Bro, have you watched too much sci-fi? Light is energy, how can it push things?"

"What about dark energy? What happened to dark energy driving the expansion of the universe?"

"If this is true, physics textbooks will have to be rewritten, damn it!"

"..."

His statement was simply too shocking, making people subconsciously refuse to believe it!

Inside Ouyang Baili's dormitory at Huaqing University.

Professor Wu shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible. Photons have no rest mass, and radiation pressure is extremely weak. To use it to explain the thrust driving the entire universe; it's like saying I blew a breath and moved a ten-thousand-ton supertanker. The orders of magnitude are completely mismatched!"

Ouyang Baili narrowed his eyes, staring fixedly at the screen, saying nothing.

Inside Principal Fu's office.

Xiao Wang from the History Staff Quarters couldn't help but speak up: "This can't be possible. If it really were light, it should have won a Nobel Prize long ago!"

Old Yu, the physics teacher, nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it's indeed unimaginable. Using radiation pressure to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe would require an efficiency that defies all of humanity's current understanding!"

In the History Staff Quarters.

Although Professor Chen Runzhi was a history professor, he also felt this statement was too horrifying. "The current mainstream consensus is dark energy. If it were light, such an obvious thing, there's no reason why scientists all over the world wouldn't have discovered it."

Professor Liu Guangyi chimed in: "I'm afraid Jiang Zhe's point of view won't be convincing this time!"

In the villa living room, on the other side of the video feed.

Behind Academician Chen, several onlookers, who were also professors, were filled with disbelief.

Behind Academician Chen was not an ordinary study, but a spacious living room.

At this moment, five or six scholarly middle-aged and elderly scholars were standing or sitting, as they were holding a small academic gathering.

Jiang Zhe's answer had just been heard by everyone through the speaker, and those professors had already gathered behind Academician Chen, their faces full of rejection.

A suit-wearing astronomy scholar in his late fifties shook his head repeatedly, "Hiss, young man, you really dare to say anything!"

A capable-looking middle-aged female physicist nearby took over the conversation, "We've been listening for a long time. We've been listening since you started answering the high school questions; your arguments before, no matter to whom, were all brilliant, and your perspective was very grand!"

"How did you suddenly throw out such a claim that light is the thrust when it came to the most critical question?"

"This is just too lacking in evidence!"

Another professor studying cosmology also looked regretful, "Young man, scholarship must be rigorous. You can't just talk nonsense because Academician Chen appreciates you. Light pushing the universe to expand—this idea is very bold, but it's also too bizarre!"

After Academician Chen regained his composure, he advised with a serious face, "Student J, your conclusion is too subversive. Proposing it without solid evidence will not only not be accepted, but it may also cause unnecessary controversy and affect your future development. Perhaps you should reconsider and answer again!"

He said this meaningfully, even with a hint of protection.

If the person in front of him was truly Student J, someone who could make Ouyang Baili and Guan Jingming protect him, he must have his brilliance.

He really didn't want a rising star in the scientific community to crash and burn because of an advanced conjecture!

However...

Jiang Zhe just shook his head gently, the smile on his face fading, "Academician Chen, I will not change my statement."

"You!!!"

"Academician Chen, thank you for your good intentions, because this of mine is not a conjecture..."

Before he could explain further, Academician Chen frowned tightly and spoke again: "Student J, light can indeed produce radiation pressure, but making light produce net thrust in a closed system without violating the conservation of momentum is almost impossible within the framework of classical physics."

"It's like you sitting on a ship right now, using a fan inside the ship to blow the sails to make the ship move forward. This violates basic principles!"

Hearing this explanation, millions of friends in the live stream finally understood and nodded in agreement.

Jiang Zhe, however, curled the corners of his mouth slightly, "Your analogy of a fan inside a ship pushing the ship holds true under the framework of classical physics."

"But Academician Chen, what if the wind blown by this fan doesn't act on the sails, but on the water itself where the ship is located?"

The [water] he spoke of was the entire universe, not a [spaceship sailing in the universe].

Without giving Academician Chen a chance to react, he bluntly threw out: "In 2026, the day before yesterday, NASA's Eagleworks laboratory conducted an experiment called EmDrive."

"They designed a special and asymmetric metal resonant cavity, injected microwaves into the cavity—that is, injected light, which can also be said to be electromagnetic waves; because light and microwaves are both electromagnetic waves."

"According to classical physics—in this closed jar, microwave reflection should not produce any net thrust."

"However, multiple test data showed—this closed cavity, which only had electromagnetic waves injected and no propellant ejection, detected a net thrust at the micronewton level, and it was pointed in a specific direction!"

"Although this experiment is highly controversial, its repeatability is in doubt, and the mainstream academic community has not yet acknowledged it; but it has been recorded in black and white in NASA's report. It really measured [anomalous thrust]."

"This experiment, at the very least, proves one thing: specific electromagnetic waves—microwaves or light—under the action of specific structures, will produce unconventional directional thrust that we have not yet fully understood!"

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly, "Then, please think about it, professors!"

"What if our universe itself is an incomparably huge and structurally special [resonant cavity]?" (Ps: A resonant cavity is a box container that can trap waves and make them resonate and amplify.)

"If the cosmic microwave background radiation and various visible/invisible light filling this cavity, in the special space-time structure of the universe, produce a cumulative effect that happens to be the [thrust] we are desperately looking for to drive the accelerated expansion of the universe?"

This answer was a recognized fact in Jiang Zhe's previous life.

(Ps: This fact exists in reality. NASA did this experiment. The protagonist is talking about a real experiment, but in our world, it was done in 2016. Due to plot needs, this experiment appeared just a few days ago in this world. I won't let the protagonist make this cavity himself; plot needs are enough.)

As the series of words fell, millions of friends, Academician Chen, and countless scholars were stunned.

After hesitating for a few seconds, everyone quickly operated their mobile phones and computers to start searching online.

Searching for NASA, 202, and microwave thruster...

A few minutes later, the live stream was quickly exploded by dense rewards and bullet comments.

"Holy crap!!! There really is this experiment, the experiment and paper from 2 days ago!"

"NASA official report, I found it, damn!!!"

"Although NASA said it couldn't be repeated later and the principle is unknown, they really produced thrust during the testing process!!!"

"Holy crap, so using light to produce thrust, damn, isn't sci-fi, but for real?"

"My god!!! In this way, our universe is a resonant cavity, which is a super flat [big box]!!!"

"..."

At this time, in Academician Chen's study.

Upon hearing these words, several old professors' faces changed drastically.

"Quick, pull up that report!" the female physicist urged urgently.

Behind her, someone had already taken out a tablet and searched for the paper report. The old professor's fingers quickly swiped, and his face became more and more astonished, "It's true, NASA did indeed release the preliminary test results in 2026, the day before yesterday, and recorded a weak anomalous thrust!"

Another cosmology professor took over the conversation with a serious face: "Although the report emphasizes the need for further verification and subsequent failure to perfectly reproduce it, the data, damn, the data is indeed there!"

A slightly younger physics professor looked incredulous, "So, Student J is not daydreaming. He is using a real experimental anomaly as the starting point for his entire deduction?"

As insiders, they naturally understood the significance of this report better than netizens—

It is conclusive evidence!

Although it is difficult to replicate, it really produced weak thrust with light in a box.

"Hiss~~"

For a long time, several sounds of gasping could be heard in the study.

Academician Chen stood there motionless, as if his soul had been drained.

He had never imagined that someone could directly and bluntly weld this controversy in the engineering field to the core problem of the accelerated expansion of cosmology!

He stared blankly at Jiang Zhe, who was in control on the other side of the computer, as if everything was under the control of the person in front of him!

Student J was not talking about a fantasy; this was a record of an experiment that had actually existed in the real world!!!

This was a declaration of war that had only appeared a few days ago, declaring war on the entire universe. The content was: [We know why you are accelerating expansion!!! It is precisely light!!!]

Jiang Zhe looked at the confused Academician Chen and the professors and began to add.

"The thrust of this experiment is extremely small, so small that it is negligible."

"But please remember, this effect is real, and it is difficult to replicate. So when the cavity it acts on is not a copper can in a laboratory, but... the entire observable universe, what kind of scene will that accumulated [weak thrust] be?"

"That is what you see—the scene of the universe accelerating expansion!"

"That is also what I said—the scene of light being the root of anti-gravity!"

"The answer is, master light, and you can develop anti-gravity technology!"

In an instant!

Academician Chen seemed to have lost all his strength and slumped into his seat at once.

His face was pale, and a strange look of confusion and horror appeared on his face.

In his decades of practice, he had never had such an uncomposed day, and all of this was brought to him by the young man in front of him!

Most of us are just talking big, I didn't expect you to...

Academician Chen wanted to say something but stopped, and finally could only say reluctantly: "You!"

"You, actually, are playing for real!!!"

...

Ps: Emphasize again, this experiment was done by NASA, I didn't make it up.

NASA wrote a sentence after the paper: [Experiments show that many things we think are absurd are becoming reality!]

This technology was originally a foreigner, not a scientist, an anti-gravity technology enthusiast who made anti-gravity technology; later it was discovered by NASA and they did it once.

Then... they succeeded...

But the current technology is not comprehensive, because the [randomness] is too strong!