263: Chapter 263: His theory of an Earth-Moon collision is more damn reasonable than any other Earth-Moon collision theory in the world.

"One-fourth, it's one-fourth again!"

"The missing satellite of Venus is one-fourth, and the Moon is also one-fourth. Holy sh*t!"

"The key is, Venus and Earth are twin brothers!"

"Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"

"Xiaoyu's brother, don't tell me the Moon is that satellite of Venus?"

"I have goosebumps again."

"Coming from the astronomy online class, our teacher is already stunned!"

"History class representative reporting in, this is much more exciting than our textbooks!"

"..."

The new students from the astronomy and history online classes felt their blood pumping for the first time.

It turns out lectures could be so dramatic; this was much better than the rigid, step-by-step teaching of their old-fashioned teachers!

...

Inside Qingfeng Temple, smoke swirled.

Even Celestial Master Zhang was constantly smoking, putting out the cigarette, then lighting another and putting it in his mouth. "This is..."

Wang Chongyang looked at him, thinking Celestial Master Zhang knew the truth. "Is what?"

"The Tao follows nature!"

The corner of Wang Chongyang's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Zheng Ming frowned deeply. "This, this, this, this, this!"

"So what if it's one-fourth? It's just a coincidence. Who doesn't know how to play with numbers?"

Robert also shook his head, but his expression was much more serious than before.

"This ratio is indeed very clever; if one doesn't consider the specific celestial evolution mechanism and looks only at the numbers, it is indeed easy to make associations."

"But from the perspective of celestial mechanics, to completely send a satellite the size of a planet like Venus to Earth, the orbital changes and energy exchanges involved are almost impossible."

"For it to hold up, the satellite Venus sent to Earth must have been very small initially, not as large as it is now!"

"Only if it were half the size could it allow the satellite to impact Earth, then eject material from Earth—ultimately, Earth's material and that half of the [Moon] would be agitated by Earth's gravity, spinning crazily near Earth, and then condensing; thus concluding that the Moon grew slowly; it wasn't this big all at once!"

"But in this way, the claim that there was no Moon 12,000 years ago doesn't hold water."

"Similarly, this is also consistent with the Giant Impact Hypothesis; it's just that he changed the Moon flying in from outside the Solar System to flying over from Venus. It's not absurd; on the contrary, it's quite interesting!"

Hearing this, Zheng Ming rolled his eyes at Robert. Damn, why are you agreeing with him again? Don't tell me you're about to become his fan too?

Celestial Master Zhang said, "That's not necessarily true. Xiaoyu's brother naturally knows such an obvious loophole. Keep listening, and you might have a sudden realization; this is where his charm lies!"

Robert nodded slowly.

...

National Astronomical Observatory.

Zhang Lin stared at the number one-fourth on the screen and gasped. "Professor Zhang, isn't this ratio too coincidental?"

Professor Zhang Qinian shook his head and pulled up a file on the big screen, which was a historical summary of Venus's satellites.

"Speaking of Venus's satellites, there is indeed a famous observation record in history."

He pointed to the big screen with a laser pointer and said:

"In 1672, Italian astronomer Cassini first observed a celestial body very close to Venus."

"In 1686, he observed it again and announced the discovery of Venus's satellite, naming it Neith, which was speculated to have a volume of about—one-fourth of Venus."

Zhang Lin's eyes lit up. "One-fourth, isn't that...?"

"Don't be hasty." Professor Zhang Qinian raised his hand and shook his head. "After that, in 1740, 1759, and 1761, astronomers reported observing this celestial body."

"But in 1766, the Vienna Observatory suggested that it might be an optical illusion because Venus was too bright, causing a ghost image reflected in the telescope."

"In 1884, the director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium analyzed it and believed that what was observed might be an asteroid orbiting the Sun. Currently, the scientific community generally believes that Venus does not have satellites."

Director Wang Weiguo nodded and took over the conversation.

"But there are also many voices in our astronomy community saying that Neith might have actually existed, only to crash later; after all, it is entirely possible for Venus to have had satellites in its early stages."

He took the laser pointer from Professor Zhang and pulled up a set of simulation data on his laptop.

"If Neith really existed, and its volume was indeed one-fourth of Venus, then where did it go later—did it crash into Venus, or was it thrown out?"

He looked at the screen, his gaze gradually deepening.

"But to say that this satellite is the Moon, I can only say that one-fourth is a very clever number; laymen might find it incredible, but we in astronomy cannot simply draw an equal sign like that."

Zhang Lin and several researchers looked at each other, their faces showing a trace of disappointment.

They had originally thought Neith and the Moon were twin satellites.

Zhang Lin had a sudden thought. "Then is it possible that the one-fourth satellite of Venus from hundreds of years ago could be a reflection of the Moon? After all, this kind of coincidence is almost on a cosmic scale!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Director Wang and Professor Zhang Qinian looked at each other, their eyes shining.

Four words appeared in both their minds simultaneously: Legend of the Double Moon!!!

"Don't rush, perhaps Jiang Zhe will talk about it!"

...

Inside Principal Fu's office.

Ren Xiaoyao's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but smile.

Just as he was about to say something, he saw Old Wang deep in thought. "Old Wang, what are you thinking about?"

Old Wang raised his head, pouting, with a deep expression. "Why were the Maya so obsessed with the orbital trajectory of Venus, even more precise than observing the Moon? I'm thinking, is there something to this?"

Xiao Wang's eyes also lit up. "This... how did it get to mythology!"

Principal Fu tapped the table lightly and coughed, signaling everyone to be quiet. "Keep listening!"

Inside the big screen, in the villa living room, on the sofa.

After a long while, Xiao Yu recovered from the shock and asked incredulously, "Big brother, what exactly is this one-fourth?"

Jiang Zhe grinned. "Just a wonderful coincidence."

As the words fell, hundreds of thousands of slightly disappointed comments floated across the bullet screen.

"Ah? Just a coincidence, so disappointed!"

"I thought there was some earth-shattering scoop!"

"Big brother, don't stop, keep talking!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I love listening, regardless of whether it's a coincidence or not!"

"..."

His gaze fell on Xiao Yu, and Jiang Zhe continued: "However, the reason a coincidence is a coincidence is because we haven't seen the logic behind it yet."

"Xiao Yu, do you know why Venus rotates in reverse?"

Xiao Yu shook her head.

Jiang Zhe operated the tablet and pulled up a picture. It was a photo of the surface of Venus taken during the Soviet Union era, gray-yellow, blurry, and mysterious.

"Venus is an outlier in the Solar System; it is the only major planet that rotates in reverse. Looking at the Sun on Venus, it rises in the west and sets in the east."

"Mainstream science believes that this is likely because Venus was impacted by a large celestial body in its early stages. That impact completely knocked over Venus's axis of rotation."

Xiao Yu nodded thoughtfully.

"Venus and Earth have similar mass and similar formation conditions, and are called twin brothers; but Earth has a large satellite like the Moon, while Venus has no satellites. This is unreasonable."

He continued to operate, pulling up a set of paper-like data.

"Mercury has no satellites because it is too close to the Sun and its gravity is unstable; but under Venus's conditions, it should logically be able to have satellites."

"But it just doesn't."

Xiao Yu's eyes lit up. "So Venus once had them?"

"Yes." Jiang Zhe nodded. "It once had a satellite named Neith, and its volume was also one-fourth of Venus. It is also this kind of shocking coincidence, the one-fourth volume celestial body that astronomers observed hundreds of years ago; but it later disappeared."

Speaking up to this point, he nodded slightly, and his tone suddenly changed.

"But Xiao Yu, have you ever thought about a question: how long has Venus's axis of rotation been unbalanced?"

"I don't know, it should have been a long time, right?"

"Yes, a very, very long time!"

Jiang Zhe continued to operate the tablet, pulling up the data sent back by the Soviet Union's Venus probes, the dim yellow like a hellish desert, the sky covered by dim yellow, a circle of unfathomable fog swirling above.

"This is the surface photo and detection data of Venus sent back by the Soviet Union's Venera series probes; through these data, it can be calculated that Venus's axis of rotation imbalance has lasted for at least two billion years."

"If the Neith satellite really existed, and could still be observed by astronomers until the 17th century, then it should have disappeared in the last few hundred years; but Venus's unbalanced state clearly did not form in the last few hundred years."

Xiao Yu suddenly realized. "So that Neith?"

"Neith is highly likely a misjudgment." Jiang Zhe smiled slightly. "It could be an optical illusion, it could be another celestial body, it could also be a reflection of the Moon, but it is unlikely to be a real satellite of Venus."

He paused for a moment and pulled up the orbit map of the inner planets of the Solar System again.

"But the speculation that Venus once had a large satellite is reasonable; the volume of that satellite is very likely one-fourth of Venus, which is also reasonable."

"Where did that satellite go later?"

His fingers slid across the screen, going back billions of years.

"Xiao Yu, think about the evolutionary history of the Solar System; billions of years ago, the Solar System was not as stable as it is now; the orbits of planets would migrate, and the gravitational field would change accordingly."

"That large satellite of Venus was likely thrown out by Venus's gravity during a huge upheaval in the Solar System."

"At the beginning, the volume of that Venusian satellite might not have been too large, perhaps only one-fourth of today's Moon, or even one-eighth!"

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes turned. "Thrown where?"

"Thrown in the direction of Earth. When it flew past Earth, it completed a shocking collision with Earth, and finally, a part of Earth's mass was knocked away by this satellite back into space."

"Then the scattered Earth-Moon material in space was captured by Earth's great gravity, forming a ring of Earth, similar to the rings of Saturn. Over time, the mass of that initial Venusian satellite slowly grew larger!"

"Finally, it was captured by Earth's great gravity, forming Earth's satellite."

"And Venus, because it lost this large satellite, its axis of rotation was completely unbalanced, and it eventually became the hellish appearance it is today, with a surface temperature of 470 degrees, atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth, and sulfuric acid rain raging."

Speaking to this point, he nodded slightly. "So why did the soil brought back from the Moon by Apollo detect Earth's material? It's not that the Moon and Earth were one from the very beginning; it was that the original Earth and Moon collided, and the material eventually merged."

Speaking of this, he operated the tablet and pulled out a series of coverings of Earth, excluding oceans, land, North and South Poles, etc.

A bare, elliptical rocky Earth came into view.

He pointed to a bare corner. "Xiao Yu, do you know now why the meteorite crater from the original Earth-Moon collision cannot be detected on Earth?"

Xiao Yu looked at the data chart on the tablet pointed at her by her big brother, and said with surprise: "That's because..."

"A part of Earth was knocked away, merged with the initial Moon, and finally..."

"That super-wide meteorite crater became today's..."

"Ocean!!!"

Hearing this, countless netizens and experts looked horrified.

For some reason, Jiang Zhe's impact theory of the Earth and Moon was even more reasonable than the Earth-Moon impact theory of the astronomy community today!!!