279: Chapter 279: Every change in the moon causes a massive explosion of life on Earth.

It was 2:00 AM in the USA.

Inside a small conference room at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Science Division.

The sound of keyboards clicking here was continuous and incessant.

Group One: Replicating tiamat's evolutionary path.

Researcher McLean stared intently at the screen, his fingers typing rapidly.

His team had failed four times in a row, but this time, after strictly inputting the parameters from the Xia Nation paper, a perfect orbit finally appeared on the screen.

Fragments flew out from 2.8 AU, were flung toward the Kuiper Belt by Jupiter's gravitational slingshot, wandered for 500 million years before turning back, grazed Mars, grazed Earth, were captured by Venus for 300 million years, and finally brushed past Earth, colliding with it to eventually form the moon.

The computer displayed the conclusion: [Probability 78%].

McLean took off his glasses, unable to believe it.

Logically, he should have cheered.

After all, the replication was successful; the Xia Nation data was correct, though their data was too outdated, resulting in 4% less precision than his own calculations.

But he didn't; instead, he was very calm.

Because he had discovered a massive problem.

"Wait," he suddenly raised his hand, "Everyone look at this!"

He pointed to the time in the top left corner of the screen, "The time of tiamat's fragmentation was 2.8 billion years ago; the fragments were flung out by Jupiter, wandered in the Kuiper Belt for 500 million years—that is, around 2.3 billion years ago—it started to turn back, flying toward the inner side of our Solar System."

He hurriedly stood up, walked to another computer, and operated it to pull up a set of geological data.

"What happened on Earth 2.3 billion years ago?"

The other idle researchers leaned in to look for a while, "The Great Oxygenation Event, the oxygen content in Earth's atmosphere soared from zero to its current level, followed by a cyanobacteria explosion."

"You mean, the moon's remains had a series of impacts on Earth?" a middle-aged researcher couldn't help but ask.

"Yes," McLean nodded very seriously, "2.3 billion years ago, cyanobacteria on Earth began producing large amounts of oxygen, completely changing Earth's atmospheric composition."

"This is the most significant turning point in Earth's life history. Without this event, there would be no subsequent complex life."

He finished operating the computer, turned around, and swept his gaze across everyone in the conference room.

"And at that exact same time, this fragment of tiamat was turning back from the Kuiper Belt, flying toward Earth."

Upon hearing this, the conference room went quiet for a moment, and then they looked at each other in confusion.

A young researcher tentatively asked, "It's a coincidence, right? The fragment is flying in space, and life evolution on Earth—how could these two things be related?"

"I don't know," McLean shook his head repeatedly, his gaze remaining on the Earth data chart on the computer, "But you all need to keep looking down the timeline."

He operated the computer to bring up a table, placing the two columns of data side by side.

On the left, the trajectory time points of the fragment.

On the right, the key nodes of Earth's life evolution.

"2.8 billion years ago, tiamat fragmented."

"2.8 billion years ago, microorganisms on Earth began producing oxygen."

"2.3 billion years ago, the fragment turned back, flying toward the inner Solar System."

"2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth's oxygen content soared."

"1.6 billion years ago, the fragment was captured by Venus."

"1.6 billion years ago, eukaryotes appeared."

"800 million years ago, the fragment was flung out after orbiting Venus for 300 million years."

"800 million years ago, multicellular organisms appeared."

"600 million years ago, the fragment grazed Earth, the Earth-moon collision occurred, forming the moon."

"600 million years ago, the Ediacaran biota exploded, and complex life began to flourish."

When he finished reporting the last time and event, the conference room fell into dead silence.

Everyone stared at the two columns of data on the screen in astonishment, staring at those shocking correlations.

After a long while, an older researcher spoke slowly, "You mean to say that every time this fragment approached Earth, life on Earth underwent a large-scale evolution?"

McLean was lost in thought and did not respond; he also didn't know why this was the case, whether it was a coincidence or something else.

Soon, a young female researcher couldn't help but laugh, "This is too absurd, isn't it? A piece of broken rock flying in space, and it can affect life evolution on Earth?"

"It doesn't have radiation, and it didn't crash into us, so how could it cause major events on Earth?"

"But it is changing the gravitational field of the Solar System," another slightly older male researcher suddenly spoke up, "Every time it is captured or flung out by a giant planet, it disturbs the gravitational balance of the entire inner Solar System; and this gravitational disturbance has already been proven to change the orbits of comets and asteroids."

Speaking of this, the fifty-something researcher scanned the people in the room, "And comets and asteroids bring water to Earth, and they also bring organic molecules."

"So, this fragment called the moon is not directly promoting life evolution, but is playing the role of a courier!"

"Whatever Earth lacks, it delivers!"

"Every time it approaches Earth, it is possible for it to fling comets from the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud into the inner Solar System through gravitational disturbance."

"And those comets might carry water, amino acids, and organic molecules—these are all the raw materials for the birth of life on our Earth."

When the fifty-something researcher said this, he hurriedly walked to the whiteboard and drew a schematic diagram.

"Think about it, the Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago required a large amount of cyanobacteria; and what do cyanobacteria need?"

"They need water, they need nutrients."

"Where do these things come from? It's possible they were brought by comets, large chemical reactions caused by collisions."

"And the appearance of eukaryotes 1.6 billion years ago, the appearance of multicellular organisms 800 million years ago, the explosion of complex life 600 million years ago—every node could correspond to a comet shower impact."

Drawing to this point, he turned around and looked at everyone.

"And this fragment is that powder keg; every time it passes through our inner Solar System, it triggers a round of comet showers."

Following a series of remarks, the conference room suddenly fell into silence.

Johnson frowned, the interest in his eyes growing stronger, "Interesting, regardless of whether it's a coincidence, this is a major event, an unchangeable fact."

"Moreover, the appearance of the moon did indeed urge the explosion and stabilization of life on Earth."

But McLean just shook his head in disbelief; he didn't expect to have an unexpected harvest today!

...

At this time, the second group, responsible for replicating the binary star orbit, was also successful.

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3:30 AM.

Everyone had left the conference room.

Johnson sat alone in front of the big screen, looking thoughtfully at the calculation conclusions provided by the NASA top researchers, remaining silent for a long time.

The first group discovered that the time points when the moon-originating fragment approached Earth perfectly corresponded to the key nodes of Earth's life evolution, as if it were some kind of predestined arrangement.

"Is it the butterfly effect? Why does every major event on Earth seem to be deliberately arranged?"

"Or is there some kind of [Super Consciousness] in science that we humans don't know about, interfering with all of this?"

"But God does not play dice..."

Pondering, his gaze fell on the second row of conclusions.

The second group discovered that the gravity anomaly zone on the far side of the moon is distributed exactly along the tidal stress lines left by Venus and Earth together.

And the intersection of the two stress lines corresponds exactly to a crater named after the father of Bear Country's aerospace.

Coincidence?

Too many coincidences.

He began to realize that those two papers from Xia Nation were not just simple hypotheses.

The papers were like opening a door, and behind the door were countless new questions, each pointing to a deeper secret.

After looking at the conclusions for a long time, he picked up the phone and dialed an encrypted number.

The call was quickly answered.

"Sir," Johnson's voice was very respectful, "The genius J that our NASA has been paying attention to has made big moves again today..."

He gave a brief summary, and then stated the conclusion: "And we also successfully replicated the hypothesis of that J from Xia Nation yesterday."

The other end of the phone fell into silence, and after a long time, that voice sounded.

"You mean, they used public data to deduce something that we didn't find even with the most precise instruments?"

"Yes," Johnson laughed at himself, "And they used outdated data. I misspoke; it's that Xia Nation's data is all outdated, our data from decades ago; the ideas and data in the genius J's head are actually so advanced that even we are amazed; and J only started it; what we discovered is even more than what was written in the papers from the Xia Nation research institute and Huaqing University."

"For example?"

The majestic voice from the other side came again.

Johnson thought and said: "For example, every time that tiamat fragment approached Earth, life on Earth evolved once."

"For example, the gravity anomaly zone on the back of the moon is distributed exactly along the fingerprints left by Venus and Earth together, and the intersection of that fingerprint is exactly the Korolev crater of Bear Country."

"Sir, I don't know how to explain these, but I know one thing!"

"What?"

"This J, he knows some things that we don't know, and these things are being verified bit by bit by those institutions in Xia Nation."

The other side of the phone fell silent again, and the voice became serious, "Check his background, the more detailed the better; also, prepare an invitation letter, in the name of NASA, to invite him for an exchange."

Johnson looked puzzled, "Will he come?"

"Whether he comes is his business, whether we invite him is our business, and besides, I really want to see what the person who can make the entire Xia Nation academic circle stay up all night writing papers actually looks like."

The phone hung up.

Johnson put down his phone and dialed a CIA number.

The CIA insider quickly sent a document report.

He opened the information sent by the CIA, looking at Jiang Zhe's ordinary ID photo, just a bit overly handsome, that's all.

When he saw the CIA's remarks at the beginning, he was a bit stunned.

[Fainted at his doorstep over a month ago, and became a genius after waking up, appearing out of thin air overnight, with various advanced concepts and top-secret information popping up!]

[According to the information he disclosed himself, there might be another personality inside his body.]

[He calls it the "akashic records" himself, but this bureau has not found anything similar anywhere in the world; however, we found 'innate wisdom' in Buddhism.]

[According to the assessment of our country's top medical research institute, Jiang Zhe has a split personality; at the moment of his sudden death in a coma at the age of 24, the second 'crazy theorist' personality awakened!]

Seeing this, Johnson took a deep breath, "Dual personality? Just fainting once and turning from an ordinary person into a genius theorist?"

"By the way, can I faint too?"

After sighing for a long time, he continued to flip through the materials, which were nothing more than various papers being noticed and shocked by scholars from which countries; Johnson was not interested in these.

Until he turned to the last page.

Johnson's gaze stopped on a line of text, [Third-generation super intelligence prototype: xia nation consciousness]

His eyes narrowed, and he looked carefully.

This is a piece of analysis attached by the intelligence department.

[Regarding the concept of xia nation consciousness mentioned by chance in J's live broadcast, if we treat the 1.4 billion people of Xia Nation as computing nodes, as long as the data interaction is dense enough, theoretically, some kind of collective intelligence can be born.]

A note is attached below.

[It is worth noting that after J proposed this concept, multiple scientific research institutions in Xia Nation began to try to build a similar distributed computing network. Although it is nominally for scientific research purposes, if it really succeeds, it will have a major impact on the financial and strategic layout of our great USA!]

[Note: This person's classified information cannot be viewed further, suspected to be listed as a Xia Nation state secret!]

Johnson narrowed his eyes, and the whole person stood up immediately, "Third-generation super artificial intelligence..."

If the Xia Nation people are really trying this, then J's value is far more than just proposing a few astronomical hypotheses.

"Can our great USA also possess such third-generation super intelligence?"

...

Time passed by in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day for the make-up class.