"Teacher Zhou, the investigation results on the crash of the space station are out."
Hao Xiaoxi walked into the office.
She gently put the document on Zhou Zhezhi's desk, and then said worriedly: "Teacher Zhou, the Academy of Sciences said they discovered some extremely abnormal situations."
Zhou Zhezhi slowly raised his head.
He picked up the document and flipped through just a few pages before a subtle change occurred in Furui Muha's eyes.
"Let's go to the Academy of Sciences."
He thought for two seconds and said.
Hao Xiaoxi was startled for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Now?"
"You have an important meeting this afternoon..."
Zhou Zhe stood up straight and said in a hoarse voice: "Every meeting here is important, but this matter is more important than the meeting here."
Hao Xiaoxi was stunned.
She thought to herself that the space station had fallen and nothing she could do now would help. What on earth did the Academy of Sciences report in the document? It was so urgent that Teacher Zhou couldn't even wait for an afternoon.
I would rather skip the important meeting on my schedule and rush to the Academy of Sciences immediately...
She has never seen Teacher Zhou so anxious.
Hao Xiaoxi came to her senses and said seriously: "Then I will make arrangements for you now."
She respected Zhou Zhezhi from the bottom of her heart.
So even though she had some doubts, she didn't raise any objections because she believed that Zhou Zhezhi had defensible reasons for everything he did.
"No need to make arrangements, just go directly." Zhou Zhezhi said slowly, "The scientists are already waiting for me there."
Hearing this, Hao Xiaoxi was slightly startled.
She is Zhou Zhezhi's assistant.
She did not receive an invitation from the Academy of Sciences to Zhou Zhezhi, but Zhou Zhezhi said that scientists were waiting for him.
Did the Academy of Sciences put the invitation in the document?
Hao Xiaoxi felt puzzled.
The Academy of Sciences has a heavy workload. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the two major plans, scientists are busy in the laboratory day and night, working hard between theory and data.
What exactly did they find this time?
What made them take time out of their busy schedules to proactively ask Zhou Zhezhi to go to the Academy of Sciences for discussion? They were also convinced that Zhou Zhezhi would come, and specifically made time to wait for Zhou Zhezhi.
Zhou Zhezhi said in a hoarse voice: "Something beyond our understanding has happened."
...
"We are completely unable to explain why this happened. It goes against the most basic common sense of physics, so we invited you over and reported to you in person."
Several physicists stood in front of Zhou Zhezhi.
Behind them is a huge screen, on which footage of the space station falling is played in a loop, with many physical parameters marked on the screen.
Among them, speed and acceleration are marked in red.
"According to common sense, the fall of the space station should conform to the classic physical model of falling objects from high altitude, which is the accelerated motion under the dual effects of the earth's gravity and air resistance."
The scientist said solemnly.
"But when we studied the video of the space station falling, we found that this was not the case at all, and the deviation was very exaggerated. We thought there must be a big problem somewhere!"
Zhou Zhe listened carefully.
The scientist turned around and typed a few keys on the keyboard. The picture on the big screen behind him jumped to when the space station exploded, which was when the space station began to fall.
"If we follow the classic physical model of falling objects from high altitude and make a curve chart of the space station's falling speed..."
"That's the picture."
The scientist tapped the keyboard again, and a graph appeared on the big screen behind him, showing the relationship between the space station's falling speed and time.
It can be seen from the figure that at the beginning, the falling speed increased very quickly, reaching tens of meters per second.
But as time goes by, the air resistance becomes larger and larger, and although the falling speed is still increasing, it increases slower and slower.
This is a smooth curve with a gradually decreasing slope.
"This is a theoretical model, and it should be like this!" The scientist said with a sad look on his face, "But if this is the case, there is no need for us to invite you here..."
He tapped the keyboard again, and an extra line appeared in the graph on the big screen.
"The actual situation is this."
The curve that symbolizes the actual situation...it should be said to be a broken line, is clearly divided into three stages.
In the initial falling stage, it is basically consistent with the theoretical model and is a smooth curve with a large slope; in the middle acceleration stage, its slope suddenly disappears and becomes a horizontal straight line; in the end stage, its slope returns
, but in the opposite direction.
"To put it simply, the space station fell quite normally at the beginning, completely in line with scientific expectations."
The scientist sighed and said: "I don't know why, but the acceleration suddenly disappeared, and when it was about to land, not only did it not accelerate, but it also started to slow down."
"This line..."
"I'm afraid Newton won't be able to explain it clearly even when he comes!"
There was a hint of exhaustion on the scientist's face.
Their entire team struggled for more than a week to study the fall of the space station. In the end, not only were they physically and mentally exhausted, but their scientific views were also severely criticized.
Hao Xiaoxi next to her opened her lips slightly.
She was very surprised.
Her physics is not very good, but even an ordinary person can understand that there is a big unscientific problem in the falling process of the space station!
"How is this going?"
she asked nervously.
The fall of the space station itself was bad, but as a result, weird phenomena that cannot be explained by science occurred during the fall.
The Ark Project has failed. The next step is to verify the feasibility of the Mountain-Moving Plan and the Month-by-Month Plan. If this phenomenon occurs in the verification experiment...
Hao Xiaoxi could not imagine the consequences.
However, when faced with Hao Xiaoxi's question, the scientist showed a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"Not sure."
He replied bitterly.
"But to achieve this effect, a force in the opposite direction equal to its gravity needs to be exerted on the space station when it falls."
"The mass of the Ark space station is 2.1 million tons."
"That is to say, when the space station fell, an additional force equivalent to 2.1 million tons acted on the space station out of thin air, continuously preventing it from falling."
"But we didn't observe it at all."
The more the scientist spoke, the lower his voice became.
2.1 million tons!
Uniform output!
Lasting effect!
Even setting off nuclear bombs and firecrackers under the space station will not achieve this effect!
They watched the video countless times. The space station's posture when it fell was so natural that it was impossible to see such a huge force acting on it.
This unscientific!
Zhou Zhe stared at the big screen in silence for a long time.
After a long while, he glanced at the camera above his head, and then slowly said: "Why is this happening? What caused the space station to fall so strangely?"
