When an extremely massive star enters the final stage of its life, it will gradually cool from the center and begin to shrink and become smaller.
The central heavy core of the star is re-ignited under extreme pressure, and then expands and burns again - such repeated fluctuations will eventually lead to an extremely powerful explosion. Human beings name this violent celestial activity "supernova".<
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The explosion will throw a large amount of material in the star into the universe, including various metallic elements. This is also the only way for all heavy elements in the entire universe to be born.
The human body contains about forty-five kinds of heavy metals, which play a very important role in human life-sustaining activities. In a sense, the 8.5 billion people in the world come from a certain planet that existed billions of years ago.
Exploded supernova.
Yes, we are all children of the stars.
More than a thousand years ago, a supernova exploded 6,500 light-years away. The eastern sky of the Northern Song Dynasty lasted for thirty-three days during this explosion. The explosion tore the huge star into its current crab shape.
nebula, and left a powerful pulsar at its core.
The powerful magnetic field of the pulsar blows the surrounding nebula material into the universe, towards the earth, and towards the children of the stars.
The elements in the children were entangled together under the blow of the stellar wind, and then... completely out of control.
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At six o'clock in the evening, Lu Chen was typing on the keyboard slowly in the duty room of the University Affiliated Hospital. Today's work is not particularly heavy. He only needs to finish writing two large medical records and a discharge summary. After finishing the medical records later, probably his girlfriend
You can also come out of the laboratory building of the Department of Physics.
Everyone is studying hard for their Ph.D., Dr. Lu is a clinical student in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, and his girlfriend Mu Zhiran is a Ph.D. student in the High Energy Physics Laboratory of the Department of Physics. The dormitory they live in only has 370 students.
Although they were ten meters apart, Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran spent less time together and more time away from each other all day long, feeling like they were in a long-distance relationship.
The farthest distance in the world is not that I don’t love you, but that you live in a double district and I live by the lake. You raise mice and I run particles.
Lu Chen's mind was racing with thoughts. The junior sister who was on duty with him walked into the duty room humming strange short video background music, and then muttered with a pout, "Brother, bed 42 is sick."
Lu Chen, who was typing on the keyboard, pulled his face out from in front of the computer screen. He looked at his junior sister with some confusion. After trying to remember for a few seconds, he asked, "... What disease do you have? What are the symptoms?" p>
The patient in bed 42 has active systemic lupus erythematosus. If she gets sick, she may have any symptoms.
"It's not lupus, it's a collapse." The junior sister angrily sat on the seat next to her, picked up a signature pen of Lu Chen's and stuffed it into her pocket, "When I went to see him in the afternoon, he was fine.
In the blink of an eye, she pulled me and started crying about "life is meaningless", and then she said she would take me to jump off the building together..."
Lu Chen pushed the keyboard in front of him, and an AI prompt popped up on the screen. This was a standard symptom of "Complex Mental Disorder Syndrome" and he needed to intervene quickly.
Looking at the junior sister's expression, Lu Chen's nervousness relaxed a little - at least the junior sister didn't seem to be affected, she was quite normal.
CBD (plex mental and behavioral disorder, complex mental disorder syndrome), commonly known as the "Great Collapse", is a severe mental disorder that has no symptoms, is difficult to prevent, and has a certain tendency to occur in groups. Those who suffer from the disease often firmly believe that the entire world
There is no meaning, life is nothingness. Only death can free them from this nothingness and meaninglessness.
Moreover, patients with major collapse will really choose to commit suicide driven by this kind of pain.
All in all, this is a very dangerous condition. Without intervention, its mortality rate is almost as high as rabies.
Lu Chen turned his head and glanced at the AI suggestions on the screen and asked, "She is being restrained now? Who is watching?"
"Aunt Qian led someone to pin her down on the bed." Junior Sister curled her lips and said, "Go and have a look...this person didn't undergo a psychological screening before being admitted to hospital? In what age is this, there are still people who have a huge breakdown?
”
Lu Chen stood up and stretched, "People's inner world is very complicated - some people don't have much problem if they do nothing all day long. Some people have fragile nerves and always feel like they are living in a simulation program -
—The collapse itself is an unreasonable disease. I went through a psychological screening before being admitted to hospital, but it’s normal for me to get sick after being hospitalized for a few days, isn’t it?”
While chatting wordlessly with his junior sister, Lu Chen walked towards the ward. He had already heard the faint crying floating in the passage, and at the same time, he also saw the people in the ward along the way who rolled their eyes and had expressions on their faces.
Dissatisfied patients.
In the ward, a young woman was crying, "This world is fake, and so are you... Let me go! I want to be free, I want to wake up!"
"Historical documentaries seem to be of little use." Nurse Qian sighed and asked, "AI recommends transferring the person to a holding facility. Should she be sedated?"
Lu Chen glanced at the documentary that was playing to the part where "the coalition government was announced", thought for a while and shook his head, "The sound will be amplified, let's finish it first and then talk about it."
"Under the repeated impact of the Great Collapse, the remaining rational people gathered together, regardless of differences in geography, color and ideology, and jointly announced the establishment of the coalition government..." The background sound on the TV continued to play, and the four
The struggle of Twelve Beds continues.
"...The Great Collapse eventually led to the death of more than 60% of the world's population, and the plague spread across the land. But reason will eventually defeat madness. With the continuous efforts of the coalition government and other survivors, human civilization can continue, and we are finally close.
The truth about the Great Collapse - it is a spontaneous mental collapse without rules or warning. It is different from any disease known to mankind before..." The documentary was still playing on the TV, and Lu Chen was leaning against the wall.
While doing this, he lowered his head and sent a message to his girlfriend, Dr. Mu. The content was a physics joke that he racked his brains to come up with after studying with the scientific AI for two full days.
[The thickness of physics journals has exceeded the speed of light, but this does not violate the theory of relativity because those journals do not convey any information.]
Putting away his phone and waiting for his girlfriend's feedback on the joke, Lu Chen glanced at the progress of the documentary on TV. Now it was time to unite the government to integrate resources and conduct rescue technology archaeology.
Generally speaking, when these patients with sporadic major collapses see this, their condition will improve.
If you still can't relieve it after reading this paragraph, it will be more troublesome. Lu Chen frowned and it would be easy to transfer the forty-two beds to the holding facility.
But then I have to fill in a lot of forms and information... It's troublesome just thinking about it.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen picked up the bedside case report from the forty-two hospital beds.
He plans to adjust the specialist medication plan of the rheumatology and immunology department, at least to ensure that the patient's condition has been controlled to a certain extent before being transferred to a holding facility.
After all, the containment facility is a professional medical intervention institution for major collapses. If they only deal with madmen, then they can be considered a good hand. But the immune system that has gone crazy inside the human body...that is not their scope of expertise.
While adjusting the treatment plan, Lu Chen prayed deep in his heart, hoping that the historical documentary could change the patient's spirit and make her clearly realize that the world is real rather than virtual, and that life is meaningful rather than nihilistic.
As long as patients with major collapse can withdraw from the cognition of "the world is illusory", they will basically be able to get better. Although there are some cases that relapse or even gradually worsen, most patients recover fairly quickly.
But many things... always seem simple in hindsight. At least Lu Chen personally feels that if he had been put in when the coalition government was first established, he probably would not have dared to propose the outrageous plan of "using historical documentaries to treat suicidal tendencies". p>
Otherwise, how can we say that people in the past were bolder and more wild.
After finally stabilizing and rebuilding human civilization, the coalition government conducted decades of research and discussion. And finally came up with a hypothesis - human technology did not make much progress in the hundreds of years before the Great Collapse.
, and the long-term unchanged environment and life style, eventually... many people's brains gave birth to such a judgment.
"Human existence is meaningless, we are just pigs raised by machines."
This classic science fiction idea is like mold growing secretly under the sink. No one notices its existence at first - by the time people notice, it has spread to almost everywhere.
Although the suicide rate suddenly began to increase, no one took this kind of thing to heart. People who committed suicide were just too weak mentally. Since they did not adapt to modern society, it did not seem unreasonable to be eliminated through "suicide"
.
People with this attitude make up the majority of society, and the remaining people are at most a little "sympathetic." When they deny and ridicule the idea, the number of suicides and "disconnections" rises rapidly.
What will come soon is the collapse of human civilization.
Fortunately, the remaining sanity and desire of survival of mankind have brought about the coalition government, and also brought prevention and solutions to the great collapse. In short, for today's coalition government, promoting various technological advancements is the top priority
.
The documentary played the part where humans landed on the moon on a large scale, and the crying patient seemed to be in a slightly better mood.
"Continue to observe. If the disease occurs again, contact the reception facility." Lu Chen looked at the patient's basic vital signs again, and then issued the medical order, "I will go back and fill in a medical order for suicide prevention care. Sister Qian, thank you for your hard work."
She moved over."
"Okay." Nurse Qian nodded, walked quickly to the bed, and stepped on the fixed locks on the four corners of bed 42 with her feet. During the process of unlocking, Nurse Qian asked smoothly, "Xiao Lu
Are you rushing to go on a date later?"
Lu Chen nodded, "We plan to go to Taowei Building. Do you want to help Sister Qian with anything?"
"The food you young people like to eat is too strong. I'm afraid your sister will have to go to the nephrology department tomorrow after eating it." Nurse Qian smiled and rejected Lu Chen's kindness, then winked and said, "On duty.
The little girls said that Taoweilou’s casserole noodles are very delicious - aren’t you an old man who has trouble taking Xiao Mu to eat?”
Lu Chen was stunned for a moment, then he thanked her seriously and said seriously, "Sister Qian, I will bring you a fruit basket tomorrow!"
Lu Chen's cell phone rang, and his girlfriend Dr. Mu Zhiran sent an emoji of a rabbit pounding the ground and laughing wildly.
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"Did you know, we are actually all children of the same star."
When he said this, Mu Zhiran, who was sitting in the small restaurant, looked serious and serious, as if he was delivering an acceptance speech at the Science Hall in Stockholm.
Lu Chen, who was sitting opposite her, was caught off guard by these sudden words. After hesitating for a while, he straightened up from behind the steaming casserole, looked at Mu Zhiran and asked, "You...
Is the description a poetic expression or a completely new academic achievement?"
"It's a new hypothesis." Mu Zhiran's eyes quickly began to focus, and then they were locked on the bridge of Lu Chen's nose, "But I prefer the side proof it brings."
Lu Chen fell into silence again. He was a little unsure whether the dinner party between the two of them today was considered a date, a work meal, or whether Dr. Mu simply intended to engage in unilateral academic domestic violence.
After all, he is just a clinical medical student, and if his girlfriend, who has a Ph.D. in physics, talks about the content of her major for more than three sentences, it is properly considered academic domestic violence - it sounds familiar at first glance, but not when you listen carefully.
Understand, it’s not enough if you don’t listen. What is this if it’s not domestic violence?
"What...does it prove from the side?" For a man, the easiest way to show that he really listened to his girlfriend attentively is to grasp a keyword and extend it. But the degree of this extension must be grasped well.
, otherwise it is easy to be taken as a confrontation and suffer physical domestic violence.
"It proves the theory that everything is connected." Mu Zhiran blinked and looked at Lu Chen and asked, "Don't you always say that things are universally connected?"
Although Lu Chen really wanted to explain to his girlfriend that "universal contact" probably didn't work this way, but considering his personal safety, as well as his happiness in life and sound facial features in the future, he finally nodded, "You
That makes sense."
Mu Zhiran nodded - although he didn't know what exactly she was agreeing to - and then continued to eat the casserole noodles in front of her.
After a while, Mu Zhiran suddenly stopped what he was doing.
"What's wrong?" Lu Chen put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked in concern, "Do you want vinegar? Or some chili pepper?"
"There is something I forgot to tell you." Mu Zhiran gently tucked a strand of hair behind his ear and said seriously to Lu Shen, "I made some discoveries in the laboratory today-humanity may be about to perish.
”
Lu Chen asked helplessly, "Another one after the big collapse? Well... this time it should be a poetic expression, right?"
Mu Zhiran thought for a while, then picked up the chopsticks, picked up a tofu puff that had soaked up the soup, and blew it hard again and again. Then, while chewing the fried tofu puff soaked in soup, he said vaguely