Hearing what Taihao said, Xiao Yu's mind immediately became tense.
"What exactly is an information storm? How should I observe it?" Xiao Yu asked hastily.
"It's really troublesome, but since you helped me find a big fish, I will help you again." Taihao said, and as soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yu felt a piece of information enter his mind.
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Xiao Yu immediately began to interpret this piece of information. In only a few millionths of a second, Xiao Yu fully understood the meaning of this piece of information.
"So that's it." Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief after reading this message.
"Then, let's start observing. Such a good opportunity cannot be missed."
"I have left the super-light navigation stage and entered regular navigation. This information storm is expected to last for 0.5 seconds." Taihao said to Xiao Yu.
It was only now, after reading this piece of information, that Xiao Yu finally learned the true identity of the information storm that had troubled Xiao Yu for more than 20 years.
To explain information storms, we have to mention black holes. Black holes are a very extreme celestial body. They are one of the possible destinations for massive stars after they die.
According to the mass, after the death of a star, there will be several different types of endings. A star the size of the sun will die in a relatively gentle way at the end of its life, and after death, it will form a white dwarf star.
Like the white dwarf star Xiao Yu once encountered.
Stars with greater mass will undergo supernova explosions at the end of their lives, releasing billions of times or more energy than the sun in an instant. After the supernova explosion, a neutron star will be formed in its core.
Above the neutron star is the black hole. A black hole is a more extreme celestial body than a neutron star. The surface escape velocity of a neutron star is generally about 150,000 kilometers per second, but the escape velocity of a black hole exceeds the speed of light. This means.
After any object enters the event horizon boundary of a black hole, it cannot escape again.
But this will bring about a problem, that is, the loss of information. The material itself will carry a lot of information, such as a meteorite, a table, they all carry a lot of information, such as energy level, temperature, etc.
If they cannot come out after entering a black hole, it means that the information they carry is lost.
This problem has been bothering Xiao Yu before. Because the information loss is inconsistent with the currently known theory. If it is confirmed that the information will be completely lost for no reason, then Xiao Yu's existing theoretical system must be completely overturned. If Xiao Yu now
The theoretical system is not wrong, which means that there must be a way, or process, that will allow the black hole to spit out the information it has swallowed up again.
Now, Xiao Yu knows what this process is. That is. Information storm.
"It turns out that information storm is what it is... This has solved a big question of mine. At least, my theory is still self-consistent enough and has not been defeated by the problem of information loss." Xiao Yu was secretly glad in his heart.
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In this piece of information Taihao gave Xiao Yu, he did not explain too much about other related processes, such as how the black hole dies, what happens inside the black hole, how information is stored in the black hole, etc. In this piece of information,
It just means that at the end of the black hole's life, after reaching a certain limit, the black hole will undergo a super violent explosion and return to nothingness. At that time, all the information it has swallowed up during its long life cycle will emerge instantly and pass through space.
way, sweeping across several river systems.
The lifespan of a black hole is extremely long, and the larger the black hole, the longer it will be. This information storm is a black hole with a mass of about 10,000 times the sun in the Andromeda Galaxy. Due to some unknown reasons, it reached the end of its life and exploded.
, spitting out all the information it had swallowed up in its lifespan of at least several billion years.
Every beam of light and every atom swallowed by it contains an extremely large amount of information. After billions of years of accumulation, how terrifying will the total amount of information reach?
Xiao Yu doesn't know. But Xiao Yu knows that so much information, after being released in an instant explosion, is absolutely terrifying.
Information storms mainly kill the souls of intelligent creatures. The moment the information storm arrives, a huge amount of information will instantly wash away the consciousness of intelligent creatures, causing the death of intelligent creatures.
But the information storm has no entity after all, so it has no effect or only a very small effect on the first- and second-level civilizations that are relatively backward, have insufficiently developed brains, and are not sensitive enough to receive information. It also has no effect on the sixth-level civilization that has mastered preliminary space technology.
It has no effect on alien beast civilization or mechanical civilization. It only has a very strong killing effect on level three, four, and five civilizations, as well as the ghost race.
When he learned this, Xiao Yu began to feel inexplicably worried.
"I wonder how my people are doing...can they escape this information storm?"
Xiao Yu is also within the damage range of the information storm. Moreover, since Xiao Yu has no body and only relies on computers to survive, the information storm's lethal effect on Xiao Yu is even stronger.
But risk also means opportunity. God knows what kind of information a black hole will collect during such a long life. If a super civilization conducts certain experiments, the light recording these experimental processes happens to be captured by this black hole.
If the black hole swallows it, then there will be records about this experiment inside it. If such information can be obtained, the benefits are self-evident.
Even if you don't have such good luck and just collect the light of some stars, this is extremely useful information. Through this information, Xiao Yu will be able to completely reproduce the complete evolution process of a star.
Without a mechanism like information storm, it would be almost impossible for Xiao Yu to complete such work. The lifespan of a star can easily be measured in tens of millions of years. How could Xiao Yu observe for such a long time to collect data?
In short, there is a huge amount of information in the information storm. This amount of information will pose a great threat to intelligent creatures. However, if we can avoid being harmed by it and collect some information, there may be some unexpected gains.
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After understanding this process, Xiao Yu quickly made preparations to collect information.
The tools for collecting information are very simple, just some simple antennas. There are many antennas on Xiao Yu's spaceship. What Xiao Yu has to do is to free up many hard drives in advance, and at the same time, protect the hard drives that store useful information.
To prevent them from being affected by the information storm.
At this point, Taihao gave Xiao Yu great help. Taihao once again allowed Xiao Yu's fleet, including the Lucca people, to enter the four-dimensional space, leaving only three-dimensional space.
Several information gathering ships.
Before re-entering the four-dimensional space, Xiao Yu had already sent a message to the people of Luca: "We will enter the fourth-dimensional space next. All Luca people who received the message will immediately stop all actions, no matter what they see.
Stay calm and don't move."
It is very necessary to publish such a message. Three-dimensional objects are completely visible and unstoppable in four-dimensional space. This means that if a Lucan man is curious when seeing the internal structure of the same kind of body, he reaches out to touch it.
If it hits, it may directly puncture the blood vessel and lead to death.
The next moment Xiao Yu released the information, countless Lucca people started making noises. At the same time, in the Paradise Laboratory, Lucca scientists also fell into a heated discussion.
"Four-dimensional space? Why are you not allowed to move? This is a rare opportunity, so we naturally have to seize the time to observe and study it. If we can't move, wouldn't we have missed this good opportunity?"
"That's right, you can't miss such a good opportunity even if you risk death."
After hearing these discussions, Xiao Yu once again issued a very strict order: "I will complete all observation tasks. After leaving the four-dimensional space, all observation data will be shared with all scientists. Anyone who disobeys the order will be expelled from the Paradise immediately."
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Under Xiao Yu's strict order, the Lucca scientists finally agreed reluctantly.
After everything was arranged, Xiao Yu once again felt that strange dizziness. The next moment, the familiar and bizarre world once again appeared in Xiao Yu's optical observation instrument and was transmitted to Xiao Yu's mind.
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Xiao Yu already knew how ridiculous his previous ideas were. He actually tried to hide behind a star, or develop a curved space shield, just to avoid the information storm.
Information storms use space as a propagation carrier, so hiding in stars or even behind black holes will not work. Curved space shields are even more useless. Even if space is curved, information storms can still come in.
The only way to avoid the information storm is to escape from this three-dimensional space.
Xiao Yu and the Lucans have reached the fourth dimension and are naturally out of this three-dimensional space. No matter how violent the information storm is, it cannot affect Xiao Yu.
Avoiding the information storm in the four-dimensional space is like sitting in a helicopter to avoid a flood. A flood is equivalent to a disaster that occurs in the two-dimensional world. Sitting in a helicopter in the sky is equivalent to arriving in the third world.
A disaster in two dimensions will not affect the third dimension in any way.
Similarly, disasters in the three-dimensional world will not affect the fourth dimension in any way.
Here, Xiao Yu is absolutely safe.
Watching the time passing by bit by bit, Xiao Yu silently muttered in his heart: "The information storm is coming."