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Chapter 1 Gamma-ray bursts

Aside from the purely theoretical conjecture of the Big Bang, the most terrifying ultra-high-level big bang observed in the universe so far is undoubtedly a gamma-ray burst.

This is the most violent big explosion in the universe. It really exists and occurs densely in the vast universe, constantly threatening the existence of life.

Just because the gamma rays it emits are enough to kill all life along the way, the huge energy released in a short time is comparable to the sum of energy released by hundreds of suns throughout their lives.

Even the single photon it emits is often hundreds of thousands of times the energy of the sun's light.

This energy, born from the short release of huge stars when they collapse and explode when they run out of fuel, is the enemy of life and the strongest killer in the universe.

Gamma ray bursts occur almost every day in the universe, and the direction is random. If a planet with life is unfortunately on the release path of the gamma ray burst, then the life on this celestial body will encounter a catastrophe. Because it happens too frequently, about one-tenth of the celestial bodies are swept by gamma ray bursts.

The earth was once a member of the "Victims of Gamma Ray Blast" and suffered mass extinction of species, but it survived tenaciously and gave birth to life and civilization again in the long period of desolation.

On April 1, 2017, the lovely earth will usher in the second visit of "Death".

A neutron star with a huge mass from billions of light years away hit another neutron star, and the terrifying gamma ray burst was released unprecedentedly.

The explosion only radiated for forty-two seconds, but this energy evaporated many stars in its radiation path, rushed out of the river galaxy, and spread in the dark interstellar space for billions of years.

Just like a randomly fired "Death Stream Bullet", no one wants to be "shot".

Of course, life expects that this unprecedented gamma-ray burst will consume its last energy in interstellar space and never enter the next galaxy.

However, things went against my wishes. There was a vortex galaxy happening to be on the ballistic trajectory of the "Strand Bullet". Super energy penetrated into this galaxy with a diameter of more than 100,000 light-years.

It is the unlucky Milky Way, and after baptism 500 million years ago, it has won the second prize.

Of course, compared with the vastness of the universe, the propagation path of gamma ray bursts is not very wide. If possible, gamma ray bursts can completely sweep some galaxies and eventually enter the galaxy black hole and be swallowed. This is the best result and a common result. After all, at the scale of the Milky Way, this level of energy is nothing. Glacial black holes can be collected and swallowed up.

Only life is truly a disaster.

Unfortunately, a galaxy that gave birth to life planets happened to be operating on the propagation path, and the civilization above became the winner of the "first prize".

And because the gamma ray burst is a light-speed strike, the civilization on the planet of life will not realize that it has won the prize until it is destroyed.

This "lucky person" is the earth.

A super gamma ray burst cut from a unique angle, and before he could evaporate the sun, he hit the earth first.

This path is no longer as powerful as once 500 million years ago. Although it consumes too much energy during the transmission process, it is enough to prevent the earth from nurturing life and is in an extreme environment until its end of life.

The ultimate kill, life on earth will not react at all, and will end in an instant when you experience all this.

However, nature made a huge joke in this second. The universe itself is an endless coincidence, and there are always countless unknowns and miracles.

The terrifying gamma ray burst suddenly disappeared as soon as it reached the surface of the earth and rushed into the atmosphere.

Not to mention the life on the surface, even the atmosphere itself has not been damaged much. The energy that is so big that the sun can only tremble, disappeared, as if there was an invisible space that swallowed all this at this moment.

...

The first person to discover this gamma-ray burst was Spitzer Space Observatory.

It is in the deep space orbit at the second Lagrangian point, and is on the other side of the earth when the gamma burst comes, but it is not attacked. It is not until an hour later that it detects the residual visible light and radiation background in space.

A large amount of observation data was transmitted to the ground, which directly caused terror from NASA.

"Gamma ray burst? Visible light was found in the orbit of the Earth's planet? So close?"

"Not only that, the energy level is also very high! According to the residuals, the transmission time has exceeded the observation in 1999 by about ten times!"

"What! God, we are still alive?"

In 1999, a distant super gamma ray burst was observed on Earth, and its energy value was equivalent to the sum of the energy released in the entire Milky Way within two thousand years.

That was the largest gamma ray burst observed in human history, and now they have observed a bigger one, breaking the record.

The energy index is comparable to the sum of energy releases in the entire Milky Way for 20,000 years!

The terrifying astronomical figures, of course, are the peak of the location of the radiation point. After billions of years of transmission and decay, it is no longer enough to destroy the earth's molecular structure when it reaches the earth. Radiation alone is enough to destroy the earth's ecological environment and turn it into hell.

At this moment, the society on Earth seemed to have nothing happened and was still operating safely. Even without a space station docking mission during this period, there was no casualties in each space station laboratory. Otherwise, when the gamma ray burst came, as long as there were people in space stations such as Tiangong-2 in the near-Earth orbit, they would be the first to be affected and would not be spared.

This bizarre phenomenon has left the staff of various space agencies confused.

The staff of various national observatory staff who observed the "After Smoke" were all frightened, all of them were pale and muttered to themselves with fear.

"Why aren't we dead yet?"

Several Chinese and European aerospace engineers couldn't stand any longer, leaning softly in the nearby place, and their lips shivered.

This is so lucky, so unscientific and unreasonable!

It can only be explained by coincidence. An unknown coincidence may be extremely complicated and save the earth from being difficult.

The bizarre surviving of the Earth alone is enough to allow all experts in the aerospace field of human beings to study it for life for decades, even hundreds of years.

Within a few hours after the incident, a joint research team was established in the field of aerospace, experts from China, Europe and the United States, and engineers shared data with each other, specifically conducting research and verification on this "Earth's escape from facts and doubts".

The first step in their research is whether to deny the fact that gamma rays have been exposed to the earth. Once there is a scientific basis to deny this point and think that the afterglow of space is just an astronomical illusion, it is reasonable that the earth will survive.

However, iron-efficient data shows that all this cannot be any optical illusion, because too much material in outer space has been subjected to violent gamma ray impacts, and many impacted space observation satellites have been directly scrapped.

"Is the Earth really on the path of transmission? Did you pass by it?"

"No...no, it's just a direct hit to the earth... The source direction is biased towards the North Pole, and the path does not pass through the sun, nor through Jupiter. Look! This is the visible light map of the afterglow of Gamma. It's too obvious. It tilts into the ecliptic surface and hits the earth! It's all touching the atmosphere!"

"Incredible, the gamma ray burst passed through the earth, and we were still unscathed?"

"No, no, no, no...not through! Look! The propagation path is until the earth ends abruptly, and there is no radiation residue on the other side, which means that the gamma ray burst... disappears when it reaches the earth!"

"Disappeared...what does it mean? It was absorbed by the earth? Or it was refracted by the atmosphere?"

"How is that possible! Do you know how much energy it takes to destroy the earth? In terms of equivalents, it only takes seventy tons of TNT!"

Gai is ten thousand golds, and the power of 10 is a huge unit of quantity.

But with so many tons of TNT explosive equivalent, it is not even a drop in the total energy value of the gamma-ray burst.

The physicist said: "The energy released by the sun in one day is equivalent to eighty tons of TNT, which is enough to blow the earth once! If it is increased ten times more, the energy will be enough to blow the earth to the point where dust is left, and all the wreckage will fly out of the solar system."

"You can imagine what the total energy of the sun's 10 billion years is."

Another physicist said: "I have calculated this, it is about 1.8 times ten forty-eighth powers. It is enough to destroy the earth...the twenty-five powers of ten...back."

"Yes! And this is just the energy released by the gamma ray burst in 0.0002 seconds. Now, do you still think the earth is qualified to absorb this energy? There is also refraction... Even if there is a coincidence in our atmosphere that we cannot understand, miraculously refracting that energy, then where has it gone?"

"We only observed the afterglow of the gamma ray burst... but there was no trace of its departure... Could it be that all this is..."

“God’s protection?”

After saying that, everyone fell into silence.

With their knowledge, they were helpless about this mystery and felt that they were particularly ignorant.

Although they are extremely celebrating that they can live, as scientists, they have made extremely sad discoveries and have no reasonable explanation for human luck.

The result of the first meeting of the joint research team was only to name the gamma ray burst "Gentle Death".

This day is April 1, in the city, perhaps April Fool's Day. But in the aerospace field of various countries, cutting-edge scholars will not regard it as April Fool's Day, but human luck day.

So far, countries have no intention of making this incident public, but I think it will take a long time for many private institutions in society to observe the afterglow of the "God of Death".

Experts and scholars who have countless doubts about this have no idea that at the moment when the "gentle god of death" arrives and disappears.

In a small inland city in fourth-tier China, a young man fell to the ground and was unconscious.

He was just a passerby on the street, walking with energy, and the next second he felt as if he was knocked out by something.

Although it seems that there is no external injury, people with kindness come forward to check it out.

After discovering that he had really fainted, he hurriedly opened 120 and sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment.

The whole process is just a trivial matter in the city, and it is not even a news item.

No one would think that this would have any profound impact.
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