15:07 in the afternoon.
Several old men came into the meeting room, all wearing reading glasses, gray hair messy, is the academy of Sciences, the meeting room is a little quiet, everyone has stood up and looked at the door, the eyes seem to sparkle with hope.
The old men were also shocked by this situation, the pace stopped, and everyone looked at each other, I did not know what to do, but from the expression, there was no less a little panic in everyone's eyes.
Noah King steps forward: "Dean Stan Young."
The leading old man caught his breath and stepped up a little faster to greet him. "Hello, Mr. President!" The two sides exchanged a short salute.
Stan Young, Ph.D., astrophysics, Vice president of the National Academy of Sciences and President of the Institute of Astronomy. With two doctors at his side.
Noah King: "Dean Stan Young, I'm sure you got the general idea on the way."
Dean Stan Young nodded
"At this time of national crisis, let's get right to it. I think the astronomy Institute has studied this incident, and we want to know an answer now, what caused this or hope to explain it in a scientific way."
The crowd focused on Dean Stan Young and the doctors
Dean Stan Young: "Well, Mr. President, we don't have the answers yet, but we can give you some answers from a scientific perspective."
Dean Stan Young continued: "This strong wave radiation really caused a lot of impact on us, we also analyzed the initial data for the first time, (Stan Young saw the crowd still nervous standing on both sides of the conference table) you don't need to be so nervous, let's explain the preliminary judgment results to you."
Dean Stan Young was a little uncomfortable with the crowd's frightened stares.
Cordier waved his hand for everyone to sit down, the door was closed, a do not disturb sign was posted, and the people coming in and out stopped. The atmosphere lightened a lot as they sat down.
Stan Young: "One thing we can be sure of now is that this kind of intense radiation is coming from space. It can be produced in the universe in a variety of ways. Pulsars, which are neutron stars that are spinning very fast, are producing pulses because they're spinning very fast.
It's like a spinning flashlight in space. This could happen if this bright beam hits our planet. But this is the worst case. Pulsars are periodic, so we're going to be exposed to these flashlights a lot. Satellites, communications, networks, these are minor problems, and radiation is deadly, so it doesn't matter if it's just one or two times that we get an X-ray, but if we're constantly exposed to X-ray pulses, it's a problem.
The cycle may be very short or very long, it may be once in a few seconds or minutes, it may be half a year or a year, or it may only be this time, all of which are related to the motion position of Sunli and Issa, but this possibility is relatively small at present. Up to now, we have used several old equipment and failed to detect periodic strong waves. The less likely that is.
The second case is a black hole, a black hole doesn't emit light when it's quiet, but when it's eating matter it does, and there are two places that do emit light, one is the accretion disk, where the light is not very strong, and the other is perpendicular to the rotation axis of the accretion disk, kind of like a neutron star, but only when the black hole is eating matter does it emit high-energy radiation from here, and this radiation is constant, It usually lasts for a few days, which doesn't seem to be the case.
The third scenario, the explosion of stars, the explosion of supernovae, the collision of neutron stars and black holes, which are all instantaneous bursts of energy, now seems to be more in line with the current situation, if this situation, then the impact on us may be minimal. Of course, in addition to the above one does not rule out the existence of other unknown forms of energy bursts in the universe."
"The third explanation seems to be the most likely, but as I said just now, it is only a judgment, and from a scientific point of view, evidence is needed, so we (scientists) cannot easily define it."
Noah King: "How long will it take, or what will it take to determine where and how far away it is?"
Stan Young: "It's actually not that hard to observe and locate. The first two, you just need to wait for the observatory to be repaired and then you can make direct observations. In the third case, theoretically yes, such an explosion would not go off in space like a firework, but would leave a growing halo that would last for hundreds or even thousands of years and could theoretically be observed.
However, if it is other forms may not be able to quickly find the source of radiation, according to the current point of view, the outbreak is instantaneous, more like firecrackers, flashing, at present several old equipment is only used to monitor electromagnetic waves, visible light can only be used at night, now can only monitor the strength of electromagnetic waves, does not have positioning function, visible light observation is like the eye, electromagnetic wave detection is the ear, With our eyes closed, we have some difficulty in "hearing and identifying places".
The President: "How long will it take to repair the telescope?"
"It may take a few days, some electronic originals from different places customized replacement debugging, plus the current power outage..."
Cordier: You said it was a little difficult to identify the location of the voice, whether it was impossible or difficult.
Dean Stan Young: "In theory, it could be done, but the conditions may be a little difficult right now..."
"Mr. President," Ruth shouted, walking quickly over and interrupting Dean Stan Young.
"The United Council of the Seven Kingdoms invites you to join a video conference."
'What time?
"Emergency meeting, starting at 15:30, less than five minutes. The video is on and the head of Parliament and other state leaders are in place."
"Prime Minister Cordier, this is over to you." Noah King rose to leave. "Dean Stan Young, you're with me."
"Okay," Dean Stan Young turned to the Prime Minister and the two doctors and said, "You can take it from here."
15:30, Issa Seven Kings Joint Council, video conference room.
Hui Huo, President of the Parliament: "Good afternoon leaders, you must be busy at this time, but this is a global crisis, but the incident has been nearly five hours, but we get little information, now we are like a dark night, at this time only we work together to resolve the crisis faster."
This is why the Joint Parliament convened this emergency meeting, thank you leaders for taking the time to participate, and now only the Kuril Island Zekoku can not get the signal, the president has not arrived, only the representative of the Parliament to attend on his behalf."
Communicate with the leaders of other countries.
Hui Huo continued: "At present, we only collect information from various parties, this electromagnetic wave is from space, but we need to solve this crisis from two aspects: one is space, we need to find out the truth as soon as possible, and the other is the ground crisis."
"Crisis on the ground? Don't you?" The president of the Golden Sands Kingdom asked (The Golden Sands Kingdom is a country with many deserts, but it has the richest mineral resources, so it is known as the Golden Sands, it is precisely because of the low defense force of desert cities in history, mineral resources are coveted by other countries, have been plundered many times, and are more sensitive to war).
Hui Huo quickly explained: "It is not what you think, we have learned that there are many countries have civil chaos, satellites hit the city, triggered wildfires and so on, as a joint parliament we can not directly intervene in the internal affairs of countries, but I want to call on everyone here, at this time should be the principle of people first, to protect people's lives and property safety as the first task."
"Yes, I agree with the proposal, now the folk rumors are everywhere, the city is in chaos, people enter the shopping mall to loot supplies, the most important thing is to maintain order." "Said the president of Yeongju Kingdom
Noah King: "I also agree with the President's proposal, and I want to add a reassurance to this proposal that I think the presidents are on a full war footing in the face of this unknown crisis, because of the lack of information, we even started with mutual suspicion, the whole country is on edge."
But now that we know that this crisis is our common enemy, one of the things I propose to add is a temporary declaration of peace. Although Issa has been peaceful for decades, there are areas of geopolitical conflict, and the urban chaos is now beyond the limits of police control.
We need more police to keep order, and if we sign a peace declaration until the crisis is over, we can put down our guard against each other and put our forces into full force to keep order, and that's how we can recover as much damage as possible."
Hui Huo: "Thank you very much for the offer from President Noah King, I agree"
"I agree", "I agree too"... .
Hui Huo: "Unanimously passed by the leaders, it will be the first resolution of our meeting"
"I continue to talk about the second proposal, the resolution on the provision of basic survival materials, and the full restoration of electricity, communications, and networks in many countries will take some time, which will inevitably have an impact on the market economy.
It is also true that although there is a trade agreement among countries, the proportion of material output in the Issa seven countries is not balanced, and we may not be able to control all commodity prices and supply levels in this crisis.
Therefore, my second proposal is for basic goods: food, water, medical supplies, because the priority is to ensure the restoration of production and supply of these resources, to ensure the price level and balanced allocation of these resources, and to prohibit monopoly and price gouging."
Noah King of the Pale Blue Kingdom: "I agree, and we can ensure that medical supplies are supplied to all countries at the full price."
President of Yeongju Kingdom: "I also agree with the proposal to ensure the stability of grain exports"
Inju has historically been a powerful country, but with the development of industry and modernization, it has lost the title of the strongest country, yet it is still responsible for 70% of ISSA's grain exports.
President of the Independent Kingdom of Macro Island: "I also agree..."
The agreement of these few world leaders basically reassured everyone.
The leaders of the countries briefly exchanged views on the sufficient supplies and shortages of materials in their respective countries, and finally reached an agreement with the parliament.
Hui Huo continued: "We must work together to deal with the space crisis, no matter what the so-called 'enemy' is, now we must unite, the first task is to find the cause of this incident, so my third proposal is to form a joint scientific association directly under the Parliament, bringing together scientists and scholars in related fields from all over the world to solve the problem."