172. The concept of time

"Wait, wait!" Old K felt that he had been dizzy and quickly shouted to stop, "How can time be static like ordinary matter? And why is there a different time?"

"Time difference is different times. Why is the time different?"

Little Curit answered Lao K very seriously. Lao K was tongue-tied for a while, and finally cleared his mind and asked again: "It's not this, I mean, we all have a benchmark time. The time difference is just when this time is different, but the calculation method of time itself is the same. So it's still the same time, isn't it?"

"It's not the same. For example, if you see, if the day on Glilang is converted into Earth time, it will be about four hours a day. That's because Glilang's rotation is slower than that of the earth, and the diameter of the zodiac is larger than that of the earth.

"Ah?"

To be honest, Lao K really hasn't thought much about this. He only felt that Grelang felt a little long last day, but he did not carefully study how long it was. Grelang's time measurement was different from that of the earth, and he purely thought that it was only caused by cultural differences.

But after being stunned, he suddenly turned his mind: "Ah! Yes, that's it! No matter how big the difference is, they can still be exchanged for each other, right? Can it be unified? Time is still time. It's just something that keeps its own speed and moves forward!"

Sa rushed to him and said, "What you are talking about is the concept of 'time'. Naturally, it is no different. Whether it is forward or backward, it is time. What we are talking about now is how 'time' should be treated as a research unit. Here, time itself, as a hypothetical physical substance, can naturally have different forms of expression, and there will naturally be differences between time and time.

"Come on, you don't talk about it." Seeing that Old K was about to hit the machine, Plius decisively stopped Sa's behavior of stirring things up more and more chaoticly. "Don't think too much about it. There are philosophical concepts here. You understand that day is a day for you, and for a mayfly, your day is its life. If you are it, then your current day will also become your life, that is, you have an old saying: a thousand years in the world, this is a different time, and this time can actually cross each other, not a conversion, but directly from this time to another time. For example, if you can turn into a real mayfly, your life will be shortened to only one day. Can you understand this?"

Pliss's statement is indeed relatively clear, because he bypassed those conceptual problems, and Lao K instantly realized: "What connects two different times, and there is a time mezzanine or something, which is actually equivalent to that. After becoming an immortal, he has achieved the fruit of Taoism and obtaining infinite life from a limited life."

Although Lao K's summary is a little funny, it is indeed close to the center of the problem they discussed in a way, so Prisace said nothing more and just nodded: "It's almost like that. Moreover, it is said that the life in Homeland is full of spiritual energy controllers. Theoretically, because your race has the ability to convert energy at will, it can be completely immortal, and it is indeed like an immortal.

Aita immediately put forward different opinions: "That's not necessarily. There is always a time when energy is generated and depleted. When all energy is exhausted, old K's race will still perish."

"But that means within a limited range. If they have found a way out of the current environment and enter a new environment before, it will be no problem for their individuals to ensure the continuation of energy."

Seeing what Etta wanted to say, Prisace immediately waved his hand to stop it: "Anyway, everyone here now, no matter from what angle, should have understood the problem we are facing, right? That's all right. According to Sa's previous experience and what we have seen before, there may be different times here. At present, there are at least three groups: the first group is the time we share; the second group is the time to promote the crazy growth of plants here; the third group is the time recorded by Lao K, which will make everything go backward.

Gu Li, who has been listening to Lao K's discussion here through the spacecraft's internal video system, finally couldn't help interrupting: "If this situation is true, then that is to say, the planet is indeed in a very wonderful position, or it has quite wonderful characteristics and can allow multiple different time groups at the same time. Existence. If it is the latter, the planet may have a very special form of time: static time.

Old K suddenly felt a deep pain. He wanted to say, "Don't say it, just tell me how to do it and let me do it", but his intuition told him that if he didn't understand these concepts now, he would still suffer. After all, he is different from Bai Mao, who specializes in flying spaceships. If something happens, he always plays the vanguard standing in front of him. It is absolutely taboo that he does not understand the combat environment.

Thinking of this, I can only bravely continue to ask, "Still time?"

Guli was still doing experiments and was silent when he came to a conclusion. Prisace took over: "There will really be no change in time. If you quantify it, it can only become a point, which only contains one existence, no before or after.

It's too difficult for Lao K, who has returned all the physics to his teacher after graduating from junior high school. Looking at his constipated expression, he knew that this content had probably completely put him down. So I thought about it and said, "Otherwise, you can think so. It's like an isolated island in the sea. This isolated island has been spelled by immortals, so everything remains the same and will never change."

Old K did not continue to ask "what magic" this time, nor did he spread out to consider other superfluous problems, but consciously swallowed Pliss' metaphor directly and thought of the planet as a motionless ball in his mind. But in the end, he couldn't help asking new questions: "If it is completely static, why can other different times exist here?" Shouldn't they all become static when they come in?

nodded: "It is true that time is a substance that will be assimilated into our own field. For example, if we go to the earth, we will enter the earth, and we will be assimilated by that time. But at the beginning, our own metabolism will not operate completely according to the laws of the earth in a short period of time. We need to live there for a certain period of time to adjust the rhythm of life and even life to be consistent with the time on earth, so this assimilation has a process.

This can be understood, old K nodded. Sa continued: "And in static time, the passage of time can only result in a zero anyway, because there is no change in time here. Zero is the most difficult thing to assimilate other things. For example, you want to repaint the wall, but your paint number is zero, which means that you have not changed the color of the wall. Here, time itself is zero, so if other times enter, it will not be changed and assimilated by the time that exists here, so..."

"So different times can be allowed to exist at the same time." Old K automatically took the words and suddenly realized. No matter how tortuous the process is, at least he can fully accept it now. Thank God!

"And because of these different times," Puliss concluded, "there is a possibility of a time mezzanine here. The passage to Homeland may exist in this mezzanine, and our next goal is how to get into that mezzanine.

The concept has been cleared, but the goals summarized by Pulisses are not so optimistic. At first, they thought that the device that could open the channel existed in a corner of the planet. Perhaps because of abandonment or even man-made destruction, there were only ruins that could hardly distinguish the original purpose, but at least, they could be found directly. At present, it is basically impossible to find something directly.

"Say, you said you found the channel at that time, didn't you? What was the situation of the channel at that time? Even if it has been closed or destroyed, you can go back to the time before that to stop my son, right?