The sky in the imperial capital was gray, a strong wind blew, and white goose feather snow drifted on the streets of the city, making it difficult to open one's eyes.
In the Sunshine Apartment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a cute and beautiful little girl came to the balcony window, holding a red New Year picture with the word "福" in her hand, and carefully pasted it on the glass.
"Yang Ying, have you put up those couplets on the window grilles? Come in and eat dumplings quickly!" A young mother wore a blue apron around her waist, with dark blue eyes shining under her golden hair. Speak fluent Chinese to my six-year-old daughter.
"Here we go, it's time for New Year's Eve dinner!"
Yang Ying, with two lovely braids, ran to the dining table in the living room and saw her father and grandfather talking and laughing, creating a happy family atmosphere.
"Shh - keep your voice down, grandpa is tasting wine!" Nina motioned to her daughter to keep her voice down and asked her to sit next to Yang Zhou.
"It is indeed the national wine, fragrant and sweet, with endless aftertaste!"
Yang Yitong drank a glass of the wine sent by his son, and his face turned red. With a drunken spirit, he looked at the whole family with joy, and finally his eyes rested on his granddaughter Yang Ying, and said: "Our small family, a mixture of Chinese and Western blood, has immediately become an international family. Love has no borders, and science has no borders. There are no borders either! Haha..."
"Father, drink less. Next time I come back from Guizhou, I will bring a few more bottles, so you can taste them as much as you like!" Yang Zhou had never seen his father drink wine before, so he was a little worried about his drinking capacity and persuaded him.
"I'm not drunk!" Yang Yitong looked at his son Yang Zhou complainingly and continued: "I asked you to stay at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and conduct basic research on particle physics with me, but you went to the mountains to observe some strange extraterrestrial signals! Just like your deceased mother, for the sake of the dream in your heart, your thoughts have become selfish..."
"Father! Don't you think you are more selfish and heartless? My mother also died of sadness because of this!"
Yang Zhou still remembers his mother's death. He stood up and said angrily: "Don't think I don't know, Yang Feifei is my half-sister!"
"You! You..." Yang Yitong looked at Yang Zhou and knew that he was in the wrong, so he fell silent.
"Wow..." Yang Ying, who was sitting next to Yang Zhou, was frightened and was crying in her mother's arms.
"Nana, Ying'er, let's go back to Guizhou and not celebrate the New Year here anymore!"
Yang Zhou took his wife and daughter and left angrily, leaving only Yang Yitong in the empty room.
Looking at the steaming table of New Year's Eve dinner, Yang Yitong had mixed feelings, and all the flavors of life were mixed in his heart.
A phone ringing broke the silence. He answered the phone and heard a panicked and helpless cry, "Uncle Yang, Peter was taken away by people from the Ministry of National Security. He also said that someone will come to visit you soon!"
"Feifei, take care of your daughter at home and don't run around. I will find a way to handle this matter."
Professor Yang walked to the big window and saw two figures downstairs through the gap in the glass, rushing here.
After a while, the doorbell rang. Professor Yang opened the door and saw a stranger of similar age to himself, with a chubby face and a pair of sharp eyes, and he quickly scanned the room.
"Hello, Professor Yang! I am Zhou Jianjun, and this is my ID! Can I come in for a chat?"
"Okay, Director Zhou, please come in!" Yang Yitong said with doubts and uneasiness on his face.
"Pete is a spy in the physics community who has been lurking in our country for decades!"
Zhou Jianjun stood in front of the dining table and worried about Professor Yang, then lit a Chinese cigarette, took a strong puff, and then spit out strings of thick mist into the air.
"I've been aware of this for a long time!"
Yang Yitong vaguely knew the purpose of Director Zhou's visit to him at this time, and also guessed what happened to Peter at this moment.
"Then why do you want to entrust them with the future scientific research plans of the Hadron Collider?" Zhou Jianjun looked at Academician Yang Yitong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and asked in confusion.
"I originally gave these important scientific research materials to Yang Feifei for safekeeping. I hope she will learn more from them and have the opportunity to become the core leader of the collider, which will help broaden her future scientific research path.
What would happen if Peter knew this information? Science knows no borders!
There are serious ideologies and estrangements among human beings. If the scientific and technological gap between the two sides is too great, it will break the balance of power between each other's civilizations and inevitably plunge the earth's civilization into a long period of war and destruction. "Yang Yitong believed that the cognitive standards in his heart were full of kindness and sympathy for all races in the world, so he still said stubbornly despite his prejudice.
"Professor Yang, I respect you! Based on your cognitive principles, you may be right!"
Zhou Jianjun continued to smoke Zhonghua cigarettes, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then he sighed: "Through the Pitt case, China's 963 top-secret plan was mastered by foreign forces. They obtained some high-tech alien information from it and prepared to unite with the world to counterattack." /Chinese forces are sabotaging the implementation of this plan.
The Civilization Fire Plan is a long-term strategic plan. The waste of resources and the abuse of rights, coupled with the obstruction and interference from external forces, will inevitably affect China's restarted western development process. Therefore, the implementation of the Tinder Plan is temporarily frozen..."
Yang Yitong looked at the messy smoke floating in the air without saying anything.
"Pete went crazy, right on my way here!"
Zhou Jianjun looked at the silent Yang Yitong, and then said something strange: "He said that in the future we will all be puppets on strings, our science and spirit will always be imprisoned in a cage, and human civilization will enter the next stage." Great reincarnation!”
"This, this..." Yang Yitong stammered, and there was a brief blank in his thinking. At this moment, I suddenly thought of poor Yang Feifei, "Fei'er, I hope you won't do stupid things, and you have to be strong!"
Yang Yitong walked out in the wind and snow, and Zhou Jianjun was the only one left in the house. He looked at the smoke filling the air and fell into deep thought.
"Even I don't know what's going on with the Civilization Fire Plan..."
When the spring of the next year came, the FAST astronomy team in the mountains of Guizhou aimed its sky eye at the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. Sky Eye FAST is like a huge and sensitive ear, listening to the faintest "whispers" from the distant stars and gaining insight into the mysteries hidden in the depths of the universe.
A gust of spring breeze caressed the flowers all over the mountains and fields, and was mixed with the joyful singing of a mother and daughter. They sat on the mountainside and chatted leisurely.
Not far in front of them, there is a huge "iron pot" that observes the universe like human eyes and searches for extraterrestrial civilizations. This is the world's largest radio telescope, FAST.
"Mom, I heard from tourists that the Sky Eye is used for cooking, not for scientific research at all!" A girl with two cute ponytails pointed at the large iron pot in the distance and said doubtfully.
"Yang Ying, don't talk nonsense!"
Nina suddenly heard her daughter say such words, and a hint of reproach suddenly appeared on her beautiful face, "That is the place your father loves most. When he came to this mountainous area, he always had a dream of cosmic astronomy in his heart!"
"Oh, I was wrong! The Sky Eye is not a big iron pot, it is my father's dream, and it is also my dream!"
Yang Ying glanced at her father's work place with her lovely blue eyes and said a little aggrievedly.
"Okay, baby! I'll take you to where dad works, okay?" Nina coaxed her daughter, who was about to cry, with a motherly smile on her face.
"Well, I want to go find daddy!"
A series of fast radio bursts from the Orion Nebula, after a long space shuttle, were captured by the SkyEye radio telescope on Earth. On the screen of the gamma ray burst monitor, pulse wave lines like peaks and ridges appeared.
This time, after dozens of days of observation and research, Yang Zhou and his team members finally waited until the magnetar was active and detected dozens of fast radio bursts in a short period of time. The polarization angles of these pulse signals from distant space and time are constantly changing, showing diverse shapes. The astronomical team derived the approximate distance of this magnetar based on the dispersion shift value of light waves in the universe. It is about 1,562 light-years away from the Earth and is located in the Orion Nebula.
Throughout the Sky Eye Observation Station, Yang Zhou and the team he led were intensely discussing the mechanism of the generation of "fast radio bursts", and everyone was exchanging words with each other.
"Vice President Yang, do you think these fast radio bursts are masterpieces left by extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations in the universe?" A young astronomical observer looked at the periodically changing wavy lines on the monitor screen. He said doubtfully.
Everyone was interrupted by this sudden question, and the observatory suddenly fell into silence. Only the monitoring instrument next to it was buzzing the pulse signal of the magnetar, violent and rapid.
"While humans are studying the universe, civilizations in deep space are also studying humans. Hopefully, they are full of goodwill towards human civilization and do not put the solar system among the objects of observation."
Yang Zhou looked at the young observer with a kind smile, and at the same time said solemnly to everyone: "I think the fast radio bursts in the universe may originate from the physical change process in the magnetosphere of dense stars. Its powerful The magnetic field and rotational speed will exceed that of most pulsars.
Through rough calculation of the dispersion shift value of the light wave, this special pulsar candidate has a rotation period of 1.83 seconds and is located in the Orion Nebula of the Milky Way, about a thousand light-years away from us.
This is the first magnetar discovered since Sky Eye was officially commissioned for observation. Please inform Professor Nan Boming about this! "As the deputy engineer of the observation team, Yang Zhou eagerly ordered the observation assistants around him.
"Okay, Vice President Yang, I will ask Professor Nan Boming to come to the FAST observation room!" the observation assistant said, and then left eagerly.
At this moment, multiple media outlets with extremely sensitive information began to gather in the reception hall of the Sky Eye Observatory. Many reporters began to surround Yang Zhou, hoping to learn from him about the most important astronomical event in the world.
Since the collapse of the 305-meter telescope in country A, Sky Eye FAST has become the world's only ultra-large survey radio telescope, so the international astronomical community is full of curiosity and expectation for the official operation of Sky Eye.
"I would like to ask Vice President Yang, has Sky Eye discovered an advanced alien civilization to prove that human civilization is not alone?" a reporter asked curiously.
"The Sky Eye has been observing the distant Orion star region, and no other traces of life have been found so far!"
"Excuse me, are those weak signals from deep space the electromagnetic pulse signals left by other civilizations in interstellar wars?" a reporter asked first.
"As far as I know, most of these pulse signals from the universe originate from dense celestial bodies, such as black holes and pulsars, or even supernova explosions.
Recently, our SkyEye observation team observed a fast radio burst from a magnetar in the Orion region of the Milky Way! Magnetars are a type of neutron star. Their powerful magnetic field and rotational speed exceed those of most pulsars. Only about every 10 supernova explosions will a magnetar be born. " Yang Zhou thought for a while and answered to the reporter, seeming to be reminded of the astronomical phenomenon of "collective star shift" eight years ago.
"Excuse me, how far away is this magnetar from us, and how should we name it?"
At this time, a cute girl squeezed out of the crowd of reporters and stood in front of her father, asking curious questions.
Yang Zhou looked at the daughter in front of him in surprise, and saw more beautiful and moving shining points in her big light blue eyes. Looking behind her daughter, she still saw the very familiar wife, her golden hair becoming smoother and shinier in the sunlight.
So, he picked up his daughter and faced the media reporters and replied: "The magnetar is located in the Orion star region, 1,562 light-years away from the earth. Its strong magnetic field and rotational speed caused several circles of silver star rings to be generated around it. Name her 'Silver Bracelet'..."
Before Yang Zhou could finish speaking, an observation assistant came behind him and quietly told him that Nan Boming died suddenly in the hospital. After hearing the bad news, Yang Zhou's mood fell to the lowest point at this moment. He put down his daughter in his arms and said meaningfully to the reporters:
"The beautiful and mysterious universe ignites the endless magnetars, calling civilization to step over mediocrity and embrace the boundless twinkling!"
