Chapter 13 Chapter 13: Encounter (2)

the second part Chapter 13: Encounter (2) She suddenly laughed beside her, her teeth were very thin and white.Maybe she has been spying on me for a long time?After all, I can't get rid of my literati habits, and I always show my sentimental and sentimental appearance, and I feel a little embarrassed when I think about it. After a long while, I had no choice but to say to her, "I was just thinking about how big the universe is..." After a while, I felt that it was too slow, so I quickly stopped talking. Unexpectedly, she seemed to be interested, and forced me to say: "You have a poetic temperament. The universe is so big... Shiha, in fact, there is still a gap between the universe we see and the universe we know. It’s too far away. Our eyesight is very short, and the so-called endless view is actually only a few dozen miles away.’”

I didn't answer in silence, I was secretly excited, what kind of person is she?Be intellectual, of course.So she actually studied literature?philosophical?Are you a little nervous? "You are...you have studied liberal arts, right?" I asked in a low voice. She smiled and replied: "No, I haven't been to university. I read books casually. I am willing to believe in science. You may feel that the vastness of the universe is mysterious, so you feel emotional, but I know where we are. The universe is a group of stars, and the earth is just a planet in the solar system..."

I couldn't help taking a look at her when I heard it, and I saw her eyeballs frequently, and she seemed to be quite complacent. I thought to myself, don't you think I'm a primary school student explaining?But she didn't seem to care, and just continued, "The distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million and five thousand miles. The outermost planet in the solar system is Pluto, which is said to be farther away from the sun than the distance between the earth and the sun." Forty times, that is 370,000,000 and 20,200,000 miles away, how big do you think our solar system is?"

I said coldly: "Your memory is really not bad." She smiled and said: "Yes, but what I'm talking about is only between the earth and the sun. Although the sun is a hundred thousand times larger than the earth, it is only one of the ten million stars in the Milky Way. And It is still very tiny in comparison. The diameter of the entire Milky Way is about 200,000 light-years—W can’t be calculated in miles, so we have to use light units, and a light-year is 600,000,000 miles.——In addition , there are 300,000 other galaxies similar to ours in the universe, and the distance between each galaxy is about 1.5 million light years.

I couldn't help feeling secretly annoyed, regretting that I should have come out to chat with her nonsense, in the middle of the night, who would have the patience to listen to her reciting geography textbooks?Maybe her nerves are really defective, so I had to continue to perfunctory her and said: "The Milky Way is really huge, unbelievably big." She smiled as if she had guessed what I was thinking, but she continued maliciously. Said: "Not only that! These galaxies form a larger system due to their mutual relationship, which is the so-called super-galaxy. There are about forty super-galaxies, and some people say that there are as many as three thousand. Simple For example, the volume of the cosmic space that our robot eyes can observe so far has a diameter of 50 million light-years. However, this is only the universe known to mankind, that is, the so-called actual universe. Of course, we can imagine the universe even bigger

I think: Your "big" words are almost the same, right?So he interrupted her and said, "But no matter what, as Einstein said, the universe is boundless but always finite." "We can't always trust Einstein." She opened her eyes and said anxiously, "Einstein may not always be there. He will not exist, and he and his theories may all disappear. Ah, people will disappear and cease to exist, for example, my sister, she will soon..." Her voice suddenly turned sad, and then stopped sadly.I really wanted to ask what was going on with her sister, but I felt that I shouldn't meddle in other people's private affairs, so I replied vaguely: "Yes."

In this way, everyone was silent for a long time.My eyes were fixed on a long rope that was drawn by the stern of the boat.The rope was floating on the sea surface, winding towards the waves, and there seemed to be something tied to it in the distance, but it couldn't be seen clearly.Seeing that I was staring blankly, she didn't seem to understand, so she seized the opportunity to talk again, and approached me and told me, "This is for metering. You see, there is a watch beside the boat. Ah, we have already left Qingdao. We have so many miles, we can go back to Shanghai tomorrow afternoon." While explaining, she showed me the mileage indicated on the meter.But seeing that I didn't seem to be very interested, she had to change the subject and said, "Are you from Shanghai?"

"No, I'm from Ningbo." I lazily replied, "But I have lived in Shanghai for twelve years."