Civilizations Collide

by Charx

Prologue

The Golden Record. Messages From Earth, including 115 images and and innumerable recordings, such as greetings in 55 different languages, all spoken by the species that was hopeful enough to think that they could communicate across light-years of empty space.

The original recordings was carried by advanced spacecraft, called 'Voyager', 1 and 2. These craft were designed to fly through the endless expanse of the cosmos, eventually shutting down and lying dormant for whomever may find them.

But decades after they were launched, when they were far past the solar system of their origin, the third Voyager mission was made. It carried a Golden Record as well. However, this mission would not be launched, but rather sent, through an artificial wormhole, to one specific planet. You may know it as Equus, but the species who created the record (humans, as they were called) assigned it a boring, scientific name. Kepler 50-31b, while a boring name, was accurate and better for filing than 'Equus' was. It was named as such because it was discovered by the Kepler 50 satellite (launched in the year 2050). Normally, this wouldn't matter, it would just be another name on a list of exoplanets, as humans didn't have the ability to traverse the great distance that separated planets. But this one had unusually high concentrations of organic molecules, and now humans did have the capability to traverse the light-years, due to one amazing discovery.

50 years ago, sometime in the 2020s, a scientific discovery at the Large Hadron Collider was made. Now, mind you, the humans of that era thought themselves very smart, so when this discovery disproved the widely accepted 'Big Bang Theory', everyone was floored. Now, being as smart as they thought they were, the 'Rainbow Gravity' theory was immediately brought forth and found to be accurate and true. The universe was indeed infinite, and it was a lot easier to create a miniature black hole than everyone thought it was (the collider had done just that, but according to the Big Bang Theory, it should have been impossible, obviously making that theory false).

But after the initial shock wore in, everyone realized the true magnitude of this. They had created a black hole!! Was it perhaps possible to create a, a wormhole?? Surely if they could rip a hole in space-time, they could bend it to their will as well.

And now we arrive at the year 2078, where the third 'Voyager' mission began. The name was mostly symbolic, yes, but that did nothing to lessen the greatness of its mission. To travel to Kepler 50-31b, otherwise known as Equus.

What it found, well, you'll have to sit down for this story.

Author's Note:

And so it begins.....

Comments

[RedShirt047]

(the collider had done just that, but according to the Big Bang Theory, it should have been impossible, obviously making that theory false).

Except that the Big Bang Theory has nothing to do with the generation of artificial black holes by the LHC. There is an astronomically small chance of creating one. It'd just evaporate due to Hawking radiation in nanoseconds.

[Thunder--Clash]

love the story

[Zh3sh1re]

As RedShirt stated, that doesn't make the Big Bang Theory false. Not at all. In fact, the creation of black holes has nothing to do with the BBT at all. The creation of black holes are simply a mathematical and physical calculation. Think of it this way. A star is just a giant mass of nuclear fuel, sustaining a fusion reaction. This force pushes outwards, while the gravity (cause of the mass) presses it together. When the nuclear fuel is spent, it collapses in on itself. If it's sufficiently large, the outer parts of the star is expanded into a super nova which dissipates after a while. The core however compresses in on itself into a point which has seemingly zero volume. This is called a singularity. When this happens, it would require a velocity greater than the speed of light to escape the gravity, and since there is nothing that exceeds this, nothing can escape. Not even photons. (Light)

Now, on to the LHC. It's calculated that one would need 10^19 GeV (Electron Volt) to create a black hole. The LHC is designed to project 14 TeV and at maximum 1150 TeV. By this account, you'd need a ring accelerator about 1000 light years in diameter to just keep the particles on track, and the energy requirements is literally thousands of years away. We'd have to tame the entire power of a sun to come close to that.

And like he said before me. Micro Black Holes would instantly vanish due to Hawking radiation.

Now on to the next thing. Wormholes have nothing to do with black holes. While it's true that black holes influence space-time, a wormhole is simply the theory that you can bend the universe and punch a hole through the fabric of space-time and send something through. Wormholes aren't impossible, at least according to general relativity (Which is basically the structure on which basically ALL of our physics are built upon.)

I like the idea you have, but if you're gonna keep it up to standard you're gonna have to do more research.

[Walabio]

The physics are wrong. Rather than being specific and wrong, try vague and right:

Wormholes are hypothetically possible, but require so much energy to create and are so unstable as to be practically impossible. Try this:

> "Scientists discovered how to channel the energy from nuclear detonations into creating wormholes, which can swallow probes. Unfortunately, the wormholes collapse in a fraction of a second, so the journey is 1-way. Scientists sent Voyager # 3 through such a wormhole to Kepler 50-31b. Since Kepler 50-31b is N LightYears away, we have to wait N Years for the transmissions of Voyager # 3 to get to Earth."

[Raul]

That happened.