Before arriving at Halo City, the dinghy passed by Lightspeed II. Cao Bin told Cheng Xin that Lightspeed II used to be a science city and was one of the two research centers studying how to lower the speed of light to achieve the black domain state, but it had been abandoned. Cheng Xin was very interested and wanted to stop for a visit. Reluctantly, Cao Bin turned the dinghy in that direction.
在到达星环城前，太空艇经过了光速二号城。曹彬告诉程心，光速二号曾是一座科学城。是研究降低真空光速建立黑域的两个基地之一，但现在它已经成为一座废弃的空城。程心很感兴趣，提出要看一看这座科学城，曹彬很勉强地指示太空艇转向那个方向。
The final destination of Cheng Xin and Cao Bin was Halo City, a medium space city. Medium cities were space cities whose interior areas were below two hundred square kilometers but above fifty square kilometers. Typically, these cities were mixed within formations of large cities, but two of the medium cities, Halo City and Lightspeed II, were situated far from the Jovian city cluster, almost outside the protection of Jupiter’s shadow.
程心和曹彬最后的目的地是星环城，那是一座中等太空城。中等太空城，是指内部面积在两百平方千米以上、五十平方千米以上的太空城市，它们一般都混杂在大型太空城的群落中。但木星群落两座中等太空城，星环城和光速二号。却孤零零地处于太空城群落的最外侧，远离群落主休。几乎在木星的阴影保护区之外。
“Why don’t we just take a look from the outside?” Cao Bin said. “It’s best not to go in. Is it dangerous?”
“为什么我们只是从外面看看就会？”曹彬说。“最好不要进去，有危险？”
“Yes.”
“是的。”
“But we went inside Pacific I, which was also dangerous.”
“同样有危险的太平洋一号我们也进去了。”
“It’s not the same. There’s no one inside Lightspeed II. It’s a… ghost city. At least, that’s what everyone says.”
“这个不一样，光速二号里没有人，是座……鬼城，反正人们都这么说。”
As the dinghy approached, Cheng Xin realized that the city really was in ruins. It didn’t spin, and the exterior appeared broken and cracked. In some places, the skin of the city had been ripped open, revealing the structural frame underneath. As she surveyed the giant ruin illuminated by the searchlights of the dinghy, Cheng Xin felt awe as well as terror. She thought of the ruin as a beached whale. It had lain there for eons, until all that was left was cracked skin and bones, and life had long ago drained away. She seemed to be looking at something even older than the Acropolis of Athens, with even more secrets.
随着太空艇的接近，程心看到这座太空城确实是废墟，它不自转，外表残破，有许多破洞和裂缝，有的地方蒙皮大块地外翻，露出里面的框架。看着在太空艇探照灯照耀下的这座巨大的废墟，程心的心中有一种敬畏和恐惧。她觉得这废墟像一头搁浅的巨鲸，它躺在那里年代久远，只剩下干裂的皮和骨骼，生命早已离它而去。程心觉得展现在自己面前的似乎是一座比雅典卫城更古老的遗址，隐藏着更多的秘密。
They slowly approached a large crack, several times as wide as the body of their dinghy. The beams in the structural frame were also bent and twisted, opening up a way to the interior. The beam of the searchlight shone in so that Cheng Xin could see the distant “ground,” which was completely bare. After the dinghy descended a short distance into the interior of the space city, it stopped and swept the searchlight about them. Cheng Xin saw that the “ground” was bare in every direction. Not only were there no buildings, there wasn’t anything at all to indicate that people had once lived here. The crisscrossing beams forming the frame for the city were visible on the “ground.”
太空艇慢慢靠近一道大裂缝，裂缝有几个艇身宽，里面的金属框架也扭曲翘起，形成一个破口。太空艇的探照灯从裂缝照进去，程心看到了远方的“地面”，空荡荡的什么都没有。太空艇驶入裂缝一小段后悬停。打开探照灯向各处扫射，程心看到各个方向的“地面”都是空的，不但没有建筑物，也没有任何杂物，看不到曾经有人居住的痕迹，析架结构的格子在“地面”上清晰可见。
“Is it just an empty shell?” Cheng Xin asked.
“它是个空壳吗？”程心问。
“No.”
“不是。”
Cao Bin looked at Cheng Xin for a few seconds, as if assessing her courage. Then he reached out and shut off the searchlights.
曹彬看了程心几秒钟，好像在估计她的胆量，然后关闭了艇上的探照灯。
At first, all Cheng Xin could see was darkness. Starlight spilled in from the crack in front, as though she was gazing up at the sky through a broken roof. Eventually, her eyes adjusted to the dark, and she realized that the interior of the ruined space city wasn’t entirely dark, but was illuminated with a faint, flickering blue light. Cheng Xin shivered. She forced herself to calm down and looked for the source. The blue glow came from the center of the interior of the space city.
程心最初看到的是一片黑暗，星光从对面的裂缝透进来，像透过破房子的房顶看夜空一样。但程心的眼睛适应了黑暗后，发现太空城废墟内并非漆黑一片。而是闪着幽幽的蓝光。程心身上一阵发冷，她强令自己镇定下来寻找光源，发现蓝光是从城内空间的中部发出的——那是一个光点，亮亮灭灭，间隔没有规律，像一只随意眨动的眼睛。
The light source blinked without pattern, like a twitching eye. The empty ground was filled with strange shadows, like a desolate wasteland illuminated by flashes of lightning on the horizon at night.
废墟的内部随着光点的明灭时隐时现，刚才空空荡荡的地面充满了奇怪的影子，像夜里被天边闪电照亮的荒原。
“The light is caused by space dust falling into the black hole,” Cao Bin said, pointing in the direction of the light source. He was trying to relieve some of Cheng Xin’s terror.
“那光是太空尘埃落入黑洞产生的。”曹彬指着光点的方向说，似乎为了减轻程心的恐惧。
“Yes. It’s about… no more than five kilometers from here. A microscopic black hole with a Schwarzschild radius of twenty nanometers and a mass equivalent to Leda, the Jovian moon.”
“是的，现在距我们……不到五千米吧。一个微型黑洞，史瓦西半径只有二十纳米，质量相当于木卫十三。”
“There’s a black hole over there?”
“那里有一个黑洞吗？”
In this phosphorescent blue glow, Cao Bin told Cheng Xin the story of Lightspeed II and Gao Way.
在这幽暗的蓝光中，曹彬给程心讲了光速二号和高伟的故事。
Lowering the speed of light through a medium wasn’t particularly difficult. As early as 2008 C. E., researchers had succeeded in lowering the speed of light through a medium to an incredible seventeen meters per second in a laboratory setting. But this was fundamentally different from lowering the speed of light through vacuum. The former only required causing the atoms in the medium to absorb and re-emit the photons — light continued to travel at its usual speed between atoms. This wasn’t useful for the Black Domain Plan.
在介质中降低光速并不是难事，早在公元2008年，就能够在实验室中把介质光速降低到令人难以置信的每秒十七米，但这与降低真空光速在本质上是不同的。前者只是通过介质原子对光子的吸收和再发射实现的，这中间光子的传播速度仍是标准真空光速，对黑域计划没有意义。
The research into lowering the speed of light through vacuum began at about the same time as the Bunker Project. As the Black Domain Plan was the second path for human survival, the international community devoted enormous resources to it, and the Bunker Project even built a large space city as a research center devoted to the subject — that would be Lightspeed I, located in the Saturn cluster. But sixty years of extensive research yielded no breakthroughs, and not even much advancement in theoretical foundation.
对降低真空光速的研究几乎与掩体工程同时开始。作为人类的第二条生存之路，国际社会为此投人了巨大的资源。掩体工程专门为此建立了一座大型太空城作为研究基地，这就是土星群落中的光速一号科学城。但六十年的大规模研究没有取得任何突破，即使在基础理论方面也没什么进展。
The speed of light through vacuum was one of the fundamental constants of the universe. Altering it was equivalent to altering the laws of physics. Thus, lowering the speed of light required breakthroughs in fundamental physics — and considerable serendipity. After sixty years, the only substantive result of basic research was the creation of the circumsolar particle accelerator. This, in turn, led to the success of the largest project under the Black Domain Plan: the Black Hole Project.
真空光速是宇宙墓本常数之一，改变它就等于改变宇宙规律，所以，降低真空光速必须在物理学最基础的领域有所突破，这是一件可遇不可求的事。六十年来，“出研究真正的成果是环日加速器的诞生，而它的出现，直接导致了黑域计划中最大规模的研究项目——黑洞项目的实施。
The head of the Black Hole Project was Gao Way. Cao Bin had worked with him for a few years. He could not hide his complex feelings about the man as he described him to Cheng Xin.
黑洞项目的首席科学家是高伟，曹彬曾一与其共事过几年，他用一种很复杂的感情向程心描述此人。
Scientists had tried all kinds of extreme physical techniques in their efforts to alter the speed of light. Once, the strongest artificial magnetic field had been used. But the best way to influence light in vacuum was through a gravity field. Since it was extremely difficult to generate a local gravity field in a laboratory setting, the only path forward seemed to be a black hole. The circumsolar particle accelerator was capable of creating microscopic black holes.
科学家们一直试图通过各种极端的物理手段对光速产生作用，曾经生成有史以来鼓强的人造磁场。但对真空中的光产生作用，最好的选择是引力场，不过在实验室中产生局部强引力场极其困难，唯一可能的途径是黑洞。而环日加速器能够制造微型黑洞。
“The man suffered from severe autism — no, I’m not talking about some kind of lonely genius choosing to isolate himself, but a real mental condition. He was extremely closed off and had trouble communicating with anyone, and he had never even touched a woman. His extraordinary professional success would only be possible in this age, but despite his accomplishments, most of his supervisors and colleagues thought of him as merely a high-powered intelligence battery. He was tortured by his illness and tried to change himself, and in this, he was different from other geniuses.”
“这个人有很严重的自闭症。不。不是天才自我选择的孤独。就是一种精神缺陷，他极端孤僻，与任何人都没有交流，也从没有与异性交往过。只有在这个时代，他才能在事业上取得那样的成功，不过人家也就是拿他当高智力电池使用而已。他深受这种缺陷的折磨，也一直在试图改变，这一点上他与别的天才完全不同。”
“Starting from, oh, I think the eighth year of the Broadcast Era, he dedicated himself to the theoretical study of lowering the speed of light. Over time, I think he began to develop a strange identification between the speed of light and his own personality — if he could change the speed of light, then it was the same as changing himself.”
“好像是从广播纪元8年开始，他一直从事降低光速的理论研究，很投人，以至于产生了一种奇怪的移情，他感觉光速就是自己的性格，只要能够改变光速，也就能改变自己。”
“But the speed of light through vacuum really was the most stable thing in the cosmos. Research into lowering the speed of light resembled torturing light without regard for consequences. People tried to do everything with light: strike it, twist it, break it, dissect it, stretch it, crush it, even destroy it — but the result was, at most, a change in its frequency in vacuum. But the speed of light remained unchanged, like an unscalable wall. After all these decades, theoreticians and experimenters alike were in despair. There was a saying: If there really were a Creator, the only thing He welded shut in all Creation was the speed of light.”
“但真空光速确实是宇宙中最强硬的东西，降低光速的试验研究就像是对光的不择手段的酷刑。人们把各种极端的物理手段作用于光，打击它，扭曲它，折断它，肢解它，拉伸它，压扁它，甚至消灭它，但最大的成果也不过是在真空传播中改变了它的频率，光的速度则纹丝不动，像一堵不可逾越的墙。几十年下来，无论是搞理论的还是搞实验的，都有些绝望了，有一个说法，如果真有造物主，他在创造宇宙时只焊死了一样东西：光速。”
“The Black Hole Project began in Year 1 of the Bunker Era and lasted eleven years. The planners did not invest much hope in it. Both theoretical calculations and astronomical observations had indicated that even black holes could not change the speed of light. These demons of the universe could only use their gravity fields to change the path of light and its frequency, not affecting the speed of light through vacuum one iota. However, to continue the research for the Black Domain Plan, it was necessary to create experimental conditions with superpowerful gravity fields, which depended on black holes. In addition, since a black domain is in essence a large-scale reduced-lightspeed black hole, perhaps close-range observation of a microscopic regular-lightspeed black hole would yield unexpected insights.”
“黑洞项目是在掩体纪元元年开始的，历时十一年。其实，项目的规划者们并没有对此抱什么希望，无论是理论计算还是天文观测都表明，黑洞也不可能改变光速，这些宇宙中的魔鬼也只能用自己的引力场改变光线的路径和频率，对真空光速没有丝毫影响。但要使黑域计划的研究进行下去，就要有超高密度引力场的实验环境，这只能借助黑洞。还有一个理由：黑域本质上是一个大型低光速黑洞，对一个微型标准光速黑洞进行近距离研究，也许能得到什么意外的启示。”
“For Gao Way, the despair had yet another layer. By the time I went into hibernation, he was almost fifty. He had still never been with a woman, and he thought of his own fate as being as resistant as the speed of light; he became even more withdrawn and solitary.”
“而对于高伟，这种绝望又深了一层，在我冬眠时他已经快五十岁了，还从未接近过女人，他感觉自己的命运就像真空光速一样硬，于是显得更加自闭和孤僻。”
“After the microscopic black hole was injected into Leda, it began to absorb mass and rapidly grow. At the same time, the intense radiation generated by material falling into the black hole melted the surrounding rock. Soon, the eight-kilometer-radius Leda melted entirely, and the potato-shaped rock turned into a red-glowing ball of lava. The lava ball shrank slowly, but glowed brighter and brighter, until it finally disappeared with a blinding flash. Observation showed that other than a small amount of material ejected by the radiation, most of the mass of Leda had been absorbed by the black hole. The black hole remained stable, and its Schwarzschild radius, or event horizon radius, had grown from the size of a fundamental particle to twenty-one nanometers.”
“微型黑洞被射入木卫十三，吸入物质后急剧扩大，与此同时，物质进入黑洞时产生的巨量辐射也迅速熔化周围的岩石。很快，半径八千米的整个木卫十三都被熔化了。这块土豆形的巨石变成了一个发着红光的岩浆球。这个岩浆球体积在慢慢缩小，亮度却越来越高，最后在一团超强的闪光中消失得无影无踪。据观测，除了最后被辐射驱散的一小部分物质外，木卫十三的大部分物质都被黑洞吸人。这个黑洞变得稳定了。它的史瓦西半径，或者说视界半径，由一个基本粒子大小增长到二十一纳米。”
“Leda was Jupiter’s smallest moon, with a mean radius of only eight kilometers. It was nothing more than a large rock. Before making the black hole, they had lowered the moon from its high orbit and turned it into a body orbiting the Sun in parallel with Jupiter, like the city cluster. However, unlike the city cluster, it was located at the Sun-Jupiter L2 Lagrangian point, which is where we are now. This allowed it to maintain a stable distance from Jupiter without having to constantly adjust its position. At the time, this was the most massive body humans had managed to move through space until then.”
“木卫十三是木星最小的一颗卫星，半径只有八千米，只是一个大石块。在产生黑洞之前，曾把这颗卫星从它的高轨道降低，并使它与城市群落一样成为太阳卫星，与木星平行运行。与其他太空城不同的是，它位于木星与太阳的第二拉格朗日点。就是我们现在的位置，能与木星保持稳定距离，不需要位置维持。这是人类迄今为止在太空中推送的最大质量的物体。”
“The circumsolar particle accelerator was capable of producing microscopic black holes rapidly, but these tiny black holes also evaporated very quickly. To produce a stable black hole, a microscopic black hole was guided out of the accelerator as soon as it was produced, and then injected into Leda.”
“环日加速器可以在短时间内产生微型黑洞，但这样小的黑洞会在短时问里蒸发。为了得到稳定的黑洞，微型黑洞在加速器中产生后立刻被导出，并被注人到木卫十三内部。”
“Anyone with some basic scientific background knows that the probability that Gao was ‘sucked’ into the black hole was practically nonexistent. The reason that black holes are traps from which even light cannot escape isn’t because their overall gravitational power is overwhelming — though a large black hole formed by the collapse of a star does possess immense overall gravity — but due to the density of their gravitational fields. From a distance, the total gravity of a black hole is no different from the gravity of a quantity of normal matter of equivalent mass. If the Sun collapsed into a black hole, the Earth and the other planets would still continue on in their orbits without being sucked in. It’s only when you got very close to the black hole that its gravity displayed strange behavior.”
“其实稍有常识的人都明白，高伟‘被’吸人的可能性微乎其微。黑洞之所以成为连光都能吸人的超级陷阱，并非因为它有巨大的引力总量（当然，由恒星坍缩而成的大型黑洞引力总量也是很大的），而是，其有超高的引力密度。从远距离上看，它的引力总量其实与相同质量的普通物质相当。假如太阳坍缩成黑洞，地球和各大行星将仍然在原轨道上运行。不会被吸进去。只有在十分靠近黑洞的范围内。它的引力才显示出魔力。”
“They constructed a space city around the black hole — that’s Lightspeed II. The black hole was suspended in the middle of the space city, which was empty, didn’t spin, and whose interior was a vacuum connected to space. It was, in essence, a giant container for the black hole. Personnel and equipment could be brought into the city to study the black hole.”
“然后，以黑洞为中心建造了一座太空城，这就是光速二号。黑洞悬浮在光速二号的中心，这完全是一座空城。处于与太空连通的真空状态，不自转，实际上就是一个容纳黑洞的巨型容器。人员和设备都可以进入太空城对黑洞进行研究。”
“The research continued for many years. This was the first time that humans could study a black hole specimen in laboratory conditions, and many discoveries were made that helped with the development of theoretical physics and fundamental cosmology. But none of these results helped with the task of lowering the speed of light in vacuum.”
“对黑洞的研究持续了多年，这是人类第一次在实验室状态下对黑洞样品进行研究，取得了大量的成果，发展了理论物理学和宇宙学的基础理论。但这些成果对于降低真空光速都没有帮助。”
“Six years after the commencement of studies on the black hole specimen, Gao Way died. According to the official account of the World Academy of Sciences, he was accidentally ‘sucked into the black hole’ during an experiment.”
“在黑洞样品研究开始后的第六年，高伟遇难了。按照世界科学院的官方说法，他在研究工作出现的一次事故中‘被吸人黑洞’。”
“Inside Lightspeed II, there was a protective net around the black hole with a radius of five thousand meters. Research personnel were forbidden to enter. Since the radius of Leda was originally only eight thousand meters, the black hole’s gravity at this distance was not much greater than the gravity on the surface of the original Leda. It’s not a very powerful pull — a person standing there was essentially weightless, and could easily escape using the thrusters on their space suit. Thus, Gao couldn’t have been ‘sucked’ in.”
“在光速二号中，黑洞周围有一张防护网，半径是五千米，在研究工作中人员禁止进入网内。木卫十三的原半径仅八千米，所以黑洞在这个距离_上引力值与以前站在木卫十三上差不多。这个引力是十分微小的。人在那里的感觉与失重差不多，完全可以凭借太空服上的推进器逃脱。所以，高伟不太可能是‘被’吸人的。”
“Ever since the stable black hole specimen was obtained, Gao Way was infatuated with it. After struggling against the speed of light for so many years and not being able to alter even a single one of the many digits in this constant that came close to three hundred thousand, Gao was agitated and filled with a sense of failure. As the constancy of the speed of light was one of the fundamental laws of nature, he had come to despise the laws of nature, as well as being afraid of them. But now, in front of his eyes, was something that had compressed Leda into twenty-one nanometers. Within its event horizon, in that space-time singularity, known laws of nature had no effect.”
“在得到稳定的黑洞样品后，高伟就对它着了迷。与光速搏斗了这么多年，不能撼动它丝毫，连这个接近三十万的常数小数点后面的许多位都改变不了分毫，他充满了焦躁和挫败感。真空光速恒定是宇宙的基本规律之一，于是他对宇宙规律既怕又恨。可眼前有这么一个东西，一个能把木卫十三压缩到二十一纳米的东西，在它的视界内部，在那个时空奇点里，已知的宇宙规律失效。”
“What happened after Gao Way was sucked in was almost too strange to describe. Scientists observed the black hole via remote-controlled microscopes, and discovered that at the black hole’s event horizon — that’s the surface of that tiny sphere with a diameter of twenty-one nanometers — there was the figure of a person. It was Gao Way passing through the event horizon.”
“以后的事情就很诡异了。高伟被吸人后，人们用遥控显微镜观察黑洞，发现黑洞的事件视界，也就是那个半径仅二十一纳米的微小球面上，有一个人影，那就是正在通过视界的高伟。”
“No one saw the process of Gao’s disappearance, and if there was a recording, it’s never been released. He was one of the Black Hole Project’s principal physicists, and he had the password to open the protective net. I’m certain that he went in and drifted toward the black hole until he was too close to return… He probably wanted to get a close-up look at the object of his infatuation, or perhaps he wanted to enter into that singularity where the laws of nature no longer mattered, so that he could escape all this.”
“没有人看到高伟被吸入的过程，如果有录像也从未公布。他是黑洞项目的主要物理学家之一，有打开防护网入口的口令。他肯定进去了，一直向黑洞飘过去，一直接近到黑洞引力使他无法返回的距离……他可能只是想近距离看看这个让自己迷恋的东西，也可能是决定进入那个宇宙规律不起作用的奇点来逃避这一切。”
“Gao Way often hung against the protective net and stared for hours at the black hole five kilometers away. He watched its luminescence — like we’re doing now — and sometimes claimed that the black hole was talking to him, that he could decipher the message of its flickering light.”
“高伟常常趴在防护网上，连续几个小时盯着五千米远处的黑洞看，看着它像现在这样幽幽地闪亮。有时他声称黑洞在说话、他从闪光中看出了什么信息。”
“But within Gao Way’s own frame of reference, he had already passed through the event horizon.”
“但以高伟为参照系，他已经穿过了视界。”
“Under general relativity, a distant observer would see a clock near the event horizon slow down, and the process of Gao Way falling toward the event horizon would also slow down and stretch into infinity.”
“根据广义相对论，对于一个遥远的观察者来说，事件视界附近的时间急剧变慢，落向视界的高伟掉落过程本身也变慢至无限长。”
“And thus the life insurance company refused to pay out, although Gao Way had passed through the event horizon in his frame of reference, and should now be dead. But the insurance contract was made within the frame of reference of our world, and from this perspective, it is impossible to prove that Gao Way is dead. It’s not even possible to begin the settlement process. Insurance claims settlement can only occur after the conclusion of an accident, but as Gao Way is still falling toward the black hole, the accident isn’t over, and will never be over.”
“于是，保险公司拒绝支付死亡保险金。虽然从高伟自己的参照系看，他通过了视界，应该已经死去；但保险合同是以我们这个现实世界为参照系制定的，在这个参照系中无法证明高伟已经死了。甚至理赔都不行，保险理赔必须等事故结束后才能进行，高伟仍在向黑洞坠落中。事故还没有结束，永远也不会结束。”
“Even more oddly, the figure’s proportions were normal. Perhaps it was because the black hole was so small, but tidal forces did not seem to be at work. He had been compressed into the nanometer range, but space there was also extremely curved. More than one physicist believed that the body structure of Gao Way wasn’t harmed at the event horizon. In other words, he’s probably still alive at this moment.”
“更离奇的是，那个人影各部分的比例是正常的，也许是由于黑洞很黑洞很小，潮汐力①并没有作用到他身上。他被压缩到如此微小，但那一处的空间曲率也极大，所以不止一名物理学家认为视界上的高伟身体结构并没有遭到破坏，换句话说，现在他可能还活着。”【注：①引力源对物体产生力的作用时，由于物体上各点到引力场距离不等，受到引力大小不同，从而产生引力差，对物体产生撕扯效应，这种引力差就是湖沙力。】
“A woman then sued the World Academy of Sciences and demanded that the academy cease all further research on this black hole specimen. By that point, distant observation was unlikely to yield any further results. In order to be useful, future research would have to manipulate the black hole in some way, such as sending experimental objects into the black hole, which would generate massive amounts of radiation, and might disturb space-time in the vicinity of the event horizon. If Gao Way were still alive, these experiments might endanger his life. The woman didn’t win her suit, but for a variety of reasons, research on this black hole stopped, and Lightspeed II was abandoned. Now we can only wait for this black hole to evaporate, which is estimated to take another half century.”
“这时有一个女人提出法庭诉讼，要求世界科学院立刻停止对该黑洞样品的研究。到目前为止，远距离观察已经没什么可做的了，进一步的研究必然要对黑洞进行作用，比如让实验物体进入黑洞，这就要产生大量的辐射，还可能对视界附近的时空环境产生扰动，如果高伟还活着，这就可能危害到他的生命。这女人并没有胜诉，但由于各方面的原因，对这个黑洞样品的研究还是中止了，光速二号也完全荒废，现在只能等待这个黑洞蒸发掉，据计算这还需要半个世纪。”
“However, we now know that at least one woman did love Gao Way, though he never knew it. Later, that woman still came here regularly and tried to send radio or neutrino messages at the black hole. She even wrote her love in big letters and posted it against the protective net, hoping that the falling Gao Way could see it. But based on his own frame of reference, he had already passed through the event horizon into the singularity… It’s a complicated matter.”
“不过现在我们知道，还是有一个女人爱上高伟了，可惜高伟一直不知道这事。后来那个女人还常到这里来，用电波或中微子向黑洞发信息，甚至写了一幅大标语蒙到防护网上表达爱意。不知道下落中的高伟能否看到，不过从他自己的参照系看，他已经穿过视界进人奇点……反正这事挺纠结的。”
Cheng Xin now felt the flickering black hole was really sending out a message, even more like someone blinking. She pulled her gaze back, feeling as empty in her heart as this ruin in space. Softly, she said to Cao Bin, “Let’s go to Halo City.”
程心收回目光。感到心里如这太空中的废墟一样空荡荡的，她轻轻地对曹彬说：“我们去星环城吧。”
Cheng Xin stared at the blue phosphorescence far away in the darkness. She now knew that there was a man there, a man who was falling forever, at the event horizon where time stopped. Such a man was still alive when viewed from this world, but had already died in his own world… So many strange fates, and so many unimaginable lives…
程心看着废墟的黑暗深处那团幽幽蓝光，她现在知道那里可能有一个人。正在时间停滞的界面上永恒地坠落。这样一个人，在这个世界的视角中他还活着，在他自己的世界他却已经死了……有多少奇怪的命运又有多少不可想象的人生……她这时也感觉黑洞的幽光似乎真的传递出某种信息，更像一个人在眨眼了。
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