479 Humans arenst humans (2/2)

Because of their unexpected happiness, the crew began to cheer just like when Columbus discovered the new continent.

Unfortunately, they lost contact with the other two space colonization ships; they couldn't share their joy with anyone else.

The ship ended its automatic exploration mode, changed courses, and headed to planet 581g.

On the way, the crew began all forms of preparation for colonizing the new world including checking the status of the colonization model and voting to see who would be the first to step onto the new land.

Just as everyone was working toward their new life, the physicist on the ship made another astonishing discovery.

The cesium atomic clock they brought appeared to have backtracked.

The backtracking phenomenon could not be explained with physics. It was like everyone knew that atoms decayed, but no one would believe that atoms would return to the state before decaying under normal circumstances.

There was only one explanation - when they passed through the wormhole, they not only passed through the twisted space but they also passed through twisted time.

To put it in simple terms, they returned to the past.

Based on the calculations from the quantum computers, the cesium atomic clock showed that the time was 120 years B.C.

It was the third year into the Han dynasty under Emperor Yuan and 634 years since Rome was first built. This year, the Han Dynasty sent envoys to Alexandria and the ancient Greeks built the Pantheon.

If the ship returned to earth, the earth would be in a primal stage.

It was an odd feeling - it was as if your parents weren't even alive, yet you were born into this world.

The physicists had multiple explanations for this phenomenon.

They suggested that if the multi-world theory was true, they might have reached a world distinct from the previous world. And the previous Earth was a distinct world from this Earth.

This theory was accepted by everyone to some extent.

Their 22nd-century selves couldn't believe that three-dimensional people could move vertically on a four-dimensional plane as this would lead to a time paradox. The only thing that could explain this was probably that they jumped to a parallel world and their old world had nothing to do with this.

It was an obscure feeling.

Just like being born as a baby and having your umbilical cord cut off.

The universe not only cut them off in terms of distance but also their spiritual sense of belonging.

In the next three seconds, everyone became quiet.

Someone suggested that if they changed course to return to earth, they could use the power on the colonization ship to conquer the earth in the Bronze Age. Even with a distance of 20.5 light years, with a maximum cruise speed of one-tenth of the speed of light, they would only need 400 to 500 years. The worst case would be that they could encounter Huns cavalry.

But this proposal was quickly shut down.

No one could be certain that in this parallel world, the history of the world would follow the same track as in their previous world. Perhaps writing was invented a thousand years earlier? Perhaps Columbus was born 500 years earlier? Perhaps the first industrial revolution started 200 years earlier? Perhaps nothing happened yet.

Relative to the entire human race's 400,000 years of evolutionary history, it would only take a small disruption to create earth-shattering changes. The only thing they could be certain of was that the world was certainly different from their previous world.

Perhaps when they returned to their original earth of this world, they would face a civilization far more advanced. Perhaps they would be the ones getting colonized like primal people.

It was an odd thought. While they were 20.5 light years away from earth, everyone shared the same thought.

War.

Because of their fear of the unknown, everyone settled down and retrained their focus on the colonization of planet 581g.

Two other thoughts began to take shape in everyone's head at the same time and ultimately influenced the development of the newborn civilization.

”Earth is not home.”

”Humans are not humans.”