Chapter 1: The Mysterious Research Base

September 8, 2018, Gobi Desert in the Western Desert. The weather is breezy, cloudless, the sun is scorching, and the sea of sand is boundless. In the vast desert of Luobupo, there is a desert oasis - Yue'er Spring.

Next to Yue'er Spring, there is a small three-story building with an inconspicuous floor. The exterior of this small building is earthy yellow, which complements the poplar trees in the desert oasis, and it seems that these buildings are part of the tree, and if you don't get close, you really can't see it. It's the heart of the desert and it's rarely visited. It's a mysterious area, and few will know what this house is for.

This place, from the outside, is so calm, as if nothing is the same. Actually, it's a mysterious research base. An antimatter research base. Antimatter, as the name suggests, is the opposite of positive matter. Every qiē substance in this world we live in is a positive substance. They are all composed of atomic and subatomic particles. A qiē subatomic has its antiparticles.

Just like the ancient yin and yang doctrine in our country. Matter is divided into yin and yang. Everything has a yin and yang distinction. However, the world we know is the world of 'positive', that is, the world of 'yang'. The 'negative' world and the 'yin' world are things we don't know much about.

Just as every new scientific invention is first applied to the military. Human understanding of antimatter must also be used in military affairs first. Since human beings now know through research, as long as antimatter and positive matter meet, they will annihilate each other, and then release a huge amount of energy.

In modern times, every country wants to first develop antimatter bombs and then apply them to military strikes to make their armies invincible. Now that all countries are scrambling to research this most advanced weapon, our country naturally cannot sit idly by.

Although China's research in this area started relatively late, the results achieved have attracted the attention of the world, and it is not far from the success of the research. If Japan can be the first to develop an antimatter bomb and successfully explode, then China will undoubtedly be the number one superpower in the world.

Now, this three-story building is shouldering a historical responsibility, to take the lead in successfully developing antimatter bombs, so that our country can become a real lion of the East. This research base has been secretly studying here for three years.

Now the research has finally succeeded. Today is the day of the test explosion, and if the test explosion is successful, it will indicate that China's comprehensive national strength is already the first in the world. From then on, no country can compete with China.

The person in charge of this research base is called Zhao Zhongyao, an old man who is nearly eighty years old. Although he is very old, his body is still quite strong, his spirit is shining, and his eyes are bright, which can be described as old and strong. He was the first Chinese scientist in the world to discover antimatter. Originally, he could have won the Nobel Prize, but for some reason, he missed the Nobel Prize. This has also become the regret of his life.

This time, he took Chinese scientists and fought hard in the desert for three years, just to lead the world and first develop an antimatter bomb. He knows that for him, it's not just about making his country a world power. And he can also be famous all over the world because of this, and he may be even more awesome than winning the Nobel Prize.

Now it can be said that it is ready to go, just waiting for tomorrow's test explosion. Antimatter is a very strange thing. In the past, when I studied something, I mainly thought about how to study it. Never think about putting it there.

But antimatter is special. It's hard to work out. It's hard to even put it there. At present, many countries are not unable to study antimatter, but mainly because they cannot be placed. Because all matter in the real world is made up of positive matter.

Whatever container is used to hold antimatter, it reacts with that container. In this way, it will quickly merge with the container and disappear. It also casts a huge amount of energy. It's much more powerful than a **. Therefore, the antimatter bomb is like a 'Satan' devil in hell.

To master its power, you must first create a cage that can 'imprison' it. And to make such a cage is just as difficult, if not more difficult, than to make an antimatter bomb. Now this thing that 'imprisons' the devil's cage has become a bottleneck in the study of antimatter. Only by breaking through this bottleneck can antimatter bombs be made. However, scientists in many countries are now unable to break through this bottleneck.

At present, most scientists can only use a strong electromagnetic field to temporarily control a small amount of antimatter. Obviously, this is not the creation of a container for antimatter. Powerful electromagnetic fields can only be generated in large real chambers with large electronic devices.

Such a 'container' is really not a container, and it cannot be used in warfare to strike enemy targets. And to really create a 'cage' for antimatter, you have to find a different way. In this regard, the scientists of our country have come to the forefront.

Under the leadership of Academician Zhao Zhongyao, Chinese scientists, after research, found that antimatter will have annihilation events with any normal positive matter, but will not have annihilation events with abnormal exotic matter. This kind of abnormal strange matter refers to some strange celestial matter. For example, white dwarfs, neutron stars, or quark stars, black holes.

Although these celestial matter are also positive matter, they are abnormal positive matter, a degenerate positive matter. As the atoms inside the substance in the degenerate state have been 'crushed'. So they are not normal substances. are aggregates of some of the simplest subatomic particles.

Professor Zhao Zhongyao has found that these substances do not have annihilation events with antimatter, so these strange substances can be used to 'contain' antimatter. But it is not easy to create these strange substances. These materials are all huge stellar objects, which were formed by their own super gravity after a large-scale explosion in later years.

It would be easier said than done for humans to make such a substance on earth. But Professor Zhao Zhongyao and his assistants still went through a series of experiments and overcame one difficulty after another. Finally, in the real yàn room, with extreme high temperature and high pressure, the white dwarf material in the electron degenerate state was created on the earth.

In this way, our country is leading the world in creating a "cage" that imprisons "Satan". With the cage where the devil is imprisoned, it is natural that 'Satan' can come out of the mountain and serve the people. In this way, Professor Zhao Zhongyao and his scientists, after three years of unremitting efforts, finally developed the antimatter bomb. In addition, a cage for the devil was developed.

Now everything is in place, only the east wind is owed. On this day, the wind is beautiful and the autumn is crisp. The vast desert of Luo Bupo shone golden in the sun. Zhao Zhongyao and his assistants finally ushered in the day of the test explosion. You must know that this is the world's first test explosion of antimatter bombs, and whether it can succeed or not will attract the attention of people all over the world.

Zhao Zhongyao came out of the building early in the morning. Looked at the weather. He felt that Tiangong was still beautiful. There wasn't much wind. In the middle of the desert, there is no need to worry about rain. But there are not many days when you want to be calm. In the desert, the most powerful thing is the wind.

Because strong winds can blow sandstorms, sandstorms can swallow up a qiē. Zhao Zhongyao saw that the weather was good, so he followed the pre-prescribed procedure. led the staff, drove the car, and came to the depths of the desert far away from the research base. It is 800 kilometers away from the base, and according to the design, this antimatter projectile, which is only one thousandth of a gram, will not cause any damage to the base at such a long distance.

So a qiē started according to the plan and step by step. Zhao Zhongyao is an old scientist who is nearly eighty years old. He didn't have to go back to the site to set it up. He just instructed the young scientist to drive the magic bottle containing a little bit of antimatter that was barely visible to the naked eye to the test explosion center 800 kilometers away.

After putting the magic bottle away, all the scientists returned to the research base. Now all the staff are standing on an observation platform on the roof of the base. It is a makeshift observation platform on the roof of the building, about 100 meters high, and standing on it, you can see far away. Due to the extremely strong light of the explosion, it could be tens of thousands of times the sunlight. It is not possible to see directly with the naked eye. It can only be observed with a specially made telescope. Zhao Zhongyao also stood in the crowd.

For him, this was the most exciting time for him. He holds the remote control that 'detonates' the antimatter bomb in his hand. In fact, antimatter bombs do not need to be detonated. As you know, an atomic bomb must reach a critical mass. The explosion needs to be detonated with an atomic bomb. The explosion of these nuclear bombs is quite troublesome.

But antimatter bombs, it's not so troublesome. It only needs to be in contact with the air, because the air is the positive substance. The remote control in Zhao Zhongyao's hand is now a controller that opens the magic bottle, as long as he presses the button in his hand, the magic bottle will automatically open. The little antimatter inside that is not visible will come into contact with the positive matter that enters the bottle first, which is the air. So 'Satan' went berserk, and the explosion of the greatest energy on earth was about to occur.