"Theoretically, it seems that you can be reasonable," raising her head to look at Liu Feng, although the old lady was excited, she still said in a cautious tone, "But now I can't give you an accurate answer, I need to go back and discuss it with the other experts in the group." ”

Then the old man lifted his glasses and looked at the sketch again.

"Can I take this sketch back with me?"

"Of course," Liu Feng nodded, "I also look forward to your good news." ”

So the old man took the drawing and prepared to put it in the folder.

"Wait!"

However, a large hand reached out and stopped the old lady's movements.

"Old Qian, can you let me take a look?"

Qian Lao looked at it, it turned out to be Academician Jin Donghan!

Frowning, she knew that this person was engaged in power engineering, and it stands to reason that it had nothing to do with her power engineering, when did she become interested in generators?

looked at Liu Feng, but saw him nodding.

So, the old lady also nodded:

"It's okay, just remember to give it back to the old woman after the meeting. ”

After receiving the sketch, Academician Jin looked at it curiously.

Hearing the conversation between the two just now, he was shocked to find that the working principle of this magnetofluid generator was actually similar to the antimatter engine he was currently researching!

At this time, a spiritual light suddenly crossed his mind, and he had a new idea, and he wanted to see this sketch.

For the study of antimatter engines, in fact, he has worked out four design options.

Of these, the first type of scheme is an antimatter solid core engine.

This engine works by annihilating positive and antimatter in a heat exchanger at a solid core, and the heat generated adds hydrogen propellant to a high-heat state, which is eventually ejected from the vent to form thrust.

Obviously, this way of working is relatively high in terms of efficiency and thrust, but the disadvantages are also obvious, although in his opinion, this is not at all a disadvantage - due to the available raw materials, the specific impulse of such an engine can only reach about 1000 seconds at most.

The so-called specific impulse, refers to the thrust produced by the engine per second consumption of a unit mass of propellant, or the impulse produced by a unit mass of propellant (fuel), it is the main technical index to characterize the working performance of the engine and the energy characteristics of the propellant, the higher the specific impulse, the greater the total power obtained by the engine, the faster the final speed, the specific impulse of a typical solid rocket engine can reach 290 seconds, and the specific impulse of the main engine of a liquid rocket is 300 to 453 seconds.

It's just that the dignified antimatter engine, with a specific impulse of only 1,000 seconds at most, is only 2 or 3 times that of an ordinary rocket engine, so it was naturally ruthlessly passed by Professor Liu, who has a grand vision.

So, after learning from the 'defects' of the first type of engine, sure enough, he soon developed the second type of gas core engine:

The principle is to annihilate the antimatter by direct reaction with the hydrogen propellant, and the generated charged mesons are controlled by a magnetic field and the hydrogen propellant is added to high heat, which can make the specific impulse of the engine reach 2500 seconds!

But it's a pity that this engine scheme was still ruthlessly rejected by Liu Feng!

The reason is that this method has very high requirements for engine materials, and even at the current level of development of materials science, it cannot be developed in a short period of time.

Liu Feng rejected two design plans in a row, although he was a little unhappy, but he also had to admit that Liu Feng's reasons were tenable.

So, after racking his brains, he finally designed the third type - the plasma core engine.

This kind of engine still uses hydrogen as propellant, and the principle is very similar, directly injecting more antimatter into the propellant, and annihilating the high-heat ionic slurry is ejected to produce thrust;

Therefore, this scheme is not limited by raw materials, and is very similar to the Penning ion trap device, without the need for such a harsh reaction device, or even without the restrictions of these devices, and its specific impulse can even be very high, between 5000 seconds and 100,000 seconds!

However, this engine still has a very big flaw, because it will produce some uncontrollable γ rays, which is likely to cause serious damage to other parts of the spacecraft if you are not careful, and correspondingly increase the material burden on other parts of the spacecraft design.

Therefore, in order to be on the safe side, he did not report this plan in the end, but based on it to improve it, and then designed a new type of particle beam core engine:

The principle of this engine is to annihilate the positive and antimatter one-on-one, and then use a magnetic field to control the charged mesons and eject them directly from the vent, thus generating thrust!

The advantage is that because the speed of motion of the charged mesons is close to the speed of light, this design scheme can even make the specific impulse of the antimatter engine exceed 10 million seconds, and the spacecraft using this particle beam core antimatter engine can fly from Earth to Mars in only 24 hours to 2 weeks (depending on the relative position of the Earth and Mars in the revolution), which is definitely not possible with the other three types of engines!

What's even more commendable is that this method only requires antimatter fuel, does not need to add propellant, and can greatly reduce the load of the spacecraft, so it has more obvious advantages than the above three types of engines!

It's just that, similar to the Super Collider, since the products of positive and antimatter annihilation move close to the speed of light, the spacecraft powered by this kind of engine must be built very long, and he estimates that it must be at least two kilometers long!

However, the two-kilometer-long spaceship or aircraft ......

It's just sci-fi!

Even as an academician, he can't believe that any country has the strength and financial resources to build it......

After hesitating for a long time, in the end, he still reported the last two plans to Liu Feng together.

As expected, this guy really chose the fourth option!

Seeing Liu Feng's design drawings, Academician Jin showed an unsurprising expression, because he found that the principles in this are indeed similar to the engine drawings he designed, such as the cavity structure where the positive and antimatter is annihilated, which is completely the design scheme of the antimatter engine!

After carefully analyzing the sketch, combined with the flash of inspiration in his mind just now, a smile gradually appeared on Academician Jin's face:

"Professor Liu, don't you think there is a big similarity between the antimatter generator and our antimatter engine?"

As if knowing what Jin Donghan was going to say next, Liu Feng smiled and nodded: "You go on." ”

"Looks like you've discovered this too. ”

Seeing Liu Feng's confident expression, Academician Jin showed a slightly similar expression as the hero, and admired,

"I suggest that we can combine antimatter generators and antimatter engines to directly tackle the energy and power integration system of large spacecraft, of course, if this can also integrate Academician Ma Mingwei's ship integrated power system, it will be even more perfect!"

Liu Feng smiled happily.

When he chose the antimatter engine scheme, he had already considered the question of whether future spacecraft or antimatter-powered vehicles could use these high-energy mesons to generate electricity, and finally it was the principle of the magnetofluid generator that reminded him, which led to the sketch of the antimatter generator just now.

Of course, unlike spaceships, the environment on Earth not only allows him to use high-energy mesons after the annihilation of positive and antimatter to generate electricity, but also uses other γ rays to generate electricity, so the energy utilization efficiency is of course higher than that of antimatter vehicles.

Just imagine, if the problem of energy and power is solved, coupled with the devastating effect of antimatter weapons, he can already imagine the moment when China dominates the starry sky in the universe in the future!

"Academician Jin, your suggestion is very good!"

Liu Feng said with a smile,

"Next, you need to communicate with Qian Laoduo, you can also set up a new joint team to be responsible for this matter, the talent is selected by you, and the project funding is not a problem, I have only one request, you must study the integrated system you said, do you dare to agree?"

"What don't you dare to agree to!" Academician Jin smiled, "I like to do this kind of very challenging thing, what's more, this suggestion is made by me, who else can I be? ”

'Young man', sure enough, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers!

They haven't even figured out the power generation project yet, and now they have to build an integrated system of generators and engines, which is really unknowing!

It's just that seeing the faces of Jin Donghan and Liu Feng, the old man seemed to see that when he was young, he was so vigorous, shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "Alas, you young people! Forget it, they are all contributing to the country, and the old woman will go out and accompany you to do such a show!"

"Okay, old Qian, I will ask you for more advice in the future......"

Liu Feng also nodded with satisfaction, with these two bigwigs taking the initiative to carry the burden, his shoulders were much easier.

"Well, that's how it was decided! Academician Ma Mingwei's side, I will personally come out, as long as the integrated system of antimatter engines and generators on your side is solved, the integrated power system will naturally not be a problem. ”

"Understood!"

The two academicians also nodded.

Subsequently, Liu Feng made an integration of the next power generation project and power engineering, put forward the key points and requirements, and the three of them discussed the distribution of the plan......

With the power system and power system out of the way, it's time for the final weapons and ammunition systems.

So, Liu Feng shifted his gaze to a young professor at the end of the table and asked, "Professor Zhuo, do you have any questions over there lately?"

Seeing that Liu Feng asked him, Zhuo Hongbo felt quite flattered, and his body trembled slightly.

He is only 35 years old this year, he has just been selected as a professor, and he was only the person in charge of a small project in the antimatter weapons and ammunition engineering before, mainly responsible for the interstellar weapons that will only be used in the legendary 'spaceship', and Academician Shi and Academician He, who were in charge of the entire weapon project, are supporters of the 'intrasphere weapon', so they ......

Who would have thought that in the end, the two academicians actually resigned, and took away a large number of backbones engaged in weapons and ammunition, and finally cheapened him, a young man engaged in 'cosmic weapons', was driven by Liu Feng to the shelves, and promoted to the general person in charge of antimatter weapons and ammunition engineering!

Therefore, for Liu Feng, he even gave birth to the feeling of death for a confidant.

"No, no problem! With your research ideas, even a fool can get that thing out!"

Taking a deep breath, Zhuo Hongbo stopped the excitement in his heart, although his body was still trembling,

"Finally, we have designed the drawings recently, and we can start construction after you have seen them!"

"I still admire Professor Zhuo's ability. Liu Feng nodded with satisfaction, "After you go back, you send the drawings as soon as possible." ”

Speaking of which, compared to other sub-projects of antimatter, the weapons and ammunition project is the simplest project, especially after he has given up the use of antimatter weapons on the earth, it is even simpler!

The reason why Academician Shi Lerong and Academician He Chengbi resigned at the beginning was largely because the project was too simple or too difficult.

To put it simply, compared to the current weapons of mass destruction, directly detonating the antimatter stored in the Penning ion trap device can create an effect comparable to the explosion of a nuclear bomb;

Speaking of difficulty, it is relative to the current conventional weapons, if you want to design antimatter weapons and ammunition to the level that can replace conventional weapons, the difficulty is all in the storage of antimatter, or simply in the miniaturization of the Penning ion trap, and the difficulty inside is simply desperate!

The difficulty of antimatter weapons at the level of 'space weapons' is in between the two compared to the 'intra-sphere weapons', and most of the difficulties are not actually in the research and development of the antimatter weapons themselves, but in the design of the platform for integrating antimatter weapons, that is, the legendary spaceship!

Fortunately, his requirements have been lowered a lot now, just let Zhuo Hongbo get the weapon out, and not let them get the platform out, otherwise, these people may have to 'resign'.

Therefore, compared to other parallel projects, this project is naturally not at the same level.

Moreover, with his design plan, coupled with the fact that Zhuo Hongbo himself is a very good weapon designer, the cosmic-level antimatter weapon is simply handy.

It's just that, in order to be more convincing, he must now come up with something that can calm the scene!

"Professor Zhuo, I'll arrange a task for you here. ”

Liu Feng glanced at Zhuo Hongbo, and then at Academician Tian Xuelin, raised his eyebrows, and looked serious,

"Of course, this also requires your cooperation from Academician Tian Xuelin. ”

"Please!"

"Professor Liu, you just have to arrange. ”

Both nodded solemnly.

"If you can, within a month, I hope that the two of you will be able to set up an artillery battle at the weapon test site over there in the Western Regions!" Speaking of this, Liu Feng smiled mysteriously, "At that time, I will also invite a few heavyweight guests to the scene to observe." ”

Zhuo Hongbo was shocked, thoughtful: "Artillery battle?"

"What kind of artillery battle?" Academician Tian was also surprised.

"Positive and antimatter collisions, what kind of artillery battle do you say?"

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