Antimatter Pulse Energy Engine!

Looking at the content on the whiteboard, most of the people in the conference room showed a look of surprise, and a few people who had already known about it also looked serious.

After all, things linked to antimatter must be very cutting-edge technology without thinking about it, not to mention that those guys before were still mysterious, lest they leak some secrets.

At this point, the puzzle is finally revealed.

Staring at the content on the whiteboard with a surprised face, Chen Xuedong's heart was a little puzzled.

As we all know (limited to high-level people inside antimatter), the entire antimatter project is probably divided into three parts, and antimatter engine engineering is one of them, Jin Donghan has been engaged in this research before, why are they doing this thing with great fanfare this time again?

Is there any difference?

"It's ......"

"That's right, it's an antimatter engine, but unlike the one we've been working on, it's a new type of engine that absorbs the energy of the antimatter annihilation pulse and the energy released by nuclear fission. ”

Looking at the surprised expressions of many people on the field, Liu Feng smiled and explained with a pleasant face,

"As for the control technology of antimatter annihilation, we have done sufficient verification on the Shanhaiguan demonstration reactor before, and the technology is very mature, and I think everyone has no problem with this. If necessary, you can consult the relevant papers on your own, and I will not go into them here. ”

"As for the working principle of this engine, I believe you have read a paper published by Professor Xu Zhixiong not long ago. That's right, it's the same as the principle of using an atomic bomb explosion to propel a spacecraft mentioned by Professor Xu, except that the energy of the explosion is replaced by antimatter annihilation, and at most a nuclear material is added to it, which can increase part of the thrust by absorbing a small part of the antimatter annihilation energy to produce nuclear fission...... Of course, if you haven't read Professor Xu's paper, don't worry, the specific principles and technical routes, and then I will send more detailed information to your mailbox. ”

"The topic of our meeting today is mainly to discuss the specific applications of this engine, and then assign their respective research tasks according to these specific applications. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Xuedong under the rostrum immediately raised his hand: "I have a question." ”

Liu Feng nodded and gestured, "Please speak." ”

Staring at the whiteboard carefully, Chen Xuedong's brows furrowed deeper, and he asked in a puzzled tone: "I heard that Academician Jin has been working on an antimatter engine before, although I don't know what principle is used, but what I want to know is that this new engine is different from the previous one? Is there an inevitable connection between the two?"

That's a good question. ”

Liu Feng replied with a smile, turned around and wrote a few lines of Chinese characters on the whiteboard, then looked at several experts from the field of hypersonic vehicles and aviation, nodded, and continued.

"If I had to explain these two engines, I would only say that they work in completely different ways and in different ranges. ”

"I'm sure everyone has seen that this time the meeting is not only our antimatter engineering people, but also experts from aviation, aerospace, and even shipbuilding. ”

"The original intention of our intention to develop this engine was actually to be used in aerospace engineering at the beginning, and the latter was used as a supplement to the former; however, according to the final route demonstration, we found that the scope of application of this engine is quite wide, not only in aerospace engineering, but also in other aviation, and even on ships, which is a general type of engine!"

Therefore, the top management also gathered people from other departments, intending to integrate the human and material resources of various units to work together for public relations. So, Academician Huang, don't blame me, really, it's all a decision made by the top!"

Speaking of this, Liu Feng embarrassedly and looked at the group of people who came uninvited.

Blocking people's money is like killing parents, the engine research and development of hypersonic vehicles and a new generation of main fighters, although the original technical route has not been completely stopped, but this time it has also been cut off a piece of flesh, how can people not complain?

It's just that this is really not his pot!

"Hahaha!"

As soon as Liu Feng finished speaking, the atmosphere in the venue instantly became a little cheerful.

Academician Huang Jinghui and others, who were named by Liu Feng, glanced at each other, helpless for a while.

They were able to come here, obviously having accepted such a result, and now, naturally they will no longer care about these things, but are more interested in this kind of engine with a science fiction meaning.

Super thrust, ultra-long range, almost no fuel except antimatter, once it can be done, then the traditional jet engine can really be thrown into the garbage heap of history.

"Professor Liu, facts speak louder than words, you don't need to explain, we all know that this must be your idea," Academician Huang Jinghui stood up, rubbed his palms, and said jokingly, "If you can't come up with enough technical achievements to convince us in the end, you can see the consequences." ”

Liu Feng smiled and continued: "Well, if I can't convince you at that time, I will give you a free job for three years!"

"That's a good dare, everyone heard it, let's be a witness together!"

"Yes, I testify!"

"Academician Huang, we heard it too!"

……

A group of guys who don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement instantly coaxed.

Liu Feng spread his hands and made a helpless gesture: "How do I feel like I've sold myself!"

"Hahaha!"

There was laughter.

The mustard in the hearts of many people has disappeared.

However, Liu Feng also knew in his heart that this was just the beginning, and if he wanted to really convince these people, he had to come up with results.

He doesn't force it now.

Because facts speak louder than words, his confidence has always come from his results, not from his mouth.

Looking up at the clock hanging on the wall, he was in the right color, and his heart was not bad, so he tapped the whiteboard with his pen and continued to preach:

"Alright, let's get down to business. ”

"Move on to the next agenda. ”

"The whole engine project, I split it into nine sub-projects, covering all components from materials to Hall thruster groups, including 6 general projects and 3 application sub-projects, which are mainly studied by our 5 scientific research institutions, and the specific arrangements are as follows......"

With a successful case of managing antimatter engineering, Liu Feng is comfortable with the arrangement of this project.

However, there are still differences in the discussion on the application of nuclear materials.

Listening to Professor Liu's idea of coating a layer of uranium-235 on the propulsion plate, and then relying on part of the energy generated during the annihilation of positive and antimatter to produce nuclear fission, Academician Huang Jinghui frowned and said puzzled:

"Professor Liu, are you sure you want to use uranium-235? Let's not talk about how much energy they can produce, and don't discuss whether this thing is easy to control, at least, if this thing is used in an aircraft engine, the radiation produced is easy to be detected by the monitoring equipment of other countries, and the reliability and safety are not as good as without this thing!"

At the same time, he is not the only one who has different opinions, and Professor Long Wenxing of the Beijing Institute of Hypersonic Vehicles also agrees with Academician Huang's statement:

"I also don't think it's necessary to add such a coating to the engine. Spacecraft is not enough, while ensuring safety, the main consideration is economic savings, but in the aircraft, if we add this layer of uranium-235 coating, it will inevitably bring greater challenges to the protection of other parts, and reliability is difficult to guarantee; moreover, 80% of the thrust of this engine mainly comes from the energy pulse generated by antimatter annihilation, however, only these thrust are used in spacecraft has been more than rubbed. ”

The index finger tapped lightly on the table, and Liu Feng thought for a long time.

To be honest, he really didn't think about it, or he didn't think it through.

After all, there is still a difference between astronautics and aviation.

After all, flying in space, there is no energy and supplies, every trace of materials is quite precious, and a little more energy supply can give you a better chance of survival, so this design route is very necessary.

However, within the earth, more consideration is given to the explosive power, agility and hidden performance of the aircraft, and the requirements for the engine are simple and rough and stable, and as for economy, there is no such great pursuit.

Well, that's a question of applicability.

If the U235 coating and Hall thrusters are installed, then the engine system has a whole new set of additional parts, which reduces the reliability of the engine in every way, and if you sacrifice the reliability of the engine for the 20% less thrust, it is a bit of a contradiction.

The silence lasted for about five minutes, and Liu Feng had an idea in his heart and spoke.

"Well, specific things should be considered specifically, so let's divide it into two options. ”

Huang Jinghui: "Two plans?"

Liu Feng nodded: "In fact, we regard our antimatter pulse energy as a general solution, and in different application directions, if necessary, we will consider whether to coat nuclear materials as energy-absorbing materials." In addition to aviation, hypersonic weapons or other ship engines, if there are also such needs, we can also list them separately. ”

Academician Huang thought about it and nodded in agreement: "I think this plan is okay." ”

Professor Long Wenxing also nodded in agreement.

After glancing at the other people, and seeing that there were no more opinions to put forward, Liu Feng made a decision: "Okay, the type of aero engine has been decided, do you have any comments or additions in other aspects?"

I have to say that this kind of antimatter engine can really be used as a general-purpose engine, in addition to a Pengning ion trap, there is only a "combustion chamber" under strong magnetic field conditions, and finally there is an energy-absorbing propulsion plate, three major pieces, easily complete the extremely complex engineering structure of other engines, how much thrust is needed, and control the magnetic field strength of the Penning ion trap to output antimatter.

This is like the contrast between traditional gasoline vehicles and new energy electric vehicles, whether in terms of structure or operating conditions, electric vehicles are far stronger than gasoline vehicles, there is no complex gearbox, there is no huge mailbox, water tank structure, and there are no various miscellaneous engine parts...... As long as the "battery" that stores energy is strong enough, electric vehicles can be a perfect alternative to gasoline vehicles.

And the "battery" of the antimatter engine, is it powerful enough?

The answer, of course, is unquestionable.

It only takes a few tens of grams of antimatter to make the spaceship go to the end of the world.

The most important thing is how big the engine is needed, which can be directly scaled up or down on this basis, compared with the difficulty of other aspects, it is the most difficult to reduce the Penning ion trap to a certain proportion.

Next, others also put forward some suggestions in other aspects, and Liu Feng also included or refuted them one by one.

The meeting went straight to 11 p.m.

It wasn't until the end that Liu Feng arranged all their respective work.

Academician Jin Donghan is still fully responsible for the research and development of antimatter high-energy particle propulsion engine, and the head of the new engine, Liu Feng, handed over to Academician Chen Xuedong, who is mainly responsible for the research and development of general-purpose engines.

As for Liu Feng himself, he still plays the role of a firefighter, and where there are difficulties, he will appear there.

……

After the meeting, Liu Feng originally planned to go back to the dormitory to rest, but when he thought of the "instructions" of the Great Elder handed over by Zhang Qin before, he returned to his office.

Although I don't know if the Great Elder is joking or really has such intentions, as Chief Engineer Liu of the war situation, he also has this obligation and continues to use his skills to do big things.

As for the discipline of scientists, what we write, what we publish, and what R&D ideas we make public, which one can't resist scrutiny?

For example, if you apply the "Theory of Mutual Conversion of Strong Electromagnetic Fields of High-Energy Particles to the Magnetic Confinement of Controlled Nuclear Fusion", can't we apply it to the magnetic confinement of antimatter?

For example, there is also a super collider, which you use to study dark matter and supersymmetric particles, so we can't use it to produce antimatter?

There are many others, so we won't give examples of them one by one.

In short, technology is a real dry thing, and you yourself are going the wrong way with these things, blame me?

According to the suggestion of the old brother Zhang who was full of bad water, this time the antimatter pulse energy engine, which can also be called the pulse energy engine, can completely write the research and development concept into a few papers and make it public!

Well, it's all propelled by pulsed energy, is there anything wrong?

No problem!

As for the old irons, believe it or not, love it or not!

Anyway, when we make all the prototypes, don't cry and regret not being in the first place.

Therefore, Liu Feng took out the manuscript left over from the design of the engine some time ago, carefully considered it for a long time, and deleted all traces of antimatter, and several papers on "pulse energy", "application of nuclear material coating", "energy absorption of Hall thrusters" and "new engine design concept" were written one after another; at the end of the paper, this guy also vaguely revealed the consideration of preparing to try the atomic bomb explosion as pulse energy.

Well, just thinking about it, don't believe it when you see us doing this kind of experiment!

After reading the deleted paper from beginning to end, Liu Feng, who had been staring at the PDF file on the screen, always felt that there was something that was not perfect, and after thinking for a few minutes, he finally patted his head and spent a while translating Chinese into Y.

After all, Lao Tie is not a native of China, if something happens during the translation, and he can't understand the deep meaning of Professor Liu, wouldn't it be a pity?

Well, our Liu Feng is such a scientific master who is helpful, loves to share good things, and always believes in technology without borders!

Come and praise me!