Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Fourth State of Matter

A solar photosphere that can persist steadily for a long time.

In a sense, the development of "Helios" is less difficult than the current international ITER program, more akin to a tricky approach, but more far-reaching and significant, especially for a legendary life and soul shaper like Li Jie.

Slowly floating to the center of the retreat room, Li Jie gradually reined in all distracting thoughts, and his body and mind fell into silence.

At this time, it was too late to think too much, and Steve, who was outside the retreat room, had already received the message transmitted by Li Jie with his consciousness, and began to heat more than 80 composite elements such as hydrogen and helium in the annular fusion chamber above Li Jie's head through the peripheral auxiliary heating and neutral beam injection system.

Even with Li Jie's physical strength and eyesight, he didn't dare to touch or look at the light above his head, and the endless light and heat brightness was beyond imagination, which could instantly burn his eyeballs and make him fall into a state of blindness.

But Li Jie doesn't need to look at it, the powerful perception has clearly reflected everything that happens above his head to the depths of his consciousness, and nothing is missed under his full attention!

The continuous exothermic heat of up to 10 million degrees stimulated the complex elemental body to be like a real sun that had shrunk by 10 million times, constantly rising in temperature, and unimaginable wonderful changes were constantly taking place in the annular fusion chamber above his head, and continued to erupt!

Immediately afterwards, countless streams of extremely hot particles gushed out, which were more intense colors than bright red and orange red, and it was difficult to define the brightness of these particles by any color atlas classification in human civilization. These escaping streams of particles are like hot bubbles churning on the surface of boiling rice porridge, constantly generating, bursting, and gushing out, but not upward. Instead, it sprayed in the direction of Li Jie below. It's just that we haven't had time to get there. They were bound and pulled by some invisible force, causing them to drift in the direction of the four walls, and began to rotate at high speed around the interior of the entire ashram.

These streams of particles, which have no fixed shape and volume, are incomparably similar to ordinary gases in perception, but the terrifying thermal radiation and conduction and electromagnetic power are constantly reminding Li Jie that it is the fourth form of matter in addition to solid, liquid, and gaseous states - plasma!

As the temperature rises, the state of existence of matter generally presents a transformation process in three forms: solid-liquid-gaseous. These three basic forms, together known as the three states of matter, are the most common states in human daily life. Just as normal ice will turn into water when it warms up to 0°C, if it continues to rise to 100°C, then the water will boil and become water vapor.

However, as the temperature climbs to several thousand degrees Celsius or even higher, the thermal motion inside the matter will be further intensified as the particles collide strongly with each other, and the electrons in a large number of atoms or molecules will be knocked out, and the negatively charged electrons that would otherwise be moving around the positive electron nucleus can be freed from their bindings and become free electrons (this process is called ionization). Enter the fourth form of matter, the plasma state.

The biggest difference between plasma and the other three object forms. It lies in the highly excited unstable state.

In the first three forms of matter, the relationship between electrons and nuclei is relatively fixed. The inside of the plasma, due to the violent motion of charged particles, will produce a more powerful electromagnetic field, which will then affect the further intensified motion of other charged particles, producing high kinetic energy far beyond the ordinary form of matter, as well as extremely strong thermal radiation and heat conduction.

This is also the essence of the sun – an ideal sphere of giant hot plasma intertwined with magnetic fields!

These high-electromagnetic, high-radiation, and high-heat plasma spewed red flames that were more brilliant than any brilliance, carrying a high temperature of more than 10,000 degrees, even if it was just passing Li Jie, who was also indoors, it immediately caused the hair on his body surface to instantly melt and vaporize, and even his skin became scorched black and couldn't withstand the high temperature, producing a terrible feeling that the whole person was going to be completely destroyed.

Li Jie's keen and powerful perception immediately began to warn frantically, indicating that those high-temperature and other detached bodies surging around him definitely had the destructive power to harm his body and even his soul origin!

His eyes instantly turned into pitch black thicker than the night, a pair of golden vertical pupils flashed and flipped from the bottom of his eyes, and the terrifying aura burst out in an instant with endless entropy energy, and the brilliance formed by the convergence of thousands of colors erupted from his body, just like the galaxy flowing in the depths of the universe, gorgeous and vigorous.

This high-speed galaxy spiral expanded in a blink of an eye, encompassing Li Jie's entire body, but it was violently compressed to the limit in a thousandth of a second, and then broke out again!

From the extremely condensed little bit of brilliant starlight, a tall and glorious figure suddenly rose, although it was hazy, as if it was blocked by a dense veil mist, and it was impossible to distinguish the appearance and form, but it still could not hide the terrifying majesty, and every move could shake the void, stirring up circles of dazzling ripples, and even those manic jets of crimson high-temperature plasma were forcibly squeezed away and passed around the body.

At this time, Steve, Gilbert and others, who were outside the thick isolation layer, were unable to observe or judge the specific situation in the ring fusion chamber, but they had an indescribable strange feeling almost at the same time.

It's like being in a fresh summer day after the rain, the rainbow is across the sky, the grass and trees are verdant, and the mind is happy, but in an instant, the sky changes greatly, the whole world is shrouded in boundless clouds, everything in front of you becomes dull and gloomy, and there is no light, and the invisible pressure fills the body, even the breathing and movements become heavy and slow, and the mind is gradually disturbed and confused.

"Ahh What's wrong! I can't see! ”

The eyes of some researchers really became pitch black!

"Don't panic! Those are all illusions! Focus! ”

The first to react was Steve, who had been carefully admonished in advance, and while he was secretly shocked by the terrible sensory disturbance that Li Jie said, he kept moving around, reminding the researchers to help them wake up as soon as possible and not be affected by the illusions in their minds.

The perception that is stronger and more acute than that of ordinary people also makes these researchers more susceptible to the influence of Li Jie's soul origin fluctuations, especially when he is fighting against the high-temperature plasma with all his might, he has no time to take care of too much, and the occasional soul fluctuations that escape are even more unrestrained.

Fortunately, Steve was in charge to remind them, and after a brief period of panic, the researchers finally got used to it and didn't make too many mistakes.

The infrared high-temperature detector, which integrates photoelectric imaging, computer computing and image processing, immediately began to read the temperature inside the ashram, and the values on the main temperature display had already climbed to a peak of 6,000 degrees Celsius in the blink of an eye.

This is the characteristic temperature of radiant electromagnetic waves escaping from the retreat room!

And the occasional capture of high-temperature plasma infrared radiation, which casually breaks through the five-digit peak, is even more shocking. Even if he knew that this was Li Jie's own request, Gilbert also pinched a cold sweat, and it was hard to imagine that someone could survive in such an environment.

"Push the limit! Auto-adjustment starts and reduces heating power! ”

The nervous staff immediately reported the situation loudly, and could see that as the heating of the composite elements slowed down, the value on the main temperature display gradually slowed down, and then began to fall back, and seeing that things were back on track, Steve, who also had a serious expression, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the pre-planned plan, when the average characteristic temperature of the radiated electromagnetic waves emitted by the plasma in the retreat exceeds 6,000 degrees Celsius, the set program will automatically calibrate to slow down the power output until it falls below the set lower limit, ensuring that the whole remains within the range of 4,500 degrees Celsius to 6,000 degrees Celsius, which is basically the same as the environment in the solar photosphere.

However, although the people outside relaxed and operated in an orderly manner, Li Jie, who was in the retreat room, was not comfortable at this time.

These plasmas generated by the transformation of composite elements are perceived in the perception of countless kinds of electromagnetic wave radiation mixed colors, but they generally maintain a vivid and dazzling red color to the naked eye.

The astonishing heat of more than 10,000 degrees Celsius of these crimson flames makes it possible to restrain and prevent any container of materials known to mankind from flying away, after all, the highest melting point of man-made alloys is only four or five thousand degrees. Then, it is necessary to ensure that these terrible streams of high-temperature particles do not break through the annular fusion chamber and explode.

And the approach taken by "Helios" is very similar to that of most thermonuclear experimental reactors. The superconducting toroidal field coils in the walls of the ashram are soaked in liquid helium enough to keep themselves at extremely low temperatures to ensure that they do not burn out due to the heat of the huge currents passing through them, and at the same time to create a powerful magnetic field with closed magnetic field lines from these high-voltage currents.

The high electrical conductivity of plasma ionization makes these incredibly destructive streams of charged particles more susceptible to electromagnetic fields, which can only constrain their actions.

At this time, the retreat room relies on the superconducting toroidal field coils on the four walls to form a "magnetic cage" tokamak in the usual sense, which is enough to restrain the ultra-high temperature plasma generated during the heating process to obediently move within the specified range of the ashram.

At this moment, Li Jie is in this large "magnetic cage" - movement.

Imagine a scene in a completely enclosed vacuum room, where countless plasmas with a temperature of more than 10,000 degrees Celsius move violently at ultra-high speeds under the action of a closed magnetic field, radiating the internal room temperature to thousands of degrees, while the temperature of the annular wall is only a few Kelvin (minus 260 to 270 degrees Celsius...... (To be continued......)