The burning pain, starting at the base of the lower abdomen, quickly spread throughout the abdominal cavity, and then throughout the entire ribcage.

The whole body seemed to be burning, and there was a sharp stabbing pain inside the body, as if there were countless iron hooks hooking the internal organs, and the pain was unbearable.

Richard clenched his fists, tried to support them, and exhaled a long breath of turbid air after dozens of seconds.

"Whew-"

Feeling that the burning sensation had subsided a lot, and the pain had eased somewhat, Richard's face softened a little. However, due to the erosion of the void energy, there is still a strong discomfort in the entire body, waiting for the next outbreak.

The same outbreak, in the last few days, has been repeated several times, each time it has worsened.

Richard knew very well that if he didn't find a way to solve it, it would be a hard time to go back and collect data after the nuclear explosion in the first place, and pay such a big price, it was a real mistake.

However, his face showed little concern, as if he had already thought of a solution, and he took out several pieces of papyrus, a quill and a bottle of ink and placed them on the table.

Reaching out and rubbing his cheeks to lift his spirits a little, he held a quill pen in his hand and dipped it in ink on papyrus and calculated.

The calculation is simple, and that is the data collected at Pompeii.

The same calculations, which he had already done many times in the past few days, were now making one last confirmation.

"Rustling ......"

The tip of the ink-soaked pen moves quickly across the papyrus, outlining numbers and symbols, and it takes a short time to calculate the final result.

"Smack!"

Put pen down.

Richard got up, glanced at the number that was unchanged from the previous calculation, raised his eyebrows, and muttered, "Sure enough, all the evidence proves that the value is indeed exceeded......"

Yes, exceeded.

Exceeding, simply two words, is the final conclusion that he has worked hard to develop nuclear weapons in the past year, and after detonating them, he has paid a heavy price to return to collect information.

It's just that the words are simple, but the meaning they represent is not simple.

It can even be said that it is very significant, and it has breakthrough significance for the theory he has been constructing.

Exceeding, what exactly is exceeding?

To explain all this, we must start with the detonation of the atomic bomb at Pompeii.

At Pompey, he detonated all three atomic bombs he had made, the first of which had a design yield of 150,000 tons, the second 150,000 tons, and the third 450,000 tons.

150,000 tons, plus 150,000 tons, and 450,000 tons, that's 750,000 tons.

So, what is the yield of the final release of the three atomic bombs?

According to the data he collected, excluding the influence of volcanic eruptions and many other irrelevant factors, and brought into the mathematical model, the final result was a total of 720,000 tons of equivalent.

The design equivalent is 750,000 tons and the release equivalent is 720,000 tons. In other words, the atomic bomb is almost 100% powerful, which is very close to the design value, and the performance of the atomic bomb is very good.

There doesn't seem to be a problem with that.

But actually, there's a huge problem with that! One thing that has to be understood is that the design equivalent and the actual release equivalent are two completely different concepts.

No matter how perfect the design is, no matter how correct the theory is, there are always such and such problems in practical application. Therefore, the actual release equivalent should be much smaller than the maximum theoretical equivalent in the design process.

Just like the first atomic bomb used in actual combat on earth, because of the poor gun design, the actual yield released was only less than 2% of the design yield, and a large amount of nuclear charge was wasted. The second atomic bomb used in actual combat, although it adopted a more advanced implosion design, the utilization rate was only about 20%.

The atomic bomb he created has deliberately corrected many mistakes that his predecessors had stepped on, adding neutron reflective materials, which can greatly improve the utilization rate of nuclear charges, but it is far from 100%.

According to his estimates, the overall utilization rate can exceed 50% to be qualified, 65% is extremely good, and there is a small chance to reach more than 70%.

In comparison, the utilization rate of nuclear weapons on the earth is about 80% after adopting an improved design, which is already the result of the full efforts of modern industry - although he has the advantage of using the space iron ring as a processing tool, and has many spells to assist, but after all, the strength is weak, and the time is too hasty, and it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of shoddy production, and it is already very good to reach a similar level.

But the real situation gave him a big surprise, and many sets of data told him that the nuclear weapons he made were better than he imagined, and the utilization rate could reach close to 100%.

And this is the result of his extremely strict consideration of influencing factors - basically there are factors that can be deducted from the equivalent value, and he deducts them according to the highest limit.

In this way, a terrible utilization rate of 96% can be achieved, and if the conditions are relaxed slightly, the utilization rate can even exceed 100% by a large margin.

This does not take into account the generation of the electromagnetic pulse of the spell, the energy conversion required.

What is this situation all down?

This is equivalent to the fact that after the car carrying five people stopped, a row of more than 30 people came down, and the minors were not counted.

This...... It's overloaded!

Seriously overloaded!

You know, not every car is a van.

Moreover, in the world of science, there are no vans at all - there must be as many people as there should be, one cannot be less, and one cannot be more.

What the hell is going on?

Why do nuclear weapons release energy extraordinarily?

From a certain point of view, this is naturally a good thing, the more the merrier.

On the other hand, it is extremely important to find the cause of the extraordinary release of energy.

It's very important for what he's been researching and trying to confirm.

In Richard's view, according to logic, if there is excess energy, then there must be a source of excess energy.

The energy E of a normal nuclear weapon is converted from the lost mass m in strict accordance with the mass-energy equation E=mc2. Now that E is abnormally high, the most plausible explanation is that the lost mass m has also increased.

On the other hand, there is a slight difference between uranium-235, the nuclear material used to make nuclear weapons in the world, and uranium-235, the nuclear material on earth. What is the difference? The current uranium-235 in the world has some more "mass that should not have existed" than uranium-235 on the earth.

Bring in the example just now, that is, the same car with a load of 5 people, the one on the earth is normal, but the current one in the world has secretly added a compartment - so that it can naturally bring more people, not to mention being able to bring a platoon of people, if the carriage is long enough, it is okay to bring one and even hundreds of people.

After all, if there are more unknowns, there are all possibilities.

These are not conjectures, they are not unfounded speculations, and according to the data collected from various aspects after the atomic explosion at great cost, Richard determined that there was a high probability, and this is the only explanation for all the facts.

To put it simply, the atoms, the basic material of the current world, have a little more than the earth. It is this extra thing that has led to the extraordinary release of more power from nuclear weapons, which has led to many differences between the world and the earth today.

He was going to call this thing a ...... in a concise and understandable way Transcendent Factor.

Yes, the transcendent factor.

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