Chapter 432: Antimatter Engineering (Part II)

This is a positron, and it is about to embark on a journey that has been followed by a child. It was born from the fusion of four protons into helium, and together with three of its other siblings, it traveled 57.9 million kilometers from the star and into a massive structure.

Then they were greeted by a pile of chloride ions, which greedily captured the metal ions and hydrogen ions that accompanied it, and brushed down a large number of travelers in one go.

In addition to some positrons, the surviving peers are electron neutrinos born with their own compatriots, and some photons with gamma ray frequencies.

Then it was captured by an electric field, which let go of gamma photons and electron neutrinos, and continued to reduce the speed of the positron, because of the constraints of the strong electric field, the positron could not be sideways deflected, and it could only be reluctantly reduced by 15% of the speed to continue to move forward.

Here, it is guided by an electric field into the side of the tunnel and enters a circulation, where it continues to move in a circular motion under the influence of the electric field.

Here, the positrons met new companions, called antiprotons, and they started their journey from another place, and the two sides talked happily, so they planned to go together and proofread, and after an unknown number of circles, they came out of the tunnel, and were deflected back into the vertical corridor by the electric field, and went on a journey that did not know where it ended.

Eventually, they stopped in one place, which was surrounded by electric fields on all six sides, stable all year round, and a very suitable and beautiful place to live, so they intended to settle here for good.

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"Is this a giant construct that specializes in the production of antimatter......

"How's the yield?" As the most qualified collector of the star system, it is also the most skilled individual in the use of knowledge, so after the antimatter giant is up and running, it must come and inspect it for himself to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

In the first line of sight, this antimatter giant is composed of two parts, and if the direction of the star is regarded as the ground, then they are connected to each other one after another, and they rotate slowly and synchronously, with the axis of rotation pointing towards the star.

When I heard the first inquiry, the giant structure replied.

"At the current production rate, about ten kilograms of antimatter can be collected per year."

"So little?" The form of the giant structure was several times larger than that of the mothership creatures, but such a body size only produced ten kilograms of antimatter per year.

In fact, there are already a lot, you must know that the production of antimatter is calculated according to atoms, and the output of antimatter megastructures can be regarded as explosions, and the people of Seline have worked hard for thousands of years, but they have only accumulated ten tons of antimatter, and the output of a giant structure can already match them.

Don't forget that the Serens are a whole civilization, and the megastructure is just a more resource-intensive mass-production unit, and the gatherers can build more of these antimatter megastructures to produce antimatter.

At first, he attaches his space organism to the megastructure, and then detachs himself from the space organism as a gatherer and lands on the megastructure.

The giant structure is very large, too big, and the flesh membrane that the first foot stepped on is like an endless wasteland, and as far as the eye can see, the end of the field of vision is the horizon built up by the flesh membrane.

If you look up, you will see a behemoth that is so high that you can't see the apex, and this is the giant organism. With such a huge scale, the strength of the giant structure has dropped by a notch, and the larger the object, the better, because too large a scale will cause excessive internal stress in the object, which in turn will lead to a decrease in strength.

However, if you don't consider the damage tolerance, the current size of the giant structure can only be considered to be on the large side, not to the extent that it falls apart.

"I'm going to see how antimatter is collected." After explaining the matter to the giant structure, he began to climb on the giant structure at the beginning, climbing to the top of the gambling part, because the collected antimatter was basically gathered in that place.

Arriving at the top, a container was taken down by the original heart, this container is presented as a silver-gray metal, cylindrical, and the top and bottom are inlaid with a metal hydrogen battery as an energy source, about the same size as a gas canister, but if something happens to this container, the energy released is far from being comparable to a gas canister.

This vessel has a technical term on Earth for the 'Penning Ion Trap', which is a device that can store charged particles, using a uniform axial magnetic field and an inhomogeneous quadrupole electric field to bind the ions.

The collectors didn't know about this kind of thing, after all, they didn't have much intersection with humans, and the Serens would not generously tell them about this technology, it was completely something they used the knowledge they had learned to think of on their own, since they belonged to the same starry sky, the basic laws of the universe were the same, and it was not surprising that different species thought of the same thing.

When the container was removed, the connection of the container was revealed, an opening, which was exactly the size of the container, but it was now closed, and the structure temporarily stopped producing antimatter to avoid initial injury.

Hatsu cut off one of his own fangs, levitated directly above the opening of the giant structure, and gestured.

"You can get started." After receiving the information from Hatsu, the giant structure once again operated to produce anti-hydrogen atoms, and many anti-hydrogen atoms ejected out of the opening, hitting the severed limb, and the dazzling ray stream filled Hatsu's eyes for a while, making its vision white and expansive, and the retina was directly burned.

Since it is in space and the mass of the annihilation reaction is very small, there is no violent explosion, only a silent gamma-ray burst.

"Chu, you're okay, right?"

"No problem." The megastructure stopped the production of antimatter and closed the opening, initially cocooning in situ to repair the damaged parts.

After the restoration, the Penning ion trap containing the antimatter was re-installed on the opening, and the action was more attentive than before.

I have already experienced the power of antimatter for the first time, so I am naturally more in awe of this kind of thing.

"There must be such a thing and a lot of them, so that the race can be more prosperous, and these resources will definitely be the pillar resources of the race in the future."

"But the yield is too much to ...... "Ten kilograms a year is too little, and at first glance it seems that it shifts its gaze to the stars, looking out at the ocean of light and plasma."

"Now that this is the best design, let's build more megastructures to make antimatter."

"Build a giant structure of more than 100,000 seats, and make ten tons and eight tons of antimatter in one go, anyway, the raw materials are not very scarce, but it is more troublesome to generate proton streams."