Chapter 460: Antimatter Advancement (I)
Hogu has colonized more than one star system. This is mainly because the success rate of the initial sub-light speed voyage is not high, and in order to make up for the low probability, Hogu and they have carried out sub-light speed calibration of multiple star systems, not because they do not want to launch a large number of organisms into the same star system, so as to increase the probability of success.
If multiple organisms are emitted to a star system at one time, this leads to the need for feedback signals from multiple destination stars, and due to many reasons such as launch position, launch time, launch angle, and shrinkage effect, it is easy to cause accidents such as confusion and overlap of redirection instructions.
This is like a reason why after the rocket is launched and takes off, the ground console issues instructions randomly, in this case, the rocket can still enter space and enter orbit smoothly, it must be a blessed star, and the astronaut on the rocket must be a great good person who practiced in the tenth life in his last life.
For these reasons, the Hogu adopted a strategy of colonizing multiple star systems, launching a sub-light colonization campaign towards all single and double star systems with planets within a radius of 25 light-years with the starting star system as the center.
There are hundreds of such star systems within 25 light years, and the collectors have completed the colonization of that star system, and built antimatter giants and star orbits in that star system, and transported the antimatter back to the starting star one after another.
The quasi-stars observed by the empire on the cosmic background are not actually bodies, they are sub-light organisms that use anti-hydrogen gas mass positive and antimatter annihilation to slow down, because positive and anti-matter annihilation will release a huge amount of gamma rays, and sub-light organisms are also very close to the starting star system, which is no different from the stars in the cosmic background in Serenrao's observation.
However, such 'artificial stars' will not last long, and after a period of time, the decelerated antimatter will be depleted, the speed of sub-light organisms will also slow down, and the inexplicable extra 'luminous objects' in the background will disappear.
The end result of this vision was that the Empire was scared enough. Compared to the suspicious ghosts on the Empire's side, Huogu's side is worried about other things.
One after another, sub-light-speed organisms have successfully crossed the distance of a few light-years to more than ten light-years back into this star system, and those over 20 light-years are still rushing back one after another.
The antimatter resources of the Hogu have slowly accumulated from a few hundred tons at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of tons today.
That's a good thing! What is a mere Seren? So much antimatter can be thrown directly into the star to form a black hole, artificially triggering a supernova explosion!
But there is also a question in front of Hogu - how to use these antimatter resources?
Antimatter is too dangerous, as soon as it comes into contact with positive matter, it will immediately annihilate and release extremely high energy, but because of this, it is not easy to use, the key is that the strong penetration of gamma rays is too strong for the organism, or the organism is too fragile, under high-energy radiation, even if the cell will not die, the internal genes are easily destroyed under the impact of the radiation particle stream.
The good thing is that there are some strange mutations, such as an extra leg, an extra head, etc., and a bad one means that the genes are no longer working.
If it is on the side of the empire, it is easy to solve it with simple dead tools, but on the side of Huogu, they are organic organisms, flesh and blood, which has a great impact on them.
If the need cannot be satisfied, they will have to find ways to change itβto make the most of the 'wealth' that the collectors of other star systems have transported back across the light-year scale, they will have to adjust and redesign the organism around antimatter.
"Let me think about it...... first" Hogu thought about the types of creatures he designed, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to prioritize designing aggressive organisms.
"Then let's start making some changes to the mothership organisms first." Thinking about it, Hogu gave orders to all the people who were engaged in mental activity in the communication.
[I'm joining too!] I'm joining too! I'm going to join in such an interesting thing! γ
"Okay, Twilight, you join in." Brainstorming, Twilight's addition is a great help to Huo Gu, and Huo Gu naturally has no reason to refuse.
In a criss-crossing network of minds, a simulated mass of antimatter stands in it, followed by a lying Penning ion trap container.
"The problem of energy can be solved slowly, and we are now thinking about how to apply antimatter to propulsion, and give priority to solving the problem of speed." Huo Gu demanded this from Twilight and the gatherers, and it naturally had its reasons for making such a request, whether it was attacking, defending, or escaping, the side with the speed advantage always had the upper initiative.
The most important thing is to escape, antimatter gives Hogu a basic condition that they can reach sub-light speed without the help of star tracks, maybe escape seems to be very cowardly, but in the face of the survival of a civilization, it is insignificant whether the nest is not, as long as you can survive, anything is possible, there is still a chance, and it is a hundred to die.
Twilight and the Gatherers agreed, and began experimenting with 'adding' some external parts to the antimatter in order to apply the antimatter inside the container.
Initially, the gatherers conceived of the container being opened on one side, and that there was a vent inside the container, which would eject a trace amount of antihydrogen gas mass that would release energy from the notched side of the container after triggering the annihilation of positive and antimatter to create a powerful thrust.
"No, it won't work." After observing this design, Hogu said that such antimatter propulsion is not ideal, the reason is very simple, after one side of the container is missing, the original closed and uniform electric field structure is broken, it is good not to move, once the organism moves at high speed in the universe, it is difficult for strong magnetic force to block the anti-hydrogen gas mass, the main reason is that the acceleration is too high, the inertial pressure is too strong, and the anti-hydrogen gas mass will be forcibly squeezed out of the opening, resulting in the loss of a large number of anti-hydrogen gas masses.
It is also not possible to re-seal the gap, so that the energy of the annihilation of the positive and antimatter will not exert a thrust on the organisms in the universe, because the energy is transferred to the lid that seals the gap.
Because of this, the gap must exist in order to be able to release the energy. So the question is, how exactly should it be designed to solve such a problem?
[Actually, this problem can be solved like this.] Twilight revealed his idea, but it was not a completely new design structure, but a modification of the original design of the gatherers.