Chapter 585: Stellar Resource Development Mission (8)

As the velocity of the osmium ions in the orbit increases, the collectors are slowly increasing the energy level of the electric field in the orbit to ensure that the osmium ions do not rush out of the electric field and hit the inner wall of the orbit.

Raising the energy level is done slowly and gradually, and with each step, the gatherers are cautious and cautious.

Gradually, this ring revolving around the star, there is a clear gravitational effect, but it is very weak, people stand in orbit, it feels like standing on the moon, every step is slow motion, and you can't use too much force to step on the ground, otherwise it will float into space, and it will take a while to re-fall on the surface of the ring.

If the human bear child is on the surface of the ring at this time, they may feel new because of such a low gravitational state, and they will constantly jump and play games, but this is not an interesting game, but a very dangerous behavior.

If you jump too far in one breath, the person who jumps will be captured by the gravitational pull of the red dwarf, and the final result is that you cannot fall back to the surface of the ring, but fall to the red plasma fire of the red dwarf.

The gravitational pull of the ring continues to increase, the velocity of the osmium ion beam is constantly increasing, increasing and increasing, and the self-decay rate of the osmium ion is slowing down exponentially, because time on the macroscopic level is constantly slowing down, and it is very appropriate for the osmium ion to be described as 'a thousand years in the blink of an eye'.

The gravitational pull of the ring soon surpassed the gravitational pull of the Earth and slowly moved closer to the gravitational pull of Jupiter, and the orbital ring was also reducing its size in equal proportions in the process, just like a data model built by a computer that could be scaled arbitrarily.

The reason for this effect is gravity, with the increase of gravity, the density of the ring itself increases, more simply to understand, just like a lump of cotton, constantly exert external pressure on this lump of cotton, compact it, the volume of cotton will become smaller and smaller, but the mass remains the same, the ring is almost the same situation, but these are compressed not cotton, but atoms.

When the gravitational pull of the ring is greater than the central pressure of Jupiter, the tunnel inside the ring suddenly swells with an electric current that comes from the pent-up liquid metallic hydrogen.

The atomic structure of liquid metallic hydrogen is 'proton-electron-proton', two protons share an electron, and now gravity pulls the two protons very close, and one proton squeezes out the original orbit of the electron and squeezes out, so that a degenerate crystal solid structure such as 'proton-proton' is formed, and the electrons that are extruded from the electron orbital form an extremely strong current.

However, because the proton is locked by gravitational pressure, the magnetic force formed by this current cannot help but fail to destroy the structure of the proton lattice, and in turn increase the strength of the electric field.

Eventually, a ring that is stable and slowly revolves around the star, and even the scale of the star can still maintain its own strength, and it can continuously extract matter from the star.

At this time, when the ring was just being built, it shrank by one-half, the diameter of the ring dropped from two AU to one, and the distance of the ring from the red dwarf from one AU to half an AU.

"It's done!"

"Amazing!"

"How great......"

In the early stage of gravitational formation, there is stellar material to reach the ring, but these are charged particles blown out by the stellar wind, as the gravitational force of the ring increases, and the distance is closer, more and more stellar material is considered in the direction of the ring, and in the end, except for the stellar wind at the north and south poles of the star, the other parts of the stellar wind are blowing towards the ring.

From a macroscopic point of view, the overall structure of the red dwarf star and the ring resembles a circular UFO, with a very rounded, bright cloud-like plasma in the middle, and then spreads outward, until the position of the ring is received.

Stellar matter in the form of a plasma cloud, because it is charged by itself, will be deflected to a more precise position on the ring by a strong magnetic field placed in the vertical direction of the ring, where there is a deflector, and these plasmas will be channeled into the electric field tunnel, accelerated in reverse, and cooled by solid helium.

Everything was just as the gatherers had originally planned.

"Hurry up! Cool down to keep up! ”

"Hurry up and get this batch of used helium to the cooling giant!"

"Cool down the stellar material and take it away quickly!"

After about a month, the mass of the Earth was extracted from the red dwarf, and at this mining rate, the red dwarf could be mined by collectors for 13,750 years, if the supernova explosion caused by the red dwarf's gravity can no longer constrain nuclear fusion.

And that's just a red dwarf, half the mass of the Sun, and if it's a blue dwarf, a supergiant star, this can be mined to make a much larger mass.

Many megastructures have been bred, especially cooling megastructures, because the heat of accumulation is a very fatal problem for the ring, so a large number of cooling megastructures are required, and after the helium is cooled, it is handed over to the high-pressure megastructures to compress into solid helium resources.

As long as this solid helium is obtained, it is naturally obtained from red dwarf stars, and celestial bodies such as stars, especially those with small masses, are very rich in resources of light mass substances such as hydrogen and helium.

After a period of mining, the collectors in this star system suddenly found that they had become very 'rich', and that they had mined far more material than they needed, just like a poor ghost who suddenly got tens of trillions of dollars in cash, and when he bought all the things he wanted to buy, he found that there was still a mountain of money left, giving people the illusion that he could not spend it all.

Hence the suggestion of the collector.

"Shouldn't we stop?"

Since you can't spend such a huge amount of cash in one go, you don't need to spend it all at once—that's the idea of the proposer.

The idea quickly resonated with other gatherers, who had always been frugal and only mined when necessary.

So how do you stop?

The method is simple, on the one hand, the gravitational ring is reversed, which weakens the speed of the osmium-ion beam moving in a circle in the orbit, thereby lowering the gravitational force.

However, it did not fall much, because the intensity of the macroscopic scale of the ring itself had to be considered, so the gravitational pull still existed, but it stayed at a level equivalent to the central atmosphere of Jupiter.

But there will still be stellar material attracted to the ring, but not as crazy as before.

For this reason, the collectors rely on a strong magnetic field to deflect the gravitational attracted stellar material to the vertical direction of the torus, and the stellar material deflected by the magnetic field will fall into the red dwarf again due to the gravitational pull of the red dwarf itself, forming a cycle.

Of course, the collectors will not suffer, let alone act for the sake of frugality, and the strong magnetic field energy that deflects the stellar matter comes from the light of the red dwarf, so that the collectors do not need to add additional energy to maintain it.