As time goes on, terrifying things are happening inside the star system.

The behemoths of the planets, the shrinking moons in a circle have basically been dismantled and there is no core left, and the number of small spots arranged near the orbits of the stars is increasing exponentially, unlike the collectors who are limited by human hands like the Serenes, who unscrupulously lay antimatter giants to make antihydrogen atoms.

At this time, the number of giant structures has reached 100 million!

What is this concept, a tower that can produce ten kilograms of antihydrogen atoms per year, and 100 million antimatter that can be produced is one million tons per year!

"It's still too small, and it would be nice if it could be as envisaged in the plan."

When I first looked at the direction of the stars, I sighed.

Originally, it was thought that the antimatter megastructure would be able to approximate the obscuration of the star's light, and according to the planned ideal state, the antimatter megastructure would form a nebula around the star.

"It's not our problem, the planetary resources in this star system can't support us to breed such a number of antimatter megastructures."

Collectors are accustomed to sharing their thoughts, and the initial radio communication is shared by other collectors.

"In addition, the meteorite group in the outermost circle is not enough, at least it is barely enough to dismantle dozens of terrestrial planets of the huge size of gas giants, this star is too big."

"If we can shrink the size of the antimatter giant, the number can be increased even more."

"This is meaningless, everyone knows that the size of the antimatter giant is to be able to produce antimatter to the greatest extent, and reducing the size means that the amount of production will decrease, and in the end, even if it forms a cloud and obscures the light of the star, the production capacity will not go up much, and the cart before the horse is reversed!"

The gatherers argued, although the planet has not been dismantled, but knowing the amount of resources, they can roughly judge how many giants can be built by all resources, and according to the number of these calculations combined with the current number of megastructures, it is natural to know whether the final antimatter giants can reach the level of obscuring the light of the stars.

"Stars make up 90 or 90 percent of the mass of the entire star system, and it would be nice if we could disassemble stars in the same way we dismantle planets."

"This antimatter megastructure will be sufficient."

Chu stared at the stars with great regret, if they could work on the stars, they would be able to do much more than they are now.

But they can't, life forms and technology limit them from messing around.

"It's impossible, and in the beginning, the environment of a star is much worse than that of a gas giant."

"That's right, we haven't been exposed to that temperature for long before we vaporize, let alone mine the material resources of the stars."

"And it's not just about temperature, high-energy radiation is extremely deadly, especially for us, it can't help but burn our shells, but also destroy our genes, destroy our constituent elements from the atomic nuclear level, even hot planets are not as terrifying as stars."

The whimsical of the first is refuted by the same family like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, they do not want the first to do this, it is not feasible, and the life structure of proteins limits them.

In fact, it is not only proteins, even non-living mechanical structures are not good, although the mechanical structure is not afraid of high temperatures, nor is it afraid of radiation, but to drive these is the need for control elements, and the control elements are afraid of high temperature and radiation, radiation will burn off the microscopic scale of integrated circuits, electromagnetic pulse can achieve the effect, high-energy radiation can also be achieved, in the final analysis, radiation also belongs to electromagnetic waves.

Don't think that sealing the control element in all directions can solve the problem, the composition of the atom is the nucleus and the electron, and the electron and the nucleus are very empty, if the scale is enlarged, it is equivalent to the distance scale between the star and the planet, like uncharged gamma rays, or the uncharged flow of high-energy particles, which can completely penetrate the physical compartment and destroy the control elements behind the compartment, especially the star that produces a huge amount of this kind of radiation every moment.

If it's a mechanical body, what is the minimum level to be able to mine stellar material?

Neutron degeneracy!

This substance can be understood as a large atomic nucleus, the nuclei are tightly connected, even light cannot pass through the gap between them, so it can be approximated as non-existent, and the reflectivity of this material will be 100%.

The Serens had such a concept, and in their science fiction works, there used to be descriptions of this material.

However, it is only in this way, if you want to pull it from science fiction to reality, the technical difficulty will be very high, and the simplest and most core problem is that neutrons are not charged and are not affected by electric fields, how to constrain them to the macro level?

Neutron stars rely on gravity to solve this problem, and in the science fiction works of the Seren, the solution is to rely on a certain position of the author's mouth, but in reality, whether it is the gatherer or the Seren, all that can be used is electromagnetic force.

"I'm just thinking about it, and I'm well aware that we're not technically up to the level of stellar mining, and I'm not going to put that into practice."

Initially reply to the individuals of the group.

"But what's the point of thinking like that?"

The gatherers couldn't understand this behavior at the beginning, and since they knew it didn't make sense, why did they think about the feasibility?

"Will once said that the root of technological progress lies in cranky thinking, knowing how to think, it doesn't matter if it's imaginative, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, the main thing is that you can't give up thinking, anyway, thinking doesn't consume much resources, and it doesn't matter if you think about it."

Chu replied to his kindred.

"By the way, how's the construction of the magnetic track going?" Ask the individuals of the group at first.

"It's been completed, but it's still in the testing stage, and if the problem is not big, it can be put into use for the group after a troubleshooting."

"That's good, we must be very happy to bring back so much antimatter."

The individual gatherer who had just established communication with him hesitated and asked.

"But what are we going to do about those Serens?"

"For those monsters, I'm not sure our antimatter can deter them."

Thinking about the actions of the people of Seline, I was a little uncertain at first.

"Probably can, right? They are creatures too and don't want to die themselves. ”

"No, you don't understand, you're a new individual born in this star system, so you've never seen those monsters, and you can't imagine what crazy they'd do to satisfy the chemical stimulation of your own brain."

"For example?"

"Like abandoning the race."