The space city where the Imperial Institute of Materials Science is located is bustling with activity, because of the emergence of magnetic energy technology, the Imperial scientists have opened a new door, and atomic materials science has officially entered the field of vision of the Imperial scientists.

Countless scientists who study materials science have begun to research in the field of atomic materials science as if they have obtained a treasure, countless new materials have begun to emerge, and materials science, which has reached the bottleneck, has begun to glow with infinite light, and the hardness, high temperature resistance and other aspects of materials have begun to be constantly refreshed.

Hardness 1000, hardness 2000, 3000, a variety of new materials made of atomic materials will be the original material hardness data with unprecedented data constantly refreshed; High temperature resistance of 10,000 degrees, 20,000 degrees, 30,000 degrees, and countless powerful materials have emerged in the field of high-temperature resistant materials, which will be recorded again and again.

It's like a flood that bursts a levy, or as if it has been enlightened, and the development of the Empire's field of materials science has been surprising one after another.

With his outstanding contributions to the field of materials science, Xingsi Xu has now become a giant in the field of materials science in the empire and a pioneer in the field of atomic materials science.

At this time, Xu Xingsi's eyes were fixed on a monitor, and from time to time he looked at the middle of the laboratory, a strange machine was constantly working, and on the monitor, things with the same atomic structure were constantly combining, combining into a three-dimensional structure.

Atomic materials science, the use of a powerful magnetic field restraint device, of course, this power must have been carefully calculated by scientists, will not be the same situation as last time, the power of the magnetic cannon is amazing to countless people, used to create atomic materials but only need a small power.

The machine is constantly running, and it is impossible to know the changes in the materials in the laboratory at this time if it were not for the monitor, because to the naked eye, there is nothing in the middle of the laboratory except for the machine that is constantly running, as if it were empty.

However, Xu Xingsi knew that not long ago, there were still several tons of steel in it, but now all of this steel has disappeared.

Of course, this disappearance is not really disappearing, but it is no longer visible to the naked eye, because it is rearranged from the perspective of very small atoms, so I don't know how many times the unit density has increased, just like a huge ball of cotton, which looks like a lot, but if it is squeezed together, it will become a very small, very small ball.

Or like air, the volume of compressed air is less than 1/10,000 or 1/100,000 of the original air volume, and if it is compressed and arranged from the perspective of atoms, then the volume is not known how many times smaller, and this is how a few tons of steel disappear.

It's not that they've really disappeared, but that the steel has been rearranged and reshaped from an atomic point of view by the atomic material machine, so that now it is not visible to the naked eye at all, and only with an electron microscope can we see the new material that has become very small and tiny pieces.

"Didi, there are not enough raw materials!"

The sound of the alarm interrupted Xu Xingsi's contemplation, and several tons of steel were sent in, watching the steel slowly disappear, but until now, he had not even seen a shadow.

"Send ten more tons of steel in."

Xu Xingsi ordered very decisively, it seems that all this has long been commonplace, the degenerate material is very powerful, but the same degenerate material is also very difficult to build.

Tons of steel are reshaped by atoms, creating a new material that is not even visible to the naked eye, so you can imagine how much steel it would cost to get a piece of material that could be used.

Soon, the machine sent the material into it again, and the atomic material machine began to work again, on the display, under the guidance of a powerful magnetic field beam, countless iron atoms were very obediently superimposed according to the set position, and these atoms were constantly combined into a three-dimensional geometric pattern, and if you looked closely, you would find that these atoms were composed of a regular hexagonal three-dimensional geometric pattern.

The scientists of the empire studied graphite, coke and diamond, and knew that the atoms they were essentially the same, all composed of carbon atoms, but the continuous arrangement and distribution of these carbon atoms created the difference in the quality of these things, and the properties of graphite, coke and diamond were ten million times different, and their own values could not be compared at all.

So once atomic materials science was born, the scientists of the empire were very keen to change the distribution of different atomic materials, so that countless new materials could not be obtained before.

At this time, Xu Xingsi was also trying to use iron atoms to form a three-dimensional ensemble structure similar to diamond, hoping to obtain a powerful atomic material that was strong enough to support a warp engine.

The contents of the monitor remain unchanged, but the ten tons of steel sent into the laboratory are disappearing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, as if they are missing for no reason, and as long as the atomic material machine passes through the steel, the steel will quickly be reduced.

10 tons of steel, 100 tons of steel, 1,000 tons of steel......

As more and more steel is sent into the laboratory, in the middle of the laboratory, the material that was previously invisible to the naked eye can finally be seen with the naked eye, and thousands of tons of steel have been made of atomic materials into a piece of material that is only the size of a fingernail.

This material is a rectangle, very thin, the whole body is pitch black, faintly emitting a streamer, although it is small, but this piece of material is made of thousands of tons of steel, and its weight is also thousands of tons, so that the laboratory here has to turn off the gravity production device, otherwise, such a small volume, such a large weight, is enough to deform the steel in the laboratory.

"Haha, it finally succeeded, more than 6,000 tons of steel, and in the end I only got such a small piece, tsk, this degenerate material is really burning money."

Xu Xingsi was happy in his heart, and at the same time, he also sighed, more than 6,000 tons of steel, even if interstellar mining is very popular in the empire now, and there are many asteroids mined, but there are many places where steel is needed in the interstellar era.

The steel consumed by these spaceships and space warships is calculated in terms of tens of thousands of tons and 100 million tons, so the price of this steel has always been high in the empire, and the interstellar mining industry has also made a lot of money because of this.

A meal of steel costs almost 1,000 yuan in the empire, and the more than 6,000 tons of steel are almost 6 million yuan, which doesn't seem to be too expensive, but you must know that this is the imperial currency, a constant energy currency, and the most important thing is that the material made of the more than 6 million worth of steel is only the size of a fingernail.

Such a small volume is useless at all, you must know that if you use such materials to build a spaceship and a space battleship, even if the empire is rich now, it will still go bankrupt, and the astronomical cost will not even be able to bear it.

Even if it is only used to build the engine of the space battleship, that is, to make the warp engine, with the volume of the spaceship, the degenerate materials consumed at that time will be very terrifying, because the warp speed engine of the spaceship and the space battleship is also very large.

"The degenerate material is built, but to make a warp engine, the cost is 12,345 ........"

Xu Xingsi looked at the computer, which was constantly calculating how much money it would cost to build a warp engine.

"100 trillion!"

In the end, Xu Xingsi's whole person couldn't help but widen his eyes, according to the size of the anti-gravity engine on the existing Imperial Space Battleship, the cost of manufacturing a warp engine of the same size with degenerate materials would reach an astonishing 100 trillion yuan.

100 trillion yuan, what is this concept, the empire has developed to the present, with more than 30 galaxies and nearly 40 living planets, but the empire's annual financial income is only less than 1000 trillion, which means that the empire's annual financial income is only barely enough to build 10 warp engines.

From here, we can know how expensive these degenerate materials are, if the national strength is weak, even if the technology to manufacture degenerate materials can be studied, but if you really want to apply degenerate materials, you can't do it without strong national strength.

Of course, this is only the current situation of the empire, the technology of mining asteroids has been constantly developing, the price of steel within the empire is also slowly declining, and the economic development rate of the empire is also very rapid, in a few decades, the empire will be able to play with ease.

It's just that now, for the empire, in the face of such an astronomical price, even if the empire has the strength to create a warp engine, the Imperial Cabinet Prime Minister Tu Xueli can't help but tremble when he signs, and the face of the Imperial Cabinet Finance Minister will be darkened.

Because in order to build a warp engine, the empire's already abundant finances will suddenly become stretched, as the Minister of Finance, he will have a hard time in the future, there are holes everywhere to fill, and it is not easy to save some belongings, and the essence will be consumed all at once.

But the money that should be spent still has to be spent, especially the design of scientific research funds, which is related to the national security of the empire and the improvement of military strength.