Chapter 51: Dreams: Crystals Are Not Crystals
In the dream, Du Qiu quickly searched for silicon and began to carefully study the purification procedures and binary material synthesis procedures related to it.
He found that there are hundreds of binary materials related to silicon, which is a bit powerful.
You must know that in the current task list of the super machine, there are a total of 116 kinds of single-element substances that are being purified, of which there are more than 20 kinds of elemental substances that are not on the blue star.
This shows that silicon can be synthesized into valuable binary materials with almost most other elements, and that there is more than one material for each element to be synthesized from silicon.
Du Qiuke, who has been working on new materials recently, understands that this means that different purity values can lead to completely different properties.
Silicon is abundant on Blue Star, and it is also a raw material for computer chips.
Science fiction on the Blue Star also envisioned the existence of silicon-based life.
On the blue star, the main material component of the crystal is silica, which forms different colors when it contains different trace elements.
Pure silica is colorless and transparent, and forms crystals under specific conditions.
From the perspective of the cause of generation, it is divided into natural crystal, synthetic crystal, and molten crystal.
Natural crystal is very rare and is one of the gemstones.
Synthetic crystal is an industrial imitation of natural crystal generation method, natural silicon ore and some chemicals are placed in an autoclave and cultivated for 1-3 months.
Molten crystal is generally made of crystal waste smelted at high temperature and high pressure, and generally has the characteristics of high temperature resistance.
Du Qiu had previously used some instruments to identify the crystal pillow and preliminarily determined that it belonged to molten crystal.
This is also where he is more confused, how can the Mayan civilization have molten crystals? This is simply a crystal product of modern technology.
But the strange function of the crystal pillow allows him to enter a magical dream realm and connect to the super machines of an alien civilization.
Could it be that the Mayan civilization was really left over from the alien civilization after visiting the Blue Star?
Or were the Blue Star humans created by an alien civilization?
This kind of mystery about the origin of human beings is not very interesting to Du Qiu for the time being.
Since it is possible to connect to the super machine from the dream realm through this crystal pillow, then the alien civilization that does not know where in the universe must have been to the Blue Star.
There was certainly no doubt about that, and it gave Du Qiu some sense of urgency.
Since that alien civilization has come, it may come again in the future.
In the past, when they came to the Blue Star, humans may still be in ignorance, and they were regarded as gods in the sky.
So in the face of modern human beings who have embarked on the fast track of scientific and technological development, the re-arrival of this alien civilization may be a catastrophe.
Fortunately, Du Qiu can now obtain the technology of this alien civilization little by little, so one day when this alien civilization visits Blue Star again, maybe Blue Star is not completely powerless.
Du Qiu always believed that the only reason why two civilizations could coexist was that each was equal in strength, and neither could destroy the other.
This has been vividly demonstrated in the thousands of years of human development history of Blue Star.
Even now, the peace of Blue Star is maintained under the nuclear weapons that can destroy the human race of Blue Star.
As for saying that nuclear weapons can destroy the earth, it is that mankind is boasting too much. In terms of the yield of the global nuclear arsenal, the earth is also a nuclear winter, like a cold.
It's just that humans may cease to exist in this cold.
Du Qiu searched through hundreds of binary materials containing silicon, and his efforts paid off, and he finally found a material that looked like crystal.
The process of producing this material is not the same as the process of producing crystals on the Blue Star.
After the intermediate purification process, the silicon element is fused with the oxygen element through a specific synthesis procedure.
The key is that this oxygen element is proportioned with silicon in a solid state, and then directly becomes a crystal-like substance through a special synthesis process.
The state produced by these crystal-like substances, Du Qiu clearly saw through the images, all of them were huge cubes.
Each cube is about 20 times the size of the crystal pillow in your hand.
But the production of this crystal substance ends here, and there are no further production processing tasks in the super machine.
It is clear that this crystal substance should just be some kind of raw material, and it should be further processed.
Du Qiu thought for a while, and the equipment he checked the crystal pillow was all on the blue star, and he couldn't check out any abnormalities.
The crystal matter here can be observed by itself using the perception system of the super machine, especially those perception subsystems that are not too well understood.
Those perception subsystems should be all technologies that are not available on Blue Star, and they should definitely surpass the technological level of Blue Star.
Perhaps through them, it is possible to discover that this crystal substance is different from the crystal on the blue star?
Du Qiu did it when he thought of it, but he was still careful to make sure that there were no unidentified objects around the super machine.
At the same time, he also mobilized a subsystem to look at the area where the crystal substance is produced.
It is believed that such caution should not alarm potential maintainers.
Du Qiu first used a perception method similar to that on the Blue Star, and the images of the inner crystal matter obtained by each perception system were temporarily stored in the intelligence core while having a strong memory.
When he had observed the crystal matter one by one with all the perceptual subsystems, he was sure that he had memorized the dozens of perceived images.
Then the intelligent core is called to retrieve and compare dozens of perceived images stored, and there are about more than ten kinds of images obtained by the perception subsystem that cannot be compared.
Because their way of perceiving is so peculiar, Du Qiu can't understand some of them at all, and the images are naturally incomprehensible at all.
Fortunately, in the images that can be compared, Du Qiu finally found some clues.
The molten crystals on the blue star, in which the hexagonal crystal cluster is incoherent, while the hexagonal crystal cluster of natural crystal or recycled crystal is very complete.
The crystal material purified by the super machine, the hexagonal crystal cluster is not only very complete, but also its arrangement is extremely neat.
At this moment, Du Qiu can clearly see in one of the sensing subsystem images similar to the scanning tunneling microscope effect on the blue star that the arrangement of silicon atoms and oxygen atoms in the crystal matter is very uniform and continuous.
A scanning tunneling microscope is a microscope that can observe the atoms of matter, and it is basically the top experimental observation equipment for microscopic research of matter in Bluestar.
Although Du Qiu had used it, he certainly had not made such an observation on the crystal pillow.
Well, it looks like I need to make a trip to my alma mater.
There is a scanning tunneling microscope in the Teaching and Experimental Center of the Department of Physics of Huhai University, and Du Qiu plans to go there to observe the crystal pillow.
Du Qiu memorized the image of this perceptual subsystem again to make sure that he did not forget.
Thinking about the observation accuracy of the super machine with only one perception subsystem, it is equivalent to the observation accuracy of the top microscopic observation instrument of Blue Star, when will Blue Star's intelligent machine reach such a level?