On April 15, the installation of degenerate laboratory instruments was completed.

After a few days of research, scientists also knew that degenerate matter could not be detected by ordinary methods.

In this high-density degenerate matter, the nuclei of the atoms are crushed, leaving only elementary particles tightly packed together.

It is not afraid of any means, even if it throws degenerate matter into the sun to bathe, it has no problems.

Feng Yunde led everyone to the degenerate state laboratory, and he sighed on the side: "By compressing other substances with degenerate substances, we get some atomically tightly compressed substances, and their properties are very special.

It's not that we're not completely without gains, but it's just that we can't make a breakthrough by all means of studying degenerate matter.

If there are more degenerate substances, nuclear fusion reactions can be achieved by using it as an outer shell.

Now the nuclear fusion reaction is because there is no material that can withstand the high temperature of the reaction, and it can only be confined by electromagnetism.

There are many technical difficulties in electromagnetic constraints that have not been broken through, and when the theory of nuclear fusion is very mature, no country in the world has built a feasible nuclear fusion reactor.

The highest record was reached in our country, and the reaction time was only a hundred and a few seconds. ”

"Unless we can make this kind of degenerate material, how can such a small bit of degenerate material be used in the engineering field.

We should start experiments on quantum physics as soon as possible, and make the best use of degenerate matter. Zhou Yu reminded.

Scientists began to tune the instrument to observe high-energy particles colliding with it or different quanta orbiting around it through the special properties of degenerate matter.

What are the different reactions of these particles under the influence of degenerate state substances.

Scientists speculate that degenerate matter is highly compressed internally, that there are no atoms anymore, and that it is composed of the most basic particles.

Even if it is a macroscopic material, under certain conditions, it can produce some of the characteristics of microscopic particles.

The degenerate state substance is transported to a special laboratory, where it is placed in front of the spiral accelerator outlet.

Scientists are ready to bombard degenerate matter with alpha rays and beta rays in turn.

Alpha rays are helium nuclei that travel at high speeds, and it is relatively large in size.

Yu Zhenfeng stared at the instrument and gave an order: "Alpha rays hit degenerate substances, start experiments now, and all units pay attention to detecting degenerate substances and alpha rays."

Yu Zhenfeng just came to the water city yesterday, and he has an important project that needs to be completed urgently.

It took 5 days to deal with it, and then immediately rushed to the water city.

He originally thought that he would not have the opportunity to preside over this project, but he did not expect that because of the particularity of the floating city, the instrument needed to be readjusted, so he waited for the opportunity of this experiment.

The helium nuclei that have been accelerated step by step turn into alpha rays and bombard head-on towards the degenerate material.

All instruments were running at high speed, staring at the state of the alpha rays after striking the degenerate matter.

The degenerate substance, no one is worried, its hardness is not at all afraid of alpha ray impact.

Yu Zhenfeng and many scientists looked at the data collected by the instrument, and sure enough, as they expected, the helium nucleus was directly shattered.

"The degenerate material is intact and has been tested on a torque balance and its quality has not changed."

"Oh my God, there really is a third substance coming out of the broken helium nucleus.

There are only protons and centers inside the nucleus, and the degenerate matter is not broken, and this third substance is something. ”

"This is really a great discovery, the most important breakthrough in modern physics.

It is likely to be the quark, the basic unit of protons and neutrons.

For the first time in reality, our laboratory discovered the existence of quarks, and quarks are no longer theoretically existing substances. ”

The special existence of degenerate matter can make the helium nucleus completely shatter itself, and quarks burst out in the process of crushing.

Ordinary particle impact experiments involve hitting an object with alpha rays, or striking another atom with a single helium nucleus.

None of this will allow protons and neutrons to shatter directly.

Even if two particles collide with each other, the helium nucleus and the other nucleus break up, and they form a new artificial element under the action of strong interaction forces.

In addition to the elements in nature, the man-made elements in the periodic table are all made in this way.

Only the degenerate matter, which has no nucleus, and the substance that composes it is a particle that may be smaller than a quark, can directly break the helium nucleus.

Zhou Yu saw the extremely excited performance of the scientists, and he was also excited in his heart, this is really a huge discovery.

If it can be confirmed that this particle is a quark, with the development of technology, people will always be able to manipulate quarks.

At that time, it was possible to convert between elements at will.

A handful of clay can be used to make a piece of gold.

It is also possible to use quarks to assemble stable artificial elements, such as the main raw material of particle batteries.

"Leave a group of people to repeat the experiment, figure out how to catch particles that appear to be quarks, and study the properties of such particles.

When others do the next set of experiments, we first have to go through all the experiments we designed, leaving the experiments with anomalies, and then we are going to study these experiments in depth. Zhou Yu reminded on the side.

Yu Zhenfeng began the experiment again, and he continued to bombard the degenerate materials with beta rays.

Beta rays are the composition of electrons that move at high speed.

Beta rays bombarded the degenerate material, and it was thought that electrons would collapse in all directions.

As a result, the laboratory was calm and nothing unusual occurred.

"What's going on, it's completely different from what we expected, what went wrong."

"Take a quick look at the replay of the experimental process, the specific situation of the playback frame by frame, and quickly find out what just happened?"

"I seem to have seen a few bands of light just now, but they just flashed, and it didn't diffract electrons."

"Impossible! There is no slit around the degenerate substance, how can diffraction occur. ”

They began to examine the footage of the experiment frame by frame, when the electrons were about to bombard the degenerate matter.

Instead of a particle beam, they become a wave, bypassing the degenerate matter and forming the usual electron wave diffraction fringes on either side of the degenerate matter.

"Sure enough, the electron beam had a diffraction of the wave, how could the wave-particle duality suddenly show the nature of the wave in this case."

According to quantum mechanics, microscopic particles have wave-particle duality, and electromagnetic waves such as light waves also have wave-particle duality.

However, electromagnetic waves as a whole are in the nature of waves, and in some special cases, they will become virtual particles that are simplified from a part of energy.

Its essence is a small amount of energy, not a solid particle.

A particle has wave-particle duality, but whether it exhibits the nature of a wave or the nature of a particle is determined by observation.

This quantum mechanical puzzle is the famous Schrödinger's cat problem.

From a mathematical point of view, the wave-particle duality of a particle can be simply compared to a random function.

When a random function is not exported, it represents this function, and once a random function determines a certain value, it represents that value.

Zhou Yu led the scientists to continue to explore this question, and they finally discovered that there is a peculiar phenomenon in degenerate matter.

Under certain conditions, the particles in its vicinity exhibit the characteristics of waves. Under certain conditions, the wave near it, exhibits the characteristics of particles.

Some scientists burst into tears when they reached this conclusion, which is an extremely important discovery, and this phenomenon can solve many problems encountered in modern physics.