Chapter 3 Particle Reactions, Nuclear Winter
The Seventh Group, led by Lifus, is the best fighting group in the League, and has won numerous honors. There are more than 400 combat teams like this, ranging from a dozen to dozens of members, who are distributed in various regions of the world to carry out tasks assigned by the organization, including fighting the end of the world, recruiting independent armed forces, removing mutated animals and humans, protecting civilians and establishing safe zones, dealing with radiation sources left over from nuclear explosions, and improving the ecological environment.
The Doomsday Army is the general name of the armed military forces that fight against the Alliance around the world, they may be groups of stragglers, or they may be tens of thousands of large military groups that occupy important places and fight against the Alliance, they no longer want to accept the discipline of the law and the fetters of morality, lawlessness and do whatever they want, they hold weapons and fire at all unfamiliar targets, and there are even rumors that they eat human flesh, but almost every Chosen One who has fought with the Doomsday Army knows that it is not a rumor.
The devastation that a nuclear explosion would cause to the world is simply unimaginable, even to the decision-makers who decided to start a nuclear war in the first place.
Due to the improvement of medical technology and the extension of human lifespan, the population of the earth is increasing, and while the alien colonization base is constantly explored, the buildings on the earth are also showing a trend of getting higher and higher, and hundreds of kilometers of skyscrapers are lined up in the city, and these seemingly beautiful buildings are as fragile and vulnerable as marshmallows in a storm before the shock wave of a nuclear explosion.
Before the outbreak of the war, many scientific researchers and scholars had predicted that once a nuclear war broke out, the smoke and dust produced by the burning of buildings by the nuclear bomb would fly into the sky together with the tiny radioactive fallout, forming a thick dust cloud in the troposphere and stratosphere, covering and absorbing sunlight, and the earth would fall into a long nuclear winter, and the surface of the earth would be greatly cooled by more than 30 degrees Celsius, and this phenomenon would last for several years.
Others scoff at the nuclear winter theory, believing it to be completely groundless and a sensational fallacy propagated by anti-war activists. Some experts pointed out that the number of nuclear warheads stored by all nuclear-armed countries at that time (including the huge yield of atomic * bombs and hydrogen * bombs produced by the United States and Russia during the Cold War, which were later claimed to have been destroyed but actually increased instead of decreasing), was not enough to deal a devastating blow to the earth and mankind, and even if the associated radioactive fallout could rise to the stratosphere, it would not be able to block the sun's rays at all, and the dust clouds in the troposphere combined with the moisture at low levels would fall in the form of black rain or black snow. This is not a problem for people who now regard sandstorms and acid rain as family meals, let alone panic, and even if a nuclear winter is formed, it will only last for a few hours.
This kind of thinking is actually very dangerous, and with the spread of this kind of thinking, people's fear of nuclear war has gradually become numb, and it has been replaced by a tolerant attitude towards nuclear measures that are becoming more and more advanced by all sides, and it must be said that this is also an incentive for nuclear war.
As a result, when the nuclear winter really came, those who survived the explosions, shock waves, fires, and radiation found that both of the previous assumptions were wrong.
Due to the discovery and separation of supernuclei, cold fusion has become a reality, and particle energy has officially replaced oil, gas and coal, and mankind has entered the particle age. The open experiment of Zou Dufeng, a Chinese high-energy physicist, has lifted the veil of mystery in particle technology, and has also allowed all countries and regions in the world to have the ability to independently manufacture particle weapons.
Of course, Zou Dufeng's original intention was to benefit human society, and forced countries to sign the "Treaty on the Non-Manufacturing of Particle Weapons", emphasizing that any group that uses "Zou fusion" can only use it for production and construction, transportation and daily consumption, and cannot use it to make weapons. However, it is clear that people are not abiding by the so-called Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Particle Weapons, just as there was no compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the first place.
A global nuclear war, higher quality nuclear energy, a larger yield of bombs, a wider coverage, and a more powerful lethality. For 17 days, the earth was turned into hell, and everywhere was a sea of fire and smoke, and most people did not even scream and turned into nothing, just like the civilization that mankind once had.
At the beginning of the war, several heavyweight megacities were destroyed almost every day, and these political, military, economic, and cultural cities were the top priority targets, such as Beijing, New York, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Geneva, Toronto, Washington, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Berlin, and Sydney...... Then there are second-tier cities, then outlying areas.
The earth-shattering explosion was followed by dust that obscured the sky.
The soot and ash were carried into the atmosphere by the thermal currents generated by the explosion, which was like a shade covering the earth, not only blocking the sunlight but also absorbing the heat. Radioactive fallout is a very tiny particle, less than a micron in diameter, and its tiny mass in the stratosphere can float for a long time almost defy gravity.
Contrary to what people imagined, the nuclear winter caused by this nuclear war lasted only six days, or rather, six days. And the temperature did not just drop by 30 degrees Celsius, but gradually dropped and eventually reached minus 165 degrees Celsius, almost close to the night temperature on the surface of the moon and more than three times the lowest winter temperature in Antarctica. According to Achilles' calculations, if the nuclear winter lasts indefinitely, the Earth's surface, which is deprived of sunlight and atmospheric protection, will eventually reach "space temperature", that is, close to absolute zero (-273.15 °C).
What's even more terrifying: ultra-low temperatures will cause the oceans to freeze. If it gets closer and closer to the sun, it will eventually be impossible to escape the doom of destruction, and if it is far away from the sun, it will probably be affected by Jupiter's orbit and thrown out of the solar system by Jupiter, becoming the second planet to disappear from the solar system after Pluto. Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, but the Earth became a traveler in the vast universe. But don't be discouraged, these processes can often take tens of millions of years, and humanity must have been completely extinct long before the oceans were completely frozen, so there is no need to witness these tragic things with your own eyes.
This six-day nuclear winter has directly led to the extinction of more than 70% of the species on the earth, and the ecological food chain in nature has changed, so it is not a big deal for people to eat people. Compared with other animal races, humans have the lowest proportion of deaths in this nuclear winter, because they know how to use tools, use fire, have houses to protect themselves from the cold, and have coal, electricity, natural gas, and nuclear energy. And human beings have had the experience of immigrating to extraterrestrial many times, and they are quite experienced in dealing with these cold or high heat on the surface of aliens. If it really comes to the end of the world, the last living animal in the world will not be rats, cockroaches, or paramecium, amoeba, but humans.
The only thing that can wipe out humanity is humanity.
Human beings wanted to destroy the earth, but in the end they found that only human beings themselves were destroyed, and the earth was fine.
***
Zou Dufeng is another outstanding high-energy physicist in China after Yang Zhenning, who has won the Nobel Prize four times, becoming the first and only person in history to win the Nobel Prize four times. There is no doubt that Yang Zhenning is one of the founders of fundamental physics theory, and the non-abelian gauge field (Yang-Mills field) proposed by him and Mills is the cornerstone of the standard model that scientists later formed, following the original calendar in October 2013 British physicist Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Higgs boson, in 2035, the original calendar in 2035, the Chinese physicist Zou Dufeng discovered the graviton, which is an imaginary particle predicted by the Standard Model, responsible for transmitting gravity, and is also the most mysterious particle. It has no form and no quality, so it has never been found. The discovery of gravitons marked that all the 62 elementary particles predicted in the Standard Model had been found, drawing a complete end to the perfection of the Standard Model, and Zou Dufeng was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in the same year.
In 2041 and 2042, Zou Dufeng won the Nobel Prize in Physics for achieving cold fusion and discovering superpolar nuclear particles respectively. He found in the experiment that if the graviton and the Higgs boson are polymerized at high pressure, a large amount of energy can be exerted, at least tens of thousands of times that of nuclear fusion, but the high temperature and pressure required to trigger it are also tens of thousands of times that of nuclear fusion. Although it is hundreds of millions of times smaller than the smallest nucleus, it is customary to refer to the smaller structure inside an object as a nucleus, and Zou Dufeng gave it a very Chinese name, the Yuanqi particle.
Yuan Qi is an ancient Chinese Taoist saying, which means the source of all things and the beginning of all things, and Zou Dufeng is willing to believe that there will be no smaller particles than Yuan Qi particles.
It can be said that Zou Dufeng single-handedly changed China, the world, and the future. His contribution to humanity is still more than that of Newton Einstein, imagine a society that does not need to worry about energy depletion, a society that no longer wags wars for resources, and a society that is free of famine and poverty.
China has become the world's first superpower due to its mastery of particle technology, and by 2055, China's GDP has been more than six times that of the second largest country, the United States, accounting for 52% of the world's total GDP, according to the analysis of the financial data report given by Fermi, only in 2055, their company's particle batteries exported to Europe reached 62 trillion US dollars, which is 1.2 times the GDP of the United States.
The full name of Fermi is Fermi New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., which was established in honor of physicist Fermi and his laboratory, but it is completely operated and controlled by China, mainly engaged in the manufacture of various products derived from particle fusion, including particle batteries, particle chips, particle storage, etc., and hired Zou Dufeng as the company's chief technical consultant, and began to develop gravitational communication, gravitational data transmission and so on.
However, China does not seem to have the consciousness of being a great power, adhering to the tradition of moderation, not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and has no interest in being the world's policeman.
Zou Dufeng then made a decision that shocked the world after obtaining the approval and consent of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhongnanhai: open particle fusion technology!
Although people still call particle energy nuclear energy and particle reactions controlled nuclear fusion, these two are completely different properties and different levels.
Particle fusion technology is an epoch-making scientific and technological product, which has brought "Zou fusion" into thousands of households, so that every civilian can enjoy the efficiency and convenience brought by the world's most cutting-edge technology.
For example, the second-generation particle battery produced by Fermi company, although it can not be recharged and used repeatedly like a lithium battery, it is a disposable product, but the capacity is countless times that of a lithium battery, a particle battery the size of a fingernail, can probably supply a user's home normal electricity for more than 30 years, and as long as there is demand, this battery can be micron or even nano, which is undoubtedly a huge temptation in the field of aerospace and space exploration, of course, the price of particle batteries is also expensive, an ordinary family version of the particle battery, It would take two years of full income for a middle-class family, but the price is already a bargain compared to the convenience and affordability it brings.
Particle technology has brought huge economic profits to China, monopolizing particle technology is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of the world economy, and opening up particle fusion technology is equivalent to giving up countless money.
As we all know, China was originally a superpower, both in terms of territory and population, and then through the rapid rise of particle technology, it has reached an unattainable height, and there has never been such a powerful country in history, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties, or Kublai Khan's Yuan, or the British Empire, the United States, if China is allowed to continue to develop like this, I don't know how terrible it will be. However, China has only dominated the world economically and technologically, and has not and has never been hegemonic militarily, so the Chinese, who are deeply influenced by Taoism and Confucianism, feel that they should retreat bravely.
In the end, Zou Dufeng won the Nobel Peace Prize for the "Particle Weapons Non-Particle Weapons Treaty", and although people feel a little inexplicable, it still feels more deserved than the original award to Obama, at least he did not start a war.