Time passed little by little in the development of the Poseidon Galaxy, and in the blink of an eye, several months had passed since the departure of the Federal Branch. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The departure of the Federal Branch caused great repercussions within the fleet, and related news dominated the headlines of social media for a long time, becoming a very hot and lasting focus of public opinion.

Although the two sides have not seen each other for decades, even for half of the members of the Earth Fleet, perhaps they have not experienced a moment of separation from the Federation since the moment they were born, because in their hearts, the Federation Branch was a different human group from the beginning.

But years of education have taught them that whether they live on different spatial scales or not, they cannot deny the fact that they belong to the same civilization. Even through quantum communication technology, the two sides have been communicating with each other in the interconnected nervous system, where everyone is friends, and the role of social interaction has brought two groups of people at different spatial scales closer together.

However, what makes everyone feel uncomfortable is that because the federal branch mainly uses the frozen way to carry out interstellar travel, the vast majority of people in the federal branch will not be able to appear in the network for twenty years, which has caused the "disappearance" of hundreds of millions of people in the interconnected nervous system, and their disappearance has made the entire interconnected system a lot colder.

But the days still go by day by day, even if the headlines are still hot, people's attention is slowly shifting from another human group to the development of the Poseidon Galaxy.

Not long ago, Tianhe Star was officially open to immigration, and many people who were used to living in the ship began to apply for relocation in the form of trying, and the department in charge of immigration in the fleet began to be busy again.

In addition to the matter of immigrating to Tianhexing, there is another big and small thing that is fermenting, that is, some people in the fleet have proposed whether to change the "Earth Fleet" to "Human Civilization" or "Earth Civilization".

After all, after coming to the Poseidon Galaxy, mankind has entered a new stage with the development of civilization as its main task, from a simple fleet-like escape.

At this time, it seems inappropriate to call it fleet, at least a considerable number of people think that it should be changed to "civilization" as a whole, as for whether to call it human civilization or earth civilization, or other names, these can be discussed.

Zhou Chen and other high-level officials of the fleet do not take a position on this attitude of the people, sometimes people are like this, they will toss for a long time for an ethereal name problem, and finally succeed in the battle, change their name, and seem to have started a new life.

But Zhou Chen did not deny that changing to "so-and-so civilization" does mark a change in the mentality of the group, which is a manifestation of self-confidence. Perhaps, in their opinion, the current human race is enough to show the all-round development of civilization, and with civilization as the main body, it has entered the huge winch of "cosmic society"!

Of course, the 4.5 billion people of the Earth Fleet, plus the population of more than 900 million and less than 1 billion people of the federal branch that is rushing over, the total base has reached 5.5 billion, and the overall quality is even higher than that of the Earth period, which is indeed enough to support the shelf of "such and such a civilization" in a sense.

However, Zhou Chen and other high-level members of the fleet kept a clear head, they definitely would not be complacent just after making some small achievements, and optimistically believed that the Earth Fleet could already survive in the universe in style, knowing that the universe is so big and there are so many strong people, such as a carp crossing the river, even a third-level civilization does not dare to say that they dare to go anywhere, let alone the Earth Fleet, which is still a piece of paper away from the third-level civilization.

The development of civilization still has a long way to go!

On this day, Zhou Chen and a group of high-level leaders came to a place far away from the Poseidon base, where an epoch-making experiment would be conducted.

In the void, a huge and strange device has been built, and from a distance, it looks like a complex monster connected by countless thick pipes, and for a while people don't know its function!

However, from the presence of all the high-level officials today, you can know that this is definitely an extremely important device!

"This huge machine in front of us is the antimatter generation device that we have spent ten years building!" Zhuang Xiaohe, as the protagonist of today, led everyone to visit this huge machine with a diameter of 5,000 kilometers in outer circumference.

He patiently explained: "The core of this antimatter generation device is the main acceleration channel located in the center, which is a ring particle accelerator with a diameter of 3,000 kilometers. ”

In order to maximize the use of space, seven acceleration rings are extended, and a total of more than 500 independent acceleration systems are distributed on the main acceleration channel, so that the main acceleration channel can be continuously injected with high-energy particles that have been pre-accelerated.

"On the other hand, around the tangent direction of the huge main acceleration channel, there is also an extension of the separation device in the positive and negative directions, so that particles facing each other and meeting the collision requirements can enter the collision chamber for antimatter generation, such a collision chamber has a total of more than 4,000 sets, which can make full use of the high-energy particles that have been generated in the acceleration channel."

"Two groups of particles facing each other collide when they arrive at the collision chamber, and the longitudinal magnetic field quickly separates the resulting antimatter nuclei, which are then sent into a positron environment and packaged as antimatter, which is then stored by a giant electron beam Penning trap."

"That's how it works." Zhuang Xiaohe briefly recounted, he knew that many of the leaders present were not scientists, so he made these introductions more to deal with official business.

"With such a huge device, the energy consumption is not less, right?" In the Science and Technology Committee, Ye Yanzhe in the field of computer technology looked up at the giant project in the distance and asked with some shock.

Zhuang Xiaohe nodded: "Yes, in order to maintain the operation of this system, a total of 3,000 fusion reaction power stations have been built to provide energy for it. ”

"From the perspective of energy input and output, in fact, the antimatter generation device does not get a positive return, in order to generate 100 points of antimatter, we consume far more than 100 points of energy, which seems to be not cost-effective, but considering that antimatter can release a huge amount of energy in an instant and its military use, I think it is worth it."

Zhou Chen couldn't help but nod after hearing this, in fact, antimatter is not far superior to nuclear fusion as many people think, and can even replace nuclear fusion technology. In fact, to put it bluntly, with the current technology of the Earth Fleet, antimatter is more like a mutated battery, and its real role is to store the energy generated by nuclear fusion first, and then release it with high power when it is critical!

Just imagine, one positive matter and one antimatter release the equivalent of two parts of pure energy at once, and how great the space and energy efficiency ratio of their occupation is in interstellar voyages and weapon applications!

The difference between the same energy-type resource ship, which can carry antimatter that can be used for "positive and antimatter annihilation", and hydrogen energy used for nuclear fusion, may be like the difference between nuclear fusion power generation and coal power generation, and they are completely incompatible.

Half an hour later, the antimatter generator was inspected, and the first ignition test was about to take place.

All personnel were evacuated from a distance, and the progress of the test was monitored by remote monitoring.

"Ignition begins!"

With Zhuang Xiaohe's command order, the first stage of acceleration of the first batch of fifty sets of acceleration devices began, and a few minutes later, these operating particles entered the second stage of the acceleration ring, followed by the third stage and the fourth stage...... When the acceleration is close to the speed of light, the floodgates of the main acceleration channel open, and these high-speed particles officially swarm into the main acceleration channel with a diameter of 3,000 kilometers and a total length of 9,420 kilometers.

After several cycles, some of the particles meet the collision requirements, so they enter the collision chamber along the tangent, and with a loud bang, the atoms instantly collapse, and several quarks with different properties are formed, and then instantly condense, at a just right node temperature.

This process is extremely short, and the newly formed antimatter particles are immediately stripped away by the longitudinal magnetic field and enter the positron region, where they are processed into antimatter.

"System monitoring is normal, the first round of antimatter generation is going well!"

Zhuang Xiaohe announced in an excited tone, and then ordered to open more acceleration ring systems, from fifty to one hundred or two hundred, and finally all five hundred acceleration systems were turned on, providing a steady stream of high-energy particles for the main acceleration channel.

In terms of energy supply, 3,000 large-scale nuclear fusion reactor power stations are operating at high loads.

At the same time, 4,000 collision chambers were also opened in turn, and a banging collision would occur countless times every second, and a large amount of antimatter was generated and then gathered into the electron beam Penning well and stored.

In the past three hours, the antimatter generator has consumed more than one million tons of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion, and about 0.7 percent of the matter has been converted into energy and continuously fed into the device. At the same time, more than 2 million tons of helium fuel used to accelerate the collision and convert into antimatter were consumed by the acceleration port, and a total of more than 10,000 tons of antimatter were extracted.

According to such an output ratio, the energy released by more than 10,000 tons of antimatter is obviously not as good as the energy released by direct nuclear fusion of more than 3 million tons of fuel that can be used for nuclear fusion, but the limit of the difference is already very limited, and it is a slight loss from the perspective of efficiency.

However, more than 10,000 tons of antimatter can be produced in three hours, and nearly 90,000 tons can be produced in one day, and Zhou Chen is already very satisfied.

These more than 90,000 tons of antimatter, not to mention all of them will be used for future fleet voyages, just the production of antimatter shells is a lot of wealth!

With these mass-produced antimatter, the doors to many fields have been opened. (To be continued.) )