Chapter 3: The Jupiter Wind

Through the telescope, Xiao Yu observed that the debris formed by the earth's explosion began to fluctuate chaotically, and some small fragments broke out of orbit and began to fly towards the sun, but those large fragments were not too far out of orbit after all. Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly rejoiced that the sun had escaped a catastrophe, and he was also glad that he had escaped a catastrophe.

High-energy ray bursts are like that, powerful, they come and go quickly.

Xiao Yu did not come out of the far side of Mars, because the high-energy ray burst was only the first blow, and there was another wave behind.

That's a stream of high-energy charged particles! Also commonly known as the solar wind. Auroras on Earth are produced by the collision of a stream of high-energy charged particles from the sun with the Earth's magnetic field.

When a solar flare erupts and the intensity of the stream of high-energy charged particles reaches its maximum, it can even affect satellite communications and paralyze the power grid. A large-scale power outage in the United States in the 20th century was caused by the eruption of a solar flare.

And even if you think about it with your ass, you can also think that this high-energy charged particle stream from Jupiter will definitely exceed the Sun countless times! After all, the flow of particles erupted by the sun is emitted in a state of overall stability, but the current situation of Jupiter, God knows how far it has turned.

The flow of high-energy charged particles is much slower than the speed of light, about four million kilometers per hour. According to this, it will reach the orbit of Mars in about five days.

The most terrifying thing is that Xiao Yu is now relying on electronic devices to survive. Although he is now completely hiding on the back side of Mars, no one can say how much impact the Jupiter wind will have on Xiao Yu this time.

The first wave of the crisis was dodged. Xiao Yu's heart was filled with curiosity. After thinking about it, Xiao Yu finally decided to squeeze out some of the remaining fuel, move his orbit, and observe Jupiter.

Moving out from behind the huge shadow of Mars, Xiao Yu turned the telescope and aimed at Jupiter.

When observing Jupiter in the orbit of Mars, you can only see one point of light with the naked eye, and you can't see any details. However, the optical telescope on Xiao Yu's spacecraft has been specially optimized, and the distance is now tens of millions of kilometers closer than on Earth, so the quality of the Jupiter picture obtained by Xiao Yu is no worse than the original Hubble telescope.

Xiao Yu was stunned again.

The side of Jupiter facing the Sun has turned dark red and seems to be bleeding. There are countless violent cyclones raging on Jupiter, and even the orbits of the moons have been affected.

Jupiter's axis of rotation was struck by this blow, tilting three degrees from before.

Xiao Yu carefully observed this picture, and at the same time, all the observation equipment on the spacecraft was turned on at the same time, trying his best to collect information. This kind of data is too precious, and it has a very important reference role for Xiao Yu's future scientific and technological development.

After an hour of observation, Xiao Yu suddenly noticed a very important problem: "In the impact region of Jupiter, a nuclear fusion phenomenon has occurred. ”

Xiao Yu's heart tightened, and he immediately stopped the rest of the inconsequential data calculations, and put all his computing power on the analysis of this phenomenon.

Gradually, through the observation of Jupiter, Xiao Yu's heart began to plump up the originally imperfect theory.

It's a theory about controlled nuclear fusion. In her unique way, the great nature taught Xiao Yu a lesson about controlled nuclear fusion through the event of the moon's impact on Jupiter.

The earliest can be traced back to Einstein's E=MC^2, the most famous mass-energy formula, mankind has been exploring nuclear energy for a long time, the most notable example is the hydrogen bomb. However, the hydrogen bomb is an uncontrollable nuclear fusion, and it is okay to use it as a weapon, but the rest is not. If you want to make good use of nuclear energy, you must find a way to control nuclear fusion.

As a big man in the scientific community, Xiao Yu naturally has a deep understanding of this. But even he couldn't solve the problem.

But now, through nature, the greatest teacher, Xiao Yu feels that he may be able to solve this problem.

The biggest problem with controlled fusion is that there is no material that can be used as a container for a fusion reactor. Because during nuclear fusion, the temperature is tens of millions of degrees, and no matter known to mankind can withstand this temperature.

Therefore, human beings have proposed two methods: the magnetic field confinement method and the inertial confinement method. It relies on magnetic fields or inertia to restrain the fusion reactor and make it steadily output energy to the outside world. However, the research of these two methods is still in the theoretical stage.

Xiao Yu's main attack is the magnetic field constraint method.

Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field. Jupiter's magnetic field stably confines the fusion reactor, which is exporting energy from the point of impact.

This is the most concise and efficient method of teaching. For example, if you don't know how to origami an airplane, you will be given a origami paper airplane that you are not allowed to disassemble, and you may find it difficult to find out how to do it.

But if someone shows you how to fold a paper airplane, you might learn it all at once.

Nature folded the paper airplane of controlled nuclear fusion in front of Xiao Yu.

If Xiao Yu still had eyes, Xiao Yu's eyes must have turned red. If Xiao Yu was still breathing, his breathing must be extremely rapid now.

No one better understands the importance of controlled nuclear fusion than Xiao Yu.

With controlled nuclear fusion, it means that interstellar navigation is possible, and it means that energy can no longer become a shackle to the development of science and technology.

"My dream of astronautics is finally hopeful!" Xiao Yu had the urge to cry.

Xiao Yu has been observing for five days, collecting as much information as possible about controlled nuclear fusion. Then it re-hid on the far side of Mars before the expected stream of high-energy charged particles arrived. With these observations, it is only a matter of time before Xiao Yu overcomes the difficulty of controlled nuclear fusion.

"Build a huge space fleet! Leave the solar system and conquer the galaxy! Xiao Yu roared with excitement in his heart.

Five hours after Xiao Yu hid on the far side of Mars, the stream of high-energy charged particles finally reached Martian orbit. The results were undoubtedly catastrophic.

Even with the resistance of the big shield of Mars and the influence of the Jupiter wind, half of the equipment on Xiao Yu's spaceship was damaged in an instant, and the computing power of the central computer was reduced to 30% of its peak.

The stream of high-energy charged particles also has a strong detachment ability, and the strength of Mars' magnetic field is simply negligible, that is, Mars has little resistance to this powerful Jupiter wind.

Almost instantly, the foul atmosphere of Mars was almost completely stripped away, and the lava raging on the surface of Mars was directly exposed to space.

Under the wind of Jupiter, which is incomparably powerful, the whole of Mars has become a huge comet! It dragged its long comet tail in the direction of the sun, carrying countless meteorites, covering Xiao Yu's small spaceship in its entirety.

"O Nima! Are you meowing to me? Xiao Yu saw this scene, and was so shocked that he couldn't help but scold.

The only thirty percent of the computing power left in the central computer was turned on at full speed, and the engine and radar equipment were also running at full power, and the energy consumption reached a point where Xiao Yu's heart was bleeding.

In the dark space without any light, Xiao Yu manipulated the small spaceship to flexibly dodge the meteorites flying everywhere.

"I have just obtained the most critical core technology of controlled nuclear fusion, and the future of the big haode is waiting for me, how can I die at this time?"

This belief supported Xiao Yu through the three days of the Jupiter wind. When Xiao Yu finally took a breath and did a full-body self-examination of his little spaceship, a touch of bitterness came to Xiao Yu's heart.

"The injury, it's too serious......" Xiao Yu sighed helplessly.

The Jupiter winds dissipated, and the tail of Mars' comet began to fade. However, this process is likely to take a long time. Xiao Yu even speculated about the outcome of Zuihou: the material in the tail of the Martian comet will gradually fall back into the orbit of Mars, and then form a ring orbiting Mars.

Mars is about to become the first solid planet in the solar system to have rings.

Looking at the Earth's orbit, the largest pieces of debris were not blown away by the Jupiter winds towards the Sun. This is a good thing, because if that happens, the troposphere of the solar system will be knocked out of a big hole, the sun's interior will erupt, and the infinite solar wind will sweep across the entire solar system. At that time, the solar system will definitely become a purgatory within purgatory, and at that point, Xiao Yu really can't imagine what he has to do to find a way to survive.

The prelude to the cataclysm, which began with the explosion of the Earth and culminated in the impact of the Moon on Jupiter, has passed, at least, Jupiter's influence on the outside world has been diluted, and after that, it will be a slow but profound impact on the entire solar system.

The most important impact of this catastrophe is on the inner rocky planets. The three gas giants outside of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, were not affected much. Titan, which attracted Xiao Yu's attention the most, because when the impact occurred, it happened to run to the far side of Saturn, and it was lucky to escape, and the original environment did not change much.

Now there is a serious problem, that is, Xiao Yu's small spaceship does not have enough fuel.

Not only that, but the entire ship's hull has become tattered and riddled with holes, and several modules have been short-circuited. In order to prevent further losses, Xiao Yu had to temporarily turn off the power supply of those modules. The raw material storage room was even directly broken, and the spare parts and raw materials stored in it were lost without a trace. A large chunk of the hull was also directly torn apart and fell. But fortunately, the positioning system is still working normally, and the gyroscope is not faulty, otherwise, Xiao Yu would really be lost in the vast universe.

"Could it be that Lao Tzu, a new human in the new century, will be trapped in the orbit of Mars forever until he runs out of energy and then dies?" Xiao Yu sighed in his heart.

Infinite energy is waiting for Xiao Yu at Titan! As long as you can reach Titan, there is so much energy that even if Xiao Yu uses it to make a planet bomb, he can't use it up.

Xiao Yu began to think nervously. Think about how to get out of the orbit of Mars, how to get to Titan.