Chapter 41: Another Breakthrough in Antimatter Applications
[miserable]
Would love to engrave this word on the triangular spaceship.
Just went on a long trip, and when he came back, he lost contact with civilization, and he deserved this word.
However, the triangular spaceship obviously did not give up, changed several methods, transformed several methods, and stayed in this place to try to find clues.
The airport here is one of the most secret strongholds of the Huan civilization, I don't know if the primitive animals know the truth of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, even if it develops to a higher civilization, remember to leave a fire for the civilization.
According to the triangle spaceship, this airport has existed for more than five million years, has a complete civilization technology tree, a complete industrial chain and material reserves, even if the civilization strongholds in other galaxies in the universe are destroyed, the ring clan can rely on it to recover quickly.
But it disappeared silently, leaving no trace of resistance.
If the Huan civilization still exists, this incident can definitely be ranked as a major event in the history of civilization. And shouldn't the most important thing for the triangular spaceship now be to get in touch with civilization first and send this series of information back?
But now it has a completely different attitude than when it is in a hurry to leave the transit station, and looking at the large number of devices that continue to unfold from the ship, it seems that it wants to conduct a long search here.
"There is obviously something wrong with the Ring civilization, and the Triangle Spaceship is also aware of something, so it deliberately stays here to confirm something."
"But the time he confirms the situation may be only a moment for a higher civilization creature with no lifespan limit, but it may be a hundred years for us."
The experts who have been in the situation have raised their concerns at the right time, in their opinion, this is not an incident that can be resolved quickly, although there are mission points to earn, but who knows how long it will take!?
This doesn't seem to be the same as before, it's not a project to earn quick points!
Reading between the lines, only the idea of running away is revealed.
But now that there is nothing to do to return to the folding space, and the energy supply has not been repaired, it is not impossible to wait here for a while.
As soon as Lu Yu's judgment came out, no one said anything more.
A special discussion group on the Ring Clan was immediately set up, allowing the Seven High Frequency to establish contact with the Triangle spacecraft to obtain more information about the history of the Ring civilization and establish a simple civilization model.
Although there is speculation about the model of advanced civilization, looking at it from the perspective of human beings, combined with thousands of examples of civilization, it is impossible to draw something.
"It is of similar origin to Race 997 in the Cosmic Sociology Database, whose ancestors were all mammalian oviparous intelligent life."
"The origin home planet of the Rings is 97% similar to Race 1882 in the database, both on planets with very few lands, and both in a binary star system."
“.…….”
These results may be insignificant, but they add a rather rare example and model for human derivation of biological evolution.
The triangular spaceship in front of him maintained contact with the Silver Star while using all available methods to try to find traces and messages that might be left behind before and after the disappearance of the airport.
In this cosmic void where the light has become ethereal, the two spaceships seem to be immersed in the deepest darkness. …
………….
Lu Yu didn't have any intention of slashing the wool of the ring clan, although it seemed that there was only one option left for the system task in front of him, and he was not in a hurry to choose.
In the living quarters, you should eat and drink.
Nearly a month after the void in the universe, the triangular spacecraft still hasn't achieved anything, but there is good news from the blue star.
At present, there are two scientific and technological problems in the forward base that urgently need to be broken through. One is antimatter utilization technology, and the other is light-speed navigation technology.
These two technologies are complementary to each other. Antimatter utilization technology is the cornerstone of light-speed navigation technology. Otherwise, if you want to accelerate the spaceship to sub-light speed, or to a state close to the speed of light, the amount of energy required is terrifying. If it is powered by nuclear fusion, it means that tens of billions of tons of energy fuel will be stored to complete an interstellar voyage.
Because of the size limitation of spacecraft, in civilizations that have not mastered space technology, most of the space in the hull of the spacecraft is indeed used to carry nuclear fusion fuel, that is, deuterium or helium-3, which is an important nuclear fusion raw material.
In the past, the Dyson sphere civilization used this method to achieve the speed of light between the stars, which consumed a lot of money, and they also collected a lot of resources from other star systems, which supported a cosmic wonder like a Dyson sphere.
But if you can work on an antimatter engine, it's all different!
Antimatter produces energy in a more efficient way than nuclear fusion, and of course requires a higher level of technology.
But after the energy surplus, there is definitely a lot of work to be done on the spaceship. Looking at the huge spaceship of the Zerg, it can be said that it combines weapons and civilized life.
If it is only a nuclear fusion engine that has been developed to the extreme, the endurance of a spacecraft at the speed of light is only a few hundred light-years in terms of sailing distance.
In reality, it will be much smaller than this number, and there are many places where a spaceship needs energy, such as the high-frequency computing of the ship's main engine, such as the defense of the energy shield, such as weapons and steering, and so on. All things considered, a light-speed spacecraft can only cruise within 100 light-years when it is fully fueled.
However, after the development of the warp engine, which travels faster than the speed of light, the situation will change, but at that time, the energy supply such as nuclear fusion cannot meet the warp engine, and it is at this time that antimatter utilization technology really shines.
According to the normal history of civilization, at this stage, the nuclear fusion device alone has achieved energy surplus, and civilization does not have the demand and motivation to spend a lot of energy on antimatter technology.
But after all, human beings are a race that has already opened their eyes to the universe, and they understand that nuclear fusion is enough just to deal with the present, and even to deal with the unknown fleet, maybe it is enough!
But what about the future?
The Great Universe is now ushering in a rare window period for countless epochs, and the reboots of all evils are infighting and sealing themselves, and the next 100 million years will be the best time to become a cosmic-level civilization.
At this time, it can pull civilization to take one more step, and it will be able to take a little more advantage in the future!
As for whether it will become an evil dragon after becoming a cosmic-level civilization, then you have to get the holy sword that can slay dragons first!
The good news this time came from the antimatter research team at the forward base. …
On Ceres, which is now almost covered by various metal bases, a large particle collider has been placed on the equator.
However, the experts and professors at the forward base were still not satisfied, and even proposed to build a circumstellar orbital collider around the sun, and no matter how bad it was, a circumferential asteroid belt collider would be built.
This group of experts is also well versed in the theory of the golden mean, but it is a pity that they met Professor Mao.
Overrule!
Reconsider!
Not passed!
Veto the three in a row, so that everyone can only honestly grab the Ceres collider, which belongs to the antimatter research group that has recently made a lot of progress.
But Professor Mao's approval can also convince a group of scientists, after all, it is a critical period to establish the Great Wall of space, and the spacecraft loaded with fifteen engines was successfully tested some time ago, and it was immediately intercepted by Professor Mao, directly loaded with materials and sent directly to Pluto.
If in the name of scientific research, unlimited support, I don't know how many space wonders they will create!
Now, in a laboratory at the forward base, several scientists in white coats are closely watching a transparent glass box through a holographic projection.
In this glass box, there is a common superconducting material at room temperature, which is floating in the air.
The transparent glass box is flanked by dense lines that extend out to the orbit of the Ceres Particle Collider, and once the experiment begins, a large number of high-speed, high-energy particles will emerge from both sides and bombard the suspended superconducting material.
"Let's get started! Otherwise, the next group will complain that our experiment will time out. ”
"For the 25,742nd time, the observation test of the annihilation effect of particle-scale antimatter begins."
With a diameter of about 950 kilometers, the Particle Collider wanted to build such a long orbit, which would have been a big project even on Earth in the past, let alone in space?
However, with the progress of various projects at the forward base, the productivity has shown an exponential leap, and it is only a month to build such a mega project.
And its related construction ideas and drawings are all from the Terg's friendly dedication to the planetary orbital collider, and now it has become a necessary tool for various high-energy research.
As the command was given, some strange rays were emitted through these lines, acting on the superconducting material.
In the microcosm, a violent reaction is taking place, invisible to the naked eye.
It's a microstructure that's smaller than molecules, atoms. Within the range of the strong interaction force, the quarks that make up the hadron are suddenly dispersed, they are scattered in the empty space inside the atoms, and the phenomenon of quark exchange between different atoms is also generated. That is, quarks inside one atom sometimes run into the rest of the atoms.
They permeate the entire atomic space, and their distribution takes on the characteristics of "clouds", as if they were electron clouds.
As part of this process, the scientists in charge of the project observed that the superconducting material began to emit surging infrared light.
"This should be a small-scale collision of quarks during dispersion, and the energy level jump caused the generation of photons." A physical scientist analyzed. …
After the scientist finished speaking, an intelligent assistant immediately recorded this sentence and sent it to the host computer through the communication system, using the computing power of the supercomputer to carry out analysis.
After the smart assistant was submitted, the project team leader began to give instructions for the next step: "Start the instrument and start generating antimatter." ”
"Okay."
Another assistant agreed, pressing a few buttons on the instrument.
In the microcosm, the quarks that permeated the inner space of the atom and showed the characteristics of an "electron cloud" suddenly seemed to go crazy, and each of them crashed into the nearest quark.
In the violent impact, quarks recombine into hadrons, such as protons and neutrons, and in the process, some quarks disappear out of thin air. They become photons, or neutrinos, that escape from the interior of this piece of material.
To put it simply, this piece of superconducting material lights up.
And this is not the energy provided by the stream of high-energy particles, the energy source provided to the quark riot is the annihilation of particle-level antimatter.
It still can't be saved, but at least it's not out of control.
Just like the development of nuclear technology, it is possible to turn nuclear weapons into nuclear reactors by reducing the uncontrollable state to a controllable level.
Seems to have completed the first step?
"The energy harvesting instruments mounted on the glass are working fine, and the thermal energy transfer of superconducting materials is working fine."
"........ just a conversion rate, it's too low, isn't it?"
An expert sighed slightly: "We have thoroughly studied the principle of the antimatter pile in the Zerg spaceship, but when it comes to us, although some technical means are far from mature, our energy collection is ridiculously low, and we can't call it the energy generated by using antimatter at all!" ”
The expert was right that the amount of energy returned was very small compared to the energy invested in the experiment.
This is one of the dilemmas of fusion technology in the past, with a Q value below 1 and the output being much smaller than the input.
"What's this?"
"The controlled fusion technology that has been proven in the laboratory in the last century has also yielded very little energy."
"Although we already have the drawings, the humanization of related technologies is still being explored."
"This time to verify the feasibility of antimatter application is already a huge success, it is too difficult to eat fat in one go!"
Another expert, who was still collecting data, shook his head in reply, and at the same time did not let up on the work at hand.
"That's right!"
"Even if we have mature technology and reactor drawings, the antimatter theory is still too weak for mankind."
"This is not the case of the previous discovery of nuclear fusion reactors on the planets of the horns, when humans at least had a certain amount of technology accumulation. Now that we're working on something completely new, it's a big step forward to be able to test it out! ”
The team leader looked at the superconducting material that was heating steadily in front of him, and exhaled lightly, after so many rounds of experiments, only nine [mild and controllable] reactions were stably.
The success rate is a little lower, but the results are real.
Although human beings have seen the road in the distance on the road of antimatter application, they are still climbing the foot of the mountain.
But it has taken a steady step, and it has already crossed zero, and it has begun to run on this track like many civilizations.
Antimatter application technology, breakthrough!
Such an achievement, there is no need to even notify Lu Yu from Base Zero, he is just eating the dinner made by No. 7 in the living area, and under the prompting of the system in the breeze, human technology has taken another step forward.
It's a simple and 100 points again!