Chapter 206: Antimatter Research

In the macrocosmic context of the universe, the passage of time in human perception becomes insignificant.

Considering that the stars will not be able to have a dominant influence on the wandering Earth in a short period of time, the Empire has adopted a stocking mode, maintaining friendly exchanges, not interfering and not distancing.

Although the United International wanted to get other solutions to the disaster from the Star Empire, the Wandering Earth World was currently close to getting out of the range of the sun's helium flash, and it could be said that success was imminent, so this idea was slowly dragged down after considering the price it had to pay.

The Earth's orbit change is accelerating year after year, and although the top brass remains calm, the spirit of the masses is like a cosmic swing, spending day after day in alternating fear of being far away from and near the sun.

In the later stages of the escape, various disasters followed.

Due to the acceleration generated by the Earth engine and the change of orbit, the balance of the iron-nickel core in the Earth's core is disturbed, and its influence passes through the Gutenberg discontinuity and spreads to the mantle.

Geothermal heat escapes from various continents and volcanoes are rampant, which is a fatal threat to the underground cities built by humans in the wandering earth world.

In the dungeons of the continents, magma seepage disasters are frequent.

The visiting team of the Star Empire also witnessed a catastrophe when they visited the dungeon.

Luckily, however, they were among the first to evacuate as a diplomatic corps.

When the alarm sounded that day, there were only two underground roads leading to the outside, all of which had been blocked last year due to the need to reinforce the barrier, and it was possible to escape by means of elevators that went straight through the shaft to the surface.

The carrying capacity of the elevator is very small, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the dungeon visited by the visiting group of the Star Empire, and it takes a long time to transport it out by elevator alone.

"The First Evolution"

As with all emergency measures in the event of a disaster, babies are the first to be evacuated, then kindergarten children, and then elementary school children......

The evacuation took a long time, and four hours after the delegation reached the surface, the magma engulfed the entire city at a depth of 500 meters.

The lava poured into the underground plaza, and the city was powered off, and the entire dungeon was covered only with the terrifying dark red glow of the lava.

The tall white dome of the square gradually darkened in the heat, and a total of 30,000 or 40,000 victims may have been killed by the thousands of degrees of heat before they even touched the magma.

After this incident, the entire Star Empire understood what the Wandering Earth was enduring, and Shen Sen also understood why the Great Human Rebellion would occur with an unstoppable trend.

What kind of family affection, friendship and love, under the test of survival of all mankind, is not worth mentioning, and it is not allowed to have it completely.

In pre-solar times, to be a noble person one had money, power, or talent, while on the Wandering Earth there was only hope that hope was the gold and jewel of their time.

Once even the last hope is destroyed, they can be said to be left with nothing, and no one can predict what desperate people will do at that time.

And in order to make billions of people pay the price for centuries of painstaking efforts, even if the stars are willing to pay a huge price to help the earth, the United International will probably consider it carefully, and will not agree unless it is absolutely necessary.

The dungeons of the Asian continent in the eastern hemisphere are full of dangers, and they also have dangers in the western hemisphere that the other side does not experience, that is, the earth is going through the asteroid belt again, this time in the direction of the western hemisphere.

In the last few orbit change cycles, the Earth has passed through the asteroid belt many times, but those times it is just grazing the edge of the asteroid belt, and the space fleet that wanders around the Earth's periphery has the ability to deal with it, and they can use lasers and nuclear bombs to remove all the small rocks on the Earth's path.

But this time the earth has to pass through the middle of the asteroid belt, and the fleet can only deal with those big rocks, but this time the meteorite is as big as a mountain, and the 50-million-ton thermonuclear bomb can only make a small crater on it.

Then the Star Empire learned during the exchange that the other party was about to use its most powerful weapon, the antimatter bomb.

When it comes to antimatter, you will think that antimatter and positive matter will be annihilated, and you will feel that it is very far away from the matter in life.

But in reality, in a sense, antimatter is everywhere, and there is antimatter in any matter.

The macrocosm of the material universe is almost entirely composed of atoms or molecules, and there are very strong interactions between protons and neutrons in the nucleus, and the particles that transmit this interaction contain antimatter.

So, in this sense, antimatter is present in all macroscopic matter.

Antimatter cannot be produced in the environment we live in, but it can be easily produced in the laboratory, and in a collision experiment, thousands of antimatter particles are produced, and the photon's antimatter is itself.

There is no repulsion between antimatter and matter, and there is no Coulomb barrier, as long as they come into contact with each other, an annihilation reaction will occur, and it will be destroyed in an instant.

So it's not a lot of effort to make it, even a few big countries on the Blue Star have the strength, and the difficulty is how to collect, store and use each other.

The greatest military significance of the successful production of antimatter is not to make antimatter weapons, but to greatly reduce the cost of hydrogen bombs, because unlike fissile materials, which are limited by critical mass, a small amount of antimatter can be used to make a large number of hydrogen bombs.

However, if the antimatter bomb is successfully developed, then its power will be very powerful, and it is roughly estimated that the energy of one gram of antimatter is equivalent to 43,000 tons of TNT equivalent, which is extremely harmful.

Generally speaking, a country can only be qualified to conduct research on antimatter bombs and antimatter engines after breaking through some antimatter applications and engineering experiments, such as antimatter storage.

According to the information revealed by the Wandering Earth, their antimatter bombs are very rare and precious, and they will only be used at critical moments.

But in any case, the other side has mastered some of the key technologies of antimatter, and can successfully apply them in practice.

The Star Empire's research on antimatter is inherited from the Wasteland Relics technology, mainly focusing on antimatter energy and engines, and the research on antimatter bombs is still in the experimental stage, and the first antimatter bomb is planned to be detonated in about three months.

It can be said that in terms of weapons, the Wandering Earth is ahead of the Star Empire.

In order to make effective use of resources, they have invested a lot of resources in the field of planetary engines, atomic energy, underground cities, and space fleets, but most of them are at the level of the twenty-first century in other fields.

Compared to the Star Empire, the two sides basically have their own strengths, and they can just learn from each other's strengths.

Therefore, the Wandering Earth is a rare delicacy for the current stars, and eating it can save at least a few decades of development time.

The Gate of Time and Space not only brings resources and territory expansion, but also brings precious opportunities to the stars, an opportunity to communicate with countless civilizations in the multiverse.

As long as you grasp it, the Star Empire will develop rapidly at an unimaginable speed, and one day, before everyone may have reacted, it has become a veritable cosmic empire across the sea of stars.

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