Chapter 655: Two Neutrons
Although this second impact experiment destroyed a 73-kilometer-long vacuum pipeline and some supporting facilities, the Martian colony branch could still afford this loss.
The Ring of Fire system is shut down again for maintenance.
After discussions with several other departments, the Military Industry Division is only going to study the Proton Star Destroyer Cannon, but it is not planned to mass production, this is just a preparation for technical reserves.
Dr. Yuri and others continued to study the data from this collision experiment.
Although only 0.32 seconds of collision were detected in this collision, the value of this 0.32 second collision data is very huge.
At least the intelligent civilization did not do this in the first place.
It's not that the intelligent machine civilization can't increase the energy level of the particle collider, after all, the other party uses the natural black hole as the energy core of the particle accelerator, and it can definitely accelerate even faster.
However, the acceleration is faster than the Vulcan ring system, but it does not mean that the intelligent civilization can collect effective data.
Because in the process of sub-light protons hitting each other, their destructive power also rises sharply as the energy level gradually increases.
This situation brings a fatal problem, that is, the damage caused by the collision is basically irreconcilable with the contradiction between the binding radius of the magnetic field.
Why is the Vulcan ring vacuum pipe only 50 meters in radius, and can't Homo sapiens make a much larger vacuum pipe?
Can be manufactured.
However, the cost performance is too low, and as the radius of the vacuum pipe increases, not only a larger superconducting coil is required, but also the radius of the vacuum region bound by the magnetic field increases, which causes the probability of emission collisions of particles operating in it to plummet.
If the probability of particle collision in the vacuum pipe decreases, the energy in operation will be greatly wasted.
Therefore, the radius of the vacuum pipeline is about 50 meters, which is a relatively suitable range.
This is also the fact that Homo sapiens has referred to the experience of intelligent machine civilization to obtain this relatively appropriate range.
After all, the vacuum pipes of most of the particle colliders of the intelligent machine civilization are about 30~100 meters.
This radius poses another problem.
That is, as the particles accelerate closer to the speed of light, the destructive force of their collisions also skyrockets, which is a deadly threat to vacuum pipes.
The particle colliders of the intelligent machine civilization used lower energy levels in the collision experiments than the second impact experiments of the Vulcan ring system.
The reason for this situation is that beyond this energy level, the vacuum pipeline and the supporting superconducting coils and precision instruments will be seriously damaged.
This disruption results in almost unreceivable experimental data, and if an experiment has no way to feed back experimental data, the experiment will be worthless.
Therefore, the particle collision experiment of the intelligent machine civilization will never be able to obtain data similar to the second experiment of the Vulcan ring system.
The reason why Homo sapiens was able to obtain the data for the second impact experiment was also thanks to the magnetic monopole crystal communicator owned by Homo sapiens.
The magnetic unipolar crystal communicator is used to have almost no delay, and the data of the impact experiment is fed back to the data center in an instant, so as to avoid the explosion caused by the collision from destroying the monitoring equipment and resulting in data loss.
This 0.32 seconds of time, the information contained during the period, is not grasped by the intelligent civilization.
Dr. Yuri and a group of researchers analyzed the data without sleep or food.
8 days after the second impact experiment.
Among them, Dr. Ye Feifei, who is in charge of neutron data analysis, looked at three of the data, his eyes flashed and thought: "Strange, is this neutron a coincidence?" Or does it really exist? ”
Ruan Zhixiong, a colleague on the side, heard him talking to himself, turned his head curiously and asked:
"Extraordinary, what have you discovered?"
"I found three special signals in the data."
"Special signals? What's so special? I'll take a look......" Ruan Zhixiong walked over and glanced at it, and there was a hint of surprise on his face: "Huh? It's really weird. ”
Holographic projection page.
The results of the three special signals, according to the results analyzed by the computational model, show that they are three atomic nuclei.
If it was just an ordinary atomic nucleus, then Ye Feifei and Ruan Zhixiong would not be so surprised.
Apparently these three nuclei are unusual.
All three nuclei are made up of "two neutrons".
That's right, the result of the supercomputing model is the "nucleus" composed of two neutrons.
Obviously, this kind of "atomic nucleus" is also the first time that the two of them have encountered, if it weren't for the three same signals, Ye Feifei would have wondered if the monitoring system had made a mistake.
Ye Feifei frowned: "It stands to reason that there is no way for neutrons to exist alone in nature for a long time, and there is no way to form a separate nucleus between neutrons and neutrons. ”
"Could it be a short-term intermediate state?"
"Not quite like ...... During that 0.32 seconds, these three signals have been very stable, and I suspect this thing can stay stable for a long time. Ye Feifei said his opinion.
The two of them exchanged with other colleagues for a while, but they still didn't figure out the true face of this thing.
Until the person in charge of the repair, it was during the repair process that a very strange atom was discovered.
The reason why this peculiar atom can be found in the dense material polymer is because the magnetic field of this thing is very special, different from the recorded elemental magnetic field.
Therefore, the maintenance personnel suspected that it was a special product of the experiment, and carried out a very careful screening of the location where the special magnetic field was found.
It took more than a week to find the "atom" that emitted a special magnetic field.
At this time, Zhu Rongcheng's nuclear physics laboratory was inside.
Including Dr. Yuri, Dr. Ye Feifei and others, they are all looking at this special "nucleus" in the lens of a comprehensive microscope.
A nucleus made up of two neutrons alone.
"Neutron degenerate matter?" Ye Feifei said in disbelief.
Ruan Zhixiong also scratched his head at this time in the face of the unreasonable substance in front of him: "Something is wrong!" Why can this double neutron nucleus be stable? ”
If it weren't for the fact that it was in front of them, they wouldn't have believed it.
But facts speak louder than words.
Ye Feifei muttered to himself while thinking: "Neutrons are extremely unstable in nature, and they will decay into protons, electrons, and antineutrinos. ”
"If you change the perspective, then neutrons can actually be understood as a combination of protons + electrons + antineutrinos......"
"Neutrons in nature are often combined with protons to form atomic nuclei, and the two can be combined, which means that neutrons can exist stably, but they need some kind of stability mechanism......"
The more Ye Feifei spoke, the brighter the light in his eyes became.