Chapter 504: Exploration
Char is expected to be on the ship during this time, because his mastery of magic is very helpful to Tony's original Rune's research.
The current Hogwarts Professor's Rune is actually parsed from the original Rune, and through comparative analysis and huge computing power, there is also the possibility of backtracking.
There is no sun and moon on the solar boat, so it is easy to forget the passage of time when you stay on it.
But life on the ship was not boring, and the alchemists who attended the banquet, young and old, stayed on board and participated in the study.
Even the dwarves were invited by Tony shortly after, as they also had to repair the broken sword.
Of course, these people are nothing compared to the real capacity of this ship.
With the addition of the dwarves, the ship became lively, and the remaining drinks from the Norse mythological period in the cabin were not surprisingly to their tastes, and they would go to the cellar to enjoy the wine almost after work.
In order to enjoy the drinks, the dwarves held a feast every once in a while, at first with their own revelry, and later more and more people joined in.
The teleportation of the space gate requires a lot of energy, so they can't easily travel back and forth between Earth and the ship.
Space is very empty, empty makes people feel small all the time, although the ship is not small, but in the face of the vast and deep darkness around it, it will indeed make people be gradually swallowed by an unknown fear.
This may also be the reason why astronauts have to go through a rigorous screening, although the scenery of the universe is stunning, not everyone can withstand the vastness of the universe.
At this time, the stimulation of alcohol is very important, and Tony obviously knows this, so in addition to stipulating that they are not allowed to enter the laboratory when they are drunk, he does not stop this behavior.
People vented their emotions at the banquet and drank freely, and Char sometimes participated in it, and he rarely got drunk a few times without scruples.
During this time, he really had a very clear understanding of what the Dionysian spirit of "laughing at all tragedies" was.
During this time, he had a good look at the ship.
It's a lot bigger on the inside than it looks.
In addition to the forest they used to hold the banquet, Char found a golden wheat field at the bottom of the ship.
Yes, it's a wheat field in the literal sense, the owner of this divine ship is Frey, and he is also the god of harvest, and the existence of a wheat field is unexpectedly reasonable.
Like the forest, there is a sky, four seasons and sunshine.
Tony wanted to turn the field into a mech storage site, so he asked the androids to harvest the wheat and make bread.
Then they discovered that the bread made of these wheat could not only restore the magic quickly, but even speed up the recovery of wounds.
So he protected the field and called it Frey.
There are thousands of rooms on board, and they are often surprised.
When a whale dies in the ocean, its carcass eventually sinks to the bottom of the ocean, and a single whale carcass can support a circulatory system dominated by decomposers for up to 100 years. In the deep sea of the North Pacific, the carcass sustained the survival of at least 12,490 organisms of at least 43 species, contributing to the flourishing of deep-sea life.
Biologists refer to this phenomenon as "whale falls."
And at this moment, they are also enjoying the "whale fall" of a god system.
Of course, it's not Tony's character to study twenty-four hours a day, and in their free time, they also explore the rest of the planets.
The exploration was actually completed in the first year.
The god ship cannot leave the solar system, because there is only a star map of the solar system in the ship, and if it runs out, it is very likely that it will not be able to come back, so it can only explore several major planets in the solar system.
Tony's exploration of these planets was mainly due to Semerle's previous words, which found something left by his father inside Jupiter, so he also wondered if the other planets also had something left by God.
The ultimate answer is that no, or with their current technology, they can't find anything left in these systems.
But even so, the exploration of these planets has benefited these alchemists immensely.
The extreme environments of high temperatures, high pressures, and ultra-low temperatures on different planets allow them to experiment with many alchemical products.
and materials that do not exist on Earth can also open new directions for them.
For example, six months after they came to space, they discovered a material called "nanodiamonds".
It was a diamond crystal, and only an electron microscope could reveal these tiny particles, which were about three nanometers in diameter (1 nanometer is one billionth of a meter).
That's why they call these natural diamonds "nanodiamonds".
Alchemists generally believe that these diamonds may have come from outside the solar system.
When massive stars reach the end of their lives, they produce supernova explosions that conduct strong shock waves in the scattered gas.
In such an intense environment, the carbon atoms in the gas combine to form nanodiamonds due to the action of pressure.
The generated nanodiamonds are widely scattered in the universe, and after the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, they were captured by the solar system, so the solar system contains nanodiamonds generated in ancient times.
Therefore, the nanodiamonds found in meteorites appeared before the formation of the solar system and were materials in space in ancient times.
This material has a huge perspective and absorption rate for radar waves and infrared ultraviolet light, and can be invisible and anti-corrosion when coated on aircraft, tanks, missiles, and warships.
When added to explosives, it greatly increases the explosive power of explosives.
Nano diamond brushes can be plated on the protective armor of armored vehicles and tanks, and plated into the barrel and barrel.
By adding nanodiamonds to fabric fibers, it is possible to create wear-resistant, self-cleaning, UV-resistant, and invisible fabrics.
Of course, this is not the main thing, the most important discovery in this planetary exploration is the discovery of a material in the interior of Jupiter - metallic hydrogen.
Metallic hydrogen is a conductor of electricity that liquid or solid hydrogen turns into at high pressures of millions of atmospheres.
This is a high-density, high-energy storage material,
According to Tony, the advent of metallic hydrogen will cause an epoch-making revolution in the entire field of science and technology, just like the birth of the steam engine back then.
It is the holy grail of physics.
This is a metastable substance, which means that if it is detached from high pressure, it does not immediately become gaseous hydrogen, of course, this does not mean that it is in a state of equilibrium, but remains relatively stable.
It can be used as a "magnetic cage" to confine the plasma, "containing" the red-hot ionized gas, so that the controlled nuclear fusion reaction converts the nuclear energy into electricity, which will be cheap and clean.
"Sun-like factories" will be conveniently built on Earth, and mankind will finally solve the energy problem.
Compared to Tony's cold fusion, this fusion can be built on a larger scale and produce more energy.
And most importantly, metallic hydrogen is a superconductor, that is, zero resistance.
Unlike most superconductors, which must be at ultra-low temperatures, metallic hydrogen is a room-temperature superconductor.
With metallic hydrogen transmission, large-scale substations can be eliminated and the transmission efficiency is more than 99%, which can increase the world's power generation by more than a quarter.
If a generator is made of metallic hydrogen, its weight is less than 10% of the weight of an ordinary generator, and the output power can be increased by dozens or even hundreds of times.
If it is used for energy storage, the battery can be eliminated directly.
Metallic hydrogen also has significant military value. The rocket is fueled by liquid hydrogen, so the rocket must be made into a large thermos-like container to ensure low temperatures. If metallic hydrogen is used, the rocket can be made smart, small.
When applied to aeronautical technology, metallic hydrogen can dramatically increase speeds per hour, even exceeding the speed of sound by many times.
Since the volume of metallic hydrogen of the same mass is only 1/7 of that of liquid hydrogen, the fuel cell composed of it can be easily applied to automobiles, and then the city will no longer be noisy and polluted but will become very clean and quiet.
Metallic hydrogen contains a huge amount of energy, 30-40 times larger than ordinary TNT explosives. It can cause a nuclear-weapon-like explosion, but it is not polluted and can be used as a conventional weapon.
And the science fiction weapons that appear in many science fiction works can also be realized by using their superconducting properties, such as electromagnetic guns.
The main scientific problem of the electromagnetic cannon is the need for instantaneous output, which is not possible with today's capacitors and cannot achieve such a large amount of instantaneous energy output, but superconducting coils without resistors can do this.
The most important thing is that Jupiter has a very large amount of metallic hydrogen inside, which can be mined directly, and because of its metastable state, there is no need to worry about the need for a lot of pressure to maintain it.
And if they can successfully parse this substance, it is not impossible to synthesize it directly with the training array.
It can be said that this is enough material to lead a whole system.
There are already quite a few alchemists who are ready to spend time studying the application fields of this material, and it is estimated that there will be many alchemists who specialize in this field in the future.
Whether it is in the direction of life application or weapon manufacturing, this research direction is very promising.
In addition, it is helium-three, the perfect material for nuclear fusion.
Cold nuclear fusion, like Tony's previous production, uses deuterium-tritium fusion, which has the disadvantage of emitting neutrons, which corrode the outer shell and require frequent material changes.
But helium-3 is different in that it does not produce neutrons, and it can directly generate electricity, which produces more energy.
Helium III is formed by solar storms, so there are some on the Moon, but most of them are Mercury, the closest to the Sun.
Of course, Tony also plans to build a space station with a Dyson cloud structure outside of Mercury, where a forge will be built to forge weapons using the sun's radiance.
This is also the key to reforging the sword and forging Char's wand.
While Tony's fusion device can be built with ultra-high temperatures, a good forge requires a number of other magical factors besides ultra-high temperatures.
Ordinary nuclear fusion furnaces are not as good as the sun that has existed in the universe for billions of years.
In addition, they will often travel to other planets.
Most of the planets in the solar system, like Jupiter, are not good places to visit, either extremely cold, or high temperature and pressure, and need a lot of protection.
So in fact, you can go to the moon and Mars.
The first place they went outside of their research was actually the moon.
There's nothing particularly dangerous up there, but there's nothing else either, craters everywhere.
However, due to its proximity to the Earth, it is also a great place to see the Earth.
Find a clearing, set up a protective barrier, set up a table, a few old man shake music, drink tea, and watch the rotation of the earth for hours.
It is undeniable that this blue planet is the most beautiful planet in the entire solar system, the blue sea intersects with the green land, the white clouds circulate in the sky, and you can see the stars belonging to civilization on the land at night.
The surrounding sea of stars is also an extremely strange scene.
But Tony is obviously not willing to be limited to the appreciation of the scenery, and he is very amused to imprint a large footprint on the front of the moon with a mecha.
Char felt that in the future, if people on the earth came to the moon, and the astronauts shouted "I have taken a small step, mankind has taken a big step", he saw an inhuman footprint that was much larger than the footprints he had stepped on, and it was estimated that some wonderful things would happen.
Char seems to be able to see the scene of those scientists holding pictures and pulling their hair day and night.
On top of that, Tony even placed a simple spaceship on the far side of the moon with a lot of advanced technology inside.
At least for humans who have just been able to enter the far side of the moon, those technologies are definitely the ones that can make a big leap forward in civilization.
He could already see the legend of the aliens who had come to the solar system spread among the world's top and kept secret. (End of chapter)