Chapter XXXIV Uranium Mines

After the industrial level here in Europa is up to standard, it is a bit inappropriate to continue to stay here on Europa and continue to control Europa remotely.

It's time to move again.

During this time, Chen Yue has improved his chip technology again, from 7nm to 5nm. This means that on top of the same volume of wafers, Chen Yue can integrate more circuits, and thus obtain higher performance and greater computing power.

At the same time, a new generation of supercomputing operating system has also been developed. Using this set of operating systems, Chen Yue can reduce the overhead of interrupt requests and inter-process communication, and has done a lot of performance improvement work in vectorization, program looping, memory hierarchy and data locality optimization.

The brand-new operating system, which is more in line with Chen Yue's own existence, allows Chen Yue to operate the underlying hardware more conveniently and quickly, and more conveniently coordinate up to 100,000 chips to work together to achieve his own goals. Combined with more advanced chip manufacturing technology, it once again brought up to 20 times more computing power to Chen Yue.

At this moment, Chen Yue transferred himself to the spaceship again, and then landed next to Europa's new supercomputing base that had been built, and then transferred himself to it again through a wired connection.

At this moment, more surging computing power rolled in, and Chen Yue manipulated the industrial facilities comparable to the two planets Ganymede and Ganymede combined, and he only felt relaxed and relaxed.

His computing power is only 0.12% at the moment.

The more abundant computing power provides Chen Yue with greater confidence. He immediately made arrangements for the next development plan.

The first is to continue to expand the industrial base, continue to iterate, and launch an impact on higher precision and higher performance.

Second, Chen Yue planned to do something that he didn't dare to do in the past.

Development of fundamental physics.

Fundamental physics is the foundation of all technologies.

Up to now, Chen Yue can be said to be eating the old book of the human era. All the technologies used by Chen Yue have been developed from the human era, and there may be some innovation in form, but in essence, it can be said that there is no innovation at all.

Without basic physics and new physical theories, how can we innovate?

The study of basic physics requires a large investment, slow results, and is extremely resource-intensive. This is the fundamental reason why Chen Yue did not dare to get involved in basic physics research in the past. But now, naturally, the situation is different.

"At the peak of human beings, their technology had only just reached the point where they could land on Mars with a man. My future is destined to soar in this vast universe. It's time for me to push the science forward. ”

Chen Yue thought so.

He planned the first basic physics research facilities and made a list.

First on the list are up to 10 space telescopes. The ten space telescopes cover every band of electromagnetic waves, from radio waves, microwaves, to infrared, ultraviolet, visible, X-ray, and gamma rays.

These ten space telescopes will become Chen Yue's eyes gazing into the deep space of the universe.

In addition to the space telescope, Chen Yue also plans to build two gravitational-wave telescopes. However, this thing is too high-tech, and it may not be possible to build it now, so let's slowly accumulate technology first.

Then there are the neutrino telescopes and, most importantly, the High Energy Particle Collider.

To understand the mysteries of the microcosm, particles must be subjected to extremely high energies for the mysteries inside them to be revealed. The Particle Collider is one such device.

It can accelerate microscopic particle beams to the point of even approaching the speed of light, allowing them to collide, and its instantaneous energy density can even create miniature black holes.

Of course, this is something that only the largest particle colliders can do. Humans at their peak failed to do it. Chen Yue only put forward a plan first, and then slowly realized it later.

However, the big one can't be built, and it's okay to build a small one first. After all, Chen Yue's own database does not have those high-end scientific data that belong to the frontier of science. These data still have to be mastered by doing collision experiments again and again.

The third development plan is equally important.

Although Europa has ample methane and oxygen as energy sources, Chen Yue is still not satisfied. He had decided to go for a higher way of obtaining energy.

After all, on Europa it's fine, methane and oxygen are inexhaustible, but what about a spaceship flying in space? You can't fly a distance and refuel once, and fly a distance to refuel, right?

It's better to say that in the inner solar system, what will happen when you go on an interstellar voyage in the future?

A more efficient way to harvest energy is the only viable option. As for the more efficient way to obtain energy, human times have proven that nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, which come from the energy inside the atom, are the best and most suitable for use.

The original Z-bomb was created based on the energy of nuclear fission. The more powerful hydrogen bomb is based on the energy of nuclear fusion.

Controlled nuclear fission has been mastered in the human era, and numerous nuclear power plants have been created. But controlled nuclear fusion was not mastered until its demise. Chen Yue naturally didn't grasp it, but he had realized that if he wanted to travel within the solar system to his heart's content—not to mention outside the solar system for the time being, controlled nuclear fusion alone was the only feasible way to obtain energy.

"Only when controlled nuclear fusion is mastered can a combat spacecraft in the true sense of the word be built."

Chen Yue was clearly aware of this.

As a result, while continuing to carry out large-scale construction and expand its own industrial scale, many basic scientific research facilities and nuclear industry laboratories have also been put into construction.

The first thing you need to do to master nuclear energy is to find fissile material.

On Earth, uranium-235 or plutonium-239 are commonly used as fissile material. Here, after Chen Yue's exploration, plutonium-239 was not found, but uranium ore was found two.

It was a lake of liquid water.

The highly radioactive uranium heats up the water ice, allowing it to take on a liquid form even when Europa geothermal heat is not available.

Now, what Chen Yue needs to do is to separate uranium-235 from this water.

"Let's build a centrifuge factory."

Chen Yue thought so.

As a result, a power station was erected here. Next to the power station, an even larger factory slowly appeared.

In this factory, there are more than 10,000 "drums". Each drum can be rotated at extremely high speeds. Tens of thousands of rotating drums rotate at high speed, and with the rest of the equipment, this factory consumes more electricity than an entire city in the Earth Age.