Chapter 40: Deep Sea One

This ultrapure water is poured directly into the large sphere.

After that, Chen Yue made supporting equipment, such as monitors, controllers, control centers, etc., and the neutrino telescope was completed.

Neutrinos penetrate many obstacles, and when they reach the inside of this large sphere, they have a chance to hit the constituent particles of ultrapure water.

Neutrinos are extremely penetrating, but probabilities are inevitable.

One trillion neutrinos can all penetrate a neutrino telescope, but what about ten trillion? A hundred trillion, a hundred million billion?

Even if it doesn't work, there will always be one or two of the 100 billion, billions of neutrinos that happen to hit the particle structure of ultrapure water because of bad luck, right?

- Because of this, the larger the neutrino telescope, the higher the probability of observing neutrino impacts, and the better its performance.

The neutrino telescope built by Chen Yue can still surpass human civilization and reach the same level.

Once neutrinos collide with the particles that make up water, some of the remaining particles will be created based on particle physics theory. The movement of these particles in ultrapure water exceeds the speed of light.

The so-called insurmountable speed of light refers to the speed of light in a vacuum.

The propagation speed of light in a vacuum is the upper limit of the cosmic speed and cannot be surpassed. But in other media, such as water, it can be surpassed.

Once the speed of light is exceeded, a phenomenon called "Cherenkov radiation" occurs. It emits an extremely faint pale blue glow.

This light will be amplified by those photomultipliers installed on the spherical wall of the neutrino telescope, and will eventually be captured by Chen Yue.

By studying these rays, Chen Yue can determine whether neutrino collisions have occurred, what the type of collision is, and many other data such as the energy and direction of neutrinos.

These data will become Chen Yue's food and accumulation to increase his understanding of the underlying laws of the universe.

At this moment, all the facilities have been built, the commissioning work has been completed, and the self-inspection has passed.

Looking at this huge ball, as well as the criss-crossing cables, and the many most advanced equipment he could make, Chen Yue's heart was full of pride.

"So...... Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope, start! ”

A huge amount of energy is fed into the base, supporting the operation of various equipment.

Only half an hour after the telescope equipment was activated, the first impact was observed by Chen Yue.

The mesmerizing pale blue glow was amplified by a photomultiplier, and all of its data was automatically analyzed.

Through the energy level and direction, Chen Yue judged its source.

It's the sun.

A neutrino from the sun, hundreds of millions of kilometers away, crossed a long distance, penetrated the thick ice, and hit the ultrapure water particles, which was observed by Chen Yue.

The sun is powered by nuclear fusion. Because it is so large and dense, it takes an average of about 15 million years for the photons generated from it to reach the surface and be released.

This means that the sunlight that Chen Yue sees at this moment was born from within it as early as 15 million years ago. It's just that it's just been released at the moment.

But neutrinos are different.

Neutrinos are so penetrating that they can penetrate the sun and leave as soon as they are generated.

As a result, this neutrino from the sun plays a role in revealing the internal structure and evolution of the sun. Through the study of it, Chen Yue will be able to peek into the mysteries of the sun's interior.

Soon after, a second impact occurred.

Chen Yue studied and analyzed it, and confirmed that the source of the neutrinos in this impact event was the No. 2 nuclear power plant, which was built by himself more than 600 kilometers away.

Nuclear fission reactions also release neutrinos.

However, of course, self-built nuclear power plants have no observation and analysis value. Chen Yue changed the data slightly, and then directly blocked his nuclear power plant.

From this moment on, all neutrinos from the nuclear power plant, even if there is an impact incident, Chen Yue will not pay attention.

Thanks to the superior performance of this neutrino telescope, Chen Yue observed a number of impact events in a short period of time.

One of the things that caught Chen Yue's attention was a neutrino impact event from the interior of Jupiter.

Jupiter's interior, because of the extremely strong pressure, is currently theorized to be a hard core composed mainly of metallic hydrogen.

Ordinary hydrogen is compressed into a solid under extremely strong pressure and exhibits metallic properties, which is metallic hydrogen.

Metallic hydrogen contains extremely powerful chemical energy. It can be detonated, and once detonated, the energy released per unit of metallic hydrogen can reach dozens of times that of the famous TN explosive of the same weight.

But this is just a speculation. In fact, human civilization, including Chen Yue at this moment, still knows very little about gas giants like Jupiter.

At this moment, by studying this neutrino from the interior of Jupiter, Chen Yue can also get a lot of information.

In the period that followed, the impact was repeated. After analysis, Chen Yue learned that these neutrinos come from a variety of sources, some come from surrounding stars, some have extremely high energy levels, and it is speculated that they may come from some extremely violent astronomical events, such as supernova explosions, neutron star mergers, etc., and even some from the Andromeda Galaxy outside the Milky Way.

"What kind of fate is this?"

Chen Yue sighed silently in his heart.

The Milky Way is 100,000 light-years in diameter, and the Andromeda Galaxy is more than 2 million light-years away. A neutrino from the Andromeda galaxy, spanning a distance of more than two million light years, and finally reaching the Jupiter system of the solar system, happened to collide with the ultrapure water in the neutrino telescope built by Chen Yue and was observed by him, the probability is so small that it is impossible to calculate.

This telescope was put into operation in this way, and a steady stream of scientific data was produced for Chen Yue.

A year after it was put into work, Chen Yue built the Deep-Sea 2 Neutrino Telescope on the other side of Europa, the farthest point in a straight line from the Shenhai-1 Neutrino Telescope on the planet.

When two neutrino telescopes are combined, more information can be obtained.

Time passed quietly. On this day, another collision incident caught Chen Yue's attention.

The Deep-Sea 1 Neutrino Telescope has observed an impact event caused by a neutrino at an extremely high energy level.

"Is it another astronomical event? I'll see what this will be......"

Chen Yue originally thought that this was another event such as a supernova explosion. He also thought that after confirming the direction, he would use an optical telescope to find the optical counterpart and observe it in detail.

But this time, things seem to be different.