Chapter 174 Another Breakthrough in the Application of Antimatter

【awful】

  I really want to engrave this word on the triangle spacecraft.

  Going out for a long trip and losing contact with civilization after returning, he deserves this word.

   On the contrary, the delta spacecraft obviously did not give up. It changed several methods and transformed several methods, and stayed here trying to find clues.

  The airport here is one of the most secretive strongholds of the Huan civilization. I don’t know if the primitive animals know the truth of the three caves of the cunning rabbit. Even if it develops to a higher civilization, remember to leave a fire for civilization.

According to the triangular spacecraft, this airport has existed for more than five million years. It has a complete technological tree of civilization, a complete industrial chain and material reserves. recover.

  But it just disappeared without a sound, leaving no trace of resistance.

  If the Huan civilization still exists, this incident can definitely be ranked as a major event in the history of civilization. And shouldn't the most important thing for the triangular spacecraft now is to get in touch with civilization first, and send this series of information back?

  But now, it has a completely different attitude from the one that is anxious to leave the transfer station. Looking at a large number of devices that are continuously deployed from the spaceship, it seems that it wants to conduct a long-term search here.

   "There is obviously a problem with the civilization of the Huan tribe, and the triangular spaceship also realized something, so it stayed here intentionally to confirm a certain situation."

   "But the time for him to confirm the situation may be just a moment for advanced civilized creatures without lifespan, but it may have been a hundred years for us."

  The experts who have been paying attention to the situation raised their concerns in a timely manner. In their opinion, this is not something that can be solved quickly. Although there are mission points that can be earned, who knows how long it will take! ?

   This does not seem to be the same as before, it is not a project to earn fast points!

   Between the lines, only the idea of ​​running away was revealed.

  But now I have nothing to do when I return to the folding space, and the energy supply has not been repaired, so it is okay to wait here for a while.

  As soon as Lu Yu made his judgment, no one said anything else.

  A special discussion group on the Huan tribe was established immediately, allowing No. 7 to establish contact with the delta spacecraft at high frequency, to obtain more information about the history of Huan tribe civilization, and to establish a simple civilization model.

  Although we are all guessing about the model of advanced civilization, but looking at it from the perspective of human beings, combined with thousands of examples of civilization, it might be impossible to draw something.

   "The origin is similar to that of race No. 997 in the database of cosmic sociology. Their ancestors are all intelligent life forms of mammals and eggs."

   "The original parent star of the ring family is 97% similar to race No. 1882 in the database. They are both on planets with very few lands, and they are all in binary star systems."

   "..."

  These achievements may be trivial, but they add a rather rare example and model to human deduction of biological evolution.

   While maintaining the connection with the Silver Star, the triangular spaceship in front of me tried to find traces and news that might be left before and after the disappearance of the airport by all available means.

  In this cosmic void where the light has become ethereal, the two spaceships seem to be immersed in the deepest darkness.

  …….

  Lu Yu didn't intend to force the Huanzu's wool. Although there seemed to be only one option left for the system task in front of him, he was not in a hurry to choose.

   In the living area, you should eat and drink.

   Nearly a month after the cosmic void passed, the triangular spacecraft still failed to achieve any results, but there was another good news from Blue Star.

  Currently, there are two technological problems in the advance base that urgently need to be broken through. One is anti-matter utilization technology, and the other is light-speed navigation technology.

  These two technologies complement each other. Antimatter utilization technology is the cornerstone of light speed navigation technology. Otherwise, if you want to accelerate the spacecraft to sub-light speed, or to a state close to the speed of light, the amount of energy required is scary. If it is powered by nuclear fusion, it means that to complete an interstellar voyage, it will take tens of billions of tons of energy and fuel alone.

  Because of the size limitation of the spacecraft, in civilizations that have not mastered space technology, most of the space inside the spacecraft hull is indeed used to load nuclear fusion fuel, that is, deuterium or helium 3, which are important nuclear fusion raw materials.

  The Dyson sphere civilization used this method to realize the light-speed route between the stars, which consumed a lot. They also collected a lot of resources from other star systems, which supported a cosmic spectacle like a Dyson sphere.

   But if the antimatter engine can be researched, all this will be different!

  The way antimatter generates energy is more efficient than nuclear fusion, and of course requires higher technology.

  But after having enough energy, there is definitely a lot of work that can be done on the spacecraft. Looking at the huge spaceship of the Zerg, it can be said that it integrates weapons and civilized life.

  If it is only the nuclear fusion engine that has been developed to the extreme, the endurance of the light speed spacecraft is only a few hundred light years.

  In fact, it will be much smaller than this number. A spaceship still needs energy in many places, such as the high-frequency calculation of the shipboard main engine, such as the defense of the energy shield, such as weapons and steering, and so on. After a comprehensive calculation, a light-speed spacecraft can only cruise within a hundred light-years when it is fully stored with fuel.

  But after the development of the warp speed engine that travels faster than the speed of light, the situation will change again, but at that time, the energy supply such as nuclear fusion cannot satisfy the warp speed engine, and the antimatter utilization technology really shines at this time.

   According to the normal development history of civilization, the nuclear fusion device alone has achieved energy surplus at this stage, and civilization has no need and motivation to spend a lot of energy on researching antimatter technology.

   But after all, human beings are a race that has opened their eyes and seen the universe. They understand that nuclear fusion is enough to deal with the present, and it may even be enough to deal with the unknown fleet!

   But what about the future?

  The great universe is now ushering in a rare window of time for countless epochs. The evil restarters are fighting among themselves and sealing themselves. The next 100 million years will be the best time to become a universe-level civilization.

   At this time, it can pull civilization one step further, and it can take a little more opportunity in the future!

   As for whether it will turn into a dragon after becoming a universe-level civilization, you must first get the holy sword that can slay dragons!

  The good news this time came from the antimatter research team at the forward base.

   On Ceres, which is now almost covered by various metal bases, a large particle collider has been arranged on the equator.

  The experts and professors at the forward base were still dissatisfied, and even proposed to build a circumstellar orbit collider around the sun, or even an asteroid belt collider.

   This group of experts is also well versed in the theory of the golden mean of seeking the best, but it is a pity that they met Professor Mao.

turn down!

  Reconsider!

   Not approved!

   The three companies were rejected, so that everyone could only honestly grab the Ceres Collider, which belongs to the antimatter research group that has made a lot of progress recently.

However, Professor Mao's approval can also convince the scientists. After all, now is the critical period for building the Great Space Wall. Some time ago, the spacecraft loaded with fifteen engines was successfully tested, and it was immediately intercepted by Professor Mao. It was directly loaded with materials and sent directly. To Pluto.

  If they give unlimited support in the name of scientific research, I don’t know how many space wonders they will create!

  Now, in a laboratory of the advance base, several scientists in white coats are watching a transparent glass box closely through holographic projection.

  In this glass box, there is a room-temperature superconducting material that is still common today, and it is floating there in the air.

Both sides of this transparent glass box are full of dense lines. These lines extend out and connect to the orbit of the particle collider around Ceres. Once the experiment starts, a large number of high-speed and high-energy particles will appear from both sides and bombard the suspended super guide material.

   "Hurry up and start! Otherwise, the next group will complain that our experiment has timed out."

   "No. 25742, particle-level antimatter annihilation effect observation experiment started."

  The diameter of Ceres is about 950 kilometers. The particle collider wants to build such a long orbit. In the past, it was a big project even on the earth, let alone in space?

  But with the advancement of various projects in the forward base, after the productivity has taken an exponential leap, it only takes one month to build such a super project.

   And its related construction ideas and drawings are all from the planetary orbit collider dedicated by the Zerg. Now it is a necessary tool for various high-energy research.

  As the order was issued, some strange rays were emitted through these lines and acted on this piece of superconducting material.

   Right in the microcosm, a fierce reaction invisible to the naked eye is taking place.

  That is a microscopic structure smaller than molecules and atoms. Within the scope of the strong interaction force, the quarks that constitute hadrons are suddenly scattered, and they are scattered in the empty space inside the atom, and the phenomenon of quark exchange also occurs between different atoms. That is, quarks inside an atom sometimes escape to other atoms.

  They permeate the entire atomic space, and their distribution presents the characteristics of a "cloud", as if it were an electron cloud.

  In this process, the scientists who presided over the project observed the phenomenon that the superconducting material began to emit faint infrared rays.

   "This should be due to the small-scale collisions of quarks during the dispersion process, and the energy level transition caused the generation of photons." A physical scientist analyzed and said.

  After the scientist finished speaking, an intelligent assistant immediately recorded the passage, and sent it to the host computer through the communication system, where it was analyzed using the computing power of the supercomputer.

  After the smart assistant was submitted, the project leader began to issue the next step: "Start the instrument and start generating antimatter."

"OK."

  Another assistant agreed and pressed a few buttons on the instrument.

  In the microcosm, the quarks that permeate the inner space of the atom, showing the characteristics of "electron cloud", suddenly seemed to go crazy, and each of them collided with the quark closest to itself.

  In the violent impact, quarks recombine into hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. During this process, some quarks disappeared out of thin air. They became photons, or neutrinos, and escaped from the interior of the material.

   Simply put, this piece of superconducting material lit up.

   And this is by no means the energy that those high-energy particle streams can provide. The energy source provided to the quark riot is the annihilation of particle-level antimatter.

  Although it still cannot be saved, at least it is not out of control.

  Just like the development of nuclear technology, reducing the uncontrollable state to a controllable level can change from nuclear weapons to nuclear reactors.

   It seems that the first step has been completed in front of you?

   "The energy harvesting instrument mounted on the glass is normal, and the thermal energy transmission of the superconducting material is normal."

   “….just the conversion rate, is it too low?”

An expert sighed slightly and said: "We have thoroughly studied the principle of the antimatter pile in the Zerg spacecraft, but when we come here, although some technical means are far from mature, our energy harvesting is appallingly low, and we can't do it at all. It can be called using the energy generated by antimatter!"

  The expert is quite right that the energy gained back is minuscule compared to the energy put into the experiment.

   This is one of the dilemmas of previous nuclear fusion technology, the Q value is lower than 1, and the output is much smaller than the input.

   "What's in it?"

   "The controllable nuclear fusion technology that was verified in the laboratory in the last century, the energy obtained is also negligible."

   "Although we already have blueprints, the humanization of related technologies is still being explored."

   "It is already a huge success to verify the feasibility of antimatter application this time. It is too difficult to become fat in one go!"

  Another expert who was still collecting data seriously shook his head and answered, and at the same time did not relax in the slightest about the work in front of him.

"Yup!"

   "Even if we have mature technology and reactor blueprints, the theory of antimatter is still too weak for humans."

"This is not the case where nuclear fusion reactors were discovered on Horn-family planets before. At that time, humans still had at least a certain amount of technological accumulation. But now we are making a brand new thing, and it is already a great achievement to be able to test its feasibility now." An important step forward!"

  The team leader looked at the superconducting material that was heating up steadily in front of him, and exhaled lightly. After so many rounds of experiments, only nine [moderate and controllable] reactions were stably produced.

  The success rate is lower, but the results are real.

  Human beings on the road of anti-matter application, although they saw the distant road by chance, they are still climbing hard at the foot of the mountain.

  But it has taken a steady step, crossed the starting point of zero, and started running on this track like many civilizations.

   Antimatter application technology, breakthrough!

   Such an achievement didn't even need Base Zero to notify Lu Yu. He just ate the dinner prepared by No. 7 in the living area. Under the reminder of the system in the breeze, human technology advanced one step further.

   Another simple, happy day with points +100 points!

  (end of this chapter)