Epoch of Twilight

The location of high-energy particle physics experiments is not on the earth, but in space.

There is the largest particle collider for human beings. It is located in the orbit of the original Mercury and revolves around the sun. The entire circumference reaches an astonishing 350 million kilometers. The huge energy every time it starts will cause gravitational and electromagnetic drastic changes in space. .

This is the largest single creation of human beings except the Dyson sphere, and it is also a holy place in the field of physics.

Depending on the particle collider, there are tens of thousands of laboratories, large and small, hundreds of thousands of affiliated experimental factories, and more than ten million permanent humans, forming a huge space city.

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At this time in the High Energy Particle Physics Laboratory.

A piece of material the size of a fingernail was quietly lying in the explosion-proof and radiation-proof isolation room.

But such a small amount of matter has a mass of ten tons

Even with the most advanced optical equipment, it cannot see its own color. It emits high-intensity radiation throughout its body. The entire isolation room is full of brilliance, and the aurora flies, causing extremely serious interference.

After Luo Shengwei realized the great significance of this breakthrough to human beings, he immediately canceled all his plans and rushed to this laboratory in a special spaceship.

"By sending high energy to the atoms, the electrons gain energy and become discrete, and then blow away the electron cloud in the atoms to obtain a bare nucleus." A laboratory leader introduced Luo Shengwei dryly, but his tone was quite excited. "On this basis, we strengthened the strong interaction force between atomic nuclei, and finally obtained this incredible substance, whose shape is consistent with the theoretical white dwarf."

This is not only a huge breakthrough, but also an important verification of the unified field theory.

All physical phenomena in the universe can be explained by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, strong interaction, and weak interaction.

The first two are long-range forces, and the latter two are short-range forces. Physicists have been pursuing the attempt to unify this natural phenomenon. They are like the Holy Grail in the field of physics, the highest throne, and the ultimate Answer.

However, the limitations of cognition and observation means keep this theory in a state of controversy and fog.

Until a hundred years ago, with the rapid development of various disciplines, technology exploded.

The experimental instruments became more advanced, and the means of observation became more nuanced. Only then did this theory emerge. Even so, it took decades before a relatively complete unified field theory really emerged.

The unified field theory can also be called the unified string theory.

Matter is subdivided to the end, and it is composed of the lowest level of strings. It is a kind of probability wave, following the quantum theory, looming, shuttling through the four dimensions from time to time, whether it is electromagnetic force, gravity, or the strong and weak interactions in atoms The power comes from the various manifestations of these strings, and all the power is one with two sides, harmonious and unified.

However, a theory is a theory after all. No matter how rigorous and seamless the logic is, as long as it is not verified for a day, it is just a hypothesis, not the truth.

It can be said that the significance of this verification is no less than that of the theory, and it even further improves the theory.

"Before you came, we had conducted destructive experiments on it, but due to insufficient preparation, it has not reached its upper limit so far, and it seems that it cannot be destroyed."

Luo Shengwei was faintly excited. After looking at it for a while, seeing that it was radiating strong pulses, he suddenly discovered a problem keenly:

"This piece of white dwarf matter seems to be in a state of energy release all the time. How long can it be stable?"

"You are right. It is indeed unable to be stable for a long time. After all, the energy is balanced, and it is impossible to release energy endlessly. Its form is incompatible with the environment here. It is like a foreign object in this universe. The instinct wants to put it According to calculations, it can only exist for about twelve hours. Once the strong interaction force weakens to a certain extent, it will completely disintegrate. However, the isolation chamber is made of high-strength critical metals, which are very safe. The equivalent of a nuclear bomb detonated internally cannot destroy it."

"Since white dwarf matter can be produced, there should be a way to maintain long-term stability!" Luo Shengwei asked immediately. Now that the human situation is tense and the war is cloudy, if this material can be used to produce warships, the balance of power will be completely rewritten .

"Of course there is, it's just that a huge amount of energy needs to be delivered every moment!" The head of the laboratory said with some hesitation.

Luo Shengwei's eyes lit up, and he asked quickly, "How big is it?"

"On average, the energy consumed each year is about ten times the mass of antimatter!"

Luo Shengwei quickly calculated in his mind, and almost didn't come up in one breath. According to this calculation, just this piece of white dwarf matter the size of a fingernail needs to be maintained every year, and the energy consumed would require 100 tons of antimatter.

How much antimatter is produced by human beings every year?

Barely a billion billion tons, if all of it is used to maintain the white dwarf matter, it will only maintain a quadrillion tons, and a quadrillion tons seems to be a lot, but in terms of the super high density of the white dwarf matter, the actual It's only 100 million cubic meters.

Even if the surface is only coated with a one-millimeter-thick film of white dwarf matter, it can only cover a maximum of 100 billion square meters.

What can 100 billion square meters do?

The current standard curvature warship of mankind has a surface area of ​​2.5 billion square meters. Humans can barely support forty ships after exhausting all their energy. The energy will be less if you want to come.

Can it be made?

Luo Shengwei just thought about it for a while, then gritted his teeth and made up his mind!

Must be made! Even if you want to sell your iron, donate your sperm and sell your blood, you still have to do it!

This is an absolute force that is decisive. The matter of the white dwarf is dense, and the atomic nuclei are completely squeezed together. Compared with it, no matter how hard the critical metal is, it is like a crispy biscuit, and it cannot be damaged even if it is placed inside the star.

Even if such a layer of white dwarf matter is coated on the battleship, it is indestructible. Except for antimatter, it is impossible to destroy it with the current power of human beings.

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Half a month later, after technical verification, a shipbuilding plan code-named "Pangu" was formally approved, and construction began soon.

In fact, except for white dwarf matter which cannot be industrially produced and antimatter critical compression storage, it still needs time to be resolved, most of which are off-the-shelf technologies, including biospace capsules and the most important curvature engine that increase the storage space of spacecraft antimatter fuel by hundreds of times .

It is estimated that its weight will be hundreds of times that of a conventional curvature spacecraft, close to a planetary fortress, and its volume will only be two-thirds, but the curvature engine does not need to be changed much.

Unlike conventional flight, the size of the mass does not affect the speed of the curvature flight, it is only related to the size of the material space, even if the mass is hundreds of times or thousands of times larger, it does not affect its curvature speed at all.