Chapter 511: The Box That Even the Sun Cannot Destroy

On the far side of the ocean, the Overseas Technology Monitoring Center (OTMC) has just moved to a new office, and all the staff are busy, actively adapting to the new environment.

For China, the Chinese New Year is almost in mid-February, and everyone is lazy and unable to get motivated, just waiting for the New Year to be lively. However, for the U.S. emperor, Christmas and New Year's Day have passed for a month, and it is time to work hard.

Due to the change of functions, the Overseas Technology Monitoring Center in the center of Seattle is no longer competent for its work. Therefore, in the previous ten days, OTMC carried out a relocation, and moved a large part of the equipment to an abandoned military base outside Seattle. in a nuclear bunker.

In fact, it is impossible not to move it. After the box called "Pandora's Box" arrived at the monitoring center, except for the first few days of calm, when February began, all kinds of troubles followed one after another, bomb attacks, and so on. It was a hacker attack and a forced intrusion, which severely damaged the entire building.

If they don't relocate, I am afraid that people in Seattle will find out that terrorist attacks in the United States are so frequent.

A better idea was to relocate to California, but the center had to cross a state, and the distance was so long that it was impossible to safely transport the "Pandora's Box" by any means of transportation.

Now the entire OTMC has been completely moved to the military base, and the military base has also redeployed personnel to guard the entire base. This building of the last century has been in disrepair for a long time, and many functional facilities have been completely paralyzed. The advantage is that the building is very strong. Even if a nuclear explosion breaks out, I am not afraid.

Since yesterday, several trucks have driven into the base of OTMC one after another, fell to the ground through the huge dilapidated elevator, and moved the parts one by one to the empty underground hall.

Grant still doesn't know how many floors there are underground in this base. Anyway, it's bigger than expected. He really doesn't know what it was used for before.

At this time, they only used more than half of the basement floor, and at this time, a huge object was being installed.

"Sir, this is a set of facilities we dismantled from the National Ignition Facility (NIF)'s backup warehouse. This is already the most powerful laser launcher we can get." A man in military uniform Standing in front of Grant, reported to him.

This man is the person in charge of guarding the base and also a member of the army. Although Grant does not want the army to intervene, they have to rely on the protection of the army, so let them have a share of the pie and study this impossible box.

The National Ignition Facility is the largest laser confinement fusion reactor in the world.

Since the discovery of nuclear energy, humans have been longing for controllable nuclear fusion.

As we all know, there are two difficulties in producing nuclear fusion. One is to make the atoms of the fusion material active enough to start colliding and merging, that is, enough temperature; Materials are bound in a controlled container.

Complete these two near-impossible tasks, and then keep adding fuel to the container, and you can keep responding bang bang bang bang.

This is the so-called sun in a bottle.

Controllable nuclear fusion has gone through various theories - laser confinement, magnetic field confinement, acousto-optic fusion, cold fusion (scam and scandal of the century), various devices - stellarator, or device, tokamak, etc. , Various attempts and failures, it is simply too difficult to write.

Nuclear fusion is like a moody devil. It always seems to be within reach, but in fact it is out of reach, making human beings happy.

However, some strange side effects in the process of pursuing nuclear fusion have made human science and technology advance by leaps and bounds, such as large particle accelerators, super-powerful lasers, magneto-hydrodynamics, and strong electromagnetic field research...

At present, the mainstream of pursuing nuclear fusion is tokamak, that is, magnetic field confinement, but some people are still researching on another road, which is laser confinement.

The National Ignition Facility of the United States is working on heating a 3 mm diameter deuterium-tritium pellet to a temperature sufficient to start the reaction by laser, which is the same type as China's "Shenguang Project".

The backup laser of the National Ignition Facility is the most powerful laser that this military officer can obtain, and it is also the largest laser ever produced by human beings. Its instantaneous power can reach 500 terawatts (1 terawatt = 10 to the power of 12 watts ) Although this power only lasts for a few nanoseconds, for a split second, it can turn anything into a searing plasma.

I heard that people from OTMC took such a horrible laser just to cut a box, and the physicists at the National Ignition Facility are crazy. You can look down on my profession, but you can't look down on my profession!

Such a laser can heat an object to 100 million degrees. What is the concept?

The temperature of the core of the sun is only 15 million degrees. Hafnium alloy is the substance with the highest melting point known to mankind so far. Its melting point is 4215 degrees Celsius, which is five orders of magnitude lower than 100 million degrees!

There is a Chinese proverb that says it is impossible to kill a chicken with a sledgehammer. This is like killing a chicken with an intercontinental missile! No, use a nuke!

"Any substance in this world, facing this temperature, has only one possibility, which is to be instantly turned into plasma and disappear! If the box you want to cut is really important, I don't recommend you use it..." This The physicist and engineer responsible for the installation was so anxious that his hair turned white, he gestured at Grant, "Any high-energy laser emitter can easily cut through this box!"

Grant smiled, which means, you just wait and see the good show.

Although he had already borrowed the most powerful laser launcher in the world, Grant had a feeling that even such a laser launcher would not be able to handle the box.

The main body of the laser was moved in, the huge amplification device was moved in, the extremely thick cables and energy storage devices were moved in, and a huge facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars stood in the basement, and a huge shielding device was prepared. The metal sphere is the only way to build the entire "cutter". This is the most powerful cutting machine in the world, bar none.

Unprecedented, or even unprecedented for many years.

Even through the thick shielding layer, Grant had the illusion of "a flash of light", and then opened the huge shielding sphere, and hot gas gushed out. After being discharged and processed, everyone looked in that direction , I saw that the box was still lying there quietly.

"This is impossible!" The physicist felt that all his common sense had been subverted, just like an atheist who suddenly discovered that the true god had descended.

Is this a box that even the sun cannot destroy?

In novels, comics, and movies, the sun seems to be the ultimate source of destruction. In the movie Green Lantern, the protagonist introduces a huge angry force into the sun and destroys it.

Human beings cannot imagine that in their lifetime, they can see with their own eyes the existence that the sun cannot destroy-except the sun itself.

But after the initial denial, the physicist burst into ecstasy: "What kind of box is this?"

If there is such a box, wouldn't humans have found a material that can trap particles with a temperature of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of degrees?

Hasn't man found a material in which everything can be contained? An ultimate material?

Is controllable nuclear fusion already at your fingertips?

...

At this moment, on the opposite side of the earth, in a small county town in Jidong Province, a few brats led by Nan Ming are thinking about how to build a nuclear reactor.

"If you do it, of course the nuclear fusion reactor is relatively simple." Nan Ming said, "As long as you get enough nuclear fuel and put them together, you will be able to bang bang bang bang bang bang..."

The small piles sold by China National Nuclear Corporation can already be the size of a basketball court, which is simple and simple.

Although Nanming once said that he would build a nuclear fusion reactor, this thing is too scary. When he is with these brats, it is better for him not to exaggerate too much. These brats do not have his authority to possess , it is possible to be pulled away and dissected.

Wasn't Einstein's brain sliced ​​and studied?

Or the fusion reactor is simple and convenient.

To build a nuclear reactor, the most difficult problem is how to find nuclear fuel.

"I'll call and ask." Nan Ming took out his cell phone and started to make a call. The first thing he thought of was Qingzhong Yang, this guy must have connections.

"Third brother, can you get uranium?" Nan Ming asked Qingzhong Yang.

Over there Qingzhong Yang Yi trembled: "What did you say?"