Chapter 423: You and Lucy Have Telepathy?

"Georgeou, NASA gave Lucy to Jay and Tanislav for a reason. You can question their loyalty to the United States, but you can never question their scientific literacy. When faced with such an incredible thing, they can still maintain such a calm mental state, which is the most devout belief in science."

"So what you mean is... Is there really a ghost in that place? But science can't explain it yet?"

"It's possible. Of course, it may also be like what you said, that Lucy's program has a malfunction or design flaw, but even Jay and others don't know what this malfunction or flaw is. If they know, there is no reason to hide it from us."

Seeing Georgeou's suspicious eyes, Holka explained again: "Although failure may make their resumes less perfect, Lucy is not a manned spacecraft, and the public opinion pressure of the project failure is not as great as imagined. They have no need to take the risk of data falsification for this. At the same time, we are NASA here, not the FBI, and there are not so many conspiracy theories..."

Georgeou just sneered in his heart.

These guys who do scientific research, in order to cheat funds, the academic cost is not enough?

However, Georgeou agreed with a point that Holka had just made.

Lucy was not a manned spacecraft, and there was no humanitarian problem. Therefore, the public pressure of the project's failure was indeed not great.

After the public knew the news, at most they would be disappointed with NASA and accuse them of wasting taxpayers' money...

It was not painful, so it could be made public.

"In fact, there is another benefit to making it public."

When discussing whether things needed to be made public, Hall suggested, "Not only should we make it public, but we can also exaggerate it appropriately to make scientists from other countries interested in that place and see if they can help us find something."

Well,

Isn't it just a way to get something for free?

This is possible!

Georgeou immediately nodded and agreed with his point of view.

So that night, NASA held a press conference and officially announced to the media the news that the Lucy probe had lost contact after deviating from its orbit...

At this time, twelve hours had passed since Kang Chi started the quantum life detection program, but the entangled quantum still showed no signs of "dying".

Kang Chi's patience was finally exhausted and ended this test.

The current test life has reached 2.592 billion times. Whether it has an infinite service life or not, it can fully meet the needs. The extreme test can be saved for later.

He now wants to know what the mysterious metal element named No. 376 by the system is and what it is used for.

[Analysis project:

Dimension Oscillation Module Structure Analysis: Requires 35 mastery points,

Dimension Oscillation Module Material Process Analysis: Requires 65 mastery points,

Ion Trap Module Structure Analysis: Requires 10 mastery points,

Ion Trap Module Material Process Analysis: Requires 10 mastery points,

Micro Optical Tweezers Probe Module Structure Analysis: Requires 20 mastery points,

Micro Optical Tweezers Probe Module Material Process Analysis: Requires 20 mastery points]

After opening the technical analysis panel of the quantum catcher, Kang Chi immediately guessed that the technology with the biggest upgrade must be the dimensional oscillation module through the mastery points required in various technologies.

Especially the dimensional oscillation module material process analysis, which requires 65 mastery points, which is much higher than other projects. The secret of the new element and the extension of quantum life must be here.

"Dimensional Oscillation Module Material Process Analysis, Mastery Point -65."

Kang Chi decisively chose to analyze, and then a huge amount of knowledge and data poured into his brain crazily.

As Kang Chi digested more and more knowledge, his eyes gradually became more and more shocked...

This...

This knowledge is too subversive?

It turns out that the mysterious metal element 376 is a superheavy element with a relative atomic mass of 376!

And it is an inert element with a very long half-decay period!

A long half-decay period means that it has no reflectivity, and among the elements currently known to humans, the heaviest and non-radioactive element is element 83 Bi (bismuth), whose relative atomic mass is 209.

Elements heavier than bismuth are basically very unstable and will decay to isotopes lower in the atomic sequence in a very short time, while producing radioactive substances such as alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays or neutrons.

This is the principle of nuclear fission.

These superheavy elements are basically produced by ion colliders, and the heavier the element, the shorter its stay. The heaviest element known so far is element 118 Og, which is a rare gas element with a half-life of only 0.9 milliseconds.

Therefore, scientists have always believed that superheavy elements cannot exist stably in nature.

Of course, for something that cannot be proven, some people support it while others oppose it.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg, a famous chemist from the United States, a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry who discovered new elements as easily as drinking water, is one of the main opponents and proposed the theory of stable islands.

The theory of stable islands believes that chemical elements with nuclei with a "magic number" of protons and neutrons will be particularly stable.

If this theory is true, it means that the elements known to humans are actually just an island in the ocean of elements, while stable and superheavy elements like bismuth are like reefs on the seashore,

On the other side of the island, there is an island of superheavy elements, where superheavy elements exist stably.

Physicists Meyer and Jensen of Hans established a nuclear shell model through the "law" of magic numbers, and concluded that this superheavy element island may exist near element 126, which will be a stable island of radioactive transuranium elements.

Particle colliders around the world have never stopped looking for new elements and continuously improving the energy level of collisions, a large part of which is to land on this possible superheavy element island.

However, as the relative atomic weight of the element increases, it becomes more and more unstable, and it becomes more and more difficult to use a collider to smash the nucleus and find superheavy elements.

At least with the current performance of human colliders, it is absolutely impossible to collide with this mysterious element 376.

The energy of a massive star collapsing into a black hole may compress and collide to produce this kind of matter, but it will definitely become part of the black hole very soon...

Anyway, with Kang Chi's limited knowledge and imagination, he has no idea how this thing came into being. Even the nuclear fusion level inside the sun should not be able to produce this kind of superheavy element.

In addition, if superheavy elements can still remain stable, it means that the lifespan of this element will be longer than the lifespan of the universe calculated by scientists.

This is undoubtedly another huge impact on existing theories!

Thinking of this, Kang Chi immediately called Chen Hai.

"Change the task content of finding inspiration. You don't need to find anything else. You just need to focus on the progress of scientific research projects outside the earth."

"What a coincidence!" Chen Hai was surprised. "I just got the news that the Lucy probe of the United States disappeared a few days ago, and the time of disappearance is almost the same as the time you asked me to find inspiration..."

Chen Hai wanted to ask Kang Chi, are you a person who traveled back from the future, or an alien in human skin...

But in the end, he said tactfully: "Do you have telepathy with Lucy? Or is Lucy's disappearance related to you..."