Chapter 305 Level 3 Civilization!

The reliability and stability of the scientific research base have passed the test of the actual environment and are qualified to go to the minefield and conduct real research.

In the thick gas like water, the scientific research base travels with the wind.

As the position changes, sparse lightning begins to appear outside the scientific research base. Some lightning even hits the outer shell of the base violently.

The closer to the minefield, the higher the density of lightning and the stronger the energy.

Finally reaching the minefield, the scientific research base stops.

At this moment, thousands of lightning strikes from the infinitely high sky like a sharp blade, dispelling all the darkness around.

Countless lightning appears and disappears violently, disappears and appears again, never stopping.

In fact, this scene has lasted for more than a billion years on this planet, and will continue for at least more than 10 billion years.

After a series of preparations, the experiment officially began.

The lightning-inducing device has been activated.

A huge and abnormal lightning suddenly generated, piercing through all the thick gas around it and hitting the lightning-inducing tower.

This majestic energy born from nature was guided all the way to the core of the huge scientific research base through the device made by humans.

There is a hollow reaction chamber as huge as a house. In the reaction chamber, a tiny zinc sheet with a mass of less than 0.1 grams is suspended.

The next moment, this tiny zinc sheet with a mass of only 0.1 grams disappeared instantly and turned into a plasma with a very high temperature, even up to tens of trillions of degrees Celsius.

A series of wonderful physical processes occurred in this moment.

But this experiment did not succeed. The reason is that the energy level is still not enough, and it is a little short of the predetermined target.

But it doesn’t matter, this first time is just an experiment. The equipment has not been adjusted to the best state, and the lightning attracted at this moment is not the most powerful.

Another zinc sheet was manipulated by the magnetic field into the core of the reaction chamber.

Time passed day by day. With constant fine-tuning, the whole set of equipment finally entered the best state. Shortly after this, a powerful lightning that was considered top-notch even on this planet suddenly generated and was attracted by the lightning tower.

The day that people have been waiting for for an unknown period of time has finally arrived.

This time, the zinc sheet disappeared again. However, in this energy explosion process with unprecedented ultra-high energy levels, people finally observed some wonderful and unprecedented phenomena.

The photomultiplier observed more photons. At the same time, a series of particles such as tau, pion, muon, etc. that would not have appeared originally, or even if they did, would not have such energy levels and numbers, suddenly appeared.

Tens of thousands of scientists around this planet, as well as millions of scientists in the solar system, and Han Yang, all began to study and analyze the massive data of up to several TB generated by this experiment at this moment.

Three months later.

Through these data, Han Yang finally figured out the reason for all these strange phenomena in the reaction chamber.

Quark confinement was broken.

Quarks are a subatomic particle.

The nucleus of an atom is composed of protons and neutrons, and protons and neutrons are composed of quarks.

At low energy levels, that is, in the current cosmic environment, there are no free quarks. Quarks can only appear in pairs or threes.

The reason for this is the strong interaction force.

The strong force confines the quarks together. For quarks, the strong force has a peculiar property. If the quarks are forcibly separated, the greater the distance, the stronger the "attraction" between the quarks.

Just like a rubber band, the longer it is stretched, the greater its contraction force.

This is the so-called quark confinement. If the quarks are forcibly separated, if the distance is too far, then the energy that separates the quarks will be greater than the mass of the quarks.

And energy and mass are equivalent.

At this time, another quark pair will be born through energy, appearing next to the two separated quarks, and still forming a quark pair. Free quarks still cannot exist.

So no matter what, quarks can never exist alone.

But at this moment, under the powerful thunderstorm of this brown dwarf, at ultra-high energy levels, the quark confinement was broken. Free quarks appeared.

Because in this case, the strong interaction force is no longer a strong interaction force. It merges with the electroweak force to form a "unified force".

It is precisely because of this that this series of wonderful physical phenomena that were previously unobservable will appear.

All this lasted only for a moment. After a moment, with the decrease in temperature, due to the breaking of spontaneity, the strong force separated from the unified force, quark confinement reappeared, and free quarks disappeared.

When the temperature dropped again, the electromagnetic force and the weak interaction force also separated due to the breaking of spontaneity, becoming a conventional physical phenomenon.

But the changes in this moment have been accurately captured by many observation equipment, allowing people to accurately analyze every tiny change in it.

At this moment, Han Yang let out a long sigh in his heart. Unprecedented joy enveloped his heart.

Until this moment, until he truly observed the unification of the three fundamental forces, he could finally say with certainty that the framework of the grand unified theory had been built by himself.

At this moment, there are still too many things that have not been figured out, and there is no shadow of specific practical applications, but those things are just supplements and improvements to the framework of the grand unified theory.

The breakthrough from zero to one has been truly completed. No matter how much further development there is, it will only be a change from one to one hundred, to ten thousand, which is completely different from the current breakthrough.

Han Yang can finally announce to everyone that from this moment on, human civilization has finally truly become a third-level civilization.

A real, not false third-level civilization!

"Announcement from the Academy of Human Sciences: Our civilization has made a major breakthrough in the grand unified theory, and the grand unified theory has already built a skeleton."

"Announcement from the Ruling Committee of the Human Civilization Government: Our civilization has initially mastered the grand unified theory. From this moment on, our human civilization has truly completed the breakthrough from the second-level civilization to the third-level civilization!"

This great news ignited the enthusiasm of all humans in an instant. Recalling that human civilization was tragically colonized at the beginning, and finally promoted to the prosperity of the third-level civilization at this moment, I don’t know how many people burst into tears.

This news was immediately passed back to their own civilizations by the ambassadors of the other three civilizations of the Solar Alliance in the solar system.

For a time, the people of Yuanshan Civilization, Motan Civilization, and Fix Civilization also began to cheer and celebrate.

Although this is the result of human civilization, the friendliness and reliability of human civilization have been verified again and again in the past few hundred years.

Now that humans have become stronger and have become a third-level civilization, doesn't it mean that our civilization can get more security? Doesn't it mean that following human civilization, we can also get more benefits and civilization will become stronger?

The main reason is that the solar system where human civilization is located has become the spiritual home of countless people in the three major civilizations. I don't know how many people yearn for it, and they are willing to go to the solar system at the cost of their wealth and make a "pilgrimage".

In terms of interests, human civilization becoming a third-level civilization is in line with the interests of every civilization. In terms of emotions, everyone is looking forward to and hoping that humans can become stronger.

Combined with the two, this matter has become a great joy for all civilizations in the entire solar star field.

For a time, a total of four civilizations celebrated and held celebrations again and again. Under the strong suggestion of the three heads of civilization, Yuanshan, Fix, and Motan, the Solar Alliance held a special meeting.

The heads of the three major civilizations even personally congratulated Han Liang.

The impact of this incident slowly dissipated, and more scientific researchers are still working on the perfection of the grand unified theory, doing their best to perfect this framework and strive to apply it as soon as possible.

At this stage, after truly mastering the grand unified theory, Han Yang and human scientists have roughly figured out how to achieve the iconic technology of the third-level civilization.

The iconic technologies of the third-level civilization, protium fusion, energy shield, energy cannon, and fluidless propulsion, Han Yang has determined that all involve quark confinement, that is, related to the strong interaction force.

The first is protium fusion. As the type of fusion with the highest fusion energy but the most demanding fusion conditions, it cannot be achieved by simply increasing the temperature and pressure. Even if it is barely achieved, it is not economical.

A more appropriate solution is to study a new method of influencing microscopic particles based on the grand unified theory, so as to achieve protium fusion at a lower temperature and pressure, and achieve the effect of obtaining more energy per unit mass of fuel.

The same is true for energy cannons and energy shields.

The underlying principle of the energy cannon is actually the same as that of the electromagnetic cannon, both of which fire extremely high-speed projectiles to cause damage.

But why is the power of the energy cannon far greater than that of the electromagnetic cannon?

The secret lies in the projectile.

After mastering the grand unified theory, a special method can be used to put the electromagnetic cannon projectile in a "quark excited state". The electromagnetic cannon projectile in this state will contain more energy.

To make a simple analogy, it is like an ordinary arrow and a red-hot arrow.

Obviously, the red-hot arrow, in addition to the ordinary penetration damage, also has high-temperature burning damage.

In this way, without increasing the mass of the projectile and affecting the launch speed, the lethality is increased.

The energy shield also puts the particles in this excited state, and then binds them with a magnetic field to wrap them around the warship.

Because the particles in this excited state have extremely strong energy, they can block projectiles, dust, fragments, etc. from the outside world, achieving the effect of a protective shield.

As for the fluidless propulsion technology, Han Yang confirmed that it is also based on the grand unified theory.