Chapter 372 Quark Fission

At this stage, the scientific research capabilities of human civilization itself came in handy again.

The current human scientific community is not capable of making breakthroughs in universal theories such as M theory, but at this moment Han Yang has made the most important breakthrough. If he teaches it to human scientists and lets them learn, they will learn faster than one another.

There is no way. In the past few hundred years, we have always been learning, and we have already completed the screening and selected all the people with the strongest learning ability.

After learning, it is also not a problem to do some applied and micro-innovation research.

This is the strength of human civilization at this stage.

Of course, with the existence of Han Yang, this process will be promoted faster.

Otherwise, even if the breakthrough in basic theory is completed, it is almost impossible to truly transform it into combat power within 100 years.

At this moment, Han Yang and the human scientific community are facing the most basic and most important problem.

The problem of gravity conversion.

The conversion of gravity is the foundation of all the iconic technologies of the fourth-level civilization.

Simply put, use the energy of other properties to convert it into gravity or offset gravity.

With the support of M theory, which can be truly called the theory of everything, completing this transformation becomes an engineering problem, not a theoretical problem.

Just like when humans mastered the theory of relativity, making an atomic bomb was also just an engineering problem, not a theoretical problem.

In order to solve this engineering problem, Han Yang once again began to invest a lot of computing power. At the same time, all scientists related to this in the entire human scientific community, after completing the preliminary studies, also invested all their energy in it.

One after another huge research institutes were established, and one after another laboratories full of high-precision equipment were put into operation. After more than ten years of busy work, Han Yang finally made a breakthrough.

Eris, Gravity No. 1 Laboratory.

Two super-large-scale nuclear fusion power stations stand on the dark and cold land, producing huge amounts of electricity at all times, supplying the operation of an equally large research institute.

Huge equipment like a mountain can be seen everywhere here. The huge factory building with a height of more than 20 meters is also inconspicuous here.

A large amount of energy from the fusion power station gathered in, and after being transformed by one huge scientific research equipment after another, it finally gathered in a laboratory with an area of ​​less than 50 square meters at the core.

At the core of this laboratory, there is a glass box. Inside the glass box is an extremely pure vacuum. At the same time, under the maintenance of many equipment, its internal temperature is only 200,000th of a degree higher than absolute zero.

Absolutely pure, absolutely cold.

Inside this glass box, there is a thin piece of metal.

It is only a few microns thick and weighs less than one thousandth of a gram.

But even if it is so light, even if Eris is just a dwarf planet with weak gravity, it can only fall on the tray honestly.

The gravity of the planet still acts on it and binds it.

But with the arrival of a wave of energy, everything has changed.

Under the eyes of the scientists who are closely watching here through observation equipment, and under the eyes of Han Yang, the metal sheet in the glass box with extremely high vacuum suddenly slowly floated up.

No, it wasn't actually suspended, but the test box sank a little.

But the key question is, the test box sank, in the gravity environment, shouldn't the metal sheet also sink?

But no!

At this moment, it broke free from the constraints of Eris's gravity field and no longer moved with the tray.

The tray sank, but it was suspended.

It was suspended without any support or power.

Gravity shielding was achieved at this moment.

But it's not over yet. The next moment, with some operations by scientists, the metal sheet suddenly fell quickly onto the tray.

The gravitational acceleration of Eris is about 0.8 meters per second, that is, if an object falls freely, it will accelerate by 0.8 meters per second.

This piece of metal was undoubtedly in free fall just now. However, the instrument showed that its previous acceleration of falling reached 1.2 meters per square second.

It exceeded the gravitational acceleration of Eris by about 50%!

This incredible scene was truly presented to the scientists.

The previous unsupported suspension was gravity shielding. The current accelerated fall is gravity enhancement!

Although the energy of two large nuclear fusion power plants was exhausted, in the end, only such a small thing with a mass of less than one thousandth of a gram was operated. Although the input-output ratio was a hundred million times different, when this scene was truly presented in front of people, in the conference room of the Gravity No. 1 Laboratory, the senior government officials, outstanding scientists, military personnel, etc. who came to watch the ceremony, still burst into warm cheers at the same time.

In an instant, cheers and applause resounded throughout the conference room. Some people were even so excited that they hugged each other and shed excited tears.

After so many years, so many generations of struggle, so many generations of sacrifice, finally, finally, for the first time in history, the control of gravity was achieved...

Although this piece of metal is small, the hope contained in it is so vast.

Just think about it, and you can know how broad the prospects are.

First of all, for spacecraft.

Until now, there is no gravity in the spacecraft made by humans or any other third-level civilization.

Even if there is, it is only artificial gravity created by rotation, and its essence is actually centrifugal force.

But now, if the technology of gravity conversion is mastered, then the construction of artificial gravity through rotation will become history.

Even on a plane, people can directly create gravity through related technologies.

But this is actually just a very small application.

With this technology, the key point is that it can make gravity shielding.

As we all know, the human body, or other life forms of alien civilizations, has an upper limit to the gravity that can be borne.

For example, once the gravity of humans exceeds 20 times the gravity of the earth, the human body will be damaged if it is maintained for a long time. When the gravity reaches 70 times or higher, humans will die in just a few seconds.

This limits the acceleration ability of spacecraft.

20 times the gravity of the earth corresponds to an acceleration of about 200 meters per square second, and 70 times the gravity of the earth corresponds to an acceleration of 700 meters per square second.

That is to say, even if it is a space battleship, even if it is very eager for maneuverability, it cannot maneuver more than 700 meters per square second.

Because once this speed is exceeded, all the soldiers in the battleship will die.

However, the theoretical propulsion capacity of the thrusters developed by humans has already exceeded 1,000 meters per square second.

This means that the structural strength of the human body limits the maneuverability of the battleship.

But now, with the emergence of gravity conversion technology, this limitation has been directly lifted.

After applying this technology, even if the maneuverability of the battleship is as high as 10,000 meters per square second, the soldiers in the battleship will not feel inertia at all. No matter how fierce the maneuver is, they can always stand steadily on the ground, truly as if walking on flat ground.

How huge is this for the improvement of the battleship's combat effectiveness? It is simply unimaginable!

Secondly, this also indicates the potential feasibility of some new weapons.

For example... gravity bombs, or gravity shields, and gravity cannons.

Through some technology, the bomb has super strong gravity, even comparable to that of white dwarfs and neutron stars, which can attract all visible and invisible objects around and destroy them.

For gravity shields, a gravity field can be created on the spacecraft to deflect the trajectory of incoming shrapnel and prevent it from hitting the hull.

For gravity cannons, gravity technology can be applied to accelerate the projectile, making it more lethal than energy cannons.

Gravity shielding, gravity enhancement, gravity bombs, gravity shields, gravity cannons...

Behind this small piece of metal, there is a vast sea of ​​stars.

Through this experiment, Han Yang and the human scientific community have fully verified the engineering feasibility of controlling gravity.

With engineering feasibility, what needs to be done later is nothing more than miniaturization and stabilization.

This part of the work can be handed over to the human scientific community, or at least a large part of it can be undertaken. Han Yang's main focus at this moment has shifted to another direction.

An equally important and critical direction.

The transformation of energy acquisition methods.

At level three and before, intelligent life relies on chemical energy, nuclear fission energy, and nuclear fusion energy to obtain energy.

Among them, chemical energy comes from the disruption and reorganization of the molecular level of matter. For example, combustion is the oxidation process of the chemical elements that make up matter.

Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion come from the disruption and reorganization of the atomic nucleus.

This process achieves a basic change in the properties of matter. For example, the fission of uranium causes uranium to become a variety of low-density metal elements.

The fusion of hydrogen also causes hydrogen to be converted into other elements.

In this process, nuclear fusion, especially the fusion of protium, produces the highest energy, even up to about 0.7% of the mass.

But compared with the overall mass, this energy conversion efficiency is still too low.

It is almost unimaginable to rely on such a magnitude of energy acquisition to support the various iconic technologies of level four civilization.

But it doesn't matter. After fully mastering the M theory, Han Yang found a more efficient way to obtain energy.

A more basic way of obtaining energy from subatomic particles than from the atomic nucleus.

Quark fission!

By manipulating the four fundamental forces, Han Yang will be able to break the quark confinement and release the strong interaction force trapped inside the subatomic particles as energy.

In a subatomic particle, such as a proton or neutron, the quark itself only contributes about 1% of its mass.

The remaining 99% exists in the form of strong interaction field energy. In other words, it is precisely because of this energy that all the substances that people come into contact with in daily life, whether it is the earth or the air, whether it is a table or food, have the current mass.

Without this energy, the mass of all substances will be reduced to 1% of the original mass.

There is so much energy contained in subatomic particles, but people in the past could only sigh and sigh, and could not use it at all.

But now, after mastering the M theory, everything is different.

Han Yang has found the key to use this energy.

The key to this key lies in gravity. To be more specific, it is a sufficiently strong gravitational field.

If the gravitational field is strong enough, and with a certain pressure and temperature, these energies can be extracted.

Ideally, the energy that can be extracted by quark fission can even account for 14% of the total mass of matter! It is 20 times the energy that can be extracted by protium fusion!

That is, after the innovation of energy acquisition methods, the ideal combat time of a warship was only two months, but now it can be directly increased to 40 months!

This is a higher level of energy utilization than nuclear fusion.

At the edge of the solar system, two dark and cold asteroids are rotating around each other.

In the human star chart, these two asteroids are called Soul God Stars.

On the Soul God Star, a huge base has been built.

It is surrounded by tall buildings, forming a circle. In the middle of the building is a hemispherical building.

The core of the hemispherical building is a huge device with a height of more than ten meters and a diameter of seven or eight meters.

It is full of complex pipes and thick cables. The energy from the surrounding nuclear fusion power plants poured in continuously and was converted into gravity through a series of complex equipment, giving it a gravitational field equivalent to 12,000 times the gravity of the earth.

Among them, some pure gold elements were placed in the core of the reaction chamber.

In the super-strong gravitational field, through a series of magical changes based on M theory, suddenly, a huge amount of energy was released from these gold elements.

It was like a hot sun suddenly appeared on the planet, and the dark night sky was instantly illuminated. With the release of endless light and heat, the whole planet was shaken.

People in space who were observing this place cheered at the same time after seeing this scene.

Because people have confirmed that just before, an unprecedented explosion occurred on this asteroid.

It was not a chemical explosion, nor a nuclear explosion, but an explosion type that had never happened before.

Quark fission explosion!

The energy bound in subatomic particles was finally extracted by people for the first time in history.

Only one kilogram of gold, of which about 140 grams of mass was converted into energy, releasing about 1.26*10^16 joules of energy, which is roughly equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 3 million tons of TNT explosives!

At this moment, although humans can only achieve uncontrollable quark fission, resulting in the release of energy all at once and causing a violent explosion, since the extraction of this energy can be achieved in engineering, then further making it controllable is also just an engineering problem.

Just like, after the atomic bomb was built, how far will the emergence of nuclear fission power plants be? (End of this chapter)