Chapter 388 Extreme Compression
At this moment, up to 10 trillion high-yield gravity bombs exploded in an instant. The huge energy from quark fission immediately converted energy into gravity through the mechanism described by M theory, and then released it.
Such a high-yield gravity bomb, usually exploded in space, is enough to clear all matter within a radius of tens of kilometers, directly pull it to its side, and then squeeze it into a sphere.
No matter how tough the metal is, it is useless in the face of this level of gravity.
At this moment, there are a total of 10 trillion gravity bombs of this level in this small dwarf planet.
In just 0.1 seconds, these 10 trillion high-yield gravity bombs followed a strict order, detonated in batches, and contributed their own gravity.
With the sudden appearance of strong gravity, a series of wonderful phenomena began to occur on this dwarf planet.
From the outside, it looks like countless holes suddenly appeared under the ground of this dwarf planet. So everything on its surface, whether it is tall mountains, gentle plains, deep canyons, or solid hydrogen and oxygen, solid methane, dry ice, water ice, tholin, etc., all began to collapse rapidly and violently at this moment.
The entire planet, all places, a total of 11.34 million square kilometers of land, are all collapsing inward.
The material began to be extremely squeezed.
In an instant, due to the huge gravity from the inside, the volume of the planet was reduced by more than half.
It originally had a volume of about 3.6 billion cubic kilometers, but now only 1.6 billion cubic kilometers remain. Correspondingly, its radius has also shrunk from 950 kilometers to about 720 kilometers at this moment.
The mass remains unchanged, and the volume is reduced, which means the density of the material is increased.
Before this, the average density of this dwarf planet was about 1.7 grams per cubic centimeter, that is, 1.7 tons per cubic meter, which is 1.7 times the density of water.
But at this moment, its average density quickly climbed to about 3.8 tons per cubic meter.
You should know that the material that makes up this dwarf planet is not easily compressed gas, but hard solid, including various rocks, water ice and other materials.
Generally speaking, these materials are incompressible. But at this moment, they are greatly compressed.
The more difficult it is to compress a material, the higher its internal energy will be after being compressed. And the external manifestation of the increase in internal energy is the rapid increase in temperature.
So, in an instant, the surface temperature of this dwarf planet, which was compressed by more than half of its volume, immediately rose from more than 200 degrees below zero to more than 500 degrees above zero.
According to the principle of blackbody radiation, the increase in temperature means that it has the ability to emit light.
This was originally just a dark and cold dwarf planet that had no ability to emit light at all. The reason why it was bright was just reflecting the light from the star.
But at this moment, it began to glow by itself.
It released a dim red light, like red-hot steel.
Time was still passing rapidly. The strong gravity from the inside was still acting on it. It is still collapsing rapidly.
At this moment, it has changed from its previous ravine-like appearance to a very smooth sphere.
Because only a sphere can achieve gravitational balance.
Therefore, the lower the mass of a celestial body, the more bizarre its shape. The higher the mass of a celestial body, the closer it is to a sphere.
The most extreme celestial body, a neutron star, is so smooth that the height of the highest peak on the surface of the planet is only a few millimeters.
Of course, this dwarf planet at this moment has not reached that level. But at this moment, the height of the highest peak on its surface is only a few hundred meters, which is only a few thousandths of the radius of the planet, and it can be regarded as extremely smooth.
But this mountain also collapsed rapidly. It is rapidly becoming smaller and smoother.
At this moment, its radius has shrunk to only 350 kilometers, and its volume is only 180 million cubic kilometers, which is only one twentieth of its previous volume. Its density has climbed to 34 tons per cubic meter.
As a result, its surface temperature rose to over 3000 degrees Celsius, and the light it released changed from pure dark red light to a little yellow.
The color of light depends on the surface temperature of the planet. For example, the sun has a surface temperature of about 5500 degrees Celsius, and the light is yellow. If the temperature is higher, it will turn white, and then blue.
This is still not the end, it is still shrinking rapidly.
At this moment, its radius is only 50 kilometers, the volume is 523,600 cubic kilometers, and the density has risen to 11,700 tons per cubic meter.
This density has exceeded the density of any material under normal circumstances.
You know, the mass of gold, which is famous for its high density, is only 19.32 tons per cubic meter.
At this moment, the average material density of this dwarf planet has reached more than 600 times that of gold.
The mass of the sun is extremely large, and accordingly, the density of the core material of the sun is also extremely high. But even for the sun, the density of the core area is only a few hundred tons per cubic meter, which is still far less than that of the dwarf planet at this moment.
The light it emits has turned blue. This means that its surface temperature has risen to more than 20,000 degrees Celsius.
Its volume is still shrinking rapidly. At this time, the electromagnetic force used to maintain the normal structure of matter is completely unable to resist the inward pressure. Even two electrons that were originally not at the same energy level are compressed together.
The degeneracy pressure between electrons begins to play a role, replacing the electromagnetic force to resist the compression of matter.
But at this time, even the electron degeneracy pressure cannot resist such a strong gravity. The compression continues, and its radius is still shrinking.
At this moment, the gravitational force contributed by up to 10 trillion high-yield gravity bombs has finally reached the end of the compression of this dwarf planet.
At this moment, its radius has shrunk from 950 kilometers at the beginning to only 13 kilometers at this moment. Its volume has shrunk from about 3.6 billion cubic kilometers at the beginning to only about 9,200 cubic kilometers at this moment, a full 390,000 times.
Its material density has also increased by 390,000 times, from 1.7 grams per cubic centimeter at the beginning to 663,000 grams per cubic centimeter at the moment, which is about 0.66 tons per cubic centimeter.
The number of 0.66 tons does not seem large, but it is actually very large.
What is the density of the famous extreme celestial body, the white dwarf?
A typical white dwarf has a mass of about 0.8 times that of the sun and a radius of about 6,000 kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to the earth.
The average density of such a white dwarf is only 1.76 tons per cubic centimeter, which is only about 2.67 times this number.
That is, at this moment, the density of this dwarf planet is almost reaching the level of a white dwarf!
At this moment, the surface gravity of this dwarf planet has reached about 400 times the gravity of the earth!
That is a huge gravity that cannot be shielded even with the fourth-level civilization technology, the anti-gravity equipment turned on to the maximum power, and even overloaded.
If they reach the surface of this planet, whether they are humans or Yunguang people, they will be immediately crushed by their own weight, becoming a thin layer, and then evenly distributed on the surface of the planet.
The extreme compression of this planet has been completed in just a few seconds. But just these few seconds have caused a certain impact on the entire Xiaguang Galaxy.
The reason is simple. Gravity is almost impossible to shield. And how strong would the gravity that can compress the volume of a planet to one hundred thousandth of its original size be?
At this moment, the orbits of the major planets in the Xiaguang Galaxy have shifted slightly.
The gas of the gaseous planet was affected by the strong gravitational force and immediately began to move. The violent movement of the gas then triggered a violent storm, triggered a powerful cyclone, and then triggered a series of violent weather processes.
So, thunderstorms and strong winds followed, and the whole planet turned upside down.
The rocky planet was better, but there were also violent strong winds, and even the geological plates were affected to some extent, some volcanoes erupted, and earthquakes also came.
Even the real star, the Xiaguang Sun, "jumped" because of the sudden strong gravity, and its forward orbit was permanently offset.
The entire star system changed because of it. Hundreds of thousands of warships in the star system also moved some distance, but they were immediately corrected under the action of the automated orbit maintenance system and did not cause further chaos.
The sudden appearance of the strong gravitational source made countless Yunguang commanders and soldiers fall into confusion. But before they could figure out what happened, further impacts followed.
A very serious problem is that the strong gravity released by the gravity bomb can only last for a few seconds or tens of seconds at most, and it cannot last long.
After compressing the dwarf planet to a density of a fraction of a classic white dwarf, the impact of 10 trillion high-yield gravity bombs dissipated instantly.
However, the gravity generated by the mass of the dwarf planet itself cannot maintain such a high density.
Just like taking away the white dwarf matter or neutron star matter and making it leave its own strong gravitational field, they will immediately explode violently. At this moment, this dwarf planet exploded.
The repulsive force from the inside is too strong. The electron degeneracy pressure and electromagnetic repulsion work together, and its own gravity, which is only a few hundred times that of the earth, is not worth mentioning and cannot be resisted at all.
In an instant, its volume has skyrocketed by hundreds of thousands of times and returned to its original level.
But this is not the end at all. The power of the explosion is too huge and has long exceeded its own binding energy. The speed of the material explosion is too fast and is not controlled by its own gravity at all.
The next moment, the dwarf planet was shattered. All the matter that constituted it turned into the finest interstellar dust, which exploded outward at a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second based on the kinetic energy of the explosion.
At this moment, they may no longer be called matter, but should be called radiation.
Just like alpha radiation, its essence is the nucleus of a helium-4 atom. At this moment, due to the extremely violent explosion and the extremely high temperature before, the various elements that make up this dwarf planet have already been ionized into ions.
These ions are of many types, including helium nuclei, iron nuclei, aluminum nuclei, carbon nuclei, etc., almost covering all the atomic nuclei of natural elements.
At this moment, these atomic nuclei have extremely high speeds and extremely strong ionization capabilities. They just sweep across the entire star system indiscriminately with the explosion point as the center of the circle.
Radiation is divided into ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation. However, for organisms and technological creations, ionizing radiation is usually the most harmful. When conducting space travel, the most important thing to guard against is various types of ionizing radiation.
But under normal circumstances, the intensity of ionizing radiation in the form of interstellar high-energy radiation is very low.
At this moment, this dwarf planet with a mass of about 100 billion tons was completely detonated. Such a high mass turned into ions to radiate the entire star system. How high is its radiation intensity?
Even if it does not reach the power of a supernova explosion, it more or less has a little bit of the power of a supernova explosion.
This is the surprise that Han Yang prepared for the Yunguang Fleet, and it is also his biggest trump card.
When is the best time to use such a trump card?
Of course, it is best to use it when the Yunguang Fleet enters the interior of the galaxy and the distance from the dwarf planet is shortened to only a few billion kilometers at most!
Through long-term planning in the early stage, Han Yang finally achieved the goal of leading the entire Yunguang Fleet into the interior of the galaxy under the premise of maintaining his own collapse.
So, Han Yang simply detonated the dwarf planet.
At this moment, the indescribably fierce ionizing radiation has begun to sweep across the entire star system indiscriminately.
At this moment, when the Yunguang Fleet was still confused by the sudden strong gravitational source, under Han Yang's control, the remaining approximately 400,000 human warships began to activate the highest level of protection measures in batches.
According to the distance from the dwarf planet, a few minutes before the radiation arrived, the special radiation-proof steel plate extended out and wrapped the entire spacecraft tightly. At the same time, the human warships began to flee away from the core point of the explosion at the highest acceleration.
This radiation swept indiscriminately, and the human warships were naturally within the range of influence. Moreover, even if Han Yang had made preparations in advance and pre-installed additional radiation-resistant devices when building these warships, and even these additional devices had a certain impact on the performance of the warships, human warships did not dare to say that they could be unscathed under such fierce radiation.
Han Yang even estimated that this radiation would cause at least 10% casualties for himself. In other words, at least 40,000 warships would be destroyed by this radiation.
But... it doesn't matter.
The human fleet, which had made sufficient preparations in advance, still suffered such heavy losses. How much more losses will your Yunguang fleet, which did not make any preparations in advance, suffer?
As long as your losses are greater than mine, then everything is worth it.
As long as I can kill a thousand enemy warships, I lose a hundred of my own warships, so what does it matter! (End of this chapter)