Chapter 440 Major Breakthrough
Because the time of staying in this star system has reached a hundred years, in order to ensure safety and avoid being tracked by external forces, the ruling committee can only issue an order to prepare to set sail.
So, the crazy scientific research had to come to an end. Scientists reluctantly sealed their experimental bases, and the people working on the galaxy planets also left the factories where they had worked for decades and returned to the living spacecraft again.
Unlike the evacuation of industry and scientific research, tourism has ushered in a peak period with the fleet about to set sail.
Even people who rarely go out in the past will choose to take a spacecraft at this moment, go to this star system, wear space suits and walk on the dead and desolate planet, and appreciate the natural beauty of this galaxy.
After all, once you set sail, you won’t be able to see any planet for at least a hundred years.
Fortunately, the natural scenery in this galaxy is pretty good. Not only are there towering mountains and deep canyons, but one planet even has a huge liquid ocean covering more than 95% of the world’s area.
And because of environmental factors, there are often super huge waves reaching the kilometer level on this ocean, which is spectacular and has attracted countless people to come for sightseeing.
The preparations for sailing have always been carried out step by step and according to the timeline plan. Finally, when it was time to sail, all humans returned to the spacecraft.
The entire star system was empty. All the facilities and buildings left by human civilization were destroyed, eliminating the possibility of leaking their own secrets as much as possible.
A huge fleet, a total of more than one million large spacecraft, began to sail outside the galaxy. After leaving the coverage of the gravitational field, accompanied by a burst of light and shadow changes, superluminal navigation began again.
Entering the superluminal navigation stage, some large experiments are not convenient to do. Scientists can only conduct some theoretical research and temporarily record the experiments they want to do, waiting for the fleet to dock in the galaxy again before conducting them.
Soon, the demand for such experiments accumulated rapidly. According to the records of the Academy of Civilization, the number of experimental requirements submitted by millions of different teams exceeded 10 million in a short period of time, involving thousands of super-large scientific research equipment, and hundreds of thousands of medium and small ones. When arriving at the next galaxy, the total number reached more than 20 million.
This is the experimental requirements that have been reviewed by the Academy of Sciences, summarized and deduplicated.
One experimental equipment should be used for multiple purposes as much as possible. If the experimental purpose and requirements are similar and the difference is not too big, this experimental equipment should be used as much as possible.
If the rejected ones before deduplication are included, the total number of experimental requirements will immediately exceed the 100 million mark. Even if Han Yang goes all out, plus all the engineering forces of the entire human civilization, it will not be enough.
Even so, it is not realistic to meet the requirements of more than 20 million experimental equipment at this moment. There is no choice, the ruling committee can only decide to prioritize them. The more important experimental requirements will be met first, and the rest can only be slowly queued up and wait for the next stop in the galaxy to be carried out.
For this reason, Han Yang felt a happy trouble.
Why are there so many experimental requirements at this moment? Obviously, this is because the basic theory has just been broken through and many applied researches have been fully launched.
This also proves from the side that the technological level of our civilization is advancing by leaps and bounds. In normal times, even if the supply is open and even the scientific research team is given indicators, there will not be so many experimental needs.
This state cannot be sustained.
A long century has passed again, and the human fleet has once again docked around a remote star system.
The living spacecraft is still outside the gravitational field of the star to ensure that it can escape immediately if it encounters danger. The rest of the spacecraft, a large number of aerospace motherships, heavy transport ships, industrial spacecraft, scientific research spacecraft, etc., are like runners who heard the starting gun, and immediately rushed to this star system.
Time is precious and must be used as much as possible.
During this period, the ruling committee also issued an order in person, prohibiting all personal travel needs, and all the transportation capacity of the entire civilization must be invested in the transportation of scientific research and engineering personnel, as well as various equipment and materials.
In just a few months, countless bases and factories popped up on several large planets and hundreds of dwarf planets in this star system like mushrooms after rain, and the entire star system became lively almost instantly.
Long before arriving at this star system, everything about this star system had been explored clearly. The construction plan had also been drawn up long ago, and now it was just a matter of following the procedures.
Therefore, although all this was huge, involving many people and equipment, everything was in order and not at all chaotic.
Within just one year, the first test site was ready.
The research conducted this time was about new spacecraft shell materials.
The next one was the second one, which was to study new communication methods.
Then the third, the fourth...
The first civilization focused on the test site required for the research project. Because it was too large, it was not completed until ten years after the docking.
It was a comprehensive experimental base consisting of hundreds of large bases, some located on the surface of the planet, some underground, and some in space.
The research goal of this experimental base is quark fusion.
Quark fusion is a new way to obtain energy. It is estimated that the mass-energy conversion efficiency of quark fusion can even be as high as 40%!
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, which are widely used in the second-level civilization stage, have mass-energy conversion efficiencies of about 0.15% and 0.7% respectively. After reaching the fourth-level civilization and mastering the quark fission technology, the mass-energy conversion efficiency can reach about 14%.
That is, people can convert 14% of the mass of matter into energy.
But at this moment, the efficiency of quark fusion is 40%! It has increased three times on the basis of quark fission again.
Even such a high conversion efficiency is not the most important significance of quark fusion.
Its most important significance is that it can be used in conjunction with quark fission.
That is, people can first convert the mass equivalent to 14% of the matter into energy through quark fission.
After the conversion, the heavy elements become light elements and quark fission cannot be further performed.
At this time, quark fusion technology comes in handy. It can fuse light elements into heavier elements again, and in this process, achieve up to 40% mass-energy conversion.
After that, quark fission technology can come into play again, and can fission heavy elements into light elements again.
In this way, repeated fission and fusion can finally achieve the true, 100% conversion of matter into energy!
No matter what kind of matter, whether it is highly toxic, or the smelly garbage that everyone hates, or the stones, asteroids, water ice, meteorites that can be seen everywhere in the galaxy, or the wreckage of steel battleships, strong radioactive materials, etc., in theory, all matter in the universe can be converted into energy by people in this way!
This means that as long as it is not a place that is too empty like the intergalactic space, the fleet of the fifth-level civilization will never lack energy!
No matter what kind of matter it is, as long as there is matter, there is energy!
For a fleet, its significance is too great, important enough to be ranked first, and any other experiments must be prioritized behind it.
At this moment, this crucial research project, which even Han Yang and all the ruling committee members personally paid attention to, personally asked about, and personally coordinated personnel and materials, was carried out in this test site.
The principle of quark fusion is also very simple, similar to nuclear fusion.
It does not need to break the quark confinement, as long as the nuclei of lighter elements collide violently.
If the energy level is too low, nothing will happen. If the energy level is high enough, nuclear fusion can occur. If the energy level is higher, coupled with some applications of dark force theory, the basic components of microscopic particles, quarks, will also fuse and recombine into new baryons, and release energy in the process.
But behind the extremely simple principle, there are countless technical and engineering problems.
The most important point is that simply relying on a high enough energy level, without the application of dark force theory, fusion between quarks will not occur no matter how high the energy level is.
Because this involves the interaction between space and matter, it must introduce dark force theory to achieve it, and it needs to be achieved through the interaction between some dark force particles and material particles.
At this moment, after a decade of construction, the experimental base was finally completed and the first experiment began.
Undoubtedly, the first experiment failed. The implementation method set according to the previous conjecture was proven to be invalid.
But it doesn't matter. In the previous hundred years of theoretical research, scientists have guessed hundreds of implementation methods. If one doesn't work, just try another one.
At this moment, the second plan was immediately launched.
After trying more than 30 experimental plans, finally, in this experiment, people observed an exciting phenomenon.
In the reactor supported by a whole quark fission power station, laser heating and gravity combined with strong magnetic field restraint, the temperature of a ball of helium was raised to more than 100 billion degrees, and the internal pressure was as high as 500 billion times the atmospheric pressure.
This temperature and pressure are enough to make this ball of helium undergo nuclear fusion reaction. However, at this moment, under the influence of dark force particles, the interaction mode between space and matter has changed, so the expected nuclear fusion did not occur.
Although it has extremely high energy at this moment, all of this energy is given by the outside world, and it does not generate any energy itself.
People are still compressing this ball of helium, continuing to increase its density, temperature and pressure.
Finally, after breaking through a certain extreme point, as if some wonderful reaction had occurred, this ball of helium suddenly became "active", and in an instant, huge energy emerged from its interior. In the violent explosion, the test equipment that was specially protected and even applied the gravity multi-shield system instantly turned into a wreckage.
A mushroom cloud rose slowly from the test site, which was clearly visible in space.
In space, the scientists who were observing this place through remote technology stood up at the same time, their faces full of excitement.
Such a violent release of energy, what else can it be except quark fusion?
Except quark fusion, no reaction known to mankind can release such a huge amount of energy!
Atomic bombs are not good, hydrogen bombs are not good, and quark fission bombs are not good!
Only quark fusion!
At this moment, human civilization has finally released the huge energy contained in quark fusion for the first time in history!
Han Yang felt a heartfelt joy in his heart.
In a broad sense, this explosion in the laboratory can also be classified as a quark fusion bomb.
That is, from this moment on, he has initially mastered the manufacturing technology of quark fusion bombs.
Quark fusion bombs can be classified as uncontrollable quark fusion, which is still far from industrial application. But...
Uncontrollable quark fusion has been mastered, so how far will controlled quark fusion be?
After completing this experiment, people did not give up trying new implementation plans. In the end, by integrating the advantages of multiple plans and eliminating the disadvantages, people believed that they had found the right path.
The next step is to continue to study in depth, and constantly adjust and modify.
After achieving major breakthroughs in long-distance communication interference and anti-interference, shielding and anti-shielding technology, and quark fusion technology, and the future is promising, Han Yang's attention is placed on another extremely important research project.
Faster superluminal navigation technology.
The importance of this technology is self-evident.
The key point of superluminal navigation technology is to influence space through matter. At the fourth level of civilization, this influence is achieved through gravity.
However, there are shortcomings in the gravity influence method, and the maximum navigation speed can only be about 10 times the speed of light.
Because it essentially transmits influence through gravity-dark force-space, and there is an additional dark force procedure in the middle, which causes a lot of energy loss, and the accuracy and efficiency are greatly reduced.
At the fifth level of civilization, the situation is naturally different.
Dark force is the interactive particle of space and matter. After mastering the theory of dark force, people can save the "gravity" procedure and directly influence space through dark force. As a result, it is natural to greatly improve the speed of navigation.
Of course, this still requires a lot of research in applied technology and engineering.
In a space technology research base specially established under the supervision of the ruling committee, located in the deep space, far away from the gravitational field of stars, in that huge pipe with a diameter of 100 meters, a length of 100 kilometers, and an almost absolute vacuum inside, an unprecedented superluminal transportation experiment is underway.