213 Fusion in Progress

The plasma state can also be compressed. As the pressure increases, the flame quickly shrinks from the size of a washbasin to the size of a fist. However, under the heating of the flame array, it continues to resist, and occasionally there are still a few strands of plasma. , playfully broke away from it, spun around outside, and then joined the large army.

After all, the heating of the flame talisman array is slower than that of the pressure talisman array. In other words, Yang Qing is not prepared to raise the temperature of the core position to more than 100 million degrees at once.

According to scientists' calculations, the core temperature of the sun is only 16 million degrees. However, at this temperature, the fusion reaction of four hydrogen atoms into helium can be achieved, thanks to the standard atmospheric pressure of up to 240 billion times. pressure.

Although the sun is so huge, it takes seven seconds for photons from inside the sun to pass from the inside to the outside.

In fact, the time it takes for photons to pass from the inside to the outside after countless refraction and reflections may be dozens or hundreds of times longer than this.

It's just that the sun is still too big, concentrating more than 90% of the mass of the solar system. Even the predictions made by scientists are reasonable.

But things in this world cannot always be completely explained by reason.

What people think is reasonable is basically still within the ranks of classical mechanics. However, at the microscopic level, at the scale of electrons and atoms, it follows quantum mechanics that is incompatible with classical mechanics.

Before all speculations are confirmed by solar probes, they will not become reality.

But in any case, the higher the pressure, the lower the temperature required to achieve fusion. This is also an indisputable fact.

As the pressure increases, the temperature of the plasma also increases, keeping it at the size of a fist without much change for the time being.

The temperature increased from one million degrees to 10 million degrees, then to 50 million degrees, and the pressure reached 50 million standard atmospheres. Then something happened that made Yang Qing feel bright. That was when the flames were blazing white. In the middle of the plasma, photon bursts occurred in many places.

At the same time, without more flame arrays erupting, the temperature of the plasma suddenly increased by one million degrees.

This is a fusion reaction taking place, but it has not yet reached a level that can be sustained.

However, as the temperature and pressure accumulated, this occasional phenomenon became extremely common, and finally reached a critical point at a certain moment.

The plasma that had been compressed to the size of a child's fist suddenly exploded into an extremely bright light, suddenly becoming the size of a basketball.

According to the description of the explosion of the first atomic bomb, a hundred suns should have exploded in front of his eyes. Even Yang Qing's consciousness felt the burning pain for the first time.

Only now has the fusion experimental reactor been officially ignited successfully. The atmospheric pressure inside has exceeded 80 million, and the temperature has exceeded 60 million degrees Celsius.

Although the volume of the plasma expanded several times after the explosion, the continuous chain reaction allowed fusion to continue, and the plasma still had a tendency to expand.

This is the first time that Yang Qing has used his spiritual consciousness to observe nuclear fusion at such a close distance. In fact, this is no different from a hydrogen bomb, but the scale is obviously much smaller, there is no such instant explosive power, and it cannot withstand the pressure of the outer wall.

At the moment when the fusion occurred, Yang Qing's consciousness searched inside carefully, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief and pulled back the burned consciousness.

When the fusion reaction occurs, a little spiritual energy is indeed produced, but compared to the spiritual energy in the middle of thunder and lightning, this little spiritual energy can be said to be almost nothing.

This made Yang Qing start to ponder whether there was anything special about thunder and lightning that could promote the generation of spiritual energy.

This also proves from the side that the generation of spiritual energy has little to do with the birth and death of atoms.

Perhaps the annihilation reaction between antimatter and positive matter will involve spiritual energy?

Yang Qing thought with some uncertainty that perhaps the research on antimatter could be put on the agenda.

Antimatter is different from dark matter and dark energy. It is purely the opposite of the existing matter in the universe, such as positrons, antiprotons, etc.

When they meet positive matter, they will annihilate, producing energy and photons. Due to the annihilation reaction, the existence of matter is completely consumed. Therefore, according to the mass-energy equation, the energy generated is also amazing, even more amazing than the fusion reaction, and is regarded as the next generation. Nuclear weapons, as well as the energy source of aerospace engines.

Now even in the entire blue star, the existence of antimatter is only measured in trace amounts of a few tenths of a gram. It only exists in the laboratory and is not used in practice.

Yang Qing shook his head and put away the knowledge about antimatter in his head. This was a critical moment for the reactor. Although he didn't need his guidance, he still needed his attention at all times.

The concentration of helium-3 is 20%. Only this concentration of helium-3 will not directly turn the experimental reactor into a nuclear bomb and explode when the chain reaction occurs.

As the reaction progressed, the temperature and pressure inside the core cabin reached a certain limit, and somewhere in the core cabin, the pressure suddenly dropped a little.

Then these plasmas were like a cat seeing a fish with a fishy smell all over its body, squeezing towards it.

Then a part of the plasma turned into a thin strip, drilled out of it, and headed towards the predetermined place.

The location they went to was the more important part of the experimental reactor, which was the magnetic fluid power generation device.

Through this, the reactor can get rid of the fate of boiling water and start generating electricity directly.

In the ultra-strong magnetic field created by the superconductor, the charged particles are bent toward the two poles.

At the same time, a current has been generated on the electrode plate due to the potential difference.

The charged particles sweep past the pole plate about one millimeter away without contacting the pole plate. Although the power generation efficiency cannot be increased to the maximum, it will not damage the pole plate, thus ensuring the continuity of current generation. .

Leaving the polar plate, the temperature of the plasma dropped suddenly, but it still maintained the state of plasma. It went around in a circle, throwing away carbon ash, a product of helium triple fusion, on the way.

Then they flew towards the core stack together with the newly added helium-3 gas. On the way, the temperature of the new helium-3 mixed gas was also raised to more than 10 million degrees.

With the leakage of plasma, the pressure of the core stack began to decrease, but it was once again supplemented by incoming gas from the outside.

With the addition of outside gas, although the temperature dropped, the pressure began to stabilize, and the fusion reaction also decreased from the beginning, almost to the point of interruption, and entered a stable state.