Chapter 619 Designing a Planet

Having said that, it is a little risky for the Future to stay here for observation, but the distance of 2 light years can basically dilute the traces of the Future, and the danger can be controlled.

"Even a gravitational wave telescope can hardly detect an object with a mass of only tens of billions of tons 2 light years away..."

"The Future will also be in radio silence for a long time to maintain its concealment."

At the same time, many factories are also producing related invisible materials. Although the spacecraft already had a strong invisible function when it was designed, it is not a bad thing to temporarily reinforce it now.

In less than half a month, the Future has reached the designated area and gradually stopped moving. Various robots are busy on the surface.

"The radio interferometer is fully started."

"And... other high-power experiments and high-power industries are temporarily stopped." Yu Yifeng gave several orders again.

Witnessing the quiet starry sky, he sighed softly.

All plans have been implemented, and the new humans have done everything they can as much as possible. The next step is up to fate...

The long wait begins...

On the one hand, people hope that the other party will appear later, preferably in 20 or 30 years, so that the probability of the planetary battleship escaping will be greater.

On the other hand, this kind of waiting is too painful...

Waiting in "years" is not just one or two days, how can you not be impatient? This is definitely a test of the patience of the government's top officials and ordinary people.

With this contradictory mood, many new human citizens were not interested in work at first, and often ran to the observatory to see if there were any enemies. Some people were worried about the staff going to the metal planet, where their relatives and friends were...

More than 30,000 people, almost 0.5% of the population of new humans.

However, humans are a very adaptable creature. As time goes by, no matter how worried they are, they all turn into calm. As long as the enemy does not appear, the "Pangu" must be safe, and worrying is useless. The whole society has once again entered the normalized working stage.

At this stage, in order to maintain radio silence and not emit too much heat, all large experiments and large factories have stopped.

However, another major project is in full swing inside Noah, that is, the design of planetary spacecraft!

It's just a design, which doesn't use much energy.

A metal spacecraft is equivalent to a large ball with a diameter of 2,000 kilometers. As long as many spaces inside can be dug out, they can be used.

These spaces are much larger than Noah, and how to make better use of them is a top priority.

Architects are studying related material reinforcement technologies and the mechanical structure of the entire planet.

Various military scientists and nuclear physicists are also discussing what kind of weapons should be installed on the entire planet and how to maximize combat effectiveness.

The most important of all, of course, is new materials. Whether it is the reinforcement of the planet or the weapon system, all of them are inseparable from the support of new materials.

For now, the most cutting-edge material science is a frictionless, zero-viscosity material. This material is the fifth state of matter, that is, "Bose-Einstein condensate". Researchers use a series of technical means to merge light and matter, and a series of very strange properties will appear at this time, such as light stagnation, superfluidity, etc.

However, how to apply "Bose-Einstein condensate" to large-scale industry is still an unknown. For now, it can only be used in virtual imaging, solar cells, lasers and other industries, which always feels a bit of a waste of talent.

The next step is to study "metallic hydrogen" and "metallic nitrogen". The research in these two aspects is already relatively mature. The energy storage capacity of these chemical substances is limited to nuclear fission. They are very good for making chemical batteries and have very magical properties.

Metallic hydrogen needs to be compressed under five million atmospheres of pressure. As a metastable substance, the material itself is not in equilibrium, but it can maintain relative stability.

In other words, when the huge pressure is removed, metallic hydrogen will not explode into ordinary hydrogen immediately, but temporarily become a superconducting material at room temperature and pressure, just like a piece of shiny metal. It is like a piece of dry ice, evaporating all the time.

This property is very magical. If the metallic hydrogen can be kept longer, the evaporation rate is slower, and it can release energy gently, it is equivalent to a very, very efficient battery.

Although its energy density is not as good as nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, it can be made very small and can store more electricity than traditional aluminum-air batteries. For now, it is still very useful.

Metallic hydrogen can also be used to make a "magnetic cage" to confine plasma and "contain" the hot ionized gas. This can be said to be the latest version of controlled nuclear fusion.

Of course, crazy scientists no longer care about "nuclear fusion" which has been realized. They plan to complete a quark energy research experiment in the core of a metal planet!

And metallic hydrogen is a necessary experimental material.

At an ultra-high temperature of one trillion degrees, protons and neutrons will also completely melt and become a plasma composed of quarks and gluons. This pot of "quark soup" can be converted into mass-energy under certain conditions. Heavier quarks will quickly become up or down quarks through a process called "particle decay". Particle decay is a process from a high-quality state to a low-quality state.

The mass-energy conversion efficiency of ordinary nuclear fusion is about 3%-7%. Using quark-level conversion, about 40% of the mass can be converted, which can be said to be an order of magnitude higher!

"Ordinary nuclear fusion is enough... The materials for nuclear fusion are almost endless. This kind of quark energy..." Yu Yifeng was quite speechless when he saw this experimental plan. Are these researchers so bored?

Generally speaking, nuclear fusion can fully meet the needs of new humans. Whether it is to propel planets or other industrial activities, the energy generated is enough.

Now we have to deal with the extremely difficult quark energy... How to say it, from any angle, the high temperature of several trillion degrees and the atmospheric pressure of millions are many times more difficult than nuclear fusion.

However, the energy increased is only one order of magnitude. The mass-energy conversion is still used, and there is no essential change.

"The conditions for the formation of quark soup are very close to the state of the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang. What we are looking for is not only new energy, but also tiny irregular phenomena. This experiment is conducive to our understanding of the high-dimensional universe..." Professor Ding said calmly, and at the same time took out a series of professors' signature lists from his pocket.

"Moreover, if you want to mass-produce antimatter, you must start from the quark level... a lot of antimatter!" he whispered.

"Antimatter? Okay..." Yu Yifeng's heart moved, and he shrugged his nose slightly.

If you want to synthesize antimatter in batches, starting from the quark level is a better choice, after all, all basic particles come from the vacuum. A meson is composed of quarks and antiquarks. The Big Bang also generated almost equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

"How to manipulate mesons, leptons, and baryons is equivalent to manipulating strong interactions, right? You want to use vacuum energy?"

Faced with such a petition, Yu Yifeng thought about it and agreed. He has never been opposed to such scientific research activities. And he doesn't think that scientists can find anything useful. They are just curious at most.

Besides, the "Pangu" war star is still in the process of escaping, and all the current designs can only be in the theoretical stage.

After getting the answer, Professor Ding Yidong left with satisfaction.

Next, Gaia Biology Ling also put forward her own request: She hopes to add a super-large ocean on the surface of the planet!