A very strange phenomenon.
A faint blue ball of light floated in a transparent vacuum tube about the thickness of a wrist. If you look closely, you can also find that there is an electron beam as thin as a hairspring connected between the two ends of the light ball and the two poles inside the vacuum tube.
At this moment, the vacuum tube was placed on Lin Ling's experimental table.
This was the first time Jiang Chen saw what antimatter looked like.
To be honest, when he saw the real thing, it was still somewhat different from what he expected. He originally thought that antimatter should be deep black, but he didn't expect that it would be dazzlingly bright.
"Is this antimatter?" Jiang Chen pointed to the vacuum tube on the table and asked Lin Ling beside him.
Lin Ling glanced at him with an idiotic look, coughed in a pretentious manner, and started to show off.
ââĤa plasma with a dense core formed in a metal tube in an absolute vacuum by injecting an electron beam with small canonical angular momentum.â
"Plasma?" Jiang Chen suddenly felt a little overwhelmed after hearing a lot of professional terms.
However, Lin Ling seemed to appreciate his expression, and the pride on her cute little mouth was even more obvious.
"Yes, you can understand this luminous ball of light as a 'shell' wrapped in antimatter. The extremely black particles swinging irregularly in the center of this 'vacuum spherical shell' are what is commonly called antimatter. We usually call this method the magnetic confinement method."
After finishing speaking, Lin Ling added with a smirk.
"Although it's only 1g, this area can be wiped off the map in an instant."
Jiang Chen's brows twitched sharply, but he didn't show the fearful expression Lin Ling expected.
"... If you just leave it here, won't there be any security issues?"
"Don't worry about safety issues. This plasma is very stable and can even be said to be perfect... It makes people wonder how those guys in the void did it."
"Can't it be done with the technology of the 22nd century?" Jiang Chen looked at Lin Ling in surprise.
Lin Ling shook her head.
"Not to mention forming such a strange plasma spherical shell, even pumping this vacuum tube into an absolute vacuum is not an easy task in the 22nd century. You know, even the universe is not an absolute vacuum. Except for what we know There is matter that can be seen, as well as dark matter that we cannot see. It is definitely not an easy task to eliminate all these things."
After pausing for a moment, Lin Ling continued to murmur while looking at the Zhengkong tube.
"Although atoms are electrically neutral, they also have a weak magnetic moment. Standing on the back of matter, the same is true for antimatter. By using a special magnetic field, antimatter can be constrained in a certain space. It is very fascinating Surprising design... Although human observation of antimatter can be traced back to the 20th century, no one could store antimatter in such a plasma until two centuries later."
"How about using antimatter as a weapon?" Jiang Chen immediately asked the question he was most concerned about.
"The power is amazing, but I advise you not to use weapons from the interstellar era on the earth." Lin Ling glanced sideways at Jiang Chen, "Theoretically, there is nothing that can defend against antimatter clusters. Any positive matter that is contacted by antimatter will quickly Annihilation, and converts 100% of the mass into energy, and releases it in the form of high-energy gamma rays. By the way, the hydrogen bomb has only 0.7% mass-to-energy conversion. To destroy the earth, it only takes about 1kg of antimatter to fall on the ground, which is also Antimatter is cited as a reason for prohibited research projects.â
After listening to Lin Ling's explanation, Jiang Chen finally understood why the Void Remnant compared this thing to the last hope.
With such terrifying lethality, if we could possess anti-matter weapons, Earth's civilization might not be able to fight against the harmonious civilization 20.5 light-years away!
As if seeing the emotion on Jiang Chen's face, Lin Ling reminded him in a low voice.
"But don't get too excited. Those people in the void just gave us a sample. Whether it is manufacturing technology or related technology, our foundation is zero."
"Start from scratch? It's okay, I believe in your ability!" Jiang Chen laughed and patted Lin Ling on the shoulder, "I'll leave the research on antimatter to you!"
"Don't leave everything to me! I'm still studying the topic you gave me to lead people through time travel! And even I have zero foundation in things like antimatter, okay? I suggest you find some research directions. Physicists who prefer this field should do this. Moreover, it is best to study the extraction of antimatter in outer space. It is very dangerous to conduct such experiments on the surface, okay?" Lin Ling protested.
Lin Ling had no other options for things like antimatter, but she still helped Jiang Chen design a research idea.
Divide the topic into three parts.
The first part is to study how to create an absolute vacuum container for the storage of plasma surrounding antimatter.
The second part is to study how to create such a plasma that can magnetically confine antimatter and be used to wrap antimatter.
The third part is how to use high-energy particle colliders to produce antiparticles more efficiently and use magnetic fields to collect them before they decay.
In fact, how to produce antimatter is the simplest step. After all, in 2014, the European Organization for Nuclear Research successfully created an antihydrogen atomic beam. It was a 2.7-meter-long antimatter beam composed of 80 antihydrogen atoms, but no one could preserve it and produce it on a large scale.
These high-energy ion accelerators typically produce only a few nanograms of antihydrogen atoms per year, and a nanogram is one billionth of a gram.
After leaving Lin Ling's laboratory, Jiang Chen went to the community center of the Fish Bone Base and handed the documents for establishing a new research project team into Wang Qing's hands.
"The lack of talent will find a way from the shelter to mark all the physics laboratories near Suzhou and Hangzhou provinces, and the expeditionary force will be responsible for the recovery work."
"Antimatter?" Wang Qing was a little confused holding the document in her hand, but since it was the marshal's request, she nodded seriously, "Okay, I will give the order. By the way, there was something from Hongcheng some time ago. information."
"Hongcheng? What's the news?"
"Compared to some time ago, there have been a lot more businessmen from the Northern United District operating in Hezhong City and Qingshan Town. At the same time, Wu Qian, the president of the Steel Gear Chamber of Commerce, also received news that these merchants are active in the Hongcheng area. Businessmen in the Northern United Unified District seem to be aggressively purchasing steel, rare earths and electronic components, while showing little interest in other goods."
"Buy steel?" Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, looked at Wang Qing and continued, "Increase the exchange ratio between credit points and Yajing, and let us control several of our exotic ranches to increase the output of Yajing."
As Yajing depreciates, the cost of purchasing steel for merchants in the Northern United Region who use Yajing as currency will undoubtedly increase. Although this will have an impact on NAC's local economy to a certain extent, it can effectively curb the outflow of strategic resources caused by the market economy.
"In addition, we will increase the orders placed with the military factory in the Sixth District. We must double the production capacity of the general factory before the end of this year!"
After a moment of pause, Jiang Chen continued.
"Finally, prepare for war." (.)