The burning pain started from the bottom of the lower abdomen, quickly spread throughout the entire abdominal cavity, and then spread throughout the entire chest cavity.
The whole body seemed to be on fire, and there was a severe stinging pain inside the body, as if there were countless iron hooks hooking the internal organs, and the pain was unbearable.
Richard clenched his fists and tried to support himself. After dozens of seconds, he let out a long breath.
"call-"
Feeling that the burning sensation had subsided a lot and the pain had also slowed down, Richard's expression softened a bit. However, there is still strong discomfort inside the entire body due to the erosion of void energy, waiting for the next outbreak.
The same outbreak has occurred many times in the past few days, each time getting worse.
Richard knew very well that if he didn't find a solution, it would be a hard life for the rest of his life. From this point of view, returning to collect data after the nuclear explosion and paying such a high price was simply a wrong choice.
However, his face did not show much concern, as if he had already thought of a solution. He took out several sheets of papyrus, a quill pen and a bottle of ink and placed them on the table.
He reached out and rubbed his cheeks to cheer him up a bit. He held a quill and dipped in ink on the papyrus paper to start calculations.
The content of the calculation is very simple, that is, the data collected previously in Pompeii.
He has performed the same calculation many times in the past few days, and now he is making the final confirmation.
"Shashasha..."
The tip of the pen soaked in ink quickly scratched the surface of the papyrus, outlining the numbers and symbols one by one. After a while, the calculation was completed and the final result was obtained.
"Snapped!"
Sign off.
Richard stood up, glanced at the numbers that had not changed from the previous calculation, raised his eyebrows, and murmured: "Sure enough, all the evidence proves that the value is indeed exceeded..."
Yes, beyond.
Exceed, simply two words, is the final conclusion that he has worked hard to develop nuclear weapons in the past year, and after detonating them, he paid a heavy price to return to collect information.
However, the word is simple, but the meaning it represents is not simple.
It can even be said that it is very important and has breakthrough significance for the theory he has been constructing.
Beyond, what exactly is beyond
To make all this clear, we have to start with the detonation of the atomic bomb in Pompeii.
At Pompeii, he detonated all three atomic bombs he made. The first atomic bomb was designed to have a yield of 150,000 tons, the second atomic bomb was designed to have a yield of 150,000 tons, and the third atomic bomb was strengthened and had a designed yield of 150,000 tons. Four hundred and fifty thousand tons.
150,000 tons, plus 150,000 tons, plus 450,000 tons, it’s 750,000 tons.
So, what is the final yield of the three atomic bombs
Based on the data he collected, excluding the influence of many irrelevant factors such as volcanic eruptions, and calculating it into a mathematical model, the final result was a total of 720,000 tons of equivalent.
The design yield is 750,000 tons, and the release equivalent is 720,000 tons. In other words, the atomic bomb releases almost 100% of its power, which is extremely close to the design value, and the atomic elasticity is very good.
This doesn't seem to be a problem.
But in fact, this is a huge problem! One thing must be understood, that is, the design equivalent and the actual released equivalent are completely different concepts.
No matter how perfect the design is, no matter how correct the theory is, there will always be problems of one kind or another in practical applications. Therefore, the actual released equivalent should be much smaller than the maximum theoretical equivalent during the design process.
Just like the first atomic bomb used in actual combat on Earth, due to its poor gun design, the actual yield released was less than 2% of the designed yield, and a large amount of nuclear charge was wasted. Although the second atomic bomb used in actual combat adopted a more advanced implosion design, its utilization rate was only about 20%.
The atomic bomb he created has intentionally corrected many mistakes made by his predecessors, and added neutron reflective materials, which can greatly improve the utilization rate of nuclear charges, but it is still far from 100%.
According to his estimation, if the overall utilization rate exceeds 50%, it is considered qualified, if it reaches 65%, it is extremely excellent, and there is a small chance of reaching more than 70%.
In comparison, the utilization rate of nuclear weapons on Earth is about 80% after adopting improved designs. This is already the result of the efforts of modern industry - although it has the advantage of using the space iron ring as a processing tool, it also has many magic spells. Auxiliary, but after all, it is weak in power and too rushed in terms of time. It is inevitably suspected of being shoddy. It is already very good to reach a similar level.
But the real situation gave him a big surprise. Multiple sets of data told him that the nuclear weapons he made were better than he imagined, and the utilization rate could reach close to 100%.
And this was the result of his extremely strict consideration of influencing factors - basically there were factors that could deduct the equivalent value, and he deducted them according to the highest limit.
In this way, the terrible utilization rate can still be reached at 96%. If the conditions are slightly relaxed, the utilization rate can even significantly exceed 100%.
This does not take into account the energy conversion required for the generation of spell electromagnetic pulse.
After all, what is this situation
This is equivalent to a car that is clearly carrying five people. After it stops, a queue of more than 30 people gets out, not counting the minors among them.
This... is overloaded!
Seriously overloaded!
You know, not every car is a van.
Moreover, in the world of science, there is no van at all - there must be as many people as there should be, no one less, no more than one.
what happened
Why do nuclear weapons release extraordinary energy
From a certain perspective, this is naturally a good thing, the more the merrier.
From another perspective, it is extremely critical to find the reason for the extraordinary release of energy.
This was very important to what he had been studying and wanted to prove.
In Richard's view, according to logic, if there is excess energy, then there must be an excess energy source.
The energy E of a normal nuclear weapon is converted from the lost mass m in strict accordance with the mass-energy equation E=mc2. Now that E is abnormally elevated, the most reasonable explanation is that the lost mass m has also increased.
In turn, it can be explained that the nuclear raw material uranium 235 used to make nuclear weapons in this world is slightly different from the nuclear raw material uranium 235 on the earth. What's the difference? The uranium-235 in the current world has more "mass that should not exist" than the uranium-235 on the earth.
Bringing the example just now, that is, it is also a car carrying 5 people. The one on the earth is normal, but the one in the current world has secretly installed an additional compartment - this way, it can naturally carry more people, not to mention that it can carry more people. There is only one person in the row, and if the carriage is long enough, one person can carry hundreds of people.
After all, the more unknown existences there are, the more possibilities there are.
These are not conjectures or unfounded guesses. According to the various data collected at great cost after the nuclear explosion, Richard is sure that there is a high probability that this is the only explanation for all the facts.
To put it simply, atoms, the basic material of the current world, have a little more than the earth. It is this extra thing that leads to the extraordinary release of more power from nuclear weapons, which leads to many differences between the current world and the earth.
He plans to call this thing simply and easily understandable... extraordinary factor.
Yes, the extraordinary factor.
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