Chapter 783
It was a wonderful phenomenon .
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A blue light ball floated inside a transparent vacuum tube about the thickness of a wrist . At closer examination, it was possible to see electron beams between the two ends of the photosphere and the two ends of the vacuum tube .
The vacuum tube was placed on Lin Lin’s experiment bench .
It was Jiang Chen’s first time seeing antimatter
To be honest, when he saw the real thing, it was still different from what he expected . He originally thought that antimatter should be dark, so he didn’t expect it to be somewhat dazzling .
“This is antimatter?” Jiang Chen pointed to the vacuum tube while looking at Lin Lin next to him .
Lin Lin stared at him with a gaze that said ‘idiot’ in her eyes . She coughed before she began to display her wealth of knowledge .
“…plasma with a dense core formed in an absolute vacuum metal tube, using an electron beam injected through small regular angular momentum . ”
“Plasma?” Blasted by many technical terms, Jiang Chen felt his head was getting jammed with terms he couldn’t comprehend .
Lin Lin, however, seemed to enjoy his confusion . It was even more obvious when a sly smile formed on her face .
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“Yes, you can think of this glowing light sphere as a ‘shell’ wrapped around the antimatter . In the center of this ‘vacuum sphere’ is an extremely dark particle that oscillates randomly . That’s what’s commonly called antimatter . We usually call this method magnetic confinement . ”
Lin Lin also added a sentence with a smirk .
“Although it’s just one gram, it can instantly wipe this region off the map . ”
Jiang Chen’s eyebrows jumped, but he didn’t look as afraid as Lin Lin imagined .
“…are there no safety issues by just placing it here?”
“There’s no need to worry about safety . The plasma sphere is stable or can even be described to be perfect… It’s confusing . How did the guys in the void do it?”
“It’s impossible to achieve this with 22nd-century technology?” Jiang Chen looked at Lin Lin, somewhat surprised .
Lin Lin shook her head .
“Disregarding the formation of such a peculiar plasma sphere, creating an absolute vacuum in this vacuum tube isn’t an easy task for the 22nd century . You must know that even the universe isn’t an absolute vacuum . Aside from matter we can see, there’s dark matter we can’t see . It’s definitely not an easy task to get rid of these things to create an absolute vacuum . ”
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After a pause, Lin Lin murmured as she fixated on this vacuum tube .
“Although atoms are electrically neutral, they have a weak magnetic distance . It’s also the same for antimatter, the opposite of matter . By using a special magnetic field, antimatter can be confined to a certain space . Surprising design… Although human observations of antimatter can be traced back to the 20th century, no one could store antimatter in plasma until two centuries after . ”
“What 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 the weapon belonging to the interstellar era on Earth . ” Lin Lin glanced at him . “In theory, there are no defenses against antimatter; any positive matter that comes into contact with antimatter will be rapidly annihilated . 100% of the mass will be converted into energy and released as high-energy gamma rays . By the way, hydrogen bombs have only 0 . 7% of its mass conversion . To destroy the earth, only about one kilogram of antimatter needs to fall to the ground . This is why antimatter is listed as a prohibited research project . ”
After Lin Lin’s explanation, Jiang Chen knew why the Remnants of the Void compared this to the last hope .
It possessed terrifying lethality . If they could possess antimatter weapons, then human civilization might gain a fighting chance against Harmony 20 . 5 lightyears away .
Lin Lin reminded him in a quiet voice when she saw how moved Jiang Chen was .
“But you shouldn’t get too excited . The Remnants of the Void only give us a sample . The manufacturing process or the related technology, our foundation is zero . ”
“Start from zero? No problem, I believe in your abilities!” Jiang Chen laughed and patted Lin Lin’s shoulder . “Antimatter research will be handed to you!”
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“Don’t give me everything! I’m still researching the subject you gave me about interdimensional travel! Even if it’s me, I have zero background in antimatter? I suggest you find some scientists with research background in physics . Moreover, it’s very dangerous to research this on the surface . It’s better to research and extract antimatter in outer space,” Lin Lin protested .
Lin Lin didn’t have any more understanding of antimatter, but she still helped Jiang Chen design a research path .
Divide the topic into three parts .
The first part was to study how to make an absolute vacuum container for the storage of plasma wrapped with antimatter .
The second part was to study how to make such plasma capable of magnetic confinement of antimatter used for wrapping antimatter .
The third part was to study how to use high-energy particle colliders to produce antimatters more efficiently and collect them with magnetic fields before decaying .
In fact, producing antimatter would be the simplest step . After all, in 2014, the European Organization for Nuclear Research succeeded in creating an anti-hydrogen atom beam . It was an antimatter beam up to 2 . 7 meters made of 80 antihydrogen atoms, but no one managed to preserve and produce it on a large scale .
These high-energy ion accelerators could typically only produce a few nanograms of antihydrogen atoms per year, and one nanogram was one billionth of a gram .
After leaving Lin Lin’s lab, Jiang Chen went to the community center and sent the documents for the establishment of a new research project team to Wang Qing .
“Acquire the missing talents from the fallout shelters, mark the physics research labs near Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the Expeditionary Army will be responsible for recycling the technology . ”
“Antimatter?” Wang Qing was completely bewildered by the documents in her hands, but since the general made this request, she nodded . “Okay, I’ll make the order right away . Right, some time ago, there were some news from Hongcheng . ”
“Hongcheng? What news?”
“Compared to before, the activities of the merchants in the Northern Alliance Area and Qingshan Town increased substantially . At the same time, Wu Wei, President of the Steel Gear Chamber of Commerce, also reported that merchants from the Northern Alliance Area were active in the area . They were buying steel, rare earth, and electronic components while lacking interest in other goods . ”
“Purchasing steel?” Jiang Chen thought for a moment and looked at Wang Qing . “Increase the conversion ratio of credits with crystals . Allow the crystal farms controlled by us to increase the output of crystals . ”
With the depreciation of crystals, the Northern Alliance Area merchants who purchased steel would see an increase in cost . Although this would affect the NAC’s local economy to a certain extent, it could effectively curb the outflow of strategic resources caused by the market economy .
“In addition, increase orders for military factories on Sixth Street . Be sure to double the production output before the end of this year!”
Jiang Chen then said after a long pause . .
“Finally, be prepared for a war . ”