If he didn't see it with his own eyes, if he didn't try it with protective gloves, Jiang Chen would never believe that this black sphere the size of a golf ball really weighed 100 kilograms.
Standing up close, the surface of the black sphere exuded a faint metallic luster, but its physical properties were very different from metal. The smooth texture of the surface was not like metal, but like some kind of glass product.
After storing this black sphere in the warehouse of Celestial City, Jiang Chen immediately mobilized more than 20 experts from the materials science laboratory of Future Group to conduct experiments on this black sphere from an extraterrestrial civilization for three full days.
Unfortunately, even the world's top technical team was still helpless against this small sphere.
The leader of the research team walked to Jiang Chen's side and shook his head in shame. He sighed and said, "Let's not talk about analyzing what material this is. With our current technology, we can't even determine its elemental composition. The only thing we can be sure of now is that the material of this black sphere is quite strong, and the surface is very smooth … "
His project team had tried all the methods they could think of. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't even make a small hole on this small sphere. Even the ubiquitous gamma rays couldn't penetrate this small sphere. He really couldn't think of any other way.
The only thing he could be sure of now was that this black sphere was not dangerous, even if he touched it directly with his hands.
"What do you think this might be?" Jiang Chen asked.
The leader hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure. If it's just a guess, I think there should be a gravitational generating device in this small sphere that can compress more than 100 kilograms of material into the size of a golf ball? Or, this is the legendary strong interaction force material? It's directly composed of countless hadrons and even quarks … but this is too sci-fi. "
As the scientist spoke, he shook his head and denied his own speculation before he finished speaking.
Someone once proposed the conjecture of strong interaction force material, but it didn't make sense in theory … at least the existing theory didn't make sense. However, if this thing was really some kind of strong interaction force material, then the civilization that created it had terrifying technology.
In layman's terms, one was still figuring out how to cultivate, and the other had already ascended …
"I suggest moving it from Celestial City to the materials science laboratory on Coro Island. There are more sophisticated instruments there to try," the project team leader suggested to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen shook his head. "No need, the research ends here. Let your people stop for now. Maybe there's something wrong with our train of thought. I'll think of another way. "
After hearing Jiang Chen's words, the team leader's expression was a little ashamed, but he couldn't insist anymore.
For three days, he and his project team had been circling around this small ball for three whole days! But he didn't even produce any results! This caused him to feel a little embarrassed. At this moment, the boss tactfully expressed that he wanted to change people to do the research, which was already giving him a lot of face.
Just like that, the researchers from Coro Island went back to where they came from.
After the researchers evacuated with the equipment, Jiang Chen transferred dozens of soldiers from the military headquarters to block the warehouse where the black spheres were stored. At the same time, he issued a strict order that no one was allowed to enter the warehouse except for himself.
Immediately afterward, Jiang Chen swapped the black ball, threw it into the storage dimension, and took the space elevator back to the surface. After saying goodbye to Ayesha, he traveled back to the apocalypse again.
…
After returning to the apocalypse, the first thing Jiang Chen did was to hand the black ball to Lin Lin.
After integrating the technology of two thousand sisters, this research institute composed of clones and digitalized humans became the most technologically advanced research institute in the NAC. Unlike Fallout Shelter 027 which focused on applied technology, the research direction of this "Lin's Research Institute" was mainly based on theory and cutting-edge technology.
Lin Lin was the most suitable candidate to study the mystery of this black ball.
Although she said evil words, when she saw the black ball Jiang Chen brought, Lin Lin put down her research on the portal and immediately devoted herself to the study of the mysterious object from the extraterrestrial civilization.
Jiang Chen was almost used to Lin Lin's sharp tongue.
He knew very well that despite how unwilling and unforgiving the little girl was on the surface, she was more enthusiastic than anyone else. She was just too shy to show it. He rubbed Lin Lin's hair, and in her "angry" protest, Jiang Chen left the institute.
He would stay in the apocalypse for a few days and return to the modern world at the end of the month to preside over the situation.
The speed of Lin Lin's research exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations, at least much faster than he expected.
At noon on the third day, Jiang Chen was sitting on the sofa in the living room, waiting for Yao Yao to announce lunch while chatting with Xiaorou. Just then, the exhausted Lin Lin pushed open the door of the living room and sat down next to him.
"The results are out. Just like my previous speculation, the small ball is indeed a strong interaction material, or hadron material for short."
In the same three days, Future Group's material science research team didn't even make a breakthrough, but Lin Lin already made some progress, which made Jiang Chen speechless.
"Hadron material?" Sun Xiaorou tilted her head and looked at Lin Lin and Jiang Chen in confusion.
"Umm, it's troublesome to explain." Lin Lin put her hand on her forehead and let out a troubled sigh. "The strong interaction overcomes the strong repulsive force produced by the electromagnetic force, and the particles in the material are bonded together by the strong interaction force. In short, this small ball is made up of protons and neutrons that make up atoms, so naturally, there are no elements in the traditional sense. "
"In other words, that thing itself is a large atom?" Jiang Chen asked with a strange expression.
"Well, although there are flaws everywhere, it's praiseworthy that you can understand it to this extent with your superficial physics knowledge – ouch!" Before Lin Lin finished, she exaggeratedly covered her forehead and stared at Jiang Chen with grievance. "Why did you knock me? I didn't say anything wrong!"
Jiang Chen ignored Lin Lin's grievance and took his hand back.
"Don't interrupt. What do you think it is? A battery? Or a weapon? Or a detector or something … "
"Neither." Lin Lin shook her head and scratched her hair in distress. "Or both. The trouble is that it is a hadron material. With the current technology, it is impossible to analyze its internal structure, or even pass through it … "
But then, Lin Lin's eyes suddenly lit up and she muttered to herself, "Wait, it's not impossible."
Sun Xiaorou tilted her head and looked at the two. She still didn't understand what they were talking about.
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