It was a wonderful phenomenon.
In the transparent vacuum tube about the thickness of a wrist, a blue light ball floated. If you looked closely, you would also find that between the two ends of the light ball and the two poles inside the vacuum tube, there was a hair-thin electron beam.
At this moment, this vacuum tube was placed on Lin Lin's experiment table.
It was the first time Jiang Chen saw what antimatter looked like.
To be honest, when he saw the real thing, it was still a bit different from what he expected. He originally thought that antimatter should be deep black, but he didn't expect it to be dazzling.
"This is antimatter?" Jiang Chen pointed to the vacuum tube on the table and asked Lin Lin next to him.
Lin Lin glanced at him like he was an idiot, coughed deliberately, and began to show off.
"… using an electron beam injected with small regular angular momentum to form a dense core plasma in an absolute vacuum metal tube."
"Plasma?" Hearing a lot of technical terms, Jiang Chen suddenly felt a bit confused.
However, Lin Lin seemed to appreciate his expression, and the pride on her cute little mouth was even more obvious.
"That's right. You can think of this glowing light ball as a 'shell' that wraps antimatter. In the center of this' vacuum spherical shell ', the extremely black particles that are swinging irregularly are the antimatter in the usual sense. We usually call this method magnetic confinement. "
After that, Lin Lin added with a smirk.
"Although it's only 1g, it can erase this area from the map in an instant."
Jiang Chen's eyebrows twitched, but he didn't show the expression of fear Lin Lin expected.
"… Wouldn't there be a safety problem if we just leave it here?"
"Don't worry about safety. 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 Lin with some surprise.
Lin Lin shook her head.
"Not to mention the formation of such a strange plasma spherical shell, even pumping this vacuum tube into an absolute vacuum is not an easy task for the 22nd century. You must know that even the universe is not an absolute vacuum. In addition to the matter that we can see, there's also dark matter that we can't see. It's definitely not an easy task to eliminate all of these things. "
After a pause, Lin Lin looked at the vacuum tube and murmured.
"Although atoms are electrically neutral, they also have a weak magnetic distance. Standing on the other side of matter, it was the same for antimatter. By using a special magnetic field, antimatter can be confined in a certain space. Amazing design … Although human observations of antimatter can be traced back to the 20th century, until two centuries later, no one has been able to store antimatter in such a plasma body. "
"How about using antimatter as a weapon?" Jiang Chen immediately asked the question he was most concerned about.
"The power is astonishing, but I advise you not to use weapons from the Interstellar Era on Earth." "In theory, there is nothing that can defend against antimatter. Any positive matter that comes into contact with antimatter will quickly annihilate, and 100% of its mass will be converted into energy and released in the form of high-energy gamma rays. By the way, hydrogen bombs only have a 0.7% mass-energy conversion rate. To destroy the Earth, only 1kg of antimatter is needed to fall to the ground, which is why antimatter is listed as a prohibited research project. "
After listening to Lin Lin's explanation, Jiang Chen finally understood why the Remnants of the Void compared this thing to the last hope.
With such terrifying lethality, if antimatter weapons could be possessed, Earth civilization might be able to fight against the Harmony civilization 20.5 light-years away!
Lin Lin seemed to have noticed the change on Jiang Chen's face, and she whispered to remind him.
"But don't be too excited, those people in the Void only gave us a sample. Whether it is the manufacturing process or related technology, our foundation is zero."
"Starting from scratch? It's okay, I believe in your ability! "Jiang Chen laughed and patted Lin Lin on the shoulder." The research of antimatter will be handed over to you! "
"Don't leave everything to me! I'm still researching the topic you gave me about bringing people to transmigration! Even I don't know anything about antimatter, okay? I suggest you find some physicists who specialize in antimatter to do this. Moreover, the research and extraction of antimatter is best done in outer space. It is very dangerous to do this experiment on the surface, okay? "Lin Lin protested.
Lin Lin didn't have any other solutions for antimatter, but she still helped Jiang Chen design a research idea.
The project was divided into three parts.
The first part was to study how to create an absolute vacuum container for the storage of plasma wrapped in antimatter.
The second part was to study how to create this kind of plasma that could magnetically confine antimatter and use it to wrap antimatter.
The third part was how to use a high-energy particle collider to more efficiently produce antiparticles and use a magnetic field to collect them before they decay.
In fact, how to produce antimatter was the easiest step. After all, in 2014, the European Organization for Nuclear Research successfully created an antihydrogen atomic beam. It was an antimatter beam composed of 80 antihydrogen atoms and 2.7 meters long, but no one could preserve it and mass-produce it.
These high-energy ion accelerators usually only produced a few nanograms of antihydrogen atoms per year, and a nanogram was one billionth of a gram.
After leaving Lin Lin's lab, Jiang Chen went to the community center of the Fishbone base and handed the documents for the establishment of a new research project team to Wang Qin.
"Find a way to find the missing talent from the fallout shelter. Mark all the physics laboratories near Suhang Province. The expeditionary force will be responsible for recycling."
"Antimatter?" Wang Qin held the document in her hand and was a bit confused, but since it was the general's request, she nodded seriously. "Okay, I'll give the order. Right, some time ago, there was news from Hongcheng. "
"Hongcheng? What news? "
"Compared to some time ago, the number of Northern Alliance Area merchants active in Zhonghe City and Qingshan Town has increased a lot. At the same time, Wu Qian, the president of the Gear Chamber of Commerce, also sent news. These Northern Alliance Area merchants active in the Hongcheng area seem to be purchasing steel, rare earth, and electronic components, but showed little interest in other goods. "
"Purchasing steel?" Jiang Chen thought for a moment, looked at Wang Qin, and then said, "Increase the exchange rate of credits to crystals. Let us control several mutant farms to increase the output of crystals."
With the devaluation of crystals, the cost of purchasing steel for Northern Alliance Area merchants who used crystals as currency would undoubtedly increase. Although to a certain extent, this would have an impact on the local economy of NAC, it could effectively curb the outflow of strategic resources caused by the market economy.
"In addition, increase the orders issued to the military factories in the Sixth Street. We must double the production capacity of the General factory by the end of this year!"
After a pause, Jiang Chen continued.
"Finally, prepare for war."
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