Wandering planet that will travel

Ding Yi smiled slightly and said, "Haha, Director Qiao Lu, you've got the point."

Shen Huabei explained: "As you can imagine, the ammunition of the earth cannon is of course a new solid material, but the density is much higher. We can't put it on the earth, otherwise the shell will sink directly into the earth." heart."

"Then where do you put it?" Qiao Li asked curiously.

Shen Huabei raised his finger towards the sky, and replied confidently: "Of course it's in space."

In order to see the truth about the materials launched by the earth cannon, Qiao Lu followed Shen Huabei and Ding Yi in the Antarctic to take the space elevator to the sky above the earth orbit, where a huge space station was floating, which was also built as part of the Antarctic Garden Project.

Qiao Li was surprised to find that this space station was very similar to the Navigator space station in the past, that is, there was an obvious raised part at the tail of the space station, which made the whole space station look like a huge key, pointing at the Antarctic courtyard below Engineering the Earth Tunnel Entrance to this keyhole.

He walked inside the space station with Shen Huabei and Ding Yi, and Qiao Li asked the two people in front of him in surprise:

"Could it be that this is also part of the Antarctic Garden Project?"

Shen Huabei turned his head and smiled, "That's right, this is the firing pin of the earth cannon."

"You call this a needle?"

Qiao Lv couldn't help but blurted out, if the firing pin of a planetary engine is as amazing as an ancient battering ram, then the entire giant space station, which is comparable in size to the navigator space station, is actually the firing pin of the earth cannon, which is even more shocking. People can't complain anymore.

"So, this is a big project." Ding Yi explained, "Our bullet is inside this firing pin."

After walking for a while, Qiao Lv and his party arrived at the central control area of ​​the space station.

Here, Qiao Lv finally got his wish and saw the shells of the Earth Cannon kept in a weightless glass cabin, surrounded by a large group of staff busy, as if they were going to accidentally break out of the window all the time.

It's just that it's different from the people around who are waiting in full battle. The things stored in the glass cabin are not scary at all, and it can even be said to be full of beauty.

It was a silver metal sphere, which looked like a drop of round mercury. Its surface was as smooth as a mirror, or even surpassed a mirror, and it could perfectly reflect everyone's face on it.

There is another characteristic, that is circle, reaching the ultimate circle.Just like its smooth surface, as a sphere, it is also an absolute circle. No matter how many points are randomly checked on it with optical instruments, there will be no slightest circumference error.

Just like the definition of a circle, the distance from each point to the center of the circle is equal, but when there is no error at the atomic level, the difficulty of achieving it is unimaginable!

The entire metal sphere exudes a natural artistic atmosphere, which makes it hard to believe that it is made by human technology.

"What exactly is this?"

Qiao Li took a deep breath and asked, even he didn't know that there was such a thing on the Wandering Earth.

"The final form achieved after compressing the new solid-state material to the extreme." Ding Yi replied: "We should call it - strong interaction force material."

Chapter 531 Strong Interaction Force Materials

Strong-interaction materials, of course, are not unfamiliar to Qiao Li. The water droplets in the Trisolarans that destroyed the United Human Fleet were made of strong-interaction materials.

It's just that Qiao Lv never imagined that the wandering earth could also develop a strong interaction force material. This is something completely different from the new solid state. How was it produced?

Ding Yi saw through Qiao Lv's doubts, and explained with a smile: "To explain this, we must start with what is the strong interaction force. In physics, there are four basic forces in the universe. The strong interaction force force, weak interaction, electromagnetism, and gravitation."

"The strong interaction force is the force that combines protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei. It is the strongest of all fundamental forces. Neutrons have no charge, while protons have a positive charge. Once combined, they will produce a strong force. The electromagnetic force repels each other, but the strong interaction force overcomes this electromagnetic force and binds protons and neutrons tightly into atomic nuclei. If this is a bit difficult to understand, an example will make it clear, except for the above Apart from the protons and neutrons that make up the atomic nucleus, atoms and molecules are held together by electromagnetic force."

"In the final analysis, the hardness of matter is determined by the atomic structure and molecular structure, so no matter how hard the matter is, it is essentially caused by the strong enough electromagnetic force between its atoms and molecules. However, the strong interaction force can It is a hundred times stronger than the electromagnetic force, in other words, the strength of the strong interaction force material is hundreds of times higher than the hardest substance known so far!"

At present, the hardest substance known on the Wandering Earth is of course the vibrating gold obtained from the Marvel universe. The composition of the double-edged sword and the peerless blade is still incomprehensible, but the essence is still as Ding Yi said, relying on atoms Combined with the electromagnetic force between molecules, it is hundreds of times weaker than the strong force that combines protons and neutrons to form atomic nuclei.

It can be said that this is the difference between nuclear bombs and ordinary bombs. TNT is very efficient in explosives, but compared with nuclear bombs, it can only be a unit of measurement, and it still needs to be measured in tons.

Compared with other materials, the strong interaction force material is already a completely different thing in essence, and the hardness of any substance is compared with that of a pebble against a stone.

"Is it really that powerful?" Qiao Lu asked curiously.

Shen Huabei smiled confidently: "Of course, do you know why it is a smooth sphere? It is not polished, but it can only appear in this way. Every atom inside is like protons and neutrons. It is generally tightly combined together, and even the electrons outside the nucleus are pressed into the nucleus. It can be said that it is a huge nucleus as a whole, and the surface is pressed into absolute smoothness by its own gravity. It has never been a strong interaction material. It’s been that way from that moment on.”

In order to prove this point, the staff carefully scratched it with a vibrating knife mechanically, and even wiped out dazzling sparks, but did not leave the slightest scratch on the metal sphere. No trace was left.

Not only that, the staff also used optical instruments to magnify the cut position by 1000 million times, reaching the level where macromolecules can be seen. The surface of the sphere is still a smooth mirror surface, and there is no sign of damage.

The smooth surface is the easiest to be scratched, but even if it is scratched by vibrating gold, the surface of the metal sphere does not leave any scratches.

Vibranium, an extremely hard substance, is really going to become a unit of measurement for strong interaction materials!

Qiao Lv couldn't help taking a step closer, wanting to carefully observe this metal sphere made of strongly interacting materials.

Ding Yi warned him, "Don't touch it! Since the internal molecular vibration has completely disappeared, its surface temperature is at absolute zero, and even the slightest touch will cause frostbite!"

Such unreasonable substances are increasingly beyond the scope of Qiao Lv's comprehension. Just as humans felt the power of nuclear energy when they detonated a nuclear bomb for the first time, Qiao Lv also felt the strong interaction between materials and ordinary matter. In comparison, it seems that they are not from the same dimension.

"How did you do it?" Qiao Lv finally couldn't help asking, "It can't be possible to increase the power of nuclear explosions infinitely according to the method of creating a new solid state, right?"

Shen Huabei replied: "The first few steps are indeed the same. Use 'sugar-coating' to wrap the metal material, and then rely on nuclear explosions to further compress it to obtain a new ultra-high-density solid material."

"But then we fell into a bottleneck. On the one hand, the stress that the outer layer of nano-material 'sugar-coating' can withstand is not infinite, so it is impossible to increase the power of nuclear explosions all the time. When a certain nuclear explosion equivalent is reached, the sugar-coating will Breakage occurs first, making it impossible to compress further."

"On the other hand, as the new solid matter is further compressed, the electromagnetic repulsion force between protons will become stronger, and it will be impossible to get close to a certain extent. The strong interaction force can only be in the extremely short distance inside the nucleus It works. So if you can’t overcome the repulsive effect of the electromagnetic force and press the two nuclei tightly together, you can’t make a strong interaction material at all.”

Just like the closer two magnets are, the stronger the magnetic force between them is, the electromagnetic force will be further strengthened as the atoms are compressed, so that the new solid state cannot be compressed into a strong interaction force material.

In this case, either further increase the external pressure to forcibly overcome the interference of the electromagnetic force and combine the atoms together.

However, the scope of "sugar-coating" to withstand external forces is not unlimited, and this way is no longer feasible.

Another way is to find a way to weaken or even eliminate the electromagnetic force, I am afraid this is the only way.

"So we used the power gem you brought back." Ding Yi continued to explain:

"In the beginning, we didn't know what the power gem that had lost its energy could do. Although it could absorb energy, the absorption speed was not fast enough to be used as a defensive weapon. Until we discovered that it could absorb a specific Energy, on a microscopic level, opens up new worlds for us."

So that’s the case, now Qiao Lv understood how they further compressed the new solid into a strong interaction force material. Of course, electromagnetic force is also a kind of energy. As long as it is energy, it can be absorbed by the power gem. It doesn’t need to be absorbed quickly. As long as the interference of electromagnetic force is slowly eliminated, strong interaction force materials can be produced naturally.

It is indeed the most powerful object in the Marvel universe-the Infinity Stone, even if it loses its own infinite energy, it is still a priceless treasure.

This is really an unexpected harvest. Qiao Lv didn't expect at first that the power gem can have such an effect!

Chapter 532 The Power of the Earth Cannon

After introducing the manufacturing principle of the strong interaction force material, Ding Yi suddenly turned around and said:

"By the way, Qiao Lv, guess how heavy this thing is?"

This really stumped Qiao Li. If you think about it carefully, you will know that the ratio of the nucleus to the atom is equivalent to the ratio of the size of an ant to the size of a stadium. Compressing matter to such a degree, the density must be beyond imagination. .

"I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of tons?" Qiao Lu asked hesitantly, he was really not sure about the number.

Shen Huabei on the side shook his head and said, "It's far more than that! Let's put it this way, its weight is equivalent to a planetary engine!"

Qiao Lv couldn't help taking a breath. The metal sphere in front of him was only about the size of a flint in a planetary engine, but it contained the weight of the entire planetary engine?