Chapter 782 Magnetic Confinement Method

?It is a wonderful phenomenon.

In the transparent vacuum tube about the thickness of the wrist, there is a faint blue light ball floating. If you look closely, you can also find that between the two ends of the photosphere and the two poles inside the vacuum tube, there is still an electron beam as thin as a hairspring.

At this moment, this vacuum tube is placed on Lin Ling's experiment table.

This is the first time Jiang Chen has seen what antimatter looks like.

To be honest, when he saw the real thing, it was still somewhat different from what he expected. He originally thought that antimatter should be deep black, but he didn't expect it to be so bright that it was dazzling.

"Is this antimatter?" Jiang Chen pointed to the vacuum tube on the table and asked Lin Ling beside him.

Lin Ling glanced at him with the eyes of an idiot, coughed mysteriously, and began to show off.

"A plasma with a dense core formed in a metal tube of absolute vacuum by injecting an electron beam of small normal angular momentum."

"Plasma?" Hearing a lot of technical terms, Jiang Chen suddenly felt dizzy.

However, Lin Ling seemed to appreciate his expression very much, and the pride hanging on her cute little mouth was even more obvious.

"That's right, you can understand this luminous photosphere as a shell wrapped in antimatter, and the extremely black particles that are swinging randomly in the center of this vacuum spherical shell are what we call antimatter in the usual sense. We usually refer to this This method is called the magnetic confinement method."

After finishing speaking, Lin Ling added something with a smirk.

"Although there is only 1, this area can be wiped off the map in an instant."

Jiang Chen's eyebrows twitched violently, but he didn't show the fearful expression Lin Ling expected.

"Just put it here, won't there be any safety issues?"

"Don't worry about the safety issue. This plasma is very stable, and it can even be said to be perfect. People can't help but wonder how those guys in the void can do it."

"Can't it be done with the technology of the 22nd century?" Jiang Chen looked at Lin Ling in surprise.

Lin Ling shook her head.

"Not to mention forming such a peculiar spherical plasma shell, it is not an easy task for the 22nd century to evacuate this vacuum tube into an absolute vacuum. You must know that even the universe is not an absolute vacuum. Except for our The matter that can be seen, as well as the dark matter that we cannot see, it is definitely not an easy task to get rid of all these things.”

After pausing for a moment, Lin Ling murmured as she looked at the air control.

"Although atoms are electrically neutral, they also have a weak magnetic moment. Standing on the back of matter, the same is true for antimatter. By using a special magnetic field, it is possible to confine antimatter within a certain space. It is very impressive. Surprising design Although human beings' observation 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."

"How 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 weapons of the interstellar era on the earth." Lin Ling squinted at Jiang Chen, "Theoretically, there is no thing that can defend against antimatter clusters, and any positive matter that is touched by antimatter will quickly annihilates, and converts a mass of 100 into energy,

Released in the form of high-energy gamma rays. By the way, the hydrogen bomb only has a mass-energy conversion of 0.7. To destroy the earth, only 1 antimatter is needed to fall on the ground, which is why antimatter is listed as a prohibited research project. "

After listening to Lin Ling's explanation, Jiang Chen understood why the survivors of the void compared this thing to their last hope.

With such a terrifying lethality, if anti-matter weapons can be possessed, the earth civilization might not be able to fight against the harmonious civilization 20.5 light-years away!

Seemingly seeing the emotion on Jiang Chen's face, Lin Ling reminded him in a low voice.

"But don't get too excited. Those people in the void just gave us a sample. Whether it's manufacturing techniques or related technologies, our foundation is zero."

"Start from scratch? It's okay, I believe in your ability!" Jiang Chen laughed, and patted Lin Ling on the shoulder, "I will leave the research on antimatter to you!"

"Don't leave everything to me! I'm still studying the subject you gave me to take people through time! And even I have zero foundation for things like antimatter, okay? I suggest you find some research directions Physicists who are biased towards this aspect come to do this. Besides, it is best to study and extract antimatter in outer space, is it very dangerous to do experiments in this area on the surface?" Lin Ling protested.

For things like antimatter, Lin Ling has no other options, but she still helped Jiang Chen design a research idea.

Divide the subject into three parts.

The first part is to study how to create an absolute vacuum container for the storage of antimatter-encapsulated plasma.

The second part is to study how to create such a plasma that can magnetically confine antimatter for enveloping antimatter.

The third part is how to more efficiently produce antiparticles with high-energy particle colliders and collect them with magnetic fields before they decay.

In fact, how to produce antimatter is the simplest step. After all, in 2014 CERN successfully produced an antihydrogen atomic beam. It was a 2.7-meter-long antimatter beam composed of 80 antihydrogen atoms, but no one was able to preserve it and manufacture it on a large scale.

These high-energy ion accelerators typically produce only a few nanograms of antihydrogen atoms per year, and a nanogram is one billionth of a gram.

After leaving Lin Ling's laboratory, Jiang Chen went to the community center of the Fishbone Base and handed over the documents for establishing a new research project team to Wang Qing.

"The lack of talents will find a way from the refuge, and mark all the physics laboratories near Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the expeditionary force will be responsible for the recovery work."

"Antimatter?" Wang Qing held the document in her hand in a daze, but since it was the Marshal's request, she nodded seriously, "Okay, I will give the order. By the way, there was a message from Hongcheng some time ago. information."

"Hongcheng? What news?"

"Compared to the previous period, the number of merchants in the Northern United Area in Hezhong City and Qingshan Town has increased a lot. At the same time, news has also come from Wu Qian, the president of the Steel Gear Chamber of Commerce, that these merchants are active in the Hongcheng area. Merchants in the Northern Union seem to be buying steel, rare earths, and electronic components, while showing little interest in other goods."

"Are you buying steel?" Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, looked at Wang Qing and continued, "Increase the exchange rate between credit points and sub-crystals, so that we can control several heterogeneous ranches under our banner to increase the output of sub-crystals."

With the depreciation of the sub-crystal, the cost of purchasing steel for the merchants in the Northern United Area who use the sub-crystal as currency will undoubtedly increase. Although this will have an impact on the local economy to a certain extent, it can effectively curb the outflow of strategic resources caused by the market economy.

"In addition, increase the orders placed on the military factory in the sixth block. The production capacity of the general factory must be doubled before the end of this year!"

After a pause, Jiang Chen continued.

"Finally, prepare for war." To be continued