After putting this heart down, Yu Yifeng turned his attention to another major event: the development of the gas giant.

The scientific investigation of Yufu 2 went well, and the industry on the UF 4 was not particularly difficult, except for the development of the gaseous planet "Doufu 5" for the first time.

“The theoretical difficulty is not high.”

The development of the gas giant is an important link in the industrial chain, which involves the energy problems of the entire new human industrial chain, and it has to be unnoticed.

Everyone knows the reason, just rely on the helium-3 reserve in Noah's number, it is impossible to stick to it infinitely.

Therefore, the related gas collection spacecraft is being built in a large gong.

“If we can successfully develop this gas planet, we will have access to almost endless nuclear fuel.”There’s too much energy ... We can even build a luxury antimatter production base to consume this extra energy.”

A group of scientists were eating in the cafeteria while chatting, led by Professor Ding Yidong.

He is not only an expert on weapons, but also a very famous nuclear physicist, who knows a lot about how atoms react between them.

Ding Yidong said with a consistent voice: "We can now use a specific laser collision to produce antimatter ... this conversion rate is more research, as far as possible to improve the energy utilization rate."If you try hard, you can only produce a few micrograms of antimatter, which is absolutely not possible.”

To be honest, in the past, people did not attach great importance to antimatter research.

For antimatter is almost the same as the positive matter, except for the opposite nature of electricity.That is to say, at great cost, antimatter of almost the nature of research, is not of particular significance.

“But the main value of antimatter is ... it is an important secondary energy source, the main trading unit of interstellar civilization, and can also be used to produce weapons antimatter missiles that go beyond nuclear bombs.”

The energy density of antimatter is two orders of magnitude higher than that of nuclear fuel, which means that the weapon is also two orders of magnitude higher than that of nuclear weapons.

There may be some unique antimatter fountains in the Milky Way, but this antimatter fountain requires a very strange geographical environment.They tend to be near black holes and require a very high level of technology to charge.

The vast majority of antimatter is produced by interstellar civilizations themselves.

So, scientists are discussing how to use excess energy to produce antimatter.

“...so that in the future he may not trade, his pocket is empty, like a poor man.”We always have to deal with interstellar civilizations, and we can't trade cheap helium-3... how this stuff is worth nothing."

One scientist smiled and said that he was also a member of the Ministry of Industry.They have discussed this many times.

There are many ways of producing antimatter, the simplest, of course, through the accelerator to produce high-energy particles, hit fixed targets to produce antiparticles, and then slow down to synthesis.However, the energy required for this process is much greater than the energy emitted by annihilation, and the rate of antimatter is extremely low.

The second method, of course, is laser.

After the electron meets the positron, an annihilation reaction will occur, forming two high-energy photons, which is the principle of energy release of antimatter.

In fact, this process is reversible, that is, after two powerful laser collisions, the photons collide with each other, which can also force the energy into matter.

If at this moment, the positive and antimatter with different charges generated by a large magnetic field are quickly separated, a considerable amount of antimatter can be obtained.

"However, the current quality energy conversion efficiency is extremely low.It is not that two lasers can produce material after random collisions, nor is it the greater the energy, the better... We must find a more suitable laser ... the research in this area should be accelerated."

However, scientists are not worried that at current levels, small amounts of antimatter will certainly be produced, just a matter of energy utilization.This utilization rate, as experience grows, should be able to be increased.

It is manufactured and saved...

The preservation of antimatter, of course, can not be separated from the vacuum and the magnetic field.

“I still suggest producing only the simplest antimatter of positron.The vacuum technology of our accelerators is already relatively mature, and the beam pipe can reach a very high vacuum and can be stored for a long time.”

Professor Ding Yidong calculated several data in his head and said: "In addition, annihilation will not happen once, but there will be problems with annihilation cross-section, and in an environment with high vacuum, high-energy electrons can run far before annihilation occurs."To put it simply, the specific formula for the annihilation reaction is ... n=sigma*rho*velocity...”

“So we’d better have a superconducting tokamak-like device that magnetically constrains antimatter ... it’s not going to be a problem.”

This discussion, people suddenly found that the production and preservation of antimatter technology has quietly matured, but there is still a lack of practical experience.

This fact can not help but secretly lament that human progress in the past few hundred years is too big.

Scientific development, sometimes need to be gradual, sometimes leapfrogging.The reason is not only because of the alien garbage found, but also because of the social system, material wealth, and materialistic ideas that worship the natural science, which has greatly promoted the process of science.

Think about it, scientists in the Earth period, the resources at hand are very limited, want to do experiments, especially high-energy experiments, but also various approvals, subject to various financial constraints.

But now there is no such thing, every scientist has been given great freedom, scientific research consumption has long been far greater than ordinary consumption of life.

For the Noah society, the attention to the natural sciences is far greater than any other aspect, including various entertainment products, military industries... almost the whole people advocate the era of science, such an academic atmosphere, is incomparable to any country in the earth period, any university.

In this case, if science has not yet advanced rapidly, there is only one situation: this civilization has touched its own ceiling.

Soon, six months passed quietly, and the first nuclear fuel collection spacecraft was officially completed, and it has sailed on the road to the gaseous planet "Refve 5".

Today is the day when the spacecraft officially reached the gas planet, and below the huge control room, there are more than 300 staff members sitting right next to each other.

Among them were engineers and scientists, and they had serious expressions and stared nervously at the big screen.

The ship was about three hundred meters long and looked like a barrel-like cylinder.In the face of the upcoming gas planet, "The Royale 5" is small like a mosquito.

“About what you say about antimatter... is it safe to make it?”I am mainly worried about the storage problem, just the magnetic constraints seem to be a little thin, and the need for superconducting rings for continuous power supply...”

"What if the power is out of power and accidentally released?"

Yu Yifeng listened to Professor Ding Yidong's next plan and asked with a frowning eyebrow.

Although he also longed for various anti-material weapons, he had to pay attention to more important security issues.