Arcane Lord

————This chapter will be completed tomorrow~ I guess there will be one chapter too late tomorrow. I will be able to complete all of it during the holiday the day after tomorrow.

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Antimatter, as the name suggests, is the antistate of matter. When matter and antimatter meet, an annihilation reaction will occur and a large amount of energy will be released.

This energy is released rapidly in the form of gamma rays, which is more violent than any nuclear reaction.

In the past, human research on antimatter was limited to the production of antimatter atoms in the laboratory, which were calculated in units of "a". Moreover, the production cost was high and it was a by-product of the operation of high-energy particle collider.

Not only are there very few in number, they are also very difficult to catch.

Although the antimatter nebula discovered by Xia Chengyue this time cannot be captured in batches using instruments made of positive matter, it is much cheaper to collect "human flesh" with the power of the soul of a high-level monk than to produce it in a laboratory.

However, Xia Chengyue does not want to make the discovery of the antimatter nebula public yet.

The location of the antimatter nebula in the universe is so far away that even Xia Chengyue cannot determine whether it is in a corner of the observable universe or far away in the unobservable universe.

Although Xia Chengyue seems to be able to go to the antimatter nebula at any time, it is with the help of the power of the original world. If he does not use the power of the original world, maybe Xia Chengyue forgot to leave the mark of the original world last time.

So even if you have visited the antimatter nebula once, it will be difficult to go there again. The current high-dimensional jump is basically a random jump, and Xia Chengyue cannot control the location of the jump point.

The value of a huge antimatter nebula is almost difficult to measure. Humanity's current energy basically comes from man-made fusion stations and the natural sun. Spiritual energy is not as popular as imagined. The reason is not because of the lack of spiritual energy resources, but Cheap psychically friendly materials have not yet been created.

Without cheap psychic affinity materials, it is impossible to create cheap matrix carriers capable of storing spiritual energy, and one can only covet the Kunlun continent's inexhaustible spiritual energy resources.

The annihilation energy of antimatter and positive matter is the most powerful energy that humans can theoretically control, except for spiritual energy. For antimatter, scientists on the earth have even proposed a solution similar to the development of controllable nuclear fusion in the past 50 years. slogan.

Let the people on earth use annihilation energy within our lifetime.

The lifetime here is no longer the short hundred years in the past. In the era of cultivation, no one can predict how long the lifetime will be. Many scientists are ready to devote their entire lives to this aspect.

Although Xia Chengyue is not a pure seeker of knowledge, his desire for knowledge is no less than anyone else, and for immortals, many things cannot be said to be "how many", but rather "have" or "have not".

The Immortal has enough time to make any choice without having to be bound by time like in the past.

Xia Chengyue was very interested in the antimatter nebula discovered this time. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, almost a month was enough for Xia Chengyue to understand it quite deeply.

First of all, what Xia Chengyue wants to determine is the annihilation of matter and antimatter. Will it be completely converted into light (electromagnetic waves)?

Existing theories believe that because the symmetry of matter and antimatter is broken, the final annihilation reaction will be that positive matter will prevail, leaving a small amount of positive matter. This is also the reason why the universe exists.

It's just that it's quite difficult to verify this experiment. Let's not talk about how to detect the experimental results. It's impossible to collect and preserve so much antimatter, so what's the point of experimenting?

However, there is no problem with Xia Chengyue at all. As long as antimatter is collected once and entered into the original world, it can be transformed through the source of the original world. The consumption of converting 1 ton of antimatter is the same as that of converting 1 ton of water and 1 ton of gold. As for the quality, related.

Xia Chengyue's first verified conjecture about antimatter was this. He drew a closed area within the original boundary, and always threw the positive and antimatter of the same mass in together to make them react.

As more and more matter and antimatter are put into the system, when a threshold is reached, an extra hydrogen atom appears out of thin air in the closed system!

Xia Chengyue transformed almost countless amounts of matter and antimatter, and in the end only one more hydrogen atom was produced. So with so much matter in the universe at present, how much matter and antimatter should be annihilated?

This question may only be answered by God, but it is also possible for humans to become gods, although the probability is infinitely close to 0.

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The second conjecture about antimatter that Xia Chengyue verified was - will there be antimatter planets, antimatter humans, etc.?

Or more precisely, can antimatter form objects?

This verification is relatively simple, even simpler than verifying the first conjecture. Just put pressure on a bunch of "antihydrogen atoms" and see if it can fuse "antihelium", "antilithium" and "antiberyllium" in sequence. What.

On Earth, the fusion station of Great China can continuously fuse "hydrogen" into "iron". Xia Chengyue's side is even more convenient. In the original world, he doesn't even need basic equipment and can directly "knead" it by force!

But unfortunately, there are no stable antiatoms for all elements after helium.

For example, an "anti-lithium atom" or an anti-atom with a higher atomic number will soon split into smaller anti-atoms and release energy (light).

The only things that can exist stably are "antihydrogen atoms" and "antihelium atoms".

In this way, it is basically impossible for antimatter to form macroscopic objects.

This experiment also verified the previous conjecture. Because the symmetry between matter and antimatter is broken, the properties of the same pair of matter and antimatter are actually not the same, and there is still a microsecond difference.

Therefore, after the annihilation of a large amount of positive and antimatter, there will be one more hydrogen atom, so antiatoms higher than "antihelium" cannot exist stably.

As for the rest, there seems to be no need to know more. What humans actually want is to use antimatter as energy, and more profoundly, to study the mysteries of the birth of the universe.

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After verifying the two conjectures, Xia Chengyue's thoughts of going deeper were much lessened, and he changed his target to the antimatter nebula. As for antimatter, it was actually "antihydrogen" and "antihelium", and he would still study these two.

Therefore, Xia Chengyue went to the antimatter nebula many times to conduct field research.

During this period, he measured the antimatter concentration near the exit point of the original high-dimensional jump, the ratio of antihydrogen to helium, and the material properties of the antimatter nebula, and obtained first-hand detailed data.

After doing this, it is already the Lantern Festival, and after the Lantern Festival, Xia Chengyue and Yu Min will return to the city, and the exploration of the antimatter nebula will also be further launched.

For example, let's study a jump ship that can shuttle through the antimatter nebula. The nebula is too big and there is no need for a human-made spacecraft.

For example, go near the "giant curtain" that covers the entire antimatter nebula and observe the annihilation of matter and antimatter at a close range on a cosmic scale.

For example, go to other locations in the antimatter nebula to see if there really is no antimatter other than "antihydrogen" and "antihelium". Perhaps some special environments can give birth to antimatter with higher atomic numbers.

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