Deep Space Fleet

"Guys, is it necessary to keep this news a secret?" Captain Ke's mood gradually improved, and he said with a smile: "Otherwise, our scientists are obsessed with researching this aspect...there is no need to do other work! It’s all about studying the particles of running.”

"No, no, no." Another scientist quickly objected: "This is just a hypothesis. Everyone knows the difficulty and will not believe in it as the ultimate belief... But it is good to have a direction to strive for."

"I also don't think it's necessary to hide it." A professor from the Information Security Department said: "After all, the difficulty lies here. To put it bluntly, people have said that only the sixth-level civilization and the speed of light thinking are qualified to answer this question. issue a challenge."

"Third-level civilization, the speed of neurons is 100 meters per second, and the brain is not smart. It's better to wash up and sleep. The speed of thinking can't keep up with the speed of particles."

Everyone laughed. Sometimes, self-deprecation is not inferiority, but a way to relieve stress.

"By the way, we want to sell the history of the new civilization to the Huantai civilization... Well, it's good to sell it. It's also good if there is a civilization that can rely on it to rise. We can also get a lot of money from Ami Bar points."

The discussion on this aspect has become more lively.

After a while, Zhang Yuan suddenly remembered a question and said, "There is no need to keep the things we discussed just now confidential. But the next news must be kept secret from all the people. After all, we are in the trading market now. Once the news is leaked, the risk is huge!"

"Oh? Any other news?"

"About... the technology of the curvature engine."

Upon hearing this word, everyone was taken aback, and more than a hundred pairs of eyes looked over at him.

The number of times of startling and blinking was so many that my whole body was almost a little numb.

Curvature Engine!

Zhang Yuan didn't make a fool of himself, and said directly: "According to the news revealed by the artificial intelligence 'Sigma' of the Hicks civilization, the mystery of curvature-related technologies is hidden in—"

"...a neutron star, or the core of a quark star at the intersection of a critical black hole. The other party said that if we can cut open the core of a neutron star, we can obtain a large amount of data and improve the model. There is no need to build a circumsolar system accelerator here. "

"What you said is true!"

This news has received unanimous attention from everyone. Compared with the illusory prediction mathematics, everyone immediately pays attention to the core of the fourth-level civilization in front of them-"curvature technology"!

"Of course, in that super-dimensional perception state and super-thinking state, I also produced a series of ideas on this aspect and wrote two papers."

Soon, a series of relevant experts were summoned. After listening to Zhang Yuan's description, the core keywords were nothing more than a few: "curvature", "singular matter", and "how to destroy a neutron star"!

There is a bright road, and blind exploration are two different magnitudes!

The first thing to discuss is the first point. Is this news true or false? Is it feasible? Maybe it is feasible for the other party, but it is completely unfeasible for humans?

The entire discussion lasted a total of three days. Scientists made bolder guesses based on the clues and information currently available. More than half of the physicists thought it was possible, and some people were not sure.

"Yes, it's not 100% guaranteed."

"But that's enough. How can we be 100% sure about something that hasn't been researched yet? It depends on whether humans are willing to gamble on it!"

Ake Manley, the physicist in the spaceship, blushed and said enthusiastically: "From the discovery of strange matter to the study of its specific properties, there is a long way to go."

"If the 'strange matter hypothesis' is correct, then the strange matter is actually a relatively stable existence, and its half-life is relatively long."

"According to Mr. Zhang Yuan's news, a large amount of strange matter is hidden in the core of neutron stars, or exists on some quark stars that are on the verge of forming black holes, but how should we get through neutron stars?"

"It can't be done at all!"

The diameter of a neutron star generally does not exceed 20 kilometers, and it looks very small. There are some large meteorites, which are larger than neutron stars.

However, no scientist would underestimate the power of neutron stars. Condensing a star with a mass larger than the sun into a small ball below 20 kilometers, the surface temperature exceeds 60 million degrees, and the core temperature reaches 6 billion degrees! .

Any electromagnetic pulse is comparable to the most powerful ray weapon.

With the help of human beings, how to destroy a neutron star and spy on its core?

Don't even think about it!

Even, flying a human spacecraft near a neutron star is a dangerous behavior for the spacecraft. Throwing a stone on a neutron star can trigger a huge nuclear explosion.

A weapon expert excitedly designed a plan: "...the most likely antimatter weapon is to use pulsed antimatter weapons to continuously hit the same point of a neutron star to expose its core. The main body of a neutron star is neutrons, As long as antineutrons are used, part of the neutron star's matter can be annihilated."

"Of course, there is a lot of antimatter. An earth-mass antimatter is definitely not too much. We only need to punch a small hole in the neutron star and obtain all the data through the instrument before it recovers."

Hearing this huge number, the officials in charge of logistics and material reserves couldn't help but roll their eyes. An antimatter with the mass of the earth, this is not the way to joke, humans don't even have a planetary fortress yet!

The minister complained: "I can guarantee that even a fifth-level civilization cannot use antimatter to blow up neutron stars! Irrational mentally handicapped behavior!"

Since this path is not feasible, scientists have discussed another way.

There is no unparalleled road in the sky, and the power of human beings cannot do it, but the power of the universe itself can easily do it.

Many natural phenomena can destroy the structure of neutron stars.

"...first, the collision of two neutron stars, merging into a larger neutron star."

On August 17, 2017, the gravitational waves generated by the merger of two neutron stars were directly detected for the first time. The collision of two neutron stars can be called a particle accelerator on a cosmic scale, and its energy level far exceeds that of a circumsolar system accelerator!

The neutron stars are all smashed and merged, and their cores must be exposed for a while.

There is also black hole swallowing, which can also crack neutron stars.

The swallowing rate of black holes is limited, especially for small black holes, it is impossible to swallow up the massive neutron stars all at once.

An astronomer drew a simulation picture on the computer screen, indicating: "The black hole swallowing the neutron star will be divided into two situations."

"One situation is that the neutron star is disintegrated, most of it is sucked into the horizon, and the smaller half is thrown out of the horizon by the sub-high speed, and the remaining part of the mass is recombined into various heavy elements and wanders in the universe."

"The second situation is that the neutron star absorbs more matter in the accretion disk near the black hole. It is unlikely that there is nothing near the black hole, so the two sides start to compete for matter. The greater the mass of the neutron star, the stronger the gravitational force , it becomes denser, and after reaching the critical value, it becomes a black hole. Whether the merger of two black holes will produce the strange matter we expect is temporarily unknown. "