How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 431: Antimatter Engineering (Part 1)

According to the construction plan, the transported organisms will travel across several astronomical units to reach the vicinity of the star, and turn the trajectory to enter the orbit at a circumscribed angle, and perform a circular motion centered on the star.

"I've reached the stars."

After using radio communication to send information to the group, the transport creature fell into silence. This is the most energy-saving way. It needs to wait for more supplies to be delivered here. The supplies it carries are just a huge individual A fraction of what is needed for conception.

The energy consumption problem during this period is solved by transporting organisms through photosynthesis, and the heat accumulation problem caused by the closer distance is also solved by the materials carried, so it is not a big problem.

As time went by, more transporting creatures were conceived by them, and brought a large amount of matter to the vicinity of the star, and then entered the same silent state as the first transporting creature, and they were also waiting for the subsequent arrival of the same race .

When the accumulation of materials meets the requirements of the plan, hundreds of transport creatures will break away from the group and gather together to form a huge cocoon. While revolving around the star, the cocoon slowly starts to rotate, and the central axis of the rotation axis is vertical in the direction of the star.

The cocoon gradually expands in this state of rotation, and absorbs the energy of the star to rectify the matter. The principle is the same as that of the honeycomb, and the molecular compound is processed or disassembled by gaining and losing electrons.

Gradually, the appearance of the cocoon changed from a constantly expanding and shrinking sarcoma to a shape similar to a spinning top. The bottom of the two cones merged to form its shape.

The cone angle on the side facing the star is an obtuse angle, so the bottom surface is large, but the height is not high. The cone angle on the opposite side is very small, but because the bottoms fit each other, the height of the cone is very high.

At this time, the cocoon no longer showed a state of continuous expansion and contraction, and it was stretched straight by the combination of two cones.

After a while, the tentacles with monomolecular heads pierced the cocoon, stuffed the cocoon's substance into the mouthparts on its side, and completed the recovery of the substance.

Presented in the cosmic vacuum is a very peculiar biological structure, which is still maintaining its rotation and never stops. The central axis is a bone, and this bone runs straight through the biological body, perpendicular to the surface of the star.

It is not so much the bones of this organism as it is that the bones are covered with some flesh. Most of these flesh are concentrated at the end close to the stars, and the end of the hollow bones pointing to the deep space of the universe does not have much flesh on it.

Then, the meat piece at the bottom extends out a bone bracket parallel to the star plane, and is covered with a dark brown meat film that absorbs light energy and converts it into electricity.

The hollow bones slowly grow several layers of superfiber films. The distance between the films is not large, but they are all filled with chlorine gas. Because the superfiber film itself does not contain hydrogen or metal elements, it is composed of carbon and oxygen elements. , so it will not form hydrochloric acid or be corroded by chlorine gas.

These are sample organisms, and the collectors have no experience, so they need to carry out tentative antimatter production. If antimatter can be successfully produced, they will start to breed such organisms for the group in large quantities, and expand the scale of production.

To make antimatter, you first need to know what antimatter is.

Antimatter is the opposite state of normal matter, except that it has the same properties as positive matter, with the same amount of electricity but opposite electricity.

Antimatter will also undergo chemical reactions with each other. In addition, antimatter and antimatter can also undergo nuclear fusion reactions. The energy released is not much different from that of positive matter nuclear fusion, except that the released charge radiation is positive charges.

After knowing these, you can start to manufacture antimatter, and what the collectors are going to manufacture is antihydrogen atoms.

In fact, the principle is very simple. Find a way to create positive charges and antiprotons, and then combine the two kinds of particles to form an antihydrogen atom.

It is said to be very simple, but the question arises, how to make positive charges? How to make antiproton? And how to make them combine obediently and obediently with each other? Even if they combine together to form antihydrogen atoms, how can we know whether the antimatter has been successfully manufactured? How to induce antihydrogen atoms to store?

These are all questions.

And now, the gatherers are settled.

First of all, obtaining positrons is not a big problem. In nuclear fusion, four protons are fused into one helium nucleus, and two electron neutrinos and two positrons will be released at the same time. Therefore, it is natural to produce antimatter near stars. Advantages of material resources.

The problem is how to filter out the positrons from the various radiations released by the stars for particle processing, and the chlorine gas in the hollow skeleton will absorb the flow of metal ions and hydrogen ions released from the stars, and the flow of positrons will be absorbed Filter it out.

Positrons are also electrons, but they carry positive charges, so as long as they are reversed, they can also be affected by strong electric fields. Collectors take advantage of this, and the electric field accelerates in reverse to reduce the moving speed of positrons.

Of course, despite this, the moving speed of the positron is still very fast, and it will probably cut off 15% of the near-light speed of the positron, and then meet the antiproton that is also slowed down under the action of the electric field.

Then there are antiprotons, which are much harder than positrons. To make antiprotons appear, you need a large number of protons to bombard a metal target. The required energy level is about 2000 times that of positrons, which means that you need to use particle accelerators.

Collectors had to design another set of organisms for this.

After confirming that the positrons could be filtered out intact, not much different from what was expected, more than a dozen transport creatures left the group and assembled a particle accelerator capable of producing antiprotons.

This creature is also a hollow skeleton that runs through the whole body, but unlike the organism that collects positrons, it has two ring-mounted bone extensions, one is the acceleration ring, which is used to accelerate the flow of protons to bombard the metal target to produce antiprotons, and the other is Combining rings are used to combine antiprotons and positrons to become antihydrogen atoms.

It also has a dark brown meat membrane that produces electricity from light energy, and it is larger and wider than the previous organisms that collect positrons. If the flesh membrane of organisms that collect positrons is one, then this organism that produces antiprotons The meat film is a hundred.

Generally speaking, a strong magnetic field is an absolutely indispensable part to produce antimatter, and to form a strong magnetic field stably, a huge amount of electric energy is required as the basis.

This is why the collectors and Huogu both believe that antimatter should be produced from living organisms and built near stars, because this place is really suitable.

If you want energy, you have energy, and if you want positrons, you have positrons. They all exist naturally. Is there any better place than this?