Universe dominance

In the back garden of the Imperial Palace, Li Fu has been in a good mood recently. With major breakthroughs in the field of atomic materials, the empire's science and technology has developed rapidly at an unprecedented speed. The field of materials science is the basic field of all disciplines. Major breakthroughs in the field of materials , naturally led to the development of the entire empire's scientific field, and good news in all aspects of science and technology spread frequently.

"The degenerate material has been created, and the Imperial Space Research Institute has also made a major breakthrough. The warp engine can now be manufactured. However, the degenerate material is too expensive to manufacture a warp engine. The cost of the engine makes me sad just thinking about it.”

Li Fu had a smile on his face. Because of the theoretical breakthroughs in materials and space, there was no problem in creating a warp engine. However, when he thought about the cost of manufacturing a warp engine, Li Fu felt extremely painful. It was really painful. too expensive.

The warp engines used on spacecrafts and space battleships are very large and require massive amounts of degenerate materials. This means that it takes hundreds of billions of dollars to build a warp engine. Speeding the engine, even Li Fu, as the emperor of the empire, couldn't help but grit his teeth.

"The only unsolved problem now is the energy issue. There has been no major progress in controllable nuclear fusion research. There is no powerful controllable nuclear fusion to provide power. Even if a warp engine is created, it will It cannot be started at all, and current energy technology simply cannot provide enough energy to satisfy the warp engine's appetite."

Thinking of this, Li Fu couldn't help but frowned.

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are naturally unfamiliar to everyone, because this is the most basic principle of hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs among nuclear weapons. Atomic bombs use the huge energy generated when matter fission to achieve the huge destructive power they want to achieve, while hydrogen bombs It uses the concentrated energy generated during the fusion of matter to form a powerful destructive force. The energy generated by nuclear fusion is greater than that of fission.

As early as the 20th century, humans have been able to use nuclear fusion and nuclear fission to create terrifying nuclear weapons. With the development of nuclear technology, humans have gradually mastered controllable nuclear fission technology, the most widely used of which is nuclear power plant.

However, although human scientists have invested countless efforts in controllable nuclear fusion technology, it has never been successful. Even the hydrogen bomb is uncontrollable nuclear fusion and cannot be said to become powerful according to human needs. energy to serve humanity.

Because the conditions required to achieve nuclear fusion are too harsh, it needs to be in a high-temperature or high-pressure environment to free the electrons outside the nucleus from the shackles of the nucleus, so that the two nuclei can attract each other and collide together, causing the nuclei to polymerize. , generating a new heavier atomic nucleus (such as helium). Although the neutron has a relatively large mass, because the neutron is uncharged, it can also escape from the constraints of the nucleus during this collision and be released. A large number of electrons and neutrons What the release shows is a huge release of energy.

To what extent must this high temperature and pressure reach to achieve nuclear fusion? According to scientists' calculations, to achieve nuclear fusion, the temperature must reach hundreds of millions of degrees.

A high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees is a temperature only found inside stars. Hydrogen bombs require an atomic bomb to be exploded first to generate sufficient temperature to achieve nuclear fusion of the materials inside the hydrogen bomb.

At such a high temperature, any substance will be evaporated into particles. The most difficult problem to be solved in controllable nuclear fusion is how to control the high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees generated during nuclear fusion.

"High temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees are really a headache."

Li Fu frowned. This warp engine can already be manufactured, but there is no way to develop controllable nuclear fusion technology to satisfy the huge appetite of the warp engine. You can imagine how Li Fu feels now. This is like It was the cat who saw the fish, but it happened to be separated by a layer of glass. It was so crazy that it could not eat the fish in the glass.

“A walk around the denuclearization institute.”

Thinking of this, Li Fu immediately set off to see the latest developments at the Imperial Nuclear Research Institute.

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Also somewhere in space in the Centauri galaxy, a huge space city is brightly lit. The Imperial Institute of Nuclear Physics, one of the many branch institutes of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, is an institute specializing in the study of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion technology.

Many people may think that this nuclear technology has nothing to study for the empire. Apart from controllable nuclear fusion, it may be worth studying. As for nuclear fission, controllable nuclear fission and other technologies, let alone the empire. Yes, the Pan-European Union, the Japanese, etc. have already studied it thoroughly.

In fact, this is not the case. Nuclear technology is also a very profound technology. It is not just about nuclear fission. The current mainstream technology is to use the heavier nuclei at the back of the periodic table to produce fission and release energy, such as uranium. Or plutonium.

But what would happen if elements close to each other in the periodic table, such as iron, gold, silver, etc., could be used to perform nuclear fission? These technologies are also worth studying. The same is true for nuclear fusion. If iron elements are used for nuclear fusion, the energy released will definitely be more terrifying and terrifying.

Of course, for the current Imperial Institute of Nuclear Physics, the most important research direction is still controllable nuclear fusion technology!

"In the final analysis, nuclear fusion is actually using various methods to break away the extranuclear electrons from the shackles of the atomic nucleus, allowing two or more atomic nuclei to come together to cause nuclear polymerization to produce new nuclei with heavier mass."

"We have been trying to overcome the problem of hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated during nuclear fusion for many years. Now we look at the problem in essence. In fact, it is not necessary to use high temperature and high pressure to achieve nuclear fusion."

"If we can free extranuclear electrons from the atomic nucleus at normal or lower temperatures, or use high-intensity and high-density magnetic fields to block neutrons or direct neutron output at higher temperatures, we can use more common Simpler devices produce controlled cold fusion reactions while also making polynuclear reactions safer."

In a conference room of the institute, Imperial scientists wearing white coats were discussing the issue of controllable nuclear fusion technology. The Empire has continued to make significant developments in various fields, and warp engines can now be manufactured. It came out, but there was no way to provide the powerful energy needed for the warp factor.

Therefore, during this period of time, Emperor Li Fu, President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Chen Bin, and senior members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences have also frequently visited the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

As scientists at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, everyone is under great pressure. Seeing other people's results pouring out like spring water, there has been no progress on our own side, which has seriously hindered the empire's centenary plan. Everyone is also I couldn't sleep well and couldn't eat well.

People strive to take a breath of Buddha and receive a stick of incense!

They are all engaged in research, and no one is inferior to the other. The scientists here at the Institute of Nuclear Physics are also holding their breath and are bound to develop controllable nuclear fusion technology as soon as possible.

At this time, on the podium in the conference room, a handsome and extraordinary young man was talking about the technology of cold nuclear fusion. He looked very young, but in the empire, it is difficult to tell by looking at a person's size and appearance, because there are many different people. Even if people who are successful in power cultivation are very old, they still look very young.

"Our empire has been developing rapidly in the field of materials science recently. The creation of atomic materials relies on powerful magnetic energy technology. Since this magnetic energy can be used to create atoms, why can't we use it for cold nuclear fusion? We use high-density, High-intensity magnetic fields can also control neutrons and successfully achieve nuclear fusion reactions.”

"The above is just my humble opinion. Please give me some advice."

Li Wanzhou bowed slightly to everyone, and then slowly walked down the podium. As the eldest son of the Imperial Emperor and the eldest son of Li Fu, Li Wanzhou has attracted much attention since his birth. Of course, Li Wanzhou himself is also very outstanding. He became a scientist at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at a very young age. His main research direction is controllable nuclear fusion technology. Now he is one of the few top scientists in the field of Imperial nuclear physics research.

The cold fusion technology he mentioned is also a technology guessed by scientists. Different from thermonuclear fusion technology, cold fusion technology does not require hundreds of millions of tons of high temperature during nuclear fusion. The principles of nuclear fusion are the same. , thermonuclear fusion technology is realized by using high temperature and high pressure, while cold nuclear fusion technology is realized by using non-high temperature and high pressure technology.

It is still difficult to draw a conclusion as to which of the two technologies is better. Currently, because the scientists of the empire cannot come up with a way to overcome the hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated during human nuclear fusion, cold nuclear fusion technology has been put on the back burner. In front of everyone, especially with the emergence of magnetic energy technology, cold nuclear fusion technology, which was only a conjecture at first, does not seem to be out of reach, and it is possible to realize it.

"Cold fusion technology?"

No one noticed that at the back of the conference room, Li Fu came in quietly. Listening to his son Li Wanzhou talking about cold nuclear fusion technology, Li Fu couldn't help but nod slightly.

Li Fu, who has the seeds of civilization, naturally knows that the Han Dynasty Science and Technology Empire adopted thermonuclear fusion technology in its early days, but it was an opportunistic use of the Yuanli magic array to control the hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated during thermonuclear fusion. However, as With the development of science and technology, cold nuclear fusion technology was gradually developed. The principles and methods are the same as what Li Wanzhou said.

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