Universe dominance

Time passed slowly and quietly like running water. In the blink of an eye, it was already 2150, the middle of the 22nd century.

In the void somewhere in the Kuiper Belt of the Imperial Centauri Galaxy, the originally dark and silent void was now brightly lit. Huge spaceships illuminated everything around them. Countless small spaceships were constantly flying in these spaces. Huge spaceships were flying around, all with the Imperial Academy of Sciences logo on them.

In a large spaceship, Li Wanzhou's face was full of excitement at this time. He looked very excited. After decades of research, the cold nuclear fusion he originally proposed has now been successfully realized. It will soon It’s time for the final step of testing.

Cold fusion technology uses high-density and high-intensity magnetic fields to control neutrons to achieve nuclear fusion. Imperial scientists have already thoroughly researched this technology in theory, but it is still difficult to implement it in practice. Heavy.

Although powerful magnetic energy technology was used to successfully control neutrons to achieve nuclear fusion, the huge energy generated during nuclear fusion still caused the experiment to fail time and time again.

Cold fusion achieves nuclear fusion at normal or relatively high temperatures, but the powerful energy generated during nuclear fusion will also produce terrifyingly high temperatures. This problem has also been plaguing scientists in the empire.

Li Wanzhou and others were even ready to give up on cold fusion research and return to thermonuclear fusion technology until some scientists proposed the concept of a tokamak device. The superconducting tokamak device is a device that uses magnetic confinement and Vacuum insulation is used to realize controlled nuclear fusion annular vessels, which makes continuous steady-state operation of magnetic confinement configuration a reality.

In fact, this Tokmak device is an imaginary thing proposed by Tokmak, a great physicist in the 20th century, to control nuclear fusion. The principle is to use strong magnetic confinement and vacuum insulation to control the nuclear fusion. terrifying temperature.

It’s just that human scientists have never been able to truly realize it. There is a reason for the empire’s scientists to propose this concept again, because the empire’s magnetic energy technology and other technologies are already quite advanced and can completely convert Tokmok. The device was developed and controllable nuclear fusion technology was successfully realized.

After decades of struggle and research, using cold fusion technology and the Tokmak device, the empire's scientists finally succeeded in developing controllable nuclear fusion technology.

This experiment also attracted much attention. Emperor Li Fu, President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Chen Bin, and many veterans of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Yu Liang, Cao Haitao, Yang Yiping, Yao Tianyi, Li Qianyu, Bai Cai, Gu Feng, Liu Jun, Dong Zhifei , Tang Boyuan, etc. are all present.

In the void at this time, in the huge spaceships, the elite scientists of the empire were all looking forward to the direction of the experiment, and they looked into the void in the middle from time to time.

In the void in the middle, there is a huge spaceship. This spaceship is different from other spaceships around it. Nowadays, the general spaceships of the empire all use anti-gravity power systems, so they are all oval flying saucer-shaped spaceships. Regardless of Whether this spaceship is big or small, this is true for all spaceships, unless it does not use an anti-gravity power system.

The shape of this spacecraft is a rectangular parallelepiped, with a length of more than ten kilometers, a width of 5 kilometers, and a height of 3 kilometers. The most peculiar thing is a huge tube-like thing at its tail. The diameter of this tube alone is It is 1 kilometer long, somewhat similar to the tail of a space fighter powered by a plasma engine.

Obviously, this spacecraft is definitely not a spacecraft that uses an anti-gravity system. Otherwise, in this shape, the anti-gravity system will not be able to operate well and stably. The engines it installs are warp engines and nuclear fusion power engines.

"start up!"

Following Li Wanzhou's order, everyone focused their attention on the spaceship in the distance. At the same time, various monitoring instruments began to record everything.

There is no one on the spaceship in the middle, and everything is controlled by computers. However, there are also many various animals, plants, etc. on the spaceship that are used as experimental subjects.

Under Li Wanzhou's order, the supercomputer began to operate, and the nuclear fusion power system on the spacecraft began to operate. The powerful magnetic energy beam instantly ignited the He3 in the nuclear fusion reactor, because there is no neutralization in the nuclear fusion reaction using helium-3. Protons (the thermonuclear reaction between helium-3 and deuterium will only produce non-radioactive protons), so using helium-3 as an energy source will not produce radiation and will not cause harm to the environment. It is the most ideal nuclear fusion fuel.

In the nuclear fusion reactor, the nuclear fusion fuel instantly began to produce terrifying energy, and the temperature began to rise rapidly, reaching a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees almost instantly. Such a high temperature would have been enough to melt everything.

But at this time, the powerful magnetic field came into play, and coupled with the vacuum insulation design, powerful energy and high temperature were instantly ejected from the tail of the spacecraft in the set direction.

A dazzling white beam shot out from the tail of the spacecraft, with a length of more than a hundred kilometers, releasing extremely powerful energy. The originally cold void around it began to heat up rapidly due to the powerful nuclear fusion energy and high temperature, and it could even be faintly used The fluctuations of energy are visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, as the powerful white tail flame was ejected, the spacecraft with a mass of 10 billion tons also began to fly forward rapidly in the void. The speed of the originally stationary spacecraft began to soar rapidly. The soaring speed is far faster than that of a spacecraft using an anti-gravity power system.

You must know that the mass of this spacecraft has reached 10 billion tons. According to the mass calculation, it is definitely a proper large spacecraft. However, driven by the powerful nuclear fusion power system, its speed soared very easily. It is estimated that In less than an hour, its speed reaches 1,000 kilometers per second.

"What a terrifying power, this acceleration is so powerful!"

Chen Bin looked at the rapidly accelerating spaceship in the void, and then looked at the acceleration calculated by the computer next to him, with a smile on his face.

"The nuclear fusion power system directly uses powerful energy as power to propel the spacecraft forward, without wasting any energy in the process. This does not mean converting nuclear fusion energy into electrical energy, and then converting the point energy into something that can be compared with other things. of."

Yu Liang's eyes were also shining, as if he were seeing a peerless treasure, and he was carefully admiring the spaceship that was receding in the void.

"More power!"

On the other side, Li Wanzhou also looked at the data with satisfaction. It was similar to the data simulated by the supercomputer. There was not much difference. However, the nuclear fusion power system had just begun to operate, and it was only one-tenth of the power. .

As Li Wanzhou's order was conveyed, the tail flame at the tail of the spacecraft began to lengthen rapidly. Originally, it was only a tail flame of hundreds of kilometers. Slowly, the blazing white and dazzling tail flame began to extend to 200 kilometers, 300 kilometers... The speed of the spacecraft also began to soar, and soon everyone's field of vision slowly became smaller, until there was only a dazzling light spot left, and the white tail flame that had just been burning seemed to be left in the surrounding void. The dry heat left behind when spraying.

Although the spacecraft slowly disappeared from everyone's sight, everyone could continue to track the traces of the spacecraft using the monitor. Everyone looked at the monitor, which was showing the operation of the spacecraft.

"Originally, I just wanted to use nuclear fusion power to provide enough powerful energy for the warp engine. I didn't expect that it would be so powerful when used alone as power. It is even better than the anti-gravity power system."

Li Wanzhou was always paying attention to each piece of data, but he was constantly thinking in his mind. In fact, the performance of the spacecraft largely depends on the power system of the spacecraft.

The anti-gravity power system is very powerful. There is no doubt about this. The anti-gravity power system currently mastered by the empire can only be regarded as an introduction. Once the anti-gravity power system is fully understood, it will be very powerful.

The nuclear fusion power system is an unintentional one. Originally, controllable nuclear fusion was only used to provide energy for the warp engine on the spacecraft. Scientists thought that it could also be used as a conventional power to propel the universe. The spaceship moves forward.

In this case, the spacecraft can fly quickly in the normal void without installing an anti-gravity power system, and the design of the spacecraft does not need to be limited to an oval flying saucer shape.

Sure enough, the powerful nuclear fusion power did not disappoint. It is very powerful. The powerful energy generated during nuclear fusion is used as power. Even a large spacecraft can be easily propelled. This acceleration is much faster than the anti-gravity currently mastered. The power system is even more powerful.

The spacecraft continued to accelerate in the void, getting faster and faster, and soon exceeded the speed of 1,000 kilometers per second, and was still accelerating, 1,500 kilometers per second, 2,000 kilometers per second, and the speed was getting faster and faster. , the tail flame at the tail of the spacecraft also became longer.

"It's perfect. From now on, our empire will have two powerful technologies, anti-gravity tools and nuclear fusion power systems, in terms of conventional power."

Li Wanzhou nodded with satisfaction. All the data were perfect.

"It's time to start the warp engine power. It's really exciting!"