Voyage of the Stars

Antimatter factories can be built.

After the realization of the Grand Unified Theory, humans have been planning this matter, and it has been started. The materials used to build the factory are all from human inventory and the materials left over from the construction of the astronomical particle collider.

However, although the factory can be built, antimatter production has not reached a large-scale level. The reason is that there is not much material left for humans now, or in other words, there are very few materials that humans can use in this space. The rocky planets in the eight star systems have basically been hollowed out by humans, and now the resources that humans can use are the remaining gaseous planets and the materials that were originally left.

The production process of antimatter is not efficient, and a large amount of material energy is required to be converted into a small amount of antimatter through the antimatter factory. For this situation, humans currently have no other way, because humans have not found other more efficient ways to produce antimatter.

According to the efficiency of the antimatter factory designed by humans, it often takes more than 10,000 tons of material to produce one ton of antimatter, and these more than 10,000 tons of material include the consumption of fuel and production of antimatter. It should be said that the energy system of the antimatter factory is actually provided by nuclear fusion, a cheap and easily accessible energy source. Energy is generated by nuclear fusion reactions, and then converted into antimatter needed by humans through antimatter factories.

It seems a bit unpresentable to use nuclear fusion energy when we have already reached the fourth level of civilization, but we need to understand that energy and energy are different concepts.

Nuclear fusion reactions are energy sources that are easily obtained in the universe. Antimatter is an energy aggregate of higher energy levels. It is not everywhere in the universe like nuclear fusion. It will not be produced spontaneously, so there is naturally a need for an energy system to power the factory. Of course, the produced antimatter can also be used as fuel to drive the antimatter factory, but doing so will undoubtedly consume more energy.

This is not a question of whether human technology is advanced, but the result of the second law of thermodynamics and the law of entropy increase.

For this reason, humans do not plan to manufacture antimatter factories on a large scale. At this stage, humans plan to use the remaining resources to build a factory first, and at the same time build a warship that uses antimatter as fuel and can achieve warp speed navigation.

After that, we have to find a way to leave this space.

Although this space is safe, the remaining materials are not enough for human beings to upgrade comprehensively. It is true that there are still many gas planets, but the difficulty of developing gas planets is many times greater than that of rocky planets. There are so many star systems in the Milky Way, and there is really no need for humans to fight here.

Unless they can't find an exit and have to do it for survival, otherwise humans will not do such a thankless task.

Of course, humans are not without any plans. If they can't find an exit in a short time, then humans will really have to start developing the gas planets in the eight stars. Although they can only obtain fusion fuel, it is better than nothing.

However, at this stage, what humans need most is still heavy elements.

As humans who have just stepped into the fourth-level civilization, the way to obtain heavy elements is actually no different from that of low-level civilizations. They can only be obtained through the development of rocky planets. Many civilizations are the same, unless technology has reached the point where supernovas can be rubbed by hand.

From this, it can be seen that the galaxies in the universe are still the main place for civilization activities. Even if humans reach the fourth-level civilization, they will still have to plan their navigation in the future like the third-level civilization, using the star system as their port of call in the vast sea of ​​stars.

As time goes by, relying on the powerful industrial capacity, the human antimatter factory gradually appears in the starry sky from scratch. Next to the factory is the astronomical particle collider with a length of more than 6,000 astronomical units.

This newly formed antimatter factory seems a little small here, but in fact it is also a behemoth. It is larger than the largest Tianqin battleship currently owned by humans. It is a space fortress with a length of more than 20 kilometers.

The antimatter factory adheres to the consistent design ideas of humans. It is composed of many parts. Each part is specially reserved by human engineers for thruster installation slots, so that it can be modularly separated and set foot on the starry sky with the human fleet.

Such a demand undoubtedly increases the difficulty of manufacturing the antimatter factory, but humans have sufficient technical accumulation in machinery, so the problem is not big.

While the antimatter factory was under construction in full swing, another plan was also underway at the same time-the new ship manufacturing plan.

Human engineers are ambitious. They hope that the new battleship of mankind is an absolute fourth-level civilization battleship. Then the requirements for warships are obvious. First of all, the warship must have a weapon system that matches the level of the fourth-level civilization. Secondly, the fuel technology of the warship must also use antimatter annihilation for energy supply. Finally, the warship must have the ability to travel at warp speed.

This is the most basic requirement. On this basis, the new warship must also have the new shield technology of the fourth-level civilization, that is, the force field shield developed based on the grand unified force field. Then the warship must also have a conventional navigation method, that is, the magnetic propulsion system of the third-level civilization must also be installed.

The conventional navigation method is mainly used for navigation in areas close to various planets within the star system, because human scientists have discovered that the gravitational environment of the stars in areas close to the stars will have a certain impact on the warp speed, and it is easy to cause accidents if you forcefully enter the warp speed in these areas. However, the specific impact range and the consequences of forcibly entering the warp speed, etc., have to wait for scientists to use spacecraft equipped with warp engines to conduct field experiments to get accurate numbers.

These must be studied in advance to obtain data so that humans can safely use warp navigation in various gravitational environments in the future.

Compared with new warships, experimental spacecraft are much easier. They only need to use old spacecraft as a framework for modification, install warp engines and various detection equipment.

For a period of time, countless humans have devoted themselves to the construction of the fourth-level civilization. Many new projects have been launched at the same time, and new creations have continued to appear. The starry sky where humans are located presents a busy scene.

Warp engine power experiment, warp spacecraft trial experiment under gravitational environment, antimatter factory, force field shield experimental platform, tachyon communication test, tachyon detection test, gravitational potential well technology application and large ship related research, antimatter driven large magnetic thruster test, antimatter kinetic weapon project research, antimatter warp missile research, gravitational potential well technology related weapon research

From theory to technology, and then from technology to scientific and technological creation, humans are turning themselves into a true fourth-level civilization.