This civilization is very strong, but the technology tree is a bit crooked.

Chapter 213 Quark engine, energy is not conserved?
"It is not affected by conventional temperatures. It is thrown into a nuclear fusion reactor, and it does not respond to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius."

"It has superconducting properties at room temperature and pressure. Its density is 1.2 times that of ordinary titanium alloys, but its strength is beyond imagination. It is only slightly damaged when it comes to strong interaction materials."

"The electromagnetic wave absorption rate is no different from that of ordinary materials. It absorbs part and reflects part. However, if it is continuously irradiated, current fluctuations can be detected, and the properties of the material do not change."

"The most important thing is that the electron tunnel scanner did not find conventional electron and atomic nucleus structures."

"This material is the same as the strong interaction material in that there are no electrons."

"There are no electrons, but there is conductivity and superconductivity."

"In addition, fluctuations in the magnetic field were detected inside this broken instrument, and the various particles and light came from the vacuum at the center of the magnetic field, not the instrument itself."

"The Casimir Effect Vacuum Detector successfully discovered and confirmed the vacuum fluctuations caused by this instrument in a noisy environment at an almost close distance."

"It can be confirmed from this that this instrument is indeed closely related to vacuum, but the materials used to make the instrument are full of doubts."

Looking at the analysis report in front of him, after various temperature tests, ultrasonic vibration detection, gravitational detection, electromagnetic wave active detection, proton scanning gun detection, and even electronic tunnel scanning, Chen Yi frowned involuntarily. .

"Xuannu, send this report, as well as the magnetic field fluctuation data inside the instrument, to the research center."

After thinking for a while, Chen Yi ordered decisively, and turned his head to look at Shao Kaiwang: "Kaiwang, all the wreckage and fragments of this smart warship of the cosmic dimension-enhancing force will be brought back to Blue Star after safety inspection.

Next, your research center needs to get busy.

We need to determine the material and craftsmanship of these wreckage fragments, analyze their functions in the complete state, analyze the remaining information of some storage equipment of this battleship, and then combine it with other traces of the fragments to see if we can find its source, as well as about the curvature. Some information on the mysteries of time and space.

I hope that the study of these fragments can provide basic theoretical data and direction guidance for our next development, and provide some help for us to prepare for the next attack by the forces of universe expansion. "

"Yes, I understand."

Shao Kaiwang nodded firmly.

time flies.

Soon, more than a week passed.

The wreckage and fragments of the smart battleship of the cosmic dimension-enhancing force have all been captured and collected by Yifei.

In a completely physically isolated environment, after a series of safety inspections, it was determined that these fragments contained no unknown memetic information and no active intelligent programs. Finally, several warships sent them back to Blue Star.
Penghai Base.

A battleship descended from the sky and stopped firmly at the square of the base.

Then the hatch opened, and several crawler-type intelligent robots came down carrying a 3-meter-square metal box.

Chen Yi, who had already been waiting, was not afraid of radiation, but put on a biochemical protective suit just to be on the safe side. He took the box and transported it to the laboratory at the base.

"Casimir effect vacuum detector, did not detect the fluctuation of vacuum energy?"

Chen Yi did not rush to open the box, but first turned on various radiation protection measures, then took out the Casimir effect vacuum detector to detect the vacuum fluctuations caused by the instrument inside the box again.

After more than a week.

Originally, mass bombs that borrow energy from the vacuum were launched in large numbers, causing the vacuum of the solar system to fluctuate like a tsunami, which has subsided.

There is no interference from these vacuum environment noises.

It stands to reason that the Casimir effect vacuum detector can directly detect the fluctuation of the instrument inside the box.

"My metal box can't be inserted into the vacuum level to block the vacuum fluctuations, right?"

Chen Yi thought for a while, then calmly stepped back a distance and hid behind a safe house made of strong interaction materials. Then an intelligent robot walked up, entered the password, and opened the box.

Card bang.

The lid of the box was lifted.

It reveals the dilapidated, silver-white instrument inside.

The danger Chen Yi expected, or any strange energy release, did not happen.

Everything was quiet and unremarkable.

Chen Yi called up the real-time detection data of the environment in the laboratory.

It was found that except for such a momentary change in the radiation, it returned to normal after that, and there was no sign of danger at all, so I walked out of the safe room and came to the box.

"It seems that this instrument has really completely stopped working and no longer works."

Looking at Jing Jing lying in the box, no longer emitting light and being broken with various particles, Chen Yi showed a little curiosity in his eyes.

"I just don't know what kind of instrument this is."

"The internal magnetic field data detected before, after this week's research and analysis, it is probably determined that it is related to the strong gauge field."

Chen Yi thought back on more than a week of research.

Thanks to the perfection of the Higgs field model, there are also breakthroughs in strong interaction materials.

Nowadays, human beings and Yi Fei have a certain grasp and understanding of the research on the strong gauge field.

Just like the electroweak unification technology, the weak force gauge field can be interfered and controlled through the special magnetic field, and the strong force gauge field is also the same, through the special magnetic field, it can be controlled and interfered.

The magnetic field data of this instrument is related to the strong gauge field, so there is no doubt that this is a scientific and technological instrument with a strong interaction force system.

"The strong gauge field, I just don't know what kind of instrument this thing is."

Chen Yi's mind flashed through the civilization hierarchy that he learned from the lizard civilization. Among them, there are several key technologies related to the strong gauge field, such as the quark engine, such as quantum transformation.

Yes, Quantum Transformation.

Because the strong force is too strong and the action distance is too short, the scale of strong force is completely shrunk down to the scale of quantum.

This leads to the fact that the study of quantum cannot bypass the strong interaction force, and the study of the strong interaction force cannot bypass the quantum.

"I feel that there is a great possibility of quantum transformation of instruments."

"Before this instrument obtained energy from vacuum, and quantum is obviously more closely related to vacuum."

"As for the quark engine, the vivid description should be called the hadron engine. This is an energy engine with higher mass-energy conversion efficiency and a generation more advanced than the decay engine."

Chen Yi recalled the difference between the two energy engines.

The efficiency of normal decay is only one ten-thousandth or even one millionth in mass-energy conversion. The reason why such a high energy can be output is the result of multiple decays of the weak force gauge field.

But inside hadrons, between quarks, energy accounts for more than 70%.

This means that the mass-energy efficiency of the quark engine will be as high as 70%, which is undoubtedly a huge improvement compared with the decay engine.

"No matter what it is, just fix it."

After thinking for a while, he still couldn't be sure, so Chen Yi simply gave up.

Pick up a few scattered pieces in the box, and paste them against the broken gap of the instrument like a jigsaw puzzle.

No electric welding is used.

Because previous detection analysis has shown.

The material of this thing only conducts electricity, but does not have electrons, and the welding bond of electric welding relies on electronic chemical bonding.

So what Chen Yi used was an electromagnetic material.

After electrification, an electromagnetic field is formed, and then bonded by the attraction of the magnetic field.

"In this way, it should be fine."

Put the few fragments found in the box together and fit them together accordingly. The original dilapidated instrument can barely see the general shape.

A system interface appeared in front of Chen Yi.

[Item: Quark Energy Engine (broken)]

【属性：能源x7888（-7888），控制x6790（-6003），效率x10001（-9476），强度x432，美观26.3（-22.2）

[The detection of items exceeds the limit of the conventional field, and the consumption of the adjusted consciousness wave is increased by a thousand times]

[Note: This is an energy engine that goes deep into the quantum level and is based on the strong interaction force gauge field. It can open the confinement of quarks, split hadrons such as neutrons and protons, and release the huge mass energy inside the hadrons.

Only by mastering the quark energy engine technology can the civilization sequence truly enter the second-level sequence, and the energy power of civilization will also exceed the power of stars.

But unfortunately, it was bombarded by an external force and almost destroyed its normal function.

If you can repair it and complete the normal startup, perhaps, you will witness one of the deepest mysteries of the universe]

"It's actually a quark engine?"

Chen Yi's eyes showed a bit of surprise.

He didn't expect that this broken instrument related to vacuum would actually be a quark engine.

"And this evaluation, is it too exaggerated?"

"Only by mastering the quark engine can the civilization sequence truly enter level 2, and the energy power of civilization will also surpass that of stars."

"Doesn't this mean that without mastering the quark energy engine, it will never be called a level 2 civilization, and the total energy of the civilization will not be able to surpass the stars."

A little doubt flashed in Chen Yi's eyes.

You know, the mass-energy release of the quark engine is only 70%.
Although it is much more powerful than the decay engine, the decay engine can perform multiple decays, and the mass energy release can reach 20 or even 30%.
One is 70%, the other is 20 or 30%
This gap is a bit big, but not to the extent of the sky.

As for the level 2 civilization without mastering the quark engine, the total energy of civilization cannot reach the level of stars?

"The energy released by the sun is 1 million tons of mass energy per second."

"This data is indeed a difficult milestone for the decay engine."

"And the sun is just a small man in the stellar sequence, which belongs to the yellow dwarf star. Compared with the blue giant star and the super blue giant star, it is the younger brother."

"Why is this quark engine so powerful?"

Chen Yi carefully looked at the evaluation of the system interface in front of him, pondered for a while, and finally fixed his eyes on the word quark confinement.

Quark is confined, Chen Yi knows.

This is a physical phenomenon of the universe, and it can even be said to be the physical rules of the universe.

To put it simply, quarks will never exist freely, and will not exist alone. They must always be together with other quarks to form neutrons or protons.

The root cause of the mechanism behind this is mainly that the strong interaction force is too strong.

Unlike other fundamental forces, gravity, electromagnetic force, and weak force all become weaker with increasing distance, and the relationship between strength and distance is inversely proportional, but the fundamental force of strong force is different. The increase increases, and the strength and distance are proportional.

But even so, when the distance is reduced to the quantum scale and inside a proton, the strength of the strong interaction force is still hundreds of millions of times stronger than that of gravity, and it can definitely be called the bully of the four brothers of the fundamental force.

And as the direct object of the strong interaction force, quarks, are also deeply bound by the hunk of the strong force.

Because the farther the distance, the stronger the strong interaction force.

Once the two quarks are separated, the attraction between them will increase instantaneously and infinitely.

The infinitely increasing attractive force will bind each quark to each other, forming neutrons and protons one by one, ensuring that there are no free quarks or independent quarks in the universe.

And this is the confinement of quarks.

Among them, hadrons belong to the prison of quarks, and the strong interaction force is the invincible jailer of this prison, locking every quark in the prison.

"In a quark prison, inside a proton and neutron, according to the Higgs field model."

"The mass of the quark itself is only one percent, and the kinetic energy of the quark is 20.00%. The gluon energy, which belongs to the strong interaction force and transmits the strong force, accounts for 70.00%."

"Mass and energy are indistinguishable, and protons and neutrons are the basic units of visible matter."

"It can be said that almost 70% of the things we touch in daily life, everything we see, everything in the universe, and celestial bodies and starry sky are strong interactions."

"This shows how perverted the strength of the strong interaction, the prison guard of quark, is."

"When the protons and neutrons disintegrate inside the quark engine and the quark confinement is opened, the 70.00% mass energy will burst out instantly."

"However, it is still far from the energy of a star."

"The remaining energy vacancies should most likely be above the quark confinement mechanism."

Chen Yi recalled all kinds of information about Quark's confinement, and with a thought, colorful lights bloomed.

[Energy: 7888 (-7888) → 200]

[Control: 6790 (-6003) → 587]

[Detecting that a certain attribute exceeds the initial value, do you want to read the information?whether! 】

The light dissipated, and with the 200-point control attribute adjusted to the energy attribute, the originally broken quark energy engine suddenly became intact and functioned normally.

The only flaw is probably that it was able to carry out interstellar voyage before, which can satisfy the curvature navigation, and the powerful quark engine has become a low-power engine, which may not be able to drive a warship that flies.

"Xuannv, connect the high-precision energy measuring instrument to determine the energy released by this engine." Chen Yi did not rush to read the information, but looked at the output and input ports of the superconducting wire on the Quark Energy Engine, and said to Xuan The woman ordered.

"Got it, Brother Chen Yi."

Xuannv responded.

Several intelligent robots came over immediately, holding superconducting wires and related measuring instruments, as well as high-probability loads, arranged around the quark engine and connected to the quark engine.

While Xuannv was busy wiring, Chen Yi searched around the laboratory, dug out a standard 2-gram weight, opened the fuel placement port of the quark engine, and placed it in the center of the magnetic field inside the engine.

Because the quark energy engine is opening the quark confinement through controlling the strong gauge field.

In addition to dark matter and dark energy, other substances that contain neutrons or protons can be used as fuel, which is less picky than decay engines.

In this way, the fuel and energy output ratio can be calculated more conveniently by using the weight of the standard mass as the fuel.

"Xuannv, start the engine."

To be on the safe side, after placing the fuel, Chen Yi hid behind the safety wall before giving instructions to Xuannv.

The voice fell.

barking sound.

The quark energy engine in the middle of the laboratory started.

Surging heat was released on the surface of the engine, and at the same time the connected superconducting wires also began to detect the output of current.

Arranged around the quark engine, there is also a high-precision energy measuring instrument connected to the superconducting wire, which starts to measure and calculate the output energy of the quark engine, and then converts it into mass-energy parameters and transmits it back to the background.

Projected on the screen in front of Chen Yi's eyes, a value was rapidly increasing.

0.13 grams mass-energy. 0.79 grams mass-energy. 1.65 grams mass-energy. 2.72 grams mass-energy.
"Um???"

Looking at the energy data released by the quark engine, which suddenly surpassed 2 grams of mass energy and was still increasing, Chen Yi was stunned.

(End of this chapter)