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

Chapter 214 Quark Confinement!open the vacuum door

Seeing that the quark energy engine quickly output more than 3 grams of mass energy, and the energy index was still increasing, Chen Yi suddenly felt ridiculous.

Einstein's coffin board can't hold this thing at all.

Mass energy is not conserved at all.

If he remembered correctly, the weight thrown into the quark energy engine this time was only 2 grams. Even if it was completely converted into energy according to the standard of antimatter annihilation, it would only be 2 grams of mass-energy.

But now, it suddenly soared to 3 grams, where did the extra energy come from?

"Could it be that the essence of the level 2 civilization quark energy engine is the perpetual motion machine, which can not abide by the conservation of mass and energy, and output energy infinitely, so it can be evaluated? Without mastering the quark energy engine, the energy level of civilization cannot reach the star standard?"

A bunch of question marks popped up in Chen Yi's mind, and he had some doubts about life.

Not only him, but Xuannv, who has been assisting in research, also has some doubts about the authenticity of the universe at this moment.

"Xuannv, turn off the quark energy engine first."

Just looking at it and thinking about it for a while, the mass energy released by the quark energy engine will break through 4 grams.

Chen Yi did not continue the experiment, but called out to Xuannv to signal to turn off the quark energy engine.

It's too hot without him.

According to the mass-energy formula, 1 gram of mass-energy completely converts about 2000 million kilowatt-hours of electric energy.

Although most of the energy was sent away by more than a dozen superconducting wires, the remaining part released as heat was also continuously drawn away.

But in such a short period of time, the release of a few grams of mass energy is still somewhat beyond the load of the laboratory system.

A large amount of heat was too late to send away and accumulated in the laboratory, which has almost turned the place into a purgatory furnace. The temperature soared to more than 100 degrees Celsius, and a large number of equipment and instruments made of organic compound materials were damaged.

With such crazy energy release and heat accumulation, even if Chen Yi is hiding in a safe house of strong interaction materials that are almost at absolute zero and not affected by conventional temperatures, he can't help but feel a little nervous, afraid of continuing to run, the whole laboratory suddenly With a bang, it was released like a super-large pressure cooker exploded.

When the time comes, nothing will happen to him in the safe house.

But the entire Penghai base, to say the least, has to be leveled several times.

After all, the energy released by the little boy in Hiroshima before is only about 1000 million kilowatt-hours of electric energy, which is not even comparable to 1 gram of mass energy.

"Retrieve data from the Einstein Gravity Detector and the Casimir Effect Vacuum Detector."

The quark energy engine shut down and waited for a while.

With the support of the powerful air exchange conversion system, the temperature in the laboratory returned to normal.

Chen Yi ignored some of the equipment and instruments in the laboratory that were damaged by high temperature, but called out to Xuannv, indicating to call up the data of the gravity detector and the Casimir effect instrument.

The shells of these two detection instruments are made of strong-interaction materials as a shielding coating, and they will not be damaged when thrown into the core of the sun. The temperature of just over 100 degrees Celsius will not affect their operation at all.

Chen Yi did not forget.

When this quark energy engine was discovered by Yi Fei in the Kuiper Belt battlefield, it caused great interference to the vacuum.

It causes a large amount of vacuum energy to dissipate, releasing light, particles, and bosons of various wavelength bands.

Although the broken instrument has been repaired now, and the phenomenon of interference with the vacuum is covered by the shell and cannot be seen, Chen Yi believes that this thing must be related to the vacuum.

"Conservation of mass and energy, this is the lowest basic law of the universe."

"If mass-energy is not conserved, everything in the universe and all galaxies and celestial bodies will have no basis for existence."

"So, behind the extra mass energy released by the quark energy engine, there must be a vacuum mechanism that Yi Fei doesn't understand or master yet."

"By harvesting energy from the vacuum, output more energy than fuel mass-energy."

"As for where the energy of the vacuum comes from, it may come from dark energy, or from space-time gravity itself."

"This is like the radiation of a black hole. The real essence is the gravitational field of the black hole, which causes the dissipation of vacuum energy and causes the mass of the black hole to be damaged."

"The virtual particle pair hypothesis, the explanation that virtual particles fall into the black hole's event horizon, and real particles escape from the black hole, is just an explanation for popular science to facilitate the public's understanding."

Chen Yi carefully considered and analyzed the excess mass energy of the quark energy engine, and tried his best to improve his thinking and wisdom in the field of research and scientific and technological research.

Although, these problems can be known by reading the technical information of the quark energy engine through the system program.

But if you don't think deeply and read more scientific and technological information, you know it but don't know why.

No matter how powerful the technology is, at best it is just a puppet of the system, not the controller of the system.

"Brother Chen Yi, the Casimir effect vacuum detector detected violent vacuum fluctuations."

"This fluctuation is somewhat unusual. It has an obvious periodic frequency, with obvious back-and-forth fluctuations more than 1 times in 10 second."

"Einstein Condensed Matter Gravity Tester, because the fuel used has only a 2-gram weight, and the mass change of the fuel is too low."

"Although we tried our best to shield the external interference, we still couldn't find obvious gravitational fluctuations from the quark energy engine, and could only detect some fuzzy and distorted signals."

"However, analysis of these signals confirmed the presence of periodic frequency effects consistent with vacuum fluctuations."

After a few minutes.

A large amount of data that had been initially sorted and analyzed appeared in front of Chen Yi.

At the same time, Xuannv also reported her analysis results to Chen Yi in detail.

"Strong vacuum fluctuations were detected, and they also had an obvious periodic frequency, as did the gravitational detection instruments, and obvious periodic gravitational changes were found."

Chen Yi looked at the data in front of him, and the previous research on Higgs field technology, as well as human scientific research over the years, a lot of information about strong gauge fields, vacuum, and quark confinement came to mind.

Suddenly, an astonishing suspicion emerged in his heart.

"Quarks, quark confinement, and the strong interaction increase infinitely with distance."

Chen Yi knocked on the table with his finger, and asked Xuannv: "Xuannv, can our current technology, or the strong interaction gauge field inside the quark energy engine, directly destroy and annihilate the quark?"

"No."

"Brother Chen Yi, quarks are the most basic particle unit of matter. Unless colliding and annihilating with energy levels more than a dozen orders of magnitude stronger than the current space hadron collider, or using antimatter for mutual annihilation, quarks cannot Destroyed and annihilated."

Xuannv responded objectively.

"In this case, the quark energy engine opens the quark confinement and releases the energy inside the neutrons and protons."

"Where did the quarks that make up neutrons and protons go?"

Speaking of where Quark had gone, Chen Yi felt his breathing was a little excited, and his eyes showed deep surprise and surprise.

"Brother Chen Yi, you mean?"

At this time, Xuannv seemed to have guessed something, and her tone showed a bit of surprise.

"Yes, quark confinement."

"Inside the quark energy engine, neutrons and protons disintegrate, and the strong interaction force binding energy is released. The quarks are free again, and driven by the original kinetic energy, they fly away in all directions."

"But because the strength of the strong interaction increases infinitely with distance."

"The free quarks do not wait to leave the quark energy engine, because of the attraction of the infinitely growing strong interaction force, they recombine to form new protons and neutrons."

"But inside neutrons and protons, quarks only occupy 1% of the mass energy, and the kinetic energy of quarks only accounts for 29% of the mass energy, and the remaining 70% is the strong interaction between quarks binding energy."

"And the original binding energy of the strong interaction force has been converted into heat, electrons, etc. and released at the moment when neutrons and protons disintegrate."

"If quarks recombine to form protons and neutrons, this binding energy, which accounts for 70 percent of the mass energy, must be replenished."

"Without sufficient binding energy, free quarks cannot form confinements and combine to form protons and neutrons."

"If I'm not mistaken, the source of this binding energy is the vacuum."

"Because the strong interaction force is not electromagnetic force, its unique mechanism, deep into the quantum level, is doomed that it can only be similar to the Higgs field, obtaining energy from the vacuum, but not from the surrounding environment."

"In this way, this leads to the problem that the quark energy engine will cause vacuum energy fluctuations, and it also explains the reason why the output of the quark energy engine is greater than the fuel mass energy."

Chen Yi had a clear mind and told Xuannv his conjecture in an orderly manner.

While speaking, such a picture has been drawn in his mind, a picture of a free quark moving inside the quark energy engine.

Because of the interference of the artificial strong gauge field of the quark energy engine, the quark confinement of the neutron and the proton is opened, and the quark locked inside the neutron and the proton is released.

The quark is released, because it has strong kinetic energy, and it is accelerated to leave the artificial strong gauge field of the quark energy engine in an instant.

At the same time, because of the farther distance, the attraction between quarks is also increasing infinitely, and finally surpasses the strength of the artificial strong gauge field, forming quark confinement again, and all quarks are drawn back, gaining energy from the vacuum, and re-forming new neutrons and proton.

After that, the new neutrons and protons disintegrated again under the interference of the artificial strong gauge field of the quark energy engine, and the quarks were released.
and so.

It’s not that mass and energy are not conserved.

It is the mechanism of quark confinement. After neutrons and protons are disintegrated, the released quarks are repeatedly combined to form new neutrons and protons.

Let the same fuel burn again and again inside the quark energy engine.

In the end, 2 grams of fuel was released, which released far more than 2 grams of mass energy, and the quark energy engine continuously released energy.

Because inside the quark energy engine, the fuel put in is just an introduction.

The real energy source is based on the mechanism of quark confinement borrowing energy from vacuum.

Unlike fusion engines and decay engines, energy is derived from the mass energy of the injected fuel.

"This thing is said to be a quark energy engine, but actually it is more appropriately called a vacuum energy engine."

"This is simply the key to unlock the infinite energy of the vacuum, opening the door to the vacuum energy."

Chen Yi sighed, looked at the system interface in front of him, and chose to read without any further hesitation.

boom!
A large amount of information and formula data exploded in Chen Yi's mind.

With the help of the modified neurons and the implanted bioquantum brain chip, Chen Yi quickly stored and classified all the information, and at the same time established a preliminary understanding during the classification process.

"Sure enough, my analysis is fine."

"The quark energy engine obtains energy from the vacuum through the quark confinement mechanism."

There was a hint of understanding in Chen Yi's eyes.

Although the deep-seated mysteries and details contained in the mechanism of quark energy engine and quark confinement borrowing energy from vacuum will take longer to digest, the most basic framework mechanism will be understood immediately.

"Xuannv, increase the research on the quark energy engine."

"Improve the speed and frequency of quark recombination as much as possible, so that the quark energy engine can release more powerful energy per unit time."

"At the same time, based on the mechanism of the quark energy engine obtaining energy from the vacuum, we will conduct further analysis and research to try to see if we can find a breakthrough in negative energy technology and find an entry point for space-time technology."

After reading the technical information of the quark energy engine and verifying the mechanism of the quark energy engine, Chen Yi was not in a hurry to digest the deep-seated mysteries.

Instead, use the quark energy engine as a springboard to think about the next technological breakthrough.

That is negative energy.

Negative energy, which refers to an energy lower than the normal vacuum and lower than the zero point energy of the vacuum.

If the zero-point energy of vacuum fluctuations is used as a dividing standard, anything above zero is positive energy, and anything below zero is negative energy.

According to modern scientific research and Yifei's breakthrough during this period, Chen Yi has determined that negative energy has a space-time effect, which can affect the curvature of space-time.

Even in some conjectures and data analysis, negative energy is probably the graviton that people have been searching for but failed.

Because there is a relationship between space-time and negative energy, and at the same time, the relationship between space-time and mass is inseparable, and negative energy is closely related to vacuum.

According to these information and imaginations, combined with the smart warships of the cosmic dimension-enhancing forces, there is a situation of quark energy engines.

Chen Yi speculates that the Higgs field technology, the mechanism by which quarks obtain energy from vacuum, and the research on vacuum energy are likely to be the precursor technologies for space-time curvature navigation.

After completing these technological breakthroughs and curvature navigation, there is a high probability that a formal breakthrough will be achieved.

At the same time, Chen Yi also understood why it was in the system's evaluation.

Only when the quark energy engine breaks through can a civilization be regarded as a level 2 civilization, and the energy index of a civilization can reach the level of stars.

Without him.

It is really a quark energy engine, the ultimate in obtaining energy from the vacuum through quark confinement. It is too powerful.

The mass energy released by the sun in 1 second is 420 million tons.

This parameter is replaced by a quark energy engine.

It is only necessary to increase the combination frequency of quarks to 1 times per second, and then increase the quality of fuel to tens of tons.

The energy output of ten quark energy engines is comparable to the energy output of the sun.

Of course, just as it takes time to eliminate the mass of the Higgs field and then borrow energy from the vacuum to restore the mass, Chen Yi knows that it will definitely take time to confine quarks to borrow energy from the vacuum.

But the natural Higgs field can only endow or remove 1% of the mass energy of matter.

However, the confinement of quarks is related to 70% of the mass-energy of matter.

This gap made Chen Yi understand that the vacuum bandwidth of quark confinement and the speed of energy acquisition are absolutely the same as the mechanism of the Higgs field.

"First digest and absorb all the deep-level mysteries and details contained in the quark energy engine technology."

"A few more high-attribute and super-powerful quark energy engines will work hard to perform miracles and verify the connection between quark confinement and negative energy."

"At that time, the research center almost had preliminary results on the analysis of other wreckages of the smart warships of the cosmic dimension-ascension force."

After confirming the next plan, Chen Yi did not stay in the laboratory, but went to his residence and began the mode of seclusion and penance.

(End of this chapter)