How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 467 Degenerate Materials

Today's scientific research work, Huogu completely trusts the collectors to do it themselves. Although the collectors are not as smart as humans, nor as smart as the Serenes, they are as flexible in thinking as they are, but the huge high-quality population base can make up for it. this point.

Today's collectors are no longer those children who hid under Hogu's wings. They have really grown up and will continue to grow.

No, this won't work. The gamma protection layer can't be thickened anymore. The body of the jumping creature is only so big. If it is thickened, the space of other biological parts of the creature will be crowded.

In the life field channel, the collectors are arguing endlessly. The reason is the high-energy gamma rays released after the annihilation of matter and antimatter. Many individual collectors put forward various proposals. Either it doesn't work at all.

After discussion and discussion, in the end the only feasible solution was to increase the tonnage of living things, but the collectors didn't have much reason to adopt this solution.

Then we can increase the size of the biological body. The size of the jumping biological body in the design is not as large as the battleship of the Serenes. As long as the load tonnage is increased, the gamma protection layer can be thickened.

You want to design the Leap Forward creature to the size of the mothership class?! Do you know how much energy it takes to accelerate a mass body of that tonnage?

Some collectors questioned that the collectors didn't want to add too much mass to the design of the leap forward creatures. Although there is a lot of antimatter, it is not such a waste. Moreover, after the volume increases, the target will become larger, and the quality will increase. It means that the bones of the organism need to bear stronger direction-changing inertia when moving and changing directions.

No, I mean, it can be adjusted to the size of an imperial cruiser.

It is impossible to adopt the mothership class. It is very inappropriate to accelerate a living body of that size to sub-light speed in all aspects, but if it is only the size of an imperial cruiser, it is still in the hands of collectors. acceptable range.

This is a very good method, but it is not ideal. For every kilogram of leap-forwarding organisms' mass, the antimatter needed to accelerate to sub-light speed will increase exponentially. It is best to solve the Gamma problem without increasing the tonnage. The way of the horse ray.

Some collectors proposed this, and such a proposal attracted complaints from collectors who expanded the deadweight tonnage, because such an idea is too good, and it is difficult for non-electrical gamma rays to interact with the electromagnetic force of atoms. Generally speaking, it is either to collide with atomic nuclei to produce isotope radiation, or to collide with electrons to produce ionization effect.

How could this kind of thing happen? It is well known that gamma rays do not show electricity. There is a very empty area inside the atom, unless the nuclei can be squeezed together...

The best way to completely block gamma rays is to create a wall of atomic nuclei, which can absolutely reflect any electromagnetic waves 100%.

It was originally just a momentary conversation, but it inadvertently inspired another fellow of the same race.

That's right! Just squeezed together! I thought of it!

All the collectors were taken aback, but judging from the emotions expressed by the life field of this individual of the same race, it seemed that they were convinced that gamma rays could be blocked, so the collectors were curious about this fellow's plan.

What did you think of? a collector asked.

We can use metallic hydrogen as a gamma-ray shield.

The proposer was very excited and couldn't wait to explain his gamma-ray shielding plan to fellow members of the same race, but this answer did not quite satisfy the collectors.

Metallic hydrogen doesn't work.

What I'm talking about is not a liquid state, but a solid state, which is a crystal structure composed of hydrogen nuclei, whose atomic interval is smaller than the minimum orbital radius of electrons, and electromagnetic waves cannot penetrate.

……You are joking?

The proposer explained it very seriously, but the collectors were still not optimistic about it, and it was not without reason that they were not optimistic.

Do you know how much the mass of the solid metal hydrogen that covers the entire jumping creature will be? This is not liquid metal hydrogen.

The acceleration of an object depends on its mass rather than its volume. You just suppress the volume, but the mass is probably greater than that of the mothership class. The antimatter needed to accelerate to sub-light speed is an astronomical figure.

Don't worry, I haven't finished yet.

The proponent signaled to fellow clansmen to be calm and calm down, and let him explain his idea clearly.

Afterwards, the life field quickly quieted down, and the proposer began to explain his conception.

Indeed, the density of solid metal hydrogen is very high. In the final analysis, it is fundamentally different from liquid metal hydrogen. Liquid metal hydrogen has a diatomic molecular structure, which still belongs to the molecular level, but solid metal hydrogen is already equivalent to a bunch of protons being crushed. Squeeze together.

According to the density formula, when the density is constant, the smaller the mass, the smaller the volume, but the volume of an object is calculated according to the length, width, and height of the object. Everyone subconsciously ignores the solid state I mentioned. The thickness of the metal hydrogen protective layer, the length and width remain the same, but the thickness is reduced.

Collectors need only a layer of 'wall' that can block gamma rays, and the material structure of solid metal hydrogen is a very suitable 'wall', according to the Pauli exclusion principle of quantum mechanics, electrons cannot To penetrate such a material structure, this is a proton wall. Gamma rays are also electromagnetic waves after all, and the material carrier of electromagnetic waves is electrons, so gamma rays cannot penetrate the proton wall.

After the logic was clarified, the collectors discussed with each other, exchanged opinions, and then asked the proposer of the plan.

How much do you intend to reduce the thickness of this protective layer?

The thickness of two protons.

The proponent answered confidently and frankly, because the protective layer is very thin, so the quality is not very high, even much lower than the original gamma protective layer. As long as this design idea is adopted and applied to antimatter propulsion, In the case of anti-matter weapons, the quality of leap-forward organisms will not only not increase, but will actually decrease.

That's how it was designed!

What do you think?

It seems feasible in theory, but the technical difficulty...

It is not difficult for us to make solid metallic hydrogen, the proposer added.

It's not difficult, that's right, but manufacturing is one thing, but processing is another.

The key question is how do we control the thickness and stabilize the thickness of solid metal hydrogen at two protons?

That's right, it's too difficult to process such a density.

Now that there is such a seemingly feasible plan, the collectors began to think about how to make this kind of thing.

A method is always figured out... I have it!