Homo sapiens.

Chapter 686 Production capacity surges

Just when Zheng Bai and others were busy building artificial earth No. [-].

The solar system's Homo sapiens corporate headquarters aren't idle either.

After more than [-] years of development, new humans have finally made a breakthrough in the manufacturing technology of double neutron materials.

Previously, Homo Sapiens could only produce a few hundred kilograms of double-neutron materials a year. After adopting the new technology, the production capacity has increased by dozens of times, and the unit energy consumption has dropped by 55%.

At the same time, the production equipment has also been compressed from the previous scale of hundreds of kilometers to tens of kilometers.

As Homo sapiens' most important colony, the Giant Star Colonial Branch immediately received relevant technical information.

The Giant Star Colonial Branch moved very quickly. In less than half a month, 8 dual-neutron material manufacturing machines were transformed, which can produce about 8 tons of dual-neutron material per year.

The importance of double-neutron materials to Homo sapiens has far exceeded that of other materials.

No matter in the field of energy, military industry, resources in the field of engineering construction, or the field of propulsion, dual neutron materials have played an irreplaceable role.

Without dual-neutron materials, it would be difficult for Homo sapiens' spacecraft to break through 3% of the speed of light.

Now the company's latest spacecraft, the ultimate speed has soared to 7.8% of the speed of light.

The core technology of the new spacecraft is the magnetic field offset shield made of dual neutron materials, the strong magnetic plasma thruster and the strong magnetic nuclear fusion power generation system.

Especially the magnetic field offset shield, which is too important for a spacecraft flying at super high speed.

Without this thing, as long as the speed of the spacecraft exceeds 2% of the speed of light, the head of the spacecraft will suffer irreparable damage.

During a test, Homo sapiens replaced the magnetic field shield of the experimental spacecraft with ordinary materials. The result was that after the speed of the spacecraft exceeded 2% of the speed of light, the head of the spacecraft collided with an asteroid a few centimeters in size. Then the head of the spacecraft was opened.

Asteroids with a diameter of a few centimeters are basically densely distributed in the entire interstellar space, although from a large spatial scale, the probability of a collision between a spacecraft and a tiny asteroid is not high.

However, when the speed of the spacecraft increases and the travel distance increases, small probability events will become inevitable events.

For example, in the previous Homo sapiens expeditionary fleet, almost all warships would collide with tiny asteroids during the voyage.

Without the super magnetic field deflection shield made of dual neutron materials, the head of the battleship would have been hit into a hornet's nest long ago.

Why can't the Six Claws develop a faster spaceship?

The answer is not only because the thruster technology is not good, but also because of the shield technology.

In the era of the earth, the collision between human planes and birds, which caused the accidents of planes, is such a truth.

Entering the cosmic era, the speed of the initial spacecraft did not exceed 20 kilometers per second, and the range of travel was not far, and the risk of colliding with tiny asteroids was very high.

Not to mention that the speed of the spacecraft reaches more than 2% of the speed of light. As long as there is a collision, the power of an asteroid a few centimeters in size is no less than a few hundred tons of TNT.

The largest asteroid hit by the expeditionary fleet had a diameter of about 12 meters, and the impact force was equivalent to several million tons of TNT.

Without super shield technology, this level of impact can directly smash the entire space battleship to pieces.

Why is Homo sapiens' latest version of the spaceship limit speed stuck at 7.8% of the speed of light?

The reason is that when the speed of the spacecraft exceeds 8% of the speed of light, even the super magnetic field made of double neutron materials cannot 100% deflect the tiny asteroids along the way.

Moreover, as the speed of the spacecraft increases, an asteroid with a diameter of a few centimeters can produce a destructive force equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT after impact. In addition, the impactor hits more, and it may instantly break down the magnetic field offset shield.

After all, with the propeller and power generation system mastered by Homo Sapiens at this stage, if continuous acceleration is adopted at any cost, as long as the acceleration time is long enough, the speed of the spacecraft can be increased to about 20% of the speed of light.

But the consequence of this is that the spaceship will become a pile of scrap metal halfway.

The safety of the spacecraft cannot be guaranteed. What is the use of such a speed?

This is like the speed of intercontinental ballistic missiles can reach Mach [-], which is much faster than civil aviation airliners. Why not transform intercontinental ballistic missiles into transport aircraft?

It was also because of this reason that the omnic civilization could not increase the speed of the spaceship.

As for the quasi-secondary civilization that defeated the omnic civilization, the speed of the spaceship can exceed 30% of the speed of light, which is evident in its strength.

Now the company's spacecraft research and development department is trying to develop a more powerful magnetic field offset shield, but the management, including Li Qingye, is very clear that the magnetic field strength of the double neutron material has reached its limit.

Unless a material with a stronger magnetic field than the double-neutron material can be developed, the limit speed of Homo sapiens' spacecraft will stop at 7.8% of the speed of light.

Materials are the foundation of technology.

As for the research and development ideas of new materials, in fact, Dr. Yuri and others who developed double-neutron materials back then have already had some ideas.

That is an upgraded version of the study of double-neutron materials, that is, the synthesis of neutron materials such as four-neutrons and six-neutrons.

It's a pity that the double-neutron material was also produced by mistake, and even a clear theory has not been fully understood.

As for how to synthesize other neutron materials, various neutron materials research institutes can only continue to experiment, hoping to synthesize new neutron materials.

But material science, really depends on luck.

Of course, in addition to luck, it is necessary to have a rich and powerful material foundation to make good materials. Without a large amount of resource investment, even luck is useless.

For example, double neutron materials, just a Mars equatorial ring particle collider, the resources it needs to consume is an astronomical figure.

In the free world that is still on the earth, even if it does not eat or drink for 100 years, it will not be able to produce this level of experimental equipment.

There is no experimental equipment, and it is impossible to develop a double-neutron material due to luck.

In the process of technological development, the threshold will become higher and higher as the technology becomes more advanced.

The gap between a first-level civilization and a zero-level civilization is a world of difference. Without special opportunities and the determination to unite, the probability of a zero-level civilization successfully advancing to a first-level civilization is only about 0.36%.

This data comes from the omnic civilization, which originally counted all the civilizations in the control area.

Finally, it is concluded that the probability of a zero-level civilization being promoted to a first-level civilization is only about 0.36%.

In other words, if the Homo sapiens company does not turn out, there is a high probability that human civilization will continue to linger at the zero-level civilization stage, and then encounter the six-clawed people who came from the starry sky hundreds of years later.

Chapter 687 Parting

As a new double neutron material manufacturing machine is built.

The two super-large dual-neutron material manufacturing machines built before have also been updated with new technologies.

Dr. Yuri, who came over for technical support through a synchronous robot, is communicating with several resident technicians of the Superstar Colony branch.

Dr. Uri floated on the super-large ring-shaped pipeline that concealed the sky and covered the sun, just like a speck of dust, appearing extremely small.

He turned his head to one of the technicians and said with a smile: "Hao Rong, the step-by-step strong magnetic acceleration ring and the absolute zero synthesis room are the core of this technology upgrade!"

"Well, our side has already understood the key points of the technology, and the transformation can be completed in less than two months." Huang Haorong also has a confident face.

The step-by-step acceleration is not without disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the particle acceleration needs to be completed at one time, and the circular motion cannot be performed continuously.

Therefore, in order to compress the size and quality of the equipment, a special solution is adopted, that is, the double helix pipeline.

Despite the fact that the diameter of the new-generation twin-neutron material manufacturing machine is only tens of kilometers, the length of its helicoid pipeline is actually about 3000 kilometers.

However, even if the length reaches 3000 kilometers, compared with the Martian equatorial circular pipeline, it is actually a huge improvement.

The new-generation dual-neutron material manufacturing machine with an acceleration pipeline length of only 3000 kilometers, even if it adopts a special step-by-step acceleration, its particle speed limit can only reach about 45% of the equatorial ring of Mars.

Logically speaking, such a speed is not enough to prompt neutrons to synthesize double neutrons.

Obviously the key point falls on another new technology.

Absolute zero synthesis room, this technology is very peculiar, and it is also a feature that Dr. Uri and others discovered a few years ago.

To synthesize double neutrons, protons need a very high speed, which is about 99.999963% to 99.999979% of the speed of light, which is the most suitable.

At the same time, there are two other factors that affect the synthesis efficiency of double neutron materials, namely the magnetic field strength and the temperature itself.

In the past, the output of double-neutron materials could be slowly increased, because the researchers of Homo sapiens have gradually figured out the optimal magnetic field strength for the synthesis of double-neutron materials in terms of magnetic field.

But the temperature has never been noticed.

Until a few years ago, a researcher was in an experiment, because of equipment failure, the temperature of one of the magnetic field accelerators was 26 degrees higher than the rated value.

In that experiment, the synthesis output efficiency of double neutron materials dropped by about 5.9%.

It should be known that in the usual experimental process, such a large drop in production capacity rarely occurs.

So the researcher pored over the experimental data and found that temperature affected the efficiency of dineutron synthesis.

This discovery immediately aroused great concern.

Then, with the support of the company, the synthesis chambers with lower and lower temperatures were sent to the experimental equipment.

After several years of research, another factor affecting double neutron synthesis - temperature, was finally figured out by Dr. Uri and other researchers.

As long as the temperature of the proton as the raw material for synthesis is closer to absolute zero, the synthesis efficiency of dineutrons will be greater.

However, this feature itself is also a very contradictory.

Because the temperature of the protons accelerated to near the speed of light is extremely high, even if the protons are frozen to the limit at the beginning, once the acceleration is accelerated, the temperature is still soaring.

After a series of experiments, they finally adopted extreme freezing during the collision synthesis stage.

And by mistake, Dr. Uri and others discovered that extreme freezing in the synthesis chamber can not only instantly increase the synthesis efficiency, but also reduce the limit speed of protons, reducing the energy consumption of the system.

At the same time, the frozen protons, after completing the transformation in the synthesis chamber, can also pass through a continuous spiral freezing pipeline of hundreds of kilometers to ensure that the speed of the high-speed protons that have not been synthesized can be suppressed to a reasonable range. to block.

Otherwise, the synthesis room will definitely fry the furnace every time it is synthesized.

Through these two new technologies, the synthesis efficiency of double neutron materials has been increased by dozens of times.

From the previous annual output of several hundred kilograms, the annual output has been increased to several tons.

Of course, due to technological innovations, the equipment has become smaller, energy consumption has decreased, and the synthesis room does not need to be turned into consumables. In fact, Homo sapiens’ production capacity of dual-neutron materials is estimated to be increased several hundred times in a short period of time.

After all, the giant star colonial branch now has an annual output of more than ten tons of double neutron materials.

As a large number of double neutron materials are continuously produced, the production capacity of the giant star colonization branch's artificial earth, spaceships and space battleships is also soaring.

Unknowingly, time has come to Galaxy 105 years (the time was wrong before, it was wrong to reach the six-claw superstar in 17 years, it was 47 years.).

After more than 30 years of development, the giant nebula has already changed beyond recognition.

In the giant nebula that was filled with stardust before, there are only a dozen lonely remnants of giant star cores left.

In a spaceport near the periphery of the nebula.

An artificial earth is anchored in it.

Zheng Bai looked at the bio tablet in his hand and shook his head with complicated eyes: "It's time to say goodbye again."

Information about this artificial earth is displayed on the tablet.

[Artificial Earth-class generation mothership: number DQ0034, number of employees 1200 million...]

[Man-made moon-class frigate: No. YQ0034, 3 employees...]

[The 34th Expeditionary Corps: numbered YZ0034, code-named Chixin Corps, with a strength of 26 troops and a total of 385 warships of various types...]

A young voice interrupted Zheng Bai's imagination.

"Uncle Zheng!"

"Are you coming to say goodbye? There is no need for that. Anyway, we can contact through the synchronous communication system."

The person who came was a young man with sharp eyes. He was wearing a special bio-based armor, and he saluted Xiang Zheng Bai heavily: "Thank you very much for the cultivation of us by the company, we can do nothing in return!"

"Children! Take care!" Even though there were thousands of words in his heart, but in the end they were reduced to these two sentences. Zheng Bai, whose eyes were full of tears, was still somewhat sad.

"Take care of you too! In addition, I would like to extend my highest respect to Mr. Chairman."

As soon as the words fell, the young man turned around and left Zheng Bai's office.

Looking at the empty office, he still couldn't suppress the sad emotion in his heart.

The artificial earth numbered 34, the employees on it are not synchronous robots, but artificial humans re-edited through genetic technology.

There is no reproductive isolation between their genes and the new human beings, and their gene templates are the combination of a part of the new human genes.

Artificial man is a taboo issue, but the management of Homo sapiens understands that the best solution to colonize other galaxies at this stage is to use local materials to manufacture artificial man.

This is also the source of those new humans on the superstar colony branch.

Chapter 688 Going Away

On the artificial earth number 34.

The young man who had just said goodbye to Zheng Bai's office had returned to the commander's office through the space elevator.

"Lin Li, have you finished saying goodbye?" A Lang, the psychological counselor of the legion, asked with a heavy heart.