Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

Antimatter is not mysterious at all.

Quite the opposite.

It has always existed in the human star system.

It's just that because antimatter annihilates its positive matter particles, the positrons produced by solar fusion will be annihilated directly internally and will not be observed by outside humans.

It's okay to find it.

But capturing it is no longer an impossible task for Blue Star Civilization.

Even Su Wen had to build a medium-sized giant structure before he could achieve it.

And how to properly store antimatter safely and for a long time...

This is not a task that can be accomplished easily.

There is no doubt that its safety is the biggest issue.

Once an antiparticle encounters its regular particle, it will quickly come into contact at close range and annihilate.

So how to clean up all types of similar particles within the range has become an urgent issue.

If it's not cleaned up, it can't be stored safely.

Of course, releasing pure energy after its annihilation is quite dangerous...

What's more, this is not just a question of whether it is dangerous or not.

——The particles are gone, so what else can we capture? What to store?

To put it bluntly.

More than 80% of the sections in the giant structure Helena showed him were actually designed to achieve this storage function.

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We want antimatter to exist for a long time and not be easily annihilated.

The best choice is naturally to control its actions.

Use a force field to constrain its movement in the microscopic realm, so that it doesn't run around and escape from the container.

Secondly, it must be ensured that there cannot be any particles identical to it in the container.

Positrons annihilate after combining with electrons;

Antiprotons annihilate when combined with protons.

Antihydrogen atoms are the most dangerous,

Because it will annihilate any atom containing more than one proton and more than one electron...

...all kinds of things.

Different kinds of antiparticles have different kinds of properties.

The best way to restrain them is to rely on force fields.

And it has to be a gravitational field.

Magnetic confinement is not very reliable.

After all, you can't be sure what kind of particles will be captured by the cloud chamber...

The largest source of antimatter in the solar system is naturally the interior of the sun.

There is a massive output of positrons there.

But if you want to go deep into the long outer layer of the star and collect it inside the star...

It's not that it can't be done.

There are many giant buildings that can achieve similar effects.

For example, the Star Raiser, or the Stellar Furnace.

However, they are all currently unable to be completed based on Su Wen’s current technical level and industrial capabilities.

With current capabilities, it is not practical to collect positrons inside the sun.

That's why Helena chose the 'Anti-Particle Cage'.

It uses another way to produce antimatter:

——Cosmic rays.

Elementary particles belong to the microscopic realm.

Their laws of motion conform to the theoretical framework of quantum physics rather than traditional physics.

These microscopic particles that make up macroscopic substances are naturally impossible to see with the naked eye, and are barely enough to be seen with an electron microscope. Observing them is often not through 'direct witnessing', but requires 'observation signals' to determine whether they exist.

Secondly,

These particles running at sub-light speed, light speed, or even super-light speed will not appear according to the traditional physical path...

Normally, there are no individual microscopic particles that appear out of nowhere.

The basic particles that make up macroscopic matter will not suddenly split and disintegrate into particles all over the ground for no apparent reason.

These are microscopic particles that can be captured and observed.

It is often accompanied by certain celestial objects or certain cosmic phenomena, in the form of rays, spanning the long space of the universe and traversing the starry sky.

It seems like a dark, deep, invisible space.

It was actually quite lively.

Even without mentioning dark matter.

All kinds of light and radiation beyond the wavelengths visible to the human eye also fill every corner of the starry sky.

When humans can observe the light emitted by an ancient star tens of billions of light years away...

The cosmic radiation it emitted tens of billions of years ago has also sent certain particles to humans.

Among so many types of cosmic radiation, some may contain antimatter particles.

In the vast starry sky, the probability that two positrons and electrons happen to be on opposite trajectories and collide with each other is not much greater than the probability that they do not collide.

Therefore, building facilities in space to collect them has become the most suitable choice.

Of course, this is not an easy task.

Even if you build a huge planet-level cloud chamber and place it in a sufficiently open space in the universe.

It also needs to ensure that it has an effective 'sieve' that can classify all the cosmic rays that pass through it.

Unwanted particles can be induced to aggregate or annihilate,

The required particles can be collected individually and transferred.

...To be honest, this just sounds like an impossible task to accomplish.

This is not catching fish with a sieve.

Elementary particles are countless times smaller than all macroscopic material structures that can be built.

It is not easy to intercept them with pure physical structures.

This requires some 'blocking barriers' made of specific materials, and also requires a large amount of electricity to power the 'energy stagnation field', and then combined with various structures such as force field controllers to build this surface. sieve'.

This 'sieve', or to its precise name, 'anti-particle cloud chamber'.

Its technical content and engineering workload are probably not much simpler than another core component, the 'vacuum gravity confinement cabin'...

In general.

The application of antimatter technology, capture and storage, is more difficult than energy applications and weapons applications.

Therefore, subject to the problem of raw materials,

Su Wen must first complete the antimatter capture and storage facilities, then develop antimatter energy, and finally weaponize antimatter.

This is a helpless move under the constraints of natural conditions.

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"Anti-particle cage..."

Su Wen said casually and stood with his hands behind his back.

Standing in front of the main console, my mind is wandering.

The task was very heavy, which made him feel a little overwhelmed.

This thing should be regarded as the top planetary structure.

It can be said that one foot has stepped on the dividing line between planetary megastructure and galaxy megastructure.

Its size is almost the same as that of a planet.

Although compared to many ice giant planets and gas giant planets,

This antiparticle cage is just the standard size of an ordinary small-volume, dense-core, desolate planet.

However, considering that we need to arrange a suitable orbit around the sun for it, and clear out all the massive celestial bodies in the surrounding orbits...

Its engineering volume is definitely greater than that of the 'Orbital Ideal City' and the 'Ring Star Dome', and can even be compared with large planetary structures such as the 'World Tree Orchid Complex', which are specially prepared for gas giant planets. .

However, if you take into account the machining accuracy it requires, the workload is even secondary.

after all...

Antimatter is, after all, extremely dangerous.

even though.

The mutual annihilation of a pair of antimatter particles will not cause any serious problems.

Similar to the description of the annihilation power of antimatter in some science fiction works, the exaggerated rhetoric of "exploding half of the earth at every turn" is based on "tens of kilograms, or even hundreds of kilograms". For antimatter, the same On an exaggerated scale.

Dozens or hundreds of kilograms doesn’t sound like much.

But I also don’t want to think about it. For those elementary particles whose mass does not exceed the level of Planck’s constant at most, they can be described by the mass unit “kilogram” specially designed for macroscopic substances. How exaggerated is the abundance?

Anyway, it is impossible to describe it without using exaggerated astronomical units such as Beijing, mega, and tai.

To be honest, if Su Wen’s antiparticle cage is completed,

Antimatter daily production, no, even weekly production.

It can reach tens of kilograms.

He almost laughed out loud.

There is so much antimatter, not to mention supplying energy reactors.

Su Wendu is confident that it will use the weapons technology it has developed to fully weaponize its fleet.

Several dozen kilograms of positrons annihilate with electrons of the same unit.

The pure energy it releases is enough to destroy a Eurasian-level crustal plate.

Not much else to say.

Put a dozen or twenty grams into the missile warhead.

Such a missile hits...

Even if it hits the energy shield of an enemy ship.

Even if it is a battleship, it basically has to be sent immediately.

If you are lucky, you may be severely injured or broken.

After the explosion, there were only a dozen or twenty crew members who had time to escape in a rescue capsule.

bad luck...

Nature is a piece of debris that has turned into the universe.

This is a T4 level strategic weapon.

Its power is not comparable to those of lasers, heat rays, particle spears and the like.