Urban Inventor

You...you mean, our family got sick because of the radiation from this meteorite?

Jiang Shan asked in disbelief.

Yes, you should have heard of nuclear radiation, right?

Seeing Jiang Shan nodding his head, Zhang Wei went on to say, Nuclear radiation is a type of ray radiation, mainly referring to high-energy ionizing radiation such as alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays. These rays can be understood as the radiation emitted by substances. Extremely tiny particles have great energy and can collide with other particles. The human body can be regarded as composed of cells, and cells are composed of various organic substances, such as DNA and so on.

The above-mentioned tiny particles with energy, such as neutrons, gamma and beta rays, can easily cause essential changes and damages to dna. The consequences will be the same as a bird hitting an airplane. It may be mutated, such as cancerous.

Of course, small doses of ionizing radiation will not cause obvious harm to the body, because the human body itself has a certain repair ability. However, if the dose is too high, which exceeds the repair capacity of various organs or tissues in the human body, it will cause local or systemic lesions.

Looking at the bewildered expressions of Ren Huaiyu, Jiang Shan, and Li Cui, Zhang Wei knew that his high-level scientific terms were for nothing, and people couldn't understand them at all.

Helpless, Zhang Wei could only put it another way, Let me give you an example. During World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. After the nuclear explosions, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured in an instant, and the Intense nuclear radiation, if the human body is subjected to a large dose of nuclear radiation for a long time, it will damage the cells, organs and tissues, destroy the molecular structure of human DNA, and greatly increase the probability of the human body suffering from cancer, leukemia and other diseases. Therefore, Hiroshima and Naga Survivors of Kazaki suffered from the aftereffects of radiation, including cancer, leukemia and skin burns.

The situation of your family is somewhat similar to what I mentioned above. This meteorite is the source of radiation, which has been emitting radiation to the outside world, and it should be ionizing radiation that is very harmful to the human body. Your family has been exposed to high doses of ionizing radiation for a long time, and a large number of cells in the body have undergone mutations, which is why you have coma, cancer and skin peeling.

Jiang Shan smiled wryly when he heard the words, he had no idea that the culprit turned out to be an inconspicuous stone, this is really a disaster! He didn't know that there were many examples like him. For example, on January 5, 1996, an employee of a construction company in Jilin named Song Xuewen picked up a small white metal chain similar to a key chain at the vinyl construction site. The tragedy happened because what he picked up was the radioactive substance iridium-192. A few hours later, he was unconscious due to a large dose of nuclear radiation. After rescue, he survived. However, he underwent seven major operations in the next two years, and his left forearm, right leg, and Left leg, and lost fertility. This is why nuclear radiation is scary!

Li Cui rushed to the room where the meteorite was located cursing,

She wanted to smash the meteorite into pieces to revenge her family!

Zhang Wei quickly stopped Li Cui, and said, Aunt Li, that meteorite is still useful to me, so leave it to me.

Ever since he got the Great Inventor System, he has been very interested in various extraterrestrial objects, and this meteorite is also extraordinary, worthy of his research.

Li Cui naturally has no objection, Zhang Wei is the only hope for their family now, but she still keeps complaining about her dead ghost husband, who brought such a devil stone that harmed the whole family to the house.

Zhang Wei ordered Beidou to arrange a flying car. He would take Jiang Shan's family to the scientific research building, and use the equipment in the scientific research building to conduct a comprehensive inspection of Jiang Shan's family, in order to analyze the impact of the meteorite's radiation on the human body. What subtle changes have been made, which can give him a better understanding of human genes. In other words, he has already regarded Jiang Shan's family as experimental specimens. Of course, after the analysis, he will try his best to help Jiang Shan's family get back to health.

Tens of minutes later, a flying car landed in the yard of Jiang Shan's house, and then an intelligent robot opened the car door and got off, it was zero and one.

Under Zhang Wei's instructions, Zero Zero One packed the meteorite into a box made of organic anti-radiation materials, and then arranged for Jiang Shan's family to sit in the flying car and fly to the future technology company.

Zhang Wei and Ren Huaiyu also drove the steel suit and set foot on the return journey.

After returning to the scientific research building, Zhang Wei took off his steel battle suit, then ordered Beidou to arrange a robot to take Jiang Shan's family for a comprehensive inspection, and then ordered 001 to send the meteorite to a laboratory on the fourth basement floor for preliminary inspection. According to the analysis, this laboratory has done high-level radiation protection treatment, which can confine the radiation of meteorites in the laboratory and will not cause harm to the outside world.

The inspection time is quite long, let's watch a movie together.

After Zhang Wei made the arrangements, he took Ren Huaiyu by the hand, and before Ren Huaiyu could answer, he ordered Beidou, Beidou, turn on the holographic imaging system and play...

He turned to Ren Huaiyu, What movie do you want to watch?

Avatar 2, it was released last year, I haven't seen it yet.

Ren Huaiyu said.

As soon as Ren Huaiyu finished speaking, the virtual screen in the air began to play Avatar 2. It is worth mentioning that Avatar 2 broke the global box office record again after it was released on Christmas last year.

After the movie was played, Zhang Wei and Ren Huaiyu had dinner together, and waited for a while before the test results came out.

Beidou said, Sir, the preliminary analysis results of the meteorite have come out. The outer shell of the meteorite is composed of an unknown substance, which is three times as strong and twice as hard as diamond. Inside the meteorite, there is also an unknown radioactive substance. , causing serious radiation damage to the human body.

In addition, the inspection results of Jiang Shan's family have also come out. Jiang Shan's father, Jiang Aijun, suffered a series of complications and fell into a coma due to long-term high-dose radioactive radiation. Jiang Shan's mother, Li Cui, also suffered from cancer due to long-term high-dose radioactive radiation, which caused a large number of cells to become cancerous.

Jiang Shan's situation is a bit special. He also had a genetic mutation, but his mutation is a beneficial mutation. According to analysis, his body, especially the new skin that was born after the skin fell off, has greatly enhanced resistance to radiation. Now even if he receives the radiation from this meteorite for a long time, his body will not be harmed.

Interesting, it turned out to be an unknown substance, and Jiang Shan had a beneficial mutation, and evolved the ability to resist radiation. How lucky!

Zhang Wei's eyes lit up.

Whether it is human or animal, gene mutations are prone to occur after exposure to radioactive radiation. Whether gene mutation is random, whether it is beneficial, harmful or neutral depends on the adaptation of the mutated gene to the environment, and human evolution has been caused by countless beneficial mutations and natural selection, which is also the principle of evolution of all species. However, beneficial mutations are very rare, and most gene mutations are harmful to humans, such as various genetic diseases and fetal malformations.

Therefore, when he knew that Jiang Shan had a beneficial mutation, Zhang Wei became excited, because he had a new idea, that is, to collect all kinds of beneficial mutation genes of human beings all over the world, and then study them carefully, which is better for his invention. The genetic evolution fluid is very helpful. As far as he knows, there are many such beneficial mutations. For example, Mrs. Thatcher only slept for 4 hours a day, but she was still full of energy because of a beneficial mutation in a gene called dec2 (also called bhlhe41) in her body.

Moreover, he can also use the radiation of this meteorite to induce genetic mutations in human cells, and there may be new surprises. This technology has actually been used, which is called radiation breeding. Scientists use various rays (such as X-rays) , neutrons, etc.) to irradiate the seeds, plants or certain organs and tissues of crops to induce them to produce various mutations, and then select the required heritable excellent mutations and breed them into new excellent varieties. (To be continued.)

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