Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 654 Strong Interaction Materials
Of course, if this technology is to be truly implemented on warships and residential spacecraft, more scientific research investment is still needed. After all, it takes a process from theoretical proposal to experimental verification, and then to large-scale application and mass production.

But one advantage of technological civilization is that once a technology is mastered, it can be mass-produced.

After the gravitational potential well theory was proposed and then experimentally verified, human scientists have already begun to consider its practical applications.

Using it in the floors of warships and spacecraft to act as a gravity effect is one of the first applications that people think of. However, there are still many difficulties in this application, such as how to make the floors of warships, living spacecraft, scientific research ships, and biosphere spacecrafts evenly receive the same traction.

This aspect is much more difficult than applying it to preserving antimatter. To preserve antimatter, one only needs to create a gravitational potential well, and then the antimatter can be stored in a sealed material container. Experimental scientists can already do this when doing experiments with matter. It is not too difficult. They just need to continue to improve the stability of their creations, and there will be no big problem.

However, the difficulty of using it as a gravity effect on warships is exponentially increased. Although it is the same technical principle, the difficulty varies greatly in different applications. At present, humans want to apply it to warships and various types of spacecraft to act as a gravity effect, but there are several main problems.

The first is the distribution of gravity potential wells, that is, the structural distribution problem. The second is how to insert the gravity potential well equipment into each floor of the warship, and how to design the warship after inserting it. The third is how to solve the problem of the interweaving of the traction potential field of the gravity potential well.

In fact, the first two points are not really difficult. The most important point is the third one. Human scientists must figure out what kind of physical phenomenon will appear when two gravitational potential wells are intertwined and superimposed. Is it the superposition of the traction force of the potential well field or other superposition methods, or will it become a chaotic gravitational potential well field?

You should know that the potential well energy distribution of a gravitational potential well is actually a bit like that of a vortex funnel. The potential well field received at the center of the hole is large, while that at the edge is relatively small. Of course, this is just an analogy. In fact, a gravitational potential well is different from a vortex funnel. One is the traction force of a three-dimensional space toward a point, and the other is the horizontal plane falling toward the center.

But no matter what, human scientists must figure out what kind of physical phenomena will be caused by the approach of two gravitational potential wells, and what kind of physical phenomena will occur when three or more gravitational potential wells are arranged and combined in different ways and orientations. All these must be figured out clearly so that they can be safely applied to warships and spacecraft.

Any technology, from theory to application, must ensure its safety and, of course, comfort.

In today's interstellar age, due to the development of life genetic technology, human beings are now considered to be thick-skinned and strong. After entering the overclocking mode, they can basically use their bodies to withstand all kinds of thermal weapons in the Earth era.

Of course, weapons of mass destruction can still kill overclocked humans. After all, human genetic modification is still limited to the human form and impact resistance of the body, and has not yet involved things like super strong biological force fields. Naturally, it cannot withstand heavy weapons, even if it is just a heavy weapon of a primitive civilization.

In fact, the ability of humans to withstand attacks is a byproduct of strengthening. After all, the original purpose of human strengthening is to withstand the high G generated by the acceleration of warships, not to study in the direction of specializing in resisting missiles. And if you really want to resist missiles, you can just wear tactical armor.

Therefore, the research on the application of gravity potential well technology on warships is more about comfort, so that humans do not feel the change in the size of the gravity field they receive after taking two steps, and the best matching scheme is studied as much as possible to make people feel the pull of the gravity potential well of uniform size. This is the problem that scientists are currently trying to solve when applying gravity potential well technology to warships and spacecraft, and it is also the focus of their work for some time to come.

Of course, not all scientists do this. For one aspect of application, there are basically only dozens of scientific teams and engineering teams working on it. Other scientific teams have other things to do. After all, there are more than one applied technologies extended from mastering the grand unified theory.

In fact, gravitational potential well technology is a product of force field manipulation research, or it can be said to be a phased achievement of force field manipulation research.

As for force field manipulation, it is a major research direction directly derived from the grand unified theory. It is mainly devoted to various physical phenomena under the background of grand unification of the three basic forces: strong interaction force, weak interaction force and electromagnetic force. There are comprehensive studies of the grand unified force, as well as individual analyses of the basic forces and then attempts to control the range, scope, intensity of action of some of the forces.

There will be many sub-branch scientific research in both directions, and in the process of researching in these directions, various related derivative technologies will be born. It can be said that force field manipulation research is a major direction, and many application technologies will be born in this research.

The gravitational potential well is just one of the more advanced application technologies.

As for other application technologies, although they have not yet appeared, some derivative technologies can be foreseen, such as the study of force range in force field manipulation. If there is progress in this research, then humans will be able to use grand unified equations to control the force range of each interaction force within certain specific creations. In that way, it is very likely that humans will obtain new materials based on the research of grand unified theory force field manipulation.

What material is that?

Experimental physicists and engineers in various fields have already made scientific reports in the process of studying this topic. The report points out that if humans can operate the range and scope of a single force through the grand unified force field equation, then the scope and range of the strong force can be lengthened and the scope of the electromagnetic force can be shortened to the extent that the range and scope of the two forces can be replaced with each other, so that a certain creation can show the physical phenomenon of strong interaction force as a macroscopic force.

The report points out that if this can be achieved, then humans will obtain a new material, which they call strong interaction material.

According to the force field equation description of the grand unified theory, this kind of material is achievable, and its appearance is only a matter of time. As long as humans continue to delve deeper into force field manipulation, it will appear in human civilization in the near future.

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