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Chapter 440 Major Breakthrough
Because it has been parked in this star system for a hundred years, in order to ensure safety and not be tracked by external forces, the ruling committee can only issue orders to prepare to set sail.

As a result, the crazy scientific research had to come to an end. The scientists reluctantly sealed up their experimental bases, and the people working on the galaxy planets also left the factories where they had worked for decades and returned to the living spaceships again.

Unlike the evacuation of industry and scientific research, tourism has ushered in a peak period as the fleet is about to set sail.

Even people who didn't go out much in the past would now choose to take a spaceship and go around this star system. They would wear spacesuits and walk on the dead and desolate planet to appreciate the natural beauty of this galaxy.

After all, once you set sail, you won't be able to see any planet for at least a hundred years.

Fortunately, the natural landscape in this galaxy is pretty good. Not only does it have towering peaks and deep canyons, one planet even has a huge liquid ocean covering more than 95% of the world's area.

And due to environmental factors, there are often super giant waves with a height of one thousand meters on this ocean, which is so spectacular that it attracts countless people for sightseeing.

Preparations for setting sail are always proceeding step by step and according to the timeline. Finally, when it was time to set sail, all humans returned to the spaceship.

There is no one in the entire star system. All facilities and buildings left by human civilization were also destroyed, eliminating the possibility of leaking its secrets as much as possible.

A huge fleet, totaling more than one million large spaceships, began to set sail outside the galaxy. After leaving the coverage of the gravitational field, accompanied by a burst of light and shadow changes, super-light navigation started again.

Entering the stage of super-light navigation, it is inconvenient to conduct some large-scale experiments. Scientists can only conduct some theoretical research and temporarily record the experiments they want to do, waiting for the fleet to dock in the galaxy again before proceeding.

Soon, the need for such experiments quickly accumulated. According to the records of the Academy of Civilization and Science, the experimental requirements submitted by millions of different teams exceeded 2000 million in a short period of time, involving thousands of very large scientific research equipment, medium and small ones, and even dozens of them. Ten thousand. By the time it reaches the next galaxy, the total number is as high as more than million.

This is an experimental requirement that has been reviewed by the Academy of Sciences and summarized and eliminated.

A piece of testing equipment should be used for multiple purposes as much as possible. If the experimental purpose and demand are similar, and the difference is not too big, use this test equipment as much as possible to complete it.

If you include those that have been rejected and have not been eliminated, the total number of experimental requirements will immediately exceed the 100 million mark. Even if Han Yang goes all out, plus all the engineering power of the entire human civilization, it will not be enough.

Even so, it is unrealistic to meet the demand for more than 2000 million experimental equipment at this moment. There is no choice but to decide and prioritize them. The more important experimental needs will be met first, and the rest can only be queued up slowly, waiting for the next time they dock in the galaxy.

For this reason, Han Yang felt a happy worry.

Why is there so much demand for experiments at the moment? Obviously, this is because the basic theory has just been broken through and many applied researches have been carried out in an all-round way.

This also proves from the side that the technological level of our own civilization is advancing by leaps and bounds. Normally, even if the supply is opened up and targets are even issued to the scientific research team, it is unlikely that there will be so much demand for experiments.

This state is unsustainable.

A hundred years passed again, and the human fleet once again docked near a remote star system.

The residential spaceships are still left outside the gravitational field of the star to ensure that they can escape immediately if they encounter danger. The other spacecrafts, including a large number of aerospace carriers, heavy transport ships, industrial spacecrafts, scientific research spacecrafts, etc., seem to have heard the starting gun. Like runners, they immediately rushed towards the star system in a swarm.

Time is precious and must be used as much as possible.

During this period, the ruling committee personally issued an order prohibiting all personal travel needs. All transportation capacity of the entire civilization must be invested in the transportation of scientific research and engineering personnel, as well as various equipment and materials.

In just a few months, countless bases and factories sprung up on several large planets and hundreds of dwarf planets in this star system, and the entire star system became lively almost instantly. .

Long before arriving at this star system, everything about it had already been explored clearly. The construction plan had also been drawn up long ago, and now it was just a matter of following the plan.

Therefore, although all of this is huge and involves a lot of people and equipment, everything is in order and not chaotic at all.

In just one year, the first test site was ready.

The research conducted this time was about new spacecraft shell materials.

Next is the second one, which is about researching new communication methods.

Then the third, the fourth...

The first civilization focused on the test site required for the research project. Because it was too large, it was not completed until the tenth year after it was parked.

It is a comprehensive experimental base composed of hundreds of large bases, some located on the planet's surface, some underground, and some in space.

The research goal of this experimental base is quark fusion.

Quark fusion is a new way of obtaining energy. It is estimated that the mass-to-energy conversion efficiency of quark fusion can even be as high as 40%!

Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, which are widely used in the second-level civilization stage, have mass-to-energy conversion efficiencies of about 0.15% and 0.7% respectively. After reaching the fourth-level civilization and mastering quark fission technology, the mass-to-energy conversion efficiency can reach about 14%. .

That is, people can convert 14% of the mass of matter into energy.

But at this moment, the efficiency of quark fusion is 40%! Once again, based on quark fission, it has been improved by three times.

Even such a high conversion efficiency is not the most important significance of quark fusion.

Its most important significance is that it can be applied in conjunction with quark fission.

That is to say, people can first convert 14% of the mass of matter into energy through quark fission.

After the transformation, the heavy elements become light elements and cannot undergo further quark fission.

At this time, quark fusion technology comes into play. It can fuse light elements into heavier elements again, and in this process, achieve up to 40% mass-energy conversion.

After this, quark fission technology can come on stage again, which can once again fission heavy elements into light elements. With such cooperation and repeated execution of fission and fusion, you can finally achieve true, 100% conversion of matter into energy!

No matter what kind of substance, whether it is highly toxic, or the stinky garbage that everyone dislikes, or the stones, asteroids, water ice, meteorites that can be seen everywhere in the galaxy, or the wreckage of steel battleships, strong radiation, etc. Wait, theoretically all matter in the universe can be converted into energy by people in this way!

This means that as long as it is not too empty a place like intergalactic space, the fleet of the fifth-level civilization will never lack energy!

No matter what kind of material it is, as long as there is material, there is energy!
This was too significant for a fleet, important enough to be ranked first, and any other experiments would be prioritized behind it.

At this moment, this crucial research, which even all the ruling committee members, including Han Yang, are personally paying attention to, personally intervening, and personally coordinating personnel and materials, is being launched in this test site.

The principle of quark fusion is also very simple, similar to nuclear fusion.

It doesn't need to break the quark confinement, just cause the nuclei of the lighter elements to violently collide together.

If the energy level is too low, nothing happens. If the energy level is high enough, nuclear fusion can occur. If the energy level is higher, coupled with some applications of dark force theory, quarks, the basic component of microscopic particles, will also fuse and recombine into new baryons, releasing energy in the process.

But behind the extremely simple principle, there are countless technical and engineering problems.

The most important point is that relying solely on a high enough energy level, without the application of dark force theory, no matter how high the energy level is, fusion between quarks will not occur.

Because this already involves the interaction between space and matter, it can only be achieved by introducing the dark force theory, which can only be achieved through the interaction between some dark force particles and material particles.

At this moment, after ten years of construction, the experimental base was finally completed and the first experiment began.

There is no doubt that the first experiment failed. The implementation method set based on previous conjectures proved to be invalid.

But it doesn't matter. In the previous hundred years of theoretical research, scientists have speculated on hundreds of implementation methods. If one method doesn't work, just try another one.

At this moment, the second plan is launched immediately.

After trying more than thirty experimental plans, people finally observed an exciting phenomenon in this experiment.

In the reactor, which is supported by an entire quark fission power station and bound by laser heating and gravity combined with a strong magnetic field, the temperature of a ball of helium gas has increased to more than a billion degrees, and the internal pressure is as high as more than 5000 billion times the atmospheric pressure.

This temperature and pressure are enough to cause a nuclear fusion reaction in this ball of helium. But at this moment, under the influence of the dark force, the interaction pattern between space and matter has changed, so the expected nuclear fusion did not occur.

Although it has extremely high energy at this moment, all of this energy is given by the outside world and it does not generate any energy on its own.

People are continuing to compress this mass of helium, continuing to increase its density, temperature and pressure.

Finally, after breaking through a certain extreme, as if some wonderful reaction had occurred, this ball of helium suddenly became "active", and in an instant, huge energy emerged from its interior, and in a violent explosion , specially protected, so much so that the test equipment that used a gravity multiple shield system instantly turned into a wreckage.

A mushroom cloud rose from the test site and was clearly visible in space.

The scientists who were in space and observing through remote technology stood up at the same time, their faces full of excitement.

Such a violent release of energy, what else could it be besides quark fusion?
Except for quark fusion, no reaction known to mankind can release such a huge amount of energy!
Atomic bombs cannot work, hydrogen bombs cannot work, and quark fission bombs cannot work!
Only quark fusion!

At this moment in human civilization, the huge energy contained in quark fusion has finally been released for the first time in history!

Han Yang felt a heartfelt joy in his heart.

Broadly speaking, this explosion that occurred in the laboratory can also be classified as a quark fusion bomb.

In other words, from this moment on, he has initially mastered the manufacturing technology of quark fusion bombs.

Quark fusion bombs can be classified as uncontrollable quark fusion and are still far from industrial application. but……

Now that uncontrollable quark fusion has been mastered, can controllable quark fusion be far behind?
After completing this experiment, people did not give up trying new implementation solutions. In the end, after integrating the advantages of multiple solutions and removing the shortcomings, people thought they had found the right path.

The next step is to continue in-depth research, and make continuous adjustments and modifications.

After achieving major breakthroughs in over-distance communication interference and anti-interference, shielding and anti-shielding technology, and quark fusion technology, Han Yang turned his attention to another extremely important research project.

On top of faster super-light navigation technology.

The importance of this technology goes without saying.

The key point of faster-than-light navigation technology is to affect space through matter. In the fourth-level civilization stage, this influence is achieved through gravity.

However, there are shortcomings in the gravity influence method, and it can only achieve a maximum sailing speed of about 10 times the speed of light.

Because it essentially transmits its influence through gravity - dark force - space. If there is an extra dark force procedure in the middle, a lot of energy will be lost, and the accuracy and efficiency will also be greatly reduced.

At the fifth level of civilization, the situation is naturally different.

Dark force particles are interactive particles between space and matter. After mastering the dark force theory, people can save the "gravity" procedure and directly exert influence on space through dark force particles. Therefore, it is natural and natural for the speed to be greatly improved.

Of course, this still requires a lot of research in applied technology and engineering.

In the space technology research base specially established by the ruling committee, located in remote deep space, far away from the gravitational field of stars, in a huge pipe with a diameter of 100 meters, a length of 100 kilometers, and an almost absolute vacuum inside. An unprecedented faster-than-light transport experiment is underway.

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