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Chapter 423: Do you and Lucy have telepathy?
"Georgeou, NASA gave Lucy to Jay and Tanislav for a reason. You can question their loyalty to the United States, but you can never question their scientific literacy. When faced with such an incredible thing, they can still maintain such a calm mental state, which is the most devout belief in science."

"So what you mean is... there really are ghosts in that place? But science can't explain it yet?"

"It's possible. Of course, it could also be like what you said, that Lucy's program had a malfunction or design flaw. It's just that even Jay and the others don't know what this malfunction or flaw is. If they knew, there's no reason for them to hide it from us."

Seeing Georgiou's suspicious look, Holka explained: "Although failure may make their resume less perfect, Lucy is not a manned spacecraft. The public pressure of project failure is not as great as imagined. They have no need to take the risk of falsifying data. At the same time, we are NASA, not the FBI. There are not so many conspiracy theories..."

George O just sneered in his heart.

In order to defraud funds, these guys who do scientific research have to spend less on academic research?
However, Georgeo agrees with a point Holkar just made.
Lucy is not a manned spacecraft, so there is no humanitarian problem. Therefore, the public pressure of project failure is not great.
After the public learned the news, at most they would be disappointed with NASA and accuse them of wasting taxpayers' money...

It's not painful and can be made public.

“There is actually another benefit to being open.”

When discussing whether the matter should be made public, Hall suggested, "Not only should we make it public, but we can also exaggerate it appropriately to make scientists from other countries interested in that place and see if they can help us discover something."

Ok,
Isn't it just a way to get something for free?
This can be!
George immediately nodded, agreeing with his point of view.

So that evening, NASA held a press conference and officially announced to the media that the Lucy probe had lost contact after deviating from its orbit...

At this time, twelve hours had passed since Kang Chi started the quantum life detection program, but the entangled quantum still showed no signs of "dying".

Kang Chi's patience was finally exhausted and he ended the test.

The current test life is as high as 25.92 billion times. Whether it has an infinite service life or not, it can fully meet the needs. The extreme test can be saved for later.

He now wants to know what the mysterious metal element named 376 by the system is and what it is used for.

[Analysis project:
Dimensional shock module structure analysis: 35 mastery points are required.

Dimensional shock module material and process analysis: Requires mastery point 65,

Ion trap module structure analysis: requires proficiency point 10,

Ion trap module material process analysis: need to master point 10,

Structural analysis of micro optical tweezers probe module: Need to master point 20,

Micro optical tweezers probe module material process analysis: Requires proficiency point 20]

After opening the technical analysis panel of the quantum catcher, Kang Chi immediately guessed that the technology with the biggest upgrade must be the dimensional oscillation module based on the proficiency points required in each technology.

Especially the material process analysis of the dimensional oscillation module requires 65 mastery points, which is much higher than other projects. The secret of new elements and extended quantum life must be in it.

"Dimension Oscillation Module Material Process Analysis, Mastery Points -65."

Kang Chi decisively chose to analyze, and then a huge amount of knowledge and data rushed into his brain frantically.
As Kang Chi digested more and more knowledge, his eyes gradually became more and more shocked... This...

This knowledge is too subversive, right?
It turns out that the mysterious metal element 376 is a superheavy element with a relative atomic mass of 376!
Moreover, it is an inert element with a very long semi-decay cycle!
A long half-decay period means that it has no reflectivity. Among the elements currently known to humans, the heaviest and non-radioactive element is element 83 Bi (bismuth), which has a relative atomic mass of 209.

Elements heavier than bismuth are generally very unstable and will decay into isotopes lower in the atomic sequence in a very short time, while producing radioactive substances such as alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays or neutrons.

This is the principle of nuclear fission.

These superheavy elements are basically produced by ion colliders, and the heavier the element, the shorter the time it stays. The heaviest element known so far is element 118 Og, a rare gas element with a half-life of only 0.9 milliseconds.

Therefore, scientists have always believed that superheavy elements cannot exist stably in nature.

Of course, for something like this that has no evidence, some people support it while others oppose it.
Glenn Theodore Seaborg, a famous chemist from the United States and a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry who discovered new elements as easily as drinking water, was one of the main opponents and proposed the theory of islands of stability.

The island of stability theory states that chemical elements with nuclei that have a "magic" number of protons and neutrons will be particularly stable.

If this theory is true, it means that the elements known to humans are actually just an island in the ocean of elements, while stable and super-heavy elements like bismuth are like reefs on the seashore.

On the other side of the island, there is a superheavy element island where superheavy elements exist stably.

German physicists Hans Meyer and Jensen and others established a nuclear shell model through the "law" of magic numbers, and concluded that this superheavy element island may exist near element 126, which would be a stable island of radioactive transuranic elements.

Particle colliders around the world have never stopped searching for new elements and have continuously increased the energy level of collisions, in large part to land on this possible island of superheavy elements.

However, as the relative atomic weight of an element increases, it becomes increasingly unstable, and it becomes increasingly difficult to use a collider to smash the nucleus and find super-heavy elements.
At least with the current performance of human colliders, it is absolutely impossible to produce this mysterious element 376.

The energy from the death and collapse of a massive star into a black hole could compress and collide this kind of matter, but it would definitely become part of the black hole very quickly...

Anyway, with Kang Chi's limited knowledge and imagination, he has no idea how this thing came into being. Even the level of nuclear fusion inside the sun should not be able to produce such a super-heavy element.

In addition, if superheavy elements can remain stable, it means that the lifetime of this element will be longer than the lifetime of the universe calculated by scientists.

This is undoubtedly another huge impact on existing theories!
Thinking of this, Kang Chi immediately called Chen Hai.

"Change the task of finding inspiration. You don't need to look for anything else. You just need to focus on the progress of the extraterrestrial scientific research projects."

"What a coincidence!" Chen Hai was a little surprised and said, "I just got the news that the Lucy probe of Country M disappeared a few days ago, and the time of disappearance was almost the same as the time you asked me to find inspiration..."

Chen Hai really wanted to ask Kang Chi, are you a person who traveled back from the future, or are you an alien in human skin...

But in the end he still said tactfully: "Do you and Lucy have telepathy? Or is Lucy's disappearance related to you..."

(End of this chapter)