In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 273 Ark Reactor Research, Quantum Tunneling Amplification

It has been a long time since Ivan found these Ark Reactors.

Shimizu also studied these Ark reactors for a long time.

But up to now, he has not been able to crack the technology to manufacture an Ark reactor based on the few samples he has.

This is pure technological difference.

Shimizu's current attainments in the field of mechanical physics are actually quite high. Although there is still a big gap compared to geniuses like Tony Stark who are ahead of their time, the knowledge and technology he has mastered through various channels are definitely ahead of most scientists.

During these few months, Shimizu took over most of Norman Osborn's scientific research results during his lifetime. With the support of Osborn's entire technical background, he still failed to replicate the Ark reactor.

Apart from Ivan's family background in technology and his father having assisted old Stark in developing the Ark Reactor, there are almost no people in the entire Marvel world who can crack this gadget that Tony Stark made in the cave using dismantled missiles.

But he was not without gain.

He has roughly figured out most of the working principles of this Ark Reactor. Even if the relevant technology is unable to realize these principles, the by-products developed in the process are valuable enough.

Under normal circumstances, extremely harsh conditions are required to achieve nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion in nature, such as the sun, occurs naturally under high temperature and high pressure conditions.

Because the high-pressure conditions on the sun cannot be formed on Earth, artificial nuclear fusion basically relies on absolute high temperatures - a typical example is the hydrogen bomb, which is detonated by the high temperature generated by the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Another is the Tokamak device, which has an internal temperature of 1-1.5 million degrees Celsius. The principle is to achieve radio frequency heating through induced current, high-energy particle injection and electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency to heat the internal plasma to this level, and use magnetic fields to control these plasmas.

All in all, whether it is high temperature or high pressure, the purpose is to increase the energy sufficiently to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between atomic nuclei, namely the Coulomb barrier.

Old Stark was ingenious and developed a black technology among black technologies in the last century.

Quantum tunneling effect amplification.

In classical physics, if a particle does not have enough energy to cross a potential barrier, it will be bounced back, but this is not the case in the microscopic world.

At the microscopic scale, particles exhibit wave properties, and their wave functions decay exponentially in the potential barrier region, but never completely return to zero. Therefore, there is a certain probability that particles "penetrate" the potential barrier and appear on the other side.

This is the quantum tunneling effect.

Howard Stark integrated a variety of methods to amplify the quantum tunneling effect, allowing particles to more easily pass through the Coulomb barrier and achieve nuclear fusion.

For example, using muons to catalyze fusion, or using ultra-strong laser fields to instantly reduce the width of the barrier.

These are all pretty dark technologies.

But the darkest, most important, and most outrageous-sounding one is that old Stark has developed a technology to use metal lattices to reduce the potential barrier.

Filling hydrogen atoms into the metal lattice through chemical methods helps the hydrogen atoms approach the distance required for nuclear reactions, reduces the reaction barrier between hydrogen atoms, and greatly amplifies the quantum tunneling effect of hydrogen and its isotopes, amplifying it to the point where cold nuclear mutations can easily occur at room temperature, and it is extremely safe.

Old Stark studied many metal materials, even vibranium, and finally concluded that the metal lattice of palladium was the most suitable.

This itself is also an extremely excellent hydrogen storage material.

This also answered Qingshui's question.

That's why the Ark's reactor has such a ridiculously high power but such a short endurance.

Because the cold nuclear fusion of this thing is generated by hydrogen atoms and their isotopes filled in palladium metal, the number of hydrogen atoms is greatly restricted. Of course, old Stark also proposed a solution for this, speculating the existence of an isotope of palladium, but due to the limitations of the times, it was left to future generations to manufacture.

Tony Stark added a lot to this foundation. Not only did he produce the isotope of palladium, he also successfully miniaturized the reactor.

Although the principle is understood, clean water cannot fill hydrogen atoms into the metal lattice of palladium in the correct way.

He has tried everything from the simplest high-temperature and high-pressure treatment to electrochemical filling.

A small amount of hydrogen atoms can be filled in, but in a single unit cell, the density of hydrogen atoms is not high, and the effect he wants cannot be achieved at all.

But this doesn't mean he didn't gain anything.

Tony Stark's advice allowed Ivan to increase the speed of the energy output system and create an extremely efficient small energy conversion system.

As a supporting technology for the Ark Reactor, Shimizu can directly move it to his own armor and puppets, reducing the consumption of chakra, amplifying attacks, increasing flight speed, and greatly enhancing energy utilization efficiency.

"Witeos, collect these things, put them back where they were, and seal up the palladium-hydrogen combination plan No. 17."

Qingshui rubbed his eyes tiredly and stretched.

"OK, Sir."

A cold synthesized electronic sound rang out from the speaker above Qingshui's head.

Watos, that is, watos.

It is the result of Shimizu's reverse cracking of Luthor's Lexos with the help of Cisco and Victor.

As an artificial intelligence, Witioth is still in a relatively rudimentary form. Even though Shimizu has fed it a large amount of training data and equipped it with a whole server room to provide it with computing power, this thing will occasionally malfunction and misunderstand Shimizu's meaning, turning into an artificial idiot.

But in most cases, Witos is still very useful, at least in the field of scientific research, it can provide certain assistance to clean water.

"Sir, you have a missed call from Mr. Menken thirty minutes ago, and you asked me to decline it then."

"Mencken? Go back, and tell Jorge to bring me a cup of coffee."

Qingshui yawned tiredly and sat down on the recliner.

The long-term and intensive mental activity made him a little tired.

"Okay, sir."

In just a few seconds, the sound of a phone call being connected came from the speaker above Qingshui's head.

"Walter, you finally answered the phone."

Mencken's voice was even more laborious when it stood up straight.

"what's up?"

"Connors' regeneration serum has been successful, but there are many people being targeted. Thanks to Connors, I have already uncovered more than a dozen spies hiding in the company."

“Are the people behind those spies in trouble?”

(End of this chapter)