American comic book: Absolute Spider-Man

Chapter 101 Weapons

"How's my weapon coming along?" Peter asked.

The maid placed a basket of desserts on the bar counter in front of Tony, who brushed aside Venom's outstretched tentacles: "The formula works, but the corresponding carrier is lacking."

Peter picked up a chocolate brownie and took a bite.

"So," Peter mumbled, chewing on his brownie, "not even vibranium?"

"No," Tony said. "The computational power required to run the equation is equivalent to tens of thousands of New York City's computing power. Vibranium can certainly do that, but the weapon would be larger than a room. And that's not all the problem."

Tony added, "It is speculated that vibranium is simply unable to withstand the erasure force of the equation's operation. Before the erasure force can act on the target, the weapon made of vibranium will be erased itself."

"In this situation, it's impossible to inflict effective damage on the target?" Peter asked.

Tony snapped his fingers: "Yes."

"So we need a material," Peter said, "that can be used to support the equations in a supercomputer without being erased by the equations during operation."

"Ideally, that's how it is."

Peter tapped his fingers twice on the bar: "Uru Steel."

Tony nodded after hearing this: "The materials the dwarves used to forge Thor's broken hammer might be worth a try."

Peter reached out and tore through space, his arm probing into the spatial rift, traversing countless light-years, and touching what he wanted on the other side of the universe.

He opened a spatial rift and pulled out the object on the other side—a piece of ore about half a person's height.

Peter raised his hand to repair the spatial rift and wiped away the massive amount of radiation from the ore.

Tony stood before the ore, examining it closely: "Is this Uru Steel?"

"The ore of Uru was formed during a supernova explosion. This ore is located inside the core of a planet whose main component is gold."

Tony asked, "Is that all?"

Peter rolled his eyes: "How much more do you want? This amount of ore, after refining, is enough to forge three or four weapons that are no smaller than Mjolnir."

"I'm even thinking of forging myself a set of battle armor."

"With your current level of technology, you can't even melt Uru ore, let alone forge armor?"

Tony shrugged. "Everyone needs to have some aspirations."

"Alright, I've already noted down the locations of the other mineral deposits. Once we build a faster-than-light spaceship and planetary mining equipment, we'll go mining in the depths of space."

Tony tapped the surface of the ore lightly with his finger: "So how exactly do you melt and refine this stuff?"

"A cosmic furnace of the neutron star level."

"Then I suppose your weapon can't be forged on Earth."

Peter cut off a small piece of ore and handed it to Tony: "Yes, so let's design the weapon first, and then head to a place where we can forge Uru steel."

After enjoying refreshments, the scientists returned to their work area in the laboratory.

Because several projects are currently underway simultaneously, the ground floor of the laboratory building has also been converted into a laboratory and connected to the upper floor.

Peter followed Tony to the work area and saw Jarvis.

Jarvis controlled the device and projected holographic light and shadow.

Tony then placed the small piece of ore onto a mass spectrometer—a bonus item that Mr. Fantastic had included when he developed the material recombination device.

Tony looked at the atomic structure inside the ore and said, "Let's design the weapon's appearance first. What kind do you want?"

Peter thought for a moment and said, "A spear, the kind that can be used for both thrusting and throwing. We can even add an enchantment like the Eternal Spear that guarantees a hit."

A spear appeared as a holographic projection under Jarvis's editing.

The spearhead is willow-leaf shaped, which is the most classic piercing structure. The ridge is in the middle, the two edges are symmetrical, the cross-section is a flat rhombus, and the spear body is plain and unremarkable, just like a thin iron rod.

The entire spear is 180 centimeters long.

Tony grabbed the spear on the holographic projection and then magnified it.

He placed his hand on the spear, which was larger than his face in diameter: "Now we need to consider how to condense the computing power of tens of thousands of New York cities into the Uru steel of the spear."

The spear shaft on the holographic projection was magnified again, and the inside of the spear shaft's cross-section was covered with a dense array of cavities that were indistinguishable to the naked eye, layer upon layer, extending from the spear tip to the spear tail.

Tony pointed to the projection and said, "Uru Steel is a material, a natural product of extreme physical conditions. Its internal energy imprint is a high-energy physical trace left behind when a supernova collapses. These imprints can be arranged, reconstructed, and used as transistors."

He emphasized the word "transistor" on the screen.

Tony magnified a cavity to the molecular level, revealing its internal structure: a closed spherical cavity with natural energy standing wave nodes unique to Uru Steel distributed on its inner walls.

"These nodes are dormant at room temperature, but when an external energy pulse—such as a beam of high-energy rays, like the neutron source that initiates the fission reaction of an atomic bomb—is introduced into the cavity, the standing wave nodes will be excited, generating stable quantum tunneling between different energy levels."

"This is the logic gate," Tony said, pointing to the cavity.

"When energy is injected into the cavity, the quantum state of the standing wave node transitions from the ground state to the excited state. The transition between states is the flipping of 0 and 1. A cavity can maintain tunneling paths of dozens of superposition states at a specific energy level at the same time—isn't that a quantum bit? Uruguay's steel was already sculpted into a natural quantum well structure at the moment of the supernova explosion."

Peter looked at the cavity model on the screen and continued, "So we need the hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius of neutron star rays to anneal and rearrange these natural quantum traps."

"Precision," Tony said. "The ultra-high temperature rearranges the atomic lattice of Uru Steel, and the strong magnetic field aligns those natural quantum wells according to the logic circuit structure we designed. The physical essence of this whole process is no different from Intel's photolithography of CPUs on silicon wafers, except that silicon is replaced by Uru Steel, ultraviolet light is replaced by neutron star magnetic fields, and photoresist is replaced by Planck-precision lattice reconstruction."

Tony shrunk the entire structural diagram, revealing the spear in its entirety once again.

"Since you want the spearhead to be a pure supercomputer inside—then it has to be redesigned to supercomputer standards."

Tony said to Jarvis, "Jarvis, help me design an architecture diagram."

"Received, sir."

Jarvis's Mind Stone on his forehead began to glow with a yellow light. The energy matrix inside this stone was one of the most advanced supercomputers in the universe.

Minutes later, a new system architecture diagram unfolded beside the spear.