Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 891 Matter Disintegration Ray
Everyone can understand the school of thought that great strength can bring miracles, but the second school of thought is more difficult to understand, because at present, even the scientists who support this school of thought are still unclear about what the mechanism is.

However, generally speaking, after humans mastered the theory of everything, everyone's attention was basically focused on the research of new weapons.

Therefore, these two schools of thought on super star destroyer cannon schemes have become the focus of discussion in society. People always express their opinions after dinner and their desire for humans to master the super star destroyer cannon technology as soon as possible.

Of course, not everyone wants humans to have a breakthrough in new weapons. In fact, there are some strange people among the general public. They think that humans should not develop new weapons as soon as they have mastered the theory of everything, because in their concept, this is militarism.

They believe that humans do not need to research any new weapons because they are essentially no different from those evil civilizations. Instead, they should first research technologies that will improve human living standards and lifespans. Humans should use love and communication to influence other cosmic civilizations rather than using technological prowess to intimidate them.

Yes, even in the interstellar age, there are still such people among humans. Fortunately, there are not many of them, and they only discuss this with their friends in private. Moreover, many of these people are only immersed in their own entertainment world and don't care much about the background knowledge of the universe.

The number of people is small and the disease is minor.

But after hearing this news, Yue Yuan took it very seriously. He felt that this idea was too unbelievable. We have reached the interstellar age and everyone knows the cruelty of the background of the universe. How could there still be such thoughts?

After thinking for a long time, he believed that it was an education problem and that human history education itself needed to be strengthened.

Therefore, in the future, Yue Yuan will focus more on improving the education system. Education should not only pay attention to natural sciences, but also humanities and social sciences.

However, the mainstream social concern is still the research and development of the new super star destroyer cannon.

What was unexpected was that the first new weapon to appear was not the super star destroyer cannon, but the matter fragmentation cannon that had little news in the society and few people paid attention to.

Just when various experiments were still in full swing in the two research directions of the super star destroyer cannon, suddenly a project consisting of three research teams announced that they had discovered a magical ray that could disintegrate matter, and called it the matter disintegration ray.

In experiments, scientists discovered that this strange ray can directly act on the inside of the atomic nucleus, causing it to disintegrate.

Theoretically, the strongest of these strange rays can break matter into quark state.

When the results were announced, scientists had already detected traces of quark matter production in the laboratory. Although quark matter only exists for a short time, it was still detected by scientists the moment it appeared.

It is for this reason that scientists dare to say that matter disintegration rays can break matter into quark state.

Yes, it is a quark state, but not a single quark.

Because anyone who has some common sense in physics knows that single quarks do not exist. Quarks must exist in the form of quark pairs. If you want to get a single quark, you must change the laws of physics, and human civilization certainly does not have that ability.

So how does this radiation cause matter to disintegrate into quark states?
Matter disintegration naturally requires a certain understanding of matter. Needless to say, matter is everything that people see and touch every day when they open their eyes.
Oh, and that doesn't include light.

Matter is made up of particles, specifically fermion particles. Macroscopic objects are made up of molecular structures piled together, and molecules are made up of atoms and ions. Atoms have nuclei and electrons outside the nucleus, and protons and neutrons are inside the nuclei. Quarks are elementary particles that cannot be divided any further.

The basic particles that make up macroscopic matter have one thing in common: they are all fermions, and fermions obey the Pauli exclusion principle, so they can constitute matter.

The Pauli exclusion principle tells us that if we use a magnifying glass to continuously magnify a person's fingers, what we will see will be clouds of electrons. The process of hands touching each other, and hands touching other objects, is all the result of the Pauli exclusion phenomenon of electrons.

The pressure we feel with our fingers during touch is all the result of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which does not allow two or more electrons to be in exactly the same state. It is for this reason that we have form, everything has a shape, and objects do not merge into each other.

These are physics’ basic understanding of the material world.

This force is so strong that it is also called the electron degeneracy force, and it is the force that holds the white dwarf back from further collapse.

After understanding the structure of matter, we only need to understand what the matter disintegration ray is, where it comes from, and what its properties are. Then it is easy to understand how the matter disintegration ray of human beings works, what state the matter becomes after disintegration, what physical phenomena occur in this process, and so on.

So what are matter disintegration rays? Scientists in human civilization have already given the answer.

This type of ray is an applied technology based on the research on negative matter and negative energy. It was discovered by scientists by chance when they were doing experiments related to negative matter and negative energy.

When negative matter is placed in a super force field and the range and magnitude of the four basic forces in the super force field meet the characteristic parameters, the negative matter will produce a magical ray similar to the effect of electron transition in matter producing light, namely, matter disintegration ray.

The effect it appears is a vast expanse of white, which looks like a beam of light, but it is somewhat different from light. It seems more accurate to say that it is some specific form of negative energy pulse.

It can be said that although the name of the matter disintegration ray is "ray", it is actually not ray in the traditional sense.

In the research paper, the research team fully described the entire process of observing the matter disintegration rays decomposing matter.

They found that when matter is irradiated by radiation, the radiation will directly act on protons and neutrons. At this moment, the strong nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons will suddenly disappear, as if it has become messy. At the same time, a strong high-energy pulse energy will burst out from the place where the incident radiation hits, breaking apart the protons and neutrons that have lost the strong nuclear force.

If the intensity of the rays is strong enough, it can even directly knock out the quark pairs inside protons and neutrons.

However, whether it is the former or the latter, the strong nuclear force suddenly disappears in just a moment. Scientists used many experiments to measure this time, and finally concluded that it is a Planck time.

After a Planck time, the strong binding is immediately restored and the quark pairs, protons and neutrons are bound again.

(End of this chapter)