Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 896 Research Report on Self-Healing Armor with Strong Interaction Force
This situation immediately attracted the attention of many astronomers and biologists. They were very curious about everything on this planet, including life forms and the planet itself, and they couldn't wait to land and investigate on the spot.

Naturally, the new human government has no reason to stop it. After all, no matter how powerful the civilization on this planet is, it can't surpass humans. Otherwise, why use planetary engines? They can just use planetary warp engines and be done with it. There's no need to go through the trouble of interstellar travel.

Thus, a new round of more professional exploration began.

Looking at the planet, Yi Kai, who had already arrived at the Tianqin command center, sighed, "What a pity! The biosphere of this planet has been completely changed due to their violent promotion. I don't know how many animals and plants on the planet have died because of this. It seems that this sulfur-based life civilization does not know the value of a planet with life!"

Xian Donggui glanced at him and spread his hands: "Then you are wrong. They have no choice. According to the data, the star where their parent star is located is already at the end of its life. In about one hundred years, the planet will begin to evolve from a yellow dwarf to a red giant. By then, its volume will increase by more than two hundred times.
Given the location of their home planet, if they don’t push the planet away, it will inevitably be swallowed by the star. Compared to having nothing left, the loss caused by pushing the planet is really nothing. I believe they must have calculated the consequences.”

After a pause, Xian Donggui reached out to the holographic screen and brought up the yellow dwarf star that was heading toward the end of its evolution. He then continued, "Look, this planet still has about a hundred years to go before it officially expands, which means they had time to make adequate preparations before leaving. So I'm sure there must be a lot of plants and animals in their basement."

Hearing this, Yi Kai also nodded. Just now he was completely focused on the ecological environment of this planet and didn't think about it carefully. Now after hearing what Xian Donggui said, he naturally understood.

At this time, Yue Yuan on the side was about to make a comment, but before he could open his mouth, he heard a familiar voice coming to his ears. It was Yu Nanfeng's voice.

"Commander, great news! We have made a major breakthrough in the research of new materials. We may be able to use new materials in our planned new Tianqin."

Upon hearing this voice, Yue Yuan's eyes immediately lit up, and then he said to Yi Kai and Xian Donggui: "Keep an eye on the wandering planet. There is no need to rush to communicate and contact them for the time being, but there is no need to explore covertly. If they find our detector, then we can make contact with them."

"clear."

"I know. Don't worry, Chief."

Seeing the two people responded, Yue Yuan did not stay and turned to walk to the other side. Yu Nanfeng was already waiting there with a smile on his face.

Seeing Yue Yuan approaching him, Yu Nanfeng pointed at the holographic screen in front of him.

Yue Yuan looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a person standing in the holographic screen. Who else could it be but Xu Zhenyi? Judging from the background, Xu Zhenyi should still be in a laboratory.

Seeing Xu Zhenyi, Yue Yuan also remembered that this should be one of the many applied scientific research projects established by humans after mastering the Theory of Everything. It was co-hosted by materials scientist Xu Zhenyi and engineering dynamics expert Yu Nanfeng, and seemed to be a project on strong interaction materials.

The name seems to be "Research on self-healing armor with strong interaction force". Yue Yuan had read the interim results report at that time, so he was very impressed.

"Strong interaction material?" Yue Yuan asked Xu Zhenyi on the screen in a confirming manner.

"Yes, Chief," Xu Zhenyi replied excitedly with a look of joy on his face, "We abandoned the old method and used the super force field as the operating field. Finally, after years of hard work, we have produced the self-healing strong material mentioned in the report that year."

"What are the material properties like?" Yue Yuan couldn't suppress his excitement and asked hurriedly.

"I can only say it is beyond imagination, and it is definitely the best material we have now." Xu Zhenyi said in the holographic screen with an expression of 'I am not exaggerating at all'. As he spoke, he was seen fiddling with the holographic operating table in front of him. Then Yue Yuan received an analysis report - "Research Report on Self-healing Armor with Strong Interaction Force".

These are the approximate data of the new strong material and the self-healing principle of the self-healing armor made of this new material.

Yue Yuan didn't say much, he immediately clicked on the latest achievement report and read it carefully.

"Great, great! With this material, the armor of the future new generation flagship will not only be strong, but its toughness will also be raised to another unimaginable level!" Looking at the contents of the report, Yue Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

This self-healing armor is amazing. According to the description in the report, the armor made of this material not only has the hardness of strong materials, but can also heal itself when it is damaged. After healing, it still has the smooth surface of strong materials.

The report said that in the laboratory, the materials research team had bombarded it with the strongest material-disintegrating rays, and the result was that the strong material was indeed breached, but it was also healing while being disintegrated.

Of course, after reading about its healing principle, Yue Yuan understood that this healing was only a phenomenon seen at the macro level, and its real mechanism was at the micro level.

As we all know, the strong interaction is the force responsible for binding protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. It is the strongest of the four fundamental forces.

The first generation of strong materials developed by human beings utilized the effect of the grand unified force field, and increased the length of its force range to cover the electromagnetic force exerted by objects. But this time, human beings used an even more powerful super force field.

Under the influence of the super force field, human beings' manipulation of the strong force field finally broke through the proton and neutron level and reached the quark level. This is a breakthrough in level, which means that human beings' research on the strong force branch of science and technology has reached a new height.

Not only that, through the manipulation of the super force field formed by the complete unification of the four fundamental forces, humans have actually found a way to crush protons and neutrons and then recombine and arrange them, making the material leap from ordinary material to a new material that has never been seen before.

This material breaks the traditional strong material model of atomic arrangement and proton and neutron arrangement, breaks the boundaries of these particles, and becomes a material with quarks as the main body.

From this perspective, it is not wrong to say that it is a quark material.

Its self-healing properties come from quark confinement.

Particle physics tells us that quark confinement is a physical phenomenon, which means that quarks cannot exist as single quarks, but can only exist in the form of quark pairs. It is the strong interaction force that binds them tightly together, making the total color charge of the quark pair zero.

Even if there is a strong enough external force to destroy this structure and disconnect the strong force that binds the quark pairs, because the total color charge must be zero, new quarks will be immediately generated and form quark pairs again with the disconnected quarks.

The energy required to create new quarks is exactly the energy required to break apart quark pairs.

This is the self-healing principle of this self-healing material. The energy that is strong enough to destroy the structure of quark pairs will also become energy that promotes the formation of new quark pairs while destroying the quark pairs.

(End of this chapter)