Beneath Deep Space

The seminar ended in silence, and everyone walked out with heavy faces. Even the optimists were no exception. Dr. Rimbaud looked worried and hurried back to the Tesla Research Institute.

Anyway, as long as it is this kind of discussion about the universe, no matter what, one conclusion is bound to be correct: that is, the universe is too great and humans are too small.

It was the first time for Yu Yifeng to participate in this kind of discussion. He was extremely stimulated and felt extremely unhappy. He was unhappy anyway, he couldn't vent his frustration on others, he just kept frowning.

He is thinking about civilized war. Being prepared for a rainy day is a quality a leader must have. If you wait until war comes to prepare, it will be too late.

What weapons do humans have now? Except that the nuclear bomb can symbolically protect oneself, it is almost the same as using bare hands.

Old weapons like machine guns, mortars, and missiles are pretty good against our own people, but they are useless in a space war.

Laser weapons and electromagnetic pulse weapons can be considered for development. Although they will not be very powerful with the current human technology, they are also future research directions.

The United States and Russia have both studied laser weapons, which are so powerful that they can barely destroy a space satellite. But this kind of power is too childish on a cosmic scale. Yu Yifeng does not think that this kind of weapon will have any qualitative changes in just a few years...

As for electromagnetic pulse weapons, there is currently no particularly good progress. It requires too much energy.

Therefore, the most important thing is the nuclear bomb! Although it flies slowly, is easy to intercept, and has various flaws, it is still the most powerful attack method for humans.

Nuclear bombs, especially hydrogen bombs, are weapons whose power can theoretically be infinitely increased.

However, due to technical and political reasons, peace has become an eternal theme of development, and human nuclear bomb technology has almost stagnated in the 21st century. Until now, the most powerful nuclear bomb that mankind can build is a helium-3 nuclear bomb with a yield of one billion tons!

For humans, "helium-3", the raw material for helium-3 nuclear bombs, is still a scarce resource. Human beings have obtained one or two thousand tons of helium-3 from the moon. It is completely sufficient for the moment, but it will not be enough in the long run. Very adequate.

Once it’s used up, there’s no way to replenish it!

A nuclear bomb with a yield of one gigaton may sound exaggerated, but it is really nothing in an interstellar war. Yu Yifeng knew this well.

How powerful is a nuclear bomb that can shatter the earth?

In the past, humans kept saying that nuclear war could destroy the earth ten times. This statement is simply ridiculous. The total of 37,000 nuclear warheads on earth is equivalent to the equivalent of tens of billions of tons of TNT, which cannot harm a hair on the earth.

The original Chicxulub meteorite impact led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and released energy equivalent to 120 trillion tons of TNT, but it also added a scar to the earth.

120 trillion tons! Ten thousand times the amount of all nuclear weapons, there is only one more scar. You can imagine how huge the earth is and how difficult it is to blow it up.

However, humanity’s 37,000 nuclear bombs can completely destroy the global ecological environment and cause humankind to become extinct ten times. This statement is basically correct.

But what is the relationship between the destruction of mankind and the destruction of the earth? Can humans represent the earth?

Therefore, Yu Yifeng clearly knows how terrifying alien weapons that can directly blow the earth into pieces are...

Well, he doesn't want to go that far, but he is indeed eager to research more powerful and violent weapons. He already had an idea in his mind, that is: a nuclear bomb that uses ordinary hydrogen elements for fusion.

Hydrogen is the most common and abundant element in the universe, accounting for more than 90% of the total elements in the universe. If these ordinary hydrogen elements can be used to make nuclear bombs, their yield and output can be greatly increased, and there is no need to worry about raw materials!

Such a nuclear bomb is called a tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb, and it is also the most powerful and ultimate nuclear bomb!

Conventional nuclear bombs require rare elements such as deuterium and tritium. These rare elements are very difficult to obtain and require industrial production. The energy consumption is very large and the output cannot increase at all.

Moreover, tritium is a radioactive element and its half-life is only 12.43 years, which is too short. In other words, such a nuclear bomb cannot be stored for a long time.

The helium-3 nuclear bomb invented by Professor Ding Yidong is more advanced and violent. Moreover, helium-3 is extracted from the moon and is almost ready-made. The industrial consumption is relatively small for humans.

However, the amount of helium-3 is still too small. Once it is used up, it will be gone and humans cannot replenish it.

Therefore, Yu Yifeng is considering simply researching a stronger and more versatile four-hydrogen nuclear bomb!

Inside the core of the sun, the process of fusion of four hydrogen nuclei into one helium nucleus is continuously going on, and a large amount of energy is released at the same time. This reaction is called tetrahydrogen fusion and is the sun's main source of energy.

The principle of a tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb is similar to the reaction process inside the core of the sun. It also fuses four hydrogen atoms into one helium nucleus and releases a large amount of energy at the same time. The process does not require deuterium, tritium, or helium-3, only ordinary hydrogen.

Therefore, the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb completely solves the problem of raw materials, and its output and yield can be infinitely expanded. It can be said to be the strongest and ultimate nuclear bomb!

But why don’t people study tetrahydrogen nuclear bombs instead of deuterium and tritium hydrogen bombs?

Because it is really too difficult. Think about it, ordinary nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction between two atomic nuclei. However, a four-hydrogen nuclear bomb requires four hydrogen nuclei to collide together at the same time! The difficulty has more than doubled? More than a hundred times!

Of course, this kind of super weapon cannot be issued by Yu Yifeng with just a slap on the head. It also requires everyone to discuss it...

Upon hearing the news, several people in the security department were gearing up and excited to death. Humanity finally had an imaginary enemy, and there would also be new types of weapons and equipment. Laser weapons and electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons are so advanced and awesome just thinking about them! Zhao Yao's dark face kept trembling and he roared excitedly. As a result, Xu Yunjin slapped him with a big mouth. "Be quiet!"

Xu Yunjin was actually extremely excited, but he didn't show it. After being an official for this period of time, he also knew that he had to be a bit dignified and could not show joy and anger on his face like Zhao Yao.

"I'll come in later, don't embarrass me!"

"yes!"

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This was a small meeting, attended only by Chief Yu Yifeng, a few people from the Security Department, and several heads of large research institutes. Let's discuss the feasibility of tetrahydrogen nuclear bombs, laser weapons, and electromagnetic weapons.

Professor Ding Yidong looked at Yu Yifeng's request with half enthusiasm and half worry: "The four-hydrogen nuclear bomb... this is really difficult."

"In the core of the sun, the temperature is as high as 15 million degrees, and the pressure is equivalent to 300 billion atmospheres. The temperature is not a problem, but we humans cannot do this kind of powerful pressure..."

300 billion atmospheres is really an exaggeration. The highest pressure before a hydrogen bomb explodes is only 1 million atmospheres... "Perhaps, we can reduce the pressure demand by raising the temperature." Ding Yidong frowned and thought. .

"Yes……"

Dr. Felix nodded and said: "As the temperature rises, the pressure required for nuclear reactions will definitely decrease. But we don't have such a function model yet. Even if we use helium-3 nuclear bombs with the highest reaction temperature, we don't know whether it is feasible..."

Seeing that many scientists fell silent, even Ding Yidong, who had always been keen on weapons research, did not speak. Yu Yifeng felt that he had thought of things too simply. This ultimate nuclear bomb was not that easy.

If it were easy, the human government would have already done research on the earth, so why wait until now?

He immediately said: "Well, there is no need to rush the research on the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb for the time being. I am just mentioning it here to get it started. Let's go back and think about any good plans. There is no special time limit."

Everyone nodded in unison. During this period, they still have to study automated production. Wild Wolf is working on super trains and Tesla is working on excavators. The task is really heavy. Maybe I can think about this issue again later when I have some free time.

"By the way, the laser weapons and electromagnetic weapons you mentioned shouldn't be a big problem..." Ding Yidong suddenly said: "Previous countries have studied it, and they are quite restricted in the atmosphere, and their lethality is really impressive. Destroying a car is just so-so if it is used in a space battlefield..."

Ding Yidong smiled and did not say any more. What he meant was that Yu Yifeng should not have high expectations in the end.

"There is no way. This kind of high-speed weapon must be a tendency of space warfare. We can only start from small to large." Yu Yifeng shook his head and said: "Without research, there will be no development... Please everyone."