Chapter 29 Battle of the Moon, Did God Toss a Coin?(1/4)
When Ren ran to the command room of the air base, I dreamed of running over from the other end of the corridor in a hurry.
"Senior, something happened!"
"I know."
The two looked at each other, swiped the access card, and rushed in before the alloy door was fully opened.
"WARNING————!"
At this moment, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded, and Staff Officer Chiba subconsciously looked at Atsuko and Qiao Ji sitting in front of the instrument with a bit of surprise in their eyes.
Dunzi sat in front of the operating table and turned around to report:
"Report, there was a big explosion in the Trojan asteroid group in the orbit of Jupiter just now, releasing an energy equivalent to about 5 million tons of TNT explosives!"
"It's so strange. There is nothing in that place that can release such a huge amount of energy at once."
Qiao Ji said in confusion.
The energy of 5 million tons of TNT explosive is extraordinary, much more powerful than a small nuclear bomb.
"I know the cause of the explosion."
I Meng subconsciously glanced at Ren behind me and said.
"You know the cause just after detecting the big explosion?" Qiao Ji asked with a confused expression.
"Um."
I Meng nodded to Qiao Ji, faced the gazes of everyone, and explained, "Just now I happened to be discussing the feasibility of antimatter weapons with Dr. Xingshan at the observation team. The gamma ray detector there captured
to an explosion caused by antimatter in the orbit of Jupiter."
"Antimatter?"
Hearing this unfamiliar vocabulary, Commander Shishi couldn't help but frown slightly.
I Meng nodded and continued to explain:
"When antimatter and normal matter meet, they will annihilate and cancel each other out, explode and produce huge energy, thus producing high-energy photons or gamma rays..."
"Stop, wait a moment!"
Staff Officer Chiba was confused when he heard this. He quickly interrupted my dream and asked in confusion, "What on earth is that antimatter?"
Renn came to the central computer desk in the command room, checked the gamma ray data captured by the detector, and explained:
"It is an existence that is completely opposite to our universe. It is matter composed of antiparticles such as antiprotons, antineutrons, and antielectrons."
Listening to his explanation, Staff Officer Chiba not only didn't understand, but became even more confused.
While he stretched out his hand to make gestures, he said quietly:
"When you say that, I don't understand it even more."
Concepts such as quantum mechanics, hyperspace wave states, independent subspaces, and antimatter are really unfriendly to an old student like him.
Who can understand this...
Renn said without raising his head:
"To put it simply, normal matter is composed of positive protons + negative electrons, while antimatter is composed of negative protons + positrons. The charges carried by matter and antimatter are completely opposite."
This time, Staff Officer Chiba felt that he understood a little bit. He used his brain and drew inferences: "Is it a substance that has completely opposite properties to normal things?
For example, if I am made of antimatter, will I be a woman?"
My dream: "..."
( ̄△ ̄;)
Renn: "..."
(¬_¬;), what kind of enterprise-level understanding is this?
No wonder it is said that when humans think, God laughs.
There was silence in the conference room. Everyone was shocked by Staff Chiba's imagination and stopped talking.
Dunzi and Qiao Ji looked at each other and turned their heads. I Meng looked at the probing eyes of Staff Qianye and could only smile.
Staff Officer Chiba quickly realized that he had made a joke, scratched his head in embarrassment, and simply stopped thinking about those complicated scientific principles and said:
"Ahem, please continue explaining the situation."
Renn looked at the gamma ray data of Jupiter's orbit collected by the satellite detector, his face was solemn, and he said:
"According to the current theory, at the beginning of the birth of the universe, there was more positive matter than antimatter, so it gradually evolved into the current universe.
But antimatter has not completely disappeared.
As long as 1 gram of antimatter and 1 gram of positive matter annihilate each other, 180 trillion joules of energy can be produced, which is equivalent to 43,000 tons of TNT explosives and is more powerful than a small-yield nuclear bomb."
The energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States during World War II was approximately equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, and the energy released by the mutual annihilation of 1 gram of antimatter and positive matter was about three times that of this atomic bomb.
The horror of antimatter is evident.
"Is 1 gram of antimatter more powerful than a small-yield nuclear bomb?"
Staff Officer Chiba took a breath of air.
Darling, there is such a terrifying thing in this world.
I Meng nodded and said in a professional tone:
"Whether it is nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, although the energy released from the nucleus is huge, it is still a small part compared to all the energy contained in the matter itself.
Only when matter and antimatter collide can 100% of mass be converted into energy, while hydrogen bombs that use fusion reactions only have a mass-to-energy conversion efficiency of about 0.7%."
The two are not of the same magnitude at all.
If antimatter is used to make a bomb, it will be a weapon that is completely more powerful than a hydrogen bomb.
Staff Officer Chiba immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and said:
"Then there was an antimatter explosion in Jupiter's orbit. Could it be that..."
"Du-du-du-!"
The alarm in the command room sounded again.
Amid the red warning lights flashing back and forth, Qiao Ji quickly tapped the buttons in front of her with both hands and reported without looking back:
"Confirmed the presence of an unidentified object in the orbit of Jupiter's satellite!"
Next to him, Dunzi immediately added:
"It is confirmed that there is evidence of antimatter, gamma ray bursts have been captured, and there are also wormhole reactions. Jupiter's orbit has abnormal space phase distortions, and the fluctuations are the same as when Gob appeared!"
"What did you say?!"
Staff Officer Chiba was shocked.
Commander Shishi frowned and said:
"Is it another large-scale attack by the Destroyed Body? They even used anti-matter weapons."
I clenched my fists in my dream and felt a little nervous.
This time the enemy is too ruthless, using a large amount of antimatter as weapons, and the earth will be completely destroyed. This is not to conquer, but to destroy everything.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Dunzi analyzed the moving speed of the ball of antimatter, looked back at the people gathered behind him, and said:
"That ball of antimatter is currently approaching the Earth! At the current speed, it will reach the Earth's orbit in one hundred and sixty-eight hours, or about one week!"
"One week?!"
When Staff Officer Chiba heard this, he hurriedly looked at Dr. Lane and I Meng, and asked, "Do you have any countermeasures?"
I Meng glanced at Ren, feeling a little surprised, but still analyzed:
"To resolve this disaster, we must find a way to convert antimatter into normal matter, otherwise we won't even be able to get close to the enemy."
"Is there any way to transform it?"
"Yes, Dr. Xingshan from the physics team at the air base is an expert in antimatter. There is a device there that can convert matter into antimatter. If you use it in reverse and install it on the Thor fighter, you can conduct interception operations."
"Reverse use?" Staff Officer Chiba looked puzzled, "Is it possible in time?"
Even if he is not a scientific researcher, he knows that to use a piece of scientific equipment in reverse is often not just a simple reverse operation.
Renn stood up and said: "It's just in time. I also had the idea of researching anti-matter weapons. Recently, I asked Dr. Meng and Xingshan to help build several anti-matter conversion devices.
It is not difficult to modify the device and install it on a fighter aircraft, and it can take up to three days."
"Very good!"
Staff Officer Chiba was overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief.
The commander of the stone chamber gave Ren a thoughtful look and said nothing.
Antimatter monsters suddenly attacked, and Dr. Lane happened to be researching antimatter weapons, and asked me to help Dr. Xingshan create related equipment...
Is this too much of a coincidence?
To be continued...