Chapter 41 - Weapons Research

The discussion session ended in silence, and everyone walked out with a heavy face. Even the optimists were no exception, and Dr. Rimbaud, with a preoccupied face, hurried back to the Tesla Institute.

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

Oliver is the first time to participate in this kind of discussion, the stimulation is extraordinarily large, the heart is also unusually unhappy. Unhappy to be unhappy, he can not vent his frustration to other people's heads, just keep frowning.

He was thinking about the civilization war. Plan ahead, this is a leader must have the quality, if wait for the war to come to prepare, it will be too late too late.

What weapons did humanity have now? Except for nuclear bombs to protect themselves symbolically, almost nothing different from bare hands.

Old weapons like machine guns, mortars, missiles, etc., are good against their own people, but in a cosmic war is a slag.

Laser weapons, electromagnetic pulse weapons can be considered for research and development, although with the existing human technology, will not have much power at all, but also the future direction of research.

The United States and Russia have studied laser weapons, the power of well, barely able to destroy a space satellite. But this power on the cosmic scale is too pedestrian, Oliver does not think that in just a few years, this weapon will have any qualitative changes ...

As for EMP weapons, there is no particularly good progress for the time being, it requires too much energy.

So, the most important thing is still the nuclear bomb! Although it flies slowly, easy to intercept, and has such and such defects, it is still the most powerful means of attack for mankind.

The nuclear bomb, especially the hydrogen bomb, is a weapon that can theoretically increase its power indefinitely.

But for technical reasons as well as political reasons, peace has become the eternal theme of development, and human nuclear bomb technology has almost come to a halt in the 21st century. Until now, the most powerful nuclear bomb mankind can build is a billion tons of helium-3 nuclear bomb!

For mankind, helium-3, the raw material for helium-3 nuclear bombs, is still a scarce resource, and mankind has obtained one or two thousand tons of helium-3 from the moon, which is perfectly sufficient for the present, but not very sufficient in the long run.

If we use it up, there is no way to replenish it!

A billion tons of nuclear bombs may sound exaggerated, but they are really nothing in an interstellar war. This is something Oliver knows very well.

A nuclear bomb that can shatter the Earth, how much equivalent does it take?

In the past, humans said that nuclear war can destroy the Earth ten times. This statement is simply laughable, all of the 37,000 nuclear warheads on the planet combined, is equivalent to tens of billions of tons of tnt equivalent, simply can not hurt the earth a hair.

When the original Hixulub meteorite impact, which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, released the equivalent of 120 trillion tons of tnt equivalent energy to see, but for the Earth, but also added a scar.

120 trillion tons! 10,000 times the amount of all nuclear weapons, and just one more scar, you can imagine how huge the Earth is, and how difficult it is to blow up the Earth.

But the 37,000 nuclear bombs of mankind is fully capable of destroying the global ecology, so that the human race extinct ten times, this statement is basically no problem.

But human destruction and the destruction of the Earth has nothing to do with it? Humans can represent the Earth?

So, Oliver knows exactly how scary an alien weapon that can directly blow the earth apart ...

Well don't want to go that far, but he does also desperately want to research more powerful and violent weapons. He already had an idea in mind, and that was: a nuclear bomb that uses ordinary hydrogen for fusion.

Hydrogen, the most common and most abundant element in the universe, occupies more than 90% of the total elements in the universe. If a nuclear bomb can be made using these ordinary hydrogen elements, then its yield as well as its output can be greatly increased, and no longer need to worry about raw materials!

Such a nuclear bomb, called the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb, is also the most powerful, the ultimate nuclear bomb!

Conventional nuclear bombs require rare elements such as deuterium and tritium, which are very difficult to get, require industrial production, and consume so much energy that the yield simply cannot go up.

Moreover, tritium is a radioactive element, its half-life is only 12.43 years, this time is too short. In other words, there is no way to preserve such a nuclear bomb for a long time.

The helium-3 nuclear bomb invented by Prof. Ding Yidong is more advanced and violent. Moreover, helium-3 is extracted from the moon and is almost readily available, so it is less industrially consumable for people to come.

But the amount of helium-3 is still too small, and when it is used up, it is gone, and humans cannot replenish it.

So Oliver is considering simply researching stronger, more versatile tetrahydrogen nukes!

Inside the core of the sun, a constant process of fusion of four hydrogen nuclei into one helium nucleus is taking place, while releasing large amounts of energy. This reaction is called tetrahydrogen fusion and is the main source of energy for the Sun.

The tetrahydrogen nucleus, similar in principle to the reaction process inside the sun's core, also fuses four hydrogen atoms into one helium nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. The process does not require any deuterium, tritium or helium-3, but only ordinary hydrogen.

Therefore, the tetrahydrogen bomb completely solves the problem of raw materials, and the yield and yield can be expanded indefinitely, so it is the most powerful and ultimate nuclear bomb!

But why don't people go to study the tetrahydrogen bomb instead of the deuterium and tritium hydrogen bombs?

Think about it, ordinary nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction between two atomic nuclei. But a four-hydrogen bomb requires four hydrogen nuclei to collide together at the same time! Such a difficulty, not only doubled? A hundred times more than that!

This kind of super weapon, of course, can not be Oliver just a pat on the head just a paper order down, but also need to be discussed by the group ...

Once you hear this news, several people in the security department are fist-pumping, excited to death, humans finally have an imaginary enemy, there will also be a new model of weaponry. What laser weapons, electromagnetic kinetic energy cannon, think of advanced, powerful! James that black face non-stop trembling, excitedly growled, resulting in Wade a big mouth slapped over. "You give me quiet!"

Wade heart actually also excited to die, but did not show it. After being an official for a while, he also knows that he has to be a little bit city, and can't put his joy and anger on his face like James.

"When you enter the field later, don't give me shame!"

"Yes!"

...

It was a small meeting, attended only by Prime MinisterOliver, a few people from the Ministry of Security, and the heads of several major research institutes. Everyone discussed the feasibility of tetrahydrogen nuclear bombs, laser weapons, and electromagnetic weapons together.

Professor Ding Yidong looked at Oliver's request with half fervor and half concern: "The tetrahydrogen nuke ... this is really a bit difficult."

"At 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 this powerful pressure we humans can not do ..."

300 billion atmospheres, really too exaggerated, the highest pressure before the explosion of the hydrogen bomb is only 1 million atmospheres level ... "Perhaps, we can use the method of increasing the temperature to reduce the pressure demand." Ding Yidong frowned and thought.

"Yes ..."

Dr. Felix nodded, "The pressure required for nuclear reactions will definitely decrease when the temperature rises. But we don't have such a functional model yet, and even if we use helium-3 nukes with the highest reaction temperature, we don't know whether it's feasible or not ..."

Seeing that many scientists fell silent together, even Ding Yidong, who was always keen on weapons research, did not speak up, Oliver felt that he still thought that the matter was too simple, this kind of ultimate nuclear bomb was not so easy.

If it was easy, the human government would have already researched it on Earth, why wait until now?

He immediately said: "Let's do it this way, the research of the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb for the time being, there is no need to rush, I am just mentioning it here, to start a head. Everyone go back and think of any good plan, there is no special time limit."

Everyone nodded together, they still had to study automated production during this time, Wild Wolf was working on the super train, Tesla was studying excavators, the task was really heavy. Maybe later, when they are free, they will consider this kind of problem.

"By the way, you said laser weapons, electromagnetic weapons, there should not be much of a problem ..." Ding Yidong suddenly said: "Previous countries have studied, in the atmosphere is quite limited, and the killing power is really touching, destroy A car is sloppy. If it is used in the space battlefield ..."

Ding Yidong smiled, did not say more, he meant that Oliver finally do not hold too much expectation.

"No way, this high-speed weapons are bound to be the tendency of space warfare. We can only start from small to large." Oliver shook his head and said, "There will be no development without research ... please guys."