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 couldn't vent his frustration on others, so 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 for nuclear bombs, which can symbolically protect themselves, they are 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. They 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 change in just a few years...
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As for electromagnetic pulse weapons, there is currently no particularly good progress as it requires too much energy.
Therefore, the most important thing is the nuclear bomb! Although it flies slowly, is easy to intercept, and has defects of one kind or another, it is still the most powerful means of attack for mankind.
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 humans 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. Humans have obtained one or two thousand tons of helium-3 from the moon, which is completely sufficient for the moment, but not in the long run.
Very sufficient.
Once it’s used up, there’s no way to replenish it!
A nuclear bomb with a yield of one billion tons may sound exaggerated, but it is really nothing in an interstellar war. Yu Yi Feng knows 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 ridiculous. The total of 37,000 nuclear warheads on the earth is equivalent to the equivalent of tens of billions of tons of TNT, which cannot harm the earth at all.
A hair.
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 left a scar on 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. There is basically no problem with this statement.
But what does the destruction of human beings have to do with the destruction of the earth? Can human beings 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 has 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 for humans is relatively small.
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 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 it is also the main source of energy for the sun.
The principle of the 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
of hydrogen elements.
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! Like this
The difficulty has more than doubled? More than a hundred times!
Of course, this kind of super weapon cannot be issued by Yu Yifeng just by slapping his head. It also requires everyone to discuss it...
As soon as they heard the news, several people in the security department were gearing up and excited to death. Humanity finally has an imaginary enemy, and there will also be new types of weapons and equipment. Laser weapons and electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons are so advanced and powerful just thinking about it!
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 very excited in his heart, but he didn't show it. After being an official for this period of time, he also knew that he was a bit cunning and couldn't show his 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 heads of several large research institutes. Everyone discussed 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 handle 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.
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"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 about things too simply. This kind of ultimate nuclear bomb is not so easy.
If it were easy, the human government would have already studied it on Earth, so why wait until now?
He immediately said: "Well, there is no need to rush into the research on four-hydrogen nuclear bombs 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 together. During this time, 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 they will consider this issue again when they are free in the future.
"By the way, the laser weapons and electromagnetic weapons you mentioned should not have any big problems..." Ding Yidong suddenly said: "Previous countries have studied it, and it is quite restricted in the atmosphere, and its 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."