Chapter 276 Exploration of the Center of the Earth
While humans in this world are using water resources in the ocean, they are also exploring why the water in the ocean does not solidify. Some people think that the upper ice cap plays a role in keeping warm. For people in this world,
The understanding of soldiers is not cold.
In terms of ice, which is close to melting temperature, it is actually quite warm from the perspective of human body perception. After all, the temperature of soldiers in this world is actually higher than that of ordinary time-lapse steel, but they are reflected in this world.
The resulting properties are more resistant to high temperatures, allowing them to remain in the form of ice without melting.
Under this special physical environment, people take it for granted that the ice layer can retain heat like a large quilt.
In fact, not only in this world, but also on the earth, ice can also keep heat. Houses made of snow in extremely cold areas can have a certain warming effect, at least maintaining the internal temperature at
Around 0 degrees, the most important thing is to be able to block the cold wind from outside.
The efficiency of flowing airflow in taking away heat is much faster than that of normal gas. This is one of the reasons why you feel cool when the wind blows in summer? It is also one of the reasons why the air fryer can cook food quickly.
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However, the ice layer simply insulating the underground cannot explain why there is so much water underground. After observation, scientists gradually discovered that the ice layer is getting thinner and thinner in the water. To be precise, the ice layer in the water will slowly
melts, but the overall thickness of the ice layer tends to remain constant.
This is the feedback result given by a detector placed in the deep sea. The ice layer in the area calibrated by the detector begins to become thinner, but after detection through echo, positioning and other methods, the overall thickness of the ice remains unchanged.
That is to say, the ice layer below is melting slowly, while more water vapor condenses on the surface of the ice layer above, and then solidifies into part of the ice layer. The entire ice layer is melting in an extremely slow manner.
The speed circulates.
After learning this, people in this world boldly guessed that there is a source of high temperature underwater. It is this source that heats the seawater and keeps the seawater at a high temperature. Only in this way can it be maintained like this all the time.
A large expanse of liquid seawater.
And this conjecture is not completely without evidence. According to the exploration of deep water by people in this world, it can be determined that the temperature under the water is higher than the temperature on the surface of the water. This is an unreasonable phenomenon. It stands to reason.
Generally speaking, the density of water should be maximum at 4°C. The density will decrease at temperatures above and below this temperature.
Of course, this world will not have this four-degree scale, but another temperature scale. But this does not affect the characteristics of water. In other words, the deepest part should be water with this stable temperature, not deeper.
The higher the water temperature. This abnormal situation often means that there is a heat source in the mountain water, which heats the deep water and causes convection. This special situation occurs when the heat is not completely brought to the surface.
However, from the analysis of the existing exploration area, no underwater heat source has been found. The temperature of the rocks at the bottom and the water temperature at the bottom are almost the same. In other words, the heat source should be located in other locations, perhaps in deeper water further away.
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At present, there are still too few areas explored by humans. Especially the deep sea is difficult to explore.
In the deep sea, the ice surface has penetrated deep into the sea water. Human beings can only dig caves one after another on the ice surface and survive in the caves. In fact, it seems that there are hundreds or even hundreds of ice layers suspended below the water surface.
Thousands of meters thick, if you want to explore under the ice, it will be a quite large project.
One way is to penetrate the ice below and create a deep cave, which is relatively easy to do. The other way is more difficult, which is to bypass the ice from the side and then go directly below.
This is more difficult, but it can save costs. The problem is that in deep water of thousands of meters, it is very difficult to keep your hull stable without being crushed into pieces by water pressure.
The thing is, especially under the physical conditions of this world, the temperature of water is very high, and it is easy to flatten things in the water.
Under high temperatures, ordinary steel will become extremely soft. Only some special materials can maintain their strength in high-temperature water. And the configuration of these materials is obviously very difficult. Currently, extremely strong materials are manufactured above the water.
It is not difficult for humans in this era, but to create an existence of the same strength under the water. The difficulty is simply sky-high.
Therefore, in this era, submarines that can dive into the deep sea have not yet been developed. What do humans know about the abyss under the ice? Now we can only speculate. However, the rapid development of science and technology has made human beings in this world
Compared with the normal primitive world, newly developed human beings are more rational. They believe that the underwater world can also be explored and understood, but their abilities are not enough yet.
They did not directly imagine the abyss as a place where demons live. In their imagination, there may be some creatures living in the abyss, but they are either very small in size or have difficulty coming to the surface of the water.
From their point of view, the pressure in the bodies of hot organisms living in the abyss should be very high, just like the human body also has pressure. They have tried that if the gas is extracted, the pressure in the human body will
Human skin is very ugly.
In fact, this phenomenon is easy to discover. As long as you understand the principle of cupping, you can realize this. This is a physiological phenomenon caused by people living in an air environment for a long time. If they live in the deep sea for a long time,
, the pressure in the body should be higher. If they floated to the surface, they would probably explode and die.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So from a physiological point of view, although humans in this era are full of curiosity about the creatures in the abyss, they are not very worried about being destined.
Biological invasion is coming.
With the in-depth exploration of this incident, human beings have begun to further develop under the water, and the direction of their development is somewhat different from what humans on earth imagined. When normal humans choose the direction of exploration, they tend to
His eyes are looking into space.
Even for people on earth, the deep sea is actually more unknown than space. The deep seabed is closer to us than space, but few people pay attention to exploring the deep sea. More eyes are focused on space, as if everyone
When I subconsciously think of exploring unknown areas, I think of the boundless space.
This is because we are humans living on the surface and can see the starry sky when we raise our heads, while the deep sea is a distant existence to us, at least from an intuitive perspective.
But for people in this world, it's just the opposite. They live in the deep sea. When they lower their heads, they can see what seems to be an endless dark abyss. Over time, their impression of the dark abyss underwater is just like our impression of the dark abyss.
The impression of the starry sky is average.
Therefore, their exploration direction is downward. Although they have not concluded that the thing under their feet is a planet, according to their judgment, the temperature will be higher as they go downward. And for them, this is a cold planet.
There is no doubt that areas with high temperatures often contain more resources that can provide them with survival, and the development of underground areas is far more attractive than the development of distant space.
I have to say that, to a certain extent, they have actually missed some opportunities by focusing their main development direction on underground development.
Although the stars in this world are quite dim, the sunlight released by the stars is ultimately the main source of energy for any world. If a large amount of sunlight can be gathered, a large amount of liquid water can be produced on the surface of the earth, creating a suitable environment for human beings.
Living areas can also obtain a large amount of energy through this method.
In addition to conventional physics, there are some magic phenomena in this world. In other words, you can use magic and fighting spirit just like the outside world. You can become a warrior or a mage, but humans are still cursed. Even if
In such a remote area, the number of human beings who can become extraordinary is very small.
If development follows a normal trajectory, humans in this world should gradually develop from the barbaric era to the world of swords and magic. The power of existence of a mage is easier to obtain, at least compared to summarizing a large amount of scientific knowledge and self-cultivation.
It is actually easier to gain power. If you want to gain powerful power by summarizing natural science knowledge, you must rely on a huge scientific research team and industrial system.
This is undoubtedly more difficult for human beings who have just stepped out of primitive society. But similarly, if they embark on the path of industrial development after coming out of primitive times, then what industry has gained
The speed of strength development far exceeds the speed of imitation development.
Although the speed of personal cultivation is already very fast, it still takes several years for a mortal to practice to be able to fight against firearms, and only one who is talented and has a relatively good talent can do it.
For ordinary people, it is much easier to get a gun than to gain strength through such complicated training. This is also one of the reasons why technology and magic are sometimes not compatible.
In a world with advanced technology, it is much easier to obtain power than to practice.
This is one of the reasons why the magic system in this world has developed relatively slowly. However, as humans gradually explore the deep sea, the development of magic has gradually begun to flourish. It is mainly a matter of materials science, which is difficult to overcome in a short time.
, and magic has the ability to strengthen spells. Materials can be strengthened through such spells. Above the ground, the effect of these strengthened materials is relatively limited. After all, under normal temperature environments, humans can already
The problem is that in the underwater environment, most of the materials that humans can create are soft and fragile. If it can be combined with material-strengthening spells, then in theory, it can be constructed
Made of quite high-strength material, able to withstand high temperatures underwater.
Along the direction of material strengthening spells, some powerful mages have also developed spells such as projection magic, which can directly project recorded powerful materials for a short period of time, but the whole process will consume magic power, and more
At this time, this strengthening ability should be based on some kind of existence, so that it will consume less when used.
After all, the extraordinary beings in this world grow through trial and error. The most powerful extraordinary being may only be at the second level, or may not even be a high-level being.
However, as some geniuses devote their energy to this aspect, it won't be long before legendary-level beings are actually born. After all, the population base of this world has increased, and although extraordinary power requires the accumulation of experience, it is more reliable.
It's a personal talent.
Some races with only a few million people can also give birth to many high-level strong men. If there are more, it is normal to give birth to legendary strong men. The same is true for humans in this world. Their current population base
Although it is still around one million, with the continuous expansion of the living space, it is only a matter of time before it reaches the level of tens of millions, or even the level of hundreds of millions.
There are no other prehistoric races here to hinder their development. They can continue to develop with this unique technology.
When Entropy saw the development of these human beings, he did not feel that their development was a threat to all races in the wild. The biggest reason is that the human technology tree of this world is crooked. It is based on the water of this world.
Temperature is a special point in the technology tree.
If they explore the outside world and successfully connect with other worlds, they will find that apart from some knowledge of mechanics and mathematics, most of the technologies they have summarized are useless. After all, water is almost indispensable in industrial production.
, and if the characteristics of water change significantly, it will be enough to completely collapse the industrial system.
In such a small world, no matter how powerful they develop, they will be knocked back to their original form after leaving. And the civilization that such a world can support, even if the population reaches hundreds of billions, is beyond any other civilization.
The number of individual races in the prehistoric world, after all the outsiders were reduced to ordinary people, would have very little impact on the entire prehistoric continent. However, although he felt a little impatient when looking at the development of human beings, he continued to watch.
After all, I lost 1/6 of my innate spiritual treasures because of laziness last time, so I won’t be distracted this time.