There is also power in the vacuum. As early as the earth's age, the technology of human civilization has recognized this power and described it.
For example, if two uncharged metal plates are placed very close to each other, say 10 nanometers, then at this moment, a pressure approximately equivalent to one atmosphere will be generated between the two metal plates.
The reason why is so,
It's because of vacuum fluctuations.
The basic principle of the vacuum cannon is very simple. Even in the current human civilization, an ordinary person is familiar with it: it is nothing more than creating a certain field force, through which the field force interacts with the virtual particle pairs generated by the fluctuations of the vacuum.
They just interact to achieve some kind of force that can be expressed in the macroscopic world.
Because the transmission of field force is at the speed of light, the attack speed of the vacuum cannon is also the speed of light. This gives it the same rapid delivery capability as a laser cannon.
Although the basic principle is simple,
But if you want to truly apply this technology to the battlefield, there are many things that need to be done. In addition to developing basic science to an extremely high level,
There are also many obstacles that need to be solved at the application level of technology.
From overall view,
The research and development of vacuum cannon is a huge project no less than the large-scale production of antimatter.
At this moment, the No. 1 prototype, which was developed by countless scientists and engineers and took decades to develop, has reached the stage of real testing.
At this moment, the No. 1 prototype, which existed in the form of a spaceship, sailed to the appropriate location. Under the gaze of many scholars, the engineering commander issued one order after another in the command hall.
Self-test completed.
Next, it was launched.
Energy systems, transmission systems, temperature control systems, controllers one after another, converters one after another, monitors, and hundreds of millions of parts are working together at this moment, like a whole, to complete some extremely complex work.
As a result, a special "electric field" that changes rapidly at a certain frequency is quietly generated in this vast universe. Based on some quantum mechanics, some strange changes described by m theory,
The energy exchange with the virtual particle pair is completed. So,
The vacuum fluctuation effect has been strengthened to a certain extent, and has even gained the ability to manifest itself in the macroscopic world.
Just when everyone's hearts were aroused, in the command hall, the huge screen displaying countless parameters suddenly flickered and instantly turned dark.
A shrill alarm sounded in the command hall, and fault codes came one after another. Engineers hurriedly dealt with these faults and tried to eliminate them, but no matter what kind of operation they performed, they could not achieve the effect.
Someone turned their attention to the picture of a monitoring satellite near Prototype 1 with a slight despair, and saw that in the vast space, the Vacuum Cannon Prototype 1, which existed in the shape of a spaceship, suddenly appeared from the inside.
A blinding light burst out.
The next moment, it was completely torn apart by its own energy.
It exploded silently.
This experiment... seems to have failed.
Amid the heaviness, the commander-in-chief sighed and opened the fault code list.
"More than three thousand failures... our material performance and manufacturing process are still not up to par."
If you fail, just fail. Clean up the situation and start all over again.
However, after decades of hard work, not to mention whether the system solution adopted by people can successfully induce the changes in vacuum fluctuations as in the theoretical calculations, at this moment, it did not even succeed in initiating it, and it just self-destructed.
It really makes people feel uncomfortable,
It's like all your hard work has been wasted.
But there's nothing we can do about it.
The finishing work began. The salvage spacecraft was dispatched and began to collect the fragments of the No. 1 prototype in space in an attempt to discover more data. During the process, a small landing spacecraft accidentally came to the target.
near the asteroid.
Two staff members wearing space suits flew over and began searching the asteroid.
"There shouldn't be any debris flying here."
"Whatever, just look for it and go back if you don't find it."
The two people were chatting casually in the communication channel. After searching briefly, they planned to leave.
At this time, one of them discovered something was wrong.
Under the illumination of the light, the asteroid seemed to be filled with "fog", which even made the entire star hazy, making it difficult to see clearly.
Even a fool knows that gas and water vapor cannot exist around such a small asteroid because its gravity is too small.
So, these fogs...
An astronaut quickly flew over and took a closer look.
"It's dust. Maybe our spacesuit's reverse thrust system sprayed it, causing the dust on its surface to float up."
There was nothing strange about this. After confirming this, the two planned to leave again.
But at this moment, an astronaut suddenly stiffened as if he had been struck by lightning. He turned around and stared directly at his companion: "I seem to remember that this asteroid...
Is it a rocky structure with very little separated dust on the surface?"
In this case, how is it possible that so much dust is "blown" by the spacesuit's reverse thrust system, so that it looks like it is shrouded in "fog"?
"sky……"
The two of them turned around at the same time, like hungry wolves, and quickly pounced on it.
One of the astronauts flew in front of a raised "stone pile" and cautiously and tentatively punched. So, the moment the fist touched the stone, the appearance still showed a deep and hard color.
The stone turned into powder silently at this moment.
He changed the direction of the spacesuit's jet again, and as a result, a large crater was blown directly out of the seemingly hard surface.
With the help of recoil, he stepped hard on the asteroid, causing the hard stone to be crushed directly, and his entire leg was directly buried into the stone.
"This place is shattered!"
"Here too!"
"And here!"
"Hahahahaha!"
At this moment, the two astronauts laughed wildly. Under the influence of the reverse thrust system, the two of them were like supermen, wreaking crazily and wantonly on the asteroid.
The asteroid that originally required cannonballs to break into pieces was now riddled with holes as if it had been struck by a superman.
"It turns out, it turns out we succeeded..."
Although the asteroid still maintains its original appearance on the outside, its internal structure has been completely shattered, and it will turn into powder at the slightest touch. In addition to the previous vacuum cannon test, what can cause this is
Why?
Everyone thought that the prototype of Vacuum Cannon No. 1 had self-destructed before it was activated. Who would have thought that it was indeed self-destructing, but in fact it had already been activated, and it showed real effects!
Compared with the matter of self-destruction, people are more concerned about whether the systematic plan for designing this prototype is correct. Because this means whether the direction is correct.
If we can confirm that we are going in the right direction, then if we stumble a few times on the way forward, is it still a big deal?
Isn't it just a prototype? As long as the direction is correct, it can be rebuilt!
"Call headquarters, call headquarters..."
The two astronauts reported the discovery back as quickly as possible. At this moment, they could clearly hear that the operator's voice even trembled a little.
Without any delay or hesitation, this information was reported to the highest level as quickly as possible.
At this moment, the originally heavy and depressing control hall seemed like a sun suddenly appeared.
All the dullness and depression were swept away. In fact, an old professor who was over 180 years old suddenly jumped on the table. The other one usually spoke slowly and softly, which always made people complain that his voice was too low.
The professor screamed like a shrew: "Prepare the spaceship quickly! Hurry!"
Several experts who had returned to the lounge to rest heard the news and rushed out shirtless. One expert had one shoe on one foot and the other foot was simply bare.
"Go, go, go!"
At this moment, this small planet instantly became the absolute focus of the entire military base and tens of millions of people. One spaceship after another swarmed in like a market, and the military committee even had to dispatch a battle
The spacecraft came over to maintain order, so that the tragedy of a spacecraft collision did not occur.
One after another, either young or old scientists, wearing spacesuits, rushed desperately towards the asteroid like moths to the fire, feeling personally that the basic structure had been shattered and turned into dust.
asteroid. At this moment, this space is filled with smoke and dust.
This asteroid, with a diameter of more than 160 meters and a total mass of millions of tons, was completely shattered by pure human power in front of visiting military experts one after another.
It completely disappeared and turned into a miniature "nebula".
When the news was reported to Zhao Changxing, even Zhao Changxing couldn't help but become happy.
"Third-level civilization, third-level civilization...it has finally become true..."
Although there is still a lot of work to be done in the future, for example, the stability of this vacuum cannon is too poor and a major upgrade must be made. This vacuum cannon consumes too much energy and has no practical significance. It is too large and cannot be used at all.
There is no way to install it on a combat spaceship, there will be miniaturization improvements in the future, and countless other problems. There is still a long way to go before it can truly achieve combat effectiveness in the future, but all of these are not as good as the breakthroughs made today.
important.
Because this is a breakthrough from zero to one.
At this moment, Zhao Changxing seems to have seen the day when every warship in the future human space force fleet is equipped with powerful vacuum cannons with powerful attack power.