Chapter 652 Synthesis Technology
Wu Dongling, leader of the maintenance team, looked at the system conditions that had just been fed back and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face .
Dr. Yuri was also very concerned about the condition of the equipment: "Wu, how is it?"
Wu Dongling smiled bitterly and replied, "The heat accumulation is only a minor problem. It can be solved by using a gold-based thermoelectric system and absorbing it for a few hours. However, the damage to the vacuum is very serious. It will take at least a week to repair it."
Hearing the maintenance time, Dr. Yuri was slightly relieved: "One week? It doesn't matter. One week is just one week. Anyway, we need to study the data generated by this collision experiment now."
"I will do my best to repair it and try to restore it to normal as soon as possible."
"Thank you for your hard work!"
"You are so polite, Doctor. This is our job."
In fact, before this collision experiment, the evaluation team predicted possible problems.
After all, with tens of billions of collisions per second, and the energy carried by protons is very high, heat accumulation is definitely unavoidable.
It is also expected that atomic-level holes would be created in the vacuum pipes by various particles.
Especially those micro black holes, although they evaporated instantly, some of the micro black holes close to the tube wall still caused some atoms to be torn out in an instant.
At this moment, a maintenance worker appeared in front of Wu Dongling in a hurry: "Team leader, I found something."
"What did you find?"
"Take a look at this."
Wu Dongling looked at the test report, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes: "A large amount of heavy elements appeared."
This large amount is actually not large. According to the magnetic field detection data, 830,000 gold atoms and 1.28 million rhodium elements appeared in the vacuum pipe after the collision experiment.
You should know that this collision experiment lasted for 30 minutes, with an average of tens of billions of collisions per second, which produced so many heavy elements.
This number is actually very large for this experiment.
Dr. Yuri, who was not far away, also received the test report.
Another researcher seemed to know about this situation: "Is this the technical principle of the element manufacturing technology of the intelligent machine civilization?"
"Well, it's the element manufacturing technology, but ours is at the laboratory level and has not yet reached the industrial mass production level." Dr. Yuri also knows this technology.
He had not been very clear about the technological situation of the intelligent mechanical civilization before, but during the more than three months of construction of the Mars ring, he made up for the relevant technology and physics knowledge about the intelligent mechanical civilization.
Among them is element manufacturing technology.
This technology uses proton collision equipment, adopts specific magnetic fields and electric fields, and then produces a large number of micro black holes, injects other light elements, and uses fleeting micro black holes and light elements to create heavy elements.
Intelligent civilization has achieved the artificial synthesis of heavy elements after iron, and can produce them on a large scale.
The reason why this technology was developed is very simple, because the distribution of elements in the universe is extremely uneven, and the total amount of each element in the universe decreases by a factor from light to heavy.
The content of hydrogen in the universe accounts for more than half of the total visible matter in the universe, and helium accounts for about a quarter.
The top 10 light elements account for almost 99% of the visible matter in the universe.
As a result, many civilizations have to face a problem in the process of development, that is, the lack of heavy elements.
If it is an element before iron, it can also be produced through controlled nuclear fusion, because controlled nuclear fusion can fuse to the iron element stage.
However, elements after iron are only produced in supernova explosions or after the death of massive stars.
Heavy elements such as gold are also rare metals in the universe, which is determined by the laws of cosmic physics.
The gold mine that the Sapiens company discovered underground in Antarctica before is almost an inexhaustible resource according to the standards of Level Zero civilization.
However, after entering the first-level civilization, the gold mine can only be mined for about 200 years at most. This is still the case if the company uses it economically and recycles some of the gold in the waste.
Currently, Sapiens uses 5,000 to 7,000 tons of gold every month.
Fortunately, Venus and Mercury are also rich in gold, and several asteroids rich in heavy elements have been discovered in the asteroid belt.
Different stages of civilization have different demands for resources.
Before humans left the Earth, several thousand tons of gold were enough for related industries to use. However, in the space age, this amount of gold is really not enough.
The intelligent mechanical civilization initially encountered the problem of scarcity of heavy element resources, and finally developed the technology for synthesizing heavy elements.
Although this technology requires a huge amount of energy, it can obtain some rare elements. The pros and cons depend on the importance of the demand.
If a certain technology is very important, but the element is very rare, then the technology that creates the element is naturally valuable.
For example, the gold-based thermoelectric materials currently used in large quantities by Sapiens are no less important than nuclear fusion power generation technology.
After all, nuclear fusion power generation systems can only generate heat energy, while gold-based thermoelectric materials can convert 99.9% of heat energy into electrical energy. The importance of this technology is very high.
After all, the higher the thermal efficiency of power generation, the less energy waste.
At this stage, the heavy metals in the solar system are barely sufficient, but in the future Sapiens will definitely set foot in other planetary systems and even the vast Milky Way.
By then, the inherent problem of scarcity of heavy elements in some planetary systems will be inevitable.
This is where heavy element manufacturing technology comes into play.
Dr. Yuri knew that the company would definitely need this technology as a technical reserve , so he quickly instructed relevant researchers to verify the technology.
He himself is studying the data generated by the experiment.
This collision experiment generated a huge amount of data, and the data was very complex. If they had not mobilized a large part of the supercomputing power of the Mars Colonization Branch, they would not have been able to complete the sorting work in a short time.
Of course, sorting is just preliminary work.
The next step is to sort out the data and find the valuable data.
Among them, data on quarks, neutrinos, micro black holes, and protons are of paramount importance.
Dr. Yuri and his team conducted research for three days and discovered a lot of valuable data, while also verifying some of the physical knowledge of the intelligent mechanical civilization.
However, during the verification process, they discovered that there were some problems with some of the physical rules of the intelligent civilization.
Although these problems do not affect the current technological applications, they involve deep-level physical rules.
If errors occur in these deep-level physical rules, it is very likely to affect the speed at which Homo sapiens can be promoted to a second-level civilization in the future.
