Chapter 653 Proton Cannon
More than a week later, the Mars ring system, which had been overhauled, was started again.
In this collision experiment, protons will be accelerated to 99.9997% of the speed of light. The energy consumed at this speed is 23 times that of the first collision experiment.
Inside the remote control center of Zhurong City on Mars.
Dr. Yuri, Commander Wu Dongling and others are quietly waiting for the next impact experiment.
"Report, all systems have completed self-checks, and the impact test can begin."
Wu Dongling looked at Dr. Yuri, who nodded. Wu Dongling immediately understood. "Each team, take your positions. 10 seconds countdown."
"Power Team receives..."
"Magnetic Field Team received..."
"Refrigeration..."
10… …6…2…0…
drop!
As the staff members pressed the switches one by one.
In an instant, the proton accelerator system of the Mars ring was injected with huge amounts of energy. The source of this energy came not only from the nuclear power plant of the Mars Colony Branch, but also from the energy city in the asteroid belt.
The electricity of Energy City is transmitted through magnetic monopole crystal and long-distance transmission system.
With a supply of nearly 100 terahertz of electricity per minute, the proton accelerator accelerates hundreds of millions of protons to 99.9997% of the speed of light, which is an extremely terrifying speed.
86 seconds later.
Inside a vacuum tube beneath the surface of Jensen crater at the Martian equator.
Less than one in ten thousand protons collided.
But at that moment.
boom!
Boom boom boom!
Continuous and violent explosions broke out inside the vacuum pipe, instantly tearing the vacuum pipe apart. Then the superconducting coils embedded in the outer layer of the vacuum pipe also exploded.
As these several kilometers of vacuum pipes and superconducting coils were destroyed, the ultra-high-speed protons that lost their magnetic field restraints began to collide madly with the wreckage of the vacuum pipes here.
Boom boom boom…
The violent explosion lasted for more than ten seconds.
In just a dozen seconds, billions of holes of various sizes were left on the surrounding surface. These holes were the energy released when protons collided with other atoms.
With the vacuum pipe near the Jensen crater destroyed, it also meant that this collision experiment had to be stopped.
The second impact experiment lasted only 106 seconds, leaving behind a dense network of holes stretching for about 73 kilometers. These dense holes made the surface here look devastated, as if it had been corroded by countless insects.
Looking at the satellite's monitoring data and the images fed back from the monitoring station near the Johnson Crater at the , Dr. Yuri and others were shocked.
"What terrible destructive power!"
"If this thing is aimed at a spaceship or a battleship, it can completely destroy the spaceship in an instant."
"The speed of light really has unimaginable power."
"Yes! Even if it is a tiny proton, when accelerated downward by an accelerator, as long as its speed exceeds a certain limit, its destructive power will increase dramatically."
In fact, Dr. Yuri and others had already anticipated the possible problems that might arise in the experiment.
After all, this is the law of the universe. When the speed of matter gets closer to the speed of light, the energy it contains will increase exponentially.
Of course, this also means that the energy required to accelerate matter to the corresponding speed is also growing exponentially .
If you want to accelerate a proton to the speed of light, there is no way to do it, even if you consume all the visible matter in the observable universe.
A proton with mass, traveling at the speed of light, has enough destructive power to destroy the entire universe in an instant.
This is the light particle weapon.
Of course, this technology is extremely difficult for a second-level civilization, let alone a first-level civilization like Homo Sapiens. It can basically only be imagined.
However, even if we cannot produce light-speed protons, we can still try a proton cannon that is infinitely close to the speed of light.
Even if this weapon reaches the second-level civilization stage, it still has very strong deterrent and destructive power.
At this stage, as long as the energy level can be increased by about 10,000 times based on the Mars ring particle accelerator, the protons accelerated at that time will be able to destroy the earth in an instant.
In fact, in Zhurong City at this time, there were not only Dr. Yuri and others from the Science Division, but also people from the Military Industry Division, the Space Defense Division, and the Earth Defense Division, who were also quietly inspecting the Mars Ring Accelerator.
Among the technological information on the intelligent mechanical civilization provided by Li Qingye, it is known that the intelligent mechanical civilization has a weapon called "proton cannon".
The power of a proton cannon can be large or small. The most powerful proton cannon created by an intelligent civilization uses a natural black hole as its energy core. It can fire a sub-light-speed proton and instantly destroy a star about four times larger than the sun.
This was also the star-destroying weapon developed during the fierce battle between the intelligent civilization and the quasi-second-level civilization.
Unfortunately, the opponents encountered by the intelligent civilization are too powerful. Although the sub-light-speed proton star destroyer can destroy a medium-sized star with a single proton, the enemy will not wait to die obediently.
Moreover, since the proton star destroyer requires a natural black hole as its energy core, it has no way to move and is basically a sitting duck.
After the early intelligent civilization ambushed the quasi-second-level civilization, the other party was unable to fight back once it reacted.
The power of the Proton Star Destroyer is indeed very strong, but the inability to hide and maneuver, as well as the extremely large accelerator system, are the fatal flaws of the Proton Star Destroyer.
Even if antimatter is used as the energy core, there is no way to miniaturize the proton star destroyer.
Weapon evaluators from the Military Industry Division and several other departments described this weapon as "useless".
It's really useless.
This weapon has a very strong deterrent effect on level one and level zero civilizations, but it poses basically no lethal threat to quasi-level two and level two civilizations.
Even for the current Sapiens company, if it is prepared, the proton star destroyer will not be able to completely destroy it.
As long as the Sapiens Company completes the work of spreading the seeds of civilization and sets up various monitoring stations using magnetic monopole crystal communicators, the Sapiens Company can still survive even if the enemy uses a proton star destroyer to destroy the sun.
And consuming such a huge amount of energy and only using proton star destroyers to destroy low-level first-level civilizations and zero-level civilizations is simply overkill.
It’s just like the current Homo sapiens company.
If the Sapiens company wanted to destroy the earth at this time and use the proton star destroyer, the cost-effectiveness would be too low. It would be better to just drop millions of hydrogen bombs and burn the glass directly.
After all, a proton star destroyer cannon capable of destroying the Earth consumes 500 million terawatt-hours of electricity, while the free world on Earth can only generate 28 terawatt-hours of electricity a year.
There is no comparison between the two. Sapiens would be crazy to choose to use the proton star destroyer to destroy the earth.
