Volume 3 Chapter 56: Confirmed, Humans Did It
For Lin Xu, discovering this transaction was an unexpected event.
Learning about the existence of chaos energy was also an unexpected event.
Although this helped Lin Xu solve many mysteries, it also led to more mysteries.
After calming down, Lin Xu temporarily stopped caring about the chaotic energy and continued to do what he should do.
As the saying goes, look up at the stars and keep your feet on the ground.
Lin Xu believed that one day he would know the truth about the chaotic energy and human voyages.
What we should do now is to investigate this asteroid belt according to the original plan to see if we can find any traces of human remains.
It would be great if we could pick up something.
Lin Xu believed that humans would do some research on their way here from Test Site Planet No. 1.
As for the captured Mali Republic troops and the temporary caravan of half-merchants and half-interstellar bandits, Lin Xu has not yet figured out how to deal with them.
So just keep it closed for now. It won’t hurt to keep it closed for a few more days anyway.
Lin Xu planned to deal with them after he finished his important business.
In this way, countless autonomous machines were dispatched to search the asteroid belt and even the entire galaxy.
A few days later, the clue was found.
An asteroid fragment with an extremely irregular shape, about the size of a mountain.
There was a faint signal coming continuously from inside, which was the standby signal of the autonomous machine.
When an autonomous machine is in standby mode, it is not completely locked and does not interact with the outside world at all.
If it is completely locked , it will not be able to receive the startup command.
An autonomous machine in standby mode simply pauses its activities, but there will still be a weak quantum encryption signal inside it, always keeping in touch with the outside world, waiting to receive commands.
Such quantum encryption signals can only be detected by other autonomous machines of the same Earth civilization.
This is also the reason why Lin Xu can easily find the autonomous mechanical aggregates on standby in the two galaxies ahead.
This time, it was also an autonomous mechanical aggregate responsible for the search that discovered the breath of its own kind hidden in the asteroid fragments. No, it was a quantum signal.
So, with Lin Xu's authorization, Yinghuo immediately issued an order to restart the autonomous mechanical aggregate buried in the asteroid fragments.
Then, with the help of other autonomous mechanical aggregates, the autonomous mechanical aggregate that had been deeply embedded in the asteroid fragments was dug out.
Yinghuo also read the database of the autonomous mechanical aggregate.
According to the records in the database, Lin Xu finally knew who had blown this Earth-like planet into pieces.
That’s right, it was done by humans ten thousand years ago.
Of course, humans ten thousand years ago were not idle, so blowing up a planet for fun was a reason.
After all, it's for scientific experiments.
However, this experiment failed.
Humankind’s mastery of controlled nuclear fusion technology has reached a level of perfection and can be used at will.
When humans arrived at this Earth-like planet ten thousand years ago, after nearly a thousand years of development, controlled nuclear fusion technology was no longer what it was when it first set sail from Earth.
Although it is still called controlled nuclear fusion technology, it is like the difference between the first generation of computers and later computers. People who don’t understand it can no longer tell that the two are essentially the same thing.
The world's first computer in 1946 used 18,000 vacuum tubes, occupied an area of 170 square meters, weighed 30 tons, and could perform 5,000 calculations per second.
Think about the supercomputers that came later, which have computing speeds of 100 trillion times per second.
That’s right, it’s not 10 billion, it’s 10 billion billion.
Both of them are computers, but the difference between them is simply immeasurable.
The humans who arrived here ten thousand years ago have achieved a level of control over controlled nuclear fusion that was unimaginable to the humans who had just set sail.
Miniaturization of nuclear fusion is no longer a problem, even miniaturization is no longer a problem.
That’s right, miniaturization.
Just like integrating vacuum tubes and shrinking them onto a tiny chip, there are tens of billions of transistors on a chip.
At that time, humans had already achieved controlled nuclear fusion and made it the size of a battery.
Not a nuclear fuel cell, but a real, battery-sized fusion nuclear power plant.
The so-called nuclear fuel cells simply utilize the heat-emitting rays continuously released by isotopes during the decay process and convert them into electrical energy for use.
But what about a nuclear power plant the size of a battery? It is a place as small as a battery that performs atomic transformation reactions.
This releases enormous energy.
It can be said that the energy generated by a small fusion cell is roughly equivalent to tens of thousands of times the total power generation of nuclear power plants in the world in the first half of the 21st century.
It's just a tiny fusion battery.
Sounds like a myth, right? Incredible, right? But think about the supercomputers in 1946 that could perform 5,000 calculations per second, and then think about the supercomputers in the 21st century that could perform 100 petaflops per second. Isn't it even more mythical? Even more incredible?
It is precisely this huge difference in energy levels that can support the astronomical energy consumption of 100,000 curvature engines on Earth.
However, even so, humans are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the energy produced by controlled nuclear fusion.
Human beings need more advanced energy.
As a result, humans have increased their research efforts on antimatter annihilation and vacuum zero-point energy.
This planet was accidentally blown up by humans while they were studying the energy produced by antimatter annihilation.
Of course, this planet was not blown up in vain.
Human beings have therefore come to a conclusion.
The energy generated by antimatter annihilation is difficult to contain and is easier to use as a weapon than as an energy source.
It's like a nuclear bomb. After triggering the chain reaction, just throw it out.
However, it is much more difficult to contain the energy of a nuclear bomb and use it as a nuclear power plant.
But no matter how difficult it is, we have to go on.
In fact, the most ideal source of energy is vacuum zero-point energy, which is stable, gentle, and inexhaustible. Unfortunately, even with the technological level of humans ten thousand years ago, it was far from being able to extract quantum fluctuation energy from the vacuum out of thin air.
Antimatter annihilation is easy to deal with. We just need to extract the antimatter , make it annihilate in reality, and then find a method to collect the energy generated by the antimatter annihilation.
Just like the way nuclear power plants use nuclear energy.
Although it is difficult, there is always a way.
After all, humans have a large amount of chaotic energy, and can use a high-dimensional perspective to "see" where the road ahead lies. They will not go astray in research and just need to proceed step by step.
However, the research on vacuum zero-point energy is much more troublesome.
Moreover, because the end point is too far away, even with the help of a high-dimensional perspective, we cannot "see" where the end point is for the time being, and we may go astray in the research. We can only slowly explore and wait for further development of science and technology. When human accumulation is sufficient and we can "see" the future of vacuum zero-point energy research, then it will be much easier.
But now, after humans blew up this Earth-like planet, they concluded that the confined collection of antimatter annihilation energy is easier to achieve, according to this experimental result.
We applied more resources to the research on the confinement and collection of antimatter annihilation energy, and finally achieved results.
Successfully developed the first generation of antimatter annihilation energy confinement and collection device for mankind.
