Water Drop, Mother of God's Tears, Strong Interaction Force Cosmic Probe.
These are all its names.
Water Drop is a cosmic probe made of strong interaction force material used by the Trisolaran civilization. Because its shape resembles a water drop, it was called Water Drop by humans.
Its reflectivity to electromagnetic waves is 100%, and it is absolutely smooth, with a temperature at absolute zero.
Its hardness is more than a hundred times that of the hardest materials in the solar system.
Material
Water Drop has a hard, smooth outer shell made of strong interaction force material. The atoms that make it up are nailed together by strong interaction forces, and molecular thermal motion is almost completely stopped, making the surface temperature of Water Drop infinitely close to absolute zero.
Shape
Water Drop is 3.5 meters long and overall looks like a drop of mercury. Its head is round, and its tail is very pointed.
Its surface is an extremely smooth, total reflection mirror, and the Milky Way is reflected on its surface as a smooth light pattern. This makes the mercury drop look pure and beautiful.
Its liquid droplet shape is so lifelike that observers sometimes truly believe it is liquid, and it is impossible to have an internal mechanical structure.
Propulsion method.
Water Drop's propulsion method is different from traditional recoil propulsion, instead using a special "halo".
When Water Drop's engine starts, it will create an extremely bright blue halo at the tip of its tail. At the same time, it is accompanied by extremely strong electromagnetic interference and a super high temperature like the core of the sun.
Due to the work done on Water Drop, the energy of the halo will be continuously consumed, so its radius will rapidly expand, and its temperature will also decrease as energy is consumed, changing from blue to yellow, then to red, and the luminosity is also constantly weakening.
When the radius of the halo expands to about twice the maximum radius of Water Drop, it will completely collapse and disappear, and Water Drop will then create a new halo. The frequency is two to three times per second.
Speed
The halo's thrust is extremely large, and Water Drop only flew 300 kilometers when its speed exceeded the third cosmic velocity.
It can be calculated that its acceleration is about 700 meters/second squared.
Water Drop reached its highest speed of 25,000 kilometers/second while on its way to destroy the gravitational wave emission tower on the ground.
This speed is close to ten percent of the speed of light.
According to calculations, it was accelerating from zero at the same time as the handover of the Swordholder and reached its top speed five minutes after Luo Ji left (actually, it may have taken less time).
Its acceleration is about 85 kilometers/second squared.
Turning
Water Drop's turning not only violates human aerospace dynamics, but also violates the law of conservation of momentum and the law of conservation of angular momentum.
Water Drop's turning trajectory sometimes exhibits an incredible high-speed sharp-angle turn, instead of turning a smooth curve like human spacecraft.
It can also completely turn without slowing down, ignoring the huge overload caused by this action.
Water Drop can even turn directly on the spot without slowing down. When destroying the underground gravitational wave emission tower, Water Drop directly returned along the channel produced by the collision, indicating that Water Drop turned 180 degrees directly underground after destroying the gravitational wave emission tower.
Water Drop can emit strong electromagnetic waves, with intensities and frequencies completely covering all bands that can be amplified by the sun.
This is also the source of Water Drop's blockade of the sun.
Water Drop's power is undeniable, and its hardness, thanks to the strong interaction force material, allows it to easily pierce through the earth like cheese.
Moreover, Tai Hao didn't draw one Water Drop this time, but a whole ten.
The saying "a sudden fortune" perfectly describes Tai Hao's current situation.
It took a long time for Tai Hao to calm down his excited mood, and then he carefully closed the treasure chest.
Then he turned his gaze to the ninth treasure chest.
"How did the bronze treasure chest end up in ninth place?"
Tai Hao was a little puzzled, but still opened this restless treasure chest.
The Large Hadron Collider.
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator, a high-energy physics device that accelerates protons to collide.
It is a ring-shaped accelerator with a circumference of 27 kilometers. For one test, a proton beam was accelerated to 99.9998% of the speed of light.
Large Hadron Collider operating mechanism.
1; Use an ionization tube to ionize the gas and remove electrons from the atomic nucleus, leaving only protons.
2; Use an electric field to push the protons forward in a vacuum pipe, accelerating the proton beam to one-third the speed of light.
3; Send it into a circular booster composed of four pipes, accelerating the protons in the electric field while using a strong magnetic field to keep the proton beam in a curved path. When it reaches a certain speed, the proton beam will be injected into the next larger synchrotron.
In this process, like a rocket boost, the energy is gradually increased, and the proton beam is constantly accelerated. During this process, the energy of the proton will be increased to 450 billion electron volts.
4 Finally, these high-energy particle beams will be injected into the largest ring-shaped orbit of the collider. Through precise injectors, the high-energy particle beams are guided into two opposite orbits. Then they collide with each other at the intersection of the four pipes.
5; Finally, the collision data obtained will be collected by the particle detector.
The Large Hadron Collider can help scientists understand dark matter, antimatter, supersymmetry, and can also simulate the environment at the beginning of the Big Bang, eventually unlocking the mystery of the formation of the universe.
"When I can use the Large Hadron Collider in the future, I must use sophons to interfere with the collision data and experience firsthand the feeling of fundamental physics being blocked."
Tai Hao closed the mountain treasure chest and couldn't help but think of the experience of human civilization in the Trisolaran world, where they were tortured by sophons.
No, it's the Azure civilization now, Trisolaris is too far away, and the Azure civilization is too close to the empire.
"I wonder what the Azure civilization is like after eight years."
Tai Hao said, turning his gaze to the last golden treasure chest.
The tenth treasure chest.
Sophons manufacturing technology.
Tai Hao's eyes widened. Did he make a profit or a loss?
Sophons manufacturing technology is so high-level, but with the empire's current technology, it may not be able to understand it for two hundred years.
There are four technologies required to create sophons.
1; Proton low-dimensional unfolding technology
The Trisolarans' tool for unfolding protons is a giant particle accelerator, and they only succeeded in unfolding a proton into two dimensions on the third attempt after failing twice.
2; The technology of etching circuits on two-dimensional protons
Use strong interaction force related technology to twist the strong interaction force of the local part of the two-dimensional unfolded proton to form circuits.
3; The technology of re-folding the two-dimensionally unfolded proton into higher dimensions
This technology is at least one technological era more advanced than the technology of unfolding protons into lower dimensions.
The Trisolarans can make the two-dimensionally unfolded proton retain the information of its high-dimensional structure, but retaining information is one thing, and re-folding it according to the information is another.
4; The technology that allows the modified proton to perform reversible low-dimensional unfolding and high-dimensional folding itself
This is the most difficult technology.
The brilliance of the Trisolaran scientists lies in the fact that they retain the information of the high-dimensional structure while unfolding the particle into lower dimensions, making the whole process reversible, so that the object that has been lowered in dimension can be raised back to higher dimensions.
This technology is too advanced, and even if it is given to the empire's scientists to study, it is like a heavenly book to them and makes no difference at all.
In the end, this dream-like technology was shelved by Tai Hao,
Only when the empire's technology develops to the level of mastering microscopic dimensions will this super-technology be reactivated.