Chapter 417 Alice Ring

There is a saying: If quantum theory violates our common sense, it is only because nature does not seem to care much about our common sense.

Therefore, in scientific research, scientists are not afraid of experiments or theoretical descriptions that are inconsistent with common sense. After all, the so-called inconsistent with common sense is just human common sense and does not mean it is wrong.

As far as mankind knows so far, some things that humans think are contrary to common sense may be normal to Nair people, Kuntai people, and kobolds.

The laws of the universe are there, but they are difficult for humans to understand and feel counterintuitive.

The same is true for many magical phenomena.

And today, many years later, a scientific team has found a way to create something with magical phenomena. Oh no, it seems more appropriate to call it a physical existence.

A scientific research team specializing in the field of Bose-Einstein condensed matter rediscovered this physical existence, and used the superb means of human true nanotechnology to create the first stable physical existence in eight years.

This physical existence has a beautiful name, called Alice Ring.

Why do you say it was found again?

The answer is very simple and very sad. That's because as early as the earth's era, human scientists created the Alice Ring. Although it only existed for 84 milliseconds, it was a breakthrough from scratch.

However, these data were swept away with the cosmic dust along with the earth when the solar system was destroyed, and the original Callisto base was not established as a comprehensive database, so the Callisto base did not create Alice at all. Scientific data on rings.

There weren’t even any scientists who were researching in related fields at the time, which resulted in people never hearing the name. Some lay scientists only learned about the magic of the Alice Ring during their studies. Other than that, , very little is known about the manufacturing method and discovery method of Alice Ring.

There is no accurate scientific data at all.

Later, after the surviving humans set foot on the stars, due to the sparse population, the new government was committed to focusing all scientific research efforts on technological exploration that would allow humans to survive in the stars.

Although mankind has been lucky enough to survive in the stars, and some technologies have developed over a long period of time to surpass the age of the earth, there is still a lot of scientific data, research stage results, etc., which have disappeared in history.

The relevant scientific research information on Alice Ring is one of them.

So when the scientific research team announced that they had successfully created a stable Alice ring, many scientists didn't know what it was for a while.

After all, the name sounds like a certain ring of a girl named Alice.

When the news was released, many human residents thought at first glance that someone made a bracelet and gave it to a woman named Alice. At the second glance, these people saw the message from the physics agency and realized Seems like a physical achievement.

On the contrary, the leader Yue Yuan reacted as soon as he heard the news and knew that it was a magical thing in the physical world. Of course, he didn't know exactly how magical it was at the time. After all, he had only heard about the Alice Ring a few times from Yi Kai, a post-00s generation.

As for Yi Kai, his major is biology. He only remembers hearing some news about the Alice Ring at a certain time. He doesn't understand the technical parameters and manufacturing methods.

This can be regarded as a lack of technology after losing the earth.

So what is an Alice ring?

It starts in 2023 AD. At the end of that year, Finnish scientists created a strange quantum object for the first time by manipulating hundreds of thousands of extremely cold atoms. They named it the Alice ring. An Alice ring is a ring-like topological defect object that has the property of changing quantum objects that pass through or see through it.

At that time, scientists first put 250,000 rubidium atoms into a vacuum chamber, and then used lasers to irradiate these rubidium atomic gases prepared in a non-magnetic state to slow down their natural movement.

In this case, all rubidium atoms behave as one large quantum object, and because these rubidium atoms themselves have the quantum property of spin, this large quantum object is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields.

And under such extreme conditions, they observed monopoles.

Well, it is a monopole, not a magnetic monopole. It is a pole with only a single charge.

The Alice Ring has an obvious feature. Looking out from the center of the ring, everything is mirrored, as if the ring is leading to the antimatter world. Any monopole passing through it will be converted into the opposite magnetic charge.

Fantastic.

Its theoretical basis is the spontaneously broken non-Abelian gauge theory.

So now that human scientists have rediscovered and created a stable Alice ring, what is its use?

Regarding this issue, the current researchers are introducing it to Yue Yuan who came over to understand the situation.

"General, this Alice ring is actually a strange ring created by the Bose-Einstein condensate. It is a special vortex ring. Its essence is a ring formed by a closed cosmic string. It acts as a kind of charge conjugation 'mirror'."

"Yes!" Yue Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood, and then motioned for the researcher to continue.

"Electromagnetism and electricity are inseparable. Electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity." The researcher continued: "Our research team believes that this property of the Alice loop may be related to the phase transition of the early universe. The black holes and singularities we know in the macroscopic universe are all macroscopic manifestations of single magnetic poles."

"After obtaining a stable Alice loop, we conducted various test experiments on it, such as passing a magnetic pole through it, passing an Alice loop through another Alice loop, etc. These experiments provide us with a large amount of data about the Alice loop.

After years of research, we believe that this property of the Alice loop may be used to create a magnetic propulsion engine based on magnetic field interaction."

"Magnetic propulsion?"

"Yes!" The researcher replied: "The Alice loop is an unusual topological defect. It can transform a monopole into an anti-monopole, like a mirror image, and can also instantly transform a magnetic field into an opposite magnetic field."

"Does it mean that two opposite magnetic fields can be used to form reverse thrust?" Yue Yuan pondered.

"That's right!" The answer was from another researcher.

"But, if this method is feasible, where is the point of force of the magnetic field used for boosting? You can't just step on your left foot and get into the air with your right foot." Yue Yuan was a little confused.

In his opinion, the so-called thruster must have something ejected from the thruster nozzle, so that it can provide the spacecraft connected to the thruster with forward power, and this magnetic push can't push the magnetic field backwards!

What about the pushable magnetic field? Can the magnetic field be pushed? No, it is not a thing, it is a field.

And the opposite magnetic fields attract each other, right? Do we have to install the thruster on the head of the spacecraft, or do we have to make some designs for this thruster structure based on the Alice ring?

Yue Yuan looked at the researchers in front of him suspiciously, as if to confirm whether they were joking. In short, the first feeling this statement gives people is that you can ascend to the sky by stepping on your left foot and your right foot.

It's very counterintuitive.