Chapter 966 Coffin
This young planet is filled with dark clouds, which are a quilt composed of strong greenhouse gases and smog. They cover the planet tightly, locking all the heat inside, making the temperature on the planet's surface extremely extreme. Extremely hot.
Fortunately, the Boundless Tribe have strong bodies and can easily survive in this environment, and even babies will not be harmed.
Many, many years ago, the boundless race's physical bodies were not so powerful, and they were just ordinary earth-eating residents.
But they abandoned their home planet, left the ground, and came to the stars.
This choice is like the primitive lobe-finned fish choosing to leave the sea and go to land, opening a new chapter of life and civilization. They naturally said goodbye to their primitive bodies.
Through natural evolution, prosthetic transformation, and genetic engineering, their bodies have become able to adapt to the environment of almost all planets in the universe. As long as it is a planet, they can directly physically land on it without relying on any equipment.
At the same time, they can also eat most known substances, including the entire periodic table of elements.
This allows them to roam freely in most parts of the universe as a ship civilization without having to worry about their own survival.
The city of Reading landed on flat ground, and tens of thousands of 'escalators' stretched out.
The citizens of Reading used the escalators to reach the surface of the planet.
There is no lava on the leveled ground, so you can walk on it as you like.
Only occasionally would a ray of sunlight shine through the clouds of methane and dust, shining on the hull of the ship in Redding, shining brightly on the silvery white metal.
Arbor came to the ground, and a hover car was ejected from the engine room of the Reading. He got on it and quickly rushed towards his destination.
As for Leleidi, she is taking care of the eggs and will not participate.
In fact, Abel was also ready to eject. The light speed engine in Reading City was not shut down. As long as there were any 'unfavorable factors', he would immediately let the spacecraft run away.
He can just stay on his own. It's better for Leleidi not to take any risks.
As for other employees...
If they are not allowed to come down and move around freely, it will probably make the group wary, right? Including himself, it is necessary to let some people disembark, so as to show that he trusts the group.
Abo quickly arrived inside the group's ship and came to the office of the group's actual controller, the 'ship owner'.
Arriving at the ship owner's office, this man who looked about the same age as Abel, but was actually more than a thousand years older than Abel, was processing reports.
He was sitting in his office, flipping through the pile of routine reports on his desk that were waiting for his review.
He flipped through the pages carelessly and glanced at the charts in the appendix. These reports were related to the interests and future of many people in the group, but he was not interested at the moment.
He just scrawled his name on the signature line and threw the document into a tray with the words "read and ready to send" written on it.
Obviously, he was absent-minded. As the captain of the ship, his mood was in other aspects at the moment.
"Captain." Abel came here.
The captain immediately stood up, walked to Abel, and welcomed him with open arms: "Welcome, my great scientist! You are here."
Then, his eyes did not stay on Abel, but looked unabashedly at the prototype behind Abel.
His eyes were fixed on it, with uncontrollable joy in his eyebrows. He leaned forward and looked at that great machine from the beginning, a super scanner that could accurately scan the subatomic level and perform structural modeling.
It is impossible for a machine to even scan an electron cloud.
He looked at it very carefully, not missing every part.
After reading it, he did not talk to Abel, but picked up the introductory paper next to the prototype and systematically read the entire paper in detail. During the process, she would stop from time to time and use the personal calculator next to her to verify From the calculation results reported in this paper, it is obvious that he is also doing feasibility verification.
After doing all this——
"This is simply unheard of. Can this thing really scan the position of protons?" He couldn't help but ask Abel.
"No, the uncertainty principle determines that these particles cannot be accurately observed in nature, but... the possible range of their wave functions can indeed be located." Aber explained.
Through three synchronously intersecting force fields, it is indeed possible to locate microscopic substances, perfectly find out their material properties, and completely reproduce the structure of the material itself.
"That's enough. Can this thing be used now? I'm going to use it right away. This is the purpose of the group asking you to come." The ship owner said to Abel.
After saying that, he immediately started his action, without waiting for Abo to say that he could use it.
Because it is not necessary, this thing must be usable, and Abel must agree.
This is what made Abo come here in such a hurry.
The captain quickly entered a string of codes, and a figure appeared on the screen. That was the captain's assistant.
"It will be ready in twenty minutes." The assistant said, as if he had already anticipated what questions the boss would ask. "The ruins will be restored to stability immediately."
"Okay, Uncle, get ready," the captain said.
At this time, Abo finally had a chance to speak out. He said, "Captain, so... what exactly do you want me to bring the prototype to do?"
"Oh, yes, I should have told you earlier." The captain said, speaking a little faster than usual: "Take a look at this report, read it carefully, and then you will know why."
Abo took the report and began to read.
However, after he read halfway, he showed a surprised expression.
The expression on his face changed, and he began to read every word of the report carefully!
"This... mysterious substance." Abo muttered to himself, not asking anyone, but talking to himself, trying to convince himself.
"Impossible...Unprecedented properties, wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant, can even carry and resist neutron degenerate matter, and an incredibly high melting point. To be honest, I would never believe it if I didn't test it myself. This report is like a fake."
The ship owner was also very happy. He knew that Abe would definitely realize the power of this mysterious substance. He patted Abe on the shoulder and said, "That's right! Compared with this thing, the alloy we are using now is just like paper!"
"Whether it is hardness, toughness, tensile strength, shear resistance, or corrosion resistance, it all exceeds our alloys in all aspects. This thing doesn't even have metal fatigue...Fake, right? Did you read the fake report?" Abe looked at the ship owner with disbelief on his face.
Although the Boundless Clan actually communicates with the mind, lying is a difficult thing and requires self-hypnosis training, but Abe is still worried about being deceived.
You know, different alloys have different properties. Some are wear-resistant, some are shear-resistant, some are hard, some are tough, and some are memory metals that can restore the crystal structure in certain situations, thereby restoring damage.
By combining the alloys of different parts, calculating the load-bearing capacity of each part, determining that the parts of a certain part need certain properties to work properly, and then combining all the components together, it is considered the alloy composition of a whole machine.
A complex machine may require dozens of alloys, each with different properties.
If it is a huge ship like the "Reading City" that is 900 miles long, even millions of different alloys will be used, which can cope with various extreme environments, and must be able to support the huge weight of the hull and the uneven acceleration at certain times. At that time, the tearing is very strong, and sufficient tensile alloys need to be added to each link. If the tensile performance is not enough, it cannot accelerate.
Even if the tensile resistance is enough, it depends on the heat resistance of the metal at the engine. If the melting point is too low, the heat emitted when the engine is running will melt the engine itself, and the output energy will naturally be restricted. Both must be met at the same time to make the spacecraft fly fast enough.
Or skip the acceleration of the working fluid engine and directly use the gravity of the cosmic string to accelerate, but in that case, it must withstand strong shear force, which is a huge test for the toughness of the parts of each structure.
It can be said that it is not the structure but the material that restricts the performance of the spacecraft.
As long as the material can withstand it, it doesn't matter what the structure is like.
And now, what is in front of them is a super material. Although they don't know what it is, according to this report, this metal... has all the properties and surpasses all the materials they know.
"But the neutron absorption cross section is even lower than tungsten..." Abo exclaimed in surprise.
"Macroscopically speaking, yes - less than one millimeter per square centimeter." The ship owner reminded.
"Interesting..." Abo looked at the report, pondered for a moment, and spoke faster when he spoke again: "In addition, how did you test the super corrosion resistance of this material?"
The ship owner seemed to have expected this question a long time ago. He replied: "We used high-temperature carbon dioxide, fluoride, 60 kinds of organic acids, and strong acid extracted from the body of the "monster", hypochlorite - anyway, we tried everything we could think of and get."
The so-called "acid" is actually the ability to provide hydrogen ions to other substances, and the substance in front of us does not accept this change at all.
"Generally speaking, there will be an initial reaction at the beginning. However, this material will immediately form an inert isolation layer, and the reaction will stop. To decompose this isolation layer, it may be necessary to design a series of reagents to act on the alloy in stages in a specific order. However, to complete this work, a special processing device must be built for it, that is to say... In the natural environment, this material will hardly corrode. Even the blood of the monster we encountered last time, which can melt through the earth's crust with one drop, can't hurt this thing."
"As for the microstructure of this material," the ship owner said, pointing to the report in the old man's hand: "You see, this thing seems to be formed around a structure similar to a microcrystalline lattice. We don't know the main components of this lattice, but we can detect some high-density titanium-magnesium composites in some parts. At present, we cannot determine the number of these composites. We have never seen such a substance."
"If you want to find out the specific structure of these substances, you need to use your machine. Is your prototype usable now?" The ship owner looked at the old man and said so.
His eyes were so enthusiastic that he had completely forgotten that he came to this place with caution.
Just five minutes ago, Abo was still worried that the ship owner would kill him here.
However, now it seems that he is still the chief scientist of the ship owner, and the other party called him here just to figure out the composition of this mysterious substance.
Once the composition of this substance is figured out, there is no doubt that all the ships of civilization can be recast. As the most basic and important applied discipline, the breakthrough of materials science will drive the rapid development of the entire civilization!
Experiments that could not be done before can be done, feeding back scientific theories, various new breakthroughs, and various new topics.
This is also true for production and application links.
It is like the primitive life forms that evolved from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Just having the ability to smelt iron can produce a leap-forward ability.
And when the ability of "iron smelting" becomes a "steel mill", it can even run directly into the industrial age.
After "steel" becomes various "special alloys", the industrial age will enter the "space age", and even after various super materials appear, it is not impossible to enter the "interstellar age".
This is the importance of materials.
And now, in front of them is a kind of incredible super material that cannot be described by current theories, a material that surpasses neutron degenerate state matter and is very light.
As long as it is analyzed, the group will become the leader of civilization, can lead the entire civilization forward within a thousand years, and even become one of the "super civilizations".
According to what Abel knows, one characteristic of becoming a super civilization is that it can travel faster than the speed of light and break through the barriers of the "observable universe".
Or according to the civilization called "Witch", it is called "fourth grade".
"The prototype is ready. Although there is still a power limit now, I have not been able to solve the problem of stable energy supply and heat dissipation, so I can only continue to scan for 30 seconds before it will be overloaded and shut down, but only five seconds is enough to crack our most dense matter. Thirty seconds, I think it should be enough." Abel said excitedly.
"Then do it, take the prototype, I will take you to the place where this material is mined, don't be shocked when you go there." The owner said.
"What do you mean?" Abel was curious.
The ship owner said: "This material was found in a coffin at the North Pole of this planet."