Chapter 83 Weapon Research

The discussion ended in silence, and everyone walked out with heavy faces. Even the optimists were no exception. Dr. Rambo looked worried and hurried back to the Tesla Institute.

Anyway, as long as it is a discussion about the universe, there is one conclusion that is necessarily correct: that is, the universe is too great and humans are too small.

Yu Yifeng participated in this kind of discussion for the first time, and he was particularly stimulated and very unhappy. Although he was unhappy, he couldn't vent his frustration on others, so he just kept frowning.

He was thinking about the war of civilizations. Prepare for a rainy day, this is the quality that a leader must have. If you wait until the war comes to prepare, it will be too late.

What weapons do humans have now? Except for nuclear bombs that can symbolically protect themselves, it is almost the same as bare hands.

Old weapons such as machine guns, mortars, and missiles are good for dealing with their own people, but they are scum in cosmic wars.

Laser weapons and electromagnetic pulse weapons can be considered for research and development. Although they will not have much power with the existing technology of mankind, they are also future research directions.

The United States and Russia have studied laser weapons. Their power is barely enough to destroy a space satellite. But this power is too small on a cosmic scale. Yu Yifeng does not think that this weapon will have any qualitative changes in just a few years...

As for electromagnetic pulse weapons, there is no particularly good progress for the time being. It requires too much energy.

So, the most important thing is the nuclear bomb! Although it flies slowly, is easy to intercept, and has various defects, it is still the most powerful means of attack for humans.

Nuclear bombs, especially hydrogen bombs, are a weapon that can theoretically increase its power infinitely.

But due to technical and political reasons, peace has become an eternal development theme, and human nuclear bomb technology has almost stagnated in the 21st century. Until now, the strongest nuclear bomb that humans can make is a helium-3 nuclear bomb with a yield of one billion tons!

For humans, the raw material of helium-3 nuclear bombs, "helium-3", is still a scarce resource. Humans have obtained one or two thousand tons of helium-3 from the moon. It is completely enough for the current situation, but it is not very sufficient in the long run.

There is no way to replenish it once it is used up!

A nuclear bomb with a yield of one billion tons sounds exaggerated, but it is really nothing in interstellar wars. Yu Yifeng knows this very well.

How big a nuclear bomb is needed to destroy the earth?

In the past, humans kept saying that nuclear war could destroy the earth ten times. This statement is simply ridiculous. All 37,000 nuclear warheads of humans on the earth are equivalent to tens of billions of tons of TNT, which can't hurt the earth at all.

The Chicxulub meteorite impact led to the extinction of dinosaurs, releasing energy equivalent to 120 trillion tons of TNT, but for the earth, it just added a scar.

120 trillion tons! Ten thousand times the amount of all nuclear weapons, just one more scar, you can imagine how huge the earth is and how difficult it is to blow it up.

However, 37,000 nuclear bombs of mankind can completely destroy the global ecological environment and make mankind extinct ten times. This statement is basically correct.

But what does the destruction of mankind have to do with the destruction of the earth? Can humans represent the earth?

Therefore, Yu Yifeng clearly knew how terrifying it was to have alien weapons that could blow the earth apart...

Okay, I don't want to think that far, but he is indeed eager to study more powerful and violent weapons. He already had an idea in his mind, that is: a nuclear bomb that uses ordinary hydrogen elements for fusion.

Hydrogen elements are the most common and most abundant elements in the universe, accounting for more than 90% of the total elements in the universe. If these ordinary hydrogen elements can be used to make nuclear bombs, then their equivalent and output can be greatly improved, and there is no need to worry about raw materials!

Such a nuclear bomb is called a tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb, and it is also the most powerful and ultimate nuclear bomb!

Conventional nuclear bombs require rare elements such as deuterium and tritium. These rare elements are very difficult to obtain and require industrial production. The energy consumption is very large, and the output cannot be increased at all.

Moreover, tritium is a radioactive element, and its half-life is only 12.43 years, which is too short. In other words, such a nuclear bomb cannot be preserved for a long time.

The helium-3 nuclear bomb invented by Professor Ding Yidong is more advanced and violent. Moreover, helium-3 is extracted from the moon, which is almost ready-made and has relatively low industrial consumption for humans.

However, the amount of helium-3 is still too small. Once it is used up, it will be gone, and humans cannot replenish it.

Therefore, Yu Yifeng is considering simply researching a stronger and more versatile tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb!

Inside the core of the sun, four hydrogen nuclei are constantly fusing into one helium nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. This reaction is called tetrahydrogen fusion, which is also the main source of energy for the sun.

The principle of the tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb is similar to the reaction process inside the core of the sun. It also fuses four hydrogen atoms into one helium nucleus and releases a large amount of energy. The process does not require deuterium, tritium, or helium-3, but only ordinary hydrogen elements.

Therefore, the tetrahydrogen nuclear bomb completely solves the problem of raw materials, and the output and equivalent can be infinitely expanded. It can be said to be the strongest and ultimate nuclear bomb!

However, why don't people study tetrahydrogen nuclear bombs, but instead study deuterium and tritium hydrogen bombs?

Because it is really too difficult. Think about it. Ordinary nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction between two atomic nuclei. However, a four-hydrogen nuclear bomb requires four hydrogen nuclei to collide together at the same time! The difficulty has more than doubled? More than a hundred times!

Of course, this kind of super weapon cannot be issued by Yu Yifeng with just a slap on the head. It also requires everyone to discuss it...

Upon hearing the news, several people in the security department were gearing up and excited to death. Humanity finally had an imaginary enemy, and there would also be new types of weapons and equipment. Laser weapons and electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons are so advanced and awesome just thinking about them! Zhao Yao's dark face kept trembling and he roared excitedly. As a result, Xu Yunjin slapped him with a big mouth. "Be quiet!"

Xu Yunjin was actually extremely excited, but he didn't show it. After being an official for this period of time, he also knew that he had to be a bit dignified and could not show happiness and anger on his face like Zhao Yao.

"I'll come in later, don't embarrass me!"

"yes!"

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This was a small meeting, attended only by Chief Yu Yifeng, a few people from the Security Department, and several heads of large research institutes. Let's discuss the feasibility of tetrahydrogen nuclear bombs, laser weapons, and electromagnetic weapons.

Professor Ding Yidong looked at Yu Yifeng's request with half enthusiasm and half worry: "The four-hydrogen nuclear bomb... this is really difficult."

"In the core of the sun, the temperature is as high as 15 million degrees, and the pressure is equivalent to 300 billion atmospheres. The temperature is not a problem, but we humans cannot do this kind of powerful pressure..."

300 billion atmospheres is really an exaggeration. The highest pressure before a hydrogen bomb explodes is only 1 million atmospheres... "Perhaps, we can reduce the pressure demand by raising the temperature." Ding Yidong frowned and thought. .

"Yes……"

Dr. Felix nodded and said: "As the temperature rises, the pressure required for nuclear reactions will definitely decrease. But we don't have such a function model yet. Even if we use helium-3 nuclear bombs with the highest reaction temperature, we don't know whether it is feasible..."

Seeing that many scientists fell silent, even Ding Yidong, who had always been keen on weapons research, did not speak. Yu Yifeng felt that he had thought of things too simply. This ultimate nuclear bomb was not that easy.

If it were easy, the human government would have already done research on the earth, so why wait until now?

He immediately said: "Well, there is no need to rush the research on the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb for the time being. I am just mentioning it here to get it started. Let's go back and think about any good plans. There is no special time limit."

Everyone nodded in unison. During this period, they still have to study automated production. Wild Wolf is working on super trains and Tesla is working on excavators. The task is really heavy. Maybe I can think about this issue again later when I have some free time.

"By the way, the laser weapons and electromagnetic weapons you mentioned shouldn't be a big problem..." Ding Yidong suddenly said: "Previous countries have studied it, and they are quite restricted in the atmosphere, and their lethality is really impressive. Destroying a car is just so-so if it is used in a space battlefield..."

Ding Yidong smiled and did not say any more. What he meant was that Yu Yifeng should not have high expectations in the end.

"There is no way. This kind of high-speed weapon must be a tendency of space warfare. We can only start from small to large." Yu Yifeng shook his head and said: "Without research, there will be no development... Please everyone."