The Wandering Planet

After introducing the manufacturing principle of the strong interaction force material, Ding Yi suddenly turned around and said:

"By the way, Qiao Lv, guess how heavy this thing is?"

This really stumped Qiao Li. If you think about it carefully, you will know that the ratio of the nucleus to the atom is equivalent to the ratio of the size of an ant to the size of a stadium. Compressing matter to such a degree, the density must be beyond imagination. .

"I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of tons?" Qiao Lu asked hesitantly, he was really not sure about the number.

Shen Huabei on the side shook his head and said, "It's far more than that! Let's put it this way, its weight is equivalent to a planetary engine!"

Qiao Lv couldn't help taking a breath. The metal sphere in front of him was only about the size of a flint in a planetary engine, but it contained the weight of the entire planetary engine?

"You mean, the Earth Cannon fires a planetary engine!?"

Ding Yi replied: "You can put it this way, if you want to talk about the cost, the resources consumed may be even more."

So far, the Wandering Earth has unlocked multiple uses of planetary engines, but it is a bit of a test of imagination to compress planetary engines into shells and shoot them out.

"You guys are so insane!" Qiao Lv sighed.

Launching the entire planetary engine as a cannonball, the kinetic energy is so terrifying that it is unimaginable. Indeed, only the earth cannon can do such an exaggerated thing.

Among other things, throwing this metal sphere at the earth now is probably enough to destroy the entire earth, and there is no need to launch it at all.

Qiao Li asked: "It will pass through the earth like a bullet through cheese."

"Ahem, I think it's even scarier than this." Ding Yi replied:

"As I just said, its surface is maintained at absolute zero because the molecular vibrations have completely disappeared. But it also means that if the energy generated by the outside world is large enough, it is still possible to re-vibrate its molecules .”

"So when it hits a planet at a high speed, the huge kinetic energy generated by the impact, and the high temperature and pressure when passing through the center of the earth will make the molecules on its surface vibrate again, and then a chain reaction will spread throughout the entire sphere—"

When he heard the chain reaction, Qiao Li knew what was going to happen.

When the atomic nucleus gets rid of the strong interaction force and splits into multiple atomic nuclei, the result is nuclear fission accompanied by huge energy release.

In the same principle, when this strong interaction force material is fissioned due to the huge kinetic energy of the impact and the high temperature and pressure of the earth's core, the resulting explosion is equivalent to the power of a nuclear bomb explosion of hundreds of millions of tons. What should be the equivalent of TNT? Trillion tons, there is no need to count, anyway, no planet can hold it.

This is a star-destroying weapon through and through, and even conversely, if it is not a big enough planet, it will not even be able to detonate it!

For example, a planet the size of the moon really passes through like a bullet through cheese, leaving only traces like minimally invasive surgery.

But when it hits the earth or even a larger planet, the consequences are as unimaginable as just mentioned.

In addition, it needs to be explained that although it is a strong interaction material like the water droplet in the three-body, the difference is still quite large.

Only the outer shell of the water droplet is a strong interaction material, which wraps the internal artificial intelligence computer, strong interaction force generator, thrusters for compressing electron rain, and 12 space force field engines for sharp-angle turns, etc. wait.

Therefore, the mass of the water droplet is only about as heavy as a truck, not equivalent to the weight of a planetary engine like the metal sphere in front of him.

More importantly, the outer shell of the water droplet is pinned by the force field generated by the strong interaction force generator, not by compression.

The typical feature is that the extranuclear electrons are not pressed into the nucleus and neutralized with positively charged protons to form neutrons, but instead form a flowable electron rain on the surface.

Along the surface of the absolutely smooth strong interaction material, the electron rain quickly gathers towards the tail of the water droplet in the form of pulses, forming a beautiful electron vortex ring, which is also the force that pushes the water droplet forward.

These factors lead to the fact that the water droplets will not explode violently like a chain reaction, and since the strong interaction force field will always lock the vibration of the molecules, there will be no re-vibration of the molecules.

Once the internal strong interaction force field dissipates, the outer layer of strong interaction force material will fall apart due to the repulsion of the electromagnetic force between protons, without releasing any energy.

Depending on the manufacturing method, the properties of strong interaction materials are also quite different.

What the wandering earth produces is not water droplets, but another kind of strong interaction material, which is close to the neutron degenerate state in physical properties, and will release huge energy when it returns to normal matter.

In any case, this weapon is powerful enough to destroy a planet, but the cost is quite high, after all, what is launched is the weight of a planetary engine.

"In that case, how do we use it against the Death Star?"

Qiao Lv finally remembered the most critical question. The diameter of the Death Star is only 160 kilometers, which is definitely not enough to detonate the shell.

"If it's just to destroy the Death Star, it's really not worth our trouble." Ding Yi replied, "But in order to obtain the energy core of the Death Star, we have to do so."

"How do you say that?"

"The size of the Death Star is not big enough to detonate this shell, so we can just use it to carry out surgical precision strikes, hitting the command room of the Death Star in one blow. Without damaging the energy core, let the Death Star completely paralyzed."

Shen Huabei continued: "But according to the information provided by Galen Erso and the design drawings of the Death Star, the command room of the Death Star is located above the top edge of the super laser cannon launch port. If we want to accurately hit the command room , and avoid damaging the energy core of the Death Star as much as possible, only when the Death Star actively uses the super laser cannon to aim at us, and use the earth cannon to fight back, can we achieve our goal perfectly."

Qiao Lu frowned and said, "But if we let the Death Star's super laser cannons hit the earth, wouldn't our previous efforts be in vain? It's pointless to die together!"

The Wandering Earth did not cross over to overthrow the rule of the Galactic Empire. It is meaningless to sacrifice the Wandering Earth in exchange for the Death Star.

If you can use the earth cannon to destroy the command room of the Death Star while avoiding being destroyed by the super laser cannon, this is the real happy ending.

Ding Yi nodded and said, "That's right, we've also considered this, so—"

"We're going to blast the Death Star with Earth cannons!"