Chapter 1031 - Insurmountable (2/2)
Just then, he saw Lin Lin at the door.
The little girl didn’t seem to have slept at all. She was yawning while walking toward him.
“I’m finally done… Wait, did you do something to my sister?” Lin Lin, who was still tired, suddenly woke up as if someone had just shocked her. She suspiciously looked at Jiang Chen.
“What could I have done? Am I a pervert…” Jiang Chen facepalmed.
Lin Lin answered this question with her eyes and said with vigilance, “I warn you, No.1004’s research is related to space theory. She is my assistant in transporting living things into interdimensional travel. You can’t give her strange thoughts.”
“Whatever. Don’t accuse me the moment you see me… So, did you figure out what the ball was?”
Lin Lin shook her head and sighed.
“2,985 grams per cubic centimeter, the density is 2,985 times that of water at room temperature. It’s far denser than the densest base metal, Osmium, with a density of 22.6 gram per cubic centimeter. Do you know what this means?”
“What does it mean?” Jiang Chen asked immediately.
“59 grams per cubic centimeter, which is the density of the red dwarf closest to the solar system, is not even close to the small ball you gave me. This means that the force between the particles in the ball is even more terrifying than the red dwarf’s own gravity. This force has transcended the scope of Van der Waals forces. If I am not mistaken, there is only one possibility left.”
“What possibility?” Jiang Chen was in a state of shock.
“Strong interaction force. That small ball is composed of countless hadrons and even quarks…” When she raised this hypothesis, Lin Lin revealed a strange expression. It looked like she was doubting her own hypothesis while being extremely convinced.
“Strong interaction force material? Is there any technology in the field before the war?” Jiang Chen asked.
Lin Lin looked at him like an idiot and glared at Jiang Chen. “How could there be such a thing. Until the war, there was a lot of controversy about the existence of strong interaction force materials. Did you really just ask if this technology existed?”
Jiang Chen had long been used to Lin Lin’s ridicule, and he didn’t want to argue with her, so he opened his hands and shrugged. With thick skin, he said, “I don’t understand this. That’s why I asked you. The smart Miss Lin Lin. Can you explain it to me? If the ball is a material made by strong interaction force, how advanced is it compared to pre-war technology?”
Lin Lin had no resistance to flattery. Her chin rose up proudly and she patiently explained to Jiang Chen.
“The so-called strong interaction force refers to the force acting between hadrons. The strong interaction force holds the most ordinary matter together because it confines quarks into hadron particles such as the proton and neutron. As the strongest force in the four fundamental interactions, its range of action is only at the range of 10 to the minus 15 meters. Exceeding this range, the strong interaction force will decay exponentially.”
“If the particles in the material are composed of strong interaction forces, it means that the spacing between the particles must be within 10 to the minus 15 square meters unless the atoms are forcibly removed and all electrons are discarded. However, this creates another problem. A strong interaction material that completely discards electrons will carry a very large positive charge, attracting a large number of electrons, which in turn destroys its particle structure.”
From the perspective of modern physics, this material shouldn’t exist.
As for the future.
Who knows about the future?
The development of science itself was a process of constant imagination, constant application, and constant self-denial.
As for the civilization that has mastered the strong interaction force material, Lin Lin couldn’t answer as to how advanced they were. It was not something that could be judged by time.
However, Lin Lin was sure about one point. That is, from the understanding of particle physics alone, the gap between the two civilizations was insurmountable.