Chapter 175 Weaponized Antimatter

Author: Baiyun fluttering

Chapter 175 Weaponized Antimatter

The sun is the source of life on earth and the only star in the solar system. It is also the driving force that drives the Trisolarans to embark on a four-light-year expedition against humanity.

Because there are really no resources to exploit here, in the past development and construction of an economic circle around the solar system, only the Astrophysics Association established a scientific research space station near the sun.

Later, after Cheng Xin proposed the galaxy defense system, this place rarely received some attention. However, the galaxy defense system is currently planned between Mars and Jupiter, so the vicinity of the sun soon became desolate again.

But now, with mankind's understanding of antimatter manufacturing, the two countries have built several experimental antimatter production bases here, continuously producing antimatter.

Just like the development of near-Earth space and the moon in ancient times, these antimatter production bases do not legally belong to any political body, but are the property of the Covenant.

However, in fact, the antimatter they produce will only be taken away by the manufacturers of the antimatter production base. This most precious substance in human society cannot fall into the hands of an international organization like the Star Alliance.

At this moment, in a nearby space station, Say proposed to the Covenant to expand the scale of antimatter production and suggested that the two countries also participate in the antimatter production project.

"Why?" the chairman of the Solar System Defense Front was the first to wonder. Because of the manufacturing and maintenance costs, they are not optimistic about the weaponization of anti-matter.

"Just preserving antimatter consumes a huge amount of energy, let alone producing antimatter. Moreover, this inefficient production will not play any role in the military. Why do you like it so much?" the US president also asked.

Then Sai told them his idea, that is, the Trisolaran fleet may use strong interaction materials, and anti-matter weapons can effectively wear down the opponent's armor.

"Three-body people use strong interaction to interact with materials? This idea can be used in writing science fiction novels." As soon as Sai finished speaking, the commander of the United Earth Fleet took the lead in mocking.

"You may not know how powerful the strong interaction material is. A spacecraft made of this thing can crash through a hundred earths, and no human weapon can scratch this thing!" the chairman of the Solar System Defense Front also said.

"But antimatter can deal with strong interaction materials. As long as the raw material of strong interaction materials is still normal matter, antimatter can annihilate it." Say retorted.

"It is impossible for the Trisolarans to create strong interaction materials!" said the chief of staff of the Solar System Defense Front: "Because it is not scientific at all, and it is as unrealistic as shooting an arrow to the moon."

"Sophons are not scientific, at least not in line with our scientific level, but Trisolarans were still created," Sai said.

"Well, to take a step back, I think it's a shame to say this, just think that the Trisolarans can really create strong interaction materials."

"Then what? Are they so luxurious that they can use it as a battleship armor plate? Are they so powerful that they can produce this material casually?" asked the Chief of Staff of the United Earth Fleet.

"To put it bluntly, if the Trisolaran warships are made of strong interaction materials, then there is no need for us to fight. We can just surrender like the Trisolaran fleet sooner," said the President of the United Earth Fleet.

"I find that you have been wondering whether the Trisolarans can create strong interaction materials. Okay, let's not mention this. What if they create other high-performance materials?"

"Don't tell me, do you think the Trisolarans are still using primitive things like nanomaterials as spacecraft armor?" Sai really didn't want to argue with the opponent, so he took a step back.

"Of course it's impossible. It is currently widely believed in academic and military circles that the outer protective material of the Trisolaran battleship is a composite armor composed of critical alloys and new solid materials." The commander of the United Earth Fleet explained.

"What is critical alloy?" Sai asked curiously.

Sai had heard about new solid-state materials in the past and knew that this thing was very popular before it was proven that it could not be manufactured. It was even praised by Ray Diaz as a material for making earth cannons.

But she had never heard of this critical alloy. It sounded like it was related to super metal, but it was not exactly the same.

"A metal between ordinary metals and supermetals. The production principle is to use a magnetic field to squeeze the atoms between ordinary alloys and maintain them in this state."

"Compared with ordinary alloys, the gaps between the atoms of critical alloys are smaller, and their density can reach several times that of ordinary alloys. At the same time, their physical properties have also changed as a result."

"First of all, its hardness is beyond human imagination. Even diamonds are very fragile in front of this alloy. Secondly, its melting point is much higher than traditional alloys."

"Oh." Sai said absentmindedly. She immediately discovered that critical metals and new solid-state materials are the same thing. They are both substances that are close to but cannot be considered degenerate substances.

These two materials are obviously not comparable to strong interaction materials. Unfortunately, unless everyone believes that the Trisolarans can create strong interaction materials, they can only climb up the pole.

"Okay, then let's assume that the Trisolaran spacecraft uses new solid materials and critical metals as the outer armor, so it certainly won't be very thick," Sai said.

"Yes, we currently estimate that the Trisolaran spacecraft should be mainly made of critical alloy, and then be plated with three or four layers of new solid materials in the middle. Its density is about four times that of gold." said the chief of staff of the Solar System Defense Front.

"It's 4 times as dense as gold, isn't it too bulky?" Sai couldn't help but ask.

"It's not bulky, because this kind of composite armor doesn't need to be very thick at all. It only needs to be installed with composite armor less than 1 meter thick, and it can withstand any attack except Star Destroyer."

"What's more, with the help of sophons and other detection methods that we don't know about, the Trisolarans can launch attacks at ultra-long distances, so there is no need to make the armor very thick."

"Hmm." Sai nodded after hearing this and said, "Then this kind of armor composed of new solid materials and critical metals must be positive matter, and antimatter can definitely annihilate it, right?"

"Yes, Marshal Sai, but how do you plan to bring antimatter to the Trisolaran warship? The outer space is not an absolute vacuum, especially within the star system, antimatter will be annihilated with positive matter."

"Two methods." Sai activated the holographic projection and said: "The first is to create a micro magnetic field warehouse to place antimatter and launch it as a cannonball."

"After the micro magnetic field warehouse gets close to the Trisolarans, it will eject the antimatter inside and hit the Trisolaran warships. The advantage of this method is that it can avoid the loss of antimatter as much as possible."

"To put it simply, this is a smart cannonball. It will eject antimatter intelligently when it approaches the enemy."
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