When Zhao Yi decided to carry out the anti-gravity nuclear experint, he had only speculated, through his research on space, that spatial barriers might affect nuclear reactions. However, to what extent they would be affected still required actual experints to draw conclusions.
After conducting the anti-gravity nuclear experint, the results brought many insights, laying the foundation for subsequent discoveries of spatial shields.
In fact, up to this point, life was confined to the study of photons creating spatial barriers, yet it had not involved the true decoding of space.
Now it was different.
The thirteen sets of formulas relating photons to space had enabled a detailed analysis of their relationship, which in turn allowed Zhao Yi to gain a deeper understanding of space and learn about so of its characteristics.
For example, when the compressive effect of space weakens, it does not affect the maximum speed of massless particles, which ans photons, neutrinos, and other particles can still travel at the speed of light within a spatial barrier.
However, particles with mass, due to the weakening of spatial compression, will have their maximum speed limited.
It is actually quite understandable: spatial compression cos from all directions, both inside and outside the particle. The constant action of compressive forces can increase particle activity. Without it, the activity decreases, just like fish in water, which can move freely, but placed in the less pressurized environnt of air, simply cannot swim at all.
This analogy may not be entirely appropriate, but it helps with understanding.
In any case, Zhao Yi’s increased understanding of space led him to confirm that particles within spatial barriers would indeed have a maximum speed.
Unaffected by spatial barriers, the maximum speed of a particle is the speed of light, which ans controlled nuclear fusion reactions almost have no upper limit and must be controlled during the process.
If there is a maximum speed limit for particles, then the reaction speed would beco stable, which would also stabilize the speed of nuclear fusion.
Of course.
As to the specific relationship between spatial barriers and particle speed, Zhao Yi was unable to calculate that because his understanding of nuclear physics was still limited, and specific data would have to be resolved through experintation.
Upon hearing Zhao Yi’s statents, Chen Zeshu beca sowhat excited and asked in amazent, "Are you sure?"
"Of course!"
Zhao Yi nodded affirmatively.
Contemplating, Chen Zeshu said, "If there is an upper limit to the speed of particles within the spatial barrier zone, theoretically, nuclear fusion would be stable. But we still need to see what the specific limit is."
"If the limit is acceptable, then during the process, we only need to ensure the stability of the spatial barrier’s effect."
"That ans the nuclear fusion device would no longer have unsolvable technical difficulties—"
Chen Zeshu’s tone grew excited as he spoke. He had always been engaged in related research and was keenly aware of the difficulties of controlled nuclear fusion devices: controlling and maintaining the fusion state.
One aspect is restraining the reaction speed.
Nuclear fusion is an exponential burst reaction. For instance, the collision between deuterium nuclei and hydrogen atomic nuclei requires temperatures as high as fifty million degrees Celsius, whereas the fusion of deuterium nuclei requires a temperature of one hundred million degrees Celsius.
It is precisely because of the extrely demanding reaction conditions that the saying goes, "an atomic bomb ignites a hydrogen bomb."
This is also known as the difficulty of "ignition."
Once ignited, nuclear fusion rapidly occurs. For example, initially two atomic nuclei react, which then gets transmitted to four, four to eight, and so on, in an exponentially bursting growth, leading to temperatures that quickly beco uncontrollable.
Without control, it would simply be the principle of a hydrogen bomb explosion.
Controlled nuclear fusion certainly requires managing the reaction. However, controlling an exponentially growing burst reaction is incredibly challenging.
Reaction speed is one thing, but another aspect is the reaction temperature.
When nuclear fusion occurs, the temperature also rapidly rises. One hundred million degrees Celsius is just the theoretical "particle temperature," an explanation of particle speed and state, but since particle density isn’t high, the temperature transmitted to the outer layers isn’t that extre. However, the external temperature can still be greatly affected and, if not controlled well, can easily damage the device itself.
And so on.
The issue of constraining nuclear fusion is the greatest difficulty in controlled nuclear fusion, and there are several thods to constrain it. The most effective thod is magnetic confinent, using magnetic fields to confine particles. It can theoretically control nuclear fusion, but generating a magnetic field strong enough to constrain nuclear fusion, without considering costs, requires a trendous amount of energy, perhaps even surpassing the output energy of the nuclear fusion device itself.
That would be a loss-making proposition.
Any energy device that seeks to be applied must achieve an output greater than input, which ans the output of the energy device must be greater than the energy spent on providing that output.
The biggest problem with nuclear fusion devices is that controlling the fusion reaction consus too much energy.
Without considering the problem of controlling the reaction, making the device output greater than the input becos much easier.
Other technical challenges include ignition, energy output device design, and compatibility with anti-gravity devices.
And so on.
These are all solvable problems.
Chen Zeshu suddenly beca very excited. He confird with Zhao Yi several tis before he believed that there was an upper limit to the speed of particles in a spatially blocked state, and he couldn’t help but want to start experinting right away.
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