Chapter 165: Weapons of a Level-3 Civilization (1)
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
[Light Needle (Level 3): Accelerate one gram of ‘needle point’ to 99.999999% of the speed of light. Using the mass enhancent effect, it generates a collision energy of 139.5 billion trillion gajoules upon impact with any mass. Prestige required for exchange: 500.]
Zhao Yu read the description of the weapon on the exchange list, scratching his head, sowhat puzzled.
He understood each word in the description, but when combined, it all beca incomprehensible. The last sentence, which ntioned producing 139.5 billion trillion gajoules of collision energy, left him unsure of the true power of this weapon.
All he knew was that this light needle was a weapon available to level 3 civilizations.
Fortunately, he could ask others about what he didn’t understand.
Zhao Yu was about to ask Colonel Chu what a joule was, but then he paused.
Asking so abruptly might make explaining the origin of the weapon tricky.
With patience, he waited until his work here was done. As usual, he returned to his quarters.
After waiting a bit longer, he finally found Colonel Chu in high spirits.
“Commander, do we have so good news?!” Colonel Chu asked curiously, seeing Zhao Yu returning in a hurry with a joyful look on his face.
“The Pangu civilization has transmitted a new weapon!”
“What?!”
Colonel Chu’s face lit up, and he quickly asked, “What kind of weapon?!”
Zhao Yu read the description from the prestige list and asked, “Do you know how powerful 139.5 billion trillion gajoules is?!”
“139.5 billion trillion gajoules?!”
Startled by the huge number, Colonel Chu quickly took out a piece of paper and started calculating.
“The formula for impact energy is E=i/2mvA2, where E represents impact energy, m is the mass of the impact object, and v is velocity…”
“The speed of light, c, is 299792458111/5, and the weapon description ntioned a mass enhancent effect…”
Colonel Chu paused for a mont, recalling so information, then resud his calculations, “Mass enhancent effect ans the motion mass of matter follows the mass-speed relationship. The formula is M=id/V[1-(v/c)a2]…”
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“The energy released by the explosion of one ton of TNT is 4.i8*ioa9 joules…”
“The energy required to destroy Earth is 3/5XGMA2/R = 6.299X10A32 joules, where G is the gravitational constant, and M and R are Earth’s mass and radius…”
“The energy produced by the light needle’s impact is 1395X10A32 joules…”
A look of astonishnt crossed Colonel Chu’s face, “The energy produced by the impact of this light needle is enough to destroy Earth 200 tis!”
But soon after, he furrowed his brows, “From this calculation, the power of the light needle is actually less than that of a particle singularity collapse bomb…”
Colonel Chu explained a lot, even muttering as he calculated, as if speaking to soone else.
But Zhao Yu only understood the last two points: the light needle could destroy Earth 200 tis, but its power was not as strong as a particle singularity collapse bomb.
Feeling curious, Zhao Yu asked, “What do you an?”
Colonel Chu spoke with a complex emotion, “The Light Needle strike can be considered a physical attack. The particle black hole collapse has sothing to do with gravitational waves. We don’t know much about this area. From my feeling, a gravitational wave attack is much more advanced and harder to defend against…”
“Can this Light Needle be defended against?” asked Zhao Yu in confusion.
Colonel Chu explained, “In the case of a physical attack, as the Light Needle description says, it needs to hit an object with mass to release such a massive amount of energy. Before it hits anything, it’s just a needle moving at nearly the speed of light…”
“As for a particle black hole collapse, it covers a range of 500,000 kiloters. Within this range, we have almost no chance to escape or defend…”
“But with the Light Needle strike, knowing that it moves nearly at the speed of light, it’s impossible to detect. But light travels at 300,000 kiloters per second. According to the data analysis from the previous war, our laser defense system can hit with 100% accuracy only within a 30,000-kiloter range of our warships…”
“This ans if we keep dodging and don’t follow our original path while staying over 30,000 kiloters away from the enemy’s ship, we have a good chance of avoiding the Light Needle strike…”
Colonel Chu stopped himself before he could finish, shaking his head, “No, I can’t calculate it like this…”
“The Light Needle strike uses a ‘needle tip’ as its carrier, which only weighs one gram. Our current gravitational wave detectors absolutely cannot detect it…”
“With the speed of the Light Needle, other detection equipnt also won’t be able to spot it. By the ti these devices can detect the Light Needle, it would an that the strike has already happened…”
“With the speed of the light needle, other types of detection equipnt will not be able to detect it. When these equipnt can detect the light needle, it ans that the collision has already happened…”
“Considering the vacuum environnt in space, the Light Needle strike essentially has infinite range…”
“Unless it hits an obstacle beforehand and releases its energy, before that, the Light Needle can keep moving at the speed of light indefinitely, without losing any energy…”
Colonel Chu was getting more excited as he continued, “Infinite range is theoretical, in reality, there are many objects with mass flying around in the universe…”
“But even with countless unknowns in the universe, within a galaxy, we can calculate all the obstacles in the entire universe and avoid them in advance, achieving long-distance Light Needle strikes…”
“And, according to the description, this Light Needle only weighs one gram.
Does this an we could keep shooting them off?”
He beca sowhat agitated, “A particle singularity collapse bomb needs a warship as its carrier. It’s hard to use without a warship, it’s very noticeable and its shortcomings are clear – each warship has to self-destruct to use it…” “But the Light Needle strike, if it could really be fired continuously like kinetic cannon, it’s hard to even imagine….”
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