Chapter 178: Elemental decay

The information Xiao Yu sees is not continuous, but intermittent, and there are often tens of millions or even billions of years between the two pieces of information. Many fragments of this process were derived by Xiao Yu from inference and imagination.
However, even this incomplete information has greatly enriched Xiao Yu's existing theoretical system. Let Xiao Yu know more about the formation of stars.
Xiao Yu continued to search for what he wanted in the vast ocean of information.
After the formation of this star, Xiao Yu saw that some relatively large meteorite blocks began to appear around it. The number of these meteorites is in the hundreds of billions, trillions, and almost endless. At this time, there are still abundant interstellar dust in the galaxy, and they are still continually gathering.
Gradually, the small meteorite blocks gathered into large meteorite blocks. The gravity of the large meteorite blocks began to attract these interstellar dust, and it gradually began to increase its mass and volume.
This is a meteorite war that has lasted for hundreds of millions of years. While the large stones were eating up the small stones, they were colliding with the other large stones and merging. After countless long years, the first star that finally had enough power to empty the remaining material in its orbit appeared.
It has reached hydrostatic equilibrium and its appearance has begun to appear round. In the ocean of interstellar dust, it recklessly increases its mass.
The same phenomenon occurs in several places in this primitive galaxy. Xiao Yu counted it, there were as many as eight places.
"Here ... is this primitive solar system?" Xiao Yu had a little doubt in his mind.
Planets continue to increase their size and mass, and continue to clear out the rest of the galaxy. After billions of years, they are finally finalized.
Xiao Yu saw that this stellar system, after stabilization, has a total of four rocky planets. Four gas giants.
Xiao Yu still wasn't sure which galaxy it was and whether it was the solar system. It wasn't until Xiao Yu saw another image and several neighbours around the galaxy that he reached a conclusion.
The last piece of information, according to Xiao Yu's speculation, should be a picture more than 2.5 million years ago. Because the Andromeda Galaxy is more than 2.5 million light years away from the Milky Way, it takes more than 2.5 million years for light from the Milky Way to reach the Andromeda Galaxy and the interior of this black hole. Stored by it.
"This is ... South Gate II, this is Sirius, this is Tianyuan IV, this is Nanhe III ..." Xiao Yu recognized the familiar stars one by one.
The positions of these stars are very different from their current positions. But Xiao Yu has long mastered the orbits of these stars. Through the backstepping algorithm, Xiao Yu can easily restore their position 2.5 million years ago. Simultaneously. Pass in this message. Their location, Xiao Yu can also calculate the specific time of this information.
That was about 2.6 million years ago.
In this era, the primitive apes on Earth have not discovered how wonderful the starry sky above them is. They are still drinking blood, just like animals.
Xiao Yu once again saw real images of his hometown, although these images were more than two million years ago.
Xiao Yu's heart. It gave an unspeakable feeling.
The video continued and finally came to an end. But just before the end, Xiao Yu saw something special.
It was a ball of light. It flickered in the picture and lasted less than a second in the image. This message is over.
"What is that?" Xiao Yu was puzzled, and checked the information again.
Xiao Yu saw this light ball again.
It is about the size of Mercury and emits bright white light throughout the body. It hoveres so quietly outside the galaxy, maintaining a relatively static motion with the sun.
It is not a star, because a star cannot be so small. It is not a planet, because a planet cannot emit such bright light. The only possibility is that it is some kind of technological creation.
Xiao Yu saw that on this unknown sphere, there were some huge and curved lines, which seemed to contain some meaningful text. Xiao Yu felt very familiar with it, and seemed to have seen it somewhere.
Just remembering a few tenths of a second, Xiao Yu remembered it. Xiao Yu took the 90s back out of the spacecraft, and looked at the outer shell of the 90s spacecraft in a daze.
These texts are basically consistent with several texts on the shell of the 90s spacecraft. It is certain that they have the same meaning.
"This spaceship ... is that D-type Hao civilized spaceship? Why does it appear here? What does it have to do with humans?"
Xiao Yu's heart gave birth to a lot of doubts.
Xiao Yu remembered a rumor.
It is rumored that humans have a huge evolutionary leap period between the apes and primitive sapiens, which lasted only a short time. Within this extremely short period of time, humans have completed the leap from beasts to sapiens.
The information Xiao Yu has seen so far is 263 million years ago. The era of leaps and bounds in rumors is also about this time.
Xiao Yu is not an expert in biological sciences, so I don't know much about it, and I don't know if this rumor is true. But now it seems that the evolution of humans is really related to this D-type Taihao civilization.
"If all these speculations are true, and humans have evolved because of the transformation of the Taihao civilization, then there can be a lot of doubts, such as why humans will be found in the spacecraft of the Taihao civilization. Corpses. Just so, there will be many new doubts. What is the purpose of their doing this? For their own evolution? The destruction of the earth has nothing to do with them? Why do I survive? If it is purely to verify the soul The possibility of computer integration, they don't need to destroy the earth, and they don't need to force me out of the solar system. "
Xiao Yu was silently thinking, moving forward silently.
At the current stage, Xiao Yu can only achieve super-light speed navigation in the laboratory, and currently cannot be applied on a large scale. This means that Xiao Yu still has to rely on conventional navigation to complete the long distance of more than 130 light years.
This distance, before, was enough to make Xiao Yu desperate, but now, it is not too much for Xiao Yu. Sufficient fuel allows Xiao Yu to accelerate the speed to 40% of the speed of light. At this speed, Xiao Yu only needs to spend about 300 years to reach his destination. Moreover, at this speed, the passage of time will probably slow down by half, that is, when Xiao Yu felt that the past 150 years or so, Xiao Yu had reached his destination.
During this period of 150 years, Xiao Yu will continue to search for things that are useful to him in the information collected by the information storm, and continue to conduct research on super-light speed navigation.
In addition to these two points, there is one of the most important research directions, which is about energy harvesting.
At this stage, Xiao Yu, who is enough to create a provincial spacecraft and able to sail at 40% of the speed of light, gradually felt that the controllable nuclear fusion had insufficient energy requirements. It is imperative to develop new energy harvesting methods.
The extinction of positive and negative matter can release huge energy, which can convert matter into energy 100%. But at this stage, Xiao Yu's technology is not yet developed enough to produce antimatter on a large scale.
With a large particle collider, Xiao Yu can produce antimatter at the rate of one hour per gram. Such a tiny mass is obviously insufficient to meet Xiao Yu's requirements. At the present stage, antimatter is also mainly used in related research stages and cannot enter large-scale applications.
In Xiao Yu's plan, the most promising breakthrough in a short time is the decay of heavy elements.
Through the reorganization between quarks, the heavy elements will quickly decay into light elements. In the process, a large amount of energy will be released. When the earth exploded, it was smashed by the energy released by the rapid decay of the iron-nickel core into the hydrogen element. the study.
An atom consists of a nucleus and an electron. The atomic nucleus consists of neutrons and protons. Both protons and neutrons belong to hadrons. Hadrons consist of quarks. The so-called hadrons are particles affected by strong interaction forces.
Of the four basic forces, the strongest is the strongest, followed by the electromagnetic force. Electromagnetic force is a repulsive force, which prevents particles from joining together, and a strong interaction force is an attraction, which pushes particles together. In the struggle of strong interaction and electromagnetic force, particles have achieved equilibrium and stabilized existence.
Xiao Yu found that after weakening the strong interaction force between quarks and increasing the electromagnetic force by some means, the quarks will suddenly disperse, and then immediately go the other way and strengthen the strong interaction force. At the same time, the electromagnetic force is weakened, and they will violently collide again.
The quark will recombine into protons and neutrons, and the protons and neutrons will reassemble into nucleus. The nucleus will capture electrons and form atoms.
As a result, no matter what element the substance was in before the reaction, they will become hydrogen after the reaction. This process is equivalent to splitting matter from the quark level and then recombining them.
In such an impact process, a large amount of mass was converted into energy and released. Xiao Yu made a rough calculation and concluded that, in such a process, the efficiency with which they convert mass into energy is at least possible. Controlled nuclear fusion ten times. That is, through this process, about half of the mass of the participating substances will be converted into energy!