Chapter 499: Physicists are dumbfounded
The length of two seconds is just a hiccup, and 73.3 billion soft sister coins... are gone!
During this process, a light spot that is invisible to the naked eye appeared on the surface of the Zhong crystal, and the temperature here was suddenly heated to 1 billion degrees Celsius, which order of magnitude has far exceeded the core temperature peak of nuclear fusion.
During this process, there was no process of high-temperature fusion during previous nuclear fusion experiments, and no nuclear radiation occurred.
Two seconds later, the equipment stopped operating and slowly entered the ceiling. The isolation laboratory began to fill air. The data was being collected and calculated. The data results of the experiment should appear in a short time.
At the same time, the data control center in the observatory suddenly issued a strong prompt sound when the laser interferometer gravitational wave detector LIGO (H1), located near Hanford, the capital of the United States. At this time, it was late at night in the Western Hemisphere, and the researcher on duty on the night of debt was dozing in a daze. The sudden burst of prompt sound instantly pulled him back from his dream.
The researcher looked at the real-time data information that was fed back, and then he was stunned for a moment, then his expression of excitement changed and changed wonderfully. His mouth raised and pouted, trying to say something, but he didn't say a word for a long time. Finally, he held it in a trembling excitement, saying: "Gravity wave..."
After fourteen years, it is really not easy for the laser interference detector to react again.
Suddenly, people from the entire research institute were alarmed, and they all climbed out of their sleep and rushed to the scene as soon as possible.
"Oh, my God...this...this...haha...gravitational waves! It's gravitational waves!" The researcher in charge of duty tonight was so excited that he was almost incoherent. Seeing a large group of people rushing towards him, he immediately locked one of the men over 50 years old and said excitedly: "Professor David, we have successfully detected gravitational waves for the fourth time, with the intensity being higher than the previous three times..."
Before this, the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatory had successfully detected three gravitational wave signals. The most recent time was June 1, 2017, fourteen years ago. The first three detections were the collision and merger of two black holes. The mass of the black hole formed by this merger event is equivalent to 49 times that of the sun, which is exactly between the black hole mass of the first two merger events detected by LIGO. The black hole mass of the first two merger events is 62 times and 21 times that of the sun.
Detection of gravitational waves is really too difficult and hard to come by. No wonder people at LIGO are so excited.
The so-called gravitational waves are described in the simplest sentence. Gravitational waves are a kind of "disturbance of time and space" or "ripples of time and space". Gravitational waves are also an important prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Now there is no doubt that the theory of relativity has still strongly "ruled" half of the world of contemporary human physics.
If you want to understand gravitational waves, you have to understand general relativity, and then you have to describe it through "Minkovsky's time and space", that is, one-dimensional time + three-dimensional space, thus forming a four-dimensional space and space. The so-called space and space are a whole of time plus space.
For example, at this moment (time) Li Chuan’s laboratory (space) at Huasheng Technology Headquarters is a description of a space-time event.
Simply put, Einstein's general theory of relativity specifically describes the theory that "time and space tell how matter moves, and matter tells how time and space bend."
That is, how matter moves in its time and space depends on the nature of time and space in which it is located. On the other hand, as long as matter exists, time and space will be curved.
Its manifestation is to release gravitational waves to the outside world, two black holes dance together to release gravitational waves, supernova explosions will release gravitational waves, and the moon around the earth will release gravitational waves. Even if you pass by beautiful girls on the road, in addition to making people excited, you are also releasing gravitational waves.
It is worth mentioning that because matter is something with mass, it may be energy, because energy also has mass, energy and matter also follow Einstein's mass-energy conversion equation.
Obviously, the gravitational wave that LIGO just detected was released from the laboratory at the Huasheng Technology Headquarters and was unexpectedly confirmed.
Everyone in the LIGO organization was cheering, but Professor David was the calmest among them and asked the key point: "Calculate the intensity of gravitational waves and their spatial scales quickly."
The researcher responsible for the night shift nodded quickly, and then his hands were flying on the keyboard quickly. According to the data collected by the laser interference detector, the gravitational wave formula is input: h0=40×G×I×f^2×e/(c^4*D), that is, the gravitational wave intensity = (40×multiple gravitational constant × moment of inertia × square of frequency × ellipse) divided by (fourth power of light × distance)
Not long after, the computer showed the results. David and others were stunned when they saw the data, and even felt that their worldview was about to collapse.
"How could this... be in the solar system? This is impossible. If you calculate it again, it must be the data that is wrong!"
Next, the calculation was repeated several times based on the detection data and confirmed that there was no error in the laser interference detector, but the calculation result was still the same, and I was completely confused.
Even David would not have dreamed that the gravitational wave detected this time would be generated in a laboratory in the eastern hemisphere.
At the same time, in the R&D center of Huasheng Group headquarters, the high temperature resistance experiment on Zhong crystal was over. It only took 2 seconds, but it consumed 120 trillion joules of terrifying energy. During this period, the center of the thin Zhong crystal was subjected to extreme high temperatures far exceeding the core of the sun.
Although 88,000 trillion joules of energy were consumed a week ago, the former was to do work for a long time in hours, while this time it only lasted for 2 seconds for a short period of time but consumed even greater energy, which was completely incomparable.
"BOSS, the data collection is completed, come and have a look." Eva Ye Lianna immediately called out the data collected before and after the experiment for intuitive comparison. Li Chuan leaned over and glanced at the two sets of mathematical models.
Eva Yelianna looked at the two sets of data and then said: "A new variable appeared before and after the experiment. Like the experiment a week ago, it produced a polarization state, and this time it was more obvious than the last time. Besides, its structure did not change at all. But we do not have a gravitational wave detector, and we still cannot confirm how the energy escapes and disappears."
"This is simple!" Li Chuan smiled and said, "We don't have gravitational wave detectors. There are several laser interference gravitational wave detectors on Earth now. You can tell the result by looking at tomorrow's news."
Eva Ye Lianna couldn't help but smile knowingly. Both sides basically thought of going together and just wait for tomorrow's news.
However, the data shown by the experimental results greatly boosted Li Chuan's spirit. One experiment made the value of Zhong crystal instantly reach the level of priceless treasure. Whether it is military value or universe exploration, Zhong crystal materials are definitely the best choice so far.
No one can stop labor and capital from going to Kuiper to find out!
Li Chuan couldn't help but shout in his heart, and even became both expectant and nervous about the next second overseas exploration plan. The expectation was because there might be an interstellar mine outside the Kuiper Belt that was rich in a large amount of Zhong crystal material and field material materials. What was nervous was that this time the collection might be all that was already there.
After staying in the laboratory for more than ten minutes, Li Chuan explained to Eva Ye Lianna other related experiments on Zhong crystal materials. In addition to the extreme high-temperature experiments of high-energy polymerization rays, it also includes kinetic energy shocks, combined with existing elements, compounds, etc. on the earth to repeatedly experiment, and then observe to see if Zhong crystal can produce other chemical reactions, and then do records. This is how it is done to do the experiment.
On the second day, the scientific community once again caused a sensation in the world due to gravitational waves, and this news also reached the ears of Li Chuan, who was particularly concerned about this matter. As expected, it was indeed not surprising.
Chapter completed!