Chapter 519: Morning Light, set sail!
Chapter 519: Morning Light, set sail!
"The universe is nothing but geometry. Most particles on a microscopic scale are curved spaces."
"I see. After hearing what you said, I understand a little bit."
The scientist on the other end of the communicator said this, and no one knew which industry leader he was.
"What a remarkable idea! It is very different from our traditional image of the universe and our understanding of the world. I can't wait to meet you and ask you for advice in person."
Chen Ang didn't care about the compliments from his colleagues and acted very calmly.
"This is just the closest image of the universe to reality, a self-enclosed curved space in the physical sense, and a curve fluctuation in mathematics.
Of course, if you ask me, I prefer to call it 'macro electronics'.
The process of this 'macro-electron' being excited by lightning to form ball lightning is nothing more than the electron being excited from a low energy level to a high energy level. "
"No wonder, because it is an electron, it can be transported along a wire and stored in a battery."
The scientist on the other end of the communicator drew inferences from his experience. At the same time, on a computer next to them, due to the various parameters and "macro-atom" data provided by Chen Ang's experiment, the visual progress bar of the "weather weapon" system was slowly rising, gradually approaching 100%.
At this moment, an intelligence officer suddenly rushed in, handed the leading scientist a document, and whispered in his ear:
"Professor, the White House has agreed to your experimental plan. Everything is ready at the Pacific Weather Base. The small-scale weather weapon experiment can begin at any time."
"Great!" The old professor was very excited. Although the "weather weapon" system was not perfect, the data provided by Chen Ang was not enough. They had to conduct experiments themselves to verify the correctness of these data and calculated results.
On the warship, the camera gave a close-up of Chen Ang's ear. Although the intelligence officer and the old professor spoke in a low voice, and there was electrical noise and distortion generated by the communication system, his ear still shook slightly, and a smile appeared on Chen Ang's face.
The camera froze on the busy backs of Chen Ang and the radar soldier for one second, and then the picture switched to the other side.
Shi Qiang was holding a thick document in his hand, and opposite him was the middle-aged Ding Yi, played by Wang Jinsong. However, they were actually inside a transport plane.
"The files say that a serious unexpected situation occurred during the 'Morning Light' operation and it had to be terminated in the end?"
Faced with Shi Qiang's questioning, Ding Yi, an eyewitness of that year, fell into memories.
"Since we succeeded in capturing macro-electron cavitation bubbles, the research path for ball lightning has suddenly opened up and the progress has become smoother.
With the collaboration between Chen Ang and I, scientific research results come one after another.”
It is still the desolate but beautiful southwestern Gobi Desert. Unlike the previous method of using a lightning generator to activate ball lightning and then capture it, because of the phased success and the discovery of Macro Electronics, this time they received strong support from higher authorities and their tools were also upgraded.
In order to capture macro-electrons more quickly, with the help of a large number of optical experts and software engineers, they designed a professional atmospheric optical detection system that can detect macro-atoms, which are transparent but can refract light, within a certain spatial range.
Then several modified helium airships floated in the sky, shooting out laser beams that swept across the space in all directions.
On the ground, Ding Yi and his team could see on the screen that the chaotic turbulent air currents in the atmosphere were circulating over and over again like rough ocean waves.
In this complex image of turbulent airflow, the spherical image of Macro Electronics was sparse but clearly visible, and was quickly locked and successfully captured by the scanning system.
After successfully capturing a large number of macro-electrons, Ding Yi and Chen Ang went on to develop the first generation of weapons for military use - the thunder ball cannon.
Limited by materials and energy issues, this first generation of ball lightning weapons, like the first generation of computers, are relatively large in size, occupying an area roughly equivalent to one-quarter of a basketball court.
Just like an ordinary cannon, the thunderball cannon is composed of several components such as the ammunition supply system, acceleration system, excitation system and auxiliary system.
The ammunition supply system is a high-energy battery specially used to store macro electronics.
The acceleration system is a 5-meter-long metal track with an electromagnetic coil installed at a certain interval. The current in the coil can provide a certain thrust for the macro electron.
When the macro-electrons are accelerated through the orbit and arrive at the muzzle, a row of charging electrodes will excite the macro-electrons into ball lightning.
As for how to aim this weapon, it is not complicated.
Because ball lightning itself is still electrons, it also exhibits quantum effects, or observer effects.
When there is an observer, their state collapses into a certain value, and because this value is consistent with our experience in the macroscopic world, they will hit the target.
Even if the target is not on the trajectory, it doesn't matter, because ball lightning is in a quantum state without an observer.
Ball lightning in this state is actually a cloud of electron probability, and it will then collapse due to observation. As for whether this collapse comes from the emitter or the target, it doesn't matter.
Therefore, the ball flash weapon can be said to be accurate in every shot and has the characteristic of "guaranteed to hit".
However, since it is a first-generation weapon, there are naturally many problems.
The first thing is the energy supply of the weapon. After all, the law of conservation of energy cannot be broken. The power of ball lightning depends entirely on the power of the lightning that stimulates it.
This means that the greater the instantaneous current and the higher the voltage that excites the macro-electrons, the greater its power.
In this case, it is definitely impossible to equip individual soldiers with thunder ball guns, and the only option is thunder ball cannons.
Even this thunder ball cannon is difficult to move, so Lin Yun and his team tried to install it on a tank or a gun vehicle.
But the result is that the thunderball cannon installed on the tank becomes less powerful due to its reduced size, and its endurance also has big problems.
As for being installed on a rocket launcher vehicle, to be honest, the destructive power of this ball lightning is not as good as that of a rocket.
Even though Lin Yun and his team quickly developed the second and third generation thunder ball cannons based on the original ones, due to the limitations of material science at the time, it was still difficult to make it both powerful and miniaturized.
Fortunately, this did not stump Lin Yun, a weapons expert. She quickly thought of a suitable vehicle for this weapon. It was not a tank or an airplane, but a warship.
Therefore, under the pressure of severe external situation and after several rounds of internal seminars, the first experimental warship "Morning Light" equipped with thunderball cannon was born.
This is not a ship designed specifically for thunderball cannons, but a modified cruiser that is about to be scrapped, with the addition of large power generation equipment, energy storage equipment and long-range aiming devices.
With the right vehicle, it is like a BMW paired with a good general. Ball lightning finally shows its powerful power as a weapon.
The first is the attack method of ball lightning, which utilizes the wave-particle duality of matter. In a brief moment, both the macro-electron and the target will exhibit wave properties and share energy in resonance.
Therefore, the strike of ball lightning can be as selective as cutting out a picture, destroying only the target while having no effect on anything around it, even if they are close together.
Then there is the targeted nature of ball lightning.
Ding Yi discovered that microwaves will produce a complex spectrum after passing through macro-electrons. Macro-electrons of different properties have different spectra, and the substances they resonate with after being excited into ball lightning will also be different. Therefore, some ball lightning only works on metals, some on wood, and some on carbon-based organisms.
If we further break it down, among those macro-electrons that have the same frequency as carbon-based organisms, some release energy specifically to burn bones, some vaporize blood, some damage muscle tissue, and some only target hair.
Therefore, Chen Ang and his team only need to record the useful frequency spectrum and collect the corresponding macro-electrons. The stimulated ball lightning will naturally be able to accurately strike the target.
As for the penetrating power of macro electrons when they present "wave" properties, and their coverage, they are only minor advantages under the previous two advantages.
In any case, under the increasingly deteriorating external environment at that time, the "Morning Light" project was quickly put into actual combat testing.
On just the first attempt, they achieved gratifying results. A purple ball of lightning directly evaporated hundreds of live pigs inside a "target", while the scrapped ship serving as the target was not damaged at all.
After that, they changed to another type of macro-electronics. This time, the live pigs inside another target ship were intact, but the electronic chips on the ship were turned to ashes.
A powerful weapon for the country!
The military leaders who watched the test throughout the process highly praised the experimental results of Lin Yun and his team. At the same time, newer warships that are more suitable for thunderball cannons were also put on the schedule and the preliminary design work began.
"Is this the Morning Light?"
Shi Qiang and Ding Yi, who arrived at their destination by plane, stood in a dock warehouse at a military pier, looking at the warship that had turned into a pile of scrap metal. Through the huge metal rail gun barrel at its bow, they could still vaguely see its former glory.
"Yes, this is the 'Morning Light'. It could have been retired smoothly at that time, but unfortunately..."
"Is it because of the 'Taiwan crisis'?" Shi Qiang had read the information, but those words were definitely not as touching as the accounts of those who had experienced it firsthand.
Ding Yi nodded.
"I still remember it was June or July 1995. Due to the situation, the entire army was on alert, almost the same as it is now."
As he spoke, time went back again, and military exercises were underway in the South China Sea.
Because they belong to the same military series, members of the "Morning Light" project team are also ready to go.
On the one hand, they had to maintain the "Morning Light", the only ship equipped with a thunderball cannon, to keep it in the best condition.
On the other hand, they are also trying to find ways to make the thunder ball cannon more powerful.
Because the ball lightning stimulated by macro-electrons is not defenseless. Whether it is an electromagnetic barrier or high-intensity radar electromagnetic waves, it is possible to deflect the flight trajectory of ball lightning.
"Unless the bomb is detonated in advance!"
Lin Yun proposed this idea at the meeting, and Chen Ang and Ding Yi quickly found a way to realize it, which is the most powerful modern weapon - fusion.
The only difference is that what is fused here is not light atomic nuclei, but macro electrons.
According to Ding Yi's calculations, since macro-electrons have the properties of waves, the intersection of several waves may produce an entanglement effect, which will allow energy to be released more intensely in a shorter time and affect a larger range.
However, even Ding Yi couldn't calculate how large the range was and how powerful it was.
"We don't have time to do verification calculations!"
In the meeting room of the dock, facing Ding Yi's suggestion, the slightly haggard Lin Yun decisively refused.
"Time waits for no one. I just received news from my superiors that two US aircraft carrier battle groups are heading towards the TW Strait."
After these words were spoken, there was only an extremely depressing silence in the conference room.
两个航母战斗群，那可就不仅仅是只有两艘航空母舰，更是意味着还有2至4艘导弹巡洋舰、4至6艘导弹驱逐舰、2艘护卫舰、2至4艘攻击潜艇、2至6艘补给舰，以及航母上的上百架战斗机。
This is completely unmatched for China, which has no aircraft carrier.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the opponent's destination is relatively close to the Chinese coastline. Even if the navy's ships cannot compete with them, the air force and long-range missiles can still pose a threat to them.
Therefore, the other party may not dare to really approach, and may choose to take a detour, or even bluff.
However, it is a shame for Chinese soldiers to be unable to fight one-on-one on the front battlefield, and they may not even be able to exchange troops.
"When will China have its own aircraft carrier?"
A young researcher from the army in the project team couldn't help but sigh, and his feeling of loss was particularly clear in this silent meeting.
Yes, when will we be able to have our own aircraft carrier, sail over our own territorial waters, fearless of the enemy's threats, and fight them head-on with bayonets? That is the glory and pride that belongs only to soldiers.
"Just modify it according to the theory. We don't have time. Even if it's a little dangerous, we don't care. This is the mission of us soldiers!"
This time no one objected to the words of Lin Yun, the project leader. Everyone threw themselves into their work with a feeling of anger and depression, striving to do every job well and to ensure that the "Morning Light" could be put into battle in the most perfect condition.
On the big screen, "Ball Lightning" is now more than halfway through its release, and the international pressure unique to the 90s is transmitted through the screen to the hearts of every audience member.
Perhaps young audiences have not experienced that era, but today, 20 years later, with China's economic boom, they have also felt some changes.
At that moment, at this moment.
No matter what, the Chinese nation's strong and upright backbone and fearless spirit will never change.
The former "Morning Light" began to fade. Shi Qiang, a younger generation, looked at the wreckage of the ship with a solemn expression, as if he was looking at a senior who had made outstanding military achievements. He silently raised his right hand and gave a standard military salute.
"Let's go!"
"Where?"
Ding Yi hadn't come to his senses yet, but he followed him out of the dock, and then his eyes widened.
"The Chinese people will not be bullied forever. We want to tell our comrades-in-arms that their sacrifices were worth it!
Prepare to complete the unfinished experiment of that year, Doctor. The sun will eventually rise and the morning light will illuminate the way ahead.
Set off! "
In the distance, the majestic "Morning Light" aircraft carrier issued a loud whistle, as if responding to the young soldier who raised questions that night more than ten years ago.
Now, we also have our own aircraft carrier!
Chinese soldiers can also keep the enemy out of the country!
(End of this chapter)