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Chapter 251 News revealed, this is alien technology!

"What on earth is this thing? It can actually turn a satellite into wreckage!"

"It seems that a chemical reaction has occurred. The satellite seems to be burning as a whole. But how can so much metal burn?"

"What on earth is an energy ball?!"

This issue is very important. In comparison, the method of launching the energy group is not important. The mass of the energy group is very low. If it can reach a certain speed, there is no technical difficulty in launching it from the ground into space.

In other words, as long as we know what the energy group is, we can use it to reversely decipher the launch and attack method.

But, I don’t know.

This is very scary!

The most terrifying thing in the world today is not the technologically advanced weapons, but the weapons that we don’t understand at all. If we don’t understand them, we will have no way to deal with them.

At the same time, there is no way to create the same weapons to counterattack.

For example, nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles.

Nuclear weapons are extremely terrifying. When combined with almost undefendable intercontinental missiles, they can cause devastating damage to any location on Earth.

However, the basic principles of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles are very clear, and only involve issues such as whether the technology is high-end or not and the research and manufacturing costs.

If a country has sufficient technological foundation and economic support, it can naturally carry out research and development and manufacturing.

So the superpowers all have intercontinental missiles and nuclear weapons technology.

Although intercontinental missiles are still undefended, at least we can manufacture similar intercontinental missiles to counter them.

The energy balls we see now are completely different. The mass of the energy balls is very low, and even if they hit the satellite at an extremely fast speed, they will not cause any obvious physical impact.

At the same time, the energy group can cause the satellite to undergo incomprehensible reactions in a short period of time and turn it into a pile of debris.

This is simply inexplicable.

When you can't even understand the reaction, there is naturally no way to produce a countermeasure.

After discussion, the military decision-makers immediately called in various experts, including chemists, physicists, nuclear physicists, etc.

They hope that top scholars in various fields can come together to explain the reactions to the video.

A large group of experts looked at videos taken by tracking satellites and a large number of images of satellite debris.

After watching the video and pictures, the experts started a heated discussion. They were also very surprised and excited, because it felt like they were seeing a completely new kind of physics, a reaction that they could not understand at all.

They kept discussing, treating the meeting as a complete academic seminar.

result……

Naturally there is no result.

Some people think it is a chemical reaction, but what kind of chemical reaction can a ball of high heat energy cause?
Not to mention, at an altitude of 1000 kilometers in space, the air is so thin that it can be ignored. How can so much smoke be produced if there is no chemical reaction involving air?

And the reaction was so violent that it even corroded the entire satellite.

This makes no sense at all.

Some people suggested that it might be a nuclear reaction, but this was immediately denied, "It is definitely not a nuclear reaction. Neither nuclear fusion nor fission conditions are met."

"For nuclear fusion, the temperature is insufficient, and there are no basic materials."

"Nuclear fission. What radioactive elements are there on the satellite? Or is that energy mass itself enough to produce such a large fission reaction?"

There was a lot of debate at the meeting, but no single idea gained traction.

This was something the military decision-makers had not expected. They had gathered so many experts to discuss a video clip, but they still couldn't clearly explain what had happened?
The only thing they were sure of was that "from the thermal images and other information, it was a highly heated ion cluster."

"If the ions are shot from the ground into space, and they still maintain high temperatures, it means that the internal reaction is ongoing."

This is a definite conclusion.

But it is of no use. Even without experts and scholars, the military decision-makers can make their own judgments.

Just like Josh Abbott, after seeing the video taken by the satellite, he immediately thought it was an ion cluster. He also talked about another possibility, which is a particle cluster.

But in fact, the particle cluster theory does not make sense at all, because the particle cluster is too small, and even if each particle carries very high energy, it cannot be detected at all.

In other words, as long as it can be captured by the camera, it is definitely not a particle cluster.

The meeting ultimately reached no conclusion.

The military decision-makers felt very helpless and even anxious.

Lisman-Pent, one of the senior decision-makers, frowned and said, "It seems that this is really a new technology."

"Not only is the technology new, but perhaps the underlying foundation is also new, perhaps a completely new physical and chemical reaction."

"Brett, do you think it has something to do with Zhang Shuo?"

Riesman had already thought of Zhang Shuo.

In recent years, new physical discoveries have caused a lot of buzz. Some time ago, the technology of "artificially creating gravity" was revealed. The intelligence they obtained showed that the flower growers had mastered a gravity manufacturing technology and used it to build aircraft. The only uncertainty is whether the aircraft can be used routinely.

The latter point is very important.

This is like a flying device supported by magnetic levitation technology. It sounds very high-end, but it seems like a fantasy to actually apply it on a large scale.

First, the cost is extremely high, and second, the duration is very short and the performance is poor.

Even if we have the technology to manufacture aircraft with magnetic levitation support, it is completely useless and there is no hope of its large-scale popularization.

They hope the same will be true for so-called 'gravity manufacturing technology', because currently, the technology is only in the hands of flower growers.

Of course, this is not what Riesman was talking about. What he emphasized was that the physics studied by Zhang Shuo can support the emergence of new technologies.

"That shouldn't be possible, right? I thought of that, but his research is gravity."

"Moreover, intelligence shows that Zhang Shuo is researching controlled nuclear fusion and has developed a technology that can improve the control stability of the tokamak device."

"This doesn't seem to be related to the ion clusters we see."

Ben Bright Orwell shook his head and said, "Anyway, we can't figure it out by ourselves. We still have to find other ways."

"Ugh."

Riesman also sighed and smiled bitterly, "Their development speed is too fast. They have already entered the level of new physics."

"And we seem to be still here."

……

While the decision-makers in the United States were worried, information about anti-satellite weapons experiments had already been publicly released in the country.

The public information released this time stated that an anti-satellite weapon experiment had been conducted, and the target of the attack was also announced, which was FA-107, a weather satellite from years ago. After the public information was released, it immediately caused a huge uproar in public opinion.

This is mainly due to the altitude of satellites and the way anti-satellite weapons strike.

Although the method of attack is not clearly stated in public information, the target satellite is hanging in space, and some high-precision commercial satellites can capture the image.

Those images are also of high definition, and you can see that the satellite has become a pile of debris, and even the solar panels cannot be seen.

At the same time, some people immediately thought of the last "anti-missile test footage" and immediately determined that the satellite strike and the anti-missile experiment were very similar.

Without a missile, the satellite was hit directly, most likely from the ground.

This information, combined with the altitude of more than 1000 kilometers, surprised people who have studied military affairs.

Some countries have tested anti-satellite weapons, including China, of course, but the experimental strike altitude of general anti-satellite weapons is just over 200 kilometers.

If the target is a satellite above 1000 kilometers in altitude, the most advanced anti-satellite weapons must be used.

There is relevant technical information on high-end anti-satellite weapons internationally, such as the kinetic series owned by China, which works on the principle of launching a weapon similar to a satellite.

This weapon is first disguised as a satellite in space and will orbit the earth like a regular satellite until its orbit approaches the target satellite, then it will activate its own energy to attack.

Only in this way can we effectively strike satellites at an altitude of one thousand kilometers or even 36000 kilometers.

This is the conventional anti-satellite method.

If conventional missiles are used for attack, even if the missiles can reach a sufficient height, accuracy and power are big problems. A lot of energy in space cannot be used. It is extremely difficult for a high-speed flying missile to use its own performance to directly hit a satellite.

The current situation is that the strike was carried out directly on the ground, and no trace of the missile was found. Moreover, the satellite was hit twice at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers, which shows that the accuracy is quite good.

How did you do it?
What is the technical principle?
Domestic public opinion exploded immediately. "This technology is too advanced. It can directly strike a satellite more than 1,000 kilometers away from the ground, and it hits it twice. It seems that we are already far ahead in anti-satellite weapons!"

"This is definitely far ahead, the United States can never do it!"

"According to foreign news, they don't even know how to attack. Of course, we don't know either, so we are even more powerful..."

"The unknown is scary. It feels like alien technology to me!"

"It is said that the United States obtained alien technology last century and created so many advanced weapons. Now it's our turn!"

International public opinion is also very heated, with many people talking about anti-satellite weapon experiments and discussing what specific technology is involved.

Of course, the discussion produced absolutely no results, except that more images taken by commercial satellites were leaked, which greatly increased the heat of public opinion.

At the same time, some political remarks have also emerged internationally, mainly because a new type of anti-satellite weapon supported by new technology has caused many countries to feel worried and even panic.

High-temperature plasma clusters, satellite debris, ground strikes...

Putting several key words together, the existing military system is simply unable to cope with it.

This anti-satellite weapon is extremely fast, undetectable, impossible to warn of, impossible to defend against, and of course there is no way to counter it.

Political rhetoric also emerged: "Protest the development of new space weapons!"

“Protest the development of terrorist weapons! This is a threat to space, a threat to the development of human science and technology, and a threat to the entire world!”

"We urge relevant countries to disclose information about new weapons. Only by increasing mutual understanding in the military field can we build a peaceful system for the entire world."

"Related countries should open up their technologies and contribute to the scientific progress of mankind, rather than using them to research new weapons..."

These remarks are, of course, meaningless.

The country also responded to public opinion, "There are no international regulations that require the disclosure of new weapons technology."

"We conduct weapons technology research and development only for national defense and have been working for international peace."

“The development of new technologies has nothing to do with other countries.”

"We are just conducting routine weapons experiments. The experiments will not harm the space environment and will not pose a threat to space security..."

Domestic and international public opinion is just a verbal battle.

The next step is to continue the experiment, and it can even be said that it is conducted openly, because it is not only the United States that is tracking and photographing the satellite wreckage, other countries have also sent tracking satellites.

At the same time, a large number of satellites were aimed at the wreckage of the satellite.

Therefore, as long as the attacks on the debris satellites continue, the international community will be informed of it as soon as possible.

However, experiments still have to be done.

The continuous test firing experiments will accumulate a series of very important data and pave the way for the ion cannon to move towards technological maturity.

After the technology matures, the next step is large-scale manufacturing and service.

Domestic decision-makers have already begun discussions.

Zhang Shuo left the ion cannon experimental base with Teacher Wang and his team. He returned to Sudong City and stayed there for half a month before flying to the capital again.

He was there to attend a decision-making meeting.

This time the National Energy Conference was held, which was actually a technical conference on "nuclear fission", mainly covering two contents.

One is the energy technology group of Wu Xiaodong's team. They are researching a highly efficient and clean energy technology that can provide sustainable energy based on the 'nuclear fission' technology.

The other is the ion cannon.

The ion cannon is the main topic, as the relevant technology is close to perfection, and all that remains is to continue testing and mature the technology.

A large number of teachers and experts attended the meeting, determined the subsequent development direction, and drew up a timetable.

Within one year, the technology was perfected and entered the manufacturing stage.

Within two years, the first ion cannon equipment was put into service.

This speed is quite fast and also puts a lot of pressure on the experimental group, because for a weapon supported by a new technology, there is a large gap between experimentation and standard production.

To achieve standard production, it is necessary to ensure safety and stability and realize standardized manufacturing issues. At the same time, attention must be paid to the confidentiality of the production process.

After the direction is clarified, the ion cannon project team will definitely expand, and some manufacturing and military-related experts will join the project team, which will also speed up the research process in areas such as ion cannon experimental testing and technical improvement.

In terms of new energy technology, Wu Xiaodong made a report on the research progress. Their research did not have any technical difficulties that could not be overcome. The main focus was still on continuously testing various single-element substances and solving reaction stability problems.

The technical problem to be overcome is the continuity and stability of the reaction, because the reaction speed is very fast and raw materials must be added continuously during the reaction process.

Just like cotton burning, cotton burns very quickly.

If you put a lot of cotton, it will all burn at once and naturally lose its stability. If you want the cotton to keep burning, you need to add materials slowly to ensure sustainability.

This is a technical problem that needs to be solved.

(End of this chapter)