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Chapter 275: Responsibilities of a Great Power! Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
The technology of mass production of gold has a significant impact on the economy and technology.

Most countries dare not make the technology public even if they have it, let alone manufacture it recklessly, otherwise war will surely break out.

The situation in China is different.

As the world's leading industrial power, the country itself can consume a large portion of gold as raw material for industrial use, at least in the early stages.

Militarily speaking, we will not be afraid of threats from other countries.

This is even more true now. The weapons used by ion clusters to attack satellites are a huge deterrent to the international community. Until now, other national agencies have only seen the wreckage of the satellite and don't even know what reaction has occurred.

If the technical principles are not clear, there is no way to understand the weapons.

Many countries and institutions are even worried that related weapons will be installed on aircraft carriers, ships, or even airplanes. The ion clusters are extremely fast, powerful, have a long strike range, and are undetectable, which poses a huge threat.

In fact, ion cannons cannot be installed on ships for the time being, mainly because the power required is too high, and even the energy of an aircraft carrier can only barely drive it.

The problem is that it is impossible for all the energy of an aircraft carrier to be used to generate electricity, and it is even more impossible to use all of it on one weapon.

It is now clear that the weapons used by ion clusters to attack satellites and the gold manufacturing technology are most likely based on the same principle.

The Department of Energy is very eager to understand the underlying reaction principles and believes that experiments on chaotic force fields may lead to new discoveries, so it actively joins in the experiments on nuclear organization and even invests huge amounts of money to support it.

Faced with the news coming from the country, that is, Zhang Shuo's verbal warning about the risks of the experiment, voices of concern were still heard at the nuclear organization meeting, but they were quickly drowned out by the voices of insisting on the experiment.

Arthur Kaster, the head of the experimental team, is very worried about the risks of the experiment.

When many big names paid attention to the experiment and expressed their opinions clearly, Arthur Castell had no choice but to continue the experiment.

If you don't persist, your job will definitely be replaced.

The only thing Custer can do is to keep emphasizing "safety protection" work. The team has applied for a large amount of funds for safety transformation and has continuously formulated more stringent safety rules.

Equipment safety transformation work officially begins.

Many important people paid close attention to the experiment, which made the safety transformation work go very smoothly.

Don't worry about the funding.

Talent and technical support will be provided to you as long as you ask for it.

The same goes for other needs.

At the same time, the domestic gold manufacturing base continues to expand and the equipment for gold manufacturing is also increasing rapidly.

The speed of equipment addition is getting faster and faster, and more than 90% of the components have been mass-produced.

Its development speed is much faster than that of the military ion cannon itself.

There are three differences between gold manufacturing equipment and military ion cannons. One is the radar calibration system, one is the complex electronic system, and the last is the intensity of the emitted ion clusters.

Military-use ion cannons fire ion clusters with higher energy intensity.

While the gold manufacturing equipment was rapidly achieving mass production, three standardized prototypes of the military ion cannon were also built.

The standardized prototype will officially enter service after passing the test, and will also serve as a reference for future mass-produced prototypes.

The speed at which the military ion cannon is manufactured and put into service is consistent with the plan at the capital meeting.

In just over a year, we can have standardized prototypes ready for testing, which is very fast.

The military ion cannon test also made the news because the test target was a satellite at an altitude of 1050 kilometers.

Each standardized prototype struck the target more than a dozen times, hitting the target once in four times on average, which is a very high hit rate.

Most importantly, a single prototype will fire two ion bursts toward the target satellite in each phase, with an average interval of only six and a half minutes between launches.

Each phase refers to the 'optimal strike area' of the satellite's orbit.

When the satellite leaves the optimal strike zone, the hit rate of the ion cannon will drop sharply, or even become impossible to hit. The only way to launch the attack is to wait until the next stage, when the satellite orbits the earth and returns to the optimal strike zone.

Six and a half minutes between ion cannon firings is not the limit.

Now a single prototype is supported by an ion ring accelerator. If there are two accelerators, the launch interval can be reduced to four minutes.

Each prototype underwent more than a dozen satellite strike tests. After passing the tests, other tests were carried out, including strike tests on low-altitude targets, high-altitude targets, and targets at an altitude of tens of kilometers.

With so many tests, it is impossible to keep them confidential.

There were a lot of reports in the international news, "Mysterious satellite weapons have reappeared and are frequently hitting target satellites!"

"The target satellite is at an altitude of 1050 kilometers. It is an abandoned satellite, but it is still functioning normally."

"The mysterious satellite weapon not only hit the target satellite, but also conducted a missile strike experiment at an altitude of 35 to 37 kilometers, causing a large amount of thick smoke in the sky..."

"1050 kilometers is not a new altitude, but it is enough to show that satellites below 1200 kilometers are within the strike range of the mysterious satellite weapon!"

"Satellites outside the 1200-kilometer range are also very likely to be threatened by attacks..."

Such a large number of reports attracted countless attention, and many foreign reporters came to the press conference for interviews.

The press officer responded very clearly, "We are just conducting routine testing of ion anti-aircraft weapons."

"The main target of the test is a discarded satellite. After the strike, there will be no wreckage, no space debris, and no threat to the space environment."

"In addition, it is estimated that the target satellite will crash naturally less than two months after the test."

"The testing of new weapons is necessary to protect security and is our own business. It does not require international attention..."

What follows is just some clichés.

After the press conference, the topic of the mysterious satellite weapon reached a boiling point, and the name of the "ion anti-aircraft weapon" appeared in the news for the first time.

There is still a lot of attention in the follow-up, but the focus is not on the ion-to-air weapons themselves, but on the unknown nuclear reactions caused by the ion clusters.

Unknown nuclear reactions look very scary.

At the same time, the unknown nuclear reaction is also related to gold manufacturing technology, which makes people want to explore more.

In fact, the Ministry of Energy, the military and other agencies on the other side of the earth already have more intelligence information.

At the meeting of the Nuclear Organization, relevant representatives disclosed intelligence information, "According to the inspection of the wreckage of the experimental accident equipment, we found that the wreckage contained some elements that should not have existed."

"After a lot of research, investigation and analysis, we believe that the reaction caused by the experimental accident is very likely consistent with an unknown nuclear reaction."

"It could be a nuclear reaction that changes the properties of a large number of elements, causing each element to lose protons and transform into other elements."

"The reaction process will release a lot of heat, and the newly emerged elements will also undergo complex chemical reactions with other elements and air molecules, thus producing a lot of smoke."

This information made the relevant personnel more interested in the experiment.

If we can research the unknown nuclear reactions within it through experiments, or even develop the technology to actively create reactions, gold manufacturing will no longer be unique to the country, and other national institutions will also be able to use it to develop "ion anti-aircraft weapons."

After the meeting, the experiment received even more support.

It seemed that it was not just a basic physics experiment, but an experiment to uncover the secrets of the "mysterious nuclear reaction" and to develop ion-to-air weapons and gold manufacturing technology.

The meaning and value of the experiment also become completely different.

For a period of time afterwards, many important figures visited the experimental base of the Nuclear Organization, and Arthur Kaster, the main person in charge of the experiment, became the focus of the focus.

Custer told each important figure about the chaos field experiment and used data to illustrate the location of the experimental accidents.

By now, any voices of opposition are meaningless. Ion anti-aircraft weapons and gold manufacturing technology are so important that even if there are voices of opposition, they will be suppressed immediately.

Custer also discovered that no one who came here cared about safety issues.

They only care about what discoveries will be made in the experiment, what prospects the experiment will have, whether it is related to the mysterious nuclear reaction, whether technology can be developed, and so on.

But technology-related intelligence is external information.

He had no idea what the experiment would reveal, not to mention any mysterious nuclear reactions and technologies. Everything was out of his control.

……

Half a month has passed.

Zhang Shuo is very concerned about the risks of the chaos force field experiment.

He is always researching.

The A-level task that required one thousand scientific research coins was still very difficult, but with a lot of experiments spent on research and key points of "氪coin" to point out the direction, the research progress was still very fast.

The research was completed for the day.

He submitted the task immediately, and immediately sorted out the relevant information in his mind, and couldn't help but frowned.

"The research is not finished yet!"

“I just know the general means to impose restrictions, but I don’t know the specific methods.”

"Further experiments are needed..."

There are still many gains from research.

The first is the issue of the safety risks of the experiment. As we initially judged, the safety risks are indeed very high.

It can even be said that when high-intensity energy erupts, the safety modifications and protections made by the team are of little significance.

This is mainly because the intensity of the burst energy is too high.

Without clear theoretical support, accurate calculations cannot be performed, and Zhang Shuo can only make a rough estimate based on the information provided.

The highest intensity of the energy burst in the experiment was even greater than that of the military's ion cannon attack experiments.

It’s horrible just to think about it.

In the military-use ion cannon attack experiment, a large hole of more than ten meters will be eroded at the target location, and huge energy will be emitted.

The reaction itself has force field corrosiveness and is not a direct explosion. However, because it occurs in a laboratory, it is surrounded by high-power equipment. The experimental equipment is also connected to a particle accelerator. As long as there is a high-intensity energy burst, it will inevitably cause a violent explosion.

"An energy explosion of this intensity, coupled with the unstoppable force field erosion..."

"All safety precautions are useless!"

Research will naturally produce results.

He said that he has found a way to limit strong diffusion, which is regulated by a special material, and the regulation method can be understood as a "strong reverse regulation" effect.

Strong regulating materials are the "theoretical materials" in Zhang Shuo's research process.

When in a strong force field or temperature field, strong force regulating materials will exhibit characteristics related to strong force.

For example, maintaining a strong state with a specific reaction.

This allows nuclear fusion reactions that have not reached the critical explosion temperature and are insufficient to continue to proceed.

What is needed now is a specific "strong reverse regulation" material that can hinder the diffusion of strong force fields when encountering strong diffusion effects.

The task is to conduct theoretical research, which only points out the method to solve the problem, but does not know what specific materials to use.

“But the direction has been set.”

"Strong barrier materials definitely exist. We can ask Liu Xu's team for a lot of experimental data. If there are materials, substances or single elements that have barrier properties to strong reactions, they may be a barrier material..."

After Zhang Shuo found the right direction, he prepared to go to the gold manufacturing base.

The testing center there has a large amount of ion cannon strike experimental data. Perhaps the obstructing material can be found just by looking at the test data of the strike damage.

Even if we cannot find it directly, we can find several materials with high correlation and then measure it experimentally.

After making the decision, Zhang Shuo went to the capital first.

He went to the Science and Technology Department and talked with Teacher Wang about the work of the Chaos Force Field Project Committee, including the construction plan of the experimental base, personnel issues of nearby experimental teams, the establishment of an international cooperation organization for the Chaos Force Field Project, and so on.

The safety transformation work at the Institute of High Energy Physics' experimental base has now been suspended.

Teacher Wang also showed special concern.

Zhang Shuo said, "I'm going to Liu Xu's team to look at the test data of the ion cannon's experimental wreckage."

“Afterwards, if there are any results, the equipment safety modification plan will be readjusted.”

He just gave a general idea.

Professor Wang also talked about the international news that the nuclear organization determined that the reaction to the experimental accident was directly related to the ion cannon and gold manufacturing. "They seem to think that the research on the chaotic force field can be related to the nuclear force splitting reaction and related technologies."

"There is indeed a certain connection." Zhang Shuo confirmed the news.

Teacher Wang asked doubtfully, "Can they develop technology through experiments?"

"That is impossible."

Zhang Shuo sneered and shook his head. "What a wild idea! Chaos force field is a study of force field transformation, which is related to the four great forces. The purpose of the experiment is to explore the basic principles of physics, and it has nothing to do with technology."

He frowned as he spoke, and then said, "We all understand the technology and experiments. Should we remind them to pay attention to the risks of the experiments?"

"you mean……?"

"The experiment is very risky," Zhang Shuo said affirmatively. "According to my research, the experiment could produce reactions and energy at a level higher than the intensity of an ion cannon attack."

"In the face of this level of energy explosion, any safety protection is meaningless."

"By then, it might be another experimental accident."

Teacher Wang frowned and thought for a while, his expression became serious, and he nodded, "I understand."

"I will discuss it with others and see how to say it specifically."

The next day there was another international press conference.

After the press conference had been going on for a while, a foreign reporter asked questions about the experimental accident and unknown nuclear reactions.

"According to the investigation, the unknown physical reaction that occurred in the experimental accident is consistent with the nuclear reaction released by ion-to-air weapons. Excuse me, is this true?"

After these questions were raised, everyone present became very serious.

Many of them believed that the press officer would not give a direct answer because the question was related to ion-aircraft weapon technology.

“I can’t answer that question.”

The press officer's first words were what many people thought, but the following explanation was completely different. "The chaos field is a new physical discovery, and our research in related fields has just begun."

"We don't know the detection information of the experimental accident."

"After the experimental accident, the whole world realized that there are safety risks in the chaos force field experiment. Domestic related experimental research has also been suspended. We must ensure safety before we can continue the experiment."

The press officer paused for a moment, then said seriously, "Here, I would like to specifically talk about Professor Zhang Shuo's attitude towards the safety of the chaos force field experiment."

"Professor Zhang Shuo believes that chaotic force field experiments pose huge safety risks, and so far we have not yet mastered the technical means to effectively resist the risks."

"Before researching the technology to resist the risk, do not conduct chaos force field research experiments at the location of the experimental accident node."

"If an organization insists on conducting experiments regardless of the risks, we must be prepared to bear the consequences."

"We have no right to interfere in the scientific research affairs of other institutions, but as a responsible major country at the forefront of new physics research, we must give special reminders here. Don't say we didn't warn you..."

(End of this chapter)