Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 81 Cherenkov Liquid
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Yue Yuan finally came to the conclusion that whether he created it or not, as a leader of civilization, he must shoulder this responsibility appropriately.

The manufacturing instructions were quickly sent to the engineers. After familiarizing themselves with the manufacturing instructions, the neutrino communicator quickly entered the parts production stage with the cooperation of other departments.

The instruction manual is very detailed, ranging from the overall frame to the small chip structure. There are corresponding instructions and detailed drawings for everything.Humans only need to follow the manufacturing instructions and follow the instructions, but after all, it is a thing of advanced civilization. Even if humans follow the instructions, it will still be very difficult.

There are many materials in the manual that I have never even heard of, and I don’t know what they do.Fortunately, the 'Mining Patroller' seems to have foreseen this situation. Those material structures that humans have never seen before have detailed synthesis steps in the instructions.

It's all good to say.

What confuses humans is the core component, which is the basic functional component and triggering component of the transmitting and receiving device.

According to the instructions, the neutrino communicator is powered by electrical energy, but the transmitter outputs a neutrino signal, which is very puzzling to humans.

There is no reason why in the manufacturing instructions. Human beings speculate based on their own knowledge system that it should be some kind of electroweak interaction mechanism, that is, a mechanism that uses the relationship between electromagnetic force and weak interaction force.

But the specific mechanism by which the signal receiving end of this neutrino communicator operates and what mathematical formulas it operates are a black box to humans.

The so-called black box is just like writing "neutrino communicator signal receiving end" on a box that cannot be seen inside, and then this box is the neutrino communicator signal receiving end.

Because according to human understanding of neutrinos, these particles are extremely small, uncharged, and have minimal interaction with other materials, so they can easily pass through the human body, buildings, and even the earth and the sun.

There are currently three types of neutrinos identified by humans, namely electric neutrinos, muon neutrinos, and tau neutrinos. The corresponding leptons are electrons, muons, and tau neutrinos respectively.These three types of neutrinos are uncharged and do not participate in electromagnetic interaction and strong interaction, but participate in weak interaction and gravitational interaction.

All kinds of weak interactions between particles will produce neutrinos. Stars are the largest source of neutrinos, so they flood the universe and travel freely at a speed slightly less than the speed of light.

Based on the understanding of the characteristics of neutrinos, humans believe that neutrino detectors must be large enough. The signal receiving end of the neutrino detector and the neutrino communicator are actually the same thing. Therefore, humans take it for granted that neutrino detectors must be large enough. The sub-communicator must be a pretty big thing.

Just like the Super-Kamiokande detector, its main part is composed of a stainless steel cylindrical container with a height of 41.4 meters and a diameter of 39.3 meters. It contains 11200 tons of ultrapure water. It takes two weeks to fill it with water.There are [-] photomultiplier tubes on the inner wall of its container, which are used to detect Cherenkov radiation produced when high-speed neutrinos pass through water.

Humans usually use this method to detect neutrinos.

But now this neutrino communicator is very small.

When humans completed it, they found that it was only as big as a car, but it contained everything.It is equivalent to cramming the entire previous human neutrino detection station into such a small space, including the launch end that the neutrino detector does not have.

This is really incredible to humans.

It took a total of nearly two months for humans to get the manufacturing instructions, study and understand the instructions, and then follow the instructions to complete the production.After the neutrino communicator was built, it was not transported to the Hope command center for installation. Instead, it was placed in a separate equipment room in a cabin.

For safety reasons, the neutrino communicator was not connected to the Hope network. Instead, several special computers were placed in its equipment room to record the signals received by the communicator, which were then processed by the 'Light of the Tianhe' translate.

After the arrangement was completed, Yue Yuan led a large group of scientists and many sociology experts to the location of the neutrino communicator.

"Chief, the transmitter device of the communicator indeed utilizes the principle of electroweak interaction, but the receiver uses not ultrapure water, but a liquid with the chemical formula ********."

As soon as Yue Yuan led everyone into the cabin where the communicator was placed, Zhao Youqin, who had been making various line connections for the communicator, introduced him with a smile on his face.

You could tell he was happy.

"We have tested that this liquid also has the effect of Cherenkov radiation and is more sensitive than ultrapure water. What's even more amazing is that it can be reused. Well, it should be said that it reflects three types of neutrinos. For different Cherenkov radiation angles, we only need to apply a pulse current of a specific frequency to it, and it will return to its original state.

The receiving end of this neutrino communicator uses this effect to achieve information communication.Oh, by the way, we named this liquid Cherenkov liquid. "

The so-called Cherenkov radiation refers to a kind of electromagnetic radiation mainly of short wavelength that occurs when the speed of an object in a medium exceeds the speed of light in the medium. It has obvious directionality and strong polarization characteristics.

Discovered by Soviet physicist Bacherenkov.Scientists now name this liquid Cherenkov liquid, probably in memory of this scientist.

Zhao Youqin's excitement seemed to still be there, and he continued with a glowing face: "While manufacturing the signal transmitter of the communicator according to the instructions, we also found some clues, and we can confirm that the core converter works based on the principle of weak electric interaction.
But we haven’t figured out the specific mathematical model involved in the transformation process. At this stage, we only know that it is manufactured according to the instructions, and the signal source is also, oh no. We also did not follow the instructions because our technology is not up to standard, so we chose an alternative. , it seems feasible now. "

"Oh? What alternative?" Yue Yuan asked curiously.

"Hey, it's just a miniaturized fission reactor. The instructions given by the 'mine patroller' used a small fusion reactor. How can we build such a thing?"

"Small-scale nuclear fusion? Are there no specific details in the instructions?" Yue Yuan was happy when he heard these two keywords.He didn't ask about the specific technical details, so he didn't know about it.

"No," Zhao Youqin shook his head and sighed. He also felt very sorry.

However, nuclear fission can also be used as a source of neutrinos, which is not a big problem.Moreover, the key to the neutrino communicator is not actually the source of neutrinos, but the converter that can convert neutrinos into a recognizable signal.

That thing is really black technology for humans.

(End of this chapter)