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Chapter 1138: Chapter 559 Our Satellite Has Orbital Deviation!_1

When Zhao Yi decided to carry out the anti-gravity nuclear experiment, he had only speculated, through his research on space, that spatial barriers might affect nuclear reactions. However, to what extent they would be affected still required actual experiments to draw conclusions.

After conducting the anti-gravity nuclear experiment, the results brought many insights, laying the foundation for subsequent discoveries of spatial shields.

In fact, up to this point, life was confined to the study of photons creating spatial barriers, yet it had not involved the true decoding of space.

Now it was different.

The thirteen sets of formulas relating photons to space had enabled a detailed analysis of their relationship, which in turn allowed Zhao Yi to gain a deeper understanding of space and learn about some of its characteristics.

For example, when the compressive effect of space weakens, it does not affect the maximum speed of massless particles, which means photons, neutrinos, and other particles can still travel at the speed of light within a spatial barrier.

However, particles with mass, due to the weakening of spatial compression, will have their maximum speed limited.

It is actually quite understandable: spatial compression comes from all directions, both inside and outside the particle. The constant action of compressive forces can increase particle activity. Without it, the activity decreases, just like fish in water, which can move freely, but placed in the less pressurized environment of air, simply cannot swim at all.

This analogy may not be entirely appropriate, but it helps with understanding.

In any case, Zhao Yi’s increased understanding of space led him to confirm that particles within spatial barriers would indeed have a maximum speed.

Unaffected by spatial barriers, the maximum speed of a particle is the speed of light, which means controlled nuclear fusion reactions almost have no upper limit and must be controlled during the process.

If there is a maximum speed limit for particles, then the reaction speed would become stable, which would also stabilize the speed of nuclear fusion. freewёbnoνel.com

Of course.

As to the specific relationship between spatial barriers and particle speed, Zhao Yi was unable to calculate that because his understanding of nuclear physics was still limited, and specific data would have to be resolved through experimentation.

Upon hearing Zhao Yi’s statements, Chen Zeshu became somewhat excited and asked in amazement, "Are you sure?"

"Of course!"

Zhao Yi nodded affirmatively.

Contemplating, Chen Zeshu said, "If there is an upper limit to the speed of particles within the spatial barrier zone, theoretically, nuclear fusion would be stable. But we still need to see what the specific limit is."

"If the limit is acceptable, then during the process, we only need to ensure the stability of the spatial barrier’s effect."

"That means the nuclear fusion device would no longer have unsolvable technical difficulties—"

Chen Zeshu’s tone grew excited as he spoke. He had always been engaged in related research and was keenly aware of the difficulties of controlled nuclear fusion devices: controlling and maintaining the fusion state.

One aspect is restraining the reaction speed.

Nuclear fusion is an exponential burst reaction. For instance, the collision between deuterium nuclei and hydrogen atomic nuclei requires temperatures as high as fifty million degrees Celsius, whereas the fusion of deuterium nuclei requires a temperature of one hundred million degrees Celsius.

It is precisely because of the extremely demanding reaction conditions that the saying goes, "an atomic bomb ignites a hydrogen bomb."

This is also known as the difficulty of "ignition."

Once ignited, nuclear fusion rapidly occurs. For example, initially two atomic nuclei react, which then gets transmitted to four, four to eight, and so on, in an exponentially bursting growth, leading to temperatures that quickly become uncontrollable.

Without control, it would simply be the principle of a hydrogen bomb explosion.

Controlled nuclear fusion certainly requires managing the reaction. However, controlling an exponentially growing burst reaction is incredibly challenging.

Reaction speed is one thing, but another aspect is the reaction temperature. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

When nuclear fusion occurs, the temperature also rapidly rises. One hundred million degrees Celsius is just the theoretical "particle temperature," an explanation of particle speed and state, but since particle density isn’t high, the temperature transmitted to the outer layers isn’t that extreme. However, the external temperature can still be greatly affected and, if not controlled well, can easily damage the device itself.

And so on.

The issue of constraining nuclear fusion is the greatest difficulty in controlled nuclear fusion, and there are several methods to constrain it. The most effective method is magnetic confinement, using magnetic fields to confine particles. It can theoretically control nuclear fusion, but generating a magnetic field strong enough to constrain nuclear fusion, without considering costs, requires a tremendous amount of energy, perhaps even surpassing the output energy of the nuclear fusion device itself.

That would be a loss-making proposition.

Any energy device that seeks to be applied must achieve an output greater than input, which means the output of the energy device must be greater than the energy spent on providing that output.

The biggest problem with nuclear fusion devices is that controlling the fusion reaction consumes too much energy.

Without considering the problem of controlling the reaction, making the device output greater than the input becomes much easier.

Other technical challenges include ignition, energy output device design, and compatibility with anti-gravity devices.

And so on.

These are all solvable problems.

Chen Zeshu suddenly became very excited. He confirmed with Zhao Yi several times before he believed that there was an upper limit to the speed of particles in a spatially blocked state, and he couldn’t help but want to start experimenting right away.