Beginning the Sophon Design!

Compared to traditional matter, antimatter annihilation can occur spontaneously, without requiring the many conditions necessary for traditional energy sources.

It's an energy technology on a level even higher than nuclear reaction.

To be more specific, the Elementary Particles of antimatter are not just positrons and antiprotons, but a wide variety of other particles.

For example, antimu mesons, antipi mesons, etc., but most of these particles cannot be effectively stored. If we consider the application of energy, only antiprotons and positrons can be used.

Since antimatter and matter will annihilate each other when they meet, the mass of both will be converted into energy.

This level of energy is enormous.

Based on data calculations, it is approximately 10 billion times the chemical reaction of hydrogen hydration and 300 times the thermonuclear reaction in the core of the Sun!

A massive Universe Spaceship could travel hundreds of light-years using just 100 milligrams of antimatter.

The biggest challenge in Antimatter Engines is the extraction and storage of antimatter. First, the antimatter needs to be extracted. If the traditional energy conversion formula is used, producing antimatter would require a huge amount of energy, making it extremely inefficient.

Furthermore, because it is antimatter, it will annihilate and explode immediately upon encountering matter. Therefore, it cannot be stored in any matter-containing containers.

This necessitates the use of magnetic fields to preserve these antimatter Elementary Particles.

These technological challenges are difficult to solve in reality, but fortunately, this is the Creation Space.

As long as the logic is correct, anything is possible.

[Dear Designer, the Antimatter Engine design is underway...]

[According to the data from the One-Click Simulation, the success rate of your submitted basic data is 70%. Would you like to modify the plan?]

"No need to modify it, just simulate it like this for now."

"If the calculation fails, my assistant Alice will help submit a new design idea."

[Order received! The Antimatter Engine of the Trisolaris has entered the formal design phase!]

Energy is always the most fundamental element of a civilization, and the distinction between a primitive civilization and Level One Civilization lies in whether it can fully utilize the planet's energy.

With energy, all subsequent technological developments can be achieved.

With its highly efficient Antimatter Engine, the Three-Body Problem truly deserve to be called Level Two Civilization, at least from this perspective alone.

However, simply possessing Antimatter Engine is not enough; the Trisolaran Civilization also needs truly lethal weapons.

Sophon and Droplets.

"Phew." Lin Ye let out a long sigh of relief.

It's really asking too much of him to create those two things on his own.

All he could understand was a general, basic principle of these two things.

"Alice... I hope you can leverage your expertise as Artificial Intelligence expert to help me improve these two things."

I can only offer a framework.

First, there's Sophon.

The term "Sophon" has two meanings. In its traditional sense, it refers to an intelligent microscopic particle that has been modified from a proton through two-dimensional unfolding, capable of tasks such as communication, reconnaissance, and interference with high-energy particle accelerators.

In the context of the Three-Body Problem World, it was actually the basic science created by the Trisolarans to monitor Earthlings and lock down the planet.

This thing is absolutely terrifying; it has completely turned humans into caged birds.

It can obtain energy from the vacuum, fly at speeds extremely close to the speed of light, and achieve instantaneous communication using quantum entanglement. It can also use microscopic high-dimensional space to enter any place and freely switch its own dimensions.

Furthermore, Sophons can also achieve real-time communication over arbitrary distances through quantum entanglement!

Lin Ye transmitted all the information about the Sophon that he had learned in "The Three-Body Problem" from his previous life to the Creation Space without reservation!

The generation of Sophon requires at least four steps.

The first step: Low-Dimensional Unfolding technology for protons!

Because protons have a high dimension, a giant particle accelerator is needed to expand them into a lower dimension.

This step is the easiest of the four.

The second step involves Circuit Etching onto a two-dimensional proton. This technique involves twisting together the Strong Interaction in a localized area of the proton plane to form a circuit.

To accomplish this step, one must first master the application of materials with strong mutual forces.

The third step involves a technique to refold the two-dimensionally unfolded protons into High-Dimensional Folding.

The difficulty of high-dimensional folding is on a completely different level compared to Low-Dimensional Unfolding.

This kind of rise and fall isn't something that can be done by simply spreading it out like a pancake.

Maintaining the original high-dimensional structural information when moving from high to low dimensions is already very difficult.

If Low-Dimensional Unfolding to high dimensions and still maintain the original characteristics, that becomes even more difficult.

As for the fourth step, it involves a technique that enables the modified protons to undergo reversible Low-Dimensional Unfolding and High-Dimensional Folding.

This is the most difficult technique.

In other words, it means having complete control over the methods of transformation between lower and higher dimensions.

While Low-Dimensional Unfolding, information about the high-dimensional structure is preserved, making the entire process reversible and allowing the reduced-dimensional object to be restored to a higher dimension.

In fact, making a process reversible does not mean that you can arbitrarily make the process proceed in the direction you want.

Lin Ye remembered that when the Trisolarans launched these Sophons at humanity, since there were no instruments on Earth to make protons change dimensions, it meant that the Sophons had to be able to change dimensions spontaneously.

This level of difficulty is off the charts.

The difficulty of the first three techniques is completely insignificant compared to this fourth one.

Let alone the fourth step, even the first step was confusing for Lin Ye.

Therefore, all Lin Ye could do was input these principles and logics, allowing the Creation Space and Alice to simulate and test them back and forth.

If the overall logic is correct, it can definitely be done; it's just a matter of time.

If all else fails, we can just use One-Click Error Correction to force it out.

However, if we consider a monthly cycle, Lin Ye can only use the One-Click Error Correction permission three times.

Unless absolutely necessary, this feature should be used sparingly.

Because Earth Online might still have urgent problems that need to be solved.