Heavy Nuclear Fusion

After sending the Mother Body away, the human fleet, under Yue Yuan's orders, destroyed and slaughtered the remaining Residential Spaceship of the Kun-Tai Civilization.

Except for the Lyra, all the other Mountain-Class Warship were present, including all of humanity's Callisto-Class Warship and Escort Ship. With a wave of the hand from Man Yuemei, they all launched a massacre on the Kun-Tai Civilization's Residential Spaceship.

Ninety-seven Residential Spaceship, housing over six million Kuntai People, offered no resistance. In less than ten minutes, they were all reduced to space debris under intense bombardment.

Pierce's plan to wait for the Silver Heart Alliance Broadcast, along with the roar of human naval cannons, turned into dust floating in the Aldebaran.

It can be said that Yue Yuan was the culprit behind this real massacre of the Kuntai People, but he felt no remorse. Of course, he was also unaware of Pierce's plan.

He watched the entire process from the moment the order was given until all the Kuntai Residential Spaceship were destroyed. After that, he turned back to his work.

The rebellious spirit of the Kun-Tai Civilization was eventually completely eradicated. The remaining 10,000-plus newborns were then kept in captivity by humans and used in research on human Life Science.

A civilization's database is very comprehensive. Even though the Kun-Tai Civilization here lost its home planet and, like humanity, lost a lot, their preparations were still quite adequate. Although they lost some of their Technology Tree, it wasn't as severe as humanity's.

Therefore, in addition to Life Science and Cold Nuclear Fusion, humanity has unearthed many other things from the database of the Kun-Tai Civilization.

Examples include the computer technology, cosmological model theory, and Standard Particle Model of the Kun-Tai Civilization, as well as humanities and social data, ideology, and so on.

Of course, apart from Cold Nuclear Fusion, all other technologies are at the level of Tier 1 Civilization.

However, even at the level of Tier 1 Civilization, many theories are ahead of humanity, such as Heavy Nuclear Fusion.

The Kun-Tai Civilization has been researching Heavy Nuclear Fusion for thousands of years, but the reason for its lack of progress is clearly stated in their database: the limitations of Particle Physics. So, in the end, the Kun-Tai Civilization had to rediscover the Magnetic Confinement that had been abandoned for many years.

Knowing this, human physicists followed this line of thought and began to launch an attack on Heavy Nuclear Fusion technology.

The principle of a hydrogen bomb is based on the fusion reaction of isotopes of hydrogen, a reaction typically triggered by the fission of Atomic Bomb. The reason is simple: temperature and pressure.

Humans have now mastered the Helium Nuclear Fusion nuclei, both of which are relatively light elements, meaning they are elements located near the beginning of the Periodic Table. Therefore, this type of Nuclear Fusion is also known as light nucleus Nuclear Fusion.

Obviously, Heavy Nuclear Fusion is the nuclear fusion that enables elements further down the Periodic Table to undergo Nuclear Fusion.

Both operate on the same principle: nuclear fusion, resulting in mass loss and the generation of energy.

However, the technical difficulty is on a completely different level.

The heavier the Atomic Nucleus, the higher the temperature and pressure required for fusion.

Take stars as an example. Stars have enormous Gravity, which gives them strong centripetal pressure. Therefore, the temperature requirements for Nuclear Fusion that occurs on stars are relatively low.

Generally speaking, the temperature required for stellar Hydrogen Nuclear Fusion is 10 million Kelvin, which is 10 million minus 273.15 degrees Celsius, roughly ten million degrees Celsius.

Helium fusion requires a temperature of 200 million Kelvin, corresponding to a star size of 0.5 times the mass of the Sun and a density of 6 x 10² grams per cubic centimeter. This means that for helium nuclei to undergo fusion, the environment must meet at least a temperature of 200 million Kelvin and an equivalent internal pressure environment produced by an object with a mass of 0.5 times that of the Sun.

Carbon Nuclear Fusion requires 800 million Kelvin, corresponding to a pressure environment of 4 solar masses. Oxygen Nuclear Fusion requires 1.5 billion Kelvin, corresponding to a pressure environment of 6 solar masses. Silicon Nuclear Fusion requires 3.5 billion Kelvin, corresponding to a pressure environment of 9 solar masses.

Therefore, if humanity wants to achieve Heavy Nuclear Fusion, it must be able to create a temperature environment of at least 800 million Kelvin. If it wants to "burn rocks" to produce the final product iron, it would need 3.5 billion Kelvin and a pressure environment of up to 9 solar masses.

Such high temperatures are beyond the capacity of any material to withstand. After all, the most powerful materials currently available to humankind can only withstand temperatures up to 150 million degrees Celsius, and the pressure resistance is far greater.

In fact, humans have the ability to create temperatures even higher than these. For example, the Proton Collider at European Nuclear Research Center has created temperatures of 10 trillion degrees Celsius.

Of course, these are just temperatures at that instant; the volume is too small, and they are only temperatures. Humans cannot create such high and sustained temperatures.

In other words, humanity has not mastered the technology of Nuclear Fusion in one step.

Since a one-step solution is not feasible, human scientists have found alternative approaches, proceeding step by step. If the pressure conditions are too high to achieve, then they increase the temperature and decrease the pressure, and vice versa.

Just like oxygen Nuclear Fusion, a pressure environment of 6 solar masses requires 1.5 billion Kelvin, but if the pressure environment is changed to 10 solar masses, the temperature will become 200 million Kelvin.

The same applies to silicon Nuclear Fusion. If a pressure environment of 20 solar masses can be achieved, then only 300 million degrees Celsius is needed to realize it.

What human scientists need to do now is to combine their own technology with that of the Kun-Tai Civilization to conduct repeated experiments on these various possible conditions for Heavy Nuclear Fusion.

Humanity has made remarkable achievements in Magnetic Confinement, while the Kun-Tai Civilization has achieved remarkable success in Inertial Confinement. Magnetic Confinement excels at increasing temperature, while Inertial Confinement excels at increasing pressure. Now, humanity possesses the most advanced technologies of both, aiming to reach the pinnacle of Nuclear Fusion technology.

Humanity must master a power greater than that of the sun.

Yes, it has more power than the sun, but not the power of a supernova.

The power of a supernova is enough to create all Heavy Element after iron, Heavy Nuclear Fusion cannot, because its final product is iron, which is many orders of magnitude less powerful than a supernova.

Even though it is far less powerful than a supernova, it is still extremely difficult for humanity at present.

Even the terrifying temperature and pressure conditions seem more hopeless than Cold Nuclear Fusion.

Of course, this is only what it appears to be. In reality, without the already mature Cold Nuclear Fusion technology of the Kun-Tai Civilization, humanity would still be in the stage of theoretically proving the feasibility of Cold Nuclear Fusion.

From this perspective, Cold Nuclear Fusion, rather than Heavy Nuclear Fusion, is the technology that offers no hope. Fortunately, humanity has access to the complete set of Cold Nuclear Fusion theories and technologies.