Level 2 Civilization

However, the changes brought about by the transformation from quantitative to qualitative change made humanity truly realize just how powerful Level 2 Civilization really is.

Of course, scientific progress is never achieved overnight.

Humanity's achievement of Heavy Nuclear Fusion is the culmination of countless years and numerous related technologies. Similarly, the process of claiming the crown of Heavy Nuclear Fusion technology was also accomplished step by step.

Over the past eighty years, humanity has made continuous progress based on Helium Nuclear Fusion.

The first thing to be achieved was the Carbon Fusion into Neon.

Using high-temperature and high-pressure resistant materials as fusion reactors, humanity managed to withstand the high-temperature environment Carbon Fusion into Neon, thanks to materials replicated from an alien spaceship that crashed on Callisto.

However, this material couldn't withstand the stage where Neon Fusion into Oxygen, because the temperature required for this stage exceeds 150 million degrees Celsius. This temperature clearly exceeds the melting point of this metal.

Fortunately, humans did not foolishly try to resist the material, but instead used it as a basis to build equipment and high-temperature and high-pressure resistant components, and then used an ultra-strong magnetic field to confine the fusion material.

With the involvement of a magnetic field, there is no need for materials and equipment to directly withstand high temperatures and pressures.

This is easy to imagine, because the high temperature and high pressure required for fusion are not the high temperature and high pressure on the inner wall of the container, but the high temperature and high pressure on the fusion material itself.

Under magnetic field confinement, Nuclear Fusion can occur as long as the environment in which the fusion material itself is located meets the requirements for a fusion environment.

Humans utilized this principle to achieve the breakthrough of Neon Fusion into Oxygen.

Oxygen Nuclear Fusion, on the other hand, involves the Oxygen Nuclear Fusion into Magnesium, requiring a minimum temperature of 200 million degrees Celsius and a pressure environment generated by the gravity of ten suns.

For humans, raising the temperature is obviously easier than creating a harsh, stressful environment.

With the experience gained from previous neon Nuclear Fusion, humanity quickly devised a solution, or rather, a direction to move forward.

That is to continue strengthening the magnetic field and then continue to increase the velocity of the plasma jet to increase the temperature. As the temperature increases, the pressure requirement will naturally decrease.

After seventeen years of struggle, humanity finally made this breakthrough.

The breakthrough in Magnesium Nuclear Fusion actually occurred when scientists initially predicted it would take another thirty years.

Those who have memorized the Periodic Table know that after magnesium comes aluminum, and after aluminum comes silicon. Silicon fusion is the goal of humankind in Heavy Nuclear Fusion.

Creating pressure to withstand pressure is more difficult than increasing temperature to withstand temperature, so scientists decided to use the old methods and routes to continue increasing the temperature and the speed of the plasma flow.

Increasing the temperature and the speed of the plasma flow sounds simple, but it is actually very difficult.

As is well known, Nuclear Fusion fuel is not simply thrown into the fusion reactor. Instead, the fuel is first heated and vaporized into plasma before being pumped into the reaction chamber.

Only plasma can be confined by a magnetic field; normal, uncharged matter cannot.

It's easy to imagine how high the technical requirements are.

First, humanity must have sufficient capacity to vaporize matter into plasma, and confined fusion technology plays a crucial role in this.

The process of pumping plasma into the reaction chamber requires an extremely powerful magnetic field to accelerate the plasma to its limit. Only an ultra-strong magnetic field can ensure that the reaction chamber constructed by humans will not be breached by the ultra-high-speed plasma.

So the thirty years that were originally planned were actually mostly allocated to research on how to increase magnetic field strength and how to control ultra-strong magnetic fields.

How to obtain a super-powerful yet stable and controllable magnetic field has been a subject of arduous research for mankind for the past thirty years.

So how do we strengthen the magnetic field? The answer lies in Maxwell's Equations.

First, electric current. The magnetic field produced by passing an electric current through a conductor is an electromagnetic field, so the magnetic field strength can be increased by increasing the current intensity.

Second, solenoids. By winding a wire around a solenoid and passing an electric current through it, a strong electromagnetic field can also be created. The more layers of wire winding, the stronger the magnetic field.

Third, reflectors, also called Electromagnetic Wave reflectors. The principle is to reflect Electromagnetic Wave, thereby increasing the magnetic field strength.

Fourth, lasers. Lasers can be used to generate high-frequency Electromagnetic Wave, and when these high-frequency Electromagnetic Wave are concentrated together, they will produce an extremely strong magnetic field.

Fifth, high-voltage discharge. High-voltage discharge can generate extremely strong magnetic fields in the surrounding environment; however, this method is generally only used to study the behavior of electromagnetic fields in different environments.

There seem to be many methods, but in the end it all comes down to current and coils.

This brings us back to the issue of materials science, specifically the development of superconducting magnets with extremely strong magnetic fields. Only superconducting magnets can provide humanity with ultra-strong magnetic fields that exhibit very small and stable changes in magnetic field strength. This is because the material properties of superconductivity allow it to generate stable magnetic fields in a perpetual current mode, without the concern of conductor overheating due to ultra-strong currents.

So how are superconducting magnet materials obtained?

Well, that's not a very big question. After all, as early as the 21st century, scientists used cryogenic cooling to create superconducting magnets, generating magnetic fields exceeding 10T without the use of liquid helium. Some countries have even successfully established laboratories with strong magnetic fields exceeding 20T through research on superconducting magnets.

T stands for Tesla, the unit of magnetic field.

A magnetic field strength of 1T is roughly equivalent to the magnetic field strength of a magnet inside a 13kg megaphone. A hospital's MRI machine has a magnetic field strength of approximately 3T. The magnetic field strength of a sunspot is approximately 10T.

The laboratory equipment that can levitate a frog in the air generates a magnetic field strength of approximately 16T.

Back in the 21st century, the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a strong magnetic field of 45.22T, which broke America's record that had been held for 23 years.

This magnetic field strength is 900,000 times that of the Earth's magnetic field.

However, these magnetic field strengths are far from sufficient for modern New Humans and are inadequate to confine the super plasma in Heavy Nuclear Fusion environment.

It's easy to imagine how difficult that is.

As the saying goes, perseverance pays off. Standing on the steps of countless scientific and technological advancements, humanity has finally overcome this challenge after thirty years of dedicated research. Humanity has taken another step forward on its journey to conquer the second most powerful force in the universe: Electromagnetic Force.

Humanity has finally achieved the creation of an ultra-strong magnetic field capable of confining super plasma in Heavy Nuclear Fusion environment.

This signifies that humanity has finally leaped into the ranks of Level 2 Civilization.

At this time, humanity was surprised to discover that the super-strong magnetic field they had painstakingly developed could not only be used to confine Heavy Nuclear Fusion reaction chambers, but could also be improved and placed in other positions on warships, forming an array of several super-strong Magnetic Field Generator to create a Magnetic Shield.

After Heavy Nuclear Fusion was achieved, the technology researched for achieving Heavy Nuclear Fusion was transformed into the Magnetic Shield generator for warships, and everything fell into place naturally.