Building an Antimatter Factory
While some teams of scientists at the Academy of Life Sciences are delving into new discoveries about Mind Imprint technology, other scientific teams are also working on other aspects.
As is well known, the hallmark of Level 4 Civilization is the Grand Unified Theory, which is the theoretical basis for Gravity Potential Well Technology. With Gravity Potential Well Technology, humanity can store Antimatter on a large scale.
So where does this so-called large-scale Antimatter come from?
It must have been created by humans themselves; it couldn't have just appeared out of thin air and been given to them.
Therefore, after the realization of the Grand Unified Theory, some scientists and engineers have devoted themselves to the production and manufacturing of Antimatter.
So how is Antimatter manufactured?
The method for producing Antimatter is not as simple as just writing "One Bag of Antimatter" on a sack and immediately producing a sack full of Antimatter.
Humans say we don't know how to do it this way, so we can only take it one step at a time.
Everyone is very clear about the composition of matter. Atoms are the Elementary Particle that make up matter. Atoms are composed of Atomic Nucleus and electrons outside the nucleus. The Atomic Nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons.
The concept of Antimatter existed in Earth Era, and humans also have the corresponding technological processes to produce charged particles such as positrons and Anti-Proton. The Positron Cannon is a symbol of humanity's ability to produce large quantities of positrons.
Electroneutral Antimatter can also be produced following this approach.
This method is known to humans as Gamma Ray Bombardment Method.
First, human engineers need to build a Gamma Particle Stream Generator. Gamma particle streams are produced by the process of radioactive Atomic Nucleus undergoing Alpha Decay and Beta Decay, resulting in new nuclei at high energy levels transitioning to lower energy levels. Generally speaking, a nuclear explosion itself is a Gamma Ray source.
This is not difficult for humans who have mature Controlled Nuclear Fusion and fission technologies.
The Gamma Particle Stream Generator is the first and crucial step in creating Antimatter. Once a gamma-ray particle generator is completed, humans will be able to separate positive and negative electrons using various technological means.
The principle is that Heavy Element have an anomalous absorption of Gamma Ray, which is accompanied by the release of energy. This energy release is the light radiation produced by the annihilation of positive and negative electrons. Therefore, human engineers can add a magnetic field to the process to separate the positive and negative electrons.
The second step involves adding a Magnetic Confinement device to the environment used in the Gamma Ray bombardment method to produce positrons. Then, a Proton Synchrotron is built to accelerate protons to a sufficient energy level before bombarding Copper Target, producing various hybrid particles such as Anti-Proton, protons, neutrons, and various mesons.
Then, human engineers need to build a Star-shaped Magnetic Confinement Separator to connect to the previous step. The function of the Star-shaped Magnetic Confinement Separator is to separate Anti-Proton from these particles; theoretically, about one Anti-Proton can be produced from approximately 30,000 particles.
Anti-Proton can now be produced.
The third step involves accelerating the Anti-Proton using a particle accelerator, similar to the counter method, so that they bombard the Anti-Proton. During this high-energy bombardment, neutrons and Anti-Neutron are produced and then separated.
Finally, these devices are assembled, allowing the separated pathways of Anti-Proton and Anti-Neutron to enter the same Magnetic Confinement storage, where they form an Atomic Nucleus. Positrons are then produced and introduced into the storage simultaneously with the antiprotons and antineutrons.
These mixed antiparticles, just like particles in real life, will interact with each other in nature under the special environment created by humans. For example, the Strong Interaction Force will firmly bind Anti-Proton and Anti-Neutron together to become Atomic Nucleus, while positrons will enter the Atomic Nucleus due to the Electromagnetic Force, according to the Coulomb's law of charge, and become extranuclear electrons.
At this point, Human Civilization would be able to create an anti-atom—yes, just an anti-atom.
Now that the first antiatom has been created, as long as this method is continued, with the increasing number of atoms, they will combine into molecules and macromolecules through various interactions. Thus, Human Civilization can obtain antimolecules composed of antiatoms.
When antimolecules eventually aggregate together, they form Antimatter.
Antimatter produced in this way is generally hydrogen molecules. When a large number of hydrogen molecules gather together, they form hydrogen gas, and humans will obtain a lot of antihydrogen gas. Of course, the formation conditions are not so easy to control, so antihelium gas may also be generated in this process.
But whether it's anti-hydrogen or anti-helium, or it forms other elements to constitute other macromolecules, it's all Antimatter that humans need, and it will undergo annihilation reactions with normal matter.
It's nothing serious.
Once these Antimatter are created, they will be stored in a Gravity Well confinement container. They will be compressed into high-density hydrogen or helium, floating silently in the container without any contact with the container walls. This is because if they were to come into contact with anything in the material world we inhabit, an Antimatter annihilation reaction would occur, resulting in the Mass-Energy Equivalence —an ocean of energy!
This shows that Antimatter is not an energy source, but a highly efficient one, because its preparation requires more energy. Why does it require more energy to produce? Because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
It is impossible to transfer heat from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object without causing other changes.
The entropy of an isolated system can never decrease automatically; it remains constant in reversible processes and increases in irreversible processes.
Increased entropy predicted the heat death of the universe.
The production process of Antimatter is naturally subject to the second law of energy. Its application involves gathering and releasing energy, except that Antimatter has a higher energy level and greater energy density than other forms of energy.
But if it's so much trouble, why bother creating Antimatter? It's like asking why, in the dead of night, when you could easily light a fire with tens of tons of wood to illuminate your beauty, you would go through the trouble of creating a battery to power a small light bulb. Nobody wants to carry tens of tons of wood around in the dark, but people carrying flashlights are everywhere.
Therefore, this is a highly efficient energy source that Human Civilization needs, and even Level 4 Civilization need it to truly drive Warp Engine.
Humanity needs to build an Antimatter Factory, and then use matter from the Great Universe as energy to continuously produce Antimatter for itself, which can then be used as fuel for various new creations, New Warship, and new spaceships.
Such a great deal of effort is all for the purpose of obtaining more Antimatter. It is conceivable that the matter required by Level 4 Civilization is incomparable to that of Level 3 Civilization. It is even foreseeable that Level 4 Civilization could hollow out a planet's rocks, burn them using Heavy Nuclear Fusion technology, and then convert them into a new form of energy, Antimatter.
Antimatter Factory must be built, and construction must begin immediately, because humanity's current demand for Antimatter is enormous. All future Warp Engine will use it, and all New Warship and spaceships will need it as fuel.
This is a gap in the entire civilization, an inevitable situation that will occur after upgrading to Level 4 Civilization.