There is power even in a vacuum. As early as the age of the earth, the technology of human civilization has recognized this power and described it.
For example, if two uncharged metal plates are placed very close to each other, say 10 nanometers, then at this moment, a pressure approximately equivalent to one atmosphere will be generated between the two metal plates.
The reason why this happens is because of vacuum fluctuations.
The basic principle of the vacuum cannon is very simple. Even in the current human civilization, an ordinary person is familiar with it: it is nothing more than creating a certain field force, through which the field force interacts with the virtual particle pairs generated by the fluctuations of the vacuum. They interact to achieve some kind of force that can be expressed in the macroscopic world.
Because the transmission of field force is the speed of light, the attack speed of the vacuum cannon is also the speed of light. This gives it the ability to deliver quickly like a laser cannon.
Although the basic principle is simple, if you want to truly apply this technology to the battlefield, there are many things that need to be done. In addition to basic science that needs to be developed to a very high level, there are also many obstacles that need to be solved at the applied science and technology level.
On the whole, the research and development of vacuum cannons is a huge project no less than the large-scale production of antimatter.
At this moment, the No. 1 prototype, which was developed by countless scientists and engineers and took decades to develop, has reached the stage of real testing.
At this moment, the No. 1 prototype, which existed in the form of a spaceship, sailed to the appropriate location. Under the gaze of many scholars, the project commander-in-chief issued one order after another in the command hall.
Self-test completed.
Next, is the launch.
Energy systems, transmission systems, temperature control systems, controllers one after another, converters and monitors one after another, hundreds of millions of parts are working together at this moment, like a whole, to complete some extremely complex work.
As a result, a special "electric field" that changes rapidly at a certain frequency is quietly generated in this vast universe. Based on some peculiar changes described by some quantum mechanics and m-theory, the energy exchange with the virtual particle pair is completed. As a result, the vacuum fluctuation effect has been strengthened to a certain extent, and even gained the ability to manifest itself in the macroscopic world.
Just when everyone's hearts were aroused, in the command hall, the huge screen displaying countless parameters suddenly flickered and turned dark instantly.
A shrill alarm sounded in the command hall, and fault codes came one after another. Engineers hurriedly dealt with these faults and tried to eliminate them, but no matter what kind of operation, they could not achieve the effect.
Someone turned their attention to the picture of a monitoring satellite near Prototype No. 1 in despair, and saw that the Vacuum Cannon Prototype No. 1, which existed in the shape of a spaceship in the vast space, suddenly appeared from the inside. A blinding light burst out.
The next moment, it was completely torn apart by the energy it possessed.
It exploded silently.
This experiment... seems to have failed.
Amidst the heaviness, the commander-in-chief sighed and opened the fault code list.
"More than three thousand failures... our material performance and manufacturing process are still not up to standard."
If you fail, just fail. Just clean up the situation and start all over again.
However, after decades of hard work, not to mention whether the system solution adopted by people can successfully induce the changes in vacuum fluctuations as in the theoretical calculations, at this moment, it did not even succeed in initiating it, and it just self-destructed. It really makes people feel uncomfortable, as if their hard work has been wasted.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
The finishing touches begin. The salvage spacecraft was dispatched and began to collect the fragments of the No. 1 prototype in space in an attempt to discover more data. During this process, a small landing spacecraft accidentally came near the asteroid that served as the target.
Two staff members wearing space suits flew over and began searching the asteroid.
"There shouldn't be any debris flying here."
"Whatever, just look for it and go back if you don't find it."
The two of them were talking casually in the communication channel. After a rough search, the two planned to leave.
At this time, one of them noticed something was wrong.
Under the illumination of the light, the asteroid seemed to be filled with "fog", which even made the entire star hazy and difficult to see clearly.
Even a fool knows that gas and water vapor cannot exist around such a small asteroid. Because its gravity is too small.
So, these fogs...
An astronaut quickly flew over and took a closer look.
"It's dust. Maybe our spacesuit's thrust reverse system sprayed it, causing the dust on its surface to float up."
There's nothing surprising about this. After confirming this, the two planned to leave again.
But at this moment, an astronaut suddenly stiffened as if he had been struck by lightning. He turned around and stared straight at his companion: "I seem to remember that this asteroid... has a rocky structure, and there is only a very small amount of separated dust on the surface?"
In this case, how could so much dust be "blown" by the spacesuit's reverse thrust system, so that it looks like it is shrouded in "fog"?
"sky……"
The two of them turned around at the same time and pounced on it like hungry wolves.
One of the astronauts flew in front of a raised "stone pile" and cautiously and tentatively threw a punch. So, the moment his fist came into contact with the stone, the stone, which still had a dark hard color on the outside, silently turned into powder at this moment.
He changed the direction of the spacesuit's jet again, and a large crater was blown out of the seemingly hard surface.
With the help of recoil, he stepped hard on the asteroid, causing the hard stone to be crushed directly, and his entire leg was directly sunk into the stone.
"This place is shattered!"
"Here too!"
"And here!"
"Hahahahaha!"
At this moment, the two astronauts burst out laughing wildly. Under the influence of the reverse thrust system, the two of them were like supermen, wreaking crazy and wanton destruction on the asteroid.
The asteroid that originally required cannonballs to shatter was now riddled with holes as if it had been struck by a superman.
"It turns out, it turns out we succeeded..."
The asteroid still maintains its original appearance on the outside, but in fact the internal structure has been completely shattered, and it will turn into powder at the slightest touch. However, besides the previous vacuum cannon test, what else could cause this situation?
Everyone thought that the prototype of Vacuum Cannon No. 1 had self-destructed before it was activated. Who would have thought that it was indeed self-destructing, but in fact it was already activated and showed real effects!
Compared with self-destruction, people are more concerned about whether the systematic plan for designing this prototype machine is correct. Because this means whether the direction is right.
If we can confirm that we are heading in the right direction, then does it still matter if we stumble a few times on the way forward?
Isn’t it just a prototype machine? As long as the direction is correct, just reinvent it!
"Call headquarters, call headquarters..."
The two astronauts reported the discovery back as quickly as possible. At this moment, the two heard clearly, and the operator's voice even trembled.
Without any delay or hesitation, this information was reported to the highest level as quickly as possible.
At this moment, the originally heavy and depressing control hall seemed like a sun suddenly appeared.
All the dullness and depression are gone. In fact, an old professor who was over 180 years old suddenly jumped on the table, and another professor who usually spoke slowly and softly, and people always complained that his voice was too soft, screamed like a shrew. : "Hurry and prepare the spaceship! Hurry!"
Several experts who had returned to the lounge to rest heard the news and rushed out shirtless. One expert had one shoe on one foot and the other foot was simply bare.
"Go, go, go!"
At this moment, this small planet instantly became the absolute focus of the entire military base and tens of millions of people. One spaceship after another swarmed in like a market, and the military committee even had to send combat spaceships to maintain order, so that the tragedy of spacecraft collision did not occur.
One after another, young or old scientists wearing space suits rushed desperately towards the asteroid like moths to the fire, feeling personally that the basic structure had been shattered and turned into dust. of asteroids. At this moment, the airspace was filled with smoke and dust.
This asteroid, with a diameter of more than 160 meters and a total mass of millions of tons, was completely shattered by pure human power in front of visiting military experts one after another.
It completely disappeared and turned into a miniature "nebula".
When the news was reported to Zhao Changxing, even Zhao Changxing couldn't help but become happy.
"Third-level civilization, third-level civilization...it has finally become true..."
Although there is still a lot of work to be done in the future, for example, the stability of this vacuum cannon is too poor and a major upgrade must be made. This vacuum cannon consumes too much energy and has no practical significance. It is too large and cannot be used at all. There is no way to install it on a combat spacecraft, and it will need to be miniaturized and improved in the future. There are countless problems. It is still far away from truly forming combat effectiveness in the future, but all of these are not as good as the breakthroughs made today. important.
Because this is a breakthrough from zero to one.
At this moment, Zhao Changxing seems to have seen the day when every warship in the future human space force fleet is equipped with powerful vacuum cannons with powerful attack power.
