Dong Dong——
There was a rapid knock on the door, and Yang Huan waited anxiously outside the door.
"Uncle, there was an accident at the collider, I want to see you!"
"Dear Mr. Yang Huan, my master has sunk into the source world. I suggest you come back in the afternoon."
The apartment sensed that an outsider was visiting, and the little housekeeper Wei Wei suddenly flashed a blue light and appeared at the door with a smile on his face.
"There is a magnetic storm at the accelerator. He must be involved in this matter!" Yang Huan was a little out of breath and begged again and again.
"Mr. Yang, please wait a moment..."
Weiwei, the housekeeper, turned around and appeared in Pan Tianyi's study, confirming that he was still in the source world, so she came to the matrix virtual world again and told Pan Tianyi the whole story.
As soon as Pan Tian knew that there had been a serious accident with the accelerator, he hurriedly said goodbye to Yang Zhou and Ehuang, and returned to reality with the little butler. He lay quietly on the hemispheric chair, took off the virtual ring glowing with green light, and stared blankly. He stared at the ceiling for a while.
"Uncle, I really don't want to disturb you this time. Can you go with me to the scene of the accident to investigate the accident?"
At this time, Yang Huan had already arrived at the door of the study, and had no intention of entering. He just watched Pan Tianyi take off the virtual ring and walk towards him with a melancholy expression.
"Is the damage to the particle accelerator serious?" Pan Tianyi frowned slightly, showing a worried look. After all, this is a scientific project that Professor Yang spent his whole life creating.
"It shouldn't be serious. It's just that the superconducting magnet in sector c was radiated by high-energy particles and melted and fractured." Yang Huan explained.
"Well, let's get there as soon as possible!"
Yang Huan and Pan Tianyi got into an unmanned self-driving car and drove quickly towards the accelerator sector, where there was a particle detection laboratory and where they worked daily. From there, you can quickly reach the incident site in sector C through an underground tunnel buried 200 meters underground.
After a few minutes, they arrived at the ground experiment building in the sector, and then took the elevator directly to the particle detection room 200 meters underground.
There they put on firefighting suits and drove a tunnel patrol vehicle respectively, speeding through the tall and deep tunnel, like two bright proton jets flying towards sector C at super-light speed in a superconducting vacuum tube. Particle collision events are repeated.
There was no thick fog in the tunnel at this moment. Under the illumination of the tunnel wall lamp, the ground patrol vehicle quickly arrived at the collapse of sector C.
This was originally the ventilation opening and maintenance site of the underground tunnel. Now the ground has been torn into a 100-meter-long opening. Rocks and soil have almost filled the entire tunnel. Some ground river water has also flowed in, and is on the tunnel wall. Long icicles formed.
"What kind of particles can instantly produce high-energy radiation and fuse the entire tunnel?"
Yang Huan stopped to patrol the car and came to the fractured accelerator. He looked at the melted and deformed niobium-titanium alloy and cables with a very shocked expression.
"In 2012, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Heavy Ion Collider set a Guinness World Record, generated a temperature of approximately 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius, and discovered quark-gluon plasma."
Pan Tianyi came to Yang Huan's side, looked at the damaged niobium-titanium alloy pipe, and asked Beina to search the record of the highest temperature ever set by the accelerator in the Sky Eye Ark.
"According to my uncle, the temperature of such high-energy radiation must exceed 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius! In other words, it is close to the high temperature at the beginning of the universe explosion!"
Yang Huan touched the cooled and fixed tunnel tube with his hand, and his expression became excited: "Coupled with the gamma rays and x-rays discovered before, I guess that particles similar to black holes must have been produced in the tunnel vacuum tube. This is important for It’s too dangerous for the people living here!”
"You're right. Even if a micro black hole is produced, we don't have to worry. Under the evaporation of Hawking radiation, such particles will decay into other leptons within a thousandth of a millisecond, or even disappear without a trace. Normally It's very difficult for detectors to detect their presence."
As soon as Pan Tian walked to the place illuminated by the morning sun, he wiped the remaining warm niobium-titanium alloy pipe with his hand.
Some dirt was falling through the crack above his head and at his feet.
"Uncle, let's go up first and see what's going on outside." Yang Huan pointed at the entrance of the collapsed tunnel and motioned Pan Tianyi to climb up together.
"You young man, you keep calling me uncle, am I that old?"
Pan Tianyi looked at Yang Huan's thin and haggard face, then smiled slightly and said: "From now on, please call me Randy or Tianyi! This way, I will get used to it."
"Well, let's call you Randy from now on!"
Yang Huan looked at Pan Tianyi carefully and found that he was not only sunny and handsome, but his young face also revealed the youthful atmosphere of a teenager.
"Yang Huan, you go up and deal with the rescue team first, and I'll get to the ground later!"
In the dark corner of the tunnel, the rushing water shimmered with light, and then appeared in Pan Tianyi's peripheral vision. At the same time, Pandora Bena's voice also sounded in his mind.
"Okay, hurry up and follow me!"
Yang Huan climbed to the entrance of the tunnel in the morning light, and soon disappeared from Pan Tianyi's sight.
Pan Tianyi scanned the depths of the tunnel to make sure there were no other people, so he connected his consciousness to the Sky Eye Ark:
"Okay, I'm alone now. Please tell me what you found, Bena. Why did you ask me to pay attention to the water seeping out of the tunnel entrance?"
"Master, go over and take a closer look. The water seems to contain special substances." Pandora Beina responded through the link of consciousness.
Pan Tianyi squatted down in front of a frozen stream of water and carefully observed the flashes of light in the water. He suddenly discovered that this was not caused by the refraction of sunlight, but the ice itself was glowing.
"Ah, the ice here actually glows. It should contain some special element, something like fluorescent powder!" Pan Tianyi picked up the frozen ice-like crystals from the water with a look of surprise on his face.
"Brother Yi, look carefully. They are different from ice crystals, but material crystals produced by long-term magnetic storms in accelerators, similar to transparent quartz crystals." Beina explained, and then scanned and uploaded them to the Sky Eye Ark.
"Hey, why did you take them away?"
Pan Tianyi looked at the water flowing on the ground. All the crystal matter disappeared in an instant. He was very confused and said, "Hey, okay, you can take it if you like, but how do you name these newly produced substances?"
"Hehe, this is called water ice crystal! It can store light energy just like the magneto-optical crystal, so that's why it always shines!" Beina blinked her big playful eyes in the Sky Eye Ark, happily like a little kid Girlish.
"Water ice crystals store light and then emit light! Isn't this just a light energy battery? Let me think about it, it may bring about earth-shaking changes in human life..." Pantian showed surprise, thinking in his mind A flash of light flashed and she said excitedly: "Bena, leave me a few water ice crystals and let me study them!"
"Good master, it can shine like a flashlight continuously! You have to keep it well!"
Several pieces of crystal material, about two cubic centimeters, appeared in Pan Tianyi's hand in an instant. Because they had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time in the tunnel, their brightness suddenly dimmed a lot at this moment, and they did not look much like ordinary quartz stones. the difference. new
"Why can they store light?" Pan Tianyi curiously observed the crystal material in his hand.
"It is the same as the magneto-optical crystal. It is created after absorbing information from civilization. It seems to have its own attributes of wisdom and consciousness." Pandora Bena did not explain further, and then there was no news.
"Hey, forget it, let's study it another day!"
At this moment, Pan Tianyi heard Yang Huan calling him anxiously from the ground, so he put away the water ice crystal in his hand and crawled out along the collapsed hole.
"You stayed down there for a long time. I thought something happened to you!" Seeing Pan Tianyi climb out of the crack unharmed, Yang Huan's nervous mood finally calmed down.
"Yang Huan, I'm fine. How is the situation here?"
Pan Tianyi stood on the burned ground, glanced around and found the professional emergency repair team and the SWAT team.
Wu sealed the place.
"All the burning trees on the ground have been extinguished, but nearby residential buildings have been damaged. The person in charge of the main control room is handling the compensation issue."
Yang Huan's face became more solemn and anxious. He was worried that there would be common accidents in particle accelerators around the world, which would be terrible news for the international physics community.
"Where is the engineer from sector C? What does he think of the accident at the accelerator?"
Looking at a long hole torn into the nearby mountain, Pan Tianyi's heart felt as if it had been pricked by a needle, with a dull pain. In this era when scientific development has almost stagnated, particle accelerators are the hope for all mankind to pursue the truth of the universe. If something goes wrong with it, humankind's journey to explore space will be ruined and it will be imprisoned in the solar system.
"Let's go to a nearby church to see him. I contacted my assistant Xiao Liu and he said that Dr. Wang has woken up from a coma!" Yang Huan looked at the church tower in the distance and sighed.
After dozens of minutes, they came to a Gothic cathedral. The pointed top of the tower was replaced by a ring from the original cross. The believers seemed to have abandoned Jesus and converted to other gods.
Pantian stepped into the tall temple and saw Dr. Wang kneeling in front of the altar, praying silently.
At the same time, Sophia came here with Wang Bin from the Ministry of National Security. They stood not far from the altar and kept looking at Dr. Wang in silence.
"Randy, let's come back later." Yang Huan didn't want to disturb Sophia and wanted to leave the temple.
"Well, okay, let's leave some matters to the main control room for investigation." Pantian stared at the temple altar for a moment, then climbed the spiral staircase to the top of the church.
They stopped in front of a huge flower window, through which they could see distant mountains and ruins of buildings.
"Do you know about the Rainbow Project?" Pan Tianyi looked at the long crack deep in the mountain forest and said something with emotion.
"Yes, I understand." Yang Huan stood in front of the window and nodded, his eyes still full of anxiety:
"That happened during World War II, that is, in 1943, when the Soviet Union implemented Project Rainbow. A warship was surrounded by the electromagnetic field generated by the Tesla coil device at the Philadelphia Naval Port. Blue smoke appeared around it, and the hull It began to shake violently, and finally disappeared from people's sight in an instant, and appeared at the Norfolk Naval Base 400 kilometers away."
"Look at the surface above the particle accelerator and see what's happening above?" After Yang Huan finished speaking, Pan Tianyi motioned for him to look out the window at the cracks in the earth and the ruins of uninhabited buildings.
"There is a mountain forest shrouded in white mist, as well as some high-rise buildings that collapsed during the earthquake. I don't understand what you mean..." Yang Huan looked at the snow-covered mountain forest in the distance, which showed the decay of a cold winter. Xiang's eyes suddenly became frightened and bright, as if he understood Pan Tianyi's intention:
"Could it be said that the Hadron Collider was the main culprit that caused earthquakes and the collapse of suburban buildings? In this way, such an important basic research equipment has actually become a major murder weapon for mankind?"
Yang Huan stood in the sun, his face even paler. His eyes were no longer solemn, but instead cast a layer of fear. I couldn't imagine the existence of the "Being of Light" Collider Club, and what it meant to the whole world. In other words, is he a demon or a god who saves human civilization and science?
After hearing Yang Huan's understanding, Pan Tianyi shook his head, smiled helplessly, and then said: "Yang Huan, you don't have to be afraid of the accelerator. Everything has its two sides. The Yin side is Yang, and the evil side is good. , the key is how humans use science to bring creation or destruction to civilization!”
"Randy, are you saying that particle accelerators are currently beneficial to mankind?" Yang Huan turned his back to the sun, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.
"At least that's what I think. We can think about the problem in another direction."
Pan Tianyi silently connected his consciousness to Beina, and learned from her many applications of particle accelerators. His expression became so indifferent, and he continued to expand his thinking: "For example, for the defense of space asteroids, we can create many accelerators."
The speed ring weaves a huge net in space, intercepts and surrounds invading asteroids, and then uses the principle of accelerating ring magnetic storms to bombard and smash space meteorites and asteroids. "
"Listening to your explanation, I seem to have a new research direction. The current theoretical model is not very clear!"
Yang Huan looked at Pan Tianyi affectionately. His eyes no longer held the original fear, but he was more in awe of the accelerator.
