Resurrection Empire
Chapter 248 - 117: The Regular Icosahedron in the Electron Cloud, Information-Encoded Weak Electromagnetic Interaction [Additional - ]_3

Chapter 248: Chapter 117: The Regular Icosahedron in the Electron Cloud, Information-Encoded Weak Electromagnetic Interaction [Additional Chapter]_3

"Thank you, Captain!"

Ren Zhong replied with an excited tone.

At this moment, his face was indeed flushed, overwhelmed with excitement.

Just a second ago, while shoveling food into his mouth, his heartbeat shot up to 150 beats per minute.

The hand holding his chopsticks paused, his mouth dropped open, eyes wide, pupils dilated, his face full of disbelief.

He stared blankly at the image in the upper right corner of the giant screen, unable to speak for a while.

No words could describe his shock at that moment.

Just now, because he had to divert his attention to eating, he paused his memory of geomagnetic induction data and casually activated a small collection and analysis feature that came with the excavator that he had never played with before.

A small mechanical arm claw extended from the lower end of the excavator’s tail, casually grabbed a piece of ore from the ground, brought it back into the cabin, and autonomously processed it in the fully automated sample analysis room behind the cockpit, conducting basic physicochemical characteristic analysis.

This is also one of the routine tasks of a mining worker, but other mining workers never pay attention to these analysis data, as they can’t understand them anyway.

However, Ren Zhong spent years immersed in laboratories back then.

His mentor even took him to visit the most powerful particle collider of the 21st century, witnessing the great power of humanity in the 21st century firsthand.

What caught Ren Zhong’s attention was a small segment in the entire analysis process of the Screw Rock Excavator.

It was just an inconspicuous small image, about the size of a palm, hidden in a corner.

That was a three-dimensional Electron Cloud Map of a chromium atom drawn by a photon imaging system.

At that moment, this Electron Cloud Map was flickering slightly.

Five seconds later, the three-dimensional cloud image was replaced by new information.

Ren Zhong sat back in his driver’s seat, slowly taking small bites of food.

The three-dimensional Electron Cloud Map kept surfacing and lingering in his mind.

He had never imagined that the Electron Cloud Map of a single atom could appear so bizarre, causing the scientific worldview formed over his "past life" of twenty-three years to collapse abruptly.

On Earth, the most familiar classic Electron Cloud Map to the world is the hydrogen atom’s Electron Cloud Map, consisting of a single proton forming its nucleus.

Assuming no external interference and in absolute isolation, the three-dimensional Electron Cloud Map of a hydrogen atom should be spherical.

Theoretically, it is an absolutely perfect sphere.

It is so incredibly spherical that it’s awe-inspiring.

The electron appears randomly at any position within the cloud, fully complying with the probability distribution of the wave function.

The closer to the center of the Electron Cloud, the higher the frequency of electron appearance.

The closer to the edges, the lower the frequency of electron appearance.

If one were to represent the instantaneous appearance state of the electron with densely distributed small dots and prolong the measurement time sufficiently, it would resemble the scene 0.1 seconds after a spherical firework bursts.

In the middle are countless bright tiny dots, and as you move outward, the dots become fewer, and the light dims, but it always remains present.

Within an extremely small spatial range, no matter how short the distance is compressed, the probability of minute spot appearances will not change abruptly in a stepped manner.

At the moment, Ren Zhong was looking at the Electron Cloud of a chromium atom.

The Electron Cloud of a chromium atom in Ren Zhong’s memory was more complex.

It houses 24 extranuclear electrons.

These 24 electrons, according to different Energy Levels, revolve around the chromium nucleus, distributed discretely in their own way and moving randomly.

Each electron’s individual Electron Cloud is like two symmetrical Water Drops about to fall.

The 24 mutually isolated and mutually interfering Electron Clouds overlapped, giving the chromium atom’s Electron Cloud Map as many as 48 "Water Drops."

Yet within each pair of Water Drops, the distribution law of electrons remains non-abrupt without stepped changes.

But what did Ren Zhong just see?

He saw at the centers of those 48 "Water Drops," 48 regular icosahedrons resembling the head of a bacteriophage.

A regular icosahedron has 30 edges and 12 vertices.

Each face has three sides, forming equilateral triangles.

Each vertex connects 5 edges.

These vertices and edges are none other than formed by the probability of electron appearances.

The presence of patterns in the cloud map proved that the probability of electron appearance at these locations was far greater than others, ultimately forming a regular icosahedron by connecting points and lines in the three-dimensional map.

This filled Ren Zhong with immense fear.

After a few more minutes, a new Electron Cloud Map flashed in the upper right corner of the giant screen.

This time it was a rubidium atom.

The rubidium atom has a total of 37 extranuclear electrons.

Ren Zhong saw even more "Water Drops."