Wandering Meteor
Chapter 273 - 272 Quark Decoherence

Chapter 273: Chapter 272 Quark Decoherence

This miraculous weapon is called by scientists as "Quark Decoherence"!

As the name implies, it’s capable of disintegrating quarks and is a new type of weapon based on the principles of laws, inspired by the Absolute Zero Domain.

Because of the special structure of quarks, quarks cannot exist independently in the universe, but always combine to form hadrons (which include protons and neutrons). This is also why, after a neutron star collapses into a quark star, it quickly transforms into a black hole.

Hence, scientists speculate that quarks have a peculiar habit or characteristic, which is the quark confinement phenomenon.

Simply put, quarks can only exist stably inside hadrons when they form hadrons. They cannot exist stably on their own in the outside world. This phenomenon, where they can only exist within hadrons, is like a cloistered maiden unwilling to step outside, and thus it is called quark confinement.

Another reason for quark confinement is one of the Four Basic Forces: the Strong Nuclear Force.

It’s the Strong Nuclear Force that tightly binds the various quarks together to form hadrons.

The Strong Nuclear Force is the strongest among the Four Basic Forces. In atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons are already so firmly bound by just the tail end of the Strong Nuclear Force that it requires the energy of nuclear fusion to separate them. Hence, one can only imagine what terrifying amount of energy is needed to separate quarks that are completely bound by the Strong Nuclear Force?

However, the messenger particle for the Strong Nuclear Force is the gluon, and like photons, gluons have no rest mass and a spin of 1.

That is to say, like photons, once gluons come to rest, they disappear. The difference is, photons do not carry charge and cannot absorb or emit photons by themselves, but gluons carry color charge and can absorb or emit gluons.

Scientists from the Wandering Alliance have taken this shortcut to realize Quark Decoherence.

The scientists created glue balls, which are hadron-bound states made purely of gluons exhibiting wave-particle duality. Then they created a special glue ball chain shockwave. This shockwave poses no danger to basic particles, but it deals a devastating blow to composite particles, especially compound matter based on the Strong Nuclear Force.

Therefore, the weapon principle of Quark Decoherence is to use glue balls to forcibly absorb or destroy the gluon chains in hadrons. Without the mutual propagation of gluons, the strong interaction force will fail, and quarks that are bound within hadrons by the Strong Nuclear Force will naturally be freed from confinement.

Poor Constant Star, probably until its demise, never realized that it not only became a plaything of Lu Chen of Constant Star, but it also became a test subject for the Wandering Alliance’s weapon experiments!

And after Lu Chen of Constant Star plundered and absorbed seventy percent of Constant Star’s mass, his own mass reached 76,610 times that of Constant Stars, with a diameter of 17 million kilometers!

This includes the plundered mass of Constant Star Eternal as well.

With the explosive growth of Constant Star Mass, the gravitational collapse inside Lu Chen’s Constant Star Body further intensified, the rate of nuclear fusion reactions increased again, and the temperature at the core reached two hundred million degrees, with the temperature of the corona layer reaching sixteen million degrees!

As for the most crucial Gravity Strength, without using the Unified Force Stone, it can now be increased to an intensity of 500,000!

And due to the selective absorption of this Constant Star Lu Chen, the mass it gained was almost entirely Hydrogen, which also increased Lu Chen’s Hydrogen composition ratio to about 93%.

At this moment, Constant Star Lu Chen was quietly floating in space, forming a stark contrast with the surrounding darkness and coldness. The light and heat continuously radiating from inside the Constant Star had more than doubled compared to before the plundering, brightening the nearby cosmic space and significantly raising the temperature!

Lu Chen was like a lone hero, single-handedly contending against the vast Universe.

Gazing at the dazzling blue-white Constant Star ahead, the people on the Battle Star at the scene were filled with boundless admiration!

Among them, the people of the Wandering Alliance were rather composed; after all, after wandering all this time, they had become accustomed to many things. Although their faith and respect were continuously growing, they managed to maintain an elegant control over their outward emotions.

But it was different for the Eternal Life Civilization; they discovered that the Wandering Alliance used various extremely powerful weapons, and they couldn’t help becoming more curious about the leader of the Wandering Alliance. They were eager to know what kind of Constant Star Celestial Civilization could lead an alliance of civilizations to this point, and just how powerful it was?

Driven by such curiosity and the fact that the Wandering Alliance had helped them before, sprouting a seed of trust within them, some people within the Eternal Life Civilization suggested that since their Mother Star had been destroyed, instead of wandering alone and vulnerable in the Universe, it would be better to choose to join the Wandering Alliance and wander together towards the Cosmic Center.

The Eternal Life Civilization had long heard from the Earth Core Civilization that the goal of the Wandering Alliance was to head towards the Cosmic Center. Attracted by the prospect of Eternal Life and intrigued by the Cosmic Center and the Origin of the Universe, such values could provide a foundation for their alliance.

In the end, at the civilization’s congress where they voted on whether to join the Wandering Alliance, considering that the Communist System implemented by the Wandering Alliance might be more suitable for the development path of the Eternal Life Civilization in the future, and given the consideration of the survival environment, approximately eighty percent of the people on the twelve surviving Battle Stars of the Eternal Life Civilization agreed to join the Wandering Alliance.

When the Wandering Alliance received the membership application from the Eternal Life Civilization, Constant Star Lu Chen immediately called an internal discussion meeting of the Wandering Alliance.

The discussion mainly focused on three points: first, whether the Eternal Life Civilization was sincere or had other ulterior motives; second, whether the Eternal Life Civilization was suitable for joining the Wandering Alliance; and third, whether the Wandering Alliance needed new civilizations to join.

Regarding the first point, the Wandering Alliance quickly came to a conclusion.

They assessed that the Eternal Life Civilization joining the Wandering Alliance had no other sinister intentions.

As for the second point, the Wandering Alliance decided to conduct a review of the entire Eternal Life Civilization before making a final decision.

However, according to the Entropy Reduction Survival Law, if both parties ultimately cannot form an alliance, then the Wandering Alliance would have to eliminate the Eternal Life Civilization to reduce potential future enemies, making the final outcome crucial.

For the third point, a scientific team within the Wandering Base proposed a diverse Battle Star plan.

The proposal was mainly related to the Nova Project, a long-term basic policy of the Wandering Alliance. If only one or two civilizations’ beings were always in control, this could lead to severe homogenization of the Battle Stars, lacking in diverse creativity. Hence, the scientific team proposed to incorporate more reliable civilizations from the Universe to enrich the selection for the Nova Project.

Also, according to Constant Star Lu Chen’s initial requirements, the scientific team finally designed the model for the second phase of the Nova Project (the first phase was Earth), with the Battle Stars in the second phase designed to weigh 50 Planet Masses, a five-fold increase compared to the first phase. Moreover, the second phase would be equipped with brand-new weapons invented by the Science and Martial movement, and this series of designs would enhance the equipment Energy Level on the second-phase Battle Stars, roughly improving the single-star combat capability by tenfold. Since the second phase Nova Project utilized many research achievements of the Science and Martial movement, it was thus named Science and Martial.

The second phase Nova Project plans to build fifty Science and Martial Battle Stars, to be completed within approximately three thousand years.

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