Chapter 2756: The Banquet Begins

————This chapter will be made up tomorrow~ I probably won't have time for a chapter tomorrow either, but I will be able to make up for everything after the holiday the day after tomorrow.

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Anti-matter, as the name suggests, is the anti-state of normal matter. When normal matter and anti-matter meet, an Annihilation Reaction occurs, releasing a large amount of energy.

This energy is released rapidly in the form of gamma rays, which is more violent than any nuclear reaction.

In the past, human research on anti-matter was limited to creating anti-matter atoms in a Laboratory, counted in units of "individual" atoms, and the production cost was high, as they were by-products of high-energy particle collider operations.

Not only was the quantity extremely small, but it was also very difficult to capture.

Although the Anti-matter Nebula discovered by Xia Chengyue this time cannot be captured in batches using instruments made of normal matter, "manual" collection using the Primordial Spirit Power of a High-level Cultivator is much cheaper than Laboratory production.

However, Xia Chengyue does not want to make the discovery of the Anti-matter Nebula public for the time being.

The location of the Anti-matter Nebula in the Universe is so remote that even Xia Chengyue cannot determine it; he does not know if it is in some corner of the observable Universe or far within the range of the unobservable Universe.

Don't think that Xia Chengyue seems to be able to go to the Anti-matter Nebula at any time; that is because he borrowed the power of the Original Realm. If he does not borrow the power of the Original Realm, or rather, if Xia Chengyue forgot to leave an Original Realm Mark last time.

The seventh hypothesis about anti-matter that Xia Chengyue verified was—could there be anti-matter planets, anti-matter humans, and so on?

After finishing those, the time had not yet reached the Lantern Festival, and after the Lantern Festival, Xia Chengyue will return to the city with Yu Wei, and the subsequent exploration of the Anti-matter Nebula will also be carried out further.

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The annihilation energy of anti-matter and normal matter is the most powerful energy that humans can theoretically master, apart from Psionic energy. Regarding anti-matter, scientists on Earth have even put forward a slogan similar to the development of Controlled Nuclear Fusion over the past 50 years.

Therefore, after a large amount of normal matter and anti-matter annihilate, there is one extra hydrogen atom, so anti-atoms higher than "Anti-helium" cannot exist stably.

Perhaps only God can answer that question, but it is also possible for humans to become God, although the probability is infinitely close to 0.

For example, heading near the "Giant Screen" that covers the entire Anti-matter Nebula to observe the annihilation of normal and anti-matter on a cosmic scale at close range.

It is just that verifying this experiment is quite difficult. Not to mention how to test the experimental results, just the fact that so much anti-matter cannot be collected or stored makes the experiment impossible to talk about.

After verifying two hypotheses, Xia Chengyue's intention to delve deeper faded a lot, and he turned his goal to the Anti-matter Nebula. As for anti-matter, it is actually just "Anti-hydrogen" and "Anti-helium"; no matter how much he studies, it is still just those two.

Thus, Xia Chengyue went to the Anti-matter Nebula many times to conduct field research.

Or to be more precise, can anti-matter form objects?

Within their lifetime, let the people of Earth use annihilation energy.

For example, studying a Transition Spaceship capable of traveling through the Anti-matter Nebula; the nebula is simply too large, and a manned aircraft is really unnecessary.

On Earth, Dahuaguo's fusion stations can continuously fuse "hydrogen" into "Iron". Xia Chengyue has it even easier here; he doesn't even need basic equipment in the Original Realm, he can just forcibly "knead" it!

However, these are not problems at all for Xia Chengyue. As long as he collects anti-matter once and enters the Original Realm, he can subsequently perform conversion through the Original Realm Origin. The consumption of converting 1 ton of anti-matter is the same as converting 1 ton of water or 1 ton of gold; it has nothing to do with mass.

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But unfortunately, all elements after helium do not have stable anti-atoms.

Only "Anti-hydrogen Atom" and "Anti-helium Atom" can exist stably.

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This verification is also relatively simple, even simpler than verifying the first hypothesis. Just apply pressure to a pile of "Anti-hydrogen Atoms" to see if they can sequentially fuse into "Anti-helium", "Anti-lithium", "Anti-beryllium", or whatever.

A Chang Sheng Zhe has enough time to make any choice, instead of being bound by time like in the past.

The first hypothesis about anti-matter that Xia Chengyue verified was this: delineate a closed area within the Original Realm, always throw equal masses of normal matter and anti-matter into it together, and make them react.

For example, an "Anti-lithium Atom" or an anti-atom with a higher atomic number will very quickly disintegrate into smaller anti-atoms and release energy (light).

In this way, even the Anti-matter Nebula that he has already visited once is difficult to go to again. Currently, high-dimensional Yaoyue is basically still random Yaoyue, and Xia Chengyue cannot control the location of the exit point.

Without cheap Spiritual Energy Affinity Material, one cannot manufacture cheap Matrix Carriers that can store Spiritual Qi, and one can only watch the Kunlun Continent's inexhaustible Spiritual Qi resources and drool.

The "lifetime" here is no longer the short hundred years of the past. In the era of Cultivation, no one can predict how long a lifetime will actually be. Many scientists are prepared to dedicate their entire lives to this.

For example, heading to other locations in the Anti-matter Nebula to see if there really is no anti-matter other than "Anti-hydrogen" and "Anti-helium"; perhaps some special environments can give birth to anti-matter with higher atomic numbers.

Existing theories believe that due to the symmetry breaking of normal matter and anti-matter, the final annihilation reaction will result in normal matter gaining the upper hand, leaving behind a small amount of normal matter, which is also the reason why the Universe exists.

As for the rest, it seems there is no need to know more. What humans actually want is to use anti-matter as an energy source, and more profoundly, to study the mysteries of the birth of the Universe.

During this period, he measured the anti-matter concentration near the exit point of the initial high-dimensional Yaoyue, the ratio of Anti-hydrogen to Anti-helium, and the material properties of the Anti-matter Nebula, obtaining first-hand, detailed data.

The value of a huge Anti-matter Nebula is almost impossible to measure. Human energy currently basically comes from man-made fusion stations and the natural sun. Psionic energy is not as popular as imagined; the reason is not because of a lack of Spiritual Qi resources, but because cheap Spiritual Energy Affinity Material has not yet been born.

Xia Chengyue converted an almost uncountable amount of normal matter and anti-matter, and in the end, there was only one extra hydrogen atom. Then, how much normal matter and anti-matter must have annihilated to form the current amount of matter in the Universe?

Xia Chengyue is quite interested in the Anti-matter Nebula discovered this time. From before the New Year to after the New Year, about a month's time, it is enough for Xia Chengyue to understand it quite deeply.

Thus, wanting anti-matter to form macroscopic objects is basically impossible.

This experiment also verified the previous hypothesis, because due to the symmetry breaking of normal matter and anti-matter, the properties of the same pair of normal matter and anti-matter are actually not the same; there are still micro-second differences.

Although Xia Chengyue is not a pure seeker of knowledge, his thirst for Knowledge is not inferior to anyone, and for a Chang Sheng Zhe, many things cannot be said to be "how much," but rather "have" or "have not."

First of all, what Xia Chengyue wants to determine is whether the annihilation of normal matter and anti-matter will be completely converted into light (electromagnetic waves)?

As more and more normal matter and anti-matter are put into the system, when a threshold is reached, a hydrogen atom appears out of thin air in this closed system!