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I Pioneered Scientific Magic - Chapter 452 - Part 1
🕑 Added 2024-02-19 23:39:12 +0000 UTCChapter 452: Fusion Reactor - Part 1
In the afternoon, in the City of Fire Oil.
Under the council's decree, all the alchemists who had made it to the forefront gathered in the hall of the former Duke's mansion.
They needed to draw the largest alchemy array ever in history!
The scope covered the entire mansion, totaling one million seven hundred and twenty thousand runes!
Before this, the elemental wizards had already used magic to remove all decorations and furniture, hollowing out the ground to make enough space.
For confidentiality reasons, the speakers did not reveal that this was a legendary promotion ceremony, only saying that Master Lynn had developed a new magic, and this was the site for experimenting with magic!
"What kind of magic requires so many runes?" Tiek held his own blueprint, drawing on the ground while murmuring to himself.
He could see that the part he was responsible for seemed to be used to guide magical formations.
This stuff is usually used to accumulate power to cast certain spells, but creating such a large formation is truly intriguing.
Like Tiek, the over five hundred alchemists involved couldn't help but speculate on what such a huge array was for.
"I heard that Master Lynn is preparing to create a new sun on the ground!" an alchemist lowered his voice to say.
"A sun? Charlie, that's not a funny joke..." The witch next to him scoffed and shook her head.
What's a sun?
It's the star hanging high above their heads, the source of light. According to the predictions of those astrologers, the mass of the sun is at least millions of times that of the planet under their feet. If it moves slightly, the continent under their feet will be destroyed. That's the real doomsday!
I'm not kidding... Charlie, the witch, felt helpless. This is the top-secret information he secretly obtained!
"Stop chatting! Focus a little. This alchemical array is very important. We need to complete it as quickly as possible, and not a single symbol can be wrong!" Victorio solemnly ordered.
This promotion ceremony was related to his life and the possibility of becoming a legend. Naturally, Victorio was very serious. Not only was he responsible for the core formation arrangement, but he also personally inspected every rune when he had spare time.
Under the personal supervision of the speakers, no one dared to be lazy. Tiek and the others all worked hard, focusing on their tasks.
Lynn entered the mansion and saw hundreds of people gathered to draw pictures...
"How's the progress, Lord Victorio?" Lynn asked softly.
"It's not bad. Most of the difficult problems have been solved. I used a compound structure to form this alchemical array, so even if there are errors in one or two areas, it won't affect the overall situation..." Victorio explained the arrangement of the array and the prepared contingency plans to Lynn as they wandered around the mansion.
Lynn nodded repeatedly, satisfied with Victorio's caution. Once the fusion reactor went out of control, it wouldn't be a joke!
No amount of preparation is completely safe!
"In short, we have reached the limit of our abilities." Victorio sighed.
This time, he used all the knowledge he had learned in his life and gathered the elite power of the entire council!
If even this didn't work, then even if his soul perished in the energy eruption during the promotion ceremony, Victorio felt it wouldn't be unjust!
"Relax, as long as everything is arranged properly, I think success shouldn't be a problem!" Lynn said, handing over a blueprint of the fusion reactor.
Creating a 'mini-sun' on the ground was an incredibly unbelievable thing for wizards, making it seem extremely difficult, but for Lynn, building a fusion reactor was quite ordinary, except for the miniaturization and some technical difficulties.
Victorio took the blueprint like a treasure and carefully admired it.
Building a sun, this is simply the greatest masterpiece in the history of alchemy!
Lynn pondered how to solve some material science problems with magic.
If the atomic bomb breaks down uranium atoms, causing a large mass element to split into several smaller mass elements, then nuclear fusion is the opposite, combining two smaller mass elements into a larger mass element!
Of course, the principles of energy production are the same, namely, inevitable mass loss during fission or fusion, which is the source of terrifying nuclear energy...
There are many technical challenges for nuclear reactors, but there are two truly fatal problems!
One is how to heat the fusion material to a high enough temperature.
To initiate fusion, it is necessary to use one of the four fundamental forces, the strong nuclear force, so that two atomic nuclei can tightly bind together, rather than be repelled under the action of the same charge.
But the range of the strong nuclear force is extremely short, and the two atomic nuclei need to be very close.
This distance needs to be maintained at the order of 10 to the power of -15 meters, or 0.000001 nanometers.
This is undoubtedly a despairing number!
However, there is a way, and that is high temperature and high pressure!
From the atmospheric pressure of the planet they are on, the temperature needs to be raised to over one hundred million degrees to achieve this, leading to the second problem—what kind of container to use to contain fusion materials with temperatures as high as several hundred million degrees Celsius!
After the mass-energy equation was proposed, these two problems troubled humanity for more than a hundred years.
Fortunately, there were relevant data and drawings in the 071 database.
After careful consideration, Lynn planned to use laser focusing to achieve temperatures of over one hundred million degrees. They had previously developed laser magic, and as long as there was enough magic power, they should be able to achieve this smoothly.
The remaining problem was how to constrain this force!
Combining the abilities of the wizards, Lynn thought they could try to use magnetic field or gravitational confinement!
As for which one to use specifically...
In theory, gravitational confinement is the most reliable. For example, stars can maintain their shape under intense fusion reactions due to the influence of gravity and a balance with internal fusion reactions.
If they could replicate this, they would truly be able to simulate a miniature sun!
However, creating a large gravitational source is not an easy task. Lynn had asked Harof, only to receive a negative answer. Moreover, the influence of gravity is extensive, and by then, not only this mansion, but the entire city might be engulfed.
So Lynn had to settle for electromagnetic confinement.
"Using an invisible magnetic field to confine such powerful energy? What a brilliant idea!" Victorio happened to see this and marveled at Lynn's ingenious idea.
He had already seen that this blueprint was very comprehensive, proving that Lynn's artificial sun plan was not just an empty fantasy, but had a rigorous set of magical theories to support it.
This reassured Victorio a lot...
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