Chapter 53 Laser Ignition Solution

Oliver's heart stirred and looked down at it, which contained several detailed conjecture reports.

Most of these reports were computer simulations under ideal conditions, no real experiments had been conducted yet, so they could only be considered conjectures ...

A helium-3 nuclear bomb is, to put it bluntly, a helium-3 layer on the outside of a hydrogen bomb, using the ultra-high temperature of the hydrogen bomb explosion to ignite the helium-3.

Is it possible to have a four-hydrogen nuke and put another layer of hydrogen on top of the helium-3 bomb? This is the idea that many people take for granted.

However, in the report, Professor Ding Yidong clearly pointed out that the success rate of such a scheme is extremely low and basically impossible.

Because the power of a nuclear explosion is too strong, at the moment of explosion, the whole nuclear bomb device will be destroyed, and the powerful shock wave will scatter all the elements. By then, the outermost hydrogen layer an instant was blown farther away.

Something like a nuclear bomb, the temperature of the core of the explosion is extremely high, but a little outside, the temperature will rapidly decrease by several orders of magnitude, and by then there will not be enough temperature and pressure to ignite the hydrogen layer.

Ding Yidong believes that the design of the helium-3 layer is already very extreme, because the ignition conditions of helium-3 are much lower than those of tetrahydrogen fusion. Adding another hydrogen layer on the outside, these things will only be blown away, not ignited ...

Fusion between four atoms is infinitely harder than fusion between two atoms! So the reaction conditions are also countless times higher, and this ring structure is suitable for helium-3 nukes, but not for four-hydrogen nukes.

So, what to do? If we can place the "hydrogen layer" in the center of the nuclear explosion, there may be a little possibility ...

The Coyote design bureau can be said to have a lot of crazy people, can not think about this problem, even walk into the wall. In a nuclear explosion, how to ensure that the hydrogen layer is not blown away, but honestly stay in the center of the point? This problem is too difficult!

There is a line between genius and madness, and after thinking hard, they really came up with several "ideal solutions"!

Oliver froze and quickly scrolled down.

The first, the "pomegranate" four-hydrogen nuclear bomb. The entire tetrahydrogen bomb is made up of a small conventional nuclear bomb put together, the whole structure looks like a pomegranate, hence the name.

Each small bomb is wrapped with a layer of hydrogen and then stacked one on top of the other.

To put it more graphically, each "pomegranate" is an ordinary mini-nuke, and the "flesh of the pomegranate" is the hydrogen layer of a four-hydrogen bomb.

Under this scenario, if all the "pomegranates", i.e. all the mini-nukes, are detonated at the same time, some of the hydrogen layers will be ignited, right?

According to the results of computer simulations, such a scheme is theoretically feasible.

It is really some whimsical ideas, "pomegranate" four hydrogen nuclear bombs, looks a bit strange ...

Professor Ding Yidong also left a comment at the bottom: "This scheme, indeed, has a certain degree of feasibility, after the simultaneous detonation of multiple nuclear bombs, the explosion of the shock wave squeezed each other, in the squeezed area will generate huge pressure and ultra-high temperature, the hydrogen layer inside is likely to be ignited ... "

"But how should this be done with simultaneous explosions? If one of the nukes explodes 0.1 seconds or 0.01 seconds earlier, it will immediately destroy the entire device, and then the hypothetical high temperature and high pressure area will not exist ..."

Oliver sank his head to think about it, and indeed, these small nuclear bombs, that is, ordinary hydrogen bombs or helium-3 bombs, their explosions are still ignited by atomic bombs. And the explosion of the atomic bomb has uncertainty, a fraction of a second difference is entirely possible.

The principle of the atomic bomb, that is, a large number of radioactive elements of the fission chain reaction, only when the scale is increasingly large, reaching the limit will be completely detonated, there is a random process here, there is no way to control humans, there is no way to estimate the precise time of the explosion.

Between each other, a difference of 0.1 seconds is entirely possible!

Oliver's brow furrowed, so easy to see a more reliable program, immediately shot, and is almost insoluble kind ...

Because of the inconsistency of the explosion time, this "pomegranate" design plan, it is possible to eventually ignite some ordinary hydrogen, but the effect will certainly not be very good.

Spend a lot of money, but can only improve the power of a little, is not what he wants.

"It's still a bit troublesome!" Oliver muttered in his mind.

Of course, the people in Coyote Design Bureau were not willing to fail like this, and they gathered the wisdom of many people and improved the pomegranate-type program.

The middle of the "pomegranate" simply do not, only the skin of the nuclear bomb can be left!

According to this improved scheme, the whole four-hydrogen nuclear bomb is like a ball, the outer layer of the skin is densely packed with small nuclear bombs, and only the core is the hydrogen layer. This design is a bit like a "ring structure", but the opposite of a normal hydrogen bomb, by detonating the outer ring to ignite the inner ring!

"According to this design, if the outer layer of nuclear bombs explode at the same time, the shock waves will squeeze each other inward while generating ultra-high temperature, which will exert great pressure on the hydrogen layer of the core!"

Professor Ding Yidong gestured with his hands and said excitedly, obviously, he was very satisfied with this proposal, which was most likely his own design ...

Think about it, nuclear bombs from all directions and all corners explode at the same time, the central region will definitely be squeezed by shock waves from all directions, and this huge pressure, coupled with the super high temperature, may finally ignite the inner core hydrogen layer completely!

At that time, the incomparably powerful tetrahydrogen nukes will really explode, and this is the final solution of the tetrahydrogen nukes!

"At least theoretically, it is completely feasible and more effective than the pomegranate type!" Ding Yidong said while nodding his head in satisfaction.

However, there still seems to be a problem ...

In the final analysis, this program still has to use the atomic bomb detonation, its explosion time is difficult to predict, fast 0.1 seconds or slow 0.1 seconds are possible, this problem is still not solved.

If an atomic bomb explodes a little earlier, the whole device will be destroyed.

Oliver thought about it and still asked this question to Ding Yidong: "Professor Ding, how should the simultaneous explosion be done?"

"Alas ... this is where we have the biggest headache, if we use the atomic bomb again, it's insurmountable!" Ding Yidong face is not discouraged expression, but a cheerful face.

"I think, simply give up the atomic bomb!" He said with considerable bravado, "We don't need atomic bombs for the ignition of ordinary nuclear bombs, we can use another kind of laser ignition instead!"

The atomic bomb, which can be called the gatekeeper of the hydrogen bomb, because the reaction requirements of the hydrogen bomb are relatively high, at least tens of millions of degrees of heat. And the explosion of an atomic bomb can easily reach this temperature, thus triggering nuclear fusion. So usually, hydrogen bombs are detonated by atomic bombs.

In fact, to detonate a hydrogen bomb does not necessarily use an atomic bomb, as long as the temperature is high enough. This also brings another method, which can be achieved by two kinds: laser as well as ultra-high temperature microwave heating.

Ding Yidong is talking about laser ignition, which is based on facts.

In 2012, the U.S. National Ignition Device successfully fused 192 beams of laser light to produce a more powerful laser pulse, which instantly generates a peak power of 500 trillion watts. Such a super-powerful laser pulse, although only for a very short time, is theoretically more than enough to ignite a hydrogen bomb!

"If the Americans can do it, our new human civilization should be able to do it too!" Ding Yidong said excitedly.

Oliver's heart was finally moved. Even if such a laser system couldn't ignite a hydrogen bomb, he still had to get it, at least it would be considered an ultra-long-range space weapon!