Chapter 79: Technology blowout (2)

"... such inspiration, from the alien creation of a button battery, the underlying theory and the relevant formula please turn to page twenty-seven of the paper, where there will be a detailed discussion ... "It is surprising that a small button battery can bring such a great inspiration to mankind. I have to say that the flying saucer civilization is really countless times more powerful than the new human civilization.

Oliver listened with interest at first, but then went straight to the clouds, dizzy, and could only follow the crowd in a daze as they flipped to page 27.

"The great scientist Einstein's mass-energy equation, e=mc^2, does not only apply to nuclear energy, but also to chemical energy! The loss of mass is actually everywhere!"

Felix said passionately while holding an experimental aluminum-air battery, "We have long learned to use mass deficit to create energy in our daily lives ... When two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom combine to form a water molecule, the mass of the water molecule must be less than the two hydrogen atoms plus the sum of the masses of one oxygen atom."

"This reduced mass becomes energy, although the change in mass is small ... The idea is to extend the mass deficit as much as possible and increase the amount of chemical energy released ..."

Well, what a living series, Oliver had a distressed look on his face, it seemed like the first time he had heard this argument, and to his surprise, most scientists were nodding their heads in agreement ...

A change in chemical energy can actually trigger a change in mass as well!

Oliver swore that this was really the first time he had heard of such a statement. But seeing the large number of material scientists around him had little objection, he did not dare to talk too much to save himself from losing face.

As for what was said later about energy levels and electron leaps, he couldn't understand any more.

He now knows that he is still a scum level. It seems to be necessary to strengthen the study ah!

When Oliver walked out of the conference room with his head in the dust, he looked at Yuriko who walked past him and unknowingly pulled her, but suddenly felt that it was not appropriate and quickly put it down.

Oliver was a little embarrassed: "Uh ... long ago said to invite you to dinner, just tonight. I still have some questions to ask you."

Yuriko froze, a meal she certainly remembered. When she sent her Gauss rifle over, Oliver said he would treat her to dinner, but it ended up dragging on for half a year at a time, and she lost her Gauss rifle ... According to the interest, it would take at least two meals to pay it off, right?

Thinking about it, she frowned a little unhappily.

Oliver did not guess so much of her mind, directly towards the canteen. And Yuriko, after a low hum, could only follow closely behind.

"Let me ask, is there also a loss of mass in the chemical reaction?" Oliver asked as he walked.

Yuriko said somewhat unpleasantly, "Of course, isn't it common knowledge ... but according to the level of nine-year compulsory education, really don't know this. Teachers teach the conservation of elements before and after chemical reactions, which also includes mass."

Oliver said with a bitter smile, "I did hear this idea for the first time ..."

Speaking of such serious topics, Yuriko also stopped laughing at Oliver: "The alien material has enlightened us a great deal while correcting many of our conceptual errors. Many scientists are trying to find out and refine our scientific theories."

Oliver also nodded and said, "We still have a half-understanding of the universe, especially me, I still need to learn more theoretical knowledge, and I have to ask you for more advice in this regard."

Seeing that Oliver was sincere in asking for advice, Yuriko also stopped selling and said directly, "When a chemical reaction occurs and releases energy, it must lose an equivalent amount of mass, that is correct!"

"But since the vast majority of chemical reactions release far less energy than the energy released by common nuclear reactions. Therefore, the mass loss of a chemical reaction is often so small that it cannot be measured by the most sophisticated instruments and can only be deduced from the energy released by the reaction."

"Let me give you an example, 1 mole of nitroglycerine explosion, can produce 2700 kJ of heat, its mass loss before and after the reaction is 3.074 * 10^-8 grams, the magnitude is very small. Usually it is also negligible ..."

Two people walked into the cafeteria and ordered food while talking about such strange topics. However, this seems to be something that is taken for granted in the cafeteria, and the men and women who come and go around, one and all, are also talking about science and related things. Even ... did not hear other topics!

Oliver pricked up his ears and eavesdropped for a while, what electromagnetism, high energy batteries, nuclear energy ... all kinds of topics. It seems that this scientific wave scraped a bit powerful ah, he personally still very much enjoy such a trend.

Oliver suddenly found that Yuriko ordered all the cheap vegetarian dishes, he quickly said: "You lose weight? Order whatever you want, no need to be polite with me!"

Yuriko was dumbfounded, she was just thinking about various scientific issues in her head and actually did not react. She thought it was like the usual, each eating their own.

Poor her, she was really a bit poor and a standard eater, she couldn't stand the temptation of high-end luxury food, and almost all of her monthly salary was filled into her stomach, resulting in the end of the month days often only vegetarian.

Thinking that today is Oliver's treat, she is also not polite, fingers on the computer screen, "this, this ... and this!"

Oliver eyebrows jumped, what underwater crayfish, crab rice cake, seaweed sushi, the same thing are very expensive. But also surprised so a little bit, he is a typical representative of the wealthy, wages are the highest on the Noah, usually simply can not spend, ate also ate ... of course, he himself also still comply with the new currency system, do not engage in specialization.

"So ... Mr. Felix invented the battery, will bring about a qualitative change in the energy system?" Oliver continued to ask as he sat down at the dinner table.

Yuriko looked at the sumptuous meal in front of her and said with satisfaction, "Of course it will, life is a lot easier. From now on, cell phones only need to be charged once a month; cars can run more than 10,000 kilometers on a single charge ..."

"No, no, no!" Oliver hurriedly waved his hand, "I mean the military aspect, can we make use of this to create laser weapons or particle beam weapons?"

Yuriko enjoyed the food while thinking, apparently, Oliver's sumptuous meal bribed very good effect.

She said vaguely, "Theoretically it's barely feasible, but it requires suitcase-sized batteries and only one or two shots of energy. To make the weapons you're talking about, we'd need higher energy density batteries to do it."

"A more advanced battery would be a nuclear energy battery or some superconducting battery. Our current laboratory can do the radioisotope battery, using plutonium-238, curium-244 these strong radioactive elements, they will slowly decay, producing electricity ... than the best chemical batteries at least a few hundred times stronger it!"