Wandering Meteor-Chapter 150 - 149: Neutrino (Please Subscribe)

Although this method is only a possibility, it’s better than none.

Earth Civilization’s scientific team thought of making neutrinos into weapons.

Previously, Earth Civilization only used neutrinos for communication, but now, under the suggestion of Pirate Civilization, everyone started to look for substances that do not participate in the Four Basic Forces.

It was then that Earth Civilization’s scientific team thought of neutrinos.

Neutrinos are a kind of light particle in the Universe, with an extremely small mass, about one millionth of an electron, and different neutrinos may vary in mass, but the heaviest will not exceed one ten-thousandth of an electron’s mass.

It can be said that neutrinos are very light particles, with speed approaching the speed of light.

Apart from their very light mass, neutrinos are also neutral light particles, not carrying electric charge, not participating in electromagnetic force reactions, nor in strong nuclear force reactions, only in reactions with weak nuclear force and gravity among the Four Basic Forces.

But due to neutrinos’ extremely light mass, gravity can be essentially ignored, and the weak nuclear force has the shortest range of interaction among the four forces and is the second weakest, only stronger than gravity, placing significant constraints on its interactions.

It is these characteristics that give neutrinos a very strong penetrating ability.

So, how strong is the penetrative power of neutrinos?

Neutrinos can easily penetrate the interior of the Earth and almost do not generate any energy loss.

Even electromagnetic force cannot achieve this, which is the reason Earth Civilization uses neutrinos for communication; because unlike electromagnetic force, neutrinos do not suffer severe losses during propagation, nor are they affected by environmental and topographic factors. In addition, with neutrinos’ speed so close to the speed of light, the advantages over electromagnetic force are even greater.

It is also because of the implementation of neutrino communication technology that Earth has now entered the new era of Communication 2.0.

Of course, due to the speed of propagation, neutrinos can still only be used within Earth, and interstellar navigation currently uses pseudo-quantum communication, which is a different technology.

Besides, Earth Civilization has also started researching faster-than-light observers.

This is because the Universe is just too vast, photons crossing one light-year also require one year’s time, causing observed intelligence to be severely outdated. Hence, following the collision of two giant nebulas, Lu Chen began urging civilizations on Earth to start researching faster-than-light observers.

This will be explained in detail later, but now let’s get back to the main topic.

If one wants to uncover the secret behind the strong penetrative power of neutrinos, it might be difficult to understand just from a macroscopic perspective; one needs to decrypt from the microscopic world to correctly understand the so-called penetrating power.

As everyone knows.

On a cosmic level, macroscopic materials are all made up of atoms, and atoms are composed of atomic nuclei and rotating electrons.

Therefore, in the actual microscopic world, there is a gap between atomic nuclei and electrons, which is just too small for the naked eye to observe, making the material composed of atoms appear as a solid whole without gaps. However, in the microscopic world invisible to the naked eye, the distance between each atom could be as wide as a galaxy when magnified, meaning all natural materials contain very large gaps.

Hence, according to theory, if there are gaps, then any particle small enough should be able to penetrate through, without affecting the material on the macroscopic level.

This theory is correct, but don’t forget, the Four Basic Forces are the fundamental rules constituting everything in the Universe. If these forces are taken into account, the situation might change.

Especially electromagnetic force, which is the most commonly used force in the Universe.

Electrons revolve around atomic nuclei because an electromagnetic field is formed between the nucleus and the electron. Bound by the electromagnetic field, the electrons can only revolve around the nucleus.

Thus, even though there are significant gaps between each atom in the microscopic world, these gaps are actually filled with electromagnetic fields. And since most particles in the Universe are charged, most particles are captured by electromagnetic fields when passing through the gaps between atoms, leading to failed penetration.

This is also the main reason why electromagnetic waves have low penetration efficiency, because photons can be captured by electromagnetic fields, then absorbed by electrons, causing the electrons to gain energy and transit, and this is why electromagnetic communication is inefficient underwater.

The reason why neutrinos have such strong penetrating power is precisely because they do not participate in electromagnetic force reactions or strong nuclear force reactions. While they do participate in weak nuclear force and gravitational reactions, since gravity is so weak it can be ignored, and the weak nuclear force only appears when particles decay.

Therefore, it can be said that under ideal conditions, neutrinos do not participate in any forces and can directly pass straight through the gaps between atoms, which is what gives neutrinos their unmatched penetrative power.

Earth Civilization’s scientific team saw this characteristic of neutrinos and thus wanted to turn neutrinos into weapons, because against Entropy Beasts whose technological core is the Unified Force, only substances that are non-Four Basic Forces or do not participate in the Four Basic Forces could kill them.

Neutrinos are the substance they found that meets half of the conditions, which is why this plan might be possible.

However, there’s a problem with this plan.

The problem is that Entropy Beasts are just too large, so to kill an Entropy Beast, neutrino weapons must have an extremely high energy level, and within the Except Entropy Alliance, only Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Devices have the corresponding energy-level weapons equipment.

Thus, after discussion, all civilizations could only let Pirate Civilization use neutrino weapons for attack, while the rest of the civilizations were responsible for buying time for Pirate Civilization.

From a cosmic perspective, the twelve civilizations of the Wandering Alliance are like twelve constellations, engaging in a life-and-death battle against a universe-level monster.

"Pirate Civilization, this time we’ll cover for you, you must succeed!"

Led by Lu Chen, the Wandering Alliance was the first to open fire towards the Entropy Beast half a light-year away, also calling on other civilizations to join in the attack, any attack would do, whether effective against the Entropy Beast or not, to just fire away as there were currently no better options.

Boom, boom!

Streams of energy attacks were launched at the speed of light towards the Entropy Beast.

Among them, there were some unusual attacks, such as the Gravity Waves used by Lu Chen, the Covalent Bond Strike ventured by the Metal Planet Wandering in close proximity, and some special weapons from other civilizations.

At this moment, all civilizations shared a common goal, united in firing upon the Entropy Beast, displaying exceptional unity.

Unfortunately, most of the Energy Weapons were ignored by the Entropy Beast, with hits on its neutron skin bouncing off, and Lu Chen’s Gravity Waves were disrupted by the gravity field, none causing any real harm to the Entropy Beast.

Instead, the Entropy Beast, relieved from the restraint of Pirate Civilization’s Space Shock, quickened its pace to 2.5 times the speed of light, promptly reaching a slower civilization, opening its massive mouth and swallowing the civilization whole.

"Pirate Civilization, isn’t your weapon modification done yet?"

Seeing an ally becoming sustenance for the growing Entropy Beast, Lu Chen urged Pirate Civilization anxiously.

After a while, Pirate Civilization finally responded: "Sorry for the long wait, the neutrino weapon will soon arrive at the battlefield."