Black Technology Monopoly (The Black Tech Monopoly Corporation)

The scientists are immersed in the research target on a test bench, which is also purpose-built, and houses a scanning probe microscope.

This is a micromanipulator with nanometer-scale precision, that is, even if the manipulator is a huge machine, as long as its end manipulator can complete the task of nanometer manipulation, this type of manipulator can be It's called "nano manipulator".

Scanning probe microscope is a kind of nano manipulator, and scanning probe microscope can be divided into three types: "scanning tunneling microscope", "atomic force microscope" and "scanning near-field optical microscope".

One of the most famous application cases is in 1990, when scientists in 1990 used a scanning probe microscope for the first time to gradually move 35 xenon atoms adsorbed on the nickel surface and arrange them in the shape of "". This atomic transfer technology, It has completely laid the historical foundation for the production of nanorobots.

At this time, what everyone uses is a scanning near-field optical microscope. Because the nano-robot arm already has a foundation in reality, although it is expensive and requires extremely high precision technology, the honeycomb itself is extremely advanced in the field of nanotechnology. The finished product is much more advanced than the world's most advanced nano-robots, and the nano-robots that deal with the day the earth stopped spinning are no problem at all.

Seeing that the scientists were still immersed in their research, Zhang Heng walked directly to Lewis, who was instructing everyone to study. At this time, Louis also saw Zhang Heng and hurriedly reached out to greet him. After shaking hands with Zhang Heng affectionately, he immediately said with concern, "r Zhang, Are you healthy?"

"Don't worry, since I have the ability to bring nano robots back, it means that these things can't hurt me." Zhang Heng nodded, no matter where he is, the more capable people are, the more respected they will be. At this time, Louis is in The importance of the beehive is no less than that of top scientists such as Yan Ronghua and Luo Jincheng, and Lewis is in a period of rapid accumulation, and his future achievements may be higher than those of the four top scientists. Will not put on the air of the boss.

"That's good, actually I'm really surprised." Louis said excitedly, "Do you know? We have just disassembled more than a hundred robots, but found that the internal structure of this robot is extremely complex, even more than 800. To be complicated, it almost subverts our understanding of nanorobots!"

"In our understanding, nanorobots should not have too complex structures because they are extremely small, because the more complex the structure, the higher the cost of manufacturing, and nanorobots often require tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Only the above quantity can complete a certain task, this kind of workload and capital expenditure is almost impossible for us!"

"However, after a general analysis of the functions of the nano-robot components you brought back, we found that the other party actually has the ability to self-replicate, and we realized that for the creators of this nano-robot, they It is enough to make only one nano-robot. As the robot devours more and more materials, the same nano-robot will soon be reproduced. It can be said that in addition to the material cost, the manufacturing cost of the new nano-robot It's zero!"

"It's amazing!" Lewis couldn't help but admire, "It's not that we haven't thought about using the technology of robot self-replication to expand the number of nano-robots, but there are two big limitations. First, nano-robots want to replicate a similar , the amount of work required is very large, just like a human being who wants to design a bionic human that is indistinguishable from a human, it cannot be done without months or even years of hard work.”

"Then, it's the material issue." Lewis continued, "There are strict requirements for the selection of materials for nanorobots. In fact, we have found artificial compounds on the parts of nanorobots.

Their shells are made of an inorganic metal material with a melting point of more than 3,000 degrees Celsius, which alone can make them completely immune to thousands of degrees of high temperature, and there are dozens of materials in their bodies. At the same time, they have smelting modules, structures Modules, as well as miniature solar modules that can convert light energy into power, the technology contained in them even exploded our electronic mosquitoes and flying sticks. "

"But I remember that these nano-robots got so much by swallowing tungsten gold, right? Where did the tungsten gold go?" Zhang Heng couldn't help frowning. This question has always puzzled him. If this is just a movie, Zhang Heng can also say that this was when the movie was made, but what about when the movie becomes a reality?

"That's what I'm about to emphasize." Louis also showed an incredible look of admiration. He chuckled and couldn't help but play dumb, "Do you know how artificial elements were born?"

"What do you mean?" Zhang Heng couldn't help shrinking his pupils and whispered, "Change the number of protons in the nucleus?"

"Yes, this nanorobot uses this method to change all kinds of swallowed substances into the substances they need, and then builds and assembles them to divide themselves into two and four, so as to devour everything. !"

Zhang Heng couldn't help showing a shocked expression. Although he also vaguely guessed this possibility, when this possibility was verified, Zhang Heng was even more shocked to forcibly interfere with the microscopic particles of the proton level. This is already a god-like method. Now, even Marie Curie, who was the first to use the method of function, only used the method of atomic addition to change one substance into another.

The so-called atomic addition is that when the nucleus of element 84 polonium splits, its "fragment" helium nucleus is ejected at a very high speed. There are 2 protons in the helium nucleus. So, they used this helium as a "shell" to "fire" at the metal aluminum plate. In the end, a miracle occurred, and the metal element of aluminum turned into phosphorus.

This method with too many restrictions is inevitably a bit tricky, but in the age of extremely underdeveloped science in the last century, this achievement even surpassed the achievement of Zhang Heng's invention, and laid a solid foundation for mankind to complete the periodic table of elements. So basic that physicists later invented the cyclotron under their inspiration, also known as the atomic cannon.

But right now, this nano-robot has the ability to change the material structure at will, so that one element becomes another element, and the method is far simpler than the atomic cannon and other methods. If this technology Can be mastered by Zhang Heng, then Zhang Heng's potential will expand in an instant.

The so-called ancient people's pursuit of turning a stone into gold is nothing more than that. To be continued.