The space city where the Imperial Institute of Materials Science is located is very lively. Due to the emergence of magnetic energy technology, imperial scientists have opened a brand new door, and atomic materials science has officially entered the vision of imperial scientists.

Countless scientists studying materials science have begun research in the field of atomic materials science as if they were treasured. Countless new materials have begun to emerge continuously. Materials science, which had reached a bottleneck, began to shine infinitely, and data on various aspects such as the hardness of materials, high temperature resistance, etc. have begun to be refreshed.

Hardness 1000, hardness 2000, 3000, various new materials made of atomic materials constantly refresh the hardness data of the original material with unprecedented data; high temperature resistance is 10,000 degrees, 200 million degrees, 30,000 degrees, and high temperature resistance materials. Countless powerful materials have emerged in the field of high temperature resistance materials. They will record and refresh them again and again.

It was like a flood that broke the dam, or it seemed to be enlightened. The development of the Empire's materials science field had never been achieved before, and one surprising result after another.

Xu Xingsi Laboratory, with its outstanding contributions to the field of materials science, Xu Xingsi has now become a giant in the field of materials science in the imperial field and a pioneer in the field of atomic materials science.

At this time, Xu Xingsi stared at a monitor with his eyes, and from time to time, a strange machine was constantly working. On the monitor, things like atomic structures were constantly being combined to form three-dimensional structures.

Atomic materials science uses powerful magnetic field constraint devices. Of course, this power must have been carefully calculated by scientists, and the situation like the last time will not happen again. The power of the magnetic cannon has amazed countless people. It only requires a very small power to create atomic materials.

The machine is constantly running, and if it is not through the monitor, it is impossible to know the changes in the materials in the laboratory at this time. Because with the naked eye, there is nothing in the middle of the laboratory except for the machine that keeps running all the time, just like it is empty.

However, Xu Xingsi knew that just a few tons of steel were inside not long ago, but now all of these steels have disappeared.

Of course, this disappearance does not mean that it really disappears, but that it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Because it is rearranged from a very small atomic angle, the unit density has increased by many times. It is like a huge ball of cotton, which looks a lot, but if squeezed together, it will become a very small ball.

Or it may be like air. The compressed air volume is less than one ten thousandth of the original air volume or one hundred thousandth of the volume. If it is compressed and arranged from an atomic perspective, then the volume is even more numerous times smaller. This is how many pieces of steel disappear.

It is not that it really disappears, but that these steels are re-arranged and built by atomic material machines from the atomic angle, so now they cannot be seen at all with a naked eye. Only with an electron microscope can you see new materials that have become very small and small.

"Didi, there are not enough raw materials!"

The alarm interrupted Xu Xingsi's thoughts, and several tons of steel were sent in. Watching the steel slowly disappear, but still now, he has not even seen a shadow.

"Send another ten tons of steel in."

Xu Xingsi gave the order very decisively, as if he had been used to all this. The degenerate materials are very powerful, but it is also very difficult to create the same degenerate materials.

The steel weighing several tons is reshaped by atoms, and the new material created cannot be seen even by the naked eye. It is conceivable that if you want to get a piece of material that can be used, you don’t know how much steel it will cost.

Soon, the machine sent the material in again, and the atomic material machine began to work again. On the display, under the guidance of a powerful magnetic field beam, countless iron atoms were superimposed very well at the set positions. These atoms were constantly combined into a three-dimensional geometric pattern. If you look carefully, you will find that these atoms are composed of regular hexagonal three-dimensional geometric patterns.

The scientists of the Empire studied graphite, coke and diamond and knew that the atoms they essentially composed are the same, and are all composed of carbon atoms. However, the continuous arrangement and distribution of these carbon atoms have created the difference in quality of these things. The performance of graphite, coke and diamond is more than tens of millions of times, and their own value is simply incomparable.

Therefore, once a student of atomic materials science, the scientists of the empire were very keen to change the distribution of different atomic materials, thus obtaining countless new materials that had never been obtained before.

The same is true for Xu Xingsi at this time. He is trying to use iron atoms to form a three-dimensional collection structure similar to diamond, so as to obtain powerful atomic materials that can support the warp engine.

The content on the monitor remains unchanged, but the ten tons of steel sent into the laboratory are constantly disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they were missing for no reason. As long as the atomic material machine passes through these steel, the steel will be quickly lost.

Ten tons of steel, hundreds of tons of steel, thousand tons of steel...

As more and more steel is sent to the laboratory, in the middle of the laboratory, materials that were originally unseen with the naked eye can finally be seen slowly with the naked eye. Thousands of tons of steel have been made of atomic materials and turned into a piece of material that is only the size of a fingernail.

This material is a rectangular piece, very thin, with a dark body, and faintly emitted streaming light. Although it is very small, this material is made of thousands of tons of steel, and its weight is also thousands of tons, so that the laboratory has to shut down the gravity production device. Otherwise, such a small volume and such a large weight will be enough to deform the steel in the laboratory.

"Haha, it's finally successful. More than 6,000 tons of steel, I finally got only such a small piece. Tsk, this degenerate material is really expensive."

Xu Xingsi was very happy, and at the same time, he sighed that more than 6,000 tons of steel were very popular in the Imperial interstellar mining and many asteroids were mined, but there were also many places where steel was needed in the interstellar era.

The steel consumed by spacecraft and space warships is calculated based on tens of thousands of tons and billion tons, so the price of this steel has always remained high in the empire, and the interstellar mining industry has made a lot of money. The market demand is too hot, and there are many places that need to be used.

A bowl of steel costs about 1,000 yuan in the empire. The more than 6,000 tons of steel are calculated to be about 6 million yuan, which doesn't seem to be expensive. But you should know that this is the imperial currency, a constant energy currency, and the most important thing is that the material made of this more than 6 million worth of steel is only the size of a fingernail.

Such a small size is useless at all. You must know that if you use such materials to build a spaceship or a space warship, even if the empire is rich now, it will still go bankrupt. The astronomical expenses will not be able to bear even the empire.

Even if the engine used only to build a space warship is used to build a warp engine, the degenerate materials consumed at that time will be very terrifying, because the warp engine of a spaceship and a space warship is also very large.

"The degenerate material was created, but to create a warp engine, the cost is 12,345..."

Xu Xingsi looked at the computer, and the computer was constantly calculating how much money it would cost to create a degenerate material needed to create a warp engine. One by one, one by one, and a series of numbers were simply astronomical.

"100 trillion!"

At the end of the count, Xu Xingsi couldn't help but widen his eyes. Calculated based on the size of the anti-gravity engine on the existing Imperial Space Warship, using degenerate materials to create a warp engine of the same size, the cost of making an astonishing 100 trillion yuan.

100 trillion yuan, what does this mean? The empire has developed to this day, with more than 30 galaxies and nearly 40 life planets. However, the empire's annual fiscal revenue is only less than 100 trillion yuan, which means that the empire's annual fiscal revenue is only barely enough to build 10 warp engines.

From this we can know how expensive these degenerate materials are. If the national strength is weak, even if the technology to make degenerate materials can be developed, it is impossible to truly apply degenerate materials without strong national strength.

Of course, this is just the current situation of the empire. The technology of mining asteroids has been developing continuously. The price of steel in the empire is also slowly declining, and the empire's economic development speed is also very rapid. In a few decades, the empire will be able to be at ease.

But now, for the Empire, facing such as astronomical prices, even if the Empire already has the strength to create a warp engine, the Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet Tu Xueli will still tremble when signing, and the Minister of Finance of the Imperial Cabinet will be dark.

Because in order to create a warp engine, the empire's already abundant finance suddenly became short of money. As the Minister of Finance, he would have a hard time in the future, and there were holes everywhere to be filled. Finally, he had saved some money and consumed all of them all at once.

However, the money that should be spent still needs to be spent, especially the design of scientific research funds, which is related to the national security of the empire and the improvement of military power. The empire's principle has always been to do anything, and this money will definitely not be spent in vain.
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