To be honest.
At this point, Wang Qiang and the others no longer expect to analyze the composition of the ice coffin with existing technical means.
They are driven by the curiosity and exploratory desires of researchers, eager to determine whether this ice coffin could be the most solid and 'intact' object humanity has ever encountered.
Some students have a serious problem with their failing rates.
So here, let's briefly mention the properties of neutrinos:
Neutrinos travel at nearly the speed of light, have extremely low rest mass, and do not participate in electromagnetic interactions.
They only interact with atomic nuclei when they hit them directly, and the distances between atomic nuclei are very sparse, leaving many gaps within atoms.
Finding an atomic nucleus within an atom is as likely as finding a small island in the Pacific Ocean.
Hmm? Is there something off here?
In summary.
For neutrinos, every object has enough gaps for them to pass through, which makes their penetration the foremost in the world, without any 'among the top' suffix.
A material like an ice coffin, theoretically, cannot obstruct neutrinos in any way.
Unless it is also a seamless whole on a microscopic level—that's what Wang Qiang and the others hope to prove.
Wang Qiang's related application was quickly approved by the Governor Group, and soon, a femtometer-level energy detector was delivered to the laboratory.
Students familiar with neutrino penetration should know.
Under normal circumstances, neutrino detectors are often very large, often towering several tens of meters high, about the height of a typical residential building.
The experimental concept for neutrino detectors is as follows:
Neutrinos enter the receiver, triggering reactions that release charged leptons, such as electrons.
If the energy is high enough, the electrons will travel quickly, and as they move through water, they might generate Cherenkov radiation.
By detecting this radiation, the quantity of neutrinos can be measured.
But it's easier said than done.
To achieve this, at least tens of thousands of tons of experimental water are needed, and depth is also a requirement.
Because this topic is sensitive, let's avoid mentioning the Sanya reactor and take our old neighbor as an example.
The renowned Kamiokande Neutrino Experiment in Neon has a detector with a diameter of 33 meters, made up of over 11,000 photomultiplier tubes, and requires 50,000 tons of pure water to function properly.
And even with such a large device, it can only capture a dozen or so of the hundreds of trillions of neutrinos passing through each day, occasionally catching two.
Its highest peak record was on December 13, 2015, when it captured thirty-one neutrinos.
So on that day, the Kamiokande Neutrino Experiment team had a celebration with a social event, BBQ, and girls, followed by a group activity of over twenty people.
Group activities like that aren't well-received next door, especially when scandals arise within the system.
After all, not everyone is like the Hilton heiress, able to profit off their intimate moments online.
As a result, three days after setting the record, more than half of these people resigned due to the scandal, in a formal press conference with collective bows.
Bowing artisan spirit.JPG.
Did you think that was the end of it?
There's more to the story.
While these researchers had chaotic personal lives, it was a moment of drunken error, and they were highly skilled—many neutrino discoveries were made by the people from Neon.
In such a situation, having a group of top-tier researchers flow out of the system immediately drew significant attention.
It's rumored within the industry that within about two months, these people were scooped up by the Eagles, Rabbits, and Bears.
And according to unreliable rumors, we got quite a few of them.
Ahem... let's return our focus to the lab.
Unlike the Kamiokande Neutrino Experiment's detector, Wang Qiang and the others don't need to capture neutrinos, only to observe whether they can pass through the ice coffin.
As a result, the required equipment is much smaller, reducing the difficulty by millions of times:
All that's needed is to cover the ice coffin with an ammeter-level sensory membrane and zirol coating, to observe whether neutrinos are attached to it—no need for direct observation, just determine their trajectory through energy changes.
If neutrinos can pass through the ice coffin, the equipment will detect no energy loss.
The entire operational situation map will indicate 0, like the straight line on the EKG of a cooled person.
But if neutrinos can't pass through the ice coffin, it's as if they collided with an atomic nucleus.
A collision inevitably involves potential energy conversion, which can easily be displayed on the instrument.
And so, about twenty minutes passed.
The energy collection equipment was debugged and calibrated.
Then...
Wang Qiang's hands left the keyboard.
That's right, no operation needed.
Due to the immense number of neutrinos, there are as many as several trillion neutrinos in a single laboratory's microscopic world, constantly passing through without any regularity.
So we just need to wait for them to collide with the ice coffin by themselves and see if energy fluctuations occur.
The only thing Wang Qiang and her team need to do is plug in the power source.
Thirteen seconds after the equipment started running, a pale green energy dot suddenly appeared on the screen and began to flash.
This indicates that energy collisions at or above the amine level have occurred at this location.
At the seventeenth second, the second energy dot appeared.
Then, more and more energy dots appeared...
By the fifth minute, hundreds of energy dots had already appeared on the screen.
Despite being mentally prepared.
Upon seeing this, Wang Qiang's index finger involuntarily twitched, tapping heavily on the tabletop.
She then looked at Li Yan, smiled wryly, and said:
"Sister Yan, it seems we've really encountered something extraordinary."
Compared to Wang Qiang's bitterness, Li Yan appeared somewhat indifferent. She shrugged at Wang Qiang and said:
"To be honest, I already had a hunch about this when I noticed I couldn't see Miss Pang Ci anymore."
Wang Qiang: "..."
"Don't worry, don't worry."
Then Li Yan casually patted her junior sister's shoulder. This short-haired girl once again displayed a cheerfulness consistent with her hairstyle:
"Eat when it's time to eat, research when it's time to research. The unknown is ultimately a good thing.
Maybe our team will decipher the molecular structure of the ice coffin someday and win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry? By the way, am I writing the report or are you?"
"I'll write it."
Wang Qiang instinctively replied, and immediately realized her mindset seemed to improve a lot—research is like this; failure is actually the norm, and in dull circumstances, having a teammate who can see the big picture is incredibly stabilizing.
Many teams with potential were completely silenced in mutually depressing environments.
With Li Yan's redirection, the brightness on Wang Qiang's face soon returned, she regained her spirit, and started humming a song as she began to write the report.
Meanwhile.
Lin Li, along with Wei Fan, Ma Ning, and others, arrived at another laboratory.
Besides Wang Qiang's team responsible for researching the ice coffin, two other projects were also proceeding in parallel:
One was calculating the skeletal remains' bone age, and the other was identifying and categorizing items within the spatial bag.
The importance of the former is self-evident, as it concerns whether the skeleton was the predecessor of the third ancestor of the Mo Family.
A Fifth-Layer Core Formation Realm cultivator guarding the ice coffin until death is vastly different from an ordinary person.
Currently, Wang Qiang's team has only confirmed the lower boundary concerning the ice coffin, indicating that it definitely involves vacuum zero-point energy and some special structure, which is undoubtedly worth studying.
But these are merely special points in physics, valuable research directions regardless of other outcomes, often seen as "minimum guarantees."
However, if the skeleton is confirmed to be the third ancestor of the Mo Family, it suggests involvement in certain aspects of cultivation, significantly increasing its importance.
Aside from determining the skeleton's identity, categorizing the spatial bag is equally important.
According to Wei Fan's prior rough estimates, there are hundreds of miscellaneous items in the spatial bag.
These hundreds of items certainly have varying qualities, and it is possible some highly valuable treasures exist for the rabbits.
Simultaneously, it might solve a long-standing curiosity among the rabbits:
Can the items in the spatial bag be immune to time erosion?
The known storage effects of the spatial bag involve space, while this hypothesis relates to time.
The importance of this link is self-evident.
When Lin Li and others arrived at this laboratory, Lin Ziming had already arranged to clear a space in the center of the room.
Lin Li then placed the spatial bag, previously handed over by Lin Ziming, on the table and gestured to Wei Fan:
"Patriarch Wei, I'll leave it to you."
"It's a small matter, a small matter."
Wei Fan politely nodded, then picked up the spatial bag and infused his divine sense into it.
Before long, the rope on the spatial bag loosened.
Soon, one item after another was "retrieved" by his divine sense.
Lin Ziming noticed that many of the items Wei Fan retrieved were already decayed, such as spirit materials, magical treasures, and pills.
"Clang——"
Suddenly, a dull thud caught his attention.
At this moment, Wei Fan was gently placing a slate on the table....
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