Chapter 371 Harsh Environment

According to the data sent back by the detector, some astronomers believe that this neutron star was a magnetar in the early days. However, after a long time, its magnetic field has weakened a lot, but it is still much stronger than ordinary neutron stars.

Therefore, the environment of this binary star system can be described as very harsh.

Magnetar is one of the types of neutron stars, and it is also a neutron star, but it has a stronger magnetic field than ordinary neutron stars.

What can be called a magnetar is undoubtedly the type of celestial body with the strongest magnetic field in the universe. It generally has a super-strong magnetic field of 10 to the 9th power ~ 10 to the 11th power T, T is Tesla, the unit of magnetic field. Under normal circumstances, as long as the magnetic field strength of a neutron star reaches 10 to the 10th power Tesla, it can be directly called a magnetar.

This intensity of magnetic field is about one trillion times stronger than the magnetic field around the earth, and the magnetic field of the earth is only about 30~60 micro Tesla.

And how strong is the magnetic field of this neutron star? It is about 3*10 to the 7th power Tesla, which is 30 million Tesla.

Just talking about the numerical value may not give you an intuitive feeling. Let's put it this way. With such a strong magnetic field, even non-magnetic objects will be instantly magnetized when approaching a neutron star. For example, humans or other creatures, as long as they are thousands of kilometers away from this neutron star, they don't need to be torn apart by the gravitational tide of the neutron star. The human body will be instantly magnetized by the super-strong magnetic field, and then the anti-magnetism of the water in the body will immediately cause the cells to rupture, and then be torn to pieces, in short, gray.

Yes, the cause of death is not gravitational tearing, but magnetization.

With the magnetic field strength of this neutron star, human warships are completely unable to approach it within an astronomical unit. Human scientists have calculated that as long as human warships approach a certain distance, the warship's magnetic shielding material will be instantly magnetized by the super-strong magnetic field of the neutron star, which will cause the entire warship to be magnetized.

The consequence is that all crew members, equipment, and devices will be magnetized at the moment when the magnetic field shielding material collapses. At that moment, the organisms will be completely torn apart by the antimagnetic water molecules and proteins in their bodies, and the warship will also turn you into a pile of scrap metal in a spark and lightning.

For this super-strong magnetic field neutron star, some astronomers believe that it is not in the stage of magnetic field weakening, but in the stage of evolution to a real magnetar.

These scientists believe that this neutron star has the same dipole magnetic field at the beginning of its birth. After a long evolution, it will eventually become a magnetar with a different dipole magnetic field.

This evolution process is mainly reflected in the jump of different rotation periods. During the jump process, some of its physical quantities will change from finite values ​​to infinite values, including mass, volume, density, temperature, period, frequency, rate, etc. Of course, becoming infinite does not mean that these physical quantities will become infinite or infinitesimal, but that it increases from one value to another by unit increment.

If such a neutron star does not restore the magnetic field strength before the transition after the transition, then it can maintain the enhanced magnetic field strength, and such evolution often takes millions of years.

Therefore, these scientists believe that this neutron star is in the process of evolving into a magnetar, rather than from a magnetar to a normal neutron star.

Of course, no matter which case it is, it shows one thing, that is, the environment here is very, very, very bad.

It can be said that when human civilization and Nair civilization entered the range of this binary star system, it was equivalent to sailing from a calm sea into the raging sea of ​​​​the wolves.

In such an environment, as long as the magnetic shielding materials of warships and spacecrafts have problems, then these warships and spacecrafts will be directly destroyed in the strong magnetic field environment without any other attacks, and then the ship will be destroyed and the people will die.

Of course, from the perspective of human naked eyes or visible light to see this starry sky and this binary star system, what you see is still a calm starry sky.

Without X-ray vision, people can't even see the neutron star in the binary system. They can only see a red dwarf moving in an inexplicable way around a non-existent center of mass in the void.

But if there is a person with X-ray vision, magnetic field vision, and intuitive perception of magnetic lines of force, then what he will see will be a galaxy more dangerous than hell. In his eyes, this will be an eternal raging sea, a place full of dangers, a sea full of endless swallowing vortices, and a sea full of endless surging waves.

In a word, this is the world of the second strongest force in the universe, the electromagnetic force! It is a surging ocean of electromagnetic force!

And the thing that creates such an environment is the neutron star that is invisible to the naked eye and has a diameter of only 13 kilometers.

What's more terrifying is that scientists have discovered that this neutron star is also a violent neutron star. While radiating energy outward, it also has magnetic storms from time to time.

The so-called magnetic storm refers to the drastic changes in the earth's magnetic field caused by solar eruptions, which are disturbances in the earth's magnetosphere caused by the interaction of solar wind oscillations or magnetic clouds with the earth's magnetic field.

This happens often in the Earth era. When the activity on the surface of the sun is vigorous, especially during the solar maximum, the number of flares on the surface of the sun will increase. When the flares explode, they will radiate X-rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, and high-energy proton and electron beams.

Usually manifested as "aurora" phenomena, radio interruptions, disruptions to satellite communications, power grid tripping accidents, and failures of highly sensitive instruments.

This is the impact of a magnetic storm in the Earth era. When the source of a magnetic storm becomes a neutron star, all the hazards will be magnified countless times.

Take the probes that humans first sent to this binary star system for exploration. There have been no less than ten probe teams that have been buried in the short magnetic storm of this neutron star.

It is the kind of detection that suddenly disappears and the signal can no longer be transmitted back. Then the probe team that survived by chance at a relatively long distance went over to "take a look" and found that the batch of probes had been scrapped.

At that moment, the other surviving probes also detected a soft gamma and X-ray band energy fluctuation lasting about 0.1 to 1 second.

It was this energy burst of just one second that caused humans to lose a batch of advance probes.

The human civilization and the Nair civilization that have reached the second-level civilization level and have the ability to cross the starry sky still have to tread on thin ice and be cautious in such an environment.

In such an environment, if it is not to defeat the artificial intelligence consciousness, humans will never want to enter, because it is too dangerous.