In Lu Chaoyang's initial expectations.
The ice casket might be the 'container' in which the giant fox slumbered, and it must conceal secrets related to vacuum inside.
But other than that.
Its role in the entire process is actually not significant:
Like a jade stone blocking a chimney, preventing the internal gases from escaping.
Although the jade stone holds high value.
For the venting process itself, it actually is just something that blocks a hole.
To put it mystically, it might be called suppression, to put it plainly, it's just a paperweight.
The main reason there is wind within the cave, is simply that there are no ferrohelium microcrystals around the ice casket, causing some underground wind to leak out.
So in Lu Chaoyang's initial expectations, the situation at the cave's end might be like this:
The ice casket originally encased a giant fox in slumber, both were sealed at a certain entrance.
One day, the fox awakens and rises from the casket, causing external stray particles to enter the casket, disrupting the internal vacuum.
Simultaneously, over the long years, a breach emerged beneath the ice casket similar to the one at Qingcheng Mountain Celestial Palace, and the different air pressures inside and outside the breach caused wind to leak out.
As for the low-temperature environment inside the cave, it could be the temperature carried by the ice casket, or it could be the cold air emanating from within the breach.
Yet who would have thought...
There was no breach beneath the ice casket, the wind actually dissipated from inside the ice casket?
Know this.
According to the initial findings by the rabbits, the inside of a normal ice casket is highly likely to have a 'vacuum' in the physical senseβ even if there is no vacuum in the ice casket presently, the ground state field would still exist.
Mentioned a long time ago.
A comprehensive detailed explanation of the vacuum in the physical sense is incredibly complex, even involving the compatibility issue with ether and unified field theory.
But to put it in the simplest terms, it's these six words: "Dirac Sea of Electrons."
Based on this concept,
Casimir once proposed a very, very important theory:
There exists a weak attraction between two parallel neutral conductive plates placed in a vacuum, known as the Casimir effect.
In classical electrodynamics,
There is no force between two uncharged neutral conductive plates.
But in quantum electrodynamics, the electromagnetic field can be quantized into oscillators of various energy levels.
The vacuum between the two plates, which is the ground state of quantum electrodynamics, is essentially a collection filled with numerous oscillators.
The vacuum energy, which relies on the distance between the two plates, can be calculated, known as the Casimir energy.
The Casimir effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon of vacuum, but its signal is very weak.
For two parallel metal plates of 1cmΒ² in size and a distance of merely 1ΞΌm apart, the mutual attraction produced by the vacuum is only 10β»β·N.
Measuring such a minuscule force presents a substantial experimental challenge.
A recent breakthrough came in 2011 when a Swedish research group used two mirrors of a superconducting microwave cavity as the two plates in an attempt.
Finally, using microwave photon measurement technology, they precisely measured the Casimir effect within it.
And when the vacuum indeed exists and is amplified to a certain macroscopic space.
The lid and base of the ice casket could be perceived as an enlarged combination of plates.
Thus, according to the Casimir effect,
Even if its interior is a damaged vacuum field, on a macroscopic level, continuous wind is virtually impossible to occur.
Analogously,
The possibility of slowly absorbing stationary air from the outside and then quickly releasing it does not exist.
This is also why Lu Chaoyang never thought about the ice casket possibly being the ventβ the ground state field is stationary over there, the fixed-volume ice casket cannot spontaneously produce wind.
So, from the start, Lu Chaoyang never even thought to connect the vent with the ice casket, which is a very standard, normal line of thinking.
Thus, based on the above principles, a shocking conjecture can be made:
The space inside the ice casket is far larger than currently visible!
That is to say....
The ice casket is actually a movable entrance!
At this point, Lu Chaoyang gazed deeply at the lid of the ice casket.
This ice casket, like the one in the Damo Realm, allows any situation inside to be clearly seen from the outside.
Yet at this moment, to the naked eye,
Lu Chaoyang, however, could not spot any hole resembling a vent, as it was just filled with air inside.
Clearly.
There is certainly more to the ice casket than meets the eye!
Then he restrained his impulse to personally push it open, and very seriously said to Su Bai:
"Major Su, arrange for a few people and personally oversee their thorough sealing of the ice casket exterior.
Once it is done, no one is allowed to touch the ice casket again!
I'll now go and contact command to arrange the transfer and transportation of the ice casket."
Lu Chaoyang's attitude changed so abruptly that Su Bai was startled for a moment before reacting:
"Understood, Professor Lu, rest assured, leave everything to me!"
Lu Chaoyang nodded slightly, then walked out of the cave.
Reporting the situation to the higher-ups.
Twenty minutes later.
The ice casket was securely packaged and delivered to the cave's entrance.
Another hour passed, and a logistics team equipped with specialized equipment arrived.
Then by land transport, air transport...
After a series of transfers and maneuvers, the ice casket was finally delivered to the Damo Realm.
Of course.
Some might wonder:
Why must the process be so complicated when a spatial bag could be used to hold the ice casket?
It's understandable if the 59 couldn't be modified to fit, but surely the ice casket could fit?
The reason is simple:
With Cao Yi's current level of cultivation, although he can fit the ice casket in and proceed as usual.
But don't forget.
The objects inside the spatial bag are not entirely stationary.
The rabbits once conducted a study and determined that objects inside a spatial bag possess gravitational potential energy, which is far from being in a state of rest.
Only before being taken out of the spatial bag, the kinetic energy converted from gravity potential energy is somehow canceled by some unknown force.
So if the ice casket was placed into the spatial bag, who knows if there's a possibility of the casket lid slipping off?
Indeed.
There might be some special rules within the spatial bag preventing objects from colliding, but this remains conjecture after all.
When the ice casket is a unique specimen, everything must prioritize stability.
Returning to the original site.
After arriving at the Damo Realm,
The ice casket was quickly transferred to the T2 level of the Life Experiment Base, a newly established laboratory specifically for storing special items.
This laboratory's official name is Major Singular Items Containment and Analysis Laboratory, abbreviated as NBDX.
Those who understand English can guess what the specific English name is, those who don't can think of it as the acronym for "Niubility Ding Xi" in pinyin initials (a playful indication of "awesome things" in Chinese).
The NBDX laboratory spans about four hundred square meters, fully equipped.
Besides its internal conditions being suitable for storing items, the laboratory's surrounding floors are set with multiple defense means.
The most core and strongest among them is the ferrohelium microcrystal barrier, currently the strongest defense the rabbits possess.
Once the barrier is activated, the entire laboratory would be enveloped within.
This defense mode mainly benefits from the rabbits' gains at Ziqiong City, acquiring over a thousand beast crystals, instantly boosting the camp's wealth.
Naturally, the camp's defense system received a corresponding upgrade.
In the long-term plans.
This laboratory will be used to store various items that possibly embody 'resurrection' or 'revival' kinds of things.
For instance, ice caskets, special flesh and blood, etc.
If conditions permit, even Newton's urn or some satellite spirit's coffin panels could be included.
Of course.
Currently, the NBDX laboratory only holds this newly arrived ice casket, and not even the one at the military base has been sent in yet.
That ice casket is currently in a parsing phase, temporarily unable to be easily moved.
Once the ice casket was delivered to the NBDX laboratory.
The largest expert team from the Fire Camp to date also arrived on-site.
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