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The cutting-edge materials that have passed by human civilization are most likely not from Earth!

Cutting-edge materials that human civilization has brushed aside

By Mark RovichPublished 3 years ago 6 min read
Cutting-edge materials

In 1990, a British technology program aired a very exaggerated experiment called Tomorrow's World. He started broadcasting back in the 1960s and has always had a fairly steady audience. In this program, an opening host used a blue flame gun to shoot flames at an egg. The flame is 1200 degrees Celsius, but the egg just looks a little black on the skin and is not damaged. After that, the camera pans to another egg. With the same gun, the egg is sprayed indiscriminately and the egg breaks because it cannot resist the heat.

By this time, some viewers could already see the clues. The unbroken egg must have undergone special treatment. They waited for the host to reveal the answer. The host baked the egg in front of the camera for a few minutes before stopping. Then, he surprised all the viewers in front of the TV with one of his actions. The host picked up the egg, which had been baked for a few minutes, and did not feel hot at all, his expression was calm. Then he broke the egg into a glass bowl and a shocking scene occurred. The egg was still raw. You know, at 1200 degrees, gold and bronze would melt, but this egg was not affected by the heat at all. This is simply incredible.

Then the host finally began to explain why this was the case. It was because the outside of the egg was wrapped in a material called starstone, which is a material that insulates against ultra-high temperatures, and which was developed by his inventor, Maurice, more than a decade ago. Star Rock was named by the inventor Morris's granddaughter, a brand new term. At the same time, people are wondering why such an advanced material has never been used anywhere. Some say that it would be a big change for the world if this material could be widely used. It could play an important role in laboratories, civilian firefighting, and even the military.

While people were talking about it, Star Rock's high-energy performance also attracted the attention of two other groups. In one group are businessmen interested in profit, who see great business opportunities here. On the other hand, there was the Atomic Weapons Establishment and the Imperial Chemical Company. The reason for their interest could be their application in the military field. Both were very mobile and soon found Maurice, the inventor of Star Rock. But when they learned Morris' identity, they could not believe it. Because Maurice was a barber. And through communication with him, it was also found that Morris basically did not know anything about chemistry and chemicals, let alone the profession. It is said that it is for this reason that Starstone appeared in the public eye more than ten years after it was invented because Morris previously wanted to show the effect of Starstone on some chemical companies. However, because he was not a chemical practitioner and did not have a relevant degree, he was repeatedly rejected and did not have the opportunity to show it. It was not until she was seen on the show "Tomorrow's World" that Xing Yan became known.

Faced with many visitors, Morris finally chose the Atomic Weapons Institute, but that didn't mean we could collaborate or transfer technology. We just took some samples of Starrock for them to experiment with. After all, the other side still needed to test the effect of Sturrock, and the test results came out quickly. The result was also unexpected by Morris himself. Sturrock withstood the 10,000 degree Celsius laser beam heat in the laboratory of the Nuclear Weapons Institute. You know, the temperature of the sun's surface is 5500 degrees Celsius, which means that if the stellar rocks are covered with the entire sun, then there is no temperature outside the cover. Or furthermore, if the outer ring of the solar system is covered with stellar rocks, it would be the ideal Dyson sphere. The heat emitted by the sun would not all be dissipated out of the solar system, it would make the solar system hidden in the universe.

The rock could be insulated from temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius, something Morris did not expect. Because the ultra-hot conditions in the laboratory were not something Morris could create. Then Sturrock, NATO's test center, passed an even more violent nuclear explosion test. But it is worth mentioning that Morris never let Starrock out of his sight during the tests. After the experiment was over, he took all the Sturrock with him. I will analyze why he did so later. These two experimental tests are enough to say that Sturrock is indeed a metamaterial. Can you imagine what a breakthrough it would be if Sturrock was used in space or in the military? Exploring the interior of the sun would also be possible.

The results of these two experiments made people even more curious about Morris. In top laboratories around the world, people have invested a lot of financial and material resources and spent nearly a hundred years, but no one has come up with such an unbelievable material. Why could a barber do this? How is it done? For this, Morris said he was a barber and would often mix some hair dye himself. He stumbled upon the formula. For what he said, Sir Mason, former chief scientific advisor to the British Ministry of Defense, commented that Morris sometimes talks nonsense in science, adding that Sturrock is indeed the most noteworthy material.

After confirming the super effect of Sturrock, people began to discuss with Morris how to transfer the technology. The big powers offered sky-high prices, and NASA, Boeing, and some British giants all expressed a strong desire to cooperate. Any one of them offered a price that would allow Morris to stop worrying about money in this life and the next. But Morris refused. He did not even apply for a patent. Because applying for a patent meant handing over the recipe, Morris kept Starok's recipe as secret as it was. In 2011, Morris died, and he took Starrock's recipe with him.

However, after Morris's death, people did not completely give up their formula of Sturrock but wanted to seek some breakthroughs from his family. Maybe there was hope to find the formula or the star rock material itself could be reverse engineered, but unfortunately not, the information they got was very limited. One only learns through Morris's family that star rock contains 21 ingredients, including up to 90% organic matter. Morris' youngest daughter, Nicola, also stated that star rock is even purely natural and edible. His family's dogs and horses have eaten it without any adverse effects. People began to marvel at the fact that such cutting-edge material was still edible. Despite the amazement, the information Morris' family could give was really limited. The first two tests were in Morris's sight, and there were no conditions to reverse engineer the star rock.

At this point, people had to face the fact that a great substance like Star Rock had passed by human civilization. Meanwhile, Xing Yan's story had come to an end, but too many people were puzzled by Maurice's approach. If he didn't want to share Xing Yan's formula, why did he bring him to the show to let the world know about it? So people began to speculate. Some thought that the price could not be negotiated, while others thought that Morris might have died before thinking of this. But more speculation revolved around why Morris could come up with Star Rock. Some people think there is a huge gap between professionals and non-professionals in the chemical field. Whether it is the theoretical basis or experimental conditions, the possibility that this barber stumbled upon the counter-intuitive material is almost impossible. Even if there is an accident, it would happen in a professional laboratory, so they think it is very unlikely that Morris developed Star Rock, which is probably not considered technology on Earth.

So people have launched countless associations on this issue. Some believe that Star Rock may have originally been a gift to Earth from an alien civilization. In short, there are many unanswered questions in Xing Yan's story. The death of Maurice forced the matter to come to an end, and people could only accept this reality with regret. In addition, some say that the name Xing Yan evokes strange associations. Why does an earth insulation material take such a name?

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