The Annihilator by Yuri Tanchev

[Zemlya-XXX]

After entering Earth's orbit, the ships docked to a giant torpedo-shaped module, assembled in advance. It took almost ten years to build it. It was, in fact, an autonomous hadron collider the size of the largest skyscraper and even slightly larger. The module looked like a huge spaceship, and every ship, even a spaceship, should have a name. And it was found – they called it "Eternal", boldly so… It includes a compact but powerful nuclear installation with the corresponding name "SpaseDestroyer", a space destroyer. It turned out to be one of those rare cases when high technologies were created practically, although the theoretical foundations were not just elementarily delayed, but actually absent, although ... a little theory was still used to create this diabolical installation. The so–called paradox of Alla Mitina, a remarkable Russian scientist who was ahead of the entire scientific world in the issue of the stability of quark-gluon plasma, which has just the same extreme temperature -  about four trillion degrees Celsius. This stability turned out to be scanty and could not, in the opinion of venerable scientists, have practical application, since no terrestrial material is able to withstand such a temperature. Even protons and neutrons "melt" in it, while quarks and gluons "untie" and float wherever they please.

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Modern science is not so much a field of miracles as it is the work, enlightenment and hope of Mankind, not only for the preservation of our native planet, but also for the exploration of Near and Far Space in search of a new home, a new Earth. What will it be like? For now, we can only speculate...