Technology Laboratory

Test Drive

It has been 2 weeks since the maglev vehicle research was conducted, during this time Dimas has spent an average of 18 hours in the laboratory to help research from various fields of technology required by maglev vehicles. Currently Dimas is in the research room of the magnetic levitation engine which is the main technology to make maglev vehicles, he sits on an egg chair or egg chair that looks floating on the ground.

"For the balance is already very good, but as we talked about earlier that the total load that can be lifted by the maglev engine can at least lift hundreds of tons and must also be able to do instant acceleration" Dimas stood up from the egg chair and gave his opinion to the scientists who had been researching the maglev machine in the chair.

This egg chair has been installed with a small maglev engine that makes it able to float in the air, you could say that this is a prototype of the maglev engine that is being developed. The maglev engine in this chair is only useful for making the chair float without acceleration capabilities at all, even because of battery limitations that make the chair can not withstand loads of more than 150 kilograms.

"The acceleration problem of the maglev engine is almost overcome, perhaps if Dimas executives can help then the acceleration problem of the maglev engine will be solved today as well. For the load problem that can be lifted by the maglev engine is caused by a lack of energy so we can only limit the battery output to last longer which makes the load that can be lifted also reduced" A middle-aged male scientist smiled awkwardly as he said the matter that happened to the maglev machine.

Dimas thought for a moment and after estimating the timing of the study he then said "I will help research this maglev machine, I will help with the research, for battery problems we will have a nuclear battery in a few days so there is no need to worry about the maglev engine running out of power"

Nuclear battery technology as well as maglev engine technology are the most important technologies in the manufacture of maglev vehicles, for other technologies like automated driving and also car body design some engineers can get all of that done more easily. 

With the help of Dimas, the maglev machine research went very smoothly. Within 1 day Dimas along with these researchers continued to research the maglev engine and finally made the right maglev engine for a maglev vehicle. The battery research was also finally completed 2 days later and after tests conducted by scientists it was found that a nuclear battery was able to power 1 maglev engine for 1 week.

The two most important technologies in maglev vehicle research have been completed, the remaining ones are some of the technologies that are easier to complete. According to what Dimas predicted, a week after both nuclear battery technology and maglev engine technology successfully completed all other technologies one by one were completed and currently real maglev vehicles are being assembled by technicians.

It took several hours for dozens of technicians to assemble a maglev vehicle, the overall maglev vehicle resembles a car so they all call this maglev vehicle as a maglev car. In terms of design, the maglev looks the same as a sports car in general but where it should belong to the tires have been replaced by a maglev bearing.

"This maglev car looks very luxurious" One said in awe.

"Of course, as the first maglev vehicle in the world certainly its appearance will be displayed in many places in the future, therefore the appearance of this car must look as good as possible" The engineer who designed the body of this car said proudly.

The engineer laughed and said, "Even if they look at the design of this car at this time, they can be sure they won't be moved in the slightest to make me work for them, right now the most important thing for everyone is to survive as long as possible"

"Let's try this maglev car first, if there's a problem then we can fix it faster then start mass production" Dimas' voice immediately stopped everyone from their conversation.

With orders from Dimas, the maglev car was then moved out of the underground laboratory and parked on snowy ground. Dimas has an intelligent controller in his hand standing a few meters from the position of the maglev car, this intelligent controller will be used by Dimas to control the car remotely like a remote control car. 

Dimas pressed the start button to turn on the car which was immediately responded by the maglev car with its engine that arrived alive. Nuclear batteries immediately channel the energy to the maglev engine to convert the electrical energy into electromagnetic force that is channeled on all four maglev bearings on each side to generate a magnetic field. When a strong magnetic field is formed, the magnetic field lifts the maglev car 20 centimeters high.

"Fly off!" 

Everyone was excited when they saw the maglev car in front of them flying, they all forgot the feeling of coldness due to the extremely low temperature and the feeling of suffocating from inhaling too little oxygen, he said, they all focus on the test drive that will be done. Dimas pressed the button to advance on the intelligent controller and some changes immediately occurred on the maglev bearing which also made the resulting magnetic field undergo a slight change. This change in magnetic field pushed the maglev car forward, in everyone's eyes the bearing parts only changed slightly and the maglev car accelerated instantly. Seeing the maglev car gradually move away from them all, Dimas then turned the car around and let it continue to spin around the underground laboratory.

The maglev car spun several times around the underground laboratory, after which Dimas controlled the car for several rounds of Dimas then activated automatic driving mode and let the car be controlled by artificial intelligence under his instructions. Dimas made the artificial intelligence in the maglev car continue to accelerate to its maximum speed, from the intelligent controller in his hand Dimas saw that the speed of the car had exceeded 300 m/s and continued to grow.

"Everything with earplugs, soon the maglev car will enter supersonic speed and there will be a sonic boom"

The speed of sound or supersonic occurs at a speed of about 340 m/s and when something exceeds this supersonic speed then an event called a sonic boom will occur. The speed continued to increase, at a time when the speed would reach 340 m/s a shock wave generated by the maglev car that exceeded the speed of sound like an explosion was heard even though everyone was wearing earplugs, this shock wave is called a sonic boom.

Fortunately, the size of the maglev car is not large so the influence of the sonic boom is not too serious. Everyone only felt their heads buzzing yet they all did not mind it, everyone was even happier than before.