Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi
Chapter 419 - 305: Muscle Co-Activation
Based on the new knowledge in his brain, along with appropriate conjectures, Wang Ye could basically guess the reason. The tremendous increase in the power of Throwing, without any changes in his physique, does not violate the law of energy conservation but rather comes from the enhancement of neural adaptation.
Now his neural recruitment ability of muscle fibers has basically reached one hundred percent,
but during the exertion process, there are still phenomena of muscle co-activation, affecting the final effect of the exertion.
Co-activation refers to the phenomenon of two groups of opposing muscles, the agonist and the antagonist, contracting simultaneously during movement. This physiological function can maintain joint stability on one hand and potentially limit the expression of explosive power and speed on the other.
For example, when you try to use your triceps to throw a toothpick, the triceps in front is the agonist, and the biceps at the back is the antagonist. The biceps, as an antagonist, will exert contracting force to stabilize the direction and position of the triceps’ explosive action, and also consume some of the triceps’ explosive power. If say the force released by the triceps is one hundred points, then the biceps will consume twenty points of force, making the final explosive force only eighty points.
Many top athletes have also tried to counteract this physiological instinct of co-activation to enhance their explosive power, but this instinct is controlled by the central nervous system, making it difficult to counteract such deeply ingrained instincts without developing the Brain Domain to a certain extent, just like you cannot counteract your heartbeat, gastrointestinal peristalsis, breathing, etc. Therefore, most of the top athletes have tried everything to barely optimize the muscle co-activation pattern, trying to reduce the proportion of force exerted by the antagonist muscles.
Although Wang Ye’s Brain Domain had been enhanced, he usually did not pay much attention to it. After all, the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system have too many body instincts to control, not to mention millions, there are also tens of thousands of projects. It is still somewhat reluctant for the current Wang Ye to actively control all body instincts simultaneously.
Thus, the muscle co-activation pattern was also forgotten by him, without further enhancement in this direction.
But the continued enhancement of Soul Chaser, however, perfectly optimized the co-activation pattern, making the influence of the antagonist muscles completely disappear through some delicate techniques, even allowing the biceps to stretch and exert force during the throwing process to aid the forward throw.
If any sports scientist in the world today saw this phenomenon, they would probably go crazy on the spot because it’s so counterintuitive.
What’s the difference between this and stepping on your own foot to fly?
But this phenomenon indeed appeared on Wang Ye. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Although Wang Ye could barely understand the principle of this phenomenon, he couldn’t help but be a little surprised in his heart.
This advanced technology, probably takes thousands of years for human society today to research,
Yet for Wang Ye, it’s just a shiver, making him realize the horror of the system once again...
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After finishing the Throwing training, Wang Ye did not return home immediately,
but went to a brand-new villa in the suburbs.
This villa was casually bought when he was helping his elders select a new residence. Because the location of this villa was too remote and the internal space was too large, his elders didn’t like it, so it was directly eliminated. But Wang Ye saw its advantages, and specifically spent millions to buy this villa after his elders left.
He plans to build his laboratory here for various future experimental projects. If there is training unsuitable for the city, it can be done here. For example, using wide-range destructive bombs for Body Tempering, if done in crowded places, it can easily harm ordinary people or attract police searches. But in such a remote villa, there’s no worry of such incidents happening.
Researching controlled nuclear fusion also presents many threats, as thermonuclear fusion requires reaching temperatures of millions or even tens of millions of degrees Celsius, providing enough kinetic energy for atomic nuclei to collide and overcome the Coulomb barrier, which may explode at any time.
But also because of this, thermonuclear fusion cannot happen inside Wang Ye’s body, at most it can only be created externally and Wang Ye absorbs energy through touch, so Wang Ye’s ultimate research goal is cold nuclear fusion, a nuclear fusion reaction occurring at normal temperatures and pressures with relatively simple equipment conditions, simply put, like the Ark Reactor in Iron Man’s chest in Marvel Movies.
That glowing thing embedded in the chest is the fictional cold nuclear fusion in sci-fi works.
Of course, in reality, the cold nuclear fusion actually developed is likely not to look like that.
But if he could create such a thing to install in his chest, he would be truly invincible.
In most people’s impression, Iron Man seems very weak in the movies, even a bare-chested old man with an Electric Whip can beat him up,
but in fact, this is the old problem of Marvel Movies—golden shovel carrying feces.
According to the movies, the nuclear reactor Tony first assembled by hand from scraps in a cave outputs more than 3 gigajoules per second, which converts to over 3 billion joules, equivalent to an explosive power of a ton of TNT per second. Later, with improvements in technology and materials, the output would only get higher. It’s not an exaggeration to say that destroying a city with such power is just a thought, but this power was crushed by Captain America, who can bench press 500 kilograms.
Additionally, the villain called Whiplash also made a reactor outputting 1.8 gigajoules per second, yet with such energy output, the Whiplash just created an electric whip to wreak havoc. Just as absurd as using a nuclear reactor to power Iron Man suits. Later on, Tony, with nanotechnology and a top-level Ark Reactor, still engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Thanos. The reactor that can fire a city-destroying Laser Cannon, ends up transforming a hammer to smash the villain hard...
If these excellent cold nuclear fusion reactors were installed in artillery shells, even the lasers fired by the shells could shoot Thanos dead, but Tony made a flashy suit just to brawl with the villain.
If such a reactor was given to Wang Ye,
he dared to claim he could single-handedly smash a hundred Captain Americas.
Given his current energy output efficiency, as long as he has the ability of 1 gigajoule,
the power exerted in a throw would be no less than a small nuclear bomb.
But all these are just assumptions, Wang Ye’s current research projects haven’t even reached the initial stages yet.
Arriving at the villa,
Wang Ye looked at the spacious living room, contemplating how to utilize this villa.
The instruments for detecting body indicators, such as spectrometers and ultrasound imaging equipment, he has already commissioned others to purchase and are on their way. There are a total of six, with a total price around three million.
The plasma cutters he used for Body Refining were also gradually moved here over the past few days, so he no longer has to carry batteries to an unfinished building site for training; he can directly refine his body using electricity here.
There’s also the research equipment... However, Wang Ye temporarily doesn’t have the corresponding knowledge reserves for these things, so he doesn’t know what to purchase yet. He plans to study physics a bit before considering the next steps.
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