Voyage of the Stars

The mining team of the Chiyan civilization was not willing to lag behind. They drove mechanical equipment produced in human factories and mined on every planet they were responsible for.

In order to speed up the progress, they also started the hydrogen bomb mining operation that humans had not used for a long time again under the instruction of the human mining patrol. Hundreds of millions of high-yield hydrogen bombs were buried underground by them and then detonated, shaking the crust of each planet.

Sometimes even the headquarters of the human fleet, which was more than ten light years away, could see the light of the explosion.

This violent mining method can be regarded as a tradition of mankind, but its power has been further strengthened after reaching the third-level civilization. If this scale of mining and blasting were placed on the earth, it would be enough for the earth to enter the life version update, and even the extinction of 99% of life would not be a problem.

From the perspective of environmental protection of a single planet, this is indeed extremely harmful, but the most abundant thing in the universe is planets, and there is no civilization in the universe that is idle to act as a cosmic environmentalist, so it is okay for humans to blast on the planets.

In such a vigorous construction, a Wuzhishan time passed quietly.

The headquarters of the human fleet, which is the base, has also obtained sufficient resources and made sufficient preparations during this long period of time. The production of some modules of the new particle collider has turned from drawings into real objects during this period.

It can be seen that in the starry sky near the production base of the human fleet, many new collider component modules have been stored. They are floating in the void like huge logs used for construction, waiting for the next arrangement of human engineers.

From the appearance, these components are cylindrical and really like logs.

They are all the middle components of the new particle collider, that is, the components responsible for accelerating particles. These components are cylindrical, with a diameter of about 120 meters and a length of only ten kilometers.

Everyone knows that the length of the new particle collider will reach 6674 astronomical units. The reason why its modular acceleration components are not made longer is not that humans don’t want to, but if they are made too long, they are easy to deform during the installation process.

The ten-kilometer length is still achieved on the basis of using alloy No. 1 as the main frame, otherwise it will be unpredictably deformed and bent as long as it moves. Of course, ten kilometers is not short after all. Since its diameter is too small, only 120 meters, even if alloy No. 1 is used as the main frame, it is inevitable that it will swing and bend during transportation. Therefore, after they are transported to the designated installation site, they will also be checked for the flatness and straightness of each component. It is not enough to just pull it over and splice it. There is still a lot of work to be done in the splicing process, and there are also many technical problems to be solved. Such a component has a conventional structure of a particle accelerator inside, and each component is embedded with eight separate energy supply systems, that is, fusion energy sources, on the outside. It is worth mentioning that these eight energy devices are located at two-thirds of the head and tail of the cylinder, four heavy cores and four cold cores. There are also four reserved installation positions for magnetic propulsion devices near them. Of course, Baoning has not installed magnetic propulsion devices in these four reserved positions. These four magnetic propulsion devices are medium-sized magnetic propulsion devices, which are one of the products of the miniaturization technology of magnetic propulsion of the Chiyan civilization. They are now used by humans on various components of the new particle collider, and the purpose is naturally to facilitate disassembly in the future. Of course, acting as a source of magnetic propulsion is only a secondary function of these power sources. Their main design intention is actually to provide energy for the acceleration coils of the accelerator.

Such a long accelerator cannot rely on only one energy system. Not to mention that it cannot be done, even if it can be done, it is not realistic. The reason is that this particle collider is really too long. It takes more than 900 hours for light to pass from the beginning to the end.

Each section of the cylindrical module structure is ten kilometers long, and humans need to manufacture about 99.843 billion and 40,000 such parts. This is such a huge number. It is conceivable how huge the metal resources required to manufacture such a large number of parts are.

And this is only the modular production part, that is, the parts used in the particle acceleration process can be modularly produced, which is the accelerator part. Particle colliders are not only acceleration modules, but also include a series of detectors required in the collision point area to record the energy and particle signals released when particles collide. This part cannot be modularly produced.

Also, the particle beam generators and separation devices at both ends cannot be modularly produced. These are all precision instruments.

As for the collision point and the instruments and equipment at both ends, it can be seen from the design that the parts where they are located will be larger than the accelerator module. The complete new accelerator looks like a long stick with thicker ends and the middle part.

The reason why it is designed to be straight is that such a design does not need to consider the magnetic field strength of each part of the accelerator. When running, just use the strongest magnetic field to accelerate the particles. If it is a circular accelerator, it is necessary to ensure that each part has a fixed magnetic field strength, so as to ensure that the particle beams circling the accelerator will not have time to turn or turn too much and hit the accelerator wall.

There is no such problem with linear accelerators. Just violent acceleration and let the particle beams collide.

In the current space, there are engineering ships running everywhere. At this stage, they are like ants, working together to transport the particle accelerator parts produced in the factory to the predetermined location.

Although space is empty, the preset location of the new particle accelerator has been marked in advance on a precise space map by humans using their own fleet as a reference location.

Of course, this method of transportation is only one of them. Some of them are installed with propellers after they are produced, and are controlled by their own intelligent systems to drive to preset locations alone. The reason why it is divided into two modes of transportation is entirely because humans need to evaluate which mode of transportation will cause the least damage to the acceleration module of the new particle accelerator.

Once reliable data is obtained, only one of the modes of transportation will remain in the future.

As more and more accelerating components are delivered to the predetermined location, although splicing and assembly have not been carried out immediately, the prototype of the entire new particle collider is gradually appearing in people's eyes.

Looking along the segment modules from the location of the human fleet, this new particle accelerator, which is less than one-tenth built, looks like a long corridor extending straight into the void of the dark universe, and the segment module has not yet been built. The modules that are spliced ​​together are like the steps of a ladder.

Seeing such a scene, scientists sometimes feel that it is a step by step for mankind to move towards a grand unified theory.

As far as the eye can see, the end is nowhere to be seen.