Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 563 Space Corridor
The mining team of the Red Flame Civilization is not far behind. They drive machines and equipment produced from human factories and are actively mining on every planet they are responsible for.

Even in order to speed up the progress, under the instruction of the human mining patrol team, they once again started the hydrogen bomb mining operation that humans had not used for a long time. Hundreds of millions of high-yield hydrogen bombs were buried underground by them, and then detonated, shaking every particle. The planet's crust is churning.

Sometimes even the headquarters of the human fleet, which is more than ten light years away, can see the light of those explosions.

This violent mining method can be regarded as a human tradition, but its power has been further strengthened after reaching the third level of civilization. If mining and blasting of this scale were placed on the earth, it would be enough for the earth to enter a new version of life, and even exterminate 99% of life.

From the perspective of the environmental protection of a single planet, this is indeed extremely harmful, but the most indispensable thing in the universe is the planet. There is no civilization in the universe that is idle and acts as a cosmic environmental protector. Therefore, no matter how human beings are on the planet, Huo Huo is fine.

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

The headquarters of the human fleet, which is the base, has also received sufficient resources and made sufficient preparations during this long period of time. During this period, the production of some modules of the new particle collider has changed from drawings to physical objects.

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

In appearance, the pieces are cylindrical and indeed look like logs.

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

As we all know, the length of the new particle collider will reach 6674 astronomical units. The reason why its modular accelerator components are not made longer is not because humans don’t want to, but because if it is made too long, it will be easily damaged during the installation process. Deformation.

The ten-kilometer length can only be achieved based on the use of No. 1 alloy as the main frame. Otherwise, as long as it moves, it will undergo unpredictable deformation and bending. Of course, ten kilometers is not short after all. Since its diameter is too small, only 1 meters, even if No. alloy is used as the main frame, it will inevitably swing and bend during transportation.

Therefore, after they are transported to the intended installation site, the flatness and straightness of individual components will be verified. It’s not just a matter of pulling it over and splicing it together. There is still a lot of work to be done during the splicing process, and there are also many technical problems to be solved.

The interior of such a component is the conventional structure of a particle accelerator, and the exterior of each component is embedded with eight separate energy supply systems, which are fusion energy sources.

It is worth mentioning that these eight energy devices are located at the head and tail two-thirds of the cylinder, four heavy cores and four cold cores. There are also four inlaid installation locations for magnetic propulsion devices reserved near them. Of course, no magnetic propulsion devices are currently installed in these four reserved locations.

These four magnetic thrust devices are medium-sized magnetic thrust devices. They are one of the products of Chiyan Civilization's magnetic thrust miniaturization technology. They are now used by humans on various components of the new particle collider. The purpose is naturally to facilitate their disassembly in the future.

Of course, acting as a magnetic propulsion source is only a secondary function of these power sources. Their main design intention is actually to provide energy for the acceleration coil of the accelerator.

Such a long accelerator cannot rely on only one energy system, not to mention what cannot be done, even if it can be done, it is unrealistic. The reason is that this particle collider is really too long. It takes more than 900 hours to pass light from the beginning to the tail. Each section of the cylindrical modular structure is ten kilometers long. Human beings need to manufacture approximately 99.843 million such components. This is such a huge number. One can imagine how huge the metal resources are required to manufacture such a large number of components.

And this is only the modular production part, that is, the components used in the particle acceleration process can be modularly produced, which is the accelerator part. The particle collider not only includes the acceleration module, but also includes a series of detectors required in the collision point area to record the energy and particle signals released during particle collisions. This part cannot be produced in a modular manner.

Also not capable of modular production are the particle beam generators at both ends, separation devices, etc. These are precision instruments.

Regarding the collision point and the instruments at both ends, you can see from the design drawings that their location will be larger than the accelerator module. The complete new accelerator will look like a long stick with thicker ends and middle parts.

The reason why it is designed to be a straight length is that this design does not need to consider the magnetic field strength of the accelerator at each part. During operation, it only needs to 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 beam orbiting the accelerator will not be too late to turn or make too large a turn and hit the accelerator wall.

Linear accelerators don't have this problem. They just violently accelerate and let the particle beams collide.

Nowadays, there are engineering ships running around everywhere in space. At this stage, they are like ants. Several ships cooperate to transport the particle accelerator components produced from the factory to the predetermined location.

Although space is void, 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, there is no end.

(End of this chapter)