Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 635 Astronomical Particle Collision Experiment

The much-anticipated experiment has finally begun. The moment the astronomical-grade particle collider was officially turned on for the experiment, all eyes were focused on it. Countless scientists gathered on their respective research ships to watch the moment the collision started through video.

Yue Yuan also put down the things at hand and came to the Tianqin command center, watching the first collision experiment through the live broadcast on the big screen.

"The data connection of the Tianhe Light is complete. The Tianhe Light subsystem is ready. The astronomical-grade super-large particle collider-neutron collision experiment No. 01 is ready!"

"The integrated particle generator self-check is complete, all components are operating normally, self-check is complete, and it is ready for use."

"The neutrino guidance probe is normal, and the deuterium nucleon beam generator is ready!"

"The first acceleration module has been started, and the working feedback is normal! The second acceleration module has been started, and the working feedback is normal! The 0.03st acceleration module has been started, and the working feedback is normal. The feedback signal of the impact zone equipment has arrived, the signal is normal, and the operation is normal! Multiple multi-segment laser correction has been completed, with an error of plus or minus "

As the staff's announcements rang out, everyone in the operation command center located in the particle generator section at the front end of the astronomical-grade particle accelerator became busy.

As an astronomical-grade particle collider, it is naturally impossible for it to be a device completely controlled by strong artificial intelligence, and strong artificial intelligence is also unable to perform all operations. Therefore, humans set up an operation command center at its head.

A very spacious operation command center. Now in the operation command center, personnel who have undergone years of training and are familiar with the operation of astronomical-grade particle colliders are either sitting at their posts or monitoring and operating the particle collider in real time through the human-computer interaction system.

Because the astronomical-grade particle collider is so long, these staff members actually started preparing for the experiment a long time before the experiment began.

For example, the report on the data from the end collision zone was a test that had been started a long time ago. The test results were actually very fast, but due to the delay in communication, it took more than a month to feedback to the head operation command center.

There is no way around it. Without real-time communication technology, it is just so troublesome.

You have to know that this astronomical particle collider is more than 6,000 astronomical units long, which means that after the experiment actually begins and the ion beam is ejected, even if the particles rush to the target area at a speed close to the speed of light, it will take 38 days to arrive. And the humans in the command center will need twice as much time to receive feedback data from the collision.

Of course, another group of scientific researchers can be asked to observe at the other end, but this is meaningless because the experimental results still need to be analyzed by the experimental team in the operation command center.

The transmission of information is always faster than having the scientific research team travel back and forth on a spacecraft.

"The particle beam has been generated, and the deflector is working normally. The particle beam has entered the acceleration system and is accelerating. The system calculates the relative speed to be 97.98% of the speed of light, and it is continuing to accelerate." "Acceleration system temporary speed measurement module: The particle beam temporary speed is 98.99787% of the speed of light, and the expected impact time is 38 days 02 hours 56 minutes 23 seconds. The expected information feedback time is."

Watching the stably working astronomical-grade particle collider in the Tianqin command center and seeing Liu Miyan busy on the screen, he nodded slightly. It would take about two more months to see the results of the first collision experiment.

"What do you think this first collision experiment will reveal?" Suddenly, Yue Yuan stood up from his seat and turned to look at Yu Nanfeng who was thinking about something.

After the completion of the astronomical-grade particle collider, Yu Nanfeng had a rare period of free time, so he came to the Tianqin to hang out, apparently to see his daughter. Today happened to be a collision experiment, so he followed Yue Yuan to watch it in the Tianqin command center.

What will come out of the collision? It's just the first collision experiment, and you're thinking too much. It's probably just a lonely collision. Yu Nanfeng complained in his heart about Yue Yuan's question, but he didn't say it. Instead, he looked like he was thinking seriously and said, "From the theoretical data, this collision has reached the electromagnetic volt energy level of 10 to the 15th power GeV, which theoretically has reached the energy level required to produce a grand unified theory. However, the actual situation still needs to be analyzed. I think it is difficult to produce the results we want to see in the first collision. The probability is too small.

Our collision experiment is like opening a blind box of the laws of the universe and nature. If we get it right on the first try, then we are lucky. But if we don’t get it right, I think it is normal. The director is no stranger to scientific experiments.”

Yue Yuan nodded. He was not unfamiliar with trial and error. If you can't find the answer, keep trying. If you get the wrong answer, keep trying until all the errors are eliminated. There is no shortcut. Of course, if the method is right, the success rate of trial and error can still be improved, such as the experiments humans are doing now.

Without the foundation of the Grand Unified Theory, humans would not know that building an astronomical particle collider is a possible solution, and would not reduce the scope of trial and error. This may also be considered a shortcut, but it is not a shortcut that comes from cheating, but a shortcut that humans have worked hard to achieve.

"I hope so!" Yue Yuan turned to look at the staff who were still busy checking various data feedback, and his excited heart gradually calmed down.

To be honest, this highly anticipated astronomical-level particle collision experiment only excites everyone for a while at the beginning. The promotional footage was also broadcast in this way. After the particle beam was emitted, many programs broadcasting related particle collision experiments cut the screen to the operation command center, which turned into an interview between on-site reporters and some relevant persons in charge.

There is no way to do this, unless after the collision is over, the entire collision experiment process is made into a short video for the public to watch using video editing and animation production, otherwise scientific experiments will look so boring and uninteresting.

After all, ordinary people will not sit there and wait for the feedback results after more than two months, or even if they wait for the feedback results, they will not understand them. Scientists and related staff still have to analyze and summarize the feedback of various data and finally draw conclusions, and then express them in a language that everyone can understand, so that the public can understand them.

This process will take more than two months. More than two months is the time it takes for the collision experiment to complete the collision and send back the data. Researchers also need to analyze and summarize the data, and it is not known how long it will take to draw a conclusion.

So after the exciting beginning, most ordinary people turned off the news channel and went about their own business. Only some people who were very interested in scientific progress showed that they were afraid of missing any details of the conversation and paid attention to the subsequent interviews with scientists.

(End of this chapter)