Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 175 Altair Construction Project... Begins!
Li Qingsong knew that solving the problem of material changes caused by particle collisions at high speeds was only one of the technological manifestations of the third-level strong nuclear civilization.

In addition to this technology, a strong nuclear civilization must also possess other advanced technologies to match it.

Propulsion technology, energy technology, detection technology, etc., all surpass the second-level electroweak civilization.

The core of all these advanced technologies is unified strong nuclear force.

用物理学术语来讲便是，将SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)合并到一个更大的群如SU(5)或SO(10)中。

To put it more simply, for example, there is a stainless steel cup and a stainless steel pot. People originally thought that they were two different things. But after further research, people realized that both of them are actually stainless steel. The different shapes are just different manifestations of the material stainless steel. They are actually the same thing.

This is the model that humans used to unify electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force into electroweak force.

Now, in addition to stainless steel cups and pots, people have discovered another object, such as a dagger made of special steel.

If people study it, they will find that the material used to make this dagger is also steel, but this steel is different from stainless steel.

What people need to do now is to unify "special steel" and "stainless steel." If we can find the common precursor of special steel and stainless steel, such as "iron," and then discover that both special steel and stainless steel are different forms of iron with the addition of trace elements, then "special steel" and "stainless steel" will be unified into the larger group of "iron."

When placed in the basic physics theory, it is equivalent to unifying the electroweak force and the strong nuclear force.

After unifying electricity and magnetism into electromagnetic force, unifying electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force into electroweak force, and then unifying electroweak force and strong nuclear force into a unified force, and mastering the "grand unified theory" that describes this entire set of basic theories of physics, we can be said to have possessed this core, and then develop a series of advanced technologies based on this core.

As early as the human era, human scientists have made many attempts and research on the unified strong nuclear force, and in this process have achieved an extremely important result, the Standard Model.

The Standard Model places the three basic forces of electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force into the same theoretical framework and uses the same physical language to describe them.

Although this achievement is important, it does not truly unify these three basic forces into one force.

Li Qingsong had originally thought that with this achievement, unifying the strong nuclear force would be relatively straightforward. However, scientific data from the Blueprinters revealed that numerous obstacles remained, making it far from as easy as he had initially imagined.

"But... as long as I'm given enough time and sufficient material resources, I will definitely be able to break through this obstacle and complete the transformation from an electro-weak civilization to a strong nuclear civilization."

Looking at the still distant Altair, Li Qingsong thought silently in his heart.

After passing through the nebula, the repair work on the fleet began immediately.

A large number of clones and robots, as well as various small spaceships gathered on the large spaceships, and methodically dismantled the damaged equipment and armor, and either repaired or replaced them.

Fortunately, Li Qingsong brought enough supplies. Otherwise, the fleet would have been completely depleted just by repairing the damaged spacecraft.

Time still passes quietly, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of years have passed.

After sailing day after day, and conducting small-scale experiments, theoretical calculations and speculations that never stopped during the voyage, Li Qingsong's huge fleet finally arrived at a place only two trillion kilometers away from Altair.

Analogous to the situation in the solar system, this distance should have already penetrated deep into the Oort Cloud range of Altair.

But the situation of Altair is rather special.

It is too young. At only about 8 million years old, it is much younger than the Sun. This means it has not yet had time to form a stable and mature Oort Cloud, and the many celestial bodies that make up the Oort Cloud are still accumulated relatively close to it.

After traveling from several light years away to the current distance, Li Qingsong had already entered the gravitational boundary of Altair, but he had not found any macroscopic celestial bodies.

But it doesn't matter.

If it continues to move forward, the matter density of the Altair Galaxy will increase rapidly, even higher than the matter density inside the solar system.

Li Qingsong's fleet started to decelerate at full power.

Numerous tail flames erupted towards Altair. The weak gravity that had disappeared for hundreds of years reappeared within each spacecraft. Altair's brightness also increased rapidly during this process.

Through the telescope, Li Qingsong could clearly see this huge, young and vibrant star.

It has an ellipsoidal shape because it rotates so fast, and is yellowish-white in color because its surface temperature is higher than that of the sun.

Li Qingsong saw endless celestial bodies revolving around it. He saw a rocky planet that was larger than the Earth, still in its early stages of formation, covered with lava on its surface, and constantly impacted by small celestial bodies. He saw a huge gas planet that was four times as massive as Jupiter but almost the same size as Jupiter. He saw many satellites revolving around that gas planet, the largest of which exceeded Mars in both mass and volume.

It already has all the qualifications to become a major planet. But there is no way, the gravity of the gas giant is too great, and in the foreseeable future, it will not be able to break free, and can only exist as a satellite, and cannot be called a major planet.

In addition to these two large planets and one large satellite, Li Qingsong saw a huge debris disk composed of trillions of celestial bodies.

Those are the remnants of the formation of Altair and the formation of the giant planets.

Such a huge debris disk rotates around Altair like an enormous belt at a distance of about 200 million kilometers.

In addition to the debris disk, there are endless asteroids, comets and other celestial bodies rushing around in the galaxy, either colliding with Altair, or colliding with large planets and other celestial bodies.

The entire galaxy seems to be performing a never-ending collision game.

Such a vibrant and extremely chaotic galaxy seems completely inhospitable to the existence of life.

But Li Qingsong was extremely satisfied with this.

The reason is simple. With his current level of technology, he is no longer threatened by a mere collision.

Such a galaxy with rich minerals and abundant materials is a paradise for Li Qingsong.

Time still passes quietly, and in the blink of an eye, several years have passed.

To Li Qingsong, Altair seemed to be getting brighter and brighter.

When Li Qingsong's huge fleet docked next to the huge gas planet about 16 billion kilometers away from Altair, the apparent magnitude of Altair directly increased to -24.2.

This number means that its brightness is about one-tenth of the noon sun as seen from Earth, and at the same time, it is about 4 times brighter than the brightest full moon seen from Earth!
This brightness is enough to make the clone feel dazzling and unable to look directly at it.

The clone containing Li Qingsong's consciousness turned around and looked at his huge fleet.

After hundreds of years of sailing, the ships in his fleet were already riddled with holes, full of traces of damage and repairs;
The numerous giant cargo ships and the numerous supply bays of the aerospace carriers had already shriveled up, and the supplies had almost been consumed;
During the long voyage, he had accumulated hundreds of millions of experimental needs, but due to the lack of supplies during the previous voyage, he was unable to conduct relevant experiments and achieve technological improvements and breakthroughs.

Although I can't say that I am at the end of my rope at the moment, I am not far from it.

Now, I have finally arrived at this galaxy.

In this galaxy, there are gas planets larger than Jupiter, which contain an infinite amount of fusion fuel;
There are huge satellites, large planets, dwarf planets, endless asteroids and comets, and also endless various minerals available for mining.

There is no other wisdom here except for its own power.

Since its formation, no intelligent being has ever set foot here. All resources here are available for your own use.

That being the case...

Li Qingsong was full of courage and finally issued the long-awaited order.

"Altair construction project...begins!"

(End of this chapter)