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Chapter 180 Big Scientific Device

While building experimental facilities on a large scale to fully verify the conjectures of the past period of time, Li Qingsong started another construction that had never been done before.

Construction of large scientific facilities!

The so-called large scientific facilities are devices specifically used to conduct research on certain major scientific issues.

This type of device is usually extremely large in scale and has extremely high technological content, and the major scientific problems studied are usually the most cutting-edge and important ones.

For example, large particle colliders can be used to study the basic structure of matter, and extreme conditions experimental devices can simulate the state of matter under extreme environments.

For example, at this moment, Li Qingsong is thinking about the key scientific problem of distinguishing whether a civilization is an electroweak civilization or a strong nuclear civilization. The grand unified formula must be studied using large scientific equipment.

In the past, Li Qingsong had never built a truly cutting-edge large-scale scientific facility. The reason was simple: in the previous stage, Li Qingsong was always in a state of digesting and absorbing the basic physics theory.

First, digest and absorb the basic theories of human civilization, and then digest and absorb the basic theories of Blueprint civilization.

The technological developments in the past few years have basically all been at the application level and have not involved the basic theories of physics.

Now, the technology of the Bluetook civilization has been digested and absorbed. If it wants to develop further in the future, it can only rely on its own research.

It is for this reason that Li Qingsong decided to carry out this construction project.

Li Qingsong's more than one billion brains only thought for a moment before making a specific plan.

"To search for new particles, dark matter, verify supersymmetry, and other cutting-edge fundamental physics theories, a particle collider is essential. Hmm... let's build 100 of them first!"

Simply put, a particle collider accelerates two beams of particles and causes them to collide violently to release their internal structures.

By observing this process, we can find more new particles, improve physics models, find new mechanisms of action, and so on.

"These 100 particle colliders, well, we'll build 10 proton colliders, and we'll also need to build a few electron-positron colliders. In addition, there are heavy ion colliders and electron-proton colliders..."

Based on different energy levels and specific research topics, these colliders can be divided into many types, with a variety of different construction models and environmental requirements.

At this moment, the basic industrial system has been completed. Li Qingsong immediately mobilized a large number of clones and began to carry out related construction in space.

That’s right, Li Qingsong does not plan to build these large scientific research facilities on the surface of the planet, but in space.

The gravity in space is extremely weak and the vacuum is extremely high, making it a perfect place to build a particle collider.

Moreover, unlike the colliders built by people in the national era and those built by the Bluetook civilization, the collider built by Li Qingsong is larger and has a higher energy level.

Obviously, the higher the energy level, the more violent the particle collision will be, the more new physical phenomena it will trigger, and the higher the scientific research value.

Based on this idea, Li Qingsong simply built a giant nuclear fusion power station in space, and then began laying the collider pipeline around this nuclear fusion power station.

Li Qingsong built this heavy ion collider with a length of 20 kilometers.

Its pipeline has a diameter of about 10 meters, and its total volume reaches about 160 million cubic meters. Including surrounding auxiliary facilities, the total volume is as high as 300 million cubic meters, and the total mass reaches 500 million tons!

This massive machine, which required a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it, was just one of the many colliders Li Qingsong needed to build. And the particle collider was just one of the many large scientific facilities Li Qingsong needed to build.

Outside the particle collider, Li Qingsong commanded the Shengong AI through his clone, mobilized countless heavy machines, and started digging directly on the Cowherd A1, digging down for a full kilometer before stopping.

Later, Li Qingsong built another large scientific facility here.

Neutrino telescope!

Using ultrapure water and other liquids as the medium, once a neutrino collides with a water molecule, its subsequent impact can be captured by the observation equipment, allowing Li Qingsong to study the neutrino emission source and the properties of the neutrino itself.

This first neutrino telescope was enormous.

Its main facility is a huge pure water tank with an internal volume of 600 million cubic meters, which can accommodate 600 million tons of ultra-pure water.

Used to observe neutrino collisions are tens of millions of photomultiplier tubes and detectors, ensuring that any tiny collision flash can be seen.

After completing the construction of the first neutrino telescope, Li Qingsong began backfilling, covering the neutrino telescope with a huge amount of earth.

Neutrinos have extremely strong penetrating power, while other particles have weak penetrating power. With the rock shield, only neutrinos can enter the pure water tank without being disturbed by other particles.

Li Qingsong also built 50 such neutrino telescopes in one go.

In addition, there are optical telescope arrays, radio telescope arrays, etc.

Li Qingsong built a huge number of telescopes and placed them in various locations in the Altair Galaxy, forming an array to observe and study various celestial bodies in all directions to confirm their evolution process, current status and other information.

In addition to optics, radio, and neutrinos, Li Qingsong is also conducting research in another area.

gravitational waves.

According to the existing system, Li Qingsong knew that the next step after unifying the strong nuclear force and becoming a strong nuclear civilization would most likely be to study gravity and unify it.

It may seem a little too early to start studying gravity at this moment, but Li Qingsong knows that scientific research always proceeds step by step. It is necessary to accumulate slowly from the beginning so that one can truly master it in the future.

Just like people had begun studying the strong nuclear force long before unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force.

For Li Qingsong, it is not too early to start studying gravity now, it is even too late.

The detection principle of the gravitational wave detector is also very simple. It is nothing more than accurately measuring the distance change through two laser beams, one vertical and one horizontal.

The principle is simple, but implementation is extremely difficult. Because gravitational waves are so weak and the distance changes they cause are so minute, the equipment must be extremely precise.

In order to achieve the required precision, Li Qingsong had to make the longitudinal and transverse arms very long, even up to 100 kilometers, and then use extremely large and sophisticated equipment to meet the design requirements.

The mass of a single gravitational wave detector reaches 1000 million tons!

(End of this chapter)