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Chapter 181 Speed increased by 50%!

In addition to the numerous large scientific facilities previously built, Li Qingsong was also simultaneously operating a high-energy laser laboratory—this was used to create extremely high temperatures to study the changes in matter under extremely high temperatures.
High-pressure laboratory - used to create extremely high pressures to simulate the changes in the state of matter in extremely high-pressure places such as the cores of gas giant planets and the cores of stars;
Quantum Simulation and Precision Measurement Laboratory - used to study the behavior of quantum many-body systems, quantum entanglement, and the measurement of fundamental constants;

And what Li Qingsong values most is the molecular biology laboratory - which is used to comprehensively analyze the genomes of humans and other organisms at the molecular level, find more optimized gene editing plans and technologies, and build many other large scientific facilities.

This large scientific facility is different from previous laboratories, such as metal materials laboratories, stress testing laboratories, chemical laboratories, etc., which are used to study application-level technologies.

If this kind of large-scale scientific device were put into the human era, any one of them would require extremely huge amounts of funds and personnel allocation. The initial feasibility verification alone would take several years, and the subsequent construction, debugging, etc. would require a lot of time.

This is true even for the Bluetuk civilization.

Which major scientific facility doesn't attract the attention of the entire nation? Which major scientific facility doesn't cost a fortune and take a long time to build?

Only the most powerful nations have the capacity to build large-scale scientific facilities. Weaker nations dare not even think about it.

But for Li Qingsong at this moment, this large scientific device, which can be regarded as a national treasure, is like worthless cabbage.

Li Qingsong planned more than 1500 large scientific facilities of all kinds, including particle colliders, neutrino telescopes, gravitational wave telescopes, optical and radio array telescopes, high-energy laboratories, etc., and they were launched and built at the same time!
How much basic scientific data can more than 1500 large scientific facilities produce?
A single collision in a particle collider can generate terabytes of data.
A set of optical array telescopes can generate deep-space data in petabytes in one observation.

After preliminary analysis and processing, these data will be transformed from basic physics to applied physics.

At this time, those laboratories at the applied physics level come in handy. They will carry out follow-up research on this basis, and develop various new machines, new materials, more advanced structures, more advanced propulsion systems, armor, reactors and other technological creations, truly transforming technology into productivity and combat effectiveness.

Their scale is generally smaller than that of large scientific facilities, but their number is more than ten or a hundred times that of large scientific facilities.

Therefore, with large scientific facilities as the source, applied physics laboratories as the middle section, and final applications as the end, the entire scientific research system began to operate rapidly under the joint support of more than one billion clones controlled by Li Qingsong and more than ten million blueprint scientific research scholars.

At the same time, in addition to the three simultaneous tasks of fully verifying the scientific conjectures of the past stage, building large scientific facilities to launch breakthroughs in basic physics theory, and operating the applied physics laboratory at full power to achieve technological transformation, Li Qingsong is also carrying out another crucial task.

Hundreds of years of interstellar voyages had allowed Li Qingsong to accumulate a wealth of experience and knowledge about interstellar navigation. Based on this, Li Qingsong had a new hypothesis in mind.

There are two key factors that restrict the interstellar travel speed of electroweak civilizations.

First, it cannot carry too much supplies. At the same time, the energy conversion efficiency is low and the supply consumption is too high, so it can only sail at a lower speed.

Because if the speed is too fast, there will not be enough fuel to slow down.

The second is that the problem of particle collisions cannot be solved. If the speed is too fast, the outer shell of the spacecraft will be severely weakened, and even the spacecraft will disintegrate.

However, these two factors apply only to ordinary electroweak-level civilizations. As a form of existence somewhat similar to a "natural disaster," the immense industrial capacity he possesses might allow him to circumvent these two limitations.

The first problem could be alleviated by building more spaceships and carrying more supplies. As for the second problem, since particle impacts would severely damage the material of a spaceship, then... perhaps I could cover the outer shell of the spaceship with a protective film?

In this way, particle impacts can only affect the protective film and not the spacecraft armor.

Obviously, the protective film will continue to wear out and need to be replaced, which ultimately becomes a problem of carrying supplies.

And they happen to be able to carry more supplies than ordinary civilizations.

Add to that the numerous minor improvements in various aspects of the spacecraft brought about by the technological accumulation of the previous hundreds of years. Adding it all together, perhaps during the next interstellar voyage, I could try to use the technological strength of an electroweak-level civilization to achieve a navigation speed of 6% or even 8% of the speed of light?

Previously, the Bluetuk fleet's speed was 3% of the speed of light, and my own speed was 4% of the speed of light.

Even if the speed can't be increased to 8% of the speed of light, but can only be increased to 6%, it is equivalent to an increase of 50%!

With a 50% improvement, how much time will be saved on your journey?
How much higher will the probability of escaping the pursuit of the artificial intelligence scourge be?
The implications behind this technology made Li Qingsong feel excited.

In particular, after the preliminary feasibility assessment, Li Qingsong believes that he has a great chance of achieving this!
Regardless of whether the current scientific research can yield results and how much results it can yield, at least there is great hope for technological breakthroughs in terms of ship speed.

Therefore, Li Qingsong, regardless of the fact that the mental demands in other areas were already extremely tight, once again allocated a part of his clones and brainpower to the research and development of speed-related technologies.

At this moment, Li Qingsong has truly given his all.

How much technological driving force can be unleashed by more than one billion clones with no internal friction, no entertainment, no communication costs, and no other needs except scientific research, combined with more than 10 million scientific researchers who have limited abilities compared to themselves but can play a good role in clearing blind spots in thinking and providing blueprints for inspiration?
Li Qingsong had not calculated it in detail, but he knew that it must be so huge that it was almost unimaginable for previous human civilization and Bluetuk civilization.

At this moment, this huge technological driving force is all invested in the scientific research task that is almost unimaginable for ordinary civilizations.

Faced with the threat of the intelligent machine disaster, Li Qingsong dared not be negligent in the slightest.

At this moment, Li Qingsong only hopes that he can have more time, a little more. As long as he can develop technology here safely and steadily, he will be satisfied.

But not long after many large scientific facilities were built, a clone consciousness connection from distant deep space broke the peace here.

(End of this chapter)