Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 197 New Physics
In the high-temperature laboratory, Li Qingsong tried to create higher temperatures through methods such as lasers and high-energy particle bombardment.

Temperature is an indicator of the average kinetic energy of particles. Based on this indicator, Li Qingsong has actually created an ultra-high temperature of nearly 10 trillion degrees Celsius in a particle collider, and observed many strange phenomena under this temperature, thereby greatly improving his theory.

But that is only at the microscopic scale, where the high-temperature region only involves some elementary particles. The macroscopic scale is different from the microscopic scale.

Creating ultra-high temperatures on a macroscopic scale is also of great significance.

This kind of macroscopic high temperature is not possible even with a nuclear fusion reactor, because the core temperature of a nuclear fusion reactor is only a few hundred million degrees Celsius, which is basically cold compared to the ultra-high temperatures used in scientific research.

Additional measures must be used.

The methods adopted by Li Qingsong are concentrated high-energy laser irradiation and high-energy particle bombardment.

But these two methods can actually be considered the same. This is because high-energy laser irradiation, in essence, can also be regarded as a collision of high-energy photons, and can still be regarded as a type of high-energy particle collision in a broad sense.

Li Qingsong specially developed some equipment similar to particle colliders, which are specifically used to accelerate particles and then concentrate them to bombard targets.

In this way, Li Qingsong achieved his goal of heating a 5-gram zinc sheet to a temperature of one trillion degrees Celsius under the confinement of a magnetic field.

At one trillion degrees Celsius, not to mention molecules, even atoms no longer exist. The atomic nucleus, and even the protons and neutrons that make up the atomic nucleus, have been broken apart.

Thus, Li Qingsong observed gluon plasma under macroscopic conditions for the first time, verified the unusual changes in strong nuclear force under macroscopic conditions, and further increased our understanding of strong nuclear force.

In addition to high temperatures, there are also low temperatures.

Based on the Doppler effect, Li Qingsong used laser beams to slow down atoms and reduce their kinetic energy, and then removed high-energy atoms through precise manipulation. By taking multiple approaches, the temperature was reduced to a temperature extremely close to absolute zero.

In a medium of this temperature, even the speed of light changes.

Li Qingsong saw that the light was moving slowly in the medium like a snail. Even if the clone walked slowly, it could easily exceed the speed of light.

Of course, this does not mean the realization of superluminal speed in the physical sense.

The speed of light in the physical sense refers to the speed of light in a vacuum. The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant, unchanging and unchangeable. However, the speed of light in other media can vary and can be easily exceeded.

At the core of those huge spherical spacecraft, neutrino telescopes are also working non-stop, observing one neutrino collision event after another.

Neutrino telescopes work by deriving their effect from the fact that the movement of secondary particles in water can exceed the speed of light.

Because the secondary particles generated by neutrinos hitting water molecules move at superluminal speeds and generate certain radiation, by observing this radiation, relevant information about neutrinos can be obtained.

Every large scientific device consumes huge amounts of energy.

Not to mention the energy consumption of equipment such as particle colliders, gravitational wave detectors, neutrino detectors, high-temperature and low-temperature laboratories, etc., just to process the data produced by these numerous large scientific facilities, more than 2 quantum supercomputers are kept at full capacity for a long time.

Quantum supercomputers require extremely low temperatures, even lower than the microwave background radiation. This means that even in the freezing cold of space, they need constant heat dissipation. The energy required to power the chips is even greater. A rough estimate suggests that the combined power consumption of the more than 800 quantum supercomputers processing data from large scientific facilities reaches an average of 29.2 billion kWh per day, or trillion kWh per year—more than the total power consumption of human civilization during the era of nations!

The entire power consumption of an entire elementary electro-weak civilization was now used only to maintain the operation of the supercomputer. And compared with the power consumption of Li Qingsong's entire fleet at this moment, what was the power consumption of the supercomputer?
Li Qingsong's fleet contained over two billion clones maintaining consciousness, consuming vast quantities of food, water, and oxygen every day. To conserve supplies, the material circulation equipment operated around the clock.

The operation of the spacecraft's own equipment also consumes enormous amounts of energy. Adding all these factors together, it is likely that the entire material and energy reserves of an ordinary electro-weak civilization's interstellar fleet will be exhausted in a short period of time.

Fortunately, Li Qingsong's fleet is large enough to support such a huge amount of material and energy consumption.

Time slowly passed, and the more than 10 billion consciousness connections were always fully occupied. Except for the rest time, the 20 billion clones were all in a state of either busy work or physical rest, and mentally tense to contribute brain power.

At every moment, a large number of ferry ships are shuttling between different giant ships, and numerous factories, equipment, laboratories, and large scientific facilities are working non-stop. Everything is just like in a star system with abundant resources.

It was in this situation that dozens of neutrino detectors simultaneously reported a rather strange phenomenon to Li Qingsong.

They once again detected a neutrino burst event simultaneously.

This neutrino burst has a relatively high energy level and is speculated to be produced by some more violent astronomical phenomena, such as stellar collisions and star explosions.

Through cross-positioning of different neutrino telescopes, Li Qingsong roughly completed the positioning of the radiation source of this neutrino burst.

Data shows that it is located about 1.6 light-years away, near the edge of the Milky Way.

A violent astronomical phenomenon is not surprising. This kind of thing happens almost every day in the universe.

But the strange thing is... why is the interval so short?
This is not the first time that Li Qingsong has observed this kind of signal.

Just half a year ago, Li Qingsong had observed this kind of signal once, and its type, intensity, coordinates and other data were all consistent with this time.

Could it be possible that such a violent astronomical event occurred twice in succession in the same place?
This is not reasonable.

There is no astronomical event that could cause such a thing. This goes against Li Qingsong's known theoretical system.

Faced with this strange phenomenon that almost overturned his theoretical system, Li Qingsong did not feel angry or frustrated, but was full of excitement.

Not only Li Qingsong, but also the Blueprint scientists were full of excitement.

Because in scientific research, what scientists most hope for is to find phenomena that are inconsistent with their own theories, and it would be best if they could overturn their previous theories and completely deny their past selves.

Because only in this way can we find new physical theories and further improve our theoretical system!

(End of this chapter)