Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 227 Scientific Evidence
Li Qingsong has the ability to build more proton decay detectors.

A proton decay detector requires about 11 clones to maintain daily maintenance and research. At this moment, excluding other research and the maintenance of the industrial system, Li Qingsong can barely mobilize about 3 million clones to invest in the construction and research of more proton decay detectors.

That means about 2700 proton decay detectors.

In this way, even if the proton lifetime is really 10^42 years, Li Qingsong can still truly detect this phenomenon by increasing the number.

But Li Qingsong never forgot one thing.

That is, they possess industrial capabilities far beyond those of ordinary electro-weak civilizations.

At the same time, there must be a strong nuclear civilization in the universe that has unified the strong nuclear force.

This raises a paradox: if the proton lifetime is really so long, even as high as 10^42 years, so that thousands of super-giant proton decay detectors are needed to detect proton decay...

How did those ordinary electroweak civilizations break through?

Don't forget that even if an ordinary top-level electroweak civilization exerts all its strength, it can only support dozens of giant proton decay detectors at most.

It doesn't make sense that an ordinary electroweak civilization can rely on dozens of detectors to make a breakthrough, but I have built a thousand detectors but still can't make a breakthrough!

This is not reasonable.

This could only mean one possibility: it wasn't a lack of industrial capacity or a shortage of proton decay detectors, but rather...

I took the wrong path.

Only this possibility can explain the current situation.

So, is my current theoretical framework wrong? Where is it wrong?
Looking at the theoretical framework that he had spent thousands of years researching and perfecting bit by bit, Li Qingsong felt a little confused.

Do protons not decay at all, or do they decay in a different pattern than I predicted?
The strong nuclear force must be able to be unified with the electroweak force. So, what is the model of this unification?
Mistakes are not scary. What is scary is that you don’t know where you went wrong or which direction is the right one.

After going through untold hardships to temporarily force back the Intelligent Scourge Fleet and devoting all his energy to the cause of technological breakthroughs, Li Qingsong truly felt for the first time the difficulty of this path.

While continuing to maintain the operation of thousands of proton decay detectors, Li Qingsong also devoted a large amount of brain power to a new round of thinking and deduction.

In order to prevent the problem of blind spots in thinking caused by having only one way of thinking, Li Qingsong also ordered every blueprint scientist involved to put down their tasks and join in the exploration of the new framework.

Time passed by bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed.

Li Qingsong's exploration yielded nothing.

Although he proposed more than thirty new theoretical systems to explain existing phenomena, after further verification, these theoretical systems were eventually eliminated and none of them could withstand the test of experiments.

At this moment, even with Li Qingsong's state of mind, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

There is really no way not to be anxious.

These three hundred years had been earned through sheer dedication, meticulous planning, and even the risk of everything he had! With only about two hundred years left, the Omnic Scourge Fleet would return, and yet he was now stuck, unable to advance an inch. How could Li Qingsong not be anxious?
Don't forget, the next time the Omnic Scourge Fleet arrives, they will have already recovered their full strength. At the same time, having already been tricked and trapped once, all your countermeasures will be ineffective the next time, and you will no longer be a match for the Omnic Scourge Fleet.

You can't even escape!
At this moment, Li Qingsong even felt a little envious of those ordinary electro-weak civilizations.

They certainly have low scientific research capabilities and weak industrial strength, and can even only support the operation of dozens of detectors.

But they have time, they can take it slowly, they can "polish" it bit by bit, and improve iteratively and optimize it bit by bit.

But I am running out of time!

Time passed quickly as Li Qingsong devoted all his energy to research and deduction, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed.

At this moment, magnetic monopole detector No. 559 suddenly reported a completely new situation to Li Qingsong.

Highly sensitive magnetic field detection equipment showed that the arrangement pattern of superfluid helium-2 seemed to have been slightly disturbed about 3 minutes ago.

Its pattern is very similar to the magnetic monopole effect predicted by Li Qingsong.

Li Qingsong was cheered up and immediately put all the clone's spare brainpower into this aspect.

The clones working in that giant detector carefully examined all the data generated by the detector in the past few minutes and distributed it to many other scientific research institutions.

This huge amount of data was divided into hundreds of millions of parts at this moment. Hundreds of millions of clones eagerly selected one billionth of the data, and quickly read and preliminarily analyzed the data.

The other clones control the supercomputer, input various data, and carry out calculations.

In an instant, the brains of more than 100 million clones were like a distributed supercomputer terminal, each performing the current data processing work, and finally summarizing under Li Qingsong's control, collecting the reading and analysis results of each clone and feeding them back.

Hundreds of millions of brains are like one, truly working as if they were one arm, without any delay or communication cost.

Under such circumstances, Li Qingsong completed the interpretation and analysis of all the data in just a few days, completely eliminated the interference factors, and came to the final conclusion that made Li Qingsong more excited and excited than ever before.

This is a magnetic monopole! No mistake!
Millions of deuterium-deuterium fusion nuclear power plants producing helium-3, the construction and maintenance of countless clones, and daily research and analysis have finally produced fruitful results at this moment!
Magnetic monopoles really exist!

At this moment, Li Qingsong found answers to many scientific mysteries.

Li Qingsong's heart was full of sighs.

This magnetic monopole was most likely born in the early universe. It has a lifespan as long as a proton, wandering through the universe at a speed close to the speed of light.

Its interaction with ordinary matter is extremely small, which gives it the same strong penetrating power as neutrinos.

It wandered in the universe like this for billions of years.

It may have witnessed the birth of the universe, the emergence and rapid decline of the first generation of stars, the birth of heavy elements, the condensation of stars into stars and then into galaxies, and countless heroic events in the universe.

(End of this chapter)