Planning the Collider
If human scientists can find the real reason why this gas giant has no moons, then humanity's theory of stellar evolution will be further refined.
This kind of research may seem unimportant, but anyone with scientific knowledge knows that no research is unimportant. The perception of unimportance simply means that at a particular time, people haven't yet realized its importance, or that the research, though successful, hasn't been explicitly applied in reality.
As a civilization that has been exploring the stars for over two thousand years, humanity could not possibly be unaware of this.
Therefore, the team of astronomers attached great importance to this research and even established a special scientific research exploration project.
When the report reached Yue Yuan readily agreed, not only because he understood the importance of exploration and research, but also because he knew that humanity would stay in this star system for a very long time.
After encountering the Awakeners, humanity did indeed need a place to properly digest all the information. At the same time, Yue Yuan also wanted to take out the construction plan that he had shelved for many years.
Therefore, after approving the application from the team of astronomers, he immediately convened a meeting with a group of particle physicists.
At the meeting, Yue Yuan got straight to the point, presenting the document entitled "Construction Plan for Large Hadron Collider" to get everyone directly into the meeting's content.
Yue Yuan actually received this document back when humanity was still on Wolf Star, but at that time humanity's primary goal was to survive and get as far away as possible from the star system where the Silver Mist Consciousness was located, so there was not much time to process it.
Of course, it wasn't appropriate at that time either, since there were only so many people back then, and they simply didn't have the capability to build Large Hadron Collider.
However, they encountered the Kun-Tai Civilization, and the Silver Heart Alliance's broadcast threat was never lifted, so it was kept under wraps and never brought out.
Now, the time has truly come.
The appearance of the Awakeners finally allowed humanity to escape the Dangerous Star Region by sheer luck, and years of development have also enabled humanity to advance from Tier 1 Civilization to Level 2 Civilization, and the population has also increased.
If, by this point, the plan to build Large Hadron Collider is not restarted, it will undoubtedly waste precious time for human development.
At this moment, Yue Yuan was sitting in the Conference Room, listening to a series of physics discussions.
"I think Linear Collider is not suitable. Although Linear Collider are the easiest to manufacture, their construction length is not affected by space, and they can be packed and moved in a modular way. Moreover, since they do not have synchrotron radiation, the energy of the center of mass can be very high and the precision can be adjusted. However, their brightness is limited and they are not upgradable."
The speaker was Liu Miyan. Although Yue Yuan initiated the meeting, he was actually the one presiding over it.
"Since Academician Liu thinks Linear Collider is unsuitable, then only Circular Collider remains," another physicist Liu Miyan finished speaking.
"Yes, only Circular Collider." Seeing that the first physicist stopped after saying just that, another physicist who shared the same view had to add, "With our current technology, building a large Circular Collider is entirely feasible. According to the data, in Earth Era, people initially did not intend to build a circular Electron Collider larger than the International Linear Collider because the electron's mass was too small, and as the center of mass energy increased, synchrotron radiation would lose more energy. However, after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, people noticed that its mass was not particularly large, so using Circular Collider as a Higgs factory is also possible."
Just as we considered in the Earth Era, if we build Ring Accelerator, the circular tunnel can also be used for upgrading the next generation of the Hadron Collider.
Upon hearing the scientist's words, the Particle Physics PhD opposite him retorted, "If you're going to upgrade, why not just build the next generation of colliders?"
"Do we have that kind of technology?" the physicist retorted.
The next-generation Particle Collider he was referring to is a large collider that integrates Photon Collider, Muon Collider, Electron Collider, and Hadron Collider into one.
This collider differs from traditional two-point Particle Collider; its design concept is three-dimensional multi-point.
The difference between the two is that traditional two-point colliders can only perform two-dimensional collisions or collisions on the same spatial screen, which has low space utilization and low collision energy.
In Earth Era, the most typical and powerful collider of this type was the European Large Hadron Collider, with a circular orbit 27 kilometers long.
If humans were to build it in space, it would be a ring with a diameter of 8.5 kilometers. The largest warship currently built by humankind Lyra, is only 5 kilometers long; just imagine how enormous that would be.
However, what these scientists wanted to build was naturally not the same Particle Collider from the Earth Era; they wanted a larger and more powerful Particle Collider.
That's why some people are asking whether humanity has the capability to build a new generation of Particle Collider.
Seeing the room fall silent, Yue Yuan, who had been silent until now, looked at Yu Nanfeng, a figure in the field of engineering, and asked, "Academician Yu, what's your side of the story?"
While physicists were the main force in this discussion, whether humans possess the capability to build such structures is a question for those who actually do engineering.
"I've looked at the Particle Physics proposal," Yu Nanfeng said, stroking his stubble. "The next-generation Particle Collider should be the so-called Space Multi-Point Particle Collider, and it also requires the realization of collisions of many types of particles."
"When I received the plan the day before yesterday, I discussed it with my colleagues and we thought that with our current advanced mechanical technology, it would be very difficult to manufacture, but it was not impossible."
However, you still need to finalize the specifics of the plan and then give our Engineering Department at least three years to demonstrate and test its feasibility.
Upon hearing this, Liu Miyan, "In that case, why bother discussing other types of colliders? Our current living environment is entirely in space, so let's just go straight to Space Multi-Point Particle Collider!"
"Yes, if we're going to build something, we should build the best," one attendee agreed.
Then, the attendees had another discussion. Finally, after consulting with Liu Miyan and other scientists, Yue Yuan made the decision. "Okay, if everyone has no objections, then let's do it this way."
This meeting was actually just an opening meeting to discuss the construction of the collider, to set the direction. There will be many more meetings about the collider in the next few days.
In such meetings, Yue Yuan would only take the lead and participate in the first session to set the direction. Given his level of expertise, he wouldn't need to attend subsequent meetings.