Preparing to Depart
From the day it was officially put into use, experimental projects for the Space Multi-Point Particle Collider were suddenly scheduled for more than 30 years later, and applications for its use are still being submitted to the relevant departments of the New Government.
Scientists have clearly been waiting for this for many years, and now that the collider is built, they are indeed eager to get started, which is a good sign.
However, Yue Yuan was also well aware that there might be no new discoveries regarding the collision experiments at the collider for a long time, or even for a very long time, which was a normal phenomenon.
Using Particle Collider to explore the unknown is different from other types of scientific exploration. Other methods of exploration may have a hypothetical goal, and then explore step by step towards that goal, just like the previous Room-Temperature Superconductivity, which determined the goal of finding Room-Temperature Superconductivity materials, and then tried to achieve the goal by means of means.
Particle Collider are different. In fact, even the scientific teams that apply to use Particle Collider to conduct particle collision experiments don't know what they can actually produce.
Therefore, it would be a miracle if they made a new discovery, and it would be normal if they didn't. This is because the discovery they are looking for is not some new technology, but something that will advance fundamental physics.
Frankly speaking, even though humanity has now reached Level 2 Civilization, our fundamental physics is still advanced. Many technologies derived from fundamental physics have not yet been realized by humanity.
But this doesn't mean that humanity can live off its past achievements forever. For one thing, humanity currently lacks the basic theoretical framework for Warp Speed Travel; all it has are a bunch of ideas that lack rigorous mathematical calculations and are impossible to realize.
If humanity continues to rely on its past achievements, even if it reaches the Level 3 Civilization, it will eventually be stuck at the Technology Barrier of the Level 4 Civilization.
Therefore, even knowing that building the collider would be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and that it might yield no results for a long time, the New Government still insisted on building it. Now that the collider is completed and put into use, it can be considered as securing a glimmer of hope for the future progress of fundamental physics.
That's how scientific research works. If you want to make progress in basic theories, you have to invest heavily and for a long time. There are no shortcuts, because the road ahead is always unknown.
Of course, it is precisely because of the unknown that scientists are more interested, after all, the greatest wish of true scientific researchers is to explore the unknown.
It can be said that the completion and use of the collider has given humanity a glimpse of the future of scientific development.
However, Particle Collider are different from other scientific instruments. Once they are turned on and put into use, they must remain running unless humans need to set sail again to move them to a different location.
From another perspective, this is only natural, after all, it is the only Particle Collider human history.
As for the departure time, the New Government already has a preliminary plan. Humanity will likely leave this star system in about two hundred years.
Of course, plans are plans, and the actual launch time will definitely differ from some other dates.
This depends on various factors, such as the construction of Residential Spaceship, warships, the gathering of Dog-Headed People, and the collection of biosphere on the Dog-Headed People Planet.
Building Residential Spaceship and warships is secondary; the most important things are the Dog-Headed People Biosphere Resources and the spaceships that carry those Biosphere Resources.
Before leaving, humans will collect as many plants and animals as possible from the planet, especially those that can be cultivated into food, as these will become delicacies on the human table in the future.
Since the successful research into genetic modification and Immunity Elixir, the creatures on this planet have become a source of meat for humans, and humans naturally wouldn't miss out on such an advantage.
As for warships and Residential Spaceship, those can only be put on hold for now. The reason is that this Orange Dwarf Star System was thoroughly ravaged by Flying Saucer Civilization from countless years ago. Although the planets still exist, the mineral resources needed to build warships are not abundant.
Humans aren't so ruthless as to mine all the metal on the planet. After all, humans can't take all the Dog-Headed People with them, so they have to leave some resources for them.
It's not that humanity has suddenly become overly compassionate, but rather that mining too deep is not only a waste of energy but also inefficient. Besides, the universe has more than just this one Star System; with our current capabilities, we could easily travel to the next Star System.
Why not find a Star System with many planets, abundant resources, and easy mining opportunities to mine? There's no need to struggle in this barren land.
Therefore, the New Government plans to spend another two hundred years collecting Biosphere Resources before setting sail.
According to the plan, when humanity sets sail, there will be about a hundred more Lake-Class Warship than humans, and the other newly added spaceships will be Residential Spaceship and Biosphere Spaceship.
As for refueling, that's not a problem at all.
The seawater on the Dog-Headed People Planet contains vast amounts of Protium Deuterium Tritium, but as Level 2 Civilization, humans are too lazy to extract these Nuclear Fusion materials. They don't even mine the helium-3 Helium-4 deposits on the planet, but instead just dig for rocks.
Since Heavy Nuclear Fusion is essentially burning rocks, humanity simply used soil and rocks as fuel and transported them to its space fleets.
Once the energy pathways are broadened, things can be this unpredictable.
Therefore, once Level 2 Civilization is reached, as long as there are Rocky Planet, there is no need to worry about energy shortages at all. Oh, Gaseous Planet are also fine, it's just that mining them is not as convenient as mining Rocky Planet.
Decades have passed in the blink of an eye.
The optimized version of the human Enhancement Elixir has been officially released, and the scaling phenomenon that appeared on the human body when entering Overclock Mode has been eliminated.
In addition, an experimental version of the Nanomite Repair Robot has been created thanks to the efforts of scientists and engineers in various fields, but the experimental results have been far from satisfactory.
In one experiment, the engineers issued repair instructions to the repair robot swarm according to the program. As a result, the repair robots, each about the size of a ping-pong ball, went to the hole in the broken iron plate and even used their bodies to plug the hole by generating high temperatures. However, the result of plugging the hole was just a pile of welding slag.
They failed to achieve the intended repair shape at all, and some even melted themselves before reaching the experimental target location, becoming paralyzed halfway there.
This experiment cannot be described as a failure; it is a failure among failures.
However, the scientists and engineers were not discouraged. Although the result was an unexpected failure, they felt that they could still learn from it.
In the years that followed, the scientists and engineers in charge of the nano-repair project created many improved versions of Nanobots, but to say the least, they made no progress at all and stagnated.
"Particle Collider have been colliding for so many years, but they haven't produced anything significant, have they?"
When questioned by the resource approval authorities, the scientists and engineers of the Nanomite Repair Robot project responded as follows.