Internal Bickering and Infighting
Scientists are typically conservative. They are slow to accept new theories, especially those that make strange predictions. Yue Yuan is naturally pleased that two of the world's leading scientists are still so passionate, as he has long worried about the so-called intellectual stagnation that might occur.
Although he was not a scientist, he knew that scientific progress could not be achieved overnight. Therefore, he did not care about spending a little more time on meetings and discussions, whether it was one year or ten years, it made little difference to the path of the Grand Unified Theory.
After the two left, Yue Yuan went directly to the Strong Artificial Intelligence 'Tianhe Light' of the Lyra and asked it to estimate the time it would take for humanity to hollow out all the planets outside the sun in the Solar System with its current capabilities.
The answer given by 'The Tianhe Light' is around one thousand years.
It's not about mining each planet one by one, but rather conducting operations simultaneously within Star System. This requires humans to create even more Mining Grey Wind. This only considers the mining time; if you factor in transportation, processing, collider design and manufacturing, and other aspects, it will take even longer.
Moreover, if we were to actually do it, hollowing out six Star System would probably not be enough, because the previous rough estimate method included the mass of planets other than stars. However, a Star System has more than just Rocky Planet. Gaseous Planet have a larger mass than Rocky Planet, but humans cannot hollow out a Gaseous Planet.
Therefore, this massive project is even more complex than the two people just mentioned, and it is no exaggeration to say that it requires the full strength of the entire civilization.
This won't be so easy. After all, not every high-ranking official in the world is as crazy as scientists like Liu Miyan, even though many high-ranking leaders are themselves scientists and technologists.
Sure enough, at the summary meeting the following year, when Liu Miyan brought up this idea, before he even had a chance to explain the details of the plan, many voices of opposition immediately emerged.
Their reasons for opposing were similar to those of Yu Nanfeng before, but they were not as easily persuaded as Yu Nanfeng.
Although Liu Miyan later spent half a day explaining the plan in general terms, they still believed that it was not worth it for humanity.
Because that means that for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, all of humanity will need to devote all their energy, human and material resources to the project. Building such a large collider cannot be done by relying solely on Strong Artificial Intelligence; it requires the contribution of every single human being.
At the same time, we must also face the risk of internal division within humanity.
The reason is that, during the process of explaining the plan, Liu Miyan proposed that in order to improve the efficiency of the mining process, Human Civilization should be divided into several parts, each going to the target star to mine.
The case of the Nair Civilization splitting into three clearly tells humanity that, without real-time communication, races separated in two locations have a very high probability of evolving into independent forces.
Imagine if humanity were divided into ten parts, each living twenty or thirty light-years apart. A single communication would take forty or fifty years, and they would have to live separately for thousands of years. Even if they didn't become a second Nair Civilization, warlordism and cultural differences would still emerge.
Over time, people from different regions will differentiate themselves and gradually develop their own power structures.
Although this situation may not necessarily occur, no one dares to gamble with the fate of humanity, unless one day we encounter a situation like the Crimson Flame Civilization, which was driven to a dead end by humanity.
Admittedly, this was just one of the reasons raised by the opponents, but it was enough for the proposal to be rejected at the conference.
As the person in charge of advancing the New Collider project, Liu Miyan was certainly not going to give up easily. After his proposal was rejected at the meeting, he used his connections to contact some friends and try to persuade them to support him and the proposal.
Only by having these supporters try to persuade other scientists to support the proposal at the next meeting can we gain their support.
Meanwhile, in order to finalize the proposal more quickly, Liu Miyan started working on it from another angle.
He first found some friends who also held important positions, and after successfully persuading them to stand on his side, he asked them to help shorten the time interval between the summary meetings, or simply hold a special discussion and voting meeting under the pretext of voting on the New Particle Collider project.
Summary Conference every fifty years is too long. If the vote fails, the next one will be another fifty years away. Liu Miyan believes this is a complete waste of time.
Liu Miyan's efforts were effective. Although the interval between the Summary Conference on the exploration of Alien Civilization relics was not changed, he successfully promoted the establishment of a special meeting to discuss matters related to the New Particle Collider.
The voting process will remain the same as before, and the results of the congress's vote will have legal effect. Once the congress approves the vote, the New Collider project will be finalized, and the New Government will take the lead in getting things done.
However, things did not go so smoothly. Despite Liu Miyan's active organization of the conference, many opponents still emerged, and their seats still outnumbered those who agreed. The plan was rejected again.
Liu Miyan was not discouraged by the rejection of his proposal. He continued to push forward with the plan. Instead of waiting for the next meeting to vote on it again, Liu Miyan understood the reasons for the failure and revised the plan based on the objections, attempting to persuade them.
After this process was repeated more than ten times, only fifty years had passed, but this crazy collider plan still failed to be approved at the conference.
Of course, during this time, humans also set foot in another Star System and searched it carefully, but again found no trace of any related relics.
Over the past fifty years, other scientists have also been busy, but human technology seems to have really reached the fourth level barrier. Apart from some optimizations in application details, the overall level of human technology has not changed much.
Fifty-five years after Liu Miyan resolved to push forward the New Collider project, there was another vote on the optimized plan, and the result was still very disappointing for Liu Miyan. He felt that the plan had been revised by himself and the scientists involved to be very feasible, but in the voting environment, the plan was once again rejected amidst the bickering of the participants.
Time and again we tried, only to fall victim to endless wrangling.
Liu Miyan was disappointed, and at the same time, he was exhausted. He felt that he had clearly explained the advantages and disadvantages, feasibility, and various pros and cons of the new plan, and he also felt that he had given a perfect answer to every objection.
However, at each voting meeting, different voices always emerged. If it was a new problem that specifically discovered loopholes in the plan, that would be fine. The key issue was that the reasons raised by these opponents were the same ones that had been raised before. Then, other people with different opinions would start to make a fuss about it, and the voting meeting would turn into a wrangling meeting again. After the wrangling was over, the problem would circle back to the original singularity, and then, in a confused state, a proposal to shelve the proposal would be made to continue at the next meeting.
Normally, Liu Miyan all his attention on scientific research, but this repetitive, round-after-round meeting format reminded him of something.