The Great Power of Industry
Powerful industrial capabilities are a strength possessed by any civilization that truly creates Strong Artificial Intelligence, and represent the technological level expected of a peak Level 3 Civilization. Clearly, Human Civilization has reached this level. Such industrial capability is both the basic industrial strength required to build a complete Dyson Sphere and the minimum standard for advancing to Level 4 Civilization.
If building such Particle Collider could actually lead to the Grand Unified Theory.
Yes, even now, many scientists still don't believe that the New Particle Collider can produce the Grand Unified Theory, but they haven't opposed building New Particle Collider because humanity has no other choice.
Since defeating the Crimson Flame Civilization and gathering almost 80% of its population, Human Civilization has acquired almost all of the Crimson Flame Civilization's Crimson Flame Civilization. It can be said that since then, humanity has stood at the pinnacle of Level 3 Civilization.
It was at that time that humanity officially began its assault on the Grand Unified Theory, the hallmark of Level 4 Civilization. At that time, humanity had only six billion people, but from the leadership to ordinary people, everyone devoted their main energy to exploring the Grand Unified Theory.
The education sector often uses the Grand Unified Theory to encourage students, saying that it is the Scientific Holy Grail in the future. Whoever or any team can obtain this holy grail will be forever recorded in the Hall of Glory of Human Civilization. As long as Human Civilization exists, the glory will last forever.
The focus of basic science, research projects, and policy priorities are all leaning towards the study of Grand Unified Theory. The New Government has even introduced many related incentive policies, demonstrating a united front from top to bottom.
However, the reality is not as simple as people imagine. Some things are difficult to achieve substantial progress even if everyone is of one mind and the entire race is mobilized. The Grand Unified Theory is such a thing.
Finally, humanity established the United Scientific Research Institute, bringing together the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Nair People research team, the Kuntai People scientific team, and even some of the Dog-Headed People scientists they had trained.
They attempted to gather the brilliant minds of several races to find the Grand Unified Theory of form within countless laws in the vast universe and nature.
However, reality is cruel. The Joint Academy of Sciences has created the Silver Mist Nanobots swarm "Little Grey" that humanity had been longing for, and has made many breakthroughs in other fields of technology. However, the Grand Unified Theory, the cornerstone of a Level 4 Civilization, remains elusive.
Of course, humanity did not give up. Under such circumstances, Human Civilization continued to explore for thousands of years, but still had no clue.
The Grand Unified Theory is like an invisible wall, blocking the path of human progress, unshakable. Humanity is fortunate to know of such a wall, but despite so much effort, it has never been able to touch it.
The term "Technology Barrier" has once again become one of the most popular terms in human society.
In fact, at the beginning, some people proposed to build a Particle Collider with a length of thousands of Astronomical Unit, but at that time, humans did not have such industrial capabilities. It was not until 'Little Grey' was built, until humans took another step forward in the field of Nanotechnology, and until the manufacturing technology of Strong Artificial Intelligence truly matured.
That's why Liu Miyan personally went to talk to Yue Yuan about this matter, because at that time, many experts believed that humanity already possessed that kind of industrial capability.
Of course, when the plan was confirmed and approved, and the engineering drawings were transformed from a concept into a physical object, it still shocked most of the experts, because the project was simply too crazy.
The younger generation of scholars were alright, but the experts who had lived from the Earth Era to the present were truly shocked. They never imagined that they would see humanity undertake such a massive project in their lifetime.
Hollowing out all the metal from the eight Star System is not just a slogan, but a real undertaking; otherwise, the New Particle Collider project would not even meet its material needs.
This is such a massive undertaking that it would have been completely unimaginable in Earth Era.
Yue Yuan often sighed like this. He was a person from the Earth Era. What was the biggest project he had ever seen? Undoubtedly, it was the Orbital Mass Accelerator located on the Qinghai-Tibet, and the Vast Ocean Project.
However, from today's perspective, those two world-shaking mega-projects were ultimately just planetary projects, while this New Particle Collider project will hollow out countless planets, making them completely incomparable.
The construction time would also be measured in millennia, which, if applied to any country in the Earth Era, would span the entire history of that country's development.
Without Longevity Potion, it would take dozens of generations to save up.
Even so, scientists are not confident, and no one dares to guarantee that after building this New Particle Collider, humanity will be able to find Grand Unified Theory.
Therefore, this Millennium Project is both a hope and a grand gamble spanning centuries. If we win, humanity will master the Grand Unified Theory, enter the ranks of Level 4 Civilization, and soar to new heights. If we lose, humanity may fall into a daze, into the confusion of technological exploration, into the most insane experimental dead ends, and perhaps never recover.
Imagine if, after the New Particle Collider is completed, humans still cannot detect any abnormal phenomena. In that case, the scientists might not think it's the fault of the New Particle Collider, but rather that they haven't conducted enough experiments, since they have already tried various other methods before.
Therefore, they will inevitably cling desperately to this hope, experimenting relentlessly and continuously; at least this generation of scientists will not give up. If a breakthrough cannot be achieved in the long term, then humanity may very well perish.
Because by then, humanity will no longer have the courage to build more powerful Particle Collider, and will no longer be influenced by the Racial Talent mentioned by the Awakeners and Precursor. At that time, humanity may believe that the Grand Unified Theory is something that the human race cannot grasp even with all its wisdom.
The outcome is self-evident: Human Civilization will eventually stagnate at Level 3 Civilization and disappear from the ranks of Cosmic Civilizations.
Of course, the future is unknown to humankind at present. Human Civilization needs to do now is to do its best to complete this great project of the century.
Centuries after centenary, the great power of industry is fully demonstrated at this moment.
Human-made Strong Artificial Intelligence has demonstrated formidable power in resource extraction, representing the pinnacle of human industrial strength. These Strong Artificial Intelligence relentlessly mine resources on their respective planets, transforming the surface of almost every Rocky Planet under their jurisdiction. Countless robot armies are scattered across every planet, plating the entire world with a metallic silver sheen, much like in the depiction of the Technological Crisis.