Space Corridor

Not to be outdone, the mining teams of the Crimson Flame Civilization also operated with great enthusiasm, operating machinery produced in human factories on each planet under their jurisdiction.

In order to speed up the process, they even restarted the long-unused hydrogen bomb mining operation under the instruction of the human Mining Area Patrol Team. Hundreds of millions of high-yield hydrogen bombs were buried underground and then detonated, causing the crust of each planet to tremble.

Sometimes, even the headquarters of the human Great Fleet, located more than ten light-years away, could see the light from those explosions.

This violent mining method is a human tradition, only its power has been further amplified after reaching Level 3 Civilization. If mining blasts of this scale were carried out on Earth, it would be enough to trigger a new life cycle, and could even wipe out 99% of life.

From the perspective of environmental protection on a single planet, this is indeed extremely harmful. However, the universe is full of planets, and no civilization in the universe is idle enough to act as a cosmic environmentalist. Therefore, no matter how much humans wreak havoc on planets, it will be fine.

Amidst this massive construction project, a period of time quietly passed in Five Finger Mountain.

During this long period, the headquarters of the human Great Fleet, which served as the base, also received ample resources and made thorough preparations. During this time, the production of some modules of the New Particle Collider went from blueprints to physical objects.

As can be seen, in the starry sky near the human Great Fleet's production base, there are already many New Collider components. They float in the Void like huge logs used for construction, waiting for the next step of human engineers.

From the outside, these parts are cylindrical and do indeed resemble logs.

These are all intermediate components of the New Particle Collider, that is, the components responsible for accelerating particles. These components are all cylindrical, with a diameter of about 120 meters and a length of only 10 kilometers.

As everyone knows, the New Particle Collider will be 6,674 Astronomical Unit long. The reason why its modular acceleration components were not made longer is not because humans did not want to, but because if they were made too long, they would be prone to deformation during installation.

The 10-kilometer length was achieved only because it used Alloy No. 1 as the main frame; otherwise, even the slightest movement would have caused unpredictable deformation and bending. Of course, 10 kilometers is not a short distance. Due to its small diameter of only 120 meters, even with Alloy No. 1 as the main frame, swaying and bending during transportation were still inevitable.

Therefore, after they are transported to the designated installation location, the flatness and straightness of each individual component will be checked. It's not as simple as just pulling them over and assembling them; there is a lot of work to be done in the assembly process, including many technical challenges to be solved.

This component has the conventional structure of a particle accelerator inside, and each component is embedded with eight separate energy supply systems, which are fusion energy sources.

It's worth mentioning that these eight energy devices are located at the two-thirds mark of the cylinder, four heavy cores and four cold cores. Four positions for embedding Magnetic Propulsion devices were also reserved nearby; however, these four reserved positions have not yet been fitted with Magnetic Propulsion devices.

These four Magnetic Propulsion devices are medium-sized Magnetic Propulsion devices, one of the products of the Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology in the Crimson Flame Civilization. They are now being used by humans in various components of the New Particle Collider, naturally for the purpose of easy disassembly in the future.

Of course, serving as a Magnetic Propulsion source is only a secondary function of these power sources; their primary design purpose is actually to provide energy for the acceleration coils of accelerators.

Such a long accelerator cannot be powered by a single energy system. Even if it were possible, it would be impractical. The reason is that this Particle Collider is simply too long; it would take over nine hundred hours for light to travel from one end to the other.

Each cylindrical modular structure is ten kilometers long, and humanity would need to manufacture approximately 99.84304 billion such components. This is an enormous number, and one can only imagine the vast amount of metal resources required to produce such a massive quantity of parts.

Moreover, this only applies to the modular Production Department; only components used in the particle acceleration process can be produced modularly—this is the accelerator section. Particle Collider includes more than just the acceleration module; it also includes a series of detectors needed at the collision point to record the energy and particle signals released during particle collisions. This part cannot be produced modularly.

Similarly, the particle beam generators and separation devices at both ends, which are precision instruments, cannot be produced in a modular fashion.

Regarding the collision point and the instruments at both ends, the design drawings show that they are located in areas that are larger than the accelerator module. The complete new accelerator looks like a long stick that is thicker at both ends and in the middle.

The reason for designing it as a straight length is that this design eliminates the need to consider the magnetic field strength of each part of the accelerator; during operation, only the strongest magnetic field is applied to accelerate the particles. In contrast, Ring Accelerator requires ensuring that each part has a fixed magnetic field strength to prevent particle beams from failing to turn or turning too sharply and colliding with the accelerator walls.

Linear Type accelerators don't have this problem; they simply accelerate the particles by force, causing them to collide.

In space today, Engineering Ship are everywhere. At this stage, they are like ants, working in groups of several to transport particle accelerator components produced in the factory to their designated locations.

Although space is empty, the predetermined location of the new particle accelerator has already been marked with coordinates on a precise space map by humankind, using their own Great Fleet as a reference point.

Of course, this is just one method of transportation. Some vehicles, equipped with thrusters after production, are controlled by their own Intelligent System and travel independently to their designated locations. The reason for having two transportation methods is that humans need to assess which method would cause the least damage to the acceleration modules of the new particle accelerator.

Once reliable data is obtained, only one mode of transportation will remain.

As more and more acceleration components are delivered to their designated locations, although they have not yet been assembled immediately, the prototype of the New Particle Collider is gradually taking shape.

Looking from the location of the human fleet along the modules, this new particle accelerator, which is less than one-tenth complete, looks like a long corridor piercing the dark Void of the universe, while the modules that have not yet been assembled resemble the steps of a staircase.

Seeing such a scene, scientists sometimes feel that it is a stepping stone for humanity to move towards Grand Unified Theory.

As far as the eye can see, its end is nowhere to be seen.