Chapter 873: Failure Is the Mother of Success...
Even for those at the Peak Level 4 Civilization, producing large quantities of Strong Material was still extremely difficult. It could be made, but output remained low.
For that very reason, humanity had only one ship like Lyra equipped with a Planet Destroyer Cannon. Unless necessary, the time spent producing Strong Material could have been used to build more than a million other warships of the same tier. Thus, humanity had never built a second Lyra.
It was also because Strong Material was so difficult to produce that preparations for this experiment took so long, costing humanity a full twenty years.
Those twenty years had only been enough to manufacture the consumables needed for the experiment's first stage. Yes, the mirrors made of Strong Material had become consumables, because once fired, they could not be retrieved.
Over those twenty years, humanity had produced only around a thousand mirrors fitted with various detection devices.
When the experiment began, it did not draw the attention of all humanity like the Astronomical-Level Particle Collision Experiment had, but it was still a major event. Other than a few people with nothing better to do, practically everyone paid some attention to it.
But with experiments, public attention only lasted through the beginning. Once the launch ceremony was over, ordinary people returned to their peaceful lives, because the first experiment had failed without question.
Humanity had not observed any sign of Negative Energy.
The experiments that followed required a long, tedious process of repetition. Of course, scientists also had to constantly adjust the experimental parameters. It was no different from previous experiments: gather big data through countless trials, analyze the data, and finally draw conclusions.
The specifics were naturally more complicated than that, but scientific experiments basically followed