Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 420: The Very Large Hadron Collider
Another important purpose of Zhong Cheng's trip to the inner space of the solar system is to inspect the future construction project of the super large hadron collider around the sun.

With the continuous development of human science and technology, almost all fields related to industrial technology have reached the limit of basic physical theory.

Especially the Red Star Company, which represents the most advanced level of heavy industry technology for mankind, has not had a major technological breakthrough for more than ten years.

The realization of long-distance communication is a tricky way. Although the Kunlun Research Institute invented the long-distance communication technology, it still cannot explain the quantum entanglement in it from the physical theory. The same is true for the artificial gravity technology.

This situation of only knowing what it is but not knowing why it is, limits the further development and application of these two technologies.

In the key field of space technology, after many years of research by the Kunlun Research Institute, it has been concluded that without breakthroughs in basic physical theories, super-light travel and curvature engine technology are simply impossible to achieve.

Zhong Cheng promised Ye Wenxin more than 20 years ago that as long as conditions permit, he will build a super hadron collider around the sun, and now the conditions are ripe.

This will be a super scientific research facility with a radius of 8 million kilometers and a circumference of 5 million kilometers, which is several orders of magnitude larger than the previous largest European Hadron Collider, which has a circumference of less than 30 kilometers.

Although the main part of the Super Hadron Collider, the acceleration channel, is only 3 meters in diameter, and because it is built in space, the relevant structure is much simpler.

But the acceleration channel is 5 million kilometers long, which will be the largest man-made building and equipment in human history.

Such a century-old project requires the joint input of human society to complete, and it is impossible to implement it before the establishment of the Solar System Human Federation.

Even if the Asian Federation has this economic strength, it is impossible to use all of its national power to complete this seemingly unimportant project in an uneasy environment.

When Zhong Cheng proposed this plan to Lu Yao one month ago, Lu Yao asked him why he had to build such a huge hadron collider, wouldn’t it be okay to build a smaller one?
Just build a linear hadron collider in the tens of thousands of kilometers of ladder between Kunlun City and Tiangong City, and the cost is less than one-thousandth of the collider planned by Zhong Cheng.

In fact, this is also the mainstream thinking in the current scientific community, and someone has already submitted a proposal to Lu Yao.

Zhong Cheng had no choice but to popularize Lu Yao's science.

To put it simply, it is to increase the energy of the particles before the collision, and then increase it.

The higher the energy, the smaller the particles can be opened, allowing humans to know the structure inside.

To increase particle energy, a longer acceleration distance is required, so the bigger the collider, the better.

If possible, Zhong Cheng even wants to build this super hadron collider in orbit around the sun outside Saturn.

Over the past few decades, physicists have continued to refine their understanding of the fundamental particles that make up the universe and how they interact in detail.

Improved understanding has fleshed out the "Standard Model" of particle physics, but there are still gaps in the model that prevent a complete picture from being drawn.

In order to help scientists reveal these key unsolved mysteries in particle physics, a large amount of experimental data is needed, and the Large Hadron Collider will play the role of "data provider".

The Large Hadron Collider accelerates two beams of protons to unprecedented energies and then collides, with possible unexpected results that absolutely no one could have imagined.

What is the origin of quality?Why do some particles have mass while others don't?
96% of the mass of the universe is astronomically unobservable. What are these?
Why is there an obvious imbalance in the number of matter and antimatter in the universe?
Why is gravitation so many orders of magnitude worse than the other three basic forces (electromagnetic force, strong force, and weak force)?
Does higher dimensional space exist?
and many more……

And the world's largest instrument is expected to unravel these mysteries.

Although these are only basic physical theories, if the results are obtained, it will bring about a qualitative leap in human technology and allow human civilization to stride forward into a star-level civilization.

Artificial gravity and anti-gravity technologies will be widely used, and only electric energy is needed to make all human activity spaces reach the same gravity as the earth.

Moreover, anti-gravity technology can allow large spaceships to freely enter and exit planetary atmospheres, and space elevators will be eliminated.

The formation and synthesis of antimatter will become possible and will become the preferred fuel for interstellar travel.

Antimatter has incredible energy. Just a small amount of antimatter, the energy produced by its annihilation with positive matter can be compared with a nuclear bomb with an equivalent of several million tons, and it is tens to hundreds of times the energy of nuclear fusion.

Breakthroughs in space theory will lead to the advent of curvature engines, faster-than-light travel will become a reality, the barrier between galaxies will no longer exist, and even space-time travel may be possible.

In short, the significance of building a super hadron collider to the development of human civilization is extremely important.

If successful, the return will be countless times the investment, and as the implementer of this project, he will become the greatest pioneer in human history and his name will last forever.

Zhong Cheng succeeded in persuading Lu Yao, and the bright future he described made Lu Yao's eyes shine.

Lu Yao immediately expressed his support, but he hoped that Zhong Cheng could come up with a detailed implementation plan and submit it to the Federation for review.

Moreover, it is best to implement the project after the Human Federation is stabilized, that is, wait another two or three years.

Zhong Cheng also knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he had been waiting for it for so many years, and it was not bad for the past few years.

But the plan still needs to be made first. Who knows how long it will take to discuss this plan when it is submitted to the Federal Parliament.

Zhong Cheng plans to build the collider's start and end large space station on the Lagrangian point L1 between Venus and the sun.

This can minimize the influence of the sun, Venus, and Mercury on the experimental results.

Of course, the premise is that Mercury has become a satellite of Venus.

The so-called Lagrangian point is the point where the gravitational force is balanced between large celestial bodies and allows the asteroid to perform stable circular motion.

For example, the orbit of a planet with a large mass only needs to consider the gravitational relationship between it and the sun, while the asteroid orbiting a large planet is not only affected by the gravitational force of the sun, but also by the gravitational force of the large planet, so under the influence of the overlapping of two gravitational forces Below, five force balance points can be solved.

The positions of the asteroids in these five positions relative to the sun and the giant planets are constant, and their revolution period is the same as that of the giant planets around the sun. These five points are the Lagrangian points.

Among the 5 Lagrangian points, 2 points are the most stable, and there is L1 point among them.

L1 is located between the sun and Venus, because the mass of Venus is much smaller than the sun, this point is about 9200 million kilometers away from the sun, and only more than 800 million kilometers away from Venus.

Zhong Chengcheng will take the Star Reacher to the L1 point for on-the-spot investigation, surveying the gravitational change data of the sun and Venus at this position, the intensity of the solar wind and solar radiation, etc.

With these data, a detailed construction project plan for the collider can be formulated, and the name of this project has already been thought of by him, it is called Fuxi Project.

In ancient Chinese mythology, Fuxi often sits cross-legged on the top of Guatai Mountain, contemplating the mysteries of the universe, looking up at the changes of the sun, moon and stars, and observing the laws of mountains and rivers.

One day, a wonderful illusion appeared in front of his eyes. After a bang, Longma Mountain on the other side of the Wei River suddenly exploded.

But I saw the dragon and horse fluttering out, leisurely down the river, and landed on the distracting stone in the middle of the river, with clear and shining hexagrams all over the body.

At this time, the distraction stone is also transformed into a three-dimensional Tai Chi, with yin and yang intertwined and radiant.

This feeling and scene suddenly shocked Fuxi's heart, and the Tai Chi Divine Picture was deeply reflected in his consciousness.

His eyes were like a torch, and he thoroughly understood the code of the unity of man and nature: it turns out that the world is so simple and clear, only yin and yang!

(End of this chapter)