Voyage of the Stars

Typically, scientists are conservative. They are slow to accept new theories, especially those that make strange predictions. Now that two top scientists in the scientific community are still so passionate, Yue Yuan is of course happy, because he has long been worried about the so-called mental retardation.

Although he is not a scientist, he also knows that scientific progress cannot be achieved overnight, so he does not care about the extra time for meetings and discussions, whether it is one year or ten years, there is not much difference in the road to a grand unified theory.

After the two left, Yue Yuan went directly to the Tianqin's strong artificial intelligence "Light of the Milky Way" and asked it to estimate the time it would take for humans to hollow out all the planets outside the sun in a solar system.

The answer given by ‘Light of the Galaxy’ is about a thousand years.

Instead of digging one planet at a time, it will be done simultaneously within the star system, which requires humans to create more mining industry storms. This only counts mining time. If transportation, processing, collider design and manufacturing, etc. are included, it will take longer.

And if we really do it, hollowing out six star systems is probably not enough, because the previous rough estimate calculation method took into account the mass of planets other than stars, but a star system can have more than just rocky planets and gaseous planets. is more massive than a rocky planet, but humans have no way of hollowing out a gaseous planet.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this huge project is more complicated than what the two people just said, and it is the power of the entire civilization.

This matter will not be that easy. After all, not everyone at the top of the human race is as crazy as scientists like Liu Miyan. Even many top leaders themselves are scientists and technicians.

Sure enough, at the summary meeting of the second year, when Liu Miyan expressed this idea, he did not even have time to explain the details of the plan, and there were many objections immediately.

The reasons for their opposition 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, they still believed that humans were not worth doing.

Because that means that in the next thousands or even ten thousand years, the entire human race will need to devote all its energy, manpower and material resources to the plan. If you want to build such a large collider, it will definitely not be possible to rely on strong artificial intelligence alone. All human beings must be involved every day. Everyone contributes.

At the same time, we also face the risk of division within humanity.

The reason is that in the process of describing the plan, Liu Miyan proposed that in order to improve the efficiency of the mining process, human civilization should be divided into several parts and go to the target stars for mining.

The case of Nair civilization splitting into three clearly tells mankind that in the absence of real-time communication, races living in two separate places have a high probability of evolving into independent forces.

Imagine if human beings were divided into ten parts, and then each part lived twenty or thirty light-years apart. A round-trip communication would take forty or fifty years, and they would have to live separately for thousands of years. It will become the second civilization of Nair, warlord problems will also arise, and cultural differences will also appear.

Over time, humans in different regions will differentiate, and their own power structures will gradually emerge.

Although this situation may not necessarily occur, no one dares to put the fate of human beings to the test, unless one day they really encounter the situation like the Red Flame civilization that was beaten to the point of desperation by humans.

Admittedly, this was only one of the reasons raised by the opponents, but it was enough for the proposal to be rejected at the conference.

Liu Miyan, who was promoting the new collider plan, was definitely not willing to give up. After the proposal was rejected by the meeting, he used his connections to contact some friends and tried to persuade them to support him and the proposal.

Only these supporters can try to persuade other scientists to support this proposal at the next meeting.

At the same time, in order to finalize the proposal faster, Liu Miyan worked in the opposite direction.

He first found some friends who also held important positions. After successfully convincing these friends to stand on his side, he then asked them to help push for shortening the time interval between summary meetings, or simply use the excuse of voting on the new particle collider project. Hold a special discussion and voting meeting.

The summary meeting every fifty years is too long. Once the vote fails, it will take another fifty years for the next meeting. Liu Miyan thinks this is a waste of time.

Liu Miyan's efforts were effective. Although the interval of the summary conference on exploring the remains of extraterrestrial civilizations was not changed, he successfully promoted the establishment of a new particle collider to discuss matters related to the new particle collider.

The voting format is still the same as before. The voting results of the conference have legal effect. As long as the conference votes and passes, the new collider plan will be finalized and the new government will take the lead to roll up its sleeves and work hard.

However, things were not that easy. Many opponents still appeared in the conference actively organized by Liu Miyan. They still occupied more seats than those who agreed, and the plan was rejected again.

Liu Miyan was not discouraged because the plan was rejected, and he continued to promote the plan in the following time. Of course, he did not wait until the next meeting to vote again after the failure. On the contrary, Liu Miyan knew the reason for the failure, and further modified the plan based on the opinions of the opponents, and used this to try to persuade the opponents.

After repeating this for more than ten times, only fifty years have passed, but this crazy collider plan still cannot be passed at the conference.

Of course, during this time, humans set foot on another star system and searched it carefully, but also found no trace of any relevant ruins.

Over the past fifty years, other scientists have not been idle, but human science and technology seems to have really reached the fourth level barrier. Except for the optimization of some application details, the overall level of human science and technology has not changed much.

In the 55th year when Liu Miyan made up his mind to work hard to promote the new collider plan, there was a vote to optimize the plan, but the result still disappointed Liu Miyan. He felt that the plan had been revised to be very feasible by himself and the scientists involved. However, in the voting environment, the plan was rejected again due to arguments with the audience.

Time and time again, we try hard, but time and time again we fail in endless wrangling.

Liu Miyan was disappointed, and at the same time he felt very tired. He felt that he had clearly explained the advantages and disadvantages, feasibility and pros and cons of the new plan. He also felt that he had given a perfect answer to every opponent's words.

However, every time there is a voting meeting, there are always different voices. It would be fine if it is a new issue that specifically identifies loopholes in the plan. The key is that the reasons raised by these opponents are still the ones mentioned before, and then other people with different opinions start to Taking advantage of the topic, the voting meeting once again turned into a wrangling meeting. After the wrangling was over, the issue circled back to the original singularity, and then a confused proposal was made to put it aside and continue at the next meeting.

Liu Miyan usually focused on scientific research, but the repeated meeting pattern made him recall something.