Voyage of the Stars

The project to build a new generation of particle collider is so huge that it will take as long as any long-lived dynasty in the Earth era. Without the follow-up life potion, ten generations would not be able to build it.

But now, at this moment, it is already the 500th year since the project was announced to start.

All the strong artificial intelligence that humans can use have been deployed. Even the comprehensive strong artificial intelligence on the Tianqin has participated in the production and construction, as well as hundreds of billions of individual life forms of the Red Flame civilization. But even so, only three-quarters of the project was completed in five hundred years.

The new government also put its main energy into construction arrangements, and the military was not idle either. The fleet was divided into several squadrons and patrolled those stars in batches.

Of course, not everyone is immersed in the project. Many theoretical scientists are like Yue Yuan. Once the project is on track, they are not very busy.

Theoretical physicists have returned to their daily routines, and so has Yue Yuan.

But today is a little special.

Today, Yue Yuan had just finished handling his daily affairs when he received a notice from the Secretariat that Man Yuemei had returned from patrolling with the Second Fleet.

Yue Yuan was also overjoyed when he saw the news. He had not seen Manyue Mei for more than a hundred years, and now that she was here, they could have an in-depth communication.

However, before he could have an in-depth exchange with Manyue Mei, he received news of Liu Miyan's visit.

When a great scientist came to visit, it was naturally impossible for Yue Yuan to turn him away, but perhaps because Yaxing was destroyed, he did not wait for Liu Miyan in the office, but asked him to move to the command center and meet him there.

As for Manyue Mei, she did not follow. After Yue Yuan left, she stayed alone in the office, seemingly waiting for Yue Yuan to come back.

Yue Yuan is not stupid, of course he understands what it means.

"Chief, this is the application report for the use of the particle collider."

As soon as Yue Yuan arrived at the command center, he saw Liu Miyan coming towards him. At the same time, controlled by a chip implanted in his brain, a file was transferred face-to-face to Yue Yuan's temporary file storage space.

What particle collider usage application report?

"Isn't the Space Multi-Point Particle Collider located somewhere? Do you need to apply for it yourself?" Seeing Liu Miyan's serious look, Yue Yuan was filled with doubts.

But after taking a look at Liu Miyan's facial expression report, he understood, and at the same time he felt speechless.

What the hell, the current generation of particle collider has only been built 30%, and this guy has already started applying for scientific research projects, and it was handed over directly to him.

Yue Yuan didn't know that Liu Miyan had learned this from Yi Kai. According to the procedures, scientific research project applications were managed by departments that wanted to close the door, so he didn't need to go to Yue Yuan directly.

However, this new particle collider has not been built at all, and naturally it has not been included in the management system of the relevant departments, so the traditional application process is out of the question. But Liu Miyan also wanted his team to be the first scientific research team to use it. He felt that the sooner he had the right to use it, the better the opportunity would be. Maybe his team would get the results of the grand unified theory by then, so he found Yue deep.

"Academician Liu Da, it's too early for you to apply!" Yue Yuan couldn't help complaining.

"Not early, not early, just right." Liu Miyan said in a loud voice with a cheeky smile: "That is an opportunity for us humans to witness the opening stage of the universe, the first stage of the five stages of the development of the universe. We will get a glimpse of one or two of them soon. If we don’t get it early, it will be snatched away by other teams. Those guys in the team may complain about me for a hundred years.”

"That's it?" Yue Yuan raised his eyebrows. He still wanted to go back and have a long talk with Manyue Mei!

"That's it!"

"Okay, that's it."

Yue Yuan didn't want to say too much. Anyway, the new particle collider was built and used. It didn't matter which scientific research team used it first.

As for the five stages of the development of the universe mentioned by Liu Miyan, he refers to one of the three popular ending models of the universe in the human scientific community, the Big Freeze hypothesis.

The other two are the Big Rip hypothesis and the Big Crunch hypothesis.

The first few stages of the three hypotheses about the ending of the universe are the same, and they are all hypotheses deduced based on the Big Bang model.

All three hypotheses believe that the stage in which human beings live now or the current stage of the universe belongs to the second stage of the development of the universe, that is, the period when stars are everywhere.

The time is approximately between 10 6 to 14 years or 10 6 to 14 years after the Big Bang. At this stage, stars are everywhere, the hydrogen gas that originally filled the void has been compressed, and the stars have ignited, illuminating the sky.

This period is what people see when observing the universe, with hydrogen-rich stars burning for billions of years until they run out of nuclear fuel.

The so-called first stage of the creation of the universe in Liu Miyan's mouth refers to the original stage, the time is between 10 minus 50 to the 5th power.

This time period is called the first stage by cosmologists, also called the primordial stage. During this phase, the universe experienced rapid inflation but also rapid cooling. As the universe cooled, the various forces in the universe that were once unified in an overall "super force" gradually fell apart into the four fundamental forces we are familiar with today.

At the beginning of the period, the universe was not as transparent as the starry sky today, but was white or chaotic, because at that stage, light was quickly absorbed by the environment after it was produced. It took 380,000 years after the Big Bang for the universe to cool enough for atoms to form without being shattered by violent thermal contraction. Then the void of the universe truly became black and transparent, allowing light to travel freely.

The microwave background radiation originates from this period.

During this period, primordial hydrogen was fused into helium, creating the interstellar fuel mixture that now roams the universe—the matter visible to humans, which is the basis of the stars.

The role of the particle collider is to lead mankind to uncover the mysteries of physics that have been hidden in the long river of time, giving mankind the ability to "go against time" to uncover the various secrets hidden in the first stage of the creation of the universe.

For a physicist who has devoted his life to exploring the unknown, it is undoubtedly a desire to witness the human collider blasting into the sky and the earth, especially if it is made in his own hands.

Of course, from another perspective, it also shows the confidence of physicists in the new particle collider. After all, in theoretical calculations, this new particle collider, which has not yet been completed, can collide with the particles before the phase change of the strong interaction force. cosmic environment.

As for the next stage, according to the Big Freeze hypothesis of the universe supported by Liu Miyan, the third stage is the degradation period, that is, the stars in the universe run out of fuel, and the stars exist in the form of dwarf stars, neutron stars, and black holes. Then comes the fourth stage of the black hole period, and finally the dark period.

Oh. The Big Freeze hypothesis is also called the heat death hypothesis.

With the current level of human understanding of the universe, guesses about the ending of the universe can only be hypotheses. In fact, not only humans, but also level six civilizations do not know what the final outcome of the universe will be.