Chapter 437 600,000 Seconds
While mobilizing a large number of scientific research forces to charge at this topic, Han Yang and the scientific community of mankind have not relaxed their exploration of other routes.
Scientific research has never been about aiming at one route and going all the way. Because before the final result comes out, no one knows which road is correct.
The only feasible way is to advance multiple routes at the same time. Which route shows potential, then appropriately tilt some resources to that route, but unless the situation is clear, it is impossible to abandon the other routes.
In scientific research, mistakes are also valuable. Mistakes will at least prove that a certain route is not feasible. Moreover, determining that a certain route is wrong is itself a kind of scientific accumulation.
They are also part of the foundation of the final results.
At this moment, after countless scientific researchers' day and night research, the first experimental model of the detector device finally determined the relevant parameters and models, and determined the manufacturing method.
After submitting the relevant plan, at the neutron star, under the control of Han Yang, tens of millions of engineers immediately began to try to build with the equipment and resources brought in advance.
Finally, the first batch of 100 detectors named "Neutron Type 1" were built and immediately began testing.
They followed the trajectory of sharp-angle impact and were launched towards the neutron star.
But unfortunately, this batch of detectors did not successfully reach the surface of the neutron star. When they were still 100,000 kilometers away from the neutron star's "atmosphere" - people generally regard the so-called atmosphere of the neutron star as the surface of the neutron star because it is also extremely dense - they were destroyed by the fierce radiation of the neutron star.
After collecting relevant data, the human scientific community immediately began targeted improvements. So the "Neutron Type 2" detector was quickly formed and put into actual testing.
This time, because of problems with the thermal insulation layer, it failed again.
Then came the Neutron Type 3, Type 4... until Type 7, these detectors passed the test.
The latest Neutron Type 7 detector is ellipsoidal in shape, with the outer layer covered by a layer of high thermal insulation and high reflective glass, and a total of twelve layers of protective layers inside, which jointly protect the observation equipment at the core.
Its total length reaches four meters and its total mass is 8.15 tons.
A total of 1,000 neutron type 7 detectors were manufactured in the first batch. Under the watchful eyes of thousands of people, they followed different orbits and the same speed, each flying towards the neutron star.
At a distance of about 10 million kilometers from the neutron star, the gravitational acceleration of external matter is about 1.33 meters per square second, and the orbiting speed is about 115 kilometers per second.
These neutron type 7 detectors were first placed in a spacecraft. The spacecraft first accelerated in the opposite direction to offset the orbiting speed. Without the orbiting speed, the spacecraft and the detectors inside began to fall freely relative to the neutron star.
During this process, the spacecraft made some fine-tuning to disperse the detectors.
The acceleration of 1.33 meters per square second seems slow, but don't forget that the closer the object is to the neutron star, the faster the acceleration.
When the distance is shortened to 5 million kilometers, the gravitational acceleration increases to about 5 meters per square second. When the distance is shortened to 100,000 kilometers, this number becomes about 13 kilometers.
Every second that passes, the speed increases by 13 kilometers under the original falling speed.
Finally, under the huge gravity of the neutron star, these neutron type 7 detectors in free fall were accelerated to the second cosmic speed of the neutron star, about 150,000 kilometers per second.
They rushed towards the neutron star at a speed of 150,000 kilometers per second.
According to previous calculations, in order to detect dark force radiation in this way, the neutron type 7 detector must be close to a distance of no more than 10 kilometers from the neutron star atmosphere.
However, the protective layer of the neutron type 7 detector will be destroyed at a distance of about 3 kilometers from the neutron star.
There is only a seven-kilometer observation window in between.
At a speed of 150,000 kilometers per second, it only takes about 0.047 microseconds to fly a distance of seven kilometers.
Considering the correction of the relativistic clock slow effect, the actual observation time is only 0.039 microseconds in the end.
According to Han Yang's estimation, based on the purchasing power of human currency, the manufacturing cost of a neutron type 7 detector is about 15 million human currency.
The average monthly salary of ordinary graduates from top 1000 universities is about 10,000 human currency. And this monthly salary of 10,000 human currency is enough for the student to live a relatively affluent life, become the object of everyone's envy, and deserve the praise of being young and rich.
Calculated in this way, the wealth created by 125 top college students working for a year is only enough to observe this neutron star for 0.039 microseconds.
Under the control of the precision chip, a neutron type 7 detector turned on the observation device the moment it entered the observation window. The observation device was just turned on and only observed for a moment. The next moment, the detector violently hit the neutron star, erupting with energy equivalent to the explosion of billions of tons of TNT.
A total of 1,000 Type-VII neutron detectors, one after another, slammed into the neutron star like moths to a flame, contributing a total of about 39 microseconds, or about 0.039 seconds, of observation time.
After the first impact observation experiment, a large team of scientists analyzed the data obtained from this observation again.
The final result made people feel happy and worried.
The happy thing is that the destruction of these 1,000 neutron type 7 detectors and the data obtained before the destruction undoubtedly proved that this observation method is feasible.
The human scientific community really hopes to find evidence of the existence of dark force radiation in this way.
What makes people worried is that at the current observation level, the expected time to observe dark force radiation is as high as about 600,000 seconds.
That is, from the statistical probability calculation, if the current theoretical prediction of dark force radiation is correct, then the key evidence can only be 100% discovered after 600,000 seconds of continuous observation.
Even if human civilization is lucky and only observes half of the time, it still takes 300,000 seconds of observation time.
Based on the calculation that a neutron type 7 detector can contribute 0.039 microseconds of observation time, a total of 300,000 seconds of observation time requires a total of about 7.7 billion neutron type 7 detectors.
The mass of a neutron type 7 detector is 8.15 tons, which is a total of 62.755 billion tons.
If it is converted into water, it can fill a huge lake with an average water depth of 10 meters and a total area of 6,275 square kilometers.
Based on the cost of a neutron type 7 detector of 15 million human coins, a total of 11.55 trillion human coins are needed. Assuming that a graduate from a top 1000 university earns 10,000 yuan a month and has a total working life of 500 years, it will take all the wealth created by about 1.925 billion top university graduates in their lifetime to invest in it.
And, to produce so many detectors, how many raw materials, industrial equipment, and resources are needed to build factories?
This is completely beyond the engineering capabilities of the first-line scientific research fleet.
And... if so many resources and wealth are really invested, will results be obtained?
Not necessarily.
Because all this is based on a premise, that is, the theoretical prediction is correct. If the theoretical prediction is incorrect, investing 10,000 times more resources and wealth will just be a waste.
Such a major issue must be decided at the meeting of the ruling committee.
Although the committee members knew that even if they decided to implement this plan, it would be Han Yang who would eventually execute it, and it would only consume Han Yang's computing power.
But from another perspective, Han Yang's computing power is also the wealth of human civilization. If these computing powers are put into other aspects, the same amount of wealth can be created.
Now that these wealth that could have been created are gone, doesn't it mean a loss?
A committee member pondered for a long time before slowly saying: "Perhaps, we can consult Luotu civilization."
Luotu civilization has now completed its investment in human civilization and is in a stage of fearing that human civilization will violate the agreement and abandon itself.
Moreover, Luotu civilization had previously proposed to provide free assistance to human civilization with a full set of dark force theories, but it was rejected by humans.
If humans ask for advice, then Luotu civilization will definitely not hesitate, for fear that humans will not generally give the most detailed and accurate answers. In this way, human civilization can avoid unnecessary losses.
The words of this committee member aroused the thinking of the other committee members.
After a long discussion, Commissioner Lu Xinghe finally stood up.
"I think we shouldn't ask for help from the Luotu civilization. Even if this theoretical system is proven to be wrong, we will have to bear the consequences of wasting all the huge resources we have invested."
All the committee members looked at him together.
Lu Xinghe said solemnly and slowly: "Because mistakes are also a wealth and a kind of accumulation.
Only when our scientists really take the wrong path, and truly rely on their own efforts to prove that this path is wrong, and truly explore among thousands of paths, constantly pay the price, and finally find the right path in this way, can our civilization truly transform into an innovative civilization, rather than the learning civilization of the past.
Or change it to another aspect. At this moment, we still have the Luotu civilization and the head of state to rely on. In the future, when we are promoted to the fifth-level civilization and temporarily lose the head of state, who can we rely on?
If you are wrong, you must bear the consequences. If there is no price for mistakes, you will never understand the value of being right."
After a long silence, the committee members finally agreed to Lu Xinghe's suggestion.
So, this matter was decided in this way.
Han Yang quickly made subsequent arrangements.
First, an aerospace carrier was selected from the front-line scientific research fleet, carrying sufficient supplies and equipment, to leave the neutron star and head to the nearest galaxy.
That galaxy is 5.6 light years away from the neutron star. It has a gas giant planet and a rocky planet, as well as an asteroid belt and many dwarf planets. It has sufficient material reserves, unlike the area around the neutron star, which only has a few asteroids and cannot afford such a large-scale development.
In addition, ten more aerospace carriers were selected from the main fleet to go to that galaxy.
Han Yang estimated that it would take a long time to develop the original planet on a large scale and build a series of factories. Moreover, after a sufficient number of neutron type 7 detectors are finally produced, the only three spacecraft carriers of the front-line scientific research fleet will not be enough to undertake the transportation task.
In this case, we will first build and produce in the galaxy near the neutron star, and take advantage of this period of time to let the ten spacecraft carriers drawn from the main fleet rush on the road.
When the detectors are built in the future, the ten spacecraft carriers drawn from the main fleet will almost arrive, and they will start to transport these detectors together.
A few years later, this galaxy, which is also harsh and dead because of its proximity to the neutron star, has unprecedented visits from intelligent life.
A single neutron star is certainly not enough to spread its influence 5.6 light years away. But don't forget that before the formation of the neutron star, it was originally a huge star with a mass at least three times that of the sun.
At the end of its life, it underwent the most violent physical process in the entire universe, a supernova explosion. Because of this, a neutron star can be created.
The power of a supernova explosion is enough to affect all the stars in this nearby galaxy. The subsequent high-radiation interstellar dust is enough to turn this galaxy into purgatory.
Even the human fleet needs to be cautious when building in this galaxy.
The huge construction started in this desolate, dead, and harsh galaxy.
During this period, the front-line scientific research fleet was not idle, but began to conduct preliminary research on this neutron star and conduct some preparations before the formal test.
Scientists in the human scientific community are still conducting a lot of theoretical calculations and deductions, exploring other possible colleagues, and also perfecting the current plan as much as possible.
This experiment consumes so much resources that it must be foolproof.
Decades of time passed quietly. In the end, countless factories emerged in this dead galaxy like mushrooms after rain. A large number of neutron type 7 detectors were also quickly produced from the assembly line.
Ten large spacecraft carriers from the human main fleet finally arrived. Prior to this, the original spacecraft carrier had already embarked on the journey back to the vicinity of the neutron star with a total of 50 million probes from the first batch of production.
The second batch of probes has also been produced. So, the second spacecraft carrier set sail as scheduled. Next came the third, the fourth...
The endless flow of probes is like a river, continuously flowing to the vicinity of this neutron star. (End of this chapter)