Chapter 166: Experiment
Chapter 166: Experiment
“Countdown to acceleration collision experiment: 30 minutes preparation.”
“Countdown: 15 minutes preparation…”
The specific experimental procedures for the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility were managed by an Intelligent Program, following the jointly pre-determined plan of the Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization.
To provide enough computing power for the entire Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility to run, enabling the Intelligent Program to manage the massive, complex system,
Computing Power Towers and similar computing devices were placed at intervals along the huge structure itself.
Similarly, to supply sufficient energy to power the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility and ensure experiments could be conducted at the necessary energy level,
giant fusion reactors, numbering in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, dotted the entire ring structure.
It was no exaggeration that over the past thirty-plus years, the combined resources and productive output of the Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization had been overwhelmingly poured into this project.
At this moment,
theoretically, both the construction of the Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility and the design of the experimental plan were complete.
The relevant researchers from Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization located in the Civilization Exchange Zone no longer needed to do anything.
They only needed to wait for the experiment based on the Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility to finish and then receive the resulting data.
However, researchers within the Civilization Exchange Zone, and even those back in their respective home settlements, found it incredibly hard to feel calm and at ease right now.
Even though they could do nothing, they preferred to watch intently as the Intelligent Program executed the experimental process.
“Countdown: ten minutes preparation…”
Inside a large meeting room in the Civilization Exchange Zone.
The core researchers involved from Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization were gathered.
Sies, the representative from Stuo Civilization who had visited the Human settlement multiple times,
now stood next to Qin Yu, wearing a relatively light, sealed EVA suit.
In front of Qin Yu and the assembled researchers from both civilizations,
a Holographic Projection displayed a real-time overview image of the entire Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility.
It was a visual representation of the Facility’s status data, synthesized and relayed in real time by its Intelligent Program.
Alongside this, key real-time values from some critical core subsystems within the Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility were also displayed.
The gathered researchers and team leaders watched the real-time images and values on the hologram with tense concentration.
Research teams responsible for specific core subsystems focused even more closely on the key values relevant to their work.
Depending on the subsystem each researcher had previously worked on and their field of expertise,
additional, smaller Holographic Projections showed more detailed real-time data for specific subsystems, displayed in front of each research team.
By this point,
all experimental preparations had naturally been completed.
The fusion power units distributed along the segments of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experiment Facility were actually already operational.
They were supplying vast amounts of energy to power the entire massive ring.
“Countdown: five minutes.”
The Intelligent Program executing the experiment announced the countdown according to the schedule.
Throughout the Civilization Exchange Zone, even researchers engaged in theoretical exchanges between the two civilizations in other fields,
stopped their work.
This wasn’t just another basic theoretical experiment in physics or related fields.
It directly concerned the future development of both Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization.
“Academician Qin Yu,” Sies from the Stuo Civilization turned to Qin Yu beside him, “later, I think it should be you who announces the start of the experiment.”
During the research and design phase of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experiment Facility,
collaboration between Stuo Civilization and Human Civilization had given the Stuo greater insight into Qin Yu’s capabilities.
That the Facility was built at this point was not only due to the immense, cost-no-object output of both civilizations,
but also, significantly, because Qin Yu’s influence substantially shortened the research and design period before construction could even begin.
Not only had Qin Yu solved several core, critical problems, but under his leadership,
the collaboration between the research teams of both civilizations proceeded exceptionally smoothly.
The final design of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experiment Facility perfectly integrated the technological and conceptual strengths of both.
Qin Yu gave no refusal to Sies’s suggestion and simply nodded.
The announcement itself was a largely symbolic gesture,
with no functional necessity but carrying significant meaning.
“Countdown: three minutes…”
“Countdown: one minute…”
As the countdown hit zero, many researchers from both civilizations in the meeting room tore their gaze away from the real-time data on the holograms and looked towards Qin Yu.
“Begin the experiment.”
That was all Qin Yu said.
Smart imaging equipment from the Huaxin News Agency present captured this historic moment.
In that same instant, the Intelligent Program, following the experimental plan, formally initiated the very first experiment based on the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experiment Facility.
Perhaps due to excessive tension,
the moment the hologram clearly showed the experiment beginning,
many researchers felt the taut string within their minds snap abruptly straight again.
Their minds went briefly blank, almost numbed to the feel of their own limbs.
Only upon the next fleeting moment, snapping back to awareness, did they realize their hearts were pounding violently,
and even sitting with their feet on the floor felt precarious, as if stepping on cotton, filled with a deep sense of unreality.
At that precise moment, within the Civilization Exchange Zone, all involved researchers, and even those working in other fields…
Meanwhile, as information about the experiment spread outward with passing time…
From the inner edge of the Kuiper Belt, to Neptune’s Orbit, and all the way to the Human homeworld…
People fell silent.
On Triton Interstellar City, orbiting Neptune, even if looking up revealed nothing discernible,
many people nonetheless found themselves tilting their heads back at this crucial point.
Based on the Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility, Human Civilization’s largest and highest-energy basic experiment in history had begun!
…
At the same instant,
Under the command of the Intelligent Program executing the experiment plan,
the colossal, kilometer-wide superstructure began operating uniformly according to the preset experiment scheme. All its core systems, subsystems…
Every fusion power unit on the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility began operating at enhanced outputs,
rotating in unison.
Vast energy at higher levels poured into the main body of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility.
High-energy particles carrying enormous amounts of energy were already moving inside the acceleration pipeline over thirty million kilometers long, and they kept increasing their speed in a fierce way.
Within a very short time, a particle collision of terrifying energy level happened in the main pipe of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility, inside one of its tiny microscopic worlds. This was something never seen before in Human Civilization or Stuo Civilization.
In an instant, even more terrifying energy reactions burst out at the microscopic level, releasing extreme power violently.
It seemed like a scene from the Big Bang itself, playing out in a tiny space within the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility.
The scary energy appeared ready to tear apart the stable look of our universe space.
It aimed to show Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization a deeper, more basic shape of the universe.
Meanwhile, at the large scale, outside the whole Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility,
there was no strong reaction because of the experiment.
It kept floating quietly in the silent universe space.
Inside and outside the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility,
the wild energy release and the overall calm formed a huge difference.
Next, inside the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility,
particle collisions at even bigger scales occurred.
When the experiment responses at the micro level and even higher dimensions inside the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility reached a certain size,
the latest watching devices from Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization, spread across the over thirty-million-kilometer main structure, spotted signs of the reaction.
They faithfully kept recording all the data from the scary energy reactions happening inside the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility.
In the Civilization Exchange Zone,
the related data, gathered and sent back by the Intelligent Program, appeared right away in front of many Researchers and Qin Yu in the Civilization Exchange Zone.
From the changes in the related data, Qin Yu and the Researchers could see that the experiment reactions inside the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility had already happened.
But the exact results were clearly impossible to know at that moment.
Every moment after the experiment began,
the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility recorded huge amounts of data and passed it back.
But Qin Yu at that time only paid attention to changes in some key data within that ocean-sized pile.
Even so, many Researchers were too impatient, looking at data about their own studies in their own Holographic Projections.
With such a massive amount of data, this might not have been very helpful.
……
Within a very short time, under the control of the Intelligent Program and following the experimental plan,
in this basic experiment, the energy level was raised to eighty percent of the design limit of the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility.
Extreme reactions happened under this frightening energy.
If anyone could fully grasp everything going on right then inside the main part of the facility, at the micro level and in higher-dimensional spaces,
the whole picture would have been awesome.
Actually, forgetting how much effort from Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization went into building this Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility,
in the short time the experiment ran, the energy used by the whole facility
would have been hard for those civilizations to use up in a whole year of normal life.
Finally,
this first basic experiment, built over thirty years with most of the work and stuff from both civilizations,
and eating up one year’s worth of energy from both combined,
ended not long after starting.
……
“The Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility has fully shut down.”
After the experiment ended, the Intelligent Program followed the plan and ran the shutdown steps for the experiment facility.
The extreme reactions inside had stopped earlier than that.
In the Civilization Exchange Zone, Researchers from both civilizations turned their eyes back to Qin Yu.
They waited for Qin Yu to announce the final results.
“Based on the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility, the first acceleration and crash test carried out together by Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization has ended well.”
Qin Yu met people’s hopes and officially said the experiment was done.
Cheers broke out on the spot, and the Researchers from Stuo Civilization felt their Resonance Horns shake with excitement.
No matter what happened later, right then, Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization succeeded in this huge, never-before-done test for both.
The cheering spread across Human Civilization’s lands, starting from Neptune’s Orbit all the way to its home planet and every inhabited spot.
……
“Huaxin News Agency reports.”
“Confirmed by HCC (Human Coalition) and the Negentropy Research Institute, announced by Academician Qin Yu.”
“Earlier, the joint research project on basic theory experiments pushed by Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization just carried out its first particle acceleration crash test using the Civilization-grade Ring-shaped Fundamental Experimental Facility today.”
“This particle acceleration crash test went perfectly. Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization collected valuable experimental data from it… Their joint research project hit a new step and moved into a fresh stage!”
Huaxin News Agency got permission from HCC right away and posted the news.
“We’ve been worried all day; this must be good news, right?”
“Of course! At least the test finished smoothly, and they got the data. Next, they’ll study it, I guess?”
“What do you think we could find this time?”
“New particles? New heavy elements… could we spot Cosmic Strings?”
“Not sure… I feel finding anything at all would make it worth it… you think tiny black holes formed in the facility with all that crazy energy during the experiment?”
“Maybe in theory… it depends if the data shows it.”
Many people online sighed lightly after the first run of the Civilization-grade Fundamental Experiment Facility wrapped up.
Then, they talked even more about the test itself and what it might lead to, holding some hope.
In Stuo Civilization, because they’re different, they might not act exactly like Humans.
But they’d surely have talks too.
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Beyond Neptune’s Orbit, in the Civilization Exchange Zone,
while folks far and wide felt pumped up about this basic theory test finishing well,
those Researchers who were celebrating chose to calm down fast instead.
Because even though the test on the Civilization-level Fundamental Experiment Facility was over,
for the people in that field from both Human and Stuo groups, their work wasn’t done—it was likely just step one.
For an experiment this big, what happened during it and the outcomes later weren’t that simple to see.
It couldn’t straight away show Human and Stuo the deeper secrets of the universe they longed to grasp.
Next, Researchers in the related area needed to analyze all that data.
Whether Human and Stuo gained anything from this basic test came down to finding clues in the data.
Until that work gave answers, everything stayed a mystery.