Reviewing the arduous journey of these past years, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with surging emotions.
You, the AI Celestial Disaster, have been chasing me relentlessly, but so what?
For an ordinary civilization, let alone developing technology, merely surviving would be difficult enough. But so what? Even while constantly on the run, haven't I still pushed technology to this stage?
Now, the Standard Model has been greatly improved, incorporating the strong nuclear force into the same framework more completely.
Although it has not yet been truly unified, what is currently lacking are merely some high-energy experiments.
As long as sufficient energy levels can be reached, and the energy of the quark-gluon plasma is further increased, predictive models show that the strong nuclear force is very likely to merge and unify with the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force, truly revealing its mysteries before my eyes!
At that time, I will be a true strong nuclear force civilization. Even if breaking through the initial stage still doesn't make me your opponent, at least my cruising speed can be greatly improved, allowing me to buy more time for development.
As long as I have enough time, what does an AI Celestial Disaster that has almost lost its own development potential amount to!
Now, the only thing I need to do, and the most important task, is to seek suitable experimental sites and experimental methods, to truly fuse all the scientific theories researched in the past into one, to truly achieve breakthroughs in basic physics, then breakthroughs in applied physics, and then breakthroughs in technological creations!
Li Qingsong began to think again.
The key to unifying the strong nuclear force lies in verifying whether the current unified theory is correct and supplementing certain key parameters.
Yes, at this moment, Li Qingsong has already built the theoretical framework of the Grand Unified Theory.
Of course, it's just a framework. First, Li Qingsong doesn't know whether this framework is correct. Second, this framework lacks some extremely critical parameters and theoretical details.
Only by supplementing these can the strong nuclear force be truly unified.
The key to verifying whether this framework is correct lies in a phenomenon: proton decay.
Protons are usually considered not to decay. However, Li Qingsong's current theoretical system shows that protons also decay. It's just that the lifespan of protons is extremely long, so the probability of decay is extremely low.
The significance of proton decay is that it is direct evidence of whether one's own theoretical framework is correct.
In Li Qingsong's theoretical system, in the early days of the universe, when the Big Bang had just occurred, gravity, the strong nuclear force, and the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces were unified together.
It was only with the occurrence of the Big Bang, with the rapid expansion of the universe, and the rapid decrease in energy levels, that gravity first separated from the other three fundamental forces, then the strong nuclear force, and then the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force also separated, becoming the current state with four fundamental forces.
And if this is indeed the case, then it means that proton decay must exist.
However, at present, Li Qingsong has not observed any signs of proton decay.
"First of all, the strong nuclear force is bound to be unified with the electroweak force."
"This is not based on scientific research, but on the existence form of advanced civilizations. Since strong nuclear civilizations exist, there is no reason why the strong nuclear force cannot be unified."
"Since the strong nuclear force must be unified with the electroweak force, then the key lies in the mode of unification."
"If I can observe proton decay, I can confirm that my current theoretical framework is correct. If I can't observe it, then it proves that my theoretical system is wrong, and I must find a new theoretical framework."
"Secondly, it is to find evidence for the existence of magnetic monopoles and evidence for baryon number violation."
"If I can observe these three phenomena, I can not only confirm that my theoretical framework is correct, but also determine the energy level required for the unification of the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force, and supplement this key parameter."
"Knowing the energy level, I can try to use engineering methods to create this energy level, unify the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force. Afterwards, I will carefully observe the process of separation between the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force, observe the physical changes during this process, study which new particles appear, the properties and changes of these new particles, and supplement these details and data. Then the Grand Unified Theory will be mastered by me!"
At this moment, Li Qingsong had already understood the entire subsequent research path.
Among them, creating a suitable energy level sufficient for the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force to unify will definitely be a difficult point.
Although he doesn't know exactly what this energy level is at the moment, Li Qingsong confirms that it must be very, very high.
After all, in his theoretical system, when the strong nuclear force separated from the other forces, the Big Bang had only occurred for a mere one ten-quadrillionth of a second.
How immense was the energy of the universe at that time?
The difficulty of replicating this energy level using artificial equipment is conceivable.
However, this certainly does not mean that Li Qingsong wants to truly master energy like the Big Bang. This is obviously impossible.
Not only Li Qingsong, but probably even civilizations that are ten thousand times more advanced than Li Qingsong cannot do it.
In fact, he only needs to replicate this energy level on a very small scale. Although its energy level is high, the total energy may not even be comparable to a high-explosive bomb.
Carefully studying the entire research path, Li Qingsong's heart gradually began to feel heavy again.
Merely doing simple simulations and calculations, Li Qingsong discovered that the materials needed to conduct these crucial experiments exceeded his previous expectations.
Relying solely on the materials carried by the fleet is completely insufficient.
This means that in order to carry out these key experiments that are directly related to whether he can break through to become a strong nuclear civilization, he must dock in a star system. Relying on the abundant resources in the star system can he proceed.
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And time...
Li Qingsong roughly estimated and found that even if everything went smoothly, it would take at least 300 years.
If there were slight accidents in the middle, or if he was stuck in some slightly difficult places, causing him to have to conduct additional research and experiments, this time would directly skyrocket to more than 400 years.
And...
It had only been 230 years since he last left that star system, and the AI Celestial Disaster fleet had already arrived.
Calculating according to this pattern, in the next star system, even if he still only collects materials and repairs the fleet, without doing anything else, he is afraid that the AI Celestial Disaster fleet will arrive at most 200 years after he leaves.
If calculated from the time he entered the star system, it would only take at most 230 years.
Time is completely insufficient!
However, breaking through to a strong nuclear civilization must be done in a star system!
The contradiction in time is like a dead knot, firmly locking Li Qingsong, completely unable to see any hope of escape.
If that's the case...
A fierce glint flashed in Li Qingsong's eyes.
"Let's do it! When it's time to take risks, you have to take risks. At worst, I'll abandon this fleet and billions of clones, activate the backup, and start over!"
