Amidst countless mines, massive mining equipment roared day and night, explosions echoing incessantly.
Vast quantities of rock were pulverized, entering subsequent processing stages. This initially treated ore then arrived at smelting plants, where, under the high temperatures of nuclear fusion reactors, it gradually separated from impurities, ultimately transforming into blocks of specialized alloys in the form desired by Li Qingsong. These alloys were then subjected to various processing techniques in numerous foundries, ultimately becoming individual components.
On countless space elevators, endless shuttle convoys roared and howled, accelerating at dozens of Gs, either rocketing straight into space or plummeting abruptly from the heavens.
In space, countless asteroids, under the sway of Pegasus V432, orbited chaotically. A vast network spread out, blocking all potential construction-threatening hazards from space.
Numerous large, medium, and small transport spacecraft shuttled through space, either skillfully dodging individual asteroids, directly shattering them, or simply plowing straight through, delivering Li Qingsong's painstakingly produced facilities and resources to the thousands of target planets.
Enormous machines roared and howled, burrowing into the planet's depths like colossal dragons, excavating endless amounts of rock and piling it beside the construction sites, forming mountains.
Numerous clones and general-purpose robots, like ants, either worked in control rooms or at the front lines, constructing facilities of such immense scale that they seemed beyond human capability.
High-precision spliced steel plates, under specialized welding, assembled enormous water storage tanks as if constructing with building blocks. Super-pure water factories, specifically prepared for each proton decay detector, continuously increased the purity of their water, supplied by large quantities of locally sourced water ice or externally transported water ice.
The super-pure water used in the detectors cannot be transported from outside. The reason is simple: during transportation, they would be contaminated with atoms or molecules of other substances.
They can only be manufactured on-site and then injected into the water tanks through special means, ensuring they are not contaminated.
Even so, they still need to be purified regularly because the molecules and atoms that make up the tank will also diffuse into the water.
This massive construction effort consumed the full energy of over 300 million of Li Qingsong's clones and approximately 5 million Blueprint scientists and engineers.
Currently, the Blueprint human population totals approximately billion. Based on Li Qingsong's ruling philosophy of "science above all else," that is, only scientists receive status and honor, only they receive Li Qingsong's rewards, regardless of the contributions made in other fields, Li Qingsong provides minimal rewards. This model has resulted in the billion Blueprint humans producing approximately 12 million qualified scientific researchers, far exceeding ordinary civilizations.
Simultaneously, Li Qingsong did not conceal the previous period of confrontation with the Machine God Scourge from the Blueprint humans.
The Blueprint humans also truly felt how dangerous that time had been.
If they had been defeated, both their master and themselves would have become slaves of the Machine God Scourge.
They had almost walked a tightrope, narrowly securing this valuable period of development.
How could the Blueprint humans not dedicate themselves wholeheartedly?
Even if their scientific research strength was weak and their numbers were small, unable to provide much assistance to their master's technological development, they could still identify and rectify oversights and eliminate blind spots in their master's scientific research system.
Thus, Li Qingsong charged forward, with the Blueprint scientists following behind to identify and rectify oversights, and the scientific research forces of both sides were so organically combined.
After spending decades, when the massive proton decay detector was finally completed, Li Qingsong left approximately 120 million clones for daily research and maintenance to ensure the normal operation of the detector, then turned around and invested a large amount of scientific research power into another extremely important construction project.
If it can be verified that magnetic monopoles truly exist, then Li Qingsong's Grand Unified Theory framework can be considered to have received a very important verification, and many contents of the framework can be supplemented.
The status of this detection is equal to the status of proton decay detection, equally important and indispensable.
Because these two detections will verify two aspects of the Grand Unified Theory framework.
In Li Qingsong's theory, there were a large number of magnetic monopoles in the early universe, but now, due to the continuous expansion of the universe, its density is constantly decreasing, and the number per unit volume has become extremely rare.
At the same time, the lifespan of magnetic monopoles is extremely long, even comparable to protons.
Then, the device for detecting magnetic monopoles must have two characteristics: First, it must be large enough.
Because only if it is large enough, it is more likely to react with the extremely rare magnetic monopoles existing in interstellar space.
The probability of a magnetic monopole hitting a planet will always be higher than the probability of hitting a spacecraft.
The second is that it must be able to interact with magnetic monopoles. Because only when they interact with each other can they generate phenomena that can be observed and then seen by Li Qingsong.
In this detection field, Li Qingsong decided to use a new type of detector.
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This detector is mainly based on an isotope of helium, helium-3.
At extremely low temperatures, helium-3 will enter a superfluid state. At the same time, placing it under a magnetic field, superfluid helium-3 will form quantized vortex lines.
If at this moment a magnetic monopole penetrates the detector mainly composed of superfluid helium-3, its magnetic field will interact with helium-3, causing extremely small fluctuations in the helium-3 magnetic field.
At that time, by observing this magnetic field fluctuation, Li Qingsong will be able to confirm whether a magnetic monopole has really penetrated the detector, and what its nature is.
Like the proton decay detector, the magnetic monopole detector is also extremely sensitive to interference. But it cannot eliminate interference by shielding with thick rock layers, so it can only find ways to improve the resolution accuracy.
Therefore, in order to have sufficient accuracy, Li Qingsong can only make the magnetic monopole detector extremely huge.
In Li Qingsong's plan, the first-generation magnetic monopole detector has a total volume comparable to a heavy transport spacecraft, a total mass of more than 10 million tons, and a longest length exceeding one kilometer.
In such a huge detector, Li Qingsong injected millions of tons of helium-3 and began attempting to capture magnetic monopoles.
