Chapter 650 Star Ring
In less than three days.
The scale of life metals on the surface of Mars has expanded to the level of 100 billion tons.
All the tungsten elements contained in the surface of the entire Sanmu Mountains and the strata about 15,000 meters underground have been drained out.
Although tungsten accounts for only about 7.2% of life metals, 100 billion tons of life metals still require 7.2 billion tons of tungsten.
If it weren't for the large amount of volcanic relic mineral layers underground, it might not be possible to collect such a huge amount of tungsten.
When the scale of life metals reached 100 billion tons, the staff quickly adjusted the control program of the life metals, stopping the self-reproduction of the life metals, and then began to build the Mars rings.
The Martian Ring surrounds the entire equator of Mars. This thing is actually a large particle collider.
The reason for building such a huge particle collider is that nuclear physics has reached its limit of development.
Although it has absorbed some physical knowledge from the six-clawed civilization and the intelligent mechanical civilization, the physics of these two civilizations is not much higher than that of the Homo sapiens company.
At least Sapiens has discovered the lower-level particle of quarks - the primordial particle.
However, the six-clawed civilization did not discover Chuzi.
The intelligent civilization did discover the primordial particles, but they only conducted theoretical research. They could not even apply quarks, let alone the primordial particles. There were very few technologies at the neutron and proton levels.
Basic physics often starts with theory, but there is a serious gap between application and theory.
This is a problem that every first-level civilization has to face.
In Li Qingye's opinion, if a first-level civilization wants to advance to a second-level civilization, the current cutting-edge physics theories are almost sufficient.
The problem is the gap between theory and application, which is very difficult to cross.
For example, at this time, Sapiens Company already knew a lot about Hatsuko and even had various theoretical models, but it was simply impossible to transform these theories into applications.
There are not even many applications at the proton and neutron level.
If Sapiens can realize the application of the theory of neutron-proton-quark-proton, then it is estimated that Sapiens is not far from the second-level civilization.
This is also the common conclusion of a group of scientists in the current scientific division.
With current materials, there is no way to achieve superluminal travel, and even 10% of the speed of light is difficult.
The intelligent civilization that once conquered tens of thousands of planetary systems had a spaceship with a maximum speed of only 8% of the speed of light, while the quasi-second-level civilization that defeated the intelligent civilization had a spaceship with a maximum speed of 32% of the speed of light.
Even after the Homo Sapiens company absorbed the technology of the intelligent civilization, it was actually difficult for it to achieve a navigation speed of 8% of the speed of light.
Because the navigation technology of the intelligent mechanical civilization is not simply plasma thrusters and controlled nuclear fusion, but a trick.
The intelligent mechanical civilization utilized the gravitational slingshot of the black hole and various auxiliary technologies to barely reach 8% of the speed of light.
There are no black holes near the solar system. Even if there are many black holes in the Milky Way, it will take at least hundreds of thousands of years for the spacecraft of Homo Sapiens to fly over.
This technology is really useless.
After absorbing the technology of the intelligent mechanical civilization, the spacecraft of the Sapiens Company can reach a maximum speed of 3.5% of the speed of light.
At this speed, it can only reach a six-clawed giant or the Proxima Centauri system at most, but forget about other planetary systems around it.
Instead of traveling for hundreds of years to other planetary systems, it is better to continue to focus on developing technology in the solar system. As long as we can figure out neutron materials, quark materials, and even primordial materials, by then, Homo Sapiens will probably be a quasi-second-level civilization.
The purpose of building the Mars Ring Collider is to further clarify the physical properties of quarks and nuclei.
Only by thoroughly understanding the physical properties of these particles can we apply them.
Previous particle colliders on Earth and the Moon were too small, and the particle acceleration speed and particle energy level were not enough to produce primary particles.
In addition, the Mars Ring Collider has other tasks, such as studying black hole physics, gravitational waves, neutrinos, dark matter, etc.
As Life Metal began to move into the engineering construction phase.
Starting from the Three-Eyed City on Mount Paunis, a huge pipeline was rapidly built along the equator to the east and west.
The speed of its construction reached an unprecedented level.
Since the core component of the Mars ring pipeline is six-claw silicon steel, what is the most abundant thing on the surface of Mars? Of course, hematite and silicate.
These two materials are easier to obtain than elements such as tungsten and rhodium.
Therefore, with the full energy supply support of the Energy City, the life metals on Mars can theoretically produce about 80 billion tons of six-claw silicon steel every five minutes.
If it weren't for the delay in transporting raw materials, only 10 to 20 billion tons of six-claw silicon steel would be synthesized every five minutes.
Using these silicon steel materials, a silicon steel pipeline with a radius of 50 meters and its associated superconducting coils "grew" all the way across the equator of Mars.
This speed is amazing.
No wonder the intelligent machine civilization was able to expand to tens of thousands of planetary systems.
Even though the life metal of the intelligent civilization does not have the function of magnetic monopole crystals and its reproduction rate is less than one percent of the life metal of the Homo sapiens version, as long as the life metal of the intelligent civilization is allowed to take root in the planetary system, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The same is true of Sapiens now, and it is even more terrifying.
After all, the magnetic monopole crystals provide the living metal with a constant supply of energy, and the living metal can also be remotely controlled through the magnetic monopole crystals.
It took the Sapiens company several years to build a floating island of tens of millions of square kilometers in the atmosphere of Venus. If nanorobots made of living metals were used, it could be completed in less than a year.
This is because the temperature and air pressure on the surface of Venus are too high and the corrosiveness is too strong, which seriously interferes with the reproduction rate of life metals.
If it is a terrestrial planet like Mars with very low atmospheric pressure and relatively suitable surface temperature , the expansion speed can reach its limit.
It took less than 14 days.
A star ring pipeline surrounding the equator of Mars has been built.
At this time, the staff began to disperse the life metal and gradually completed other supporting facilities of the Star Ring Project.
For example: vacuum system, power supply system and so on.
At the same time, the Mars Colonization Branch also received instructions from the head office, asking them to fully cooperate with the work of the Science Division to produce a batch of precision instruments.
Although life metal is almost omnipotent in construction projects, it is still powerless when it comes to some precision instruments.
Neutrino detectors, gravitational wave detectors, neutron detectors and the like are all delicate tasks that life metals cannot handle.
Therefore, the manufacturing of these precision instruments is the responsibility of the Mars Colonization Branch.
The progress of the Mars Ring Project is advancing at an unprecedented speed.
