Chapter 285: The Whims of a Wallfacer_1

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Jiang Yu still wasn't ready to give up. He asked Jiang Shiliu, "Didn't the success of JY101 and 201 affirm your research direction? Why can't it be improved upon?"

With a gloomy face, Jiang Shiliu replied in his message, "It's true that we've found the research direction, but the next step involves observing particle collision experiments in this research area and then summarizing the findings.

"Only after an immense amount of summarizing and generalizing can some patterns emerge, and it's through completing this process that substantial progress can be made.

"But now we only have the research direction, the rest is all guesswork!"

Finally, Jiang Shiliu said through gritted teeth, "Give me a large particle collider, give me an electron-positron collider, give me a proton collider!

"Otherwise, I will die with my eyes open!"

Jiang Yu scratched his head, realizing that as early as two months before, the project team tasked with finding ways to evade Sophon surveillance had already made it very clear to him: without microscopic experiments as a basis, all current research was nothing but an armchair strategy.

The key was that even those armchair strategies couldn't be carried out anymore!

Just as Jiang Shiliu had said, everything would depend on guesswork!

After feeling agitated for a while, Jiang Yu asked Number Three to invite high-energy physics experts from the Science Academy to come over.

Jiang Yu inquired in detail about the costs and construction periods for building large particle colliders and other such microexperiment equipment from the expert.

Then Jiang Yu called up the financial executive summary from the Governing Council of the Solar System State for the past year.

After spending several anxious days, Jiang Yu finally called Ai Qi and Tao Yue for a meeting, "I want to build the Ring of Jupiter Particle Collider!"

This was an obstacle in high-energy physics that couldn't be avoided; the sooner the preparations, the better.

Ai Qi and Tao Yue paused for two or three seconds to process the information before Tao Yue said, "As far as I know, under the current situation with Sophons in the Solar System, building such a device won't have any concrete effect, right?"

Ai Qi added, "A few days ago, I stumbled upon an initial crisis prediction report on the number of Sophons, when Dr. Ding Yi set up a hundred ultra-high-energy particle detection points in space.

"Without exception, the observation results were all interfered with by Sophon activities.

"At that time, some even planned to build particle colliders at the opposite ends of the Solar System or in the vast outer space to create a huge separation, racing against Sophons.

"To this day, some still support this plan, but the costs are too high!

"Of course, the most critical reason is that Trisolarans might produce a Sophon faster than we can build such a research point!

"After all, these facilities need to be far from all colonies and must have a small Space City as a foothold to support the operation and research of the particle collider.

"If we rely on transportation for building materials, time will be wasted on the journey. To build our own industrial system would also take time.

"The key issue is that the cost of a particle collider is too high, and the construction period is too long. Such precision instruments are not simply a pile of iron cobbled together.

"Perhaps our research point won't even be completed before the Sophon assigned to disrupt the collider's observational data is in position.

"Even considering the limited resources of the Trisolaris system, this project still wouldn't have a chance of success.

"Because Sophons don't even need to affect all observation data. If they just affect a portion of the particle collision reactions, our experiment becomes meaningless!"

Tao Yue hurriedly chimed in, "I've done some research on this specialized knowledge.

"Particle collision experiments aren't as simple as two iron balls colliding; it's more like two iron balls smashing at high speed, and then tracing the trajectory of every fragment.

"Such experimental results are inherently very random. If any 'fragment' is influenced by a Sophon, the experimental result would be devastating.

"And even if Sophons don't affect a particular experimental result, one or two correct data points won't be much help to us!"

Jiang Yu pinched his nose and said again, "I want to build the Ring of Jupiter Particle Collider!"

"The costs are too great!" Tao Yue still held firm to her point, "It would need approximately..."

Jiang Yu answered, "Eight hundred billion!"

Tao Yue gasped, "The entire Great Migration Plan only needs twelve thousand billion, and that's over an investment period of twenty years!"

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"And building the Particle Collider only needs, needs..."

Jiang Yu said again, "Six years!"

"Six years will cost eight hundred billion!" Tao Yue felt a bit dizzy, "Maybe we need to pool the financial resources of all humanity to build it in such a short time!"

Ai Qi added, "The key point is it's useless!"

Both people were looking eagerly at Jiang Yu, hoping he would rescind the order.

Jiang Yu sighed, "Now is really not a good era for implementing the Wallfacer Project!"

"I remember during my Wallfacer career, many people spent their entire lives without understanding the significance of my Wallfacer Project."

"Yet, they still believed in me, dedicating their entire lives to the Wallfacer Project."

"I see you two as my confidants, yet you question my plan!"

"If I could explain my plan clearly and understandably, would it still be called a Wallfacer Project?"

With these words, Jiang Yu made Ai Qi and Tao Yue feel somewhat ashamed!

For the third time, Jiang Yu said, "I want to build the Huan Mu Xing Particle Collider!"

"Before this collider is built, we must construct two to three small-scale Particle Colliders as quickly as possible!"

"Even if it means selling iron pots and pans, we must build it!"

Ai Qi and Tao Yue were silent for a long time, until Ai Qi said, "I will have the warships visit the colonies of the three major fleets, as well as Earth, to see if they know what's what."

Tao Yue also said, "Nowadays, the agricultural products from the Jupiter Circle and the high-end intelligent robots and interstellar spacecraft of the entire human world can only be manufactured by us."

"I suggest we increase the prices of these products by two or three times, especially the robots, which are our signature technology; we could increase the price by five times!"

Jiang Yu nodded, "That makes sense, go prepare the preliminary work!"

After Ai Qi and Tao Yue left, Jiang Yu turned to Number Three, who had been listening in, "You go record the scene where the twenty interstellar warships were destroyed by Number Two's Waterdrop, and send it to the major financial conglomerates on Earth."

He instructed, "Try to make it look as tragic as possible."

As Number Three stood up, he laughed, "Such blatant extortion; your reputation is beyond saving."

Jiang Yu, holding his forehead, said, "What use is a reputation! I need money now!"

Jiang Shiliu, who was far away on Earth, upon learning that Jiang Yu wanted to build a particle accelerator, immediately sent a communication video, "Are you out of your mind? Have you got money to burn?"

"I was just saying that, don't take it seriously! That money will all go down the drain!"

Jiang Yu replied with a smile, "You even threatened me with not resting in peace, what could I do? Of course, I can't let you rest with your eyes closed!"

Two hours later, in the communication video, Jiang Shiliu scoffed, "Don't try to pin this on me; you must be up to some crooked scheme!"

Jiang Yu laughed as he replied, "Just focus on your basic physics research!"

Jiang Shiliu said, "What's there to research? JY101 has already confirmed that the universe really has four dimensions, and gravity in that dimension is easily observable!"

"It's just that we can't observe that dimension; the only manifestation we might observe is dark matter."

"But you've seen that force field too; there's nothing in it to the naked eye!"

Jiang Yu was somber for a long time before he said seriously, "Have you ever considered that dark matter isn't the fourth dimension but instead four-dimensional matter that has fallen to..."

"Forget it, I don't understand these things too well either; we can talk about it later!

"I have a new task for you, transport 'Dark Forest' to Jupiter for me!"