Wu Dongling, the leader of the maintenance team, looked at the situation of each system that had just been fed back, and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face.

Dr. Yuri is also very concerned about the condition of the equipment: "Wu, how is the situation? ”

Wu Dongling replied with a wry smile: "The heat accumulation is only a small problem, using the gold-based thermoelectric system, it can be solved by sucking for a few hours, but in the process of particle collision, the damage to the vacuum pipeline is very serious, and the maintenance time will take at least a week." ”

Hearing this repair time, Dr. Yuri breathed a sigh of relief: "A week? It doesn't matter, it's a week, anyway, we need to study the data generated by this collision experiment now. ”

"I will do my best to repair it and try to get back to normal as soon as possible."

"Thank you for your hard work!"

"The doctor is so polite, it's our business."

In fact, before this collision experiment, the evaluation team had predicted possible problems.

After all, with tens of billions of collisions per second, and the energy carried by protons is very high, heat accumulation is certainly unavoidable.

And the vacuum pipe was knocked out of the atomic-level hole by various particles, which was also expected.

In particular, those miniature black holes, although they evaporated in an instant, some of the miniature black holes close to the tube wall still caused some atoms to be torn out in an instant.

At this moment, a staff member in charge of maintenance hurriedly appeared in front of Wu Dongling: "Team leader, there is a discovery." ”

"What discovery?"

"Look at this."

Wu Dongling looked at the test report, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "There are a large number of heavy elements. ”

This large amount is actually not large, in the magnetic field detection data, after the end of the collision experiment, 830,000 gold atoms and 1.28 million rhodium elements appeared in the vacuum pipeline.

You must know that this collision experiment lasted 30 minutes, with an average of tens of billions of collisions per second, before so many heavy elements were born.

That's a lot for this experiment.

Dr. Yuri, who was not far away, also received this test report.

Another researcher seems to be aware of the situation: "Is this the technical principle of the elemental manufacturing technology of the intelligent machine civilization?" ”

"Well, it's elemental manufacturing technology, but ours is at the laboratory level, and it hasn't reached the industrial mass production level yet." Dr. Yuri is equally aware of this technique.

He didn't know much about the technical situation of the intelligent machine civilization before, but during the more than three months during the construction of the fire star ring, he made up the relevant technical and physical knowledge about the intelligent machine civilization.

Among them is the technology of element manufacturing.

This technique uses a proton collider device to use specific magnetic and electric fields, and then creates a large number of miniature black holes and injects other light elements, using fleeting miniature black holes and light elements to create heavy elements.

The intelligent machine civilization has realized the artificial synthesis of heavy elements after iron, and can be mass-produced.

The reason for the development of this technology is very simple, because the distribution of elements in the universe is extremely uneven, and the total amount of each element in the universe decreases from light to heavy.

The content of hydrogen in the universe is more than half of the total amount of matter in the universe, and helium accounts for about a quarter.

The top 10 light elements account for almost 99% of the cosmic matter.

In this way, many civilizations will face a problem in the process of development, that is, the lack of heavy elements.

If the element precedes iron, it can also be manufactured by controlled nuclear fusion, because controlled nuclear fusion can nuclear fusion to the iron elemental stage.

But the elements after iron are only produced after a supernova explosion, or after the death of a massive star.

Heavy elements such as gold are also rare metals in the universe, which is determined by the physical rules of the universe.

The gold mine discovered by Homo sapiens in the ground of Antarctica is an almost inexhaustible resource by the standards of a zero-level civilization.

But after entering the first-level civilization, the gold mine can only be mined for about 200 years at most, which is still the company's economy and recycling some of the gold in the waste.

At present, Homo sapiens needs to use 5000~7000 tons of gold every month.

Fortunately, Venus and Mercury are also rich in gold, and several asteroids rich in heavy elements have been found in the asteroid belt.

Different stages of civilization have different requirements for resources.

Before human beings left the earth, thousands of tons of gold were enough for related industries, but in the cosmic age, this gold is really not enough.

At the beginning, the intelligent machine civilization also encountered the problem of the lack of heavy element resources, and finally developed the heavy element synthesis technology.

Although this technology requires a very large amount of energy, it can obtain some rare elements, and the pros and cons depend on the importance of demand.

If a certain technology is very important, but this element is very rare, then the element creation technology is naturally valuable.

For example, Homo sapiens is currently using a large number of gold-based thermoelectric materials, which are no less important than nuclear fusion power generation technology.

After all, fusion power generation systems can only produce heat, while gold-based thermoelectric materials can convert 99.9% of heat into electricity, which is very important.

After all, the higher the thermal efficiency of power generation, the less energy is wasted.

At this stage, the heavy metals in the solar system are barely enough, but in the future, Homo sapiens will definitely set foot in other planetary systems, and even the broader galaxy.

At that time, in some planetary systems, the congenital problem of scarcity of heavy elements is unavoidable.

This is where heavy element manufacturing technology comes into play.

Dr. Yuri knew that the company would definitely need this technology as a technical reserve, and he quickly instructed the relevant researchers to verify the technology.

And he himself is studying the data generated by the experiment.

This collision experiment generated a lot of data, and the data is still very complex, if it weren't for the mobilization of a large part of the supercomputing power of the Mars Colony Branch, they really wouldn't have been able to complete the sorting work in a short time.

Of course, sorting is only preliminary work.

The next step is to peel back the dots and find out what is valuable.

Among them, the data on quarks, neutrinos, miniature black holes, and primordials are the most important.

Dr. Yuri and others studied for three days and found a lot of valuable data, and at the same time verified some of the physical knowledge of the intelligent civilization.

However, in the process of verification, they found that there were some problems with some of the physical rules of the intelligent machine civilization.

Although these problems do not affect the current application of technology, they involve deep physical rules.

If these deep-seated physical rules are wrong, it will most likely affect the speed at which Homo sapiens will advance to a second-level civilization in the future.