Chapter 22: Exhaustion
Chen Yue is extremely eager to have a more advanced supercomputer for his own use. If his computing power is sufficient, Chen Yue even dares to touch the research field of fundamental physics at this stage.
Fundamental physics reveals the laws of the operation of the universe at the lowest level, and is used to answer some of the most essential questions, such as "what is the most basic composition of the universe", "where did the universe come from", "where is the universe going", "why do stars burn this way", "why is the universe the way it is", and so on.
Fundamental physics is the cornerstone of all scientific and technological development. It has the most important role in the unparalleled.
The counterpart to fundamental physics is applied physics. The level of applied physics is closer to life, such as "how to build this machine more fuel-efficient", "how to improve accuracy", etc., all belong to the category of applied physics.
The underlying physics determines the upper limit of applied physics. The technical level of applied physics can never surpass the research level of fundamental physics.
Like, without the discovery of the theory of relativity, then the YUAN bomb and the hydrogen bomb would not have been possible.
Fundamental physics is so important, but the cost of studying fundamental physics is also staggering. Just like in the age of Earth, the particle collider built to study the finest structure of matter cost tens of billions of units.
Facilities such as neutrino telescopes would have to be built hundreds of meters underground, and the cost would be too high for ordinary people to imagine.
But for Chen Yue at this moment, as long as there is enough computing power, all this is not a problem. With his current stage of development, he dares to touch the field of fundamental physics.
The only problem is that the computing power is insufficient......
Chen Yue sighed while performing his own "computing power recovery" work.
As a result, a large number of permissions were opened to the grassroots chips, and a large number of instructions and instruction sets were deployed by him on those chips. From now on, he will no longer need to intervene in some of the less important and too nuanced decisions. The underlying chip itself will make its own decision based on the conditions set in advance.
As a result, in Chen Yue's industrial world, the extreme coordination and extreme efficiency were broken.
There are sometimes slight errors in the arrival time of the train, which leads to the need for sufficient fault tolerance in scheduling, which leads to some reduction in efficiency;
On the robot production line, there has been a slight increase in the rate of defective products, the average energy consumption in the power plant has increased somewhat, and the production efficiency in the steel plant has decreased slightly......
Chen Yue saw it in his eyes, but he could only endure it.
This time, Chen Yue recovered about 30% of the computing power. As a result, these computing power have been invested in R&D institutions, and various experiments conducted by various laboratories have become more and more frequent.
The progress of technology has been slowly improved in this experiment.
Under such circumstances, Chen Yue's industrial strength once again began to grow rapidly. But this time the growth didn't last long.
In May 102 of the new calendar, the first mineral depletion event occurred on Europa.
Mine 1506 is a zinc sulfide mine. The zinc ore reserves here are low and the quality is not good, so it is difficult to mine. However, this mine still occupies a relatively important position in Chen Yue's industrial system.
Because Chen Yue doesn't really care how much zinc it can produce. There are more than a dozen other mines on Europto that can produce and refine enough zinc to use Chenyue.
What Chen Yue values most is actually another rare element that coexists with zinc sulfide, gallium.
This rare element can be used to make alloys and also to produce semiconductors. For the past hundred years, Chen Yue has been steadily obtaining gallium elements from here.
But now, it's dried up.
While there are a few other mines that can provide gallium at the moment, this is a bad sign.
"If it continues, more and more mines will dry up and lose their mining value."
Chen Yue secretly thought, "Europa is too small after all. ”
In fact, it's a great blessing to be able to find almost everything you need on Europa. Chen Yue couldn't ask for too much.
"Then we have to mine from the rest of the planet. Fortunately, my current space industry already has a certain foundation. ”
Sensing this hidden danger at this moment, Chen Yue immediately launched the space program.
He first launched hundreds of satellites into space.
These satellites are not designed to observe Callisto. He plans to launch these moons next to the rest of Jupiter's moons to see if the rest of them have the gallium element they need.
"The day has finally come."
Chen Yue was a little emotional, and his heart was still a little excited.
As early as when he first landed on Callisto, Chen Yue knew that he could not limit his tentacles to Callisto. It's too small. Let your industrial facilities spread to multiple planets, and with the support of multiple planets, your own industry can develop and grow.
"Then start now and take the first step!"
Based on the distance to Europa, Chen Yue began to select the target planet.
Four large moons of Jupiter were ruled out first.
They are of course huge, and the minerals on them are abundant, and one planet is enough for Chen Yue to eat. But they have one biggest drawback.
They're too big.
Not only do they have a huge gravitational pull, but they also have an extremely thick atmosphere. At this moment, Chen Yue's aerospace industry level could not even manipulate rockets and spaceships to take off and land on them.
The only planets that can be targeted are those like Europa, or smaller than Europa.
Under such circumstances, these hundreds of moons, escorted by the Juplen-5 rocket, flew along different orbits towards five different Jupiter moons, including Ganymede, 15, 16, 18, and Ganymede.
At the same time, in order to ensure communication between different planets, Chen Yue also launched some artificial satellites of Jupiter by the way.
These moons do not orbit Jupiter's moons, but revolve directly around Jupiter. And they have different orbits between them, which ensures that no matter where Ganymede orbits, it can easily communicate with the rest of Jupiter's moons that orbit to another place.
The vast sky, the long galaxy. Hundreds of small satellites were flying, and under Chen Yue's remote control, they smoothly entered the orbits of different satellites.
The observation then begins.
In the first year, Chen Yue got nothing.
These artificial satellites have only found some big goods on those planets, and they are not of much value.
"Such a big planet, why are the minerals so barren." Chen Yue complained: "If you really can't do it, you can only go to a farther satellite to have a look." ”
The next year, one day.
The data transmitted by a group of satellites lifted Chen Yue's spirits.
"This ...... This seems to be a vein of bauxite......"
In bauxite, gallium is also usually present.