Ye Wenjie, watch my moves closely.

Chapter 46 Construction Begins on the Particle Collider

Choosing an auspicious day nearby, the nation's first particle collider quietly broke ground in Liangxiang.

There weren't many people present, but they were all renowned scholars.

Before leaving, Li Youyu brought over a small tree and, together with his seniors from the Institute of High Energy Physics, dug a hole at the entrance as a memento.

Li Youyu's direct superior, the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Qian, stood with his hands behind his back, pouting as he looked thoughtfully at the small tree swaying alone in the wind. "We've got a name for the particle collider, shouldn't this tree have one too?"

His suggestion sparked the playful spirits of the others, who readily agreed:

"How about we call it the Spark? The Liangxiang Particle Collider is the spark we left for the future!"

"Old Zhou, you're being too pessimistic. What 'spark'? I think our future is bright. Let's just call it 'Raging Storm No. 2'."

The country's first hydrogen bomb was codenamed 639, and later it was given a proper name, Kuangbiao-1.

The name "Raging Storm No. 2" is naturally chosen in the hope that this place can blast a future for those who come after.

"That's so outdated, Lao Yu."

Those present looked somewhat disgusted. Although the meaning was beautiful, the naming logic of "Powerful Brick Flying" was really unsuitable for such an elegant discipline as physics.

"I think we should still call them humans, so that the trees can live a long and long life and serve as a testament to the changes in human civilization."

"The name is nice, but I feel it's even more sorrowful than a spark, like a tombstone."

Everyone fell silent.

As the first pioneers in the world to recognize the threat of extraterrestrial civilizations, they faced greater pressure than anyone else.

The Trisolarans are like gods to Earth's technology.

Can humanity, a civilization residing in a corner of the Milky Way, manage to break free in just twenty years?

"Bright Sword..."

Suddenly, in the oppressive silence, a young voice murmured.

"Knowing that the strength was far inferior, they still persevered despite all difficulties."

Twenty years ago, our predecessors faced immense pressure and bravely confronted two superpowers, carving out a path to survival. Now, we will challenge the universe, showing them just how much vitality our carbon-based life forms, with a lifespan of only a century, can unleash.

Mr. Qian nodded.

"It's alright, I'll take this one."

He found ink and a brush, and wrote the words "Bright Sword" on the wooden sign in a flamboyant style, then hung it on a branch of a small tree.

他 说:

"The road ahead is long and arduous, but we will start anew."

Starting anew, the mountains stretch as far as the eye can see, and the setting sun bleeds like blood!

After returning from the groundbreaking ceremony of the Liangxiang particle collider, Li Youyu held a short meeting with his seniors.

To counter the threat of sophons, not only do we need particle colliders, but also a powerful computing machine.

The performance of the world's most advanced computers is still far from sufficient.

Therefore, research in the field of quantum mechanics is also being conducted in parallel with that in computer science.

The first thing to be affected is naturally the chip.

In the same era of my previous life, chip research was not valued, which led to us falling behind others by many years.

Now, Li Youyu is taking advantage of the technology export agreement during the honeymoon period between China and the United States to introduce technologies that might otherwise be bottlenecked into China. With the influx of resources into the fight against the Trisolarans in China, the technical level and personnel configuration of this team have become extremely powerful.

A month after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining, having recovered from their injuries, returned to the Deep Space Research Institute's residence from Radar Peak.

Yang Weining joined the quantum theoretical physics team, and looking at the many accomplished figures in the team, he once again felt the humility he had felt during his student days.

But I have to say, it feels so good to have someone to rely on.

Ye Wenjie is in charge of research on cosmic sociology, but this term is too vast. The farthest human footsteps have reached is the moon, 38 kilometers away. If the universe is a one-meter-long ruler, then human efforts are not even a micrometer in length on that ruler.

Asking a carbon-based life form born at this scale to imagine the universe is like asking an ant to take an advanced mathematics exam.

Therefore, Ye Wenjie's cosmic sociology group actually seemed to be the most relaxed.

But for those who want to do something, this is not a good thing.

Ye Wenjie felt the office chair was so hot that she couldn't even sit down.

In the original novel, Ye Wenjie, alone in seclusion, discovered the ultimate answer to the sociology of the universe: the Dark Forest.

However, Li Youyu believes that the Dark Forest Theory only applies to civilizations with relatively backward technology.

It is only the ultimate law for humanity and the Trisolarans, not for the entire universe.

There must be undiscovered universal laws governing the Singer Civilization and the Zero-Returner Alliance.

Ye Wenjie sat there for several weeks, thinking she couldn't go on like this, so she applied to Li Youyu to go back to school to teach and think things through.

Li Youyu knew that the nature of cosmic sociology was almost identical to mere fantasy; all one needed was a desk to conduct research. Therefore, he did not try to dissuade Ye Wenjie any further and allowed her to return to Tsinghua University to teach astronomy.

A few months later, as the year drew to a close, Li Youyu received some explosive news.

The chemical mechanical polishing technology in the wafer research laboratory has achieved a breakthrough and has reached the stage where it can be transformed into a production line application.

The carrier of a chip is a wafer, which is made by grinding and polishing single-crystal silicon. The smoother the wafer surface is during the grinding and polishing stage, the higher the integration rate of the chip in subsequent manufacturing.

Chemical mechanical polishing, as the name suggests, is the process of polishing the surface of a silicon wafer using chemical methods.

This method is several orders of magnitude more precise than traditional mechanical polishing. On a 30-centimeter wafer, the height difference will not exceed the diameter of a human hair.

In Li Youyu's previous life, this technology did not become mature until the 1990s, but in this world it was developed in less than half a year.

It can only be said that the most overpowered thing about the Three-Body world is these scientists. Nanoblades, controlled nuclear fusion, macro-atomic technology... Who could have imagined that these technologies could be developed in the early 21st century?

Not to mention the mysterious and unpredictable school of futurist history, which claims to be able to predict the future.

"Yes! The futurist school of history."

Li Youyu's eyes lit up.

In the original work, this is a group of scholars and strategists surrounding Zhang Beihai's father. They predicted the great trough that humanity would encounter after the arrival of the Trisolarans, the irreversible damage to basic sciences caused by the Sophons, and the failure of the Doomsday War.

Zhang Beihai's belief in the inevitability of human defeat stems from the futurist school of historiography.

We were just worried that Ye Wenjie couldn't carry the burden alone, but now there's a ready-made school of deduction.

As for where to find people from the Future Historians school, that's even simpler.

All we need to do is find their leader, and Li Youyu knows their leader very well.

North Sea Fleet, Zhang Zhi'ao.