Chapter 528: Internal Strife

Usually, scientists are conservative. They are slow to accept new theories, especially those that make strange predictions. Yue Yuan is of course happy that two top scientists in the scientific community are still so passionate, because he has always been worried about the so-called twilight of thinking.

Although he is not a scientist, he also knows that scientific progress cannot be achieved overnight, so he does not care about the extra time for meetings and discussions. One year or ten years will not make much difference on the road to the grand unified theory.

After the two left, Yue Yuan went directly to the strong artificial intelligence "Light of the Milky Way" on the Tianqin and asked it to estimate the time it would take to hollow out all the planets outside the sun in a solar system with human current capabilities.

The answer given by "Light of the Milky Way" is about a thousand years.

It is not to dig one planet after another, but to do it simultaneously in the star system, which requires humans to create more mining lines. This is just the mining time. If transportation, processing, collider design and manufacturing and other aspects are taken into account, it will take longer.

Moreover, if we really want to do it, it is estimated that it is not enough to hollow out six star systems, because the rough calculation method before took into account the mass of planets other than stars, but a star system has more than just rocky planets. The mass of gaseous planets is greater than that of rocky planets, but humans have no way to hollow out a gaseous planet.

So this huge project is more complicated than what the two people just said, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it takes the power of the entire civilization.

This will not be so easy. After all, not every high-level human being is as crazy as scientists like Liu Miyan, even though many high-level leaders themselves are scientists and technical people.

Sure enough, at the summary meeting of the second year, when Liu Miyan put forward this idea, he did not even have time to explain the details of the plan, and many voices of opposition immediately appeared.

Their reasons for opposition are similar to those of Yu Nanfeng before, but they are not as easily convinced as Yu Nanfeng.

Although Liu Miyan spent half a day to roughly explain the plan later, they still think that it is not worth it for humans to do it.

Because that means that in the next thousands or even tens of thousands of years, the entire human race needs to put all their energy, manpower and material resources into the plan. If you want to build such a large collider, it is definitely not enough to rely on strong artificial intelligence alone. Everyone in the human race must contribute.

At the same time, we must also face the risk of internal division among humans.

The reason is that in the process of Liu Miyan describing the plan, in order to improve the efficiency of the mining process, human civilization should be divided into many parts, and go to the target star for mining separately.

The case of the division of the Nair civilization into three clearly tells humans that in the absence of real-time communication, the races living in two places have a great probability of evolving into autonomous forces.

Imagine if humans themselves are divided into ten parts, and each part lives at a distance of 20 to 30 light years apart, a round trip communication takes 40 to 50 years, and they have to live separately for thousands of years. At that time, even if they will not become the second Nair civilization, there will be warlord problems and cultural differences.

Over time, humans in different regions will be divided, and gradually their own power institutions will emerge.

Although this situation may not happen, no one dares to test the fate of mankind, unless one day they really encounter the situation like the Chiyan civilization was beaten to a desperate situation by humans at that time.

Admittedly, this is only one of the reasons put forward by the opponents, but it is enough to make this proposal be rejected at the conference.

As a promoter of the new collider plan, Liu Miyan will definitely not give up. After the proposal was rejected by the meeting, he used his connections to contact some friends and tried to persuade them to support him and support this proposal.

Only let these supporters try to persuade other scientists to try to get them to support this set of proposals at the next meeting.

At the same time, in order to finalize the proposal faster, Liu Miyan worked from another direction.

He first found some friends who also held important positions. After successfully persuading these friends to stand on his side, he asked them to help promote the shortening of the time interval between the summary meetings, or simply hold a special discussion and voting meeting on the grounds of voting on the new particle collider project.

A summary meeting every fifty years is too long. Once the vote fails, it will take another fifty years to wait for the next one. Liu Miyan thinks this is a waste of time.

Liu Miyan's efforts were effective. Although the interval between the summary conferences on the exploration of alien civilization relics was not changed, he successfully promoted the establishment of a special meeting to discuss matters related to the new particle collider.

The form is still the same as the previous voting form. The voting results of the conference have legal effect. As long as the conference votes through, the new collider plan will be determined, and the new government will take the lead in rolling up its sleeves and working hard.

However, things are not that easy. Many opponents still appeared in the conference actively organized by Liu Miyan, and their seats are still more than those who agree, and the plan was rejected again.

Liu Miyan was not discouraged by the rejection of the plan. He continued to promote this plan in the following time. Of course, it is not to wait for the next conference to vote again after failure. On the contrary, Liu Miyan knew the reason for the failure of the vote, and made further modifications to the plan according to the opinions of the opponents, and tried to persuade the opponents.

After repeating this for more than a dozen times, only fifty years have passed, but this crazy collider plan still cannot be passed at the conference.

Of course, during this period, humans set foot on another star system and searched it carefully, but also did not find any traces of related relics.

For fifty years, other scientists have not been idle, but human technology seems to have really reached the fourth-level barrier. Except for some application details that have been optimized, the overall level of human technology has not changed much.

In the fifty-fifth year when Liu Miyan was determined to work hard to promote the new collider plan, there was a vote on the optimization plan, and the result still disappointed Liu Miyan. He felt that the plan had been changed by himself and the scientists involved to be very feasible, but in the voting environment, the plan was rejected again in the wrangling of the participants.

Efforts again and again, and fell in endless wrangling again and again.

Liu Miyan was very disappointed, and at the same time his heart was very tired. He felt that he had made clear the advantages and disadvantages, feasibility and various pros and cons of the new plan, and he also felt that he had given a perfect answer to the arguments of each opponent.

However, every time there is a voting meeting, there are always different voices. If it is a new problem that finds loopholes in the plan, it is fine. The key is that the reasons raised by these opponents are still the same as before, and then other people with different opinions begin to make use of the topic, so the voting meeting becomes a quibble again. After the quibble, the problem goes back to the initial singularity, and then there is a quibble again. A proposal to shelve it will be continued at the next meeting.

Usually Liu Miyan focuses on scientific research, but this repeated, round-by-round meeting mode reminds him of something.