Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

While extensively constructing experimental facilities and comprehensively verifying his conjectures from the past period, Tom also began another unprecedented construction.

The construction of large scientific instruments!

So-called large scientific instruments are devices specifically designed for research into certain major scientific problems.

Such devices are usually extremely massive, contain extremely high technological content, and the major scientific problems they research are typically the most cutting-edge and important ones.

For example, large particle colliders can be used to study the fundamental structure of matter. Extreme condition experimental devices can simulate the state of matter under extreme environments, and so on.

For instance, the Unified Field Formula, a key scientific problem Tom is currently fixated on, used to differentiate whether a civilization is an Electroweak Civilization or a Strong Nuclear Civilization, must be researched using large scientific instruments.

In the past, Tom had not built truly cutting-edge large scientific instruments. The reason was simple: in earlier stages, Tom was always in a state of absorbing and digesting knowledge at the theoretical level of fundamental physics.

First, he absorbed and digested the fundamental theories of Human Civilization, and then the fundamental theories of Bluetoth Civilization.

The technological development over those past years was basically all in the application layer and did not involve the fundamental theories of physics.

Now, the technology of Bluetoth Civilization has been fully absorbed, and for future development, he can only rely on his own research.

It was precisely for this reason that Tom decided to undertake this construction project.

Tom's more than a billion brains pondered for only a moment before making a detailed plan.

"To find new particles, search for dark matter, verify supersymmetry, and a series of other cutting-edge fundamental physics theories, a particle collider is indispensable. Hmm… then let's build 100 of them first!"

Simply put, a particle collider accelerates two beams of particles, causing them to collide violently to release their internal structures.

By observing this process, more new particles can be found, physics models can be refined, and new interaction mechanisms can be discovered.

"Of these 100 particle colliders, well, build 10 proton colliders, some electron-positron colliders are also needed, and besides those, there are also heavy-ion colliders, electron-proton colliders…"

Based on different energy levels and specific research topics, these colliders can be divided into many types, with multiple different construction modes and environmental requirements.

With the basic industrial system already established, Tom immediately mobilized a large number of clones and began related construction in space.

That's right, Tom did not plan to build these large scientific research facilities on the surface of a planet, but in space.

In space, gravity is extremely weak, and there is an extremely high vacuum, making it an excellent place to build a particle collider.

Furthermore, unlike the colliders built by people in the era of nations, and those built by Bluetoth Civilization, the colliders built by Tom are larger and have higher energy levels.

Clearly, the higher the energy level, the more violent the particle collision, the more new physical phenomena can be induced, and the higher the scientific research value.

Based on this idea, Tom simply built a giant nuclear fusion power station specifically in space, and then began laying the collider pipelines around this nuclear fusion power station.

Tom built this heavy-ion collider directly to a length of 20 kilometers.

Its pipeline diameter is about 10 meters, and its total volume reaches approximately 1.6 million cubic meters. Including the surrounding auxiliary facilities, the total volume is as high as 3 million cubic meters, and the total mass reaches 5 million tons!

Such a behemoth, requiring a dedicated nuclear power station for electricity, is merely one of the many colliders Tom needs to build.

And the particle collider is just one type among the many large scientific instruments Tom needs to build.

Beyond the particle collider, Tom, through his clones, commanded Hestia AI to mobilize countless heavy machinery, starting excavation directly on Altair A1, digging down a full kilometer before stopping.

Afterward, Tom built another type of large scientific instrument there.

A neutrino telescope!

Using ultra-pure water and other liquids as a medium, once a neutrino collides with a water molecule, its subsequent effects can be captured by observation equipment, allowing Tom to conduct research on neutrino emission sources, the properties of neutrinos themselves, and so on.

This first neutrino telescope was extremely massive.

Its main facility is a huge pure water tank with an internal volume of 6 million cubic meters, capable of holding 6 million tons of ultra-pure water.

Tens of millions of photomultiplier tubes and detectors are used to observe neutrino collisions, ensuring that any subtle collision flash can be seen.

After completing the construction of this first neutrino telescope, Tom began backfilling, covering the neutrino telescope with a massive amount of earth.

Neutrinos have extremely strong penetrating power, while other particles have weak penetrating power. With the rock cover, it can be ensured that only neutrinos can enter the pure water tank, without interference from other particles.

Tom also built 50 such neutrino telescopes in one go.

In addition, there are optical telescope arrays, radio telescope arrays, and so on.

Tom built a massive number of telescopes, deploying them at various locations in the Altair System, forming arrays to observe and research various celestial bodies in all directions, to confirm their evolutionary processes, current states, and other information.

Besides optical, radio, and neutrino, Tom also began research in another area.

Gravitational waves.

According to the current system, Tom knows that the next step after unifying the Unified Strong Nuclear Force and becoming a Strong Nuclear Civilization will most likely be to research gravity and unify gravity.

Starting research on gravity now seems a bit too early, but Tom knows that scientific research always proceeds step by step, accumulating slowly from the very beginning, so that there can be a day in the future when it is truly mastered.

Just as people had already begun research on Strong Nuclear Force long before unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force.

For Tom, starting to research gravity now is not only not too early, but even a bit too late.

The detection principle of a gravitational wave detector is also very simple, nothing more than precisely measuring distance changes through two perpendicular laser beams.

The principle is simple, but its implementation is extremely difficult. Because gravitational waves are too weak and the distance changes they can cause are too minute, the equipment also needs to be extremely precise.

To achieve the required precision, Tom had to make the longitudinal and transverse arms very long, even up to 100 kilometers, supplemented by extremely large and precise equipment, to meet the design requirements.

A single gravitational wave detector of this type had a mass of 10 million tons!