Chapter 236 Post-War New Plan

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The meeting then moved on to its true focus, the New Wallfacer Plan.

The joint chairperson continued, "Mr. Lin Sen, in order to cope with upcoming crises, will you propose a new Wallfacer Plan?"

Everyone knew deep down that the war with the Trisolarans was far from over, and the contest had just begun. The complexity and duration of this war far exceeded our past understanding.

In the long history of human civilization, those wars once considered thrilling and history-changing now seem like nothing but child's play in an ivory tower compared to this star-level conflict.

Humanity's trust and reliance on Wallfacers had reached unprecedented heights; humanity was nearly entirely deferent to the Wallfacers, each of their decisions seen as critical to leading humanity to victory.

Lin Sen: "First, establish an independent research department directly under the Wallfacers for The Waterdrop.

"The Waterdrop's strong interaction materials can be researched and developed in collaboration with all powers in the Solar System.

"Even if humanity should no longer face war with Trisolaris in the future, this material will still be our most powerful weapon.

"However, research into The Waterdrop's power system involves my future plans, which will require an absolutely secretive department. Only the Commander will have access to information on the research.

"Much of the research may even need to be conducted within the Sophon-Blocked Zone so that the Trisolarans won't be aware of our progress."

The joint chairperson: "This plan is very reasonable. We will support it, and we will provide you with the best scientists in the Solar System, all under the direct jurisdiction of the Wallfacers.

"If there are any additional requirements while researching The Waterdrop's power system, you can also apply to us at any time, and we will fully cooperate."

This plan could hardly be called a plan; it was more of an emphasis on the importance of secrecy, given it involved technology to counter the Trisolarans. People could understand that.

Lin Sen continued, "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The success of most plans hinges on cooperation and secrecy. The secrecy of The Waterdrop's power system is essential, and I hope you can understand that.

"Second, build the Perihelion Particle Accelerator.

"The plan is to build a super accelerator encircling the sun along Jupiter's orbit.

"Of course, it is not about constructing a pipeline accelerator stretching nearly 5 billion kilometers. Such a project would be impossible to achieve even with the combined efforts of the entire Solar System.

"The plan is to build 3,200 large coil tubes with a spacing of about 1.5 million kilometers, encircling the sun in Jupiter Orbit.

"The accelerated particles would pass through the middle of the coil tubes, alternating the direction and strength of electric or magnetic fields to create a periodic acceleration process within the accelerator tubes.

"In vacuum, the tubes are indeed not necessary. The accelerated particles can travel through space from one acceleration coil to another.

"For the 1.5 million kilometer space between the acceleration coils, we only need to use Nanomembrane for simple sealing, which can greatly reduce our construction costs.

"It is anticipated that such an accelerator could accelerate particles to the primordial energies close to those during the Big Bang. The key point is that Sophons would not dare to directly interfere with such an accelerator, or at least their interference would be drastically reduced.

"In the face of such primordial energies, if Sophons dared to act as target particles and collide directly, it could even result in the creation of a micro black hole.

"If so, no matter how many Sophons the Trisolarans have, it would not be enough to sustain the loss.

"At most, they could mildly influence the results of the experiments, rather than causing completely divergent outcomes as before. I believe that in the near future, we will be able to break through the Trisolarans' technological blockade."

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The original concept of leaving the 1.5 million kilometers between accelerator coils untreated is unreasonable.

Firstly, space is not an absolute vacuum; particles accelerated to extremely high intensities encountering other particles along the way is also extremely dangerous.

Secondly, both cosmic rays and the charged particles from solar radiation (the Solar Wind) can affect the results of the experiment and cannot be ignored.

Regarding why a Solar System Accelerator is needed, and why not to simply use a linear accelerator like the one Lin Sen built, which was 1,200 kilometers long.

Many people may have a misconception, believing that the longer the accelerator, the higher the energy level of the accelerated particles.

If a linear accelerator uses a super-strong electric field to directly accelerate particles, this statement is correct.

In theory, if one could build a 5 billion-kilometer-long accelerator, and that whole distance was covered with super-strong electric and magnetic fields, it could also reach cosmic-level energies.

The number of fusion power plants this would require is at least in the billions; the difficulty of its construction is ten thousand times greater than that of a Dyson ring, and if humanity had such capability, it would already be a Type II civilization.

Therefore, the Solar System Accelerator mentioned here is similar to the cyclotrons we are familiar with, except that here the diameter of the cyclotron is close to 11 astronomical units.

High-speed particles are accelerated and change direction in the acceleration channel on the perihelion orbit, loop after loop, until their energy reaches cosmic levels, not accelerating for just one loop.

The main reasons for not increasing the number of accelerator coils and shortening the distance between two coils are twofold:

First is the cost issue. If the number of accelerator loops is doubled, the energy of the particles accelerated around the Sun indeed doubles, but the cost also instantly doubles.

To achieve the same energy, allowing particles to accelerate for two loops, which is just an additional 4.5 hours, is obviously the more sensible choice.

Second is that after each coil's acceleration, the particle's velocity and energy will change, so the next coil needs to adjust its electric or magnetic field's direction and intensity in real-time.

The 1.5 million kilometers between two coils is also the time reserved for the periodic adjustment of the coil's electric or magnetic fields.

Joint Chairman: "Actually, the science advisory department had also proposed constructing a similar Solar System Accelerator to break through the Sophon technological blockade, but we have always rejected it.

"The reasons are obvious. First, such a super project would bring all other human engineering projects to a standstill; our main tasks before the war were shipbuilding and the construction of the Stellar Defense System.

"Second, this plan only has the potential to break through the Sophon technology blockade. Our estimates are that it would take decades to build, and another several decades might yield new theoretical breakthroughs, followed by the application of theory, which could all take over a century.

"This is meaningless for us, so it has always been rejected.

"Now that we have peace, this super project can be restarted, and all powers in the Solar System will support the construction of this project."

The Solar System Accelerator in the original text was built from the Broadcast Era to the Shelter Era. The Trisolarans gave humanity many technologies during the Deterrence Era, and although many of their basic theories were erroneous, human technology indeed improved significantly.

It took 30 years to build it then, but now humanity's technology level is much higher than the original timeline, especially in the field of materials science.

The key point is that today's human technologies are self-created, whereas in the original timeline of the Deterrence Era, the technologies were provided by Trisolarans, naturally giving the current humanity an advantage.

PS: The explanation of the Solar System Accelerator in this book is not the most reasonable; even a plan for an accelerator that encircles the Earth would be better.

If one considers the cost of laying vacuum tubes, one might also choose to do this in Earth's satellite orbit.