Chapter 25:
Doped with various types of heavy ion radiation, X-rays, gamma rays, electron radiation, neutrons and protons, and other types of radiation, it bombarded this small piece of biological material for merely three seconds, and the first experiment ended immediately.
Carefully taking down this piece of biological material and placing it into the refrigerator, the second experiment began accordingly.
Each experiment, including equipment startup, material placement, radiation modulation, etc., takes a total of about 5 minutes. In this way, an average of 12 formulas can be tested per hour.
One hour later, 12 portions of materials were gathered, the refrigerator was then taken away and sent to the laboratory for inspection by people.
People will use various methods to check the damage state of these biological materials under different “formula” radiation bombardment.
The overall radiation dose is very low, and under normal circumstances, it is completely insufficient to cause significant damage to these biological materials. But if a certain portion of material suffers severe damage under such low-dose radiation exposure, it obviously means that they have found the correct formula and cracked the secret of the apocalypse radiation.
The experiments continued repeatedly in a solemn and reverent atmosphere.
Apocalypse Project Command, Gu Changshan still stood there like a mountain, watching the numbers on the large screen.
At this moment, that number was one. This meant that the modification and upgrade was complete, and only one piece of equipment had entered the experimental phase.
But in less than two minutes, that number turned into two. Then it began to soar like a rocket.
10, 50, 100, 1000…
In just one day, this number surged from the initial 1 to 9856 at this moment, with less than a thousand pieces of equipment yet to complete the modification.
By now, the growth of the number began to slow down.
Gu Changshan knew that it was because those accelerators were too large and precise.
However, no matter how complex or large they were, at most three days, they would all be fully upgraded and renovated.
At that time, the large particle accelerators would handle the fewer but extremely high energy level requirement experiments. The vast majority of small particle accelerators would handle the lower energy level but highest quantity experimental demands.
Three days passed in a flash.
On the sixth day of the third cycle, the number on the large screen became 10758/10758.
All conscripted accelerators had entered working state.
Calculated at an average of 4 minutes per accelerator to verify one formula, from this moment on, about 160,000 radiation formulas would be inspected every hour.
Including the approximately 5 million formulas eliminated before, up to the arrival of the apocalypse, a total of about 22 million formulas could be verified.
Over a hundred different types and energy levels of radiation, people would verify up to 22 million combinations among them. If that hypothesized “radiation formula” really exists, it has a considerable probability of being among these 22 million combinations.
Looking at the large screen in front of him, Gu Changshan gently clenched his fist.
Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu arrived one after the other.
“How is the situation now?”
Gu Changshan said: “All accelerators have completed the upgrade and renovation, and are currently verifying at a speed of about 160,000 formulas per hour.”
Jiang Yang took a deep breath.
The learning during this period was not only at the theoretical level, but also included a lot of popular science level knowledge.
The theoretical level improves knowledge depth, the popular science level improves knowledge breadth. The combination of both allows Jiang Yang to grow at the fastest speed.
It was precisely because of this that he knew some things about particle accelerators.
Every particle accelerator is an electricity tiger. Even the smallest one has a power of over 300 kilowatts.
Large research-grade particle accelerators have peak power comparable to an entire city.
More than ten thousand particle accelerators operating at full power simultaneously, with a simple calculation, Jiang Yang figured out their approximate total power.
At least over 220 million kilowatts.
This means that on average, as high as 5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity are consumed by these electricity tigers every day.
In comparison, the daily generation of the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Station is only about 500 million kilowatt-hours. A whole large city’s daily electricity consumption is also only around 300 to 400 million kilowatt-hours.
At this moment, to find that radiation formula, under the promotion of the Apocalypse Project Command, electricity equivalent to the total generation of ten Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Stations, or the total consumption of more than a dozen large cities, was invested in the experiments.
The high level of investment, the massive scale of manpower, resources, and infrastructure involved behind it, was simply unimaginable.
Except for the nation, no individual or organization could mobilize such massive resources.
“5 billion kilowatt-hours a day, when I rented a place before, electricity was 0.7 yuan per kilowatt-hour, just the electricity bill alone would be 3.5 billion per day, probably even Old Ma couldn’t afford it…”
Jiang Yang muttered in his heart, stunned by this number to the point of slight absent-mindedness.
He knew that although this project was already so massive, it was not the entirety of the apocalypse plan.
In addition, Base No. 7 was undergoing comprehensive upgrade and renovation projects, and countless detectors, radiometers, etc., were being deployed to every corner of the vast Earth, with large numbers of probe balloons, satellites, etc., entering the high altitude.
A similarly huge but different giant net from the previous cycle was being built.
Theoretical physics experts led by Professor Lu Zhaoming were also working day and night without rest.
Using supercomputers, large scientific devices, etc., people were striving to find other possibilities that could cause acute radiation sickness with low-level radiation, attempting to build theoretical frameworks among them, and using theory to guide practical work.
The entire nation, all aspects related to the apocalypse plan had been fully mobilized.
In the absence of any other new ideas or plans at this moment, achieving this level was already the limit of the nation, even the entire civilization.
There was nothing else that could be done.
So the remaining time was only waiting.
Either the particle accelerator experiments would ultimately verify a result, or the plan would ultimately fail, the human world would be destroyed again, and he would embark on another cycle with the relevant information.
Jiang Yang took a deep breath, turned to leave with Zhou Yu, and once again threw himself into uninterrupted learning.
On the seventh day, Jiang Yang received another report.
“Apocalypse No. 7, and more than 1,000 other experimental bases have all been fully prepared.
In addition, over 100,000 radiation tracking devices located in space, atmosphere edge, seabed, lake bottom, underground, and other different environments have all been installed.
This radiation source tracking network has been fully completed.”
Jiang Yang looked at Gu Changshan: “No results from the particle accelerator experiments yet?”
Gu Changshan was silent for a moment, then gently shook his head: “Not yet. But we still have time, and hope.”
