Li Qingsong had the ability to build more proton decay detectors.
With each proton decay detector requiring approximately 110,000 clones to maintain daily upkeep and research calculations, Li Qingsong could barely spare about 300 million clones from other research areas and the maintenance of the industrial system to invest in the construction and research of more proton decay detectors.
This meant approximately 2,700 proton decay detectors.
In this way, even if the proton lifetime was truly 10^42 years, Li Qingsong could still detect this phenomenon through an increase in quantity.
However, Li Qingsong never forgot one thing.
That was, he possessed industrial capabilities far exceeding ordinary electroweak civilizations.
At the same time, there must truly exist strong force civilizations in the universe that had unified the strong nuclear force.
Then this led to a paradox: if the proton's lifetime was truly so high, even as high as 10^42 years, to the point where it required thousands of super-giant proton decay detectors to detect proton decay…
How did those ordinary electroweak civilizations break through?
Don't forget that even if they exhausted the power of their entire civilization, ordinary peak electroweak civilizations could only support at most a few dozen giant proton decay detectors.
It made no sense that ordinary electroweak civilizations could achieve breakthroughs with a few dozen detectors, while he had already built a thousand and still couldn't break through!
This was unreasonable.
This almost certainly meant one possibility: it wasn't that his industrial capability was insufficient, nor that the number of proton decay detectors was insufficient, but rather…
He had gone down the wrong path.
Only this possibility could explain the current situation.
So, is my current theoretical framework wrong? Where is the mistake?
Examining the theoretical framework that he had spent thousands of years researching and gradually perfecting, Li Qingsong felt a slight sense of confusion.
Is it that protons don't decay at all? Or is the decay mode different from what I previously predicted?
The strong nuclear force must be unified with the electroweak force, so what exactly is this unified model?
Mistakes aren't scary, what's scary is not knowing where the mistake is, nor knowing where the correct direction lies.
Since painstakingly forcing back the Mechanoid Scourge fleet and going all-out into the technological breakthrough endeavor, Li Qingsong truly felt the difficulty of this path for the first time.
While continuing to maintain the operation of over a thousand proton decay detectors, Li Qingsong also allocated a large amount of brainpower to invest in a new round of thinking and deduction.
In order to prevent the problem of blind spots in thinking due to only having his own mode of thinking, Li Qingsong also ordered every blueprint scientist related to this to put down their tasks and all join in the exploration of the new framework.
Time passed little by little like this, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed.
Li Qingsong's exploration yielded nothing.
He had indeed proposed as many as thirty new theoretical systems to explain the existing phenomena, but after further verification, these theoretical systems were all ruled out, and none could withstand the test of experiments.
At this moment, even with Li Qingsong's state of mind, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
It was impossible not to be anxious.
These three hundred years were what he had strived for with all his might, calculated every step, and even gambled everything he had to obtain!
With only about 200 years left, the Mechanoid Scourge fleet would make a comeback, but he was currently stuck by this obstacle, unable to make any progress. How could Li Qingsong not be anxious?
Don't forget that the next time the Mechanoid Scourge fleet arrives, they will surely have recovered to their full strength. At the same time, having been tricked once and fallen into a trap once, all of his countermeasures will be ineffective next time, and it will be impossible to be a match for the Mechanoid Scourge fleet.
Even escaping would be impossible!
At this moment, Magnetic Monopole Detector No. 559 suddenly reported a completely new situation to Li Qingsong.
The high-sensitivity magnetic field detection device showed that about 2 minutes ago, the arrangement pattern of superfluid helium-3 seemed to have been slightly disturbed.
Its pattern was extremely similar to the magnetic monopole influence predicted by Li Qingsong.
Li Qingsong's spirits lifted, and he instantly invested all available clone brainpower into this aspect.
The clones working in that giant detector closely examined all the data generated by the detector in the past few minutes and distributed it to many other scientific research institutions.
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This massive amount of data was divided into hundreds of millions of parts at this moment, and hundreds of millions of clones, as if starving and thirsty, each chose one hundred millionth, quickly read and preliminarily analyzed the data.
Another part of the clones controlled the supercomputer, inputting various data and starting calculations.
In an instant, the brains of more than 100 million clones were like the computing terminals of a distributed supercomputer, each performing the current data processing work, and finally, under Li Qingsong's control, they were summarized, and after collecting the reading and analysis results of each clone, they were fed back.
More than 100 million brains were like one, truly and truly responding to commands as if they were arms, without any delay, without any communication cost.
In this case, in just a few days, Li Qingsong completed all the data interpretation and analysis work, completely eliminated interference items, and obtained the final conclusion that made Li Qingsong unprecedentedly excited and agitated.
This is the magnetic monopole! No mistake!
Millions of deuterium-deuterium fusion power plants producing helium-3, the construction and maintenance of countless clones, daily research and analysis, finally produced fruitful results at this moment!
Magnetic monopoles really exist!
At this moment, many scientific mysteries were answered by Li Qingsong.
Li Qingsong's heart was full of emotion.
This magnetic monopole was very likely born in the early universe. It has a lifetime as long as a proton and wanders through the universe at nearly the speed of light all day long.
The interaction force between it and ordinary matter is extremely small, which gives it a strong penetrating power like neutrinos.
It has been wandering in the universe like this for tens of billions of years.
It may have witnessed the birth of the universe, witnessed the appearance and rapid demise of the first generation of stars, witnessed the birth of heavy elements, witnessed pieces of stars condensing into stars and then gathering into galaxies, witnessed countless magnificent events in the universe.
