Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 395: Creating Planet

The second plan prepared by engineers and scientists to improve detection accuracy was to use gaseous giant planets as a medium.

In calculations based on existing theories, scientists believed that gravitational interactions could cause a phenomenon called "turbulent oscillation" at the microscopic level of matter.

If this turbulent oscillation phenomenon could be detected, it could then be used to study various properties of gravitons, thereby completing the quantization of gravity.

However, this turbulent oscillation phenomenon was extremely faint and could not be detected under conventional experimental conditions.

Only if the experimental tools could be magnified sufficiently would this faint turbulent oscillation phenomenon be amplified synchronously and become detectable.

How large would it need to be? Precise calculations showed... roughly the size of a gaseous giant planet would be sufficient.

This was clearly a project that an ordinary Strong Nuclear Civilization could not complete, and even Tom’s engineering capabilities were far from enough.

But clearly, Tom did not really need to build such a huge detector, because there were naturally occurring experimental mediums in the solar system that met the conditions.

Those massive gaseous giant planets were natural test sites.

The only question now was how to penetrate deep enough into the interior of a gaseous giant planet to conduct actual observations there, to see if the theoretically predicted "turbulent oscillation" phenomenon could be observed.

As early as when he advanced from Electroweak to Strong Nuclear, Tom had attempted observations inside gaseous giant planets.

However, due to the immense pressure inside gaseous giant planets and his limited technology at the time, which could not withstand it, he ultimately failed.

But now, his technological level had reached the peak of Strong Nuclear, Strong Nuclear materials had already been widely applied and developed significantly, and the performance of his probe spacecraft had greatly improved, making it possible to enter the interior of gaseous giant planets for detection.

Of course, the Strong Nuclear materials Tom currently possessed were not, in essence, the idealized material that "overcomes the Coulomb repulsion between atomic nuclei, allowing them to be tightly arranged."

Idealized Strong Nuclear materials would have a density close to that of a neutron star.

Their various properties would, of course, be unimaginably powerful, capable of withstanding the explosion of a large-yield hydrogen bomb at close range, and probably wouldn’t even be damaged if thrown into a star’s core.

However, their technological content was simply too high; in the foreseeable future, even if he successfully advanced to a Gravity Civilization, Tom clearly knew that he had no possibility of creating such a material.

The Strong Nuclear materials Tom referred to at this stage were actually a type of material obtained through Strong Nuclear excitation, similar to energy shields.

Their performance was, of course, far inferior to truly idealized Strong Nuclear materials, but they were also much superior to conventional materials, and sufficient for his needs.

Having confirmed that both methods were engineeringly feasible, Tom immediately joined numerous intelligent life scientists to truly begin the assault on "graviton quantization."

The first task undertaken was the construction of the graviton telescope.

It was too enormous; simply finding a place in space to start construction would likely not work.

A more economical and reasonable approach was to find a dwarf planet and use its structure and framework to build the graviton telescope.

After some searching, Tom quickly found a suitable planet.

It was approximately 12 billion kilometers from the main star, received extremely low stellar radiation, and there were no large planets nearby, so there was no need to worry about gravitational interference.

It was just a bit far.

A distance of 12 billion kilometers meant that even with Tom’s transport ship, one trip would take about three months.

However, this obstacle was at most only slightly troublesome for Tom; it was still nothing.

A large number of industrial ships and transport ships arrived at this dwarf planet, and construction immediately began.

Manipulating Primal to control various intelligent robots and machinery to commence on-site operations, Tom also spared a thought, looking at the dwarf planet’s surface covered in dark red tholin, his heart filled with emotion.

He recalled the years when he struggled to develop on Loshen Star, accumulating clones and advancing technology little by little.

In a trance, tens of thousands of years had passed...

Fortunately, after tens of thousands of years of development, I am no longer who I was then.

With my current technology, a mere dwarf planet is no longer something I can only look up to, but a tool I can freely mold and transform.

This time, the project Tom was undertaking was also very simple.

Hollow out this dwarf planet!

Empty out the entire interior of this massive celestial body, which has a diameter of 900 kilometers and a total mass of 100 quintillion tons, leaving only an outer shell approximately 80 kilometers thick!

This meant an earthwork volume of up to 55 quintillion tons.

This mass is basically equivalent to the total water volume of the Pacific Ocean, the largest of Earth’s four major oceans.

Under the direct control of Primal, countless giant machines first began to drill 25,000 holes on the desolate and silent surface of this dwarf planet, averaging one per 10 \times 10, or 100 square kilometers.

Each circular hole had a radius of about 550 meters, an area of 1 square kilometer, and a depth of 80 kilometers.

Upon reaching this depth, Tom stopped drilling and began excavating.

Excavate what?

Dig everything!

Whether it was water ice, dry ice, liquid hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen, or silicates, sulfates, and other rocks, whatever was there was dug, whatever was seen was dug, leaving nothing behind.

Massive amounts of earthwork continuously ascended under the operation of heavy lifts, then were transported to the space elevator, and ascended into space along the space elevator.

Aerospace carriers, giant transport ships, and other vessels that arrived fully loaded, after unloading their cargo and cleaning their holds, would transport these excavated earth materials to a location tens of millions of kilometers away, allowing them to naturally re-aggregate there by their own gravity.

Huge cavities quickly appeared 80 kilometers deep underground.

To maintain the integrity of these cavities and prevent them from collapsing under their own gravity, Tom also followed the excavation process, building support structures as he dug.

Giant support rods made of Strong Nuclear materials, possessing super strong support, stood like colossal pillars, one end connected to the deeper bottom layer, and the other end connected to the 80-kilometer thick outer shell, holding it firmly to prevent it from collapsing.

As the excavation progressed, the underground cavities grew larger and deeper, and these support pillars extended accordingly, becoming longer and more numerous.

Time quietly flowed, and in the blink of an eye, several years passed.

As the last pile of earthwork was transported away, this underground cavity was completely opened up by Tom.

From this moment on, this dwarf planet exhibited a structure that no natural process could possibly create.

Its interior was a massive sphere with a diameter of 730 kilometers, while its exterior was a thick shell with a thickness of 80 kilometers, and these two... were not connected to each other.

Imagine a hard-boiled egg; the state of this planet now is like that hard-boiled egg where the egg white layer has disappeared, leaving only the eggshell and the yolk, and the yolk floats within the eggshell, with no natural structure connecting it to the eggshell.

Responsible for connecting the yolk to the eggshell and supporting the eggshell from falling onto the yolk were the millions of giant support pillars specially constructed by Tom.

Controlling a clone standing on the inner core’s surface, looking up at this world illuminated by countless lights, Tom’s heart was filled with emotion.

What appeared before him at this moment was a peculiar sight.

Beneath his feet was flat ground, the sky was filled with rocks of various colors, and between the ground and the sky were colossal pillars, densely packed, so much so that their end could not be seen.

"It truly is marvelous..."

But this was not the end of the project; Tom still had to continue.

Break apart this inner core and excavate it too!

Like ants gradually devouring a steamed bun, under Tom’s immense engineering capability, the volume of this inner core continuously shrank.

Meanwhile, tens of millions of kilometers away, a new planet was gradually forming.

Ship after ship of planetary debris was dumped there.

Initially, the debris remained independent, not touching each other, roughly forming a small asteroid group orbiting the star together.

But with the rapid increase in matter, this situation quickly changed.

Tom saw that the asteroids, with an average size of no more than 200 meters, seemed to be manipulated by an invisible large hand, beginning to aggregate and compress, slowly forming a celestial body with an irregular shape.

As the amount of matter increased again, this irregularly shaped celestial body gradually took on a spherical form.

A truly genuine dwarf planet was born before Tom.

"If placed before ancient people, my actions right now could truly be considered catching stars and the moon."

Tom thought faintly, "It’s just a pity that for now, I can at most only move dwarf planets.

Large planets are still beyond my grasp."

With the appearance of this artificial dwarf planet, at the actual construction site, the celestial body located in the inner core completely vanished.

Now, this natural dwarf planet truly only had an outer shell remaining; there was nothing inside.

Millions of colossal pillars, each 740 kilometers long, crisscrossing and pointing in different directions, supported this layer of approximately 4.4 quintillion tons, a mass roughly equivalent to the total water volume of two Atlantic Oceans combined, keeping them stable.

On average, each pillar needed to support a mass of approximately 200 billion tons.

This seemed too immense to be supported by a mere single pillar, but one must not forget that this was a dwarf planet, not Earth.

In fact, what these pillars needed to support was not 200 billion tons of mass, but the mutual gravity created by that mass; they only needed to counteract this gravity.

This number was much smaller, and supporting it with these pillars was no problem at all.

At this moment, a series of peculiar phenomena occurred within this enormous internal cavity.

As the project reached this stage, Tom no longer used the previous methods of building high-speed railways on the planet’s surface or directly using spacecraft for material transportation on this planet; instead, he adopted a completely new transportation method that had never appeared before.

Package the materials and simply throw them down.

Yes, it was that simple.

At this moment, a batch of nuclear fusion fuel needed to be transported from one side of the planet to the other.

So, the large tanks carrying protium gas were thrown down from this side.

After breaking through the outer shell and entering the internal cavity, these huge and heavy tanks continued to fall at high speed, constantly accelerating, until they reached the now empty center of mass of the planet.

After passing the center of mass, their speed began to decrease, continuously decelerating. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

They would slow down until their speed reached exactly zero just as they passed through the corresponding hole on the other side of the planet and reached the surface on the other side.

The intelligent robots here only needed to pull them away and store them.

The gravitational relationship caused by the distribution of the celestial body’s mass created this peculiar spectacle.

Unfortunately, this peculiar method of material transportation only lasted for a few short days, after which it could no longer be used.

Because Tom’s project had moved to the next stage.

It was time to construct the gravitational telescope within this excavated enormous cavity.

During the early stages of the project, in addition to excavating the original "planetary core," Tom was also carrying out another task.

Extracting water from a moon of a gas giant.

Its radius was about 1,500 kilometers, corresponding to a surface area of approximately 28.2 million square kilometers.

And this vast area was entirely covered by a thick layer of ice.

Below a thickness of about 500 meters was a liquid ocean with an average depth of about 3,000 meters.

If this much water were spread evenly over the Earth’s surface, its depth would reach about 160 meters!

And now, due to Tom’s continuous extraction for several decades, all the water on this moon, whether ice or liquid water, had completely disappeared, all transported to the vicinity of that distant dwarf planet.

There, they converged to form a "Mercury" with a diameter of about 700 kilometers.

What Tom had to do now was to insert this "Mercury," with a diameter of about 700 kilometers, into the interior of this spherical shell.

Of course, before that, one more thing needed to be done: water purification.

Only ultrapure water could undertake the task of observing gravitons.

Thus, while constructing the giant water storage tanks and the internal equipment of the gravitational telescope within the spherical shell, many water purification plants built by Tom on the planet’s surface also began to operate.

Numerous giant transport ships transported ship after ship of water into the factories, where, after completing the purification process, surging ultrapure water was poured into the interior of the spherical shell, filling the pre-built water storage chambers.

For a full ten years, that "Mercury" completely disappeared, and this dwarf planet regained its core, no longer having only a thin outer layer.