The first to be relocated were the neutrino telescopes.
Tom had built a total of 16 neutrino telescopes. The largest of these telescopes stored 10 million tons of pure water in its internal pure water tank, while the smallest still held 4 million tons.
This ant that the pure water tanks alone had diaters ranging from 200 to 300 ters.
Their size wasn’t actually too large. If it was purely for transportation, Tom could completely disassemble them, storing the equipnt components and pure water separately, which wasn’t difficult.
However, considering that they needed to operate during the relocation journey, it beca quite troubleso.
This was because neutrino telescopes have a very important characteristic: they must block out other types of radiation as much as possible, allowing only neutrinos, which have extrely high penetrability, to pass through. Only then can they achieve the goal of detecting neutrinos.
On the planet, Tom adopted the thod of building them deep underground, relying on thick rock layers to achieve this shielding purpose.
In space, what would Tom rely on for shielding?
While spacecraft armor certainly has extrely high radiation resistance, how thick would the armor need to be to achieve the shielding effect of thousands of ters of deep rock layers?
Don’t forget, the requirents for the shielding layer of a neutrino telescope are much higher than for living organisms. Even a little interference would essentially render the entire telescope useless.
After much thought, Tom decided to build an unprecedentedly massive spherical spaceship.
The radius of this spherical spaceship reached 1.7 kiloters—thus, its longest dinsion, or diater, was only 3.4 kiloters. It might seem small, but it was actually larger than the largest Aerospace Carrier.
This was because an Aerospace Carrier only reached 6 kiloters in length and width, but its height was only 600 ters.
The internal volu of an Aerospace Carrier was about 18 cubic kiloters, while the internal volu of this spherical scientific research vessel was as high as 20.5 cubic kiloters!
Its total mass also exceeded a fully loaded Aerospace Carrier, reaching around 500 million tons.
Tom placed the main structure of the neutrino telescope, which was the pure water tank with extrely high requirents for radiation shielding, at the core of this massive spherical spaceship. Furthermore, Tom designed this spaceship as a cargo ship.
Thus, outside the innermost pure water tank, in every direction, there were approximately 1.4 kiloters of armor, isolation layers, equipnt, and most importantly, various materials with good radiation shielding properties, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, chemicals, and so on.
Using the transported materials themselves as a shielding layer created a sufficiently pure environnt for the neutrino telescope at the very core, allowing it to operate normally even in space.
Because there were 16 neutrino telescopes, Tom also needed to build 16 of these spherical cargo ships. And because the neutrino telescopes varied in size, operational goals, and detection directions, each spherical cargo ship needed to be specially designed.
After solving the problem of the neutrino telescopes, the next challenge was the particle colliders.
Here, Tom encountered so difficulties again.
Particle colliders can be divided into two shapes: circular and linear. Circular ones were relatively easy; he could just build a ring-shaped spaceship.
But linear particle colliders were a bit tricky.
They were simply too long.
The longest one even had a length of 30 kiloters!
Before this, the largest spaceship Tom had built was only 6 kiloters long. This was an expansion of five tis.
But there was no other way.
During the transportation phase, they could be disassembled and moved, but when they needed to operate, he couldn’t just leave them exposed in interstellar space at a few percent of the speed of light, could he?
He had to build a spaceship to house them.
Left with no choice, Tom had to design a new type of bamboo pole-shaped spaceship, equipping it with its own power and protection. He also built equipnt rooms, observation rooms, supercomputing bases, personnel logistics bases, and so on, to accommodate this particle collider.
Because this spaceship was extrely long and thin, its thrusters had to be specially designed, and the thrust had to be strictly consistent.
For ordinary spaceships, because they inherently possess a suitable chanical structure, it doesn’t matter if the thrusters’ output is slightly inconsistent; the hull strength will compensate for this problem.
But with this "bamboo pole" spaceship, if the thruster thrust was even slightly inconsistent, it might just break directly.
After a series of tests, improvents, and so on, Tom finally solved this problem with great effort.
In comparison, the circular colliders weren’t much trouble.
After solving the colliders, the next challenge was the gravitational wave detectors.
Compared to particle colliders, gravitational wave detectors were even more troubleso.
Particle colliders were either long and linear or circular, with relatively simple structures. But gravitational wave detectors were "7"-shaped.
They had a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. Both axes were several kiloters long but were connected at only one point.
Traditional gravitational wave detectors actually didn’t need axes; they only needed a few laser emitters connected by lasers.
However, Tom gradually discovered during his long research that to improve detection precision to a certain extent, even the vacuum of interstellar space was not enough; a higher vacuum had to be created artificially.
Thus, there had to be a pipe connecting these laser emitters.
This was because only a physical pipe could maintain an extrely high vacuum inside, allowing the laser to travel without any interference to achieve the highest precision.
These two pipe axes had to maintain an absolute 90-degree angle and could not deform. Once deford, detection would be greatly affected.
Such a large and fragile detector gave Tom a headache. After experinting with dozens of thods, Tom finally found a right-angled triangular spaceship structure, installing these two mutually perpendicular pipe axes on the two right-angle sides of the right-angled triangular spaceship, thus solving the transportation problem of the gravitational wave detector.
After solving the environntal setup and transportation for these most challenging large scientific facilities, the remaining large scientific facilities, though also extrely complex, were much easier to handle.
Thus, one custom-built large spaceship after another erged from the shipyards, and high-temperature laboratories, high-pressure laboratories, array telescopes, radio telescopes, and so on, were all transported into the spaceships.
At this mont, the originally scheduled 30 years were only a few months away from completion.
Tom’s fleet was also fully prepared and ready to set sail at any ti.
"Before leaving, I’ll leave you a little surprise."
Tom pondered to himself, then issued another command.
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