With these heavy-duty starships as his ultimate fallback, Tom finally dedicated his entire energy, intellect, and resources to advancing technological development.

This was a true, all-out effort, racing against time, not daring to waste even a single second.

Five years, only five years. For an ordinary Electroweak Civilization, five years might not even be enough to complete the preliminary project approval for a major scientific research task. But for Tom, including the quantum supercomputer, he had to achieve tens of millions of large and small technological breakthroughs!

Every minute and every second was incredibly precious.

Under Tom's full effort, supported by materials from dozens of large-scale planets and tens of thousands of shuttling transport ships, countless factories roared day and night, producing equipment and boxes of consumables, all of which were then poured into an almost infinite number of experiments.

Some were solely dedicated to thinking and contributing brainpower while lying in bed, others were responsible for the daily lives of these clones, executing the SkyNet Plan to ensure industrial production and scientific research were undisturbed, maintaining industrial production, mining, working on the front lines of scientific research, managing the operation of various factories…

And so on, a total of 1.02 billion consciousness connection counts were constantly linked to the clones.

The clones still needed to rest for a period each day, but Tom had not rested for a single moment.

In the quantum laboratory, millions of frontline clones were distributed across various research fields, fully focused.

To research quantum computers, the first problem to overcome was the stability of quantum bits.

A pair of entangled quantum particles are easily disturbed by external factors, leading to the loss of their entangled state, which is the decoherence process.

To maintain stable operation, the decoherence problem must be solved.

And truly practical quantum computers require an extremely high number of quantum bits. This exponentially increases the difficulty of maintaining stability, making it immensely challenging.

After initial theoretical research and actual experimental verification, Tom finally decided to solve this problem from several aspects.

First was the research and development of new superconducting materials.

In low-temperature environments, superconducting materials are not uncommon. Many common materials enter a superconducting state when their temperature drops to a certain level.

However, such materials are not suitable for quantum computers. Because in addition to the requirement of superconductivity, they have too many other requirements, such as toughness, ductility, photosensitivity, and so on.

All conditions must meet the standards.

Following the principles of materials science accumulated over time, Tom continuously carried out the research and development of new materials with atomic-level precision.

In addition to materials, Tom also had to find a sufficiently powerful quantum error correction method to accurately identify and eliminate the influence of quantum bits when they are accidentally disturbed, leading to decoherence, and to reduce error accumulation.

Quantum error correction algorithms are completely different from ordinary electronic computer algorithms. This is not just a mathematical task but also involves extremely fundamental physical principles.

To research this set of algorithms, Tom had to simultaneously initiate a large amount of basic physics research, continuously colliding particles using a particle collider to study their changes under extremely high energy levels. At the same time, in high-temperature laboratories, he raised particle temperatures to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, or in high-pressure laboratories, he used diamond anvil cells to extremely compress gases, even to the point of pressure equivalent to the Earth's core, to obtain data on particle motion and changes.

Beyond error correction algorithms, Tom also had to achieve breakthroughs in another area.

Low-temperature refrigeration technology.

Quantum computers need to operate stably at extremely low temperatures, even temperatures approaching absolute zero.

Normally, refrigeration should not be an obstacle for Tom.

After all, the space environment itself is extremely cold, and refrigeration technology is already mature.

In the laboratory, Tom had long been able to achieve temperatures only one trillionth of a degree above absolute zero, and had observed a large number of new physical phenomena in such low-temperature environments.

However, quantum computers are large in size and require cooling a macroscopic object. At the same time, this macroscopic object is constantly operating and generating heat. From an engineering perspective, although its temperature requirement is only 1 K, much higher than the low temperatures achieved in the laboratory, the difficulty is actually greater.

For this reason, Tom had to conduct extensive research in laser cooling, magnetic evaporative cooling, and Bose-Einstein condensation to find suitable methods for cooling quantum computers.

At the same time, Tom also had to research extremely precise laser low-temperature manipulation technology.

The essence of a quantum computer is the manipulation of quantum bits to perform calculations. And the means of this manipulation is laser.

Because the object of manipulation is quantum, and it must be done at extremely low temperatures, the requirements for the precision and reliability of the laser controller are incredibly high.

Tom had to develop extremely precise light sources and controllers to possibly overcome this difficulty.

These problems are only broad classifications. In reality, each problem can be broken down into tens of thousands of smaller topics, each small topic requires a large number of people to specialize in research, and different topics may even be interconnected, as complex as tangled threads.

But at this moment, Tom didn't even have time to feel fear before these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, nor did he have time to ponder how difficult it truly was to overcome them.

No matter how difficult it was, he just had to do it.

This research power, equivalent to ten ordinary Electroweak Civilizations, like the Foolish Old Man who moved mountains, fully devoted itself to this task.

Time slowly passed as Tom gave his all.

One problem was solved, and new problems emerged. New problems were solved, and even newer problems emerged, seemingly endless.

But Tom's intellectual and resource investment was also endless.

Solve as many problems as come, and no matter how many more problems are yet to appear, just do it!

Almost in an instant, four and a half years quietly passed.

Looking at the massive device in front of him, which occupied an entire hall and had a power consumption of 100,000 kilowatts, Tom finally showed a smile.

The original five-year period had not yet arrived, but the key breakthrough had already been completed.

Now, a practical quantum supercomputer had finally been built by his own hands!

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