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Chapter 234 Strong Core!

Under the surging power supply of more than a dozen specially equipped nuclear fusion power plants, this energy is infused into two proton beams through the conversion of electromagnetic acceleration coils.

How massive is the amount of electricity needed to power an entire metropolitan area on Earth? And how tiny is the mass of a single particle beam?

This almost extreme contrast between the big and the small led to a very obvious result.

These proton beams are accelerated to speeds extremely close to the speed of light.

Of course, superluminal travel is still impossible. According to Li Qingsong's existing theory, any matter with mass, even a neutrino, will tend to infinity once its speed reaches the speed of light, even surpassing the mass of the entire universe.

Although the speed of these proton beams has not reached the speed of light at this moment, but is only close to the speed of light, they still possess unprecedented huge energy.

Then, in just a few tens of microseconds, the two particle beams collided violently in the huge accelerator reaction chamber.

At this moment, their energy levels even far exceeded the core of a hydrogen bomb explosion, the core of a stellar fusion, and even the core of a neutron star!

Under the influence of such a huge amount of energy, a series of extremely strange phenomena that Li Qingsong had never seen before occurred one after another.

Li Qingsong observed two extremely strange particles.

Both particles are extremely heavy, far exceeding protons, with charges of +4/3e and +1/3e respectively.

It only exists for a moment and decays the next moment.

But they only existed for a moment, but were captured by the detection device set up by Li Qingsong.

After accurately measuring its various properties, Li Qingsong suddenly felt excited.

Their properties are exactly the same as the X and Y bosons speculated in his theoretical framework!
From this, Li Qingsong can determine that they are X and Y bosons!
The transmission of fundamental forces is achieved through particles.

For example, the electromagnetic force is transmitted through photons, the weak nuclear force is transmitted through W and Z bosons, and the strong nuclear force is transmitted through gluons.

So, if these three basic forces can be unified into a unified force, what particles does the unified force rely on to transmit the force?

The answer is X and Y bosons!
So it was obvious: the detection of the X and Y bosons was direct proof that, in the previous collision, the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force had been unified into a unified force!
Li Qingsong is still doing his best to analyze the various data generated by this collision.

He then saw that after existing for a very brief period of time, these X and Y bosons spontaneously decayed.

During this moment, the accompanying magnetic monopole detector detected a large number of magnetic field fluctuations, while another detector detected a large number of proton "missing" events.

Why did the protons disappear? Obviously, they decayed, turning into photons and escaping the reaction area.

The probability of proton decay is extremely low. Even such a huge proton decay detector takes several days on average to observe a proton decay event.

Why are there so many proton decays simultaneously in the particle collider at this moment?
Obviously, this is also due to the unified energy scale and the existence of X and Y bosons.

This also basically conforms to Li Qingsong's theoretical framework!
Li Qingsong even detected the presence of extra photons within the particle collider. This meant that during that unprecedented ultra-high-energy collision, due to the extremely high energy, a microscopic black hole had even formed within the particle collider!

Black holes are even more extreme and compact objects than neutron stars. Their surface escape velocity even exceeds the speed of light, which is the fastest speed allowed by the laws of nature in the universe.

This means that once any matter enters a black hole, it will be impossible to escape.

Black holes are the most extreme and mysterious celestial bodies in the universe.

And now, Li Qingsong has actually created a black hole by relying on his own technical means!
Of course, it is just a micro black hole, and its total mass may be only on the order of a few protons.

According to the principles of black hole thermodynamics, the lifespan of a black hole is proportional to its mass.

Although their escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, making it seemingly impossible for any mass to escape from them, black holes can still lose mass due to the Hawking radiation mechanism.

The larger the mass of a black hole, the longer its lifespan. The smaller the mass, the shorter its lifespan.

At this moment, these black holes, whose mass is only a few protons, have a lifespan so short that it is only a moment. In a moment, they will lose all their mass in the form of Hawking radiation and radiate out as photons.

So Li Qingsong observed the extra photons.

In addition to the X-nucleus Y boson, W and Z boson, proton decay, magnetic monopoles, and micro black holes, Li Qingsong also observed many other types of particles and physical processes.

This series of changes is too numerous and too complicated. Even if Li Qingsong has improved the detection accuracy as much as possible, it is impossible to analyze all the mysteries through this collision.

But it doesn’t matter. There is still time. Li Qingsong can study every step of the change bit by bit through repeated collisions.

In the following period of time, Li Qingsong devoted all his available energy to the analysis and interpretation of particle collider data.

In order to increase the speed of data output, Li Qingsong even spent huge amounts of resources to build several more colliders.

In the process of repeated collisions, bit by bit thinking, analysis, reasoning and calculation, more new laws of physics were discovered by Li Qingsong and unified into the existing theoretical framework.

Time passed quietly. One day, after writing down another formula with many complex symbols and operators, the clone containing Li Qingsong's consciousness let out a sigh of relief.

This is a formula that describes how photons gain kinetic energy during proton decay within the framework of the grand unified theory.

In the entire theoretical framework, this formula can only be regarded as a scrap and is not important.

But at this moment, the addition of this formula is like the last building block. Putting it on top, the castle called "Grand Unified Theory" will fill in the last missing piece.

That’s right, after hundreds of years of painstaking research, at this moment, Li Qingsong finally completely and thoroughly unified the strong nuclear force and mastered the grand unified theory!

Although this set of theories has not yet brought Li Qingsong any improvement in combat power and application level, Li Qingsong knows that he has now truly surpassed the electroweak stage and has truly become a strong nuclear civilization!
(End of this chapter)