A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 341 Good News and Bad News

When the two beams of protons collided again with unprecedented energy, the detector did not capture the expected scene of high-energy particles scattering everywhere. Instead, at the core of the collision, an extremely brief ripple in the spacetime structure appeared.

It is not a particle, but a geometric distortion of spacetime itself.

Immediately afterwards, this ripple, like a miniature cosmic embryo, released gravitational wave characteristics, photon radiation, and W/Z bosons, the weak nuclear force carriers with specific energies, in the process of being born and dying!
The four fundamental forces, like a harmonious melody interwoven together, are born, evolve, and disappear from a single, non-particle spacetime disturbance.

Inside the control room, you could hear a pin drop!
Everyone was stunned by this unprecedented sight.

Chen Hui stared at the data that perfectly confirmed his revised model, and slowly closed his eyes.

In his mind, the once elegant but somewhat rigid mathematical equation is evolving, becoming more dynamic, inclusive, and full of dynamic geometric beauty.

He saw that the four forces were not forcibly unified under a single particle, but rather emerged naturally from the deeper symmetry of spacetime itself.

He succeeded.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked at the main screen, where data from the Chaos Ring was being displayed in real time, rewriting physics.

"We saw it."

His voice remained calm, yet it seemed to carry the weight of the entire universe.

There were no cheers, no ecstasy, only a profound tranquility after reaching the other side.

At this moment, for the first time, humanity has personally touched the ultimate and simplest string that governs all phenomena in the universe!

Even Chen Hui had been surrounded by a tremendous sense of urgency these past few days, and only at this moment did he breathe a slight sigh of relief. At least, he saw hope for the future.

Their civilization, which had just stepped into the stars, was no longer an insignificant ant.

[Congratulations, host! You have completed the unified formula for the four fundamental forces. Free attribute points +1]

A message popped up in front of him: After many days, Chen Hui had finally gained another free attribute point.

Your political rating has increased from level 7 (99%) to 100%.

Your political rank has been raised to level 8, and you have gained 1 free attribute point.

Your math level has improved from 7 (97%) to 98%.

Your physics rating has increased from level 7 (79%) to 80%.

Then a series of comments appeared in front of Chen Hui's eyes, completing the verification of the unified formula of the four fundamental forces, which brought him a lot of insights, and his proficiency in mathematics and physics soared.

Unfortunately, mathematics was once again a step behind, and politics was the first to be promoted to level 8.

With a thought, he brought up the data panel.

[Host: Chen Hui
Chinese Level 6 (9%)

Mathematics Level 7 (98%)

Foreign language proficiency level 6 (2%)

Physics Level 7 (80%)

Chemistry Level 6 (6%)

Biology Level 6 (94%)

Physical Education Level 5 (0%)

Geography Level 2 (0%)

History Level 2 (0%)

Politics Level 8 (0%)

In addition to improving proficiency in mathematics and physics, chemistry and biology, Nirvana No. 1 has been fully launched on the market these days, and countless cancer patients have been given a new lease on life. After several years of verification, Eternal Life No. 1 has been recognized by the vast majority of people, and many people have put taking Eternal Life No. 1 on their agenda.

Most institutions on Earth have increased the average human lifespan to 200 years.

Chemical proficiency also improved slightly.

Both Chinese and English scores were increasing slowly but steadily. To Chen Hui's surprise, the English attribute was directly changed to "Foreign Language".

However, he could understand that at his current level, English was no longer necessary. All Western scientists were now working hard to learn Chinese so that they could study his research findings.

Today, the West has long regarded Chinese as a compulsory second language, and many countries have even completely abandoned their own languages ​​and regarded Chinese as their first language, just as many countries regarded English as their first language in the past.

So English is indeed no longer qualified to exist as an attribute entry on its own, but it hasn't disappeared either. Chen Hui looked up at the starry sky and roughly understood what it meant.

Having secured two free attribute points, Chen Hui didn't hesitate. A thought flashed through his mind...
"Give me some credit for my judgment!"

"Boost my memory!"

In just a moment, both free attribute points were used up.

This time, Chen Hui did not continue to improve his insight and creativity, but instead focused on his memory. It was the moment his judgment improved that he had an epiphany.

He used to think that level 5 memory was more than enough, but in the process of exploring the truth of the universe, he has now realized that knowledge is as vast as the starry sky, and level 5 memory is already somewhat inadequate.

After the planetary particle collider was built, he was no longer faced with a clear theoretical path, but a chaotic, complex web of unknowns woven from countless clues. The unified field theory was like a grand blueprint, but what filled this blueprint was the massive amount of data generated by the collider every day, enough to overwhelm a civilization.

Initially, Chen Hui relied on his unparalleled intuition and reasoning ability. He was able to construct complex mathematical models in his mind and see the mathematical beauty hidden behind physical phenomena.

But gradually, he realized that intuition needs a vast fertile ground to grow, and that fertile ground is memory!

What impressed him most was a discussion a few days earlier where they were arguing about an unusual signal, and a young data scientist pulled up data from a secondary collision experiment a year earlier for comparison.

"Professor, look, this tiny asymmetry in the energy spectrum seems to have been traced in the third sub-experiment of group 7402 in last month's experimental log, but it was overlooked."

When Chen Hui looked at that line of data, he felt a slight, unprecedented sense of stagnation. He remembered the experiment and the macroscopic conclusion, but the specific, insignificant trace down to a certain energy spectrum had become blurred in his vast memory bank.

He never imagined that someone with his excellent memory would have moments where he couldn't remember things. At that moment, he realized he needed to improve his memory.

Of course, he also considered using biological methods to optimize his brain's neural structure and memory encoding, which should also improve his memory.

But he doesn't have that much time to do related research right now, so using free attribute points to allocate points is undoubtedly the fastest way.

Sure enough, as the free attribute points were used to improve memory, some previously obscure points became clear again.

Turning his gaze away from the data panel, Chen Hui looked at the engineers in the main control room and other sub-control rooms. "You've all worked hard these past few days. Let's rest for today, and we'll continue the experiment tomorrow!"

They have been conducting experiments without sleep for a month, and they really deserve a rest. Chen Hui also needs to go back and think carefully about how to use this new discovery to protect Earth's civilization from invasion.

Hearing this, the engineers did not complain. Those who could stand in these positions were all people who were passionate about high-energy physics. If they were not, they would not have reached such a height, and they would not even be qualified to be selected to join the Chaos Rings project.

Although these days have been tough, the final results are amazing. If hard work alone could bring results, countless people would be willing to keep working tirelessly.

Time flies, and experiments on the Chaos Ring have continued ever since it was built.

Meanwhile, the Mountain Moving Project is also in full swing, with the first advance team of spacecraft having arrived near AXL and engineers completing their exploration of ALX.

The good news is that ALX is not a pile of rubble, but a metallic asteroid.

The advance team of scientists also attempted to excavate some of the metal to take back to Earth for research, but found that the tools they carried could not even leave a mark on the surface of ALX.

Preliminary hardness tests and spectral analysis show that the strength, toughness, and resistance to extreme environments of this metal far exceed those of any material known to humankind, rendering all attempts to violently decompose ALX through explosions ineffective.

In the face of such a substance, what kind of explosion could disintegrate this asteroid with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers?

Even worse, the drilling anchoring device designed by the engineering team was like a toothpick trying to pierce tank armor in the face of this metal. Whether it was mechanical drill bit, laser ablation or particle beam cutting, it could only leave negligible marks on the surface and could not fix any propulsion device at all.

Furthermore, the ALX surface is extremely smooth and chemically inert. Engineers' attempts to use special adhesives or space glues also failed. Any non-anchored attachment method would be instantly peeled off by the reaction force generated by the thruster ignition.

A new problem arose: even though they had the theory to push ALX away and the nuclear fusion power engine to generate enough thrust, they could not find any way to apply this force to ALX itself.

The command center fell silent again. Time ticked by, and the window for the initial push was rapidly closing.

Jiang Tonggao had no choice but to seek out Chen Hui again.

"No need to anchor it, let's hold onto it!"

Chen Hui had just stepped out of the Chaos Ring Palace's control room when he received a request from Jiang Tonggao. After analyzing the information coming from the front, Chen Hui had already come to an answer.

Although ALX is incredibly hard, it is a metal and still possesses ferromagnetism. Although extremely weak, on a cosmic scale, if we apply a sufficiently strong magnetic field, it can generate an effective interaction force!
"Therefore, we can create a magnetic clamping net, a mesh structure lasso made of superconducting coils. This lasso itself carries powerful fusion energy and can generate an extremely powerful and highly controllable magnetic field."

"Emit this magnetic net around ALX, like an invisible cage covering it."

By precisely controlling the strength and direction of the magnetic field at different locations on the network, and utilizing the attraction and repulsion generated by the magnetic force and the weak magnetism of ALX itself, the entire network and ALX maintain a stable relative position and orientation.

Essentially, it involves suspending this magnetic net around the ALX and locking it to it magnetically.

Thousands of micro-thrust engines are not installed on the asteroid, but rather at various nodes in this magnetic network.

When these engines are ignited, the resulting thrust is transmitted through a robust mesh structure and then indirectly, but effectively, applied to the ALX itself through magnetic clamping.

“We don’t need to drill holes, and we don’t need glue,” Chen Hui explained, his voice filled with a poet’s imagination. “We will use an invisible force field to grasp this metal planet, and then push that hand!”

Jiang Tonggao suddenly realized that the plan did not have any particularly difficult technical challenges. With the current level of technology on Earth, it could be easily implemented, but they had never thought of it before.

……

In the main control room of the Chaos Ring Palace, the huge circular hall was bathed in a faint blue halo, with only the holographic projections and data streams emitting a slight hum.

Chen Hui stood alone in the center, like a solitary helmsman, navigating the ocean of data. His memory, now at level 6, allowed him to navigate with ease.

The Chaos Ring is currently undergoing its 1097th routine observation run, aiming to detect the spacetime structure ripples predicted by unified field theory at extremely high energies—signals more subtle than the Higgs boson and touching upon the very structure of the universe.

The collision is complete.

Massive amounts of data poured down like a waterfall, and the supercomputer began to automatically filter and classify them. On the screen, the characteristic signals of known particles appeared, were marked, and then disappeared.

Everything conforms to the standard model, perfect, but... mediocre.

Chen Hui frowned slightly.

What he was looking for wasn't these things; what he wanted was the most secret groan emanating from spacetime itself when it was pried open at that moment.

“Filter out all known particle decay signals, correlate the unexplained missing parts of energy-momentum conservation with the corresponding spacetime curvature perturbations, and visualize them using topological methods.”

He gave Jiang Tonggao instructions, his voice sounding somewhat hoarse in the empty hall.

Countless mathematicians and physicists sprang into action, generating new visualization models.

An extremely complex and ever-changing multidimensional network structure appeared on the screen. This was a fold in spacetime at the collision core, and at certain nodes of these folds, some faint and fleeting energy anomalies were marked.

These anomalies were so faint that they had been ignored as background noise or instrument error in thousands of previous experiments. But Chen Hui’s intuition, stemming from his demanding pursuit of mathematical perfection, told him that the appearance of these anomalies was not entirely random.

Their distribution seems to have a weak correlation with a certain topological property of spacetime folds, a kind of knot-like structure.

"Magnify the energy anomaly spectrum of the topological knot region and perform quantum superposition state analysis." He leaned forward slightly, his pupils reflecting the flowing data.

As the spectrum unfolded, against the backdrop of virtual particle fluctuations representing the creation and annihilation of energy from nothing, he saw a remarkably regular, periodic asymmetry.

It's like hearing a faint, yet melody-fixed note amidst endless white noise.

Under normal circumstances, pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles generated in a vacuum will annihilate each other within the Planck time, returning to nothingness without leaving any trace.

This is an ironclad law of the universe!
But here, in the extreme environment created by the chaotic ring, filled with violent spacetime ripples, certain knots seem to possess a magical power.

They are like a small but crucial flaw on the giant loom of the universe, subtly breaking the absolute symmetry at the moment the pair of virtual particles and antiparticles is born.

(End of this chapter)