Under the surging power supply from over a dozen dedicated nuclear fusion power plants, these energies were injected into two proton beams through electromagnetic accelerating coils.

How immense is the total electricity consumption of an entire metropolitan area in the Earth era? And how minuscule is the mass of a mere particle beam?

This extreme contrast, one large and one small, led to a very obvious result.

The speed of these proton beams was accelerated to a speed extremely, extremely close to the speed of light.

Of course, superluminal speed was still impossible. According to Tom's current theory, any matter with mass, even neutrinos, once its speed reaches the speed of light, its mass and energy would tend towards infinity, even surpassing the combined mass of the entire universe.

Although the speed of these proton beams had not yet reached the speed of light, and was only approaching it, they still possessed unprecedented immense energy.

Thus, in just a few dozen microseconds, the two particle beams collided with a roar within the massive accelerator reaction chamber.

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

Under such immense energy, a series of extremely peculiar phenomena, which Tom had never seen before, occurred one after another.

Tom observed two extremely strange particles.

Both of these particles were extremely heavy, far exceeding protons, and possessed charges of +4/3e and +1/3e respectively.

They only existed for an instant before decaying in the next moment.

But in that fleeting moment of their existence, they were captured by the detection devices set up by Tom.

After precisely measuring their various properties, Tom's heart suddenly surged with excitement.

Their various properties were exactly the same as the X and Y bosons predicted within his theoretical framework!

From this, Tom could confirm that they were indeed X and Y bosons!

The transmission of fundamental forces relies on particles.

For example, the electromagnetic force transmits force through photons, the weak nuclear force through W and Z bosons, and the Strong Nuclear Force through gluons.

So, if these three fundamental forces could be unified into a single unified force, what particle would the unified force rely on to transmit force?

The answer is X and Y bosons!

Thus, it became very clear: detecting X and Y bosons directly proved that in the previous collision, the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, and the Strong Nuclear Force had already unified into a single unified force!

Tom was still analyzing all the data generated by this collision with full effort.

He then saw that after existing for an extremely short period, these X and Y bosons spontaneously decayed.

At this instant, the accompanying magnetic monopole detector detected a large number of magnetic field fluctuations. Another detector, meanwhile, detected a large number of proton "disappearance" events.

Why did protons disappear? Evidently, they decayed and escaped the reaction area as "Light Neutrinos".

However, the probability of proton decay is extremely low; even with such a massive proton decay detector, it would take an average of several days to observe a single proton decay event.

Why, at this instant, were there so many proton decays simultaneously in the particle collider?

Evidently, it was also due to the unified energy scale and the existence of X and Y bosons.

This also largely conformed to Tom's theoretical framework!

Furthermore, Tom even detected the presence of extra photons within the particle collider.

This meant that in the unprecedented ultra-high energy collision before, due to the extremely high energy, even miniature black holes were generated inside the particle collider!

A black hole is an even more extreme dense celestial body than a neutron star. Its surface escape velocity even exceeds the speed of light, and the speed of light is the fastest speed allowed by the universe's natural laws.

This means that once any matter enters a black hole, it can no longer escape.

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

And now, Tom, relying on his own technological means, had genuinely created black holes!

Of course, they were only miniature black holes, their total mass possibly only on the order of a few protons.

And according to the principle of black hole thermodynamics, the lifespan of a black hole is directly proportional to its mass.

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

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

The lifespan of these black holes, with a mass of only a few protons, was so short that it was only an instant; in an instant, they would lose all their mass in the form of Hawking radiation, transforming into photons and radiating out.

Thus, Tom observed the extra photons.

In addition to X and Y bosons, W and Z bosons, proton decay, magnetic monopoles, and miniature black holes, Tom also observed many other types of particles and physical processes.

This series of changes was too numerous and too complex; even with Tom having improved detection accuracy as much as possible, it was impossible to analyze all its mysteries through this single collision.

However, it didn't matter; there was still time. Tom could completely study each step of these changes little by little through repeated collisions.

For the next period, Tom devoted all his available mental energy to the work of analyzing and interpreting the particle collider data.

To even increase the speed of data output, Tom also spent enormous resources to construct several more particle colliders.

Through these repeated collisions, and the process of thinking, analyzing, inferring, and calculating little by little, more new laws of physics were discovered by Tom and unified and supplemented into the existing theoretical framework.

Time quietly passed. On this day, after writing another formula with numerous complex symbols and operators, the clone where Tom's consciousness resided let out a soft breath.

This was a formula within the Grand Unified Theory framework, describing how "Light Neutrinos" gain kinetic energy during proton decay.

Within the entire theoretical framework, this formula was merely a side note and not particularly important.

But at this moment, the addition of this formula was like the last building block; by placing it, the castle named "Grand Unified Theory" had its last missing piece filled in.

That's right, after hundreds of years of exhaustive and dedicated research, at this very moment, Tom had finally completely and thoroughly unified the Strong Nuclear Force and mastered the Grand Unified Theory!

Although this set of theories has not yet brought any combat power enhancement or application-level improvements to Tom, Tom knows that he has now truly surpassed the electroweak stage and truly become a Strong Nuclear Civilization!

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