The first to be put into operation was the particle collider, which Tom valued most and was the most important equipment for conquering the Unified Field Formula.

Dozens of manned shuttle spacecraft departed from the residential spacecraft, transporting numerous clones and Bluetoth scientists to the 30-kilometer-long bamboo-shaped spacecraft, along with a large amount of fusion fuel, experimental materials, and so on.

The large nuclear fusion power plant began operating once again, and surging electricity was transmitted to the particle collider, where it was converted into kinetic energy through electromagnetic effects and applied to tiny protons.

Although there was a great deal of energy loss during this process, facing the surging energy provided by a nuclear fusion power plant with an installed capacity of several million kilowatts, even with significant loss, the energy ultimately applied to the proton beam remained extremely considerable.

And how little mass does a proton have?

The immense energy, coupled with the extremely low mass of the proton, naturally resulted in extremely high speeds.

They were instantly accelerated to speeds very close to the speed of light, taking only about one ten-thousandth of a second to fly from one end of the particle collider to the other, then violently impacting a specially made target.

At this instant, numerous particles were ejected.

These particles were either originally present inside the proton, but more often they were particles that did not exist at all before.

In the microscopic world, mass is not conserved. Particles can be created out of nothing from energy, or they can transform into energy and dissipate from mass.

These particles usually exist for only a very, very short time, transforming into other particles in an instant.

But that doesn't matter. The high-sensitivity observation equipment installed in the particle collider will record all these intermediate particles, whose lifespan may only be one hundred-millionth of a second, and completely record all their changes.

Through these changes, Tom can then explore the underlying physical laws.

What is particularly unique is that under such violent impacts, even protons and neutrons sometimes "melt," and their internal quarks, as well as the gluons that transmit the Strong Nuclear Force, are released, forming a peculiar "quark-gluon plasma" with certain fluid-like properties.

In this quark-gluon plasma, the Strong Nuclear Force will exhibit properties completely different from those at normal temperatures. Studying these changes in the properties of the Strong Nuclear Force is obviously very helpful for exploring its essence, and then unifying it with the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force.

However, this is certainly not possible at the current stage. All the research Tom is conducting now is merely for scientific reserves.

If unifying the Unified Strong Nuclear Force is likened to a college entrance examination, then the collision experiments Tom is currently conducting are like studying middle school, or even elementary school courses, accumulating lower-level knowledge bit by bit, progressing step by step, and only then having the possibility of passing the college entrance examination.

Proton collision is just one type of particle collider. In other particle colliders, Tom is also conducting collisions of heavy ions, neutrons, positrons and electrons, and many other particles. The collision forms are also diverse, including target collisions, two particle beams colliding, circular acceleration where particles are accelerated many times until they are very close to the speed of light before colliding, and also direct collisions.

Regarding the array telescope, Tom released tens of thousands of large telescopes outside the fleet, allowing them to float autonomously in space. While maintaining the same speed and direction as the main fleet, they formed an array, obtaining an unimaginably large aperture, and then began to study deep space celestial bodies.

The evolution time of stars, nebulae, galaxies, and even large-scale cosmic structures such as star clusters, galaxy clusters, superclusters, and cosmic filamentary structures usually needs to be calculated in hundreds of millions of years.

It is obviously not feasible to stick to one star or one galaxy, waiting for it to slowly evolve and then explore the principles behind this evolution.

But fortunately, the universe is large enough, and there are enough celestial bodies. And since there are many celestial bodies, they must contain every type of star, galaxy, star cluster, etc., at all stages of life.

It is like a specimen; by observing them, one can survey all stages of the universe's evolution from its birth to the present.

Light travels at the speed of light, covering one light-year in one year.

The total age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years. So, if Tom wants to study the state of celestial bodies 13.8 billion years ago, when the universe was just born, he only needs to observe celestial bodies about 13.8 billion light-years away.

Because the light emitted by celestial bodies 13.8 billion light-years away takes exactly about 13.8 billion years to reach Tom's fleet.

Thus, what Tom sees of them now is what they were approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

Of course, there is a problem, which is that they are too far away, and the light is too faint.

This requires improving the performance of the telescope and increasing its aperture to see them.

Fortunately, Tom's array telescope technology is advanced enough, and the number of large and even giant telescopes he carries is sufficient, allowing him to barely see them and then conduct research on them to obtain information about the early state of the universe.

The gravitational wave detector also began its work.

A gravitational wave is a ripple in spacetime. When a gravitational wave passes, the size of objects undergoes a tiny change.

For example, the two detector arms of a gravitational wave detector. When a gravitational wave passes, one of its detector arms will shorten, and the other will lengthen.

This change occurs in every object. Spacecraft, battleships, and even planets and stars, all undergo this change.

But this change is too tiny; only a gravitational wave detector can detect it.

Because within the detector arm of a gravitational wave detector, a laser beam constantly reflects back and forth.

Tom's gravitational wave detector has an arm length of 15 kilometers, and that laser beam reflects back and forth 10,000 times for each detection, so the total length is equivalent to 300,000 kilometers.

Assuming the arm length change of the gravitational wave detector caused by a gravitational wave event is one ten-thousandth of a proton radius, which is too small to be observed.

Then the laser reflecting back and forth 10,000 times is equivalent to amplifying this change by 10,000 times, reaching the radius of one proton, which can then be detected by high-precision equipment.

Thus, the gravitational wave detector can explore the phenomena behind this gravitational wave event through the perceived changes, and even search for the optical counterpart that caused this change, and then conduct direct detection through an optical telescope to obtain more information.

Tom also has many such gravitational wave detectors, all of which are currently in full-power detection mode, collecting gravitational wave event information from the depths of the universe through various methods and means.

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