Universal gravity, electromagnetic force, and weak interaction force are now fully controlled by Mu Cang.
All that's left is...the toughest strong interaction.
Why is it so tricky?
Because the strong interaction force is the most powerful force among the four fundamental forces, it is also the force with the second shortest range of action.
It maintains the stability of the atomic nucleus structure and is the basis for the underlying material structure of the universe.
Its function process is:
Quarks are bound together by the strong interaction produced by the exchange of gluons to form stable composite particles, namely nucleons - particles that make up the nucleus of an atom, such as protons and neutrons.
At the same time, neutrons and protons can also be regarded as two different quantum states of the same particle (nucleon).
The mutual transformation between them is equivalent to the nuclear jump from one quantum state to another, and at the same time, electrons and neutrinos are released during the jump.
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What causes this change is the weak interaction between electrons, neutrino fields and atomic nuclei, which is the weak nuclear force, the brother of the strong nuclear force.
The stable existence of matter is closely related to the two, and one is indispensable.
Simply put, the strong nuclear force is the force that binds quarks together to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons.
Both it and the weak force are extremely important to the universe itself.
In a sense, the strong interaction can even be regarded as the basic force that maintains everything in the entire universe.
The powerful energy produced by various nuclear reactions essentially comes from the strong interaction force.
In other words, the energy of the sun shining into the endless starry sky also comes from the strong interaction force.
The combination of the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, both at the atomic nucleus level, invisibly binds and promotes the stability of the microscopic level of the universe.
The infinite number of microscopic particles are combined with each other to form a magnificent macroscopic universe with a diameter of one hundred billion, one trillion or even ten trillion light years.
"Unlike the Divine Gang, which can only simulate all things for a short period of time, once I hold the strong and weak nuclear forces in the palm of my hand, then..."
Mu Cang raised his head and looked at the bloody river in the dark sky that was constantly twisting, expanding, exploding, shrinking, collapsing, decaying, twisting and swelling again, and said leisurely: "All substances in the world can be created according to my will. Birth, transformation, collapse, and annihilation.”
"but……"
He frowned slightly: "The strong nuclear force only exists between the tiny quarks that make up the atomic nucleus. If you want to contact, experience, and imprint that force, you have to separate the quarks from their bound state, which means you must Breaking the [quark confinement] releases [independent quarks] that cannot normally exist in the universe."
Mu Cang meditated and activated a ray of spiritual thought to suddenly peel off a turbid substance that was as round as a ball and about the size of a fingernail from the blood river located tens of thousands of meters above the ground.
He looked at the small piece of pure black material that he had been tossing for a long time from a distance. At this time, it was continuing to emit high temperature, radiation, and arcs.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he controlled his spiritual thoughts to enter the microscopic field of vision.
Suddenly, the black planet expanded hundreds of millions of times, turning into a black star as huge as a planet with pits and ravines on its surface, displayed in Mu Cang's eyes.
His eyes flashed again, and the planet instantly exploded into billions of tiny particles.
Catch a particle and continue to amplify it.
Swish——
Keep zooming in, keep zooming in.
Finally, Mu Cang's perception entered the inside of the atom.
But after entering, there is an empty, vast, and vast nothingness in front of you.
It cannot be described as black, nor as white.
Here, 'color' has lost its meaning.
However, it is not complete nothingness here, but there are bunches of quantum fluctuations that carry extremely small masses, but present a strange and discrete state, spreading and vibrating throughout the vast space.
These fluctuations exist not only in one location in space, but also in every location in all regions of space.
It's like it's a superposition of both states at once, somewhere and all at once.
But once Mu Cang's eyes turned to observe these quantum fluctuations, they would instantly expand into a orbit-like state surrounding this vast space.
But when he doesn't pay attention to these fluctuations, they will instantly return to their original strange state of mist and clouds distributed throughout the space with a certain probability.
"electronic."
Mu Cang quietly sensed these electrons, which caused their wave functions to collapse due to his 'observation' behavior, instantly exiting the probability cloud state and turning into orbits.
Yes, electrons are not the so-called small solid balls that ordinary people think of.
It is a quantum object that exhibits both a partial particle state and a partial wave state.
Even it is neither a simple wave nor a simple particle.
It is a 'cloud' composed of probabilities, so it can only be described by probabilistic quantum wave functions.
Including the mass, spin, and charge properties of electrons, they also exist in discrete states.
The electron wave function expands into 'orbitals' only when bound in an atom in a stable state.
At the same time, this orbit does not contain electrons, nor does it describe the average position of electrons orbiting it.
On the contrary, this orbit is an electron.
This characteristic of electrons is also the basis of the electromagnetic force method "The Ancient Way of the Sky", and it is also built on the material and energy levels of the multi-dimensional pure energy orbit within each of the infinite trillions of atoms in the practitioner's body. Base.
The spiritual thoughts that have penetrated to the microscopic level continue to penetrate deep into the atoms.
If this journey to find the atomic nucleus is macroscopic, it is equivalent to finding an unknown mountain on the entire blue star.
Blue Star has a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers, but this mountain peak is only a few thousand meters high.
The gap between the two is hundreds of billions of times huge.
Yes, the atomic nucleus, which occupies 99.96% of the mass of the atom, actually occupies only one hundred billionth of the size of the atom in volume. Its density is extremely huge.
Theoretically, if the internal space of an atom is filled entirely with atomic nuclei, the mass per cubic meter can reach one hundred billion tons.
Soon, this ray of spiritual thought searched for the atomic nucleus located in the center of the inner space of the atom.
Generally speaking, the atomic nucleus formed by protons and neutrons entangled with each other under the strong interaction will show the lowest energy spherical symmetry state, that is, the shape of a sphere, when the number of protons and the number of neutrons are both magic numbers.
As the number of protons and neutrons inside the nucleus changes, the shape of the nucleus changes to an ellipse.
There are two types:
Oblate ellipsoid (dish-shaped), and prolate ellipsoid (olive-shaped).
This is determined by the symmetry within the nucleus and its energy.
But the nucleus displayed in Mu Cang's "vision" did not have any of the above shapes.
Although its appearance is not as counter-intuitive as electronics, it is still not something that normal people can see or even imagine in their daily lives.
It is both a long ellipsoid and an oblate ellipsoid.
It's not like the long ellipsoid in one moment and the oblate ellipsoid in the next moment, constantly switching, but the two shapes are superimposed at the same time.
This quantum phenomenon of coexistence of two shapes that only occurs in the nucleus of an atom has a dedicated term - "shape coexistence".
Although not all elemental nuclei have such weird appearances, there are a few types of nuclei that look like what Mu Cang sees, with two shapes at the same time.
Buzz——
Mu Cang did not hesitate, and the spiritual thought that had been condensed to the extreme was condensed again, and it was difficult to penetrate deep into the nucleus.
Go deeper, deeper and deeper.
After a while, when his spiritual thoughts reached the limit of accuracy, he finally managed to 'touch' a quark that was much smaller than the nucleus of an atom.
"call--"
Mu Cang breathed a rare sigh of relief in the macro world, "It's really strenuous."
After saying this, he immediately activated the spiritual thought that had penetrated into the extreme microscopic realm to forcibly peel off a quark.
Of course, while maintaining this extreme accuracy, even with Mu Cang's power, it was impossible to force a huge force equivalent to the mass of a star into the interior of an atomic nucleus.
That is impossible, even nonsense.
Not to mention the power of stars, even millions of tons, ten thousand tons, or hundreds of tons are impossible.
This kind of field, which is even smaller than the femto level, cannot invest much effort at all.
Therefore, Mu Cang tried his best to force eight tons of force into the atomic nucleus.
All of a sudden.
boom--
That small yet 'vast' microscopic field instantly set off bursts of energy frenzy, instantly knocking away the surrounding electrons in a probability cloud state and leaving the inner space of the atom at extremely high speeds.
As a result, the atom shrank hundreds of billions of times in an instant, and was forcibly transformed into a wildly vibrating 'naked' atomic nucleus.
This is not over yet.
The next second, the atomic nucleus, which was vibrating at an increasingly stronger frequency, collapsed and turned into beams of high-energy protons and high-energy neutrons flying in all directions.
However, the proton that was the target of Mu Cang's stripping was trembling and unable to fly away, but its energy level continued to increase.
"It's expected."
Mu Cang in the macro world shook his head slightly, "With such precision, even if the divine mind is operating at full strength, it still cannot break the quark confinement."
He frowned slightly and murmured: "The output intensity needs to be doubled again. It will take at least sixteen tons to 'break' the strong nuclear force between quarks!"
The strong interaction force binding quarks to quarks is constant, with a value of 160,000 Newtons, or 16 tons.
What's even more terrible is that when two quarks are separated, the energy applied to them is enough to stimulate the emergence of two new quarks from the vacuum.
These two new quarks will combine with the two separated quarks respectively, returning to the quark confinement state.
In other words, it is difficult to apply such a huge energy at this scale, and even if it can be applied successfully, this energy will stimulate the emergence of two new quarks in the vacuum.
Both paradoxical and contradictory.
It is as if the universe is trying its best to avoid the strong nuclear force from being studied and controlled.
But Mu Cang had already prepared this in his mind.
"Since the spiritual thoughts are not enough."
A ruthless look flashed in his eyes, "Just fill in the Divine Gang! I don't believe it, this little proton is so strong."
As soon as the thought occurred, wisps of divine light suddenly appeared in the microscopic realm.
These divine lights are like traces of strong muscle fibers attached to the power of divine thoughts, constantly strengthening its power.
After a long time, the flashing divine light and the much thicker divine mind grabbed the proton and broke it with force.
boom!
!
Suddenly, a magnificent explosion occurred in the microscopic realm.
At the same time...
"Time is running out instantly!"
Buzz——
Time stopped and everything came to a standstill.
In front of Mu Cang's eyes, two [monoquarks], which could exist independently and roam freely in the extremely hot high-energy environment at the beginning of the universe, reappeared after 13.8 billion years.
Like electrons and atomic nuclei, the true appearance of quarks is equally weird and unusual.
It has no definite volume, and its appearance cannot be described in clear terms.
It can only be regarded as an energy point from the perspective of quantum mechanics.
An energy point with a fractional charge and an approximate range of action.
But like all microscopic particles, the higher its energy, the lower its volatility, the more obvious its particle nature, and the wider its scope of action.
Mu Cang also took advantage of this short five seconds to start detailed and rapid research work.
Soon, five seconds passed.
The still time passed by in a mighty way again.
The two single quarks also 'glued' to the two quarks that emerged from the vacuum, returning to their confinement state.
Mu Cang didn't stop and held a proton again.
Break it off and stop.
Another five seconds.
"The world where time stops is too crude."
Mu Cang shook his head slightly and said to himself: "The two touches and the mold painting... have only improved the progress of controlling the strong nuclear power by one ten thousandth. Well, just grind the tofu in water and cook it slowly."
So, he repeated his previous actions again, breaking the interaction between the two quarks, and at the same time opening up the instantaneous time. With almost infinite patience, just like that time when he independently evolved his high-dimensional senses, he struggled to explore the strong nuclear force again and again. the mystery.
Ten seconds, one minute, half an hour, one hour...
Time passes minute by minute.
Suspended above Charon's Arctic sinkhole, Mu Cang is constantly conducting boring experiments to explore strong nuclear power.
Another hour, four hours, eight hours...
Finally...it's time to double the attributes again.
[Master: Mu Cang]
[Physique: 6.4 stars]
[Shenhun: 6.4 big stars]
After glancing at the attribute panel, Mu Cang turned his mind back to the proton that was shrouded and restrained by divine thoughts.
Nine hours have passed since the quark confinement was broken for the first time, and the progress in mastering the strong nuclear force has reached 99.99% at this moment.
"the last time."
Although Mu Cang had gone through nine boring hours, his expression was still indifferent, without changing at all, without any impatience.
He skillfully broke the strong nuclear force between the two quarks again, then started the instantaneous time, entered the time-stop state, and began to quickly study the two stationary independent quarks.
Five 'long' and short seconds passed.
Swish——
The world is back in motion.
Mu Cang also withdrew his spiritual thoughts at this moment and let go of the protons who had been tortured for a long time.
At this moment, he finally truly mastered the strong interaction force.
At this point, universal gravitation, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force, these four basic forces that support the existence and operation of the universe, are completely in Mu Cang's palm.
