Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 398: Black Hole Factory

Tom knew that within these changes lay the mysteries of the graviton.

During that brief 0.3-second period, with only a 2-nanometer length change, all the changes in this column during that process had been detected by the ubiquitous detectors.

In such a short time, this detector generated approximately 8 million TB of observation data.

Using Primal as a tool, Tom’s hundreds of millions of clones, plus about 100 million scientists from corresponding fields, all dedicated themselves to the analysis of this data.

Less than five hours after this gravitational wave event, another gravitational wave event arrived. This time, Gravity One Telescope showed a length change of about 0.8 nanometers, generating approximately 7.2 million TB of data again.

On average, this telescope would observe about three gravitational wave events per day.

And after the second telescope was completed, the number of observed events was still three, but the data volume doubled.

Although it was the detection of the same gravitational wave event, the data generated would differ due to different angles, just like observing the shape of the same object from different directions.

This undoubtedly helped to understand the true appearance of the object more accurately.

Thus, the amount of data Tom and the scientist team needed to analyze daily climbed to around 40 million TB.

When all ten gravitational wave telescopes were completed, the daily data volume to be analyzed surged to approximately 190 million TB.

For this, Tom had to build over ten thousand new large supercomputing centers, which barely managed to stem this surging tide of data.

But even with the assistance of Primal, Tom and the scientists were still working tirelessly, with their rest time greatly reduced.

"It’s fortunate that I have the ability to control clones, and the efficiency of data analysis and processing is high enough.

For an ordinary Human Civilization, let alone building a gravitational wave telescope, just the data analysis and processing would probably take hundreds of years to complete.

Hmm... perhaps spending a few hundred years to complete these data analysis tasks bit by bit is the normal state in this universe. For me, building ten gravitational wave telescopes simultaneously and completing the data analysis within 20 years is an anomaly."

Thinking this, Tom’s motivation grew stronger, and he once again threw himself into the seemingly endless data analysis with a more positive and enthusiastic attitude.

Time passed bit by bit, and those 10 Strong Nuclear columns, each 1 billion kilometers long, were constantly compressed, stretched, ’oscillated’, and changed by gravitational waves coming from who knows where, like kneading dough.

It was through these repeated changes that the interaction mechanism between gravitons and matter was revealed through the tightly packed layers of atoms, gradually appearing before Tom and allowing him to deduce the various properties of gravitons.

On this day, as the roar of Supercomputer 77656 once again ceased, the final calculation results appeared on the computer terminal and were combined with numerous other results. At that moment, the last missing piece of the puzzle for the quantum gravity theory finally fell into place before Tom.

Phew...

Tom let out a long breath, a feeling of inexpressible joy surging within him.

The work of quantum gravity was finally complete at this very moment.

Gravity, this "barbarian," was finally civilized by Tom, this "wise race," at this moment, acquiring various values that belonged to the same framework and could be described by the same physical language.

The most crucial prerequisite for the systematic work of unifying gravity was finally met.

At this moment, all the scientific researchers who participated in this work applauded enthusiastically, and cheers filled every research institution.

When this progress spread throughout the intelligent life species, although they did not understand the scientific logic and principles behind it, people also cheered and celebrated.

Because people knew the significance of this work, they knew that once the work of quantum gravity was completed, the biggest obstacle to advancing to a Gravity Civilization would have been removed.

At this moment of universal celebration, Heimerlan and Tom personally appeared and held a large-scale celebration that encompassed every race of the entire civilization, including the Human race and the Electromagnetic race.

With a wave of his hand, Tom released hundreds of thousands of special fireworks centered around high-yield hydrogen bombs. The artistic performances, which gathered outstanding artists from all races, lasted for a full five days. All scientific researchers who participated in this scientific endeavor received heroic treatment, and Tom even granted them a half-year vacation.

"According to the descriptions in some literary works of Human Civilization, I was probably a Strong Nuclear peak civilization before, but now that the work of graviton quantization has been completed, I can probably be considered... a half-step gravity?

It’s a pity that this so-called half-step gravity is only a breakthrough at the level of theoretical physics, corresponding to almost no applied physics. My current combat power is still no different from before, when I was at the Strong Nuclear peak.

I still need to work harder and cross this half-step in one go."

While the scientific researchers who had been working tirelessly for hundreds of years rested in shifts, Tom maintained his intense work state.

Having completed the work of graviton quantization, Tom finally understood what kind of environment could cause gravitons to transition from virtual to real.

Now was the perfect time, while the intelligent life scientists were resting, to build the corresponding experimental equipment.

After some research, Tom spent several months designing a completely new particle collider system.

Particle colliders had been widely used during the Electroweak period of Human Civilization and had played an irreplaceable role.

Now, it once again revitalized and took on a crucial mission.

The biggest change in particle colliders manufactured with Strong Nuclear peak technology, compared to the Electroweak period, was the increase in energy levels.

This energy level was even high enough to mass-produce miniature black holes!

That’s right, the environment that could cause gravitons to transition from virtual to real was black hole annihilation!

The lifespan of a black hole is related to its mass. Based on the principle of Hawking radiation, even a black hole can be seen as constantly "radiating" energy to the outside world.

Of course, this radiation is not ordinary radiation, as the gravity of a black hole is too strong for even light to escape.

This radiation is Hawking radiation, a special type of radiation based on virtual particle pairs and the mechanism by which virtual particles transition from virtual to real.

Based on the vacuum fluctuation mechanism, pairs of virtual particles frequently appear out of thin air in space, one carrying positive mass and one carrying negative mass. Immediately after appearing, they annihilate each other and return to equilibrium.

However, the environment around a black hole is too special. Virtual particle pairs born there will, through some mechanism, cause the virtual particle carrying positive mass to transition from virtual to real, thereby escaping the black hole’s gravitational field and radiating outwards.

Where energy is created, energy is naturally lost. Thus, from the outside, it appears as if the black hole is constantly radiating energy outwards and losing its own mass.

The lower the mass of a black hole, the more intense its Hawking radiation, and the shorter its lifespan.

A black hole with the mass of the Sun has a lifespan of approximately 1.6 times 10^{67} years, while a black hole with the mass of the Earth has a lifespan of only 1.1 times 10^{50} years.

A black hole with the mass of Mount Everest has a lifespan of about 19 years, so... what if a black hole had the mass of only a single proton?

Through calculations, Tom knew that its lifespan would be only about 3.1 times 10^{-97} seconds, even far less than the Planck time.

Clearly, since only black hole annihilation can create the special environment that allows gravitons to transition from virtual to real, and lower mass black holes have shorter lifespans, the plan for detecting gravitons is quite clear:

Mass-produce miniature black holes and observe their annihilation processes in large quantities!

Particle colliders are ideal tools for mass-producing miniature black holes.

Of course, this requires the particle collider to have a very high energy level. And Tom, who already possessed Strong Nuclear peak technological capabilities, happened to have this ability.

Thus, another large-scale construction project began.

Around a certain planet in this solar system, countless large industrial spacecraft began to gather. With the concerted efforts of numerous intelligent robots and intelligent machinery, a giant particle collider with a radius of approximately 20 meters and a length of about 50,000 kilometers gradually appeared before Tom.

Building such a giant particle collider, for an ordinary Strong Nuclear peak civilization, even one like the Purple Moon Civilization, which had almost reached its limit in internal organizational power due to the Demonic Eye infection, would probably take over a hundred years to complete.

However, for Tom, building it only took less than 1 year. And Tom was not building one, but ten!

At different orbital heights and next to different planets, Tom built a total of 10 giant particle colliders!

This way, Tom’s rate of producing miniature black holes would be ten times that of an ordinary civilization. While an ordinary civilization would need to observe continuously for a thousand years to accumulate enough data, Tom could complete it in just 100 years.

Coupled with Tom’s even more powerful data analysis and processing capabilities, even more time would be saved.

With the construction of the giant particle colliders complete, the intelligent life scientists had also finished their rotations and were now ready to return to work.

Thus, with a command from Tom, these colliders simultaneously began operation.

Based on the abundant energy supply from thousands of large nuclear fusion power plants, a series of wondrous changes were now occurring within these particle colliders.

A beam of helium nuclei was launched, then accelerated by a series of electromagnetic coils. The energy from the large nuclear fusion power plants was converted into their speed, making them faster and faster, faster and faster.

Taking approximately 1 second, after 6 laps, or about 300,000 kilometers of continuous acceleration, the speed of these helium nuclei was accelerated to approximately 0.999...(13 nines) times the speed of light, and then they violently impacted the target.

Because at the moment of impact, their energy was too high, and energy is equivalent to mass, but this mass was confined within the Schwarzschild radius, the impact point of the helium nuclei and the target instantly collapsed into a black hole.

This impact generated a total of approximately 1,000 miniature black holes!

These black holes, on average, each had a mass of about one two-hundred-millionth of a gram. Based on this mass, their lifespan was approximately 10^{-36} seconds.

Although the lifespan was short, it far exceeded the Planck time. And as long as it was above the Planck time, it meant it could be observed.

Thus, only 10^{-36} seconds after the black holes were formed, these tiny black holes, each with a mass of only one two-hundred-millionth of a gram, instantly annihilated, dissipating as high-energy photons.

At this point, the particle collider built by Tom faced its second test.

A particle collider is an extremely precise piece of equipment, and any minor interference can lead to accidents or damage.

The annihilation of a miniature black hole can be seen as its entire mass being converted into energy.

If one two-hundred-millionth of a gram of matter is completely converted into energy, using the mass-energy equivalence formula, it is easy to calculate that the released energy is approximately 460,000 joules, equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 0.1 kilograms of TNT explosive.

And at this moment, on this target, the number of miniature black holes that were almost simultaneously born and almost simultaneously annihilated was one thousand!

This was equivalent to detonating 100 kilograms of TNT explosive inside this giant particle collider in that single instant!

Even a large building would be leveled by the explosion of such a quantity of explosives.

However, the protective layer of the particle collider’s inner wall, made by Tom using Strong Nuclear materials, completely blocked such a violent energy release, preventing it from causing any damage to the multiple detection devices on the inner wall.

Accompanying this intense release of light and heat, that extreme environment appeared for an instant. And in just this instant, multiple detection devices generated a staggering 1 million TB of data.

After clearing the inner chamber and quickly performing an equipment inspection, the second collision began again just 4 hours later.

It was still about one second of acceleration time, still a thunderous collision, and again 1,000 miniature black holes were generated and instantly annihilated.

In total, the 10 particle colliders generated approximately 22 million miniature black holes per year!