As everyone knew, a Planck Time was the shortest span of time currently understood by Human Civilization. In other words, if a ray acted for only one Planck Time, the matter that should have disintegrated would remain completely unchanged, because the Strong Nuclear Force would pull its basic structure back together once more, preventing it from disintegrating.
However, once the exposure exceeded this quantum-scale duration, the matter would inevitably be split apart at once. Whether it broke down into protons and neutrons or reached the quark level depended on the ray's intensity.
That intensity was related to the strength of the Superforce Field and certain parameters used to adjust the field.
As for the operating principle of the Matter Disintegration Ray—namely, why the Strong Force suddenly vanished—scientists had already come to understand it with the support of countless experimental data.
The instant the Matter Disintegration Ray acted upon proton neutrons, a certain property of its Negative Energy caused a miraculous change in their environment. These particles would instantly transform from Positive Matter into Negative Matter, producing an instantaneous strong nuclear repulsion against other Positive Matter particles. Its magnitude was equal to the Strong Nuclear Force, but its nature was the opposite.
The Strong Nuclear Force between particles manifested as stronger attraction over greater distances, whereas this force grew more repulsive the closer the distance became.
Furthermore, this transformation was quantum-random. Some bound particle pairs transformed completely, while others only partially transformed. This phenomenon had nothing to do with the ray's intensity and appeared to be a random event, with the statistical probability approaching one-half. Therefore, the repulsive force would not directly blast the particles apart. Instead, it manifested as the instantaneous disappearance of the Strong Nuclear Force.
The sudden high-energy pulse was a Positive Energy Pulse. This seemingly unprompted energy