Chapter 416 Various Explorations and Research

Even though Yu Nanfeng's team has made many scientific reports and expounded many relevant viewpoints, in the future, the human scientist team still has not put all their energy into exploring existing theories.

There are generally two ways to find new theories. One is to let mathematicians accidentally come up with a formula that they don't even know what it is used for, and then wait for physicists to find that this formula can actually be used in this way. The second is to use a particle collider to conduct collision experiments, and then find out the secrets of a certain system hidden in the microscopic world, and then summarize and find out new physical laws.

It is an extremely low probability event for mathematicians to directly liver the formula, and it has not happened many times in the history of human scientific development, so the scientific research team dedicated to new theories naturally puts all their hopes on particle colliders.

So, in the following time, we can see that the work of the assembled space multi-point particle collider has hardly stopped.

In the experiment, some gold and lead atoms were stripped of all their electrons in the collider, and then they were separated by protons and proton-proton collision experiments were carried out.

Scientists have repeatedly increased the collision energy level, trying to find some strange phenomena from this collision.

In fact, the so-called collision experiment is also a matter of luck. After all, humans have used colliders to conduct various collision experiments before, but no strange phenomena have been found.

However, not finding anything does not mean that there is nothing. After all, the probability of detecting strange phenomena or new particles from particle colliders is very small. Just as when humans were looking for the Higgs boson, it took about one trillion proton-proton collisions to detect a Higgs boson.

So these scientific research teams are still very patient. They also know that sometimes new scientific discoveries are completely accidental.

Of course, it is not a completely purposeless collision. Before conducting collision experiments, scientists will have a set of design plans and relevant theoretical expectations.

For example, the scientific research team that is currently using a particle collider first found possible answers from calculations, believing that in heavy ion collisions, protons and neutrons may melt into their components, and then quarks and gluons will form a fluid in this process. This fluid will expand, cool, and eventually re-condense into particles.

These particles will be observed by detectors, and scientists call it quark-gluon plasma.

What this scientific team wants to find is a black hole with supersymmetric properties of quark-gluon plasma. Well, it is not a black hole in the ordinary people's cognition, because in theory, this supersymmetric black hole does not exist in the four-dimensional space-time where people live, but in a curved five-dimensional space-time.

So from this point, it can be seen that the basic theoretical guidance of this scientific research team's experiment is actually string theory.

They want to find this supersymmetric black hole that does not exist in four-dimensional space-time in the laboratory, and then find a way to use this curved five-dimensional space-time black hole that can be made by humans as engine power.

This thing is actually not a stroke, but this scientific research team is quite confident, because they obtained the direction of the rotation axis of the black hole of the quark-gluon plasma dual in the calculation, although it is still a mathematical calculation result so far.

They think that this black hole curled in five-dimensional space-time can be used as the power of the engine when swallowing microscopic quantum in the four-dimensional space-time direction jet.

The power of the black hole jet is much stronger than nuclear fusion, and it sounds like it may become a source of energy for greater thrust. After all, a five-dimensional space-time black hole is also a black hole.

It's just that this is string theory, a curled-up spacetime higher than four-dimensional spacetime, and microscopic quantum as nourishment. It sounds very mysterious, but in the eyes of these professional scientists, it is not mysterious.

There are so many mysterious things in the universe, mysterious things, and things that make people feel incredible or even counterintuitive.

The so-called exploration and research is not to explore in only one direction, because now humans don't know what technology is the navigation technology of the third-level civilization. Therefore, when this team wants to find answers from supersymmetry and five-dimensional spacetime black holes, another team turns its attention to symmetry breaking.

When it comes to symmetry breaking, the first impression that comes to people's minds is parity non-conservation. This is also the case. Parity non-conservation describes spontaneous symmetry breaking under weak interactions.

In weak interactions, the decay rates of left-handed particles and right-handed particles are different, which destroys the symmetry of parity. The weak interaction force only acts on left-handed ions, but not on right-handed particles, which also destroys parity symmetry. Weak interaction violates the conservation of parity, and the initial and final states of a process have different parity quantum numbers, which also destroys the symmetry of parity.

The reason why this research team started from this aspect is mainly because they believe that since they want to find the answer from the electroweak unification, they must further understand the weak interaction force.

They want to really figure out and clearly calculate the process of weak electric force breaking symmetry and turning into weak interaction force and electromagnetic force. They want to find the answer from here or in that environment.

But what does this research have to do with propulsion technology?

Of course, no matter what propulsion technology it is, it is simply the process of force interaction, whether it is rocket generation, electric propulsion, cold nuclear fusion propulsion, heavy nuclear fusion propulsion, or the imaginary five-dimensional space-time black hole facing the four-dimensional space-time jet, it is all action and reaction.

So since they are all forces, what is force?

There is a saying in the scientific community about this question. First, force is generated by the exchange of discrete energy packets called quanta. Second, different forces are caused by different quantum exchanges.

For example, the weak interaction force is caused by different types of quantum exchanges, called W particles. The propagators of weak force are W bosons and Z bosons.

Similarly, the strong interaction force binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus tightly together. It is caused by the exchange of subatomic particles called pions. Of course, humans have long found fragments of W mesons and pions in accelerators and verified their correctness. Finally, humans call the subnuclear force that binds protons, neutrons, and even pions together gluons.

This group of scientists or research teams hopes to find a way to generate energy that is stronger than heavy nuclei and cold nuclear fusion through the study of force interactions, especially the analysis of weak mutual forces and electromagnetic forces, so that humans can achieve higher speeds.

Everyone is working hard, and everyone hopes that humans can quickly master faster navigation technology.

However, scientific research cannot guarantee that the direction of research is correct. Therefore, even though many scientific teams at the forefront of science and technology have emerged in this period to participate in research and exploration, there has been little progress after several years.

However, this situation did not discourage those scientists. After all, those who do research know that it is normal to have no results.

The new government certainly knows this, so it did not stop these various research projects because of the lack of results. Instead, it increased resources and talent investment year by year.

In short, in the few years since the launch of one research project after another, almost the entire human society knows that humans are now facing another technological barrier.

This technological barrier is different from the past. In the past, such as true nanotechnology or heavy nuclear fusion, there were still traces to follow, at least you can see where the target "peak" is. But now facing the new navigation technology, humans are like in the dark, looking around at a loss.