Chapter 1133: A Petaelectronvolt Collision! (3/3)

Chapter 1133: A Petaelectronvolt Collision! (33)

Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The scene of the No. 1 conference hall.

In the video footage sent from 360,000 kilometers away, the astronauts with the Chinese national flag and national emblem armband printed on their uniforms stood solemnly in front of the console.

One after another clear voices resounded through the conference hall and reached the ears of everyone who was looking forward to it.

"The track has been cleared and confirmed to be unobstructed!"

"Target energy level: 1 quadrillion electron volts."

"The circuit is in good condition."

"Start powering up!"

The moment the sonorous voice fell, the astronaut standing in front of the console reached out and pressed the button.

At almost the same instant, a huge amount of energy gathered under the crater to form a ring.

Driven by the energy capable of simulating the moment of the Big Bang, the emitted protons collided together, emitting sparks and fragments that could not be caught by the naked eye.

Looking at the energy spectrum image presented on the detector, the atmosphere in the conference hall was instantly pushed to a peak. Everyone couldn't help but stood up, gave thunderous applause, and cheered for this moment from the bottom of their hearts.

Protons collide with protons at a centroid energy of 1000TeV!

Compared with the LHC in Europe, which has a maximum proton collision energy of only 14TeV, the proton collision energy of this lunar hadron collider is two orders of magnitude higher!

With it, humans will be able to artificially create peta-electron-volt neutrinos, simulate the moment of the Big Bang and black holes, and even face the deepest darkness of the universe—the mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

Lei Dong's applause drowned out all voices. Looking at the big screen behind him, Lu Zhou showed a sincere smile on his face, and lightly clenched his fists behind his back.

Seven years.

Seven years have passed since that summer.

This long time is enough to change many things, but it cannot change the world he firmly believes in and "sees" through logical calculations.

He believed he was right.

Even if everyone is not optimistic about this direction.

At that time, he was just an intern, and his ability and academic status determined that his voice could not be taken seriously, and the Huaguo physics community did not have enough resources to support him to verify his theory.

But now, there is nothing that can stop him from doing the experiments he wants to do. The direction he is looking at is the future of human physics.

at this moment.

It's finally here!

...

On the morning of December 19th, China time.

After only half a day, the news of the successful launch of the Lunar Hadron Collider seemed to have been inserted with invisible wings, spreading from Shanghai, an international metropolis, to every corner of the world.

And the related reports, without any suspense, appeared on the headlines of the major newspapers the next day.

[The proton collision experiment broke through the 1000TeV energy level for the first time! High-energy physics research is entering a new era! 】

[Exploring the origin of the universe, IMCRC takes us back to 15 billion years ago. 】

【Shock! Chinese scientists are creating black holes on the moon! 】

[NASA issued a warning that conducting high-energy physics experiments on the moon may have a serious impact on the stability of the earth-moon system! 】

【…】

After taking the coffee from a tall female assistant, Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the office of the IMCRC chairman who hadn't been here a few times, took a sip while flipping through the newspaper in his hand.

"I suddenly understood."

Luo Wenxuan, who was fiddling with the potted plants on the window sill with one hand in his pocket, looked back at Lu Zhou and asked curiously.

"Understand what?"

"Why do the public have such a big misunderstanding about physics and high-energy physics experiments?" Turning the page of the newspaper in his hand, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile, "But I really like the nickname CNN gave me."

"What does it call you?"

"The Crazy Atomic Destroyer, translated as Crazy Atomic Destroyer, or can it also be translated as Crazy Atomic Destroyer?"

The corner of his mouth twitched, Luo Wenxuan held back his smile.

"...Are you sure it's CNN?"

Lu Zhou: "Is there any problem?"

Luo Wenxuan: "It sounds like the style of Japanese media."

Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head without commenting.

Of course, the more classic one is actually the abstract picture. A man who looks like a villain holds the Earth and the moon that orbits it in his skinny hands.

Although he knew that CNN was deliberately vilifying his facial features, and even obviously deliberately applied the template of Asian images, Lu Zhou couldn't help laughing because of their amazing imagination.

If a mere petaelectronvolt unit collider can create black holes, it would be too underestimating the universe. If you want to destroy the solar system, at least you have the conditions to build a star-level collider.

In addition, being able to paint his handsome face so ugly that it breaks through the sky is also embarrassing for them.

Glancing at the painting, Luo Wenxuan originally wanted to laugh, but for some reason, he suddenly thought of the matter of the African Research Institute, and finally held back, coughing dryly and saying.

"The meeting is about to start, shouldn't we go there?"

Lu Zhou glanced at the time on his watch.

"Why don't you go."

"Such an important matter...not too good, I think it's better for you to go there yourself." Thinking of what Lu Zhou planned to say at the meeting, Luo Wenxuan's expression was a little subtle.

What Lu Zhou intends to do, in fact, he already knows.

He did not object to Lu Zhou's approach, but he announced the matter by himself, which may not be able to hold the scene. After all, although IMCRC's headquarters is in Huaguo, and the organizer is also Huaguo, it is still an international organization after all. Countries have paid a lot of money to participate.

Compared with those academic giants who participated in the meeting, his rank was still a bit worse after all.

"Didn't I train you? Who can hold the stage for the first time?"

Seeing Brother Luo's helpless expression, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile, put the newspaper aside, and stood up from the chair.

"Come on, let's go together."

...

The next day's meeting will be held in Conference Hall No. 2.

Compared with yesterday's No. 1 conference hall, the area here is much smaller, and only one long conference table can be accommodated. At the same time, the decoration is also much more refined.

Those sitting here are basically council members appointed by various countries.

They may not be the top experts in physics in various countries, but they are at least the prestigious ones.

Not only that, but those who can be assigned here are, without exception, administrative personnel who have held important positions in official scientific research institutions of various countries and have certain negotiation and negotiation skills.

From the serious expressions on the faces of all present, it is obvious that today's meeting is not only much more important than yesterday's grand meeting celebrating the completion of the Lunar Hadron Collider, but also more popular among the physics community. s concern.

There is no other reason.

At this meeting, the council will discuss experimental arrangements for the coming year.

Not surprisingly, in the next fifty years, at least 25 Nobel Prizes in physics will be born here.

High-energy physics has been ahead of experimental physics for many years, and theories about physics have already penetrated into the unfathomable black hole and the elusive quantum world.

However, the theory needs to be tested in the experimental area.

Everyone wants this miracle of physics, called a wishing machine, to verify their own theories and push themselves to the throne of the temple of physics.

Before the start of the meeting, under the calm surface of the IMCRC's board of directors, there was already an undercurrent. As with any Vanity Fair, academia isn't much more glamorous than other circles.

Especially when it comes to the Nobel Prize and honors higher than the Nobel Prize, there are only a few people who can be indifferent to fame and fortune and concentrate on academics.

Everyone is ready to fight for a blush and thick neck at the meeting.

Either for yourself.

Or for the school behind him, or even the country...

Under the atmosphere where the air was almost frozen, the hour hand reached the position of ten o'clock in the morning, and the meeting officially started.

As the undisputed first chairman of IMCRC, Lu Zhou walked to the head of the long table and sat down.

The opening remarks are in his style, as always, concise and to the point.

After a brief "meeting begins", we entered the topic.

However, when everyone was expecting that he would put the topics they expected on the conference table for discussion, Lu Zhou's next sentence stunned everyone except himself and Senior Brother Luo.

"Next, I will briefly talk about the work arrangements."

Without any discussion, even almost arbitrary, Lu Zhou opened the minutes of the meeting and continued in a statement tone.

"I re-studied the test records in the CERN database in 2015, and the 750GeV characteristic peaks that appeared on the ALICE and ATLAS detectors at the same time are definitely not accidental. At least I don't think this is a sign that can be summarized by a simple sentence of quantum fluctuations. "

Professor Tarrant from Europe frowned, turned the pen in his hand, and said hesitantly, "I know about the experiment you mentioned, but the confidence level of our detection signal is not even 3sigema, which is not at all sign……"

"That's because our tools are not advanced enough, and the troubles that bother us now don't exist, at least for a while. Besides, I believe in my calculations, there must be something there."

Turning over the minutes of the meeting in his hand, Lu Zhou glanced around the dignified conference table, and continued in a calm and unquestionable tone.

"IMCRC's work arrangements for the whole year of 2023 will revolve around the anomaly of the 750GeV characteristic peak."

"Right now, we have enough theoretical basis and powerful enough tools."

"I will use the facts to prove that my conclusion is correct."

The moment the voice fell, the entire venue was eerily quiet for many seconds, and then the sound of commotion spread.

Just like the expressions on the faces of those members of the council when they looked at each other, the voice contained surprise, shock, and disbelief and many other emotions.

It happened so suddenly.

So that everything was not expected.

It was very clear what they were surprised about, and Lu Zhou didn't explain, just nodded with a smile, and gently put the meeting minutes in his hand on the table.

He can spend a lot of time explaining.

But there is no need for explanation at all.

He will produce evidence that he is right.

What's more, to be able to get to this point today, at least half of the credit is due to him, right?

It's not too much to use your own collider to verify your theory first, right?

Dissatisfied?

Then you build one yourself.

Although it might be a little unkind to say that.

But thinking of how difficult it was to do an experiment before, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile.

To be unkind is to be unkind.

but……

What a joy!