Chapter 1134 The Meeting Broke up Unhappy

"This isn't a discussion at all! I haven't made a single statement the whole time!"

"unacceptable!"

"Is there no one to persuade him?"

"It's useless, he won't listen to it, I have emphasized many times, CERN has set up a project and studied the characteristic peaks of 750Gev for a whole year... at least half a year! But what did we get from it? God, now He actually wants to walk this road all over again!"

"At least CNN is right, he's a scientifically paranoid lunatic..."

The meeting apparently broke up unhappy.

A group of people were expressionless, and even walked out of the conference room angrily, and they were discussing without concealing their volume as they walked.

Noticing the indignant expression on the face of Professor Whittle, a member of the IMCRC Council of the United States and director of the Brookhaven Science Society, Professor Frank Wilczek, who was waiting by the elevator, hurried forward and stopped him from asking.

"What happened inside? Didn't the meeting only start for an hour? Why did it end so soon?"

"Meeting? Does he even care about this council at all? This doesn't deserve to be called a meeting at all!"

Waving his fists and roaring loudly, Professor Whittle said angrily, "I want to go back to New York and let those in the Brookhaven Science Society who have fantasies about Chinese people take a good look at how those Chinese people are doing here. At this hallowed physics meeting, displaying their pitiful authority that they have managed to grow!"

Seeing Professor Whittle leaving angrily, Frank Wilczek stood there dumbfounded.

His intuition told him that something terrible must have happened an hour ago, otherwise he would never have angered this Professor Whittle to such an extent... Although in his impression, this guy is not a good-tempered gentleman.

But now he is getting more and more confused about what happened in the meeting...

Has the council been emptied?

Can't it?

...

According to Murphy's theorem, the more people worry about something, the more things will happen.

Through an old friend at CERN, Professor Frank Wilczek finally understood the cause of the matter. And it was precisely because of hearing these regrettable things that his mood fell to the bottom.

In his impression, Lu Zhou is not the kind of stubborn, domineering scholar, and he is even more willing to believe that Professor Whittle and CERN representatives misunderstood what he meant.

However, facts don't lie.

What exactly made him like this?

Unable to understand, Frank Wilczek found Witten and asked him out of the hotel in the name of drinking coffee.

In the casual chat, he talked about the just-concluded council meeting and said with a sigh.

"The situation is dire."

As if expecting him to bring the topic to IMCRC, Wei Teng didn't show much surprise on his face, but raised his eyebrows slightly.

"oh?"

Frank Wilczek took a sip of coffee, recounted to Witten the conversation he had with Professor Whittle at noon, and shook his head pessimistically.

"The thing I was most worried about happened. From the very beginning, IMCRC did not show a cooperative attitude. I admit that his academic prestige after completing the unified theory of strong electricity may have surpassed most people...even me, but this is not the case. That should be his reason for messing around."

After listening to Frank Wilczek's words, Witten pondered for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "Maybe he really discovered something in 750Gev that we didn't."

"Impossible, my old friend, you know better than anyone how difficult it is, why do you still say such things?" Vilzek ​​shook his head and said, "Besides, I worked with him on this project for a while before, At first I believed that he could do it, and even tried to help him win the permission of the LHC experiment. I didn't part ways with him until I found out that it was a futile effort. I know better than anyone else , this road is impossible!"

Witten asked: "Then what reason do you think he insisted on doing?"

Frank Wilczek: "Rage over failure? Overinflated self-confidence? Or stubbornness? Or eager to demonstrate one's authority in physics? No matter what the reason is, doing research with this mentality is very difficult. It is not advisable."

Witten smiled and shook his head.

"There will be such an idea, it seems that you don't understand him at all."

If it is someone else, this guess is established.

But for a scholar who yearns for the truth from the bottom of his heart, this kind of thinking is really too superficial.

Wenteng has been studying abroad all year round, and Witten has met many people.

Among them, there are those who are obsessed with fame and fortune, and some who are indifferent to fame and fortune. Among them, Lu Zhou is undoubtedly the most special... and the one that surprised Witt the most.

He is not completely indifferent to fame and fortune. He will be angry if he is framed, and he will be happy when he receives bonuses and honors, but neither honor nor money is what he really pursues. But what really drives him forward seems to be only his curiosity about nature and the mysteries of the universe.

This kind of purity is quite commendable, and it often only appears on great men.

I dare not speak for the entire physics community, but only speak for the scholars I have met...

Perhaps, he is the purest of them all.

"Oh?" Frank Wilczek raised his eyebrows and said in a slightly dissatisfied tone, "Witten, I know you have a good relationship with him, but I hope you can recognize the reality when it comes to such big things. Especially From the standpoint of a friend, if you can, you'd better persuade him instead of watching him go further and further down the wrong path."

"What's wrong?"

Stirring the coffee with a spoon, Witten smiled and continued slowly.

"And what is correct?"

"Our understanding of this universe is too little, even compared to what we see, we understand and explain less than one percent of it. Strictly speaking, there is no right or wrong in physics. There is only the difference between complete and incomplete. Especially after the birth of quantum mechanics, we have a deeper understanding of this—”

Frank Wilczek: "This is sophistry. Why should we waste time in a direction that has proven to be a failure? CERN has invested hundreds of millions of dollars! And there are things that cannot be measured in price at all, and now We will spend another whole year to walk this dead road again!"

"Because some people think it works." Looking at Wilczek, Witten continued calmly, "Maybe it's because he discovered something new, maybe it's because CERN didn't understand him correctly. papers, even if it's just a flash of intuition ... I think that's reason enough."

"The exploration of the standard model is always a needle in a haystack, and physics is far more than the standard model. No matter which direction we go, we will eventually face the same problem... Why not trust him once? At least he has never let us down Pass."

Wilczek: "..."

Does this mean that we all resign ourselves to fate together?

This is probably too optimistic.

"I know what you're worried about," Witten said with a smile, looking at the silent Vilzek, "Don't worry, if you still get nothing in the end, I will try to convince him to realize his problem in time... If If I can."

"As for now, let's trust his judgment for the time being."