Chapter 1149 Experimental Data Released!

U.K.

In a private house on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

An old man was sitting at a wooden table by the window, facing a slightly old computer, typing on the keyboard letter by letter with his index finger, concentrating on editing an email.

On the side of the table is a newspaper, the date on the page is two weeks ago.

On the open side, the printed news is exactly the matter that Brookhaven National Laboratory announced its temporary withdrawal from IMCRC, which caused a heated discussion some time ago.

With an investment of tens of billions of dollars and more than dozens of countries participating in scientific research projects, such a big trouble happened just at the beginning. This incident not only caused a lot of trouble in the physics world, but also caused a lot of trouble outside the physics world. topic of.

With mixed feelings, the old man wrote in the email.

【…Physics is supposed to be an enlightened discipline, and it is precisely because of respect for all viewpoints that we can achieve today's prosperity. I can't evaluate whether Lu Zhou's choice is correct for the time being, but even if he may be wrong, it's just academic immaturity, and he shouldn't respond in such an irrational way. 】

【...To sum up, it is definitely not a rational choice to withdraw from the experiment at this time. It would be a huge disservice to Brookhaven National Laboratory, and to the solidarity of the physics community that has long existed...I don't know if there are political considerations behind it, but whatever it is For any purpose, it should not bet on the trust we have built over a hundred years. 】

[I hope you can reconsider this matter, maybe it is too dissatisfied. 】

【—Peter Higgs】

Peter Higgs.

Emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, winner of the 13th Nobel Prize in Physics, and the reason for the award is because of the well-known Higgs particle.

For this name, not to mention the vast majority of physicists, I am afraid that even people who don't know much about physics will know a little bit.

After knocking down the name of the signing place, the old man frowned slightly, and looked up at the dark clouds that seemed to be falling down at any time outside the window.

Since retiring, only the body's response to the weather has become more and more sensitive, and everything else has become more and more difficult. Especially the concept of time, even if he looks at the calendar every morning, he still always forgets what day it is and what he needs to do.

It's like this newspaper next to him.

By the time he saw it, it had been almost two weeks since the whole thing.

And when he hurriedly contacted his friends to inquire, and searched for relevant information on the Internet, and finally understood the whole story, his mood was as heavy as the bad weather outside the window.

Immediately afterwards, he did the only thing since retirement that he hadn't put off until tomorrow.

Namely, writing to his old friend, Professor Brovich, who held a prominent position in the Brookhaven Scientific Society.

Regardless of whether the characteristic peaks of 750Gev are worth spending a whole year digging in depth, and regardless of whether Lu Zhou, the chairman of the board, insists on starting the project without suspicion, at least the academic itself should not presuppose a position.

This reminded him of sixty years ago.

He remembered that at that time, he wrote a short paper and published it in CERN's journal "Physical Communications".

After that paper was drafted, he then wrote another paper and submitted it to "Physics Communications", describing a theoretical model he imagined—that is, the model now known as the "Higgs Mechanism". But it was dismissed by the editor as absurd.

The paper was finally published in the "Express Review of Physics".

If it weren't for his persistence, people may still be unable to explain how elementary particles carrying weak interactions acquire mass until today.

Facing the written email, I pondered for a long time.

Looking at the "in summary" on the penultimate line, he hesitated for a moment, then deleted this word from the email, making the wording of the entire email as tactful as possible, and then clicked the send button.

"...I hope it can play a little role."

Whether the old friend can listen to his opinion or not, he has to do something within his power.

Mumbling to himself, he leaned on the armrest of the chair, stood up from the seat with difficulty, and tremblingly walked to the window.

There were dark clouds outside the window, and it felt like it was getting dark even though it was morning. The neighbor across the street has closed the windows and put the flower pots in the yard into the house. It seems that a heavy rain may fall at any time.

"...It always feels like something big is going to happen today."

Muttering something to himself, the old man stretched out his hand and closed the bed curtain.

Academic intuition is a very metaphysical thing.

I'm afraid even he himself didn't think that what he said casually would really come true...

...

February 2.

For the international physics community, today is definitely a significant day.

It has been three days since the end of the lunar night period. If there is no accident, the energy storage facilities supporting the collider should have been charged. IMCRC will soon conduct the next collision experiment in the near future.

This experiment has received widespread attention from the physics community before it even started.

There is no other reason.

Because not long ago, Lu Zhou uploaded an article on the Arxiv website about the theory of hyperspace, and the elementary particles that make up atoms contain a particle that exists in hyperspace.

Under normal circumstances, such particles are quite stable and hardly show their feet. Only in high-energy physics experiments where collisions can reach a certain level, will this special particle briefly appear in the three-dimensional space-time in the conventional sense in an extremely unstable form.

Once this theory was published, it immediately set off a wave of controversy in the physics community.

Professor François Engler, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Professor Peter Higgs, told the media in an interview.

"This theory may sound more surprising than superstring theory, even unimaginable...Although hyperspace theory is not an avant-garde point of view, M theory has made something like 'the complete universe should have eleven super space dimension', but this is only a guess after all. Compared with his theory, I am actually more curious about how he proves it?"

"What I mean is that with the current physical experiment methods, the objects we can observe are only the dimension we are in, or things lower than this dimension."

"Let me give you the most common particle. If we are just paper people living on a piece of white paper, a small ball is parallel to the paper we are on and moves vertically. Assuming that the light source is absolutely perpendicular to the paper, What we can see on the paper is just a static point projected on the paper."

"If there is such a particle that exists in high dimensions, what we can see at most is its projection in three-dimensional space, let alone analyze its complete trajectory."

"So, what kind of experiments does he plan to use to prove that this almost impossible to prove theory is established? Even if he is logically self-consistent."

Creatures in the two-dimensional world can never know everything about the three-dimensional world, and the same is true for creatures in the three-dimensional world who are confused about the four-dimensional world.

Regardless of whether Professor François Engler can imagine what kind of experiments Lu Zhou will use to prove his conclusions, a new round of experiments at IMCRC is about to begin. At this time, he just expressed his curiosity and said Doesn't make the negative point of view as clear as Professor Whittle's.

After all, from the perspective of a physicist, he is very happy to see that Lu Zhou can solve this problem.

If he can indeed prove that the fundamental particles that make up the universe are indeed hidden in high-dimensional worlds, many of the problems facing physics today will be solved.

The waiting process is so long.

Just when everyone was looking forward to IMCRC's update of the experimental data, it finally arrived at 12 o'clock in the morning, Beijing time, and the latest experimental data was uploaded to the official database simultaneously.

As the news spread, colleges and universities around the world that have cooperated with IMCRC obtained first-hand information and began to process the original data.

Even the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is a full-time OB, has announced its temporary withdrawal from the project in a high-profile manner, but still downloaded the data with the cheek.

The results of the experiment were also surprising.

Just when the entire physics community was amazed by the results of this experiment, a report meeting hosted by Lu Zhou himself had already begun at the headquarters of IMCRC...