Chapter 1212 The Second Emergency Mission

In fact, Lu Zhou's intuition is really accurate.

However, it wasn't because he had guessed some incredible scientific fact.

But this observation did cause them a lot of trouble.

An unexplained physical phenomenon is not terrible, but if this phenomenon conflicts with the foundation of modern physics, then the impact behind it is something serious.

After going to the toilet for an excuse and leaving for a while, Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the toilet, entered a pure white system space and came to the light blue holographic screen.

"System, open the taskbar!"

The situation is almost the same as the last time I encountered an emergency mission.

A lock was added to the upper right corner of the "Earth and Moon Control" task chain, and below it, there was an additional task bar marked with icons unique to urgent tasks.

【Urgent Mission: Call of the Void (Danger Level:?)】

[Explanation: The road to discovering the truth is not always smooth, and there are too many infinities and mysteries that we don't understand in the vast universe. Be sure to heed its call, even if it doesn't always mean enlightenment...]

[Requirements: To solve data abnormal events, the measures that can be taken include but are not limited to:

①The great spirit of the universe guides us forward. (idealism +10)

②Hundred causes must have results, there is no perceptual language in the universe, only truth lasts forever. (Materialism +10)

③ Those who make big things don't care about small things. Now is not the time to solve the problem. We can put aside the dispute for the time being. (Authoritarianism +10)

④ Clear, eliminate (swarm awareness +10)

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【award:? ? ? 】

Lu Zhou: "???"

After reading the quest list from beginning to end, the expression on Lu Zhou's face at the moment was even more bewildered than the three question marks in the column of quest rewards.

Also, what is "removal, eradication"?

Does it mean to kill all the physicists who discovered the problem?

Of course, what made him even more curious was what the swarm consciousness was, and he didn't seem to have seen it before.

In addition, there is that "spirit of the universe"...

Thinking that similar translations seemed to have appeared in the memory of the Jialan Empire, Lu Zhou couldn't help but frowned and fell into deep thought.

Is this so-called spirit of the universe a unified translation of the "omnipotent" in the religions and cultural forms of civilizations and cultures in the universe by the void civilization that calls itself "observer", or does it mean that there is indeed a certain person in this universe called The higher consciousness body of the "Universal Spirit"...

Just like the "omnipotent" advanced civilization, it dominates a certain corner of the universe, or a part of matter and laws in some form, and even becomes a part of nature itself.

If only there was a way to learn the language of the void civilization.

When looking up research materials, the most taboo thing is to chew something that others have eaten and spit out, especially translation. ,

Of course, compared to some kind of mysterious existence, Lu Zhou still prefers to understand the concept of "spirit of the universe" from the perspective of physics.

Even after seeing the experimental results like that, the building in his heart was indeed shaken a little...

"Won't that seem too unscientific?"

Looking at Lu Zhou who came back to the office from the outside, Luo Wenxuan who was holding a coffee cup said, "If our observation results are objectively correct, we may tear down the whole building of physics."

Conservation of mass and energy is to physics what Peano's axiom is to mathematics.

If someone says that mass and energy can be produced out of thin air, it is tantamount to saying that 1+1=3 is such an absurd thing that even a primary school student can laugh at him.

However, the result of the experiment is so dazzling, the quality increase after statistics is 53%. In short, after two lead ions collide with 1 unit of energy, the energy of 2.53 lead ions is actually produced.

Where does the energy of the extra 0.53 lead ions come from?

Nobody knows.

They also saw no signs of interference.

It was as if a supernatural event had happened.

Hearing Senior Brother Luo's emotion, Lu Zhou, who had recovered his composure, spoke calmly.

"The edifice of physics has been knocked down countless times, and this time is not bad. But most people who have the idea of ​​'this is not science' have not even figured out what 'science' is."

Luo Wenxuan: "...I heard your mockery of me from the last sentence."

"Your delusion, I never mock anyone," Lu Zhou ignored the helpless expression on Senior Brother Luo's face, and continued, "In addition, I actually prefer the explanation of 'other secrets'."

"Is there something else hidden?" Luo Wenxuan raised his eyebrows, and his eyes were clearly interested. "That is to say, there are aliens interfering with our physics experiments? Water droplets?"

It seemed that he was worried that Lu Zhou would not get his meme, Luo Wenxuan immediately gestured with his fingers,

"I don't know if you've seen it, but I mean... the one in the Three-Body Problem."

Looking at him with caring eyes, Lu Zhou said patiently.

"It's a possibility I can't rule out until we capture at least one alien and interrogate it...but it must be noted that the possibility of such a thing happening is probably as likely as we know about the universe. It’s as small as our cognition. If they can do this kind of thing, and have the motivation to do it, then they have at least a hundred more efficient ways to take us back to the Stone Age.”

Luo Wenxuan shrugged helplessly.

"I was just joking to brighten the mood—"

Interrupting his words, Lu Zhou said seriously.

"In any case, we need more experimental data."

"Whether it's because of aliens, or because of a great existence, or the truth of the universe that we don't understand, its appearance has indeed subverted our understanding of the universe."

"I still believe that mass and energy don't come out of thin air, there must be something interfering with our experiments... and now, all we have to do is to prove it and give it a reasonable explanation!"

"This is not a joke, you should understand why I say that."

Silently looking at Lu Zhou with a serious face, after a while, Luo Wenxuan sighed lightly, picked up his coffee cup and took a sip.

After pausing for a moment, he put away the frivolity in his tone and spoke.

"Do you want to make the research results public?"

After spending half a minute thinking about this question, Lu Zhou finally nodded.

"Let's make it public."

"We need more good brains involved."

...

On the first Tuesday in early May, an extraordinary event happened in the international physics community.

The latest research results released by IMCRC show that during the collision experiment in the energy range of 5.12~5.22Tev, the collided lead ions did not experience "mass loss" as expected, but an unexpected "mass expansion" .

The news broke out, and immediately set off an uproar in the international physics community.

There is no other reason, because such a result has violated the "common sense" of physics.

In fact, this is not the first time that the collision experiment of lead ions has been conducted. The collision material used by CERN to simulate the "Big Bang" was lead ions a long time ago, but no one has ever adjusted the collision energy to such a high level. .

Therefore, no one thought that such a result would be obtained.

The impact of this news on the physics community is no less than that in the second half of 2011, when CERN announced in a press release that "Oprah" researchers had discovered that neutrinos moved faster than The thing at which the speed of light is 0.0025% faster.

The occurrence of that incident caused the entire physics community to turmoil for half a year, and finally ended with the resignation of the leader of the "Oprah" research team, Eredi Tato.

When seeing this, many people must be surprised that such an oolong has happened in a physics temple like CERN, and how idiots the members of this research team must be.

After all, even junior high school students know that nothing can exceed the speed of light.

However, in fact, scientific research does not follow the dogmatic logic of "exams".

First of all, it is not the first case of superluminal oolong. As early as around 2006, Fermilab’s "Master Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search" (MINOS) project also found signs of neutrinos exceeding the speed of light, but due to its The results were not statistically significant, so they were not recognized by the physics community.

Secondly, at the beginning, the researchers of "Oprah" did not believe their experimental results.

They even spent months checking experimental equipment and repeating experiments to prove themselves wrong, but unfortunately, they still couldn't find where the problem was.

In this context, they finally "bravely" announced the experimental results, hoping to hand over this issue to the entire physics community for judgment.

In the end, there was such a big news.

Interestingly, there are subtle differences in the attitudes of scientists from various countries to this discovery—that is, not everyone completely believes that the conclusions of the "Oprah" project are wrong.

For example, many Japanese researchers engaged in research in this field expressed "confidence". Sex has to start with the essence."

Replacing this sentence with "today's weather is fine" does not have any sense of disobedience.

As for British and American physicists, they generally hold a firm negative attitude.

Perhaps the most vocal of these is Jim Eckari, a physicist at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.

In an interview, he directly publicly declared-"If the experiment at CERN proves to be correct and neutrinos exceed the speed of light, then I will eat my boxer bottom on live TV."

It can be seen that the poisonous oath of "eat something" is not a rare thing in academia.

In any case, the farce ended in an oolong.

The person in charge of the "Icarus" project repeated the experiment, saying that the experimental results they measured were exactly the same as Einstein's estimation, and finally rejected the results of "Oprah".

As for the cause of the error, it is said that the optical cable between the GPS receiver and the computer is loose, and some say that the oscillator line is not connected properly, which caused the error, but the specific reason may only be known by the neutrino himself.

And now, something similar happened again.

And it is not only the theory of relativity that is shaken, but something closer to the foundation of the building of physics.

It is conceivable that the entire physics community will be overwhelmed by this incident...