Chapter 1213 Call of the Void

【Shock! The latest results of IMCRC show that mass is no longer conserved! Perpetual motion machines may no longer be a false proposition! 】

Seeing the title of this line, Lu Zhou almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Those who work in the media can always use all kinds of weird interpretation methods to make his nose crooked again and again.

When did the IMCRC say that mass is no longer conserved? Why haven't I heard of him as the chairman?

Is it so difficult to correctly understand the "abnormal mass expansion phenomenon in the three sets of experimental data"?

Ten thousand steps back, even if the edifice of physics is overthrown, the perpetual motion machine must be a false proposition.

At least on Earth yes!

"Don't these people make a draft when they write these things?"

After reading a few lines, Lu Zhou felt disgusted and threw the newspaper into the trash can next to him. He really took a second look at this kind of report and felt it was a waste of time.

"The paper media industry is in a downturn, and it's normal to use gimmicks to attract audiences..." Looking at Lu Zhou who was so busy and started reading newspapers, Wei Teng, who came here to visit, couldn't help asking with great interest, "How is it? Got a clue?"

"Don't treat me like Tinker Bell or something, I don't know more about this matter than you," sighed, Lu Zhou reached out to hold the mouse, clicked on the browser and logged in to the physics forum he was familiar with. glanced.

As expected, the physics world exploded in place.

Among the posts that are partial to relevant discussions, at least nine of them express incredible emotions.

First, a professor at Stanford University said that if there was no problem with the lunar collider, he would eat the boxers and the belt tied around his waist.

Although Lu Zhou also doubted whether there was a problem with the collider or the detectors were broken at the same time, but the failures were so consistent that it was hard to believe this statement.

Then a certain professor from Oxford University came forward, and his views were basically similar, but he did not suspect that there was a problem with the collider, but attributed the source of the error to a statistical problem, thinking that IMCRC was responsible for the problem. The researchers of the project made a big mess. IMCRC should immediately set up an expert group to re-analyze the data collected by the detector.

On the other hand, there are already many unknown professors on Arxiv who have begun to bet in advance on why such a phenomenon occurs.

After all, the direction of theoretical physics is too difficult.

This kind of difficulty is not only in an academic sense.

And in the sense of real life.

In addition, not only the physics community, but even the mathematics community has been greatly affected.

Especially on forums like mathoverflow, where there are a lot of great people, there are already many great talents in the field of mathematics, who have begun to discuss with great interest. If all this is true, will it bring some enlightenment to mathematics?

Lu Zhou didn't quite understand what this revelation meant.

Even if the mass is no longer conserved, the universal algorithm of 1+1=2 will not be subverted...

Probably not.

"Before I came to IMCRC, I worked at CERN for at least 30 years, but this is the first time I have seen such a strange situation," Wei Teng walked to Lu Zhou's desk with a coffee cup, and Wei Teng thought for a while He said, "From the perspective of a mathematician, where do you think the extra mass might come from?"

"I don't know. Mathematics doesn't discuss specific things, but I know that mass and energy cannot be increased or decreased out of thin air, unless..."

Witten: "Unless?"

"Unless it comes from the other side of time..." After saying this, Lu Zhou opened his mouth, but quickly shook his head and rejected his guess, "This is impossible... This is worse than the increase in mass and energy out of thin air. be unrealistic."

Time is irreversible, which is also the basic theorem of physics—or one of the consensus.

The curvature of spacetime may change somewhere, but the direction it points must remain the same.

As for why this is said, it may be a bit complicated to understand.

To understand this, it must first be clear that, at least in mainstream physics, time is not a "thing" and has nothing to do with the dimensions that make up the universe. Strictly speaking, it is a "scale", which appeared with the big bang, pointing to the end of the universe,

Although it cannot be ruled out that there will be new discoveries in the future, redefining the concept of time.

But at least for now, Lu Zhou has not seen such signs from the latest findings of IMCRC. It can even be said that instead of using the concept of time to explain the extra mass, it is better to attribute it to the void——

etc!

Lu Zhou's eyes suddenly opened slightly.

Keenly caught the change of expression on Lu Zhou's face, Wei Teng asked quickly.

"What did you think of?"

"A possibility that... might be a bit unrealistic."

Witten joked: "It's even less reliable than string theory?"

"Probably yes..." Lu Zhou thought for a while, "If, I said if, in addition to the n strings that make up the universe, there is an n+1th string, which does not belong to the universe we know, runs through The life of the universe. It's like... a wall in a wall, a lake of reflections in a lake."

The second half of the sentence was heard by Lu Zhou from a "person".

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Wei Teng raised his eyebrows.

"It seems that you occasionally say some strange things."

"Did anyone else say that?"

"Nash... as you may know, he is a genius who is tortured by mental pain. When he was still alive, I still liked to discuss mathematics with him."

"That's a real pity."

"Come on, about what you said... I can't rule it out, but just as we can't prove it, there's no point in discussing such a thing."

After a pause, Witten continued, "The starting point of physics ends at the big bang, and it is meaningless to discuss things before that except imagination. That is the end of all science, unless we can one day reach the Outside the box of the universe, otherwise we who are in the box would not have the slightest hope of seeing what you said..."

"Void," Lu Zhou looked at Wei Teng, who was struggling with how to describe this concept, and said first, "I plan to call it that."

"Void? An interesting name," Witten shrugged, "but like I said, it doesn't make any sense."

Is it really meaningless?

The whole morning, Lu Zhou was worrying about this matter.

This is no longer scientific intuition.

Rather, the title of the task itself already hints at it, where exactly the problem comes from. The root of all the contradictions all point to the extra dimension beyond the n-dimension, the existence that is older than the Big Bang and closer to eternity than time.

However, if he writes these things in the paper, some people will definitely suspect that he has gone crazy at a young age.

For some reason, he suddenly felt some sympathy for Einstein.

It is said that the old man lived a "miserable" life in his later years. This misery is not only caused by political suspicion and exclusion, but also because his beloved physics has abandoned him.

People respect him, but they no longer believe in him. The halo of absolute authority in his youth has faded away from him, just as no one can understand what he calculated on the blackboard before his death. The old man's mental world is almost in disarray, and he doesn't care so much about what he said.

An advanced theory is acceptable, but if the span of a theory has risen to the level of delusion, I am afraid that no one will easily nod.

Maybe he really discovered something, and then he said that "everything is arranged" sounds absurd.

However, only he himself can prove that he has indeed discovered something unusual...

I had lunch at noon.

Lu Zhou returned to his desk, sat down, and turned on the computer.

At this moment, a string of bubbles popped out from the lower right corner.

Xiao Ai: [Master, there is a new email. ()】

New mail?

With doubts, Lu Zhou logged into the mailbox and clicked on the unread email.

When he saw the signature on the email, he was slightly taken aback.

Satoshi Nakamoto?

There was a strange expression on his face, and Lu Zhou continued to look down the mail.

The entire text, only a short sentence.

[I want to chat with you. 】

Is this a greeting?

Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile, and typed a line of words to reply.

[I'm sorry I don't have time recently, let's talk about it after I finish dealing with the things at hand. 】

After clicking the send button, Lu Zhou closed the mailbox and returned his attention to the draft paper on the table.

Letting your mind wander won't solve any problems.

If you want to find reliable clues, you must go through rigorous calculations.

Regardless of whether the problem can be found.

At least, he has to make full preparations for the next experiment...