Chapter 1216 Sometimes, Science Is Not Just an Idea

into the cafe.

Sitting down by the window, Lu Zhou signaled Wang Peng to wait for him, and then looked at Professor Miro who was sitting opposite.

"Would you like something to drink?"

"As long as it's iced."

Lu Zhou nodded, then looked at the waiter, and ordered two cups of iced coffee.

Then he turned his gaze to Professor Miro and asked.

"To be honest, I don't quite understand how the 53% mass expansion is related to... the spirit of the universe you mentioned?"

"You are the first person to ask me this question," Professor Miro continued, looking at Lu Zhou with some surprise, "Most people's first reaction is that I am talking crazy, rambling with mysterious and unreliable theories."

"My views are not fundamentally different from theirs," Lu Zhou shrugged and continued, "My curiosity lies purely in the connection between the two."

Professor Miro didn't speak immediately, but groped around for a while.

This action made Wang Peng standing next to him very nervous for a while, and he couldn't help putting his right hand into his purse.

However, the professor from the United States did not do anything out of the ordinary. He just took out a note pad and a signature pen from his inner pocket.

"Since you are best at mathematics, then I will use mathematics to prove it to you."

Watching his movements with interest, Lu Zhou made a gesture of invitation.

"I agree with you. Seeing may be false, but mathematics must not lie."

Without expressing any opinion on this sentence, Professor Miro quickly wrote down a line of calculations on the sticky note with the signature pen in his hand.

【mN=m0-4c1Mπ2+O(Mπ3)】

"This is the nucleon mass obtained by chiral extrapolation, m0≈880 MeV; c1≈-1GeV-1; Mπ2 is the mass square of the π meson..."

After taking his own coffee from the waiter, Lu Zhou said calmly.

"So? I'm not here to listen to your popular science on quantum chromodynamics."

"Please don't worry about it, I just want to confirm the basic concept again, so as to better explain my point of view."

Professor Miro cleared his throat and continued, "According to this line of formula, we can obviously find that most of the mass of visible matter in the universe can be obtained by pure quantum chromodynamics without introducing quark mass. Just to clarify... except for the 7% that is unexplained for now, maybe it comes from outside the standard model, maybe it comes from statistical error, but it's not a big deal."

Lu Zhou nodded, without any expression, just quietly waiting for him to continue.

"...However, recent experiments have completely overturned all my previous guesses. When I thought that the collision of a larger energy level would reveal to us the secrets of the 7% part, we discovered surprisingly , this 7% disappeared.”

"Not only that, we even have 53% more unexplained mass in our observation system!"

"Surprising isn't it? It would make sense that we should see less than what it actually has. Instead, we see more than it actually has, by one A proportion that cannot be ignored!"

"Think about it, we can only make both sides of the equation conserve by introducing a particle with negative mass. The original perfect universe is like a piece of plasticine, pinched in an invisible hand, kneading it arbitrarily pinch--"

"Perfection is just a subjective judgment," Lu Zhou interrupted him, saying, "I never thought the universe was perfect."

"Really? Haha, maybe! If I tell you that I saw that ghost—forget it, it's too weird to say so, and it probably won't do any good except make you think of me as a lunatic."

Is not it?

Lu Zhou subconsciously had such confusion in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.

His gaze stayed on Lu Zhou's face that didn't change much for a few seconds. Professor Miro suddenly lowered his head quickly, and hurriedly wrote a few lines of calculations and handwriting on the paper.

After finishing all this, he carefully folded it up and stuffed it in front of Lu Zhou.

"Bold assumptions and careful verification are the experiences that we can sum up from the history of the progress of physics until today. Just like we noticed the existence of gravity from falling apples, scientific thinking allows us to get rid of ignorance and learn to sum up The way things are...and the way we forget our own smallness."

"do you know?"

"This universe is like a well-designed game. Normally, it will respond to our expectations. Until one day, the parameters we input to it finally exceed its threshold, and it finally fails to respond to our expectations. All scientific theories have collapsed at this singularity, and the development of all matter has no law at all.”

"Collisions above 5Tev shatter not only the conservation of mass, but also the whole of physics."

Lu Zhou looked at him silently.

He now probably knows why this gifted young scholar fell into a state of paranoia—or even madness.

Physics is a subject that studies the most general laws of matter motion and the basic structure of matter, but now their discoveries are revealing to them that the universe is actually irregular.

It wouldn't be so alarming if it was just a physical theorem being overthrown, but it's clearly touching on something much closer to the bottom line.

That is what is called truth itself.

This small boat exploring the truth of the universe is being dragged into a swamp by an invisible hand.

Now, Lu Zhou finally understands why this matter has developed to such an extent that the system has to come forward and issue [emergency mission] to him.

To be honest, if he hadn't heard the voice from the other side of the void, he might be even more at a loss than Professor Miro at this moment.

"...the universe itself has no rules. Our ignorance and insignificance make us wishful thinking that the sky we see at the bottom of the well is the whole sky."

"It's as if there is an invisible ghost wandering in this universe, it picked off the apples on the tree, stretched out its hand and strangled Schrödinger's cat, allowing light to be either a particle or a wave, manipulating everything as it pleases... And we're trying to explain its behavior with some crappy, self-contained theories."

Saying some chilling words to himself, Professor Miro's pupils, which were getting bloodshot, suddenly widened a bit.

Tapping the small note with his index finger, he lowered his voice.

"This is my prediction, Dear Professor Lu."

"The phenomenon of mass expansion in the high-energy region is irregular, and we have been doing a very stupid stupid thing for the past half century."

"We will restart the experiment in half a month, and soon you will prove me right."

"All of this is arranged."

After saying this, Professor Miro propped his hands on the table, took steps that his relatives did not recognize, and stumbled away under the surprised eyes of countless people.

...

It can be seen that the results of that experiment hit him hard.

Either spiritually or physically.

After finishing the meeting with Professor Miro, Lu Zhou returned to the car and sat in the back without saying a word, looking at the post-it note in his hand, as if he was thinking about something.

Glancing at Lu Zhou through the rearview mirror, Wang Peng hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Who is that professor..."

"Faith collapsed."

Wang Peng: "...?"

Lu Zhou: "If one day I told you that your mathematics, physics and chemistry, and even Chinese from childhood to university... everything is actually fake, how would you feel about it?"

Although it was not the first time for Professor Lu to ask such weird questions, and he was already used to it, but this time it seemed more difficult to understand than usual.

Wang Peng thought for a while, and a subtle expression appeared on his face.

"I can't imagine... No matter how you say it, the language can't be fake."

"I'm just giving a popular example. After all, you haven't studied quantum chromodynamics systematically, and you haven't spent most of your life writing papers to reveal the original appearance of nature like people."

Sighing slightly, Lu Zhou thought for a while before continuing.

"Let me give you another example. Let's say that one day the person you admire the most changes from a saint to a devil who does all kinds of evil, or something like that, and pushes the world to the brink of destruction."

Wang Peng said without hesitation.

"This is impossible."

"Really?" Lu Zhou shrugged noncommittally, "I also think this is impossible. But you should be able to imagine what kind of disaster it might mean to you once such a thing happens."

"Professor Miro's situation is like this. What he has always believed to be impossible, and what he firmly believes in as his creed, happened before his eyes."

"The things I have studied in the past two decades have become waste paper, and physics and life have lost their meaning."

"In this sense, sometimes science is not just an idea."

"At the same time, it is also a kind of belief."

...

Professor Miro was suspended.

This is also a doctor's recommendation.

In any case, his current state is not suitable for participating in research.

In particular, he not only affected himself, but also affected other people in the project team.

Originally, Lu Zhou thought that facing such a situation might make this young genius feel unacceptable.

However, to his surprise, after hearing the suggestion of receiving treatment given by IMCRC, he was unexpectedly calm, even when he packed up his things and left the office, the expression on his face was extraordinarily relaxed.

"Alright, I finally have time to plan the trip I've always wanted to start."

After leaving this sentence, he said goodbye to his colleagues one by one, and then left his office.

Out of a certain degree of worry, Lu Zhou paid special attention to the situation of Professor Miro. Interestingly, the physics professor did not leave Shanghai immediately, but still lives in the bachelor apartment prepared for him by IMCRC.

It seemed that he was not so sure about his guess, and seemed to be planning to wait until the end of the next experiment to see if he was right.

However, this also made Lu Zhou feel even more uneasy.

Because this means that all his conclusions are made in a sober state.

At the same time, Lu Zhou also noticed that Professor Miro had been updating his blog during this period of suspension. Objectively speaking, his literary talents are really good, and he can present boring physics theories in an easy-to-understand form, so he has gained a lot of fans—or believers.

In this way, in the turmoil of the whole physics, half a month passed.

IMCRC finally waited for the next experimental cycle.

This time, Lu Zhou personally stood at the scene of the ground command center.

It's not for some necessary academic purpose, he just wants to use his own eyes to confirm whether all this is just a bizarre oolong, or a discovery that subverts physics in a true sense.

He kept clenching and releasing his fists, and walked back and forth in the hall of the ground command center several times. Finally, he waited for the moment when the result was released.

And the data presented on the screen made him subconsciously open his eyes.

That weird scene reappeared!

After the collision of two lead ions in the high-energy region, instead of loss of mass, there is a part of excess!

There was an uproar in the ground command center, and people opened their eyes wide in disbelief, exchanging bewildered glances, discussing quietly, nervously and even excitedly.

The expression on Lu Zhou's face was quite calm, but slightly stiff.

This is the first time he feels the situation is so difficult.

Subconsciously, he reached into his pocket, and he took out the note from his pocket and unfolded it.

Looking at the above content, he muttered something in a low voice.

"You really guessed it."

The extra mass is no longer 0.53 lead ions.

Instead, 0.71.

Not only that.

The data collected by the four detectors through unobstructed experiments are surprisingly highly consistent...