Chapter 1221 The Collapse of Superposition
The lecture hall was crowded with people, roughly around 800 people.
This is almost the top mind and the most authoritative scholar in the field of high-energy physics.
Not only the researchers working in IMCRC, but also the physics masters who came from other countries.
Everyone's purpose is unexpectedly the same.
That is to find out where the inflated mass and the experimental results that subvert the standard model come from, and what it means...
In the front row of the lecture hall, an old man in a gray jacket sat next to Professor Witten.
He leaned his crutch against the corner of the table, unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle on the table, took a sip slowly, and then turned his gaze to the reporting platform.
"Thank you for the seat you reserved for me. There are too many people here... I almost got lost outside."
Looking sideways at the old man sitting next to him, Professor Witten raised his eyebrows.
"I didn't expect you to come."
The old man chuckled, gave him an "or else" look, and continued to cast his gaze on the reporting platform.
"How could I miss such an interesting thing? Maybe today, the rules of physics will be rewritten, and our field of vision will expand a whole dimension to areas we cannot perceive...There are more exciting things than this ?"
If someone heard this sentence, they would be surprised.
Not because of the content of the sentence, but the person who said it.
The person sitting next to Professor Witten at the moment is none other than Professor Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Maybe people who don't know much about the physics world may not have heard of this name, but in fact he is also an amazing physicist.
As the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 and the prover of the "accelerated expansion of the universe" theory, he is well-known both in the astrophysics and high-energy physics circles.
Wei Teng glanced at him and said thoughtfully: "It seems that you believe in that extra-dimensional theory."
"The question is not whether I believe it, but whether he can give a logical and self-consistent proof to prove that his conclusion is correct. Didn't we also dismiss string theory at the beginning? Although it is slowly starting to have such a trend now..."
Seeing the inadvertently happy expression on Witten's face, Professor Perlmutter chuckled, and hurriedly moved the topic aside.
"Speaking of which, I really want to know what you think about this matter. You haven't expressed your opinion until now, this is really... so unlike you—"
"Hush."
Professor Witten suddenly made a silent gesture, interrupting Professor Perlmutter's chatter, and then pointed in the direction of the stage with his index finger.
"The answer you want is right there."
"It has already begun."
...
Just when the hour hand passed ten o'clock.
The originally noisy meeting place became quiet as if hit by a silence spell.
Sitting restlessly at the front of the lecture hall, Fernando looked at Lu Zhou on the stage with an unhappy expression, wanting to do something for his beliefs.
However, the policeman sitting next to him, who didn't look too easy to mess with, and the glaring handcuffs on his waist, exuded an invisible coercion that made him dare not go out of line. move.
At this time, Lu Zhou, who was standing on the stage, looked around the entire lecture hall and said in a steady voice.
"We are saddened by the passing of Professor Miro."
"We have lost an outstanding scholar, and we have lost a comrade in arms."
"I know that his death may have touched a lot of people...and this also includes me."
Looking at the venue full of discussions, Lu Zhou didn't say anything, but just opened the stack of draft paper on the multimedia desk, spent about ten seconds to sort out the thoughts of the speech, and then spoke.
"My touch may be different from many of you."
"What touches me is not the wisdom we are proud of, which is vulnerable to the vast universe, but because in the face of its coming, our will may be weaker than imagined."
"Allow me to introduce 'willpower' on this occasion - such a concept that should not be here. Because as we all see and are feeling, the This building is on the verge of collapse just because of a slight disturbance."
Having said that, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, turned to face the whiteboard, and wrote a line of calculations on it with a marker in his hand.
【mN=m0-4c1Mπ2+O(Mπ3)】
After he stopped writing, Lu Zhou turned around and faced the meeting place where there were whispers.
"This is where the trouble starts."
"It is also the root of all contradictions."
"Usually, we can use the nucleon mass obtained by the chiral extrapolation method, and through the quantum lattice calculation method, with the help of supercomputers, we can explain the source of mass inside most nucleons."
"However, until today, we still have a lot of unexplained things ... the mass of this part is about 7%."
After writing this number on the whiteboard, Lu Zhou continued to look at the commotion venue, "Now, because of the collision experiment of more than 5Tev, this number has expanded to 53%, or even 71%, like a series of disordered gibberish, our physics seems to be swallowed by an invisible black hole."
"To explain this phenomenon, we had to introduce a new concept."
As he spoke, Lu Zhou stretched out his hand and wrote a letter on the whiteboard——n.
Then, a "+1" was written after it.
"N is all the dimensions that make up our current universe. What we can analyze is 11. There is also a saying that 13. Maybe in the distant future this number will be expanded to infinity as our vision improves, but all this is not important for the time being... ..."
"What we are going to discuss now is n+1 dimension."
"Beyond the horizon we can see, there exists an axis that runs through the universe from beginning to end. It is a wall of walls, a lake of reflections in lakes, and all dimensions that can be observed by us will be in its It converges at a certain point, and at the same time it is released at that point."
"In a normal sense, its existence usually doesn't affect us, unless... something on the side beyond our horizon touches this string—"
"Or to put it more generally, it reached out and opened the box and observed us."
Looking at the lecture hall where the sounds of surprise gradually spread, looking at Professor Weiteng and other familiar old friends who were in deep thought, and Fernando with a flushed face, Lu Zhou retracted his gaze, and looked at the formula on the whiteboard .
After a pause, he continued.
"Because of observations from the void, the superposition collapsed."
The discussion in the lecture hall became more and more boiling.
Because this sounds, it is a bit too unbelievable.
Finally, someone couldn't bear it and stood up.
"Why is it 5Tev?"
"That's a good question."
Looking at the young scholar who stood up to ask questions, Lu Zhou snapped his fingers, gave him an encouraging look, and motioned him to sit down first.
Then, Lu Zhou looked around the boiling lecture hall, raised his volume and continued.
"How do we identify whether an artificial intelligence is a real artificial intelligence? This is a very abstract concept, so we invented the Turing test, and defined that an artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test is a real artificial intelligence, and An artificial intelligence that fails this test is a mere machine."
"Similarly, how do we select the smartest ones from a group of ants?"
"The method is very simple, it is enough to set some simple obstacles for them."
"I know this may sound a little crazy, but what I still want to say is that the 5Tev energy level collision experiment is like a sieve, which screens the collection of all civilizations in this universe."
"The mass has never increased, it has just moved from the n+1 dimension outside the universe to the n dimension that constitutes the universe. Through this simple method, they were able to determine what is different from the ants besides the ants. thing."
"At the same time, they are passing through this sieve..."
"Declared to us, their existence."