Chapter 1224 The Void and the World on Extra Strings

For the physics community, this day is definitely a significant day.

From this day on, human civilization has broadened the radius of thinking to areas outside the universe in a real sense, and expanded the cognition of the world by a dimension.

The changes brought about by this to society may not be more direct than a high-speed rail or a space shuttle, but the value hidden behind it cannot be estimated with money or goods.

"He saved us."

Looking at the papers downloaded from the IMCRC official website database, Professor Steven Weinberg said in admiration, "The extra dimension beyond the n dimension, the lake reflected in the lake... This metaphor is simply too vivid! "

"I guess your next sentence is right. Actually, I think so too?" Professor Permar, who just came back from Shanghai with a cup of coffee in his hand, said with a smile.

"I really think so!" Seeing his old friend looking at him with a half-smile, Professor Weinberg blushed and argued with a dry cough, "Don't look at me like that...you know, I'm in this lecture That's what I said before I started!"

He didn't lie about this sentence.

As a rare public atheist among Jewish physicists, Steven Weinberg has firmly stood on the side of material determinism from the very beginning, and proposed to use a special dimension to summarize this mass expansion The phenomenon.

Just as the physics community added an extra fifth dimension to the equation of relativity in order to explain the electromagnetic force, the expanding mass may move from the n+1 dimension outside the event horizon (assuming that the observable boundary is n-dimensional) over here.

This idea actually coincides with Lu Zhou, but the only difference is that he cannot prove his idea.

It is actually very easy to come up with a conjecture. Every day on Arxiv there are brain holes that are more sci-fi than the sci-fi world, but few of them are logically self-consistent, and most of the logically self-consistent ones are reduced to "Minority Report" because they cannot be proved experimentally. ".

There is no doubt that Lu Zhou not only explained the inevitability of this n+1-dimensional existence in a mathematical sense, but also proved this disturbance in an experimental sense—it is not a disordered behavior without boundaries.

For physics, they discovered a "new continent" larger than the universe.

For world politics...

Perhaps they should consider the possible threats lurking in the void?

After all, no matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like the sieve had been placed in front of them out of kindness.

Of course, Weinberg didn't hold out much hope for that.

This may be the reason for IMCRC to ask governments of various countries for money. After all, human beings are animals that crave privacy. No one likes to have something unclean around them spying on them, but most likely no government will make such a comparison "Global warming" is even more interesting than boring stuff.

Even if such a crisis exists, it is too far away.

Maybe it won't come when the sun goes out...

"...There is no doubt that the Nobel Committee owes him a Nobel Prize. I have said long ago that he feels worthy of this honor. When the unified theory of strong electricity appeared, I suggested it to them. However, those old blind donkeys acted as if they didn't see it, and still gave the award to some inexplicable things."

Hearing the cursing from his old friend, Perlmutter coughed dryly: "It can't be said that, no matter what the award-winning research over the years is definitely not inexplicable... And in fact, as far as I know, Professor Klitzing is giving the Nobel Prize every year. The Bell Prize committee wrote to nominate his name."

"I'll be writing letters this year too," Weinberg muttered, throwing the paper he had read on the table. "There is no one more deserving of this honor than him, and I mean no one."

As if he felt that just saying that was not convincing enough, he immediately added a sentence later.

"Of course, that includes myself."

...

Just the second week after the experimental data was released, a paper titled "The Void and the World on Extra Strings" was released on IMCRC's official website.

After this paper was released, the number of downloads exceeded 100,000 in less than half an hour.

At the same time, the same paper was also published in "Future" and was reprinted by major well-known journals. Especially "Nature" and "Science", even set it as highlights and put it on the cover of the latest issue of the journal.

The most notable one is probably the brief commentary written by Professor Weinberg, a well-known scholar in the physics field, for this paper in the "Quick Review of Physics".

As a Nobel Prize winner in 1979, Professor Weinberg's influence in the physics world can be said to be quite huge. If you only consider the status in physics, even Edward Witten is slightly inferior to him.

Whether it is the unified theory of electroweak, or the discovery of the scattering of mesons, infrared photons, quantum gravity, and Z bosons, which have laid the foundation of modern physics, none of them can be compared with conjectured theories such as string theory. In particular, his paper on the Z boson was the most cited until 2010.

If you must rank the existing physicists, he is also a scholar in the same sequence as Yang and Anderson.

It is precisely because of this that this paper published in the "Quick Review of Physics" has caused a lot of heated discussions in the entire physics community and even the world's academic circles after it appeared...

[For the physics community, "void" is undoubtedly an unfamiliar concept. Whether it is an extra string running through the lifetime of the universe or observations from outside the universe, it sounds too mysterious, but it is indeed self-consistent in logic and has been tested experimentally. 】

[The mass has never decayed, but someone sprinkled a handful of sand in front of us. These masses from the n+1 dimension broke our understanding of the original universe, and also let our vision enter a field that has never been seen before. Known areas. 】

[As we can see, there are still many mysteries in this universe that we still don't know, and after that, we will continue to search tirelessly. 】

【This is probably the biggest revelation that the void has brought us. 】

[If there is really something staring at us, whether it is with good intentions or not, we should at least respond to their expectations to some extent. Whether it is for the universe, or for ourselves. 】

Just when the entire physics community was amazed and excited by the discovery of "void" and "extra dimension", Lu Zhou, who had returned to Jinling from Shanghai, was completely relieved.

The turmoil that threatened the entire physics, and the controversy surrounding the "mass expansion effect", finally settled with the birth of the extra-dimensional theory.

Even so, there are still some doubts in his mind.

For example, it is reasonable to say that there should be no void of any matter, how exactly does it project mass into the n-dimensional universe? And what is the substance that is released?

These series of problems are still unexplained by existing theories.

Either way, the immediate troubles were over.

For those buildings that are destined to be completed by future generations, all he can do is to put forward some possible conjectures, or ideas, for those successors.

For example, just like the observer civilization, before entering the void, a fragment belonging to the old universe was preserved in a special way, and the entire civilization was curled up inside.

Or, through a certain method, both positive and negative matter are generated at the same time, the antimatter is sunk into the endless void, and the positive matter is projected into the new universe...

However, no matter what kind of guess it is, it is really too difficult to verify it with the current technical means.

Even in terms of difficulty itself, proving these things is no easier than proving or disproving the existence of the spirit of the universe...

Back at Zhongshan International's home, after Lu Zhou finished washing, the first thing he did was lie down on the soft bed.

Although the place he lives in these days is not bad, but it can't compare with the feeling of his own home.

Closing his eyes, Lu Zhou emptied his consciousness.

At this time, he finally heard the voice like the sound of heaven coming from the depths of the void.

And, I saw that line of light blue dialog box floating in the field of vision——

[Congratulations to the host, the urgent task has been completed! 】