Chapter 1290 The Last Level

Christmas in 2023 will be spent in peace.

The colonists of Guanghan City have successfully settled in their new home. Except for a rare earth deposit with an estimated reserve of more than 30 million tons that was bid for the mining rights by a large domestic mining company, the news about Guanghan City seems to be temporarily closed. It's over.

As this hot spot gradually fades from people's vision, and there are no new hot spots to keep up, life seems to return to the daily track for a short time.

However, although for the world, it finally got a moment's respite from the successive shocks, but for the physics community, it was just the opposite.

Like a gift from Santa Claus, a piece of news from IMCRC has attracted the attention of physicists almost all over the world.

Professor Luo, Secretary-General of IMCRC, joined the Z particle gravitational anomaly research team.

And, the gravitational fluctuation formula of the Z particle was actually solved by Professor Wei Hong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Divik of the University of Brussels?

"It's incredible..."

Cafe in IMCRC.

Sitting almost at the place where Lu Zhou talked with Senior Brother Luo last time, looking at the paper in his hand, Professor Wei Teng's face was full of disbelief.

"Even from the perspective of a mathematician, the content of this paper is quite exciting. Its understanding of algebraic geometry and topology makes people doubt..."

Wilzek: "Did Lu Zhou help?"

"...That's not true." Turning over a page of the paper in his hand, Wei Teng couldn't help but admire and said, "The gap with Lu Zhou is still not small, but for a scholar engaged in high-energy physics research, it is possible to It can be said that it is quite rare to be proficient in mathematics to this level. After all, I have seen too many physics professors, when doing calculations on phenomenological models, erase a certain letter in a row of formulas as if nothing had happened, and pretend to be Nothing happened."

Hearing these words, Professor Wilczek, who was drinking black tea, almost choked on the tea and coughed several times before recovering.

"Fortunately, I'm the only one here... Otherwise, your metaphor might offend many people."

"Who cares?" Witten shrugged nonchalantly, "I'm already this age."

Over the years, I have made more and more old friends. Many people have not contacted for a while, and I sent emails to them again, but there is no news.

Not to mention his old friends, even he himself began to gradually feel that it has gradually become more and more difficult to adapt to the current pace of physics research.

Aging is an eternal topic.

No life, great or humble, can escape this curse.

Now that he is no longer the king of the lawless, the only thing Wei Teng still cares about now is that he hopes to see more new things that he has never seen before in his lifetime.

Aware of the sadness of this topic, Professor Wilczek took a sip of the black tea in the cup, and changed the subject without a trace.

"However, the unexpectedness you mentioned... Actually, I think it is expected. There is at least an 80% probability that the research that Lu Zhou is optimistic about. There must be some amazing discovery behind it."

As if he felt that his statement was not accurate enough, Professor Wilczek thought for a while, and added a sentence.

"Or to put it more accurately...90% or more."

"It's not the Z-particle gravitational fluctuation formula that surprised me. Although its derivation process is ingenious and exquisite enough, it's far from being surprising. Not to mention Lu Zhou, even now I'm in control With so many test leads, one month should be enough."

Pushing the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, looking at the paper in his hand, a look of obvious interest appeared in Wei Teng's eyes.

"What really surprised me was what Lu Zhou was doing."

"Lu Zhou?" Vilzek ​​gave him a strange look, and asked inexplicably, "Isn't he just studying this?"

"Of course not. If he's working on this, even if I can't see traces of his calculations in this paper, at least I can see his name in the author column. I bet that even if he doesn't want to be named, he His collaborators must also really want to put his name on it, and maybe they will do so without authorization..."

Speaking of this, Wei Teng seemed to remember something that happened a long time ago, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"...There seems to be only one possibility for him to leave such an interesting subject alone."

"He must have discovered something more interesting."

The moment he heard these words, Vilzek ​​seemed to remember something, his cloudy pupils brightened up, and he muttered to himself.

"...and, even he himself isn't sure if that's true."

Wei Teng snapped his fingers and said with a smile.

"That's right."

Wirzek smashed his tongue and said, "Well, you successfully aroused my curiosity! I can't wait to visit him in Jinling now and see what he is researching."

Witten smiled and said, "You won't see him."

Wilczek: "Why?"

"Based on what I know of him, usually when this kind of thing happens, he will lock himself up."

Putting down the teacup, Wei Teng smiled nostalgicly and said.

"He called it, retreat."

...

In fact, Professor Witten's guess was very accurate.

Although Lu Zhou hasn't started retreat yet, he is already preparing for the retreat.

Moreover, the subject he studied, as Professor Witten guessed, was different from that of Professor Wei Hong and David Ke.

The gravitational fluctuation formula of the Z particle is a very perfect result, but it can only be regarded as the first step to find out the reason why the Z particle disturbs gravity when it falls from high-dimensional to low-dimensional space.

If this road can be brought to the end, it will undoubtedly be a very great result, but it is not an easy task to dig out all the clues of this research direction in a short period of time.

At least, not in the short term.

In contrast, in this research direction, Lu Zhou discovered some other things that interested him. And it was precisely because of this discovery that he temporarily turned his attention away from the subject of the disturbance of the gravitational field by Z particles.

However, this discovery may seem a bit unbelievable.

Even he himself is not sure whether his guess... or the brain hole that flashed in his mind, is possible to realize.

However, it is precisely this feeling of uncertainty that ignites the thirst for knowledge and the soul of science in his heart after a long absence.

I dare not even think about it, what is the difference between that and salted fish?

Even if there is only a one percent possibility, he still has to hold a magnifying glass to dig out the clues corresponding to that one percent possibility!

"I may have to stay at home for a while... During this time, I may not be reachable."

On video call.

Looking at the holographic image of the senior sister unfolded in front of him, Lu Zhou was silent for a while, and finally said this sentence.

In fact, he had hesitated for a long time before making this call.

Even a person who is as ignorant of the world as he is, he is more or less clear that probably no woman can endure her boyfriend not replying to her messages for a long time. And even if you tell the reason, it may cause the other party to have various misunderstandings such as "I am a burden".

However, after hearing this sentence, Chen Yushan's reaction was beyond Lu Zhou's expectations.

Seeing that she smiled, instead of getting into a little mood like he imagined, she teased him in a relaxed tone.

"Retreat?"

"...Eh? Even you know the word?"

"Don't underestimate your girlfriend, I know you very well, okay?" Chen Yushan couldn't help joking, "Also, you surprised me just now, do you know that you are so serious all of a sudden? "It made me think you were going to break up with me."

"how come?!"

"That's hard to say. What if there is a little girl younger than me who pursues you? After all, I'm not as clingy as a little girl, and I'm not that romantic. Besides, you still have so many fans. When you send out a scarf, there are people clamoring to have a baby monkey with you..."

Although she always had an expression like a royal sister from the beginning, when she said the last sentence "give birth to a little monkey", her face still couldn't help but feel a little hot from embarrassment.

As for Lu Zhou on the other end of the phone, he couldn't hold back and was almost choked by this sentence.

What the hell is a baby monkey?

Is there really such a perversion among his fans?

emmm...

All right.

Thinking of how handsome he is, Lu Zhou suddenly lost confidence.

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore."

Looking at Lu Zhou who wanted to explain but didn't know how to speak, Chen Yushan slightly smugly raised the corners of her lips and let go of this big boy who was not good at expressing.

After enjoying a moment of silence, she continued in a gentle tone.

"Remember to take care of yourself. Even if the research is interesting, remember to eat and sleep on time."

Seeing such a considerate and understanding girlfriend, Lu Zhou was so moved that he was almost speechless.

Adam's apple moved slightly.

In the end, the unspoken thousands of words were all melted into one sentence.

"Ah, you too!"

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou, who was sitting at the desk, took a deep breath, trying to calm down his rippling mood, and focused all his attention on the draft paper on the desk.

"This should be the last level..."

Saying softly, Lu Zhou, who gradually entered the state, reached out and picked up the ballpoint pen on the table.

"...the last level before the full level of physics."

The world after LV10.

Just thinking about it makes his heart surge...

Motion sickness turned into gastroenteritis...uncomfortable T.T