Chapter 1291 Straighten the Curled Time and Space

IMCRC headquarters.

In an office with whiteboards on the walls.

Facing one of the almost full whiteboards, Professor Wei Hong, holding a marker in his hand, pondered for a long time, and suddenly broke the silence.

"I thought of it!"

Professor Davik, who was standing next to him, asked quickly.

"What did you think of?"

From just now, including Luo Wenxuan, the three people are discussing the issue of "the possible reason for the disturbance of the gravitational field by Z particles". Wei Hong gave a possibility from a mathematical point of view on the whiteboard.

However, when the other two listened carefully, he who was speaking well suddenly stopped talking. The whole person seemed to be stuck in his train of thought by something, and stood there in a daze for a long time.

Now that he finally came back to his senses, Professor Davek, who thought he had discovered some amazing idea, quickly cast him a questioning look.

In the face of the partner's inquiry, Professor Wei Hong pondered for about two minutes, sorted out the thoughts that came to his mind into simple and easy-to-understand language, and then spoke.

"The essence of gravity is the bending of space-time by the mass of an object itself. Z particles moving from high dimensions to low dimensions do not interfere with the gravitational field itself, but change the curvature of space-time relative to the gravitational field."

As he spoke, he picked up a pen and drew two parallel circles on the whiteboard, connecting the upper and lower ends of the circles with two arcs.

"Space-time has curvature, assuming that the curvature is x, and assuming these two lines are the gravitational field lines under conventional space-time, when the Z particle oscillates at both ends, the value of x will change, or even be reduced to infinitely close to zero , and these two arcs will be infinitely straightened, approaching a straight line—”

Looking at the two neat straight lines drawn by Professor Wei Hong between the two arcs, a surprised expression gradually appeared on Luo Wenxuan's face.

"I see what you mean, but this sounds... a bit unbelievable. In other words, we only need two lunar hadron colliders to create a portal on the other side of the galaxy?"

Wei Hong shook his head.

"This metaphor is not appropriate. To be precise, it is more like building a highway between two undulating mountains."

According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, due to the presence of matter, matter and time (space-time) are curved. And the classical universe where matter is ubiquitous, that is, the universe that humans can directly observe, obviously belongs to a "curved" universe.

In this curved universe, it is a straight line to move from A to B on the surface, but in fact, in the high-dimensional universe, it is a crooked journey.

If the conjecture made by Wei Hong is correct, it means that they may "straighten" the curled space-time in some way, and pass through this curled universe directly along a real "straight line", Go where they want to go.

Taking Mars as an example, the closest distance between Mars and the Earth is 55 million kilometers, and it takes 182 seconds to travel this distance even at the speed of light.

However, if the curved space-time between the two is "straightened"—or even just stretched out to the width of a highway, this distance may be shortened to 5.5 million, or even 550,000 kilometers.

Under such circumstances, even if one does not master the method of surpassing the speed of light, the actual effect can break through the limitation of the speed of light, and travel through the universe with the unit of light years in a very short time.

Shocked by the broad prospects behind this theory, Luo Wenxuan was stunned for a long time before gradually showing a serious expression and asking.

"Is there a way to prove it?"

"It's hard," Wei Hong looked at the formula on the whiteboard solemnly, a bitter smile gradually appeared on Wei Hong's face, "or to be more precise, it's quite difficult. It involves many and complex difficulties, and It is related to the compound problem of high-dimensional differential manifold and algebraic geometry, the most complex problem in mathematics. It is no exaggeration to say that if this problem is abstracted into a mathematical problem, its difficulty will not be lower than the Poincaré conjecture!"

Hearing this sentence, Luo Wenxuan and Professor David Ke looked at each other in blank dismay.

Even for the latter who are not good at mathematics, they are aware of the seven millennium problems in mathematics.

As the crown in differential geometry, the Poincaré conjecture took nearly a century of hard work by three generations of mathematicians to remove it from the top of the mountain.

If solving this problem is harder than the Poincaré conjecture...

They have little chance of winning.

"If this conclusion can be proved, I'm afraid there will be no problem with being famous in history." With some envious tone, Professor Davik said,

Luo Wenxuan laughed dryly, and said, "It's more than just being famous in history... If it can be done, at least it must be placed in the same position as Einstein."

This is the key to the edge of the galaxy!

Whoever can find it will be its father in the interstellar era.

Even if it theoretically provides a feasible idea for navigation between star systems, its significance is extremely huge. And if someone in the distant future really realizes hyperspace navigation through their theories, then I am afraid that even Einstein and Newton together will have to be compared with this supreme glory.

Also foreseeing this point, Professor Wei Hong also sighed softly.

"Although it is a pity, this theory is not something that ordinary people can accomplish...at least it is beyond the scope of my ability."

"Where's Professor Witten?"

"If he was in his thirties, he might be able to do it, but now...it's basically impossible," Wei Hong continued after a pause, "At present, the most promising person to solve this problem may only be Professor Lu. "

Seeing the two of them looking at him in unison, Luo Wenxuan was slightly taken aback, and then sweated wildly.

"What are you all watching me do?"

Professor Wei Hong said as a matter of course: "You have the best relationship with Professor Lu... From the perspective of success rate, it is more appropriate for you to ask him for help."

Davik quickly nodded in agreement.

"I also think so."

The experience of being detained at Jinling Airport last time made him really not want to experience it again.

"Even if you look at me like that, it's useless. Although I'm his senior brother, but... he's in retreat now, and it's almost impossible to contact him."

While speaking, Luo Wenxuan couldn't help showing a helpless expression on his face.

To be honest, he, a cheap senior brother, might not have a higher status than that guy's apprentice.

Professor Davek still didn't give up, trying to make a last effort to speak.

"But... how do you know if it will work if you don't even try it?"

"It's nothing to worry about. Even if you get in touch with him even if you take a step back, he's unlikely to spend a lot of time delving into an idea that has little chance of being realized...unless it's really worth it."

Shrugging, Luo Wenxuan continued.

"So, for us, the only way now is to write our guesses in a paper and publish it. If it can arouse his interest, this problem will be solved. If not... I think it may and it does not." It's worth wasting too much time on it."

This is the best way.

According to Luo Wenxuan's understanding of Lu Zhou, although he will hardly reply to outside news when he is in retreat, he will not completely disconnect from the Internet.

At least the latest research results, he will still follow up.

If there is no response...

It can only be said that Lu Zhou is not optimistic about their guess.

If this is the case, Luo Wenxuan feels that they can almost give up.

After all, warp speed sailing sounds a bit unbelievable. To be honest, he has been in a state of doubt until now. After all, apart from this most unlikely explanation, there are more more reliable explanations.

"It can only be the……"

After a long silence, Professor Wei Hong nodded his head with difficulty. Although he didn't like to wait for an uncertain thing, it seemed that there was no better way now.

"...I will use the language of mathematics as much as possible to describe this guess a little more reliably."

Luo Wenxuan looked at him and nodded.

"Then please."

The three are preparing to return to the previous discussion.

However, at this moment, the cell phone in Luo Wenxuan's pocket suddenly rang.

"Wait a minute...I'm going to answer the phone."

As the secretary-general of IMCRC, he always has to answer a large number of work calls every day.

Although he also wanted to leave these things aside, but considering that a certain chairman doesn't care about things, he can only bite the bullet and resist the work that originally belonged to Lu Zhou.

Without looking at the caller ID, Luo Wenxuan pressed the connect button and walked aside.

Wei Hong and Davik didn't care about him for the time being, they stopped the topic of discussion, and waited for their teammates to come back in quiet thinking.

However, at this moment, they did not wait for the sound of Luo Wenxuan's returning footsteps, but a strange cry from a distance. That voice probably belonged to Professor Luo, but it was drawn very thin and very long——

It's as if the curled space was suddenly straightened.

Looking at Wei Hong in a daze, Davidk said in a daze.

"What is he saying?"

"……have no idea."

He glanced at the direction Luo Wenxuan was leaving with a dazed face, and when Wei Hong was hesitating whether to go over to see what happened, he saw Luo Wenxuan with a dazed expression on my phone, and the whole person was like sleepwalking As if walking back.

Seeing this, Professor Davik quickly got up and looked at him and asked.

"what happened?"

Wei Hong also stood up.

"Whose phone?"

"Lu Zhou..."

After answering the latter question, Luo Wenxuan swallowed, and said in a voice as if he hadn't woken up yet, "Didn't we just...discuss whether the stable oscillation of Z particles can make space produce a stable curvature?"

"Is...could it be?!"

Looking at Professor Wei Hong who suddenly reacted with a shocked expression, Luo Wenxuan nodded with straight eyes.

"Yes."

"He's done it."

"Just a few minutes ago."

"...in a mathematical sense."