Chapter 1293 It Seems that It Is Not so Impossible

Wilson Ohanian is a professor of physics at Stanford University, mainly engaged in research in the direction of high-energy physics. As a former winner of the Oliver Buckley Award, he is one of the best young physicists who have emerged in recent years.

Although bathed in the envious eyes of his peers, only Ohanian himself knows how difficult the path he chose in the first place is.

Limited by backward technical means, they are still verifying whether the guesses of the last century are correct, but the exploration of the future has hardly begun.

Fortunately, the Chinese who have suddenly become rich in recent years have generously donated money and built an IMCRC larger than CERN on the lunar crater, which brought the development of high-energy physics back to the fast track.

Such as the boat (Z) particle.

This particle, which has fallen into people's sight from the high-dimensional world since the end of last year, has expanded the research of high-energy physics directly to the invisible world by n full dimensions.

And Lu Zhou, who discovered this particle, also won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics because of this groundbreaking discovery, and became a candidate for the most outstanding physicist of this century.

Seeing the broad prospects behind this direction at a glance, Ohanian immediately changed the research direction, entered the research on Z particles, and achieved quite good results in the research on "Explanation of Dimensional Changes of Z Particles". progress.

If nothing else, the next Dirac Prize is already in his pocket.

However……

Now the accident has apparently happened.

"It's just farting..."

"Hyperspace channel? Changes in the curvature of space-time?"

"According to this, does it mean that I can drill to the other side of the galaxy as long as I make a hole in place?"

Cursing, he crumpled up the paper in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket. Ohanian was not stingy with his contempt, criticizing the theory of "hyperspace channel" and "change of space-time curvature" as worthless.

In fact, his contempt was not without basis.

In general relativity, if the topology of space changes in a bounded region, then there is a closed timelike curve in the space-time range where this change occurs.

The so-called time-like curve is the trajectory of a mass object in space-time that can be physically realized.

A popular explanation for this sentence is that changing the topology of space is forbidden by general relativity!

This is not a conjecture, but a theorem proved by Stephen Hawking.

In fact, Ohanian had a similar brain hole a long time ago when he saw the disturbance of the gravitational field when the Z particle fell from a high dimension to a low dimension.

However, this vague idea was quickly denied by himself.

Because no matter whether you want to prove this point of view or veto it, you need a huge amount of calculation to support it, and even some mathematicians who specialize in topology and algebraic geometry will find it difficult.

And this, he also confirmed with a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

In contrast, he is more inclined to another explanation.

That is, when the Z particle moves from a high dimension to a low dimension, the mass deficit occurs, and the mass loss in the sense of dimension finally leads to the observed gravitational force becoming smaller under the classical space-time.

And where did this part of gravity go?

He thought it might be an extra dimension.

However, this paper undoubtedly overturned his research completely, and also made the Dirac Prize in Physics, which he thought was almost easy to get, go far away...

Looking at the angry Professor Ohanian, the assistant in the office stood beside him tremblingly, not daring to speak.

After his anger seemed to subside a little, the assistant swallowed and said in a low voice.

"But the author of this paper is Professor Lu..."

The air in the office froze for a moment.

Even Professor Ohanian's finger reaching for the coffee cup froze on the handle of the coffee cup.

"……What did you say?"

"The paper was written by Professor Lu... He posted it on Arxiv, and I have printed all the papers worth reading in the direction you are following according to your request."

The corner of his mouth twitched violently, with a stiff expression on his face, Professor Ohanian still asked a question unwillingly.

"Did he hang up his corresponding author?"

This kind of thing happens from time to time, and not all tutors have the time to correct every paper of their students word for word. Especially for an academic leader like Lu Zhou, maybe he doesn't even remember how many students he has.

It is a very helpful thing to put the name of the author on the corresponding author. At least it can prevent the review editor from throwing the paper into the trash can in the first place, and the attitude of the scholars who correct the paper during peer review will be relatively gentle.

And in the same way, just mentioning the corresponding author's words does not mean that Professor Lu participated in this paper, and it is possible that he has not even read this paper.

After all, the papers listed on Arxiv are not published, but preprinted——

"It's the only author..." Just as Ohani was thinking about it, the words that floated from the mouth of his trembling assistant completely shattered his imagination, "Only his name is on the paper. .”

There was a long silence in the office.

After at least ten minutes, Ohanian suddenly sighed, stood up with his hands on the railings, and walked to the wastebasket.

Picking up the crumpled pages of papers from the wastebasket, taking them back to the desk and spreading them out, Ohanian sat down patiently and re-read the entire 20-page paper from beginning to end .

About half an hour passed, and he muttered something in a low voice while half understanding.

"Well... I can't say too much. Although it sounds weird, it's not necessarily completely wrong."

He stared dumbfounded at his grumpy boss, who changed his attitude with a 180-degree posture in only half an hour. The assistant standing in the office almost doubted whether the person sitting here was really Ohani Professor An—the one who used to argue with the dean about a certain academic point of view, and even pointed at the other party's nose and scolded him.

Swallowing, the assistant said in a trembling voice.

"professor."

With a snort, Professor Ohanian replied without raising his head.

"What's wrong?"

Assistant: "If he's right...what does that mean?"

"What does it mean? Hehe, what does it mean..."

As if mad, Professor Ohanian grinned dryly, staring at the paper motionlessly, as if glued to it.

"It means that the space-time view of general relativity will be subverted, and our understanding of classical space-time will be refreshed... Actually, this is nothing, anyway, there are more than one or two patches on the building of physics."

"But the most important thing is..."

Seeing that Professor Ohanian didn't continue to speak for a long time in the middle of a sentence, the impatient young assistant finally couldn't help but continue to ask.

"What is the most important thing?"

In an almost affirmative tone, Professor Ohanian said without hesitation.

"Most critically, this means that light-year travel will no longer be an unreliable dream."

"All the sci-fi movies you've seen in the past, whether it's Hollywood or not."

"At least half of them may have a chance to become real."