Chapter 223 Another Year of Graduation Season

This year's New Year is no different from previous years.

Visiting relatives, greeting the elderly, making jokes with peers, and...

Being urged by the elders.

There is no way, the Chinese New Year has to find something to talk about with the juniors, Lu Zhou has nothing to say about his studies, he is already competitive enough to pass the 985 exam, and now he has to study abroad. As for marriage, it was still a little early, after all, he was only twenty-one years old, one year away from the legal marriage age.

However, the object can still be urged.

If you can't get married, you can prepare for marriage.

In short, this year, like previous years, Lu Zhou had a lively year.

However, leisure time is always short.

After the Lantern Festival, Lu Zhou packed his luggage and hurried back to school.

After taking a day off from work, Lao Lu sent Lu Zhou to the ticket gate of the train station, looked at his son and said with a smile.

"Should I send you off?"

"No, it's not the first time I've traveled far." Tightening the travel bag on his back, Lu Zhou said with a smile, "Remember to take care of your health. I'll come back to see you next year."

Lao Lu nodded: "That's fine, be careful on your own way. And, you too, pay attention to safety outside. I watch the news broadcast, and there seems to be a war over there? Don't provoke others if you have nothing to do, and read yours in peace. Book, remember to call back often... go."

"Um!"

In Dad's world view, there are probably only two concepts of China and foreign countries. Princeton can be associated with a certain hotel in Jinling, and it is not surprising to confuse North America with North Africa.

Lu Zhou has long been familiar with his father's knowledge of geography.

Just Xiaotong, who still has the energy to complain every time.

After getting on the bullet train and heading east, Lu Zhou returned to Jinda University's campus.

Because of the Lantern Festival, students have returned to school one after another, and there are more people on campus.

As early as the day before returning to school, Lu Zhou had already learned through Brother Yan's circle of friends that Academician Lu had returned to China, so he greeted the old man in advance on WeChat, and went directly to his office.

...

Standing at the door of the office, Lu Zhou reached out and knocked on the door.

Soon, a voice came from behind the door.

"Don't knock, just come in."

Hearing this voice, Lu Zhou opened the door and walked in.

Looking at Lu Zhou who appeared at the door, Academician Lu put down the thermos in his hand and said with a smile, "Hey, it's been a long time. How is this year?"

Indeed, it has been a long time since the Huaguo Mathematics Society meeting in October, Academician Lu went to Brussels, Belgium for the meeting, and has not come back until now.

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's okay, how about you, professor?"

Academician Lu: "I'm not bad either. Although I haven't passed the previous year, the trip to Brussels has been rewarding."

Walking to the desk, Lu Zhou asked casually, "Are there any new discoveries in the field of theoretical physics?"

During this period of time, he was basically studying Goldbach's conjecture and learning to drive a car. Except for replying to Professor Frank's email, he basically didn't pay attention to the affairs of the theoretical physics community.

"There are no new discoveries. This meeting is mainly to sort out the work that has been done before." Pausing for a moment, Academician Lu continued, "However, there is something you may be interested in. This time we are at the University of Brussels. At the theoretical physics conference, the issue of the characteristic peak at 750GeV was discussed...although the situation seems a little less optimistic."

Lu Zhou was really interested in this matter, and immediately asked: "Can you tell me the specific situation?"

Academician Lu nodded, and continued: "The specific situation is nothing, but the confidence level of the most critical indicator has not reached the standard for confirming signs. Although it was once close to 3sigma, it was always a little short of a breakthrough. And just in In several sets of experiments not long ago, the characteristic peaks even disappeared."

Lu Zhou froze slightly: "Disappear?"

In the mail, he never heard Mr. Frank say anything about it.

Academician Lu looked solemn, and nodded thoughtfully: "Yes... Although it is not unfeasible to explain it with quantum fluctuations, such sudden fluctuations are rare. Some people speculate that it may be a problem with the sensitivity of the detector. , and some people speculate that the instrument may have malfunctioned during the experiment last year... But to be honest, this possibility is very small. CERN has just completed the upgrade of the Hadron Collider, and has carried out a search for a particle as large as the pentaquark state particle. project, if something goes wrong, it is unlikely to be on the instrument."

Thinking of the things he has studied during this period, Lu Zhou thought for a moment, and asked in an uncertain tone, "...could it be a dimension problem?"

This is his guess, and it is also where he and Professor Frank disagree.

Hearing this abrupt proposition, Academician Lu frowned slightly: "Dimension?"

Lu Zhou nodded, and said in an uncertain tone: "Yes, but it is not a dimension in a broad sense, but a dimension in the sense of 'pseudo-Euclidean space', which is the dimension in Minkowski's space-time theory. Timeline..."

As he said that, Lu Zhou wrote down a few formulas on the draft paper, but he didn't dare to write too much.

It is not a private collection, but from the perspective of academic ethics, he must not unilaterally disclose the research progress to a third party without consulting another collaborator.

As for the things he wrote, they are all the parts that the two did not reach a consensus on the cooperation theory, and they are things he figured out by himself, so there is no such problem.

Looking at the formulas on the draft paper, Academician Lu did not deny them subjectively, but thought for a while before slowly saying, "This possibility does exist, but it is difficult to verify this point of view. Because both we and the collider are part of the reference system, it is difficult for us to remove ourselves from the time axis, even under ideal conditions... And this theory, you have not done it yet perfect?"

Lu Zhou smiled, and said vaguely, "I also thought about it temporarily, and it's true that I haven't had time to perfect it."

"It's pretty good that you can come up with so many things when you think about it temporarily." Seeing Lu Zhou nodded approvingly, Academician Lu paused for a moment, then continued, "You don't have to feel too much pressure, looking for that characteristic peak It is the task of CERN, and you don’t have to be responsible for your own discoveries. The development of theoretical physics itself is advancing through constant trial and error, and all our current unproven theories are speculations about the future.”

"However, your point of view is quite interesting. It would be even better if you can improve the theory," Academician Lu changed the subject and said with a smile, "I was thinking about it, and I will give you a test to test this theory." How have you learned in the past few years. Now it seems that even if it is prepared, it will be superfluous."

Lu Zhou smiled: "Why would it be unnecessary..."

Academician Lu said with a smile: "Oh? Then why don't you wait for two days and I'll give you a paper to do?"

Lu Zhou coughed lightly: "...Forget it."

He has already bought his air ticket, God knows how many days he will have to wait for the two days mentioned by Academician Lu.

Academician Lu smiled and said nothing.

After opening the drawer, he stretched out his hand, took out two books from inside, and handed them to Lu Zhou gently.

"The degree certificate and graduation certificate are here. I have completed the formalities for you two days ago. You can go to the administrative building in a while and go through the student status."

After receiving the diploma and degree certificate from Academician Lu, Lu Zhou solemnly said, "Thank you teacher!"

"You're welcome, this is the result of your own hard work. But to be honest, I really don't want to let you go so quickly for such an excellent student," Academician Lu smiled and continued, "But you I have won the Cole Prize, and if I keep you, I am afraid it will delay your future. You should go to a higher level platform to absorb scientific research nutrients, not here. That’s it, congratulations, good luck graduate!"