Chapter 260 Gravitational Waves

time flies.

In late June, the results of the college entrance examination were finally released.

The whole family gathered in front of the computer, accompanied by Xiaotong with a look of apprehension.

This feeling is like the World Cup gambling lottery.

With a nervous expression on his face, Xiaotong turned his eyes to his elder brother for help.

"Brother..."

Lu Zhou patted her on the shoulder calmly: "Don't be afraid, you are not afraid of handing in the papers, but you are afraid of handing out the papers."

"Well……"

Xiaotong hesitated for a while, finally took a deep breath, and entered the candidate number and admission ticket number.

The score quickly appeared on the screen.

The moment he saw the score, Xiaotong froze there as if he had been petrified.

Not because it fell short of her expectations.

but because...

620!

The happiness came so suddenly that Xiaotong screamed out of excitement.

"Brother!!! I got 620!!!"

"You did a beautiful job, as expected of my sister."

Seeing this score, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction, sincerely happy for his sister.

In 2016, the first line of liberal arts was 520, which was 100 points higher than the first line. Although it can't compare with the extent of throwing away the line at the beginning, it is quite powerful.

It may not be enough to apply for Shuimu Yanda University, but Jinling University is still very stable.

"Haha, as expected of my daughter," Lao Lu patted Xiaotong on the head, laughing loudly, and said with satisfaction, "I'll go out and buy some appetizers."

Fang Mei rolled his eyes at him, and said scoldingly, "Drinking at noon, why don't you go to work in the afternoon?"

Old Lu Le grinned from ear to ear: "I won't go, I asked for leave with the leader! I won't go to work today!"

Both children have been admitted to college. At this moment, Lao Lu only feels that he is the happiest person in the world. On this festive day, how can we miss a cup of white wine?

The only regret is that that kid Lu Zhou has been hanging out for so long, and even went to the foreigner's territory, and I haven't seen him bring a daughter-in-law back.

When will he be able to hug his grandson, Lao Lu thinks that he will probably have no regrets in this life!

All day long, the whole family is like a holiday.

Even on the second day, Lao Lu didn't enjoy himself to the fullest, and proposed to hold a celebration banquet to entertain relatives and friends.

However, Xiaotong was afraid of trouble and thought it was a waste of money, so Lao Lu had no choice but to give up.

In the evening, after tomorrow's interview plan was arranged, Lu Zhou glanced at his younger sister lying on the sofa beating the king, and asked casually.

"Have you decided what major to apply for?"

Just after the game was over, Xiaotong put down his phone after spraying his teammates, seriously considered the issue, and spoke.

"Thought it out!"

Lu Zhou "Oh?"

Xiaotong nodded, and said firmly, "I plan to apply for finance!"

Finance is a major that combines arts and sciences at King University, and you can apply for both liberal arts and sciences. Although a certain mathematical foundation is required, if you don't develop in the direction of theoretical research, you definitely don't have to memorize many things to calculate.

The most commendable thing is that Xiaotong finally has his own ideas, instead of asking for help from "brothers" whenever he encounters problems.

This is what comforts him the most.

Lu Zhou nodded approvingly: "If you have an idea, can you tell me why it is finance?"

With sparkling eyes, Xiaotong said without hesitation: "Finance sounds like a rich man!"

Lu Zhou: "..."

How to say.

In addition to not looking good.

The other places are really amazing!

Lu Zhou: "Actually, alchemy is quite rich. You can hear the name metallurgy, which is very similar to alchemy."

Xiaotong looked confused: "Eh? Really?"

Lu Zhou: "I lied to you."

Xiaotong: "..."

...

Some people are happy, but others are naturally worried. The college entrance examination is such a realistic thing.

On the day of filling out the application, the computer room of a high school in Jinling, the liberated students gathered here again.

It is said that before filling out the volunteers, you have to fill in the paper first, and then the school will input it into the computer. However, in their high school, they all fill in the form by themselves now.

Looking at the voluntary filling form on the computer screen, Han Mengqi pursed her lips and did not move the mouse for a long time.

Fortunately, she managed to get double A's in two science subjects, but her scores fell short of Jin University's admission score.

To be precise, her score is enough, but whether she can apply depends entirely on how many people apply this year.

math……

The Department of Mathematics of Jinling University does not seem to be a strong major.

In the past, there should not be many people reporting...

Swallowing her mouth, Han Mengqi made up her mind and made up her mind. Finally, she filled in the numbers of Jinling University and Applied Mathematics on the website.

As for the option of receiving a transfer, she didn't want to tick it at first, but after some hesitation, she finally ticked it.

"It must be reported..."

With her eyes closed, the girl clenched her little hands on her chest and prayed silently.

...

After staying in China until July, Lu Zhou's vacation is almost coming to an end.

Although he wanted to wait until Xiaotong's admission letter came out, it would be troublesome to extend his vacation, and he still had things to go back to deal with, so he wouldn't stay in the country any longer.

After boarding the flight to the east coast, Lu Zhou finally returned to the quiet town of Princeton after ten or twenty hours of traveling.

For most American college students, this is still the summer vacation, and it will last from June to the end of August.

However, for master students, the school's regulations are the school's regulations, and when to return to school, of course, the boss has the final say.

In a sense, American tutors have much more rights than domestic tutors, because tutors have the right to directly expel graduate students, while domestic tutors will only block you from graduation even if they see you unhappy, because the right to expel students is in the The school has it, and it is generally not used.

It's just that relatively, there are many checks and balances of power, but I won't mention this for now.

Of course, Lu Zhou will not be the kind of unscrupulous tutor who squeezes students, but he will not make it easy for them.

According to his request, the three master students who received offers from him will arrive at the school to report before July 15. If it is a visa issue, he can extend the time to August, but it is best not to delay it for too long.

Before assigning them work, he needs to meet with them first to understand their situation.

After putting his luggage in the apartment, Lu Zhou went to the Institute for Advanced Study.

As I was going upstairs, I happened to meet Edward Witten. As soon as Lu Zhou greeted him, he greeted him with a pleasant face.

"My friend, you are finally back."

Confused by Mr. Wei Teng's enthusiastic welcome, Lu Zhou couldn't help but asked in doubt: "...what happened?"

Edward Witten smiled mysteriously and only said one word.

"Gravitational waves."

Hearing this word, Lu Zhou finally came to his senses and understood what Witten was talking about.

In fact, as early as February 2016, researchers from the LIGO project team announced that they used two LIGO detectors to successfully detect gravitational wave signals from the merger of two black holes.

Related papers, recently posted on Arxiv, are being reviewed by theoretical physicists around the world.

Although Lu Zhou has been on vacation for the past month, he is not completely out of touch with the dynamics of the academic world, and he is always paying attention to new articles on Arxiv.

Even if not every article on Arxiv is useful, the sudden surge in the number of articles in a certain field can explain some problems.

Just like last year's 750GeV, this year's hot spot in theoretical physics is gravitational waves.

Lu Zhou's tone was a little envious: "It's really... a surprising discovery."

Compared with his "insignificant" discovery, gravitational waves are undoubtedly much more shocking.

"Yes, it's enviable." Witten said with deep emotion.

The successful discovery of gravitational waves has filled in the last missing piece of the "puzzle" in the experimental verification of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

If Einstein is still alive, with this great discovery, he will definitely win another Nobel Prize in Physics for his general theory of relativity.

After all, he was awarded the prize for his success in explaining the photoelectric effect, not for the significantly greater general theory of relativity.

But this is obviously impossible, because 74 years later, the Nobel Prize Committee stipulated that the Nobel Prize should only be nominated for living people. Even if an exception is occasionally made for particularly momentous discoveries, it is not possible to make an exception like a deceased person.

Regarding the feelings of gravitational waves, Mr. Witten is probably the person who feels the deepest.

It took 100 years for experimental physics to find the puzzle of relativity. If this trend continues, his string theory may never be confirmed by experiments in this lifetime.

Next year's Nobel Prize in Physics, there is little suspense, must belong to MIT's Rainer Weiss, and his collaborators.

After all, the discovery of gravitational waves can be engraved on the milestones of human history.

Stopping his emotions, Witten cleared his throat and continued: "About gravitational waves, LIGO invited me to help them with data analysis. I guess you should have no projects to work on now. I don't know if you are interested in joining my team." Topic? If you are interested, I can ask my students to help you book a ticket right now."

Lu Zhou thought for a while, and finally declined this attractive proposal politely: "Gravity waves are not within the scope of my research, unfortunately I can't help, and I will probably be busy in a few days, and I can No time."

The reward tasks of the system gave him a lot of freedom. For the sake of efficiency, it is obvious that materials with lower promotion levels are the best.

Moreover, the topic proposed by Professor Witten probably does not involve the core research content of gravitational waves, and the experience of task rewards is closely related to academic value.

Although the proposition of gravitational waves is big enough, it may be a big loss if the experience of rewarding the academic value of the paper is not even 10,000.

Witten: "The subject of materials science?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "Yes."

Witten sighed, and said regretfully, "That's fine, it seems that you have already made arrangements, I wish you good luck."