Chapter 1148

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In a house on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

An old man was sitting at a wooden table by the window, facing a slightly old computer, typing on the keyboard letter by letter with his index finger, intently editing an email.

At the corner of the table is a newspaper. The date on the page is two weeks ago.

On the other side, the printed news is exactly the case that Brookhaven National Laboratory, which has been in hot discussion for some time, announced its temporary withdrawal from imcrc.

Tens of billions of dollars of investment, more than dozens of countries involved in scientific research projects, has just started to make such a big difference. This matter is not only in the field of physics, but also caused a lot of topics outside the field of physics.

With mixed feelings, the old man wrote in the email.

【…… Physics is supposed to be an open subject. It is because of the respect for all views that we can get the prosperity today. I can't judge for the moment whether the choice of land boat is right or not, but even if it may be wrong, it's just academic immaturity, and should not respond in this irrational way. ]

【…… In conclusion, it is not a rational choice to quit the experiment at this time. Whether for Brookhaven National Laboratory or for the long-standing unity of the physics community, it will be a huge injury I don't know if there are political considerations behind this, but for whatever purpose, it shouldn't bet on the trust that we have built in a hundred years. ]

[I hope you can reconsider this matter. Maybe it's discontented. ]

[- Peter Higgs]

Peter Higgs.

Emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, 13 year Nobel Laureate in physics, was awarded for the Higgs particle.

For this name, let alone the vast majority of physicists, I'm afraid even those who don't know much about physics will know a little.

Knock down the name of the place of signing, the old man frowned slightly, looked up and looked out of the window as if the dark cloud might fall at any time.

Since retirement, only the body has become more and more sensitive to the weather, everything else has become a meal. Especially the concept of time. Even if he looks at the calendar every morning, he still forgets what day it is and what to do.

It's like the newspaper next to him.

When he saw it, it was almost two weeks since the whole thing had happened.

When he contacted his friends and searched for relevant information on the Internet, he finally understood the whole story, and his mood was as heavy as the bad weather outside the window.

Then, he did the only thing he didn't put off until tomorrow.

That is, to his old friend Professor brovich, who holds an important position at the Brookhaven scientific society.

No matter whether 750gev's characteristic peak is worth a whole year's exploration or not, no matter whether Lu Zhou, as the president of the board of directors, is suspected of launching the project on his own, at least the academic itself should not presuppose a position.

It reminds him of 60 years ago.

He remembered that he had written a short paper and published it in CERN's journal physics correspondence.

After that, he wrote a paper for physics communication, describing a theoretical model of his own imagination, which is now known as the "Higgs mechanism", but it was called back by the editor for the reason of absurdity.

The paper was finally published in the review of physics.

If not for his insistence, it may still be impossible to explain to this day how the basic particles carrying weak interactions actually obtain mass.

I've been thinking for a long time in the face of the mail I've written.

Looking at the last line of "to sum up", he hesitated for a moment, then deleted the word from the email to make the whole email look as gentle as possible, and then clicked the send button.

“…… I hope it helps a little. "

Whether the old friend can listen to his opinions or not, he has to do what he can.

He held the armrest of the chair, stood up from the chair, and walked to the window.

Outside the window, there are dark clouds. It's morning, but I feel like it's going to be dark. The neighbor across the street has closed the window and collected the flowerpot in the yard into the house. A rainstorm seems to fall at any time.

“…… I always feel like something important is going to happen today. "

He murmured to himself, and the old man stretched out his hand and drew the curtain of the bed.

Academic intuition is a very metaphysical thing.

I'm afraid he didn't even think of it. What he said casually is really true

……

February 2.For the international physics community, today is definitely a significant day.

Three days have passed since the end of the dark night period of the moon. The energy storage facilities supporting the collider should have been charged. Imcrc will soon carry out the next collision experiment in the near future.

This experiment has not yet begun, it has received extensive attention in the physics field.

There is no other reason.

Because not long ago, landship posted an article on arXiv about hyperspace theory, and the basic particles that make up atoms contain a kind of particle that exists in hyperspace.

In general, the particles are quite stable and hardly show off the horse's feet. Only in the experiments of high energy physics, which can reach a certain level, can the special particles appear in the normal sense of three-dimensional space-time in a very unstable form.

At that time, once published, the theory immediately set off a wave of controversy in the physics field.

Professor lonsova Engler, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics with Professor Peter Higgs, told the media in an interview.

"This theory may sound even more surprising than superstring theory, and even bizarre Although hyperspace theory is not an avant-garde point of view, M theory has made a prediction similar to "the complete universe should have eleven hyperspace dimensions", but it is only a guess after all. Compared with his theory, I'm more curious about how he proves it. "

"I mean, with the current physics experimental means, we can only observe the object of our dimension, or something lower than this dimension."

"Let me take the most popular particle, if we are just a paper man living on a piece of white paper, a small ball is parallel to the paper where we are, and does vertical movement. If the light source is absolutely perpendicular to the paper, what we can see on the paper is only a static point projected on the paper. "

"If there are particles in high dimensions, the most we can see is their projection in three-dimensional space, let alone the analysis of their complete motion trajectory."

"So what kind of experiment is he going to use to prove that this kind of theory is almost impossible to be proved? Even if he is logically self consistent. "

Creatures in the two-dimensional world can never know all of the three-dimensional world, and creatures in the three-dimensional world are also confused about the four-dimensional world.

Whether professor lonsova Engeler can imagine what kind of experiments will be carried out to prove his conclusion, imcrc's new round of experiments is about to start. At this time, he just expressed his curiosity and did not express the negative views as clearly as professor whitel.

After all, from a physicist's point of view, he is very happy to see that the land boat can solve this problem.

If he can prove that the basic particles that make up the universe are indeed hidden in a high-dimensional world, many of the problems of today's physical interface will be solved.

The waiting process is so long.

Just as everyone was waiting for imcrc to update the experimental data, it finally arrived at 12 a.m. Shangjing time, and the latest experimental data was synchronously uploaded to the official database.

With the spread of the news, the universities that have cooperated with imcrc all over the world have acquired the first-hand information and started to process the original data.

Even Brookhaven National Laboratory, which has announced its suspension from the program in a high-profile way, still has the cheek to download the data.

The results of the experiment are also surprising.

Just as the whole physics circle was amazed by the results of this experiment, a report conference hosted by Lu Zhou himself had begun at imcrc headquarters