Chapter 1213

The clock on the wall ticks.

Since an hour ago, Frank vilzek has been in his current position, staring at the image on the computer screen motionless, and has not moved for a long time.

At this time, the door of the office opened.

Looking into the office of Witten, like a sculpture sitting there, Professor vilzek finally raised his head an inch. But just as he was about to speak, Witten began.

"I know you want to ask Professor Lu what he thinks, but I'm afraid I have to let you down. He didn't reveal anything to me except a conjecture about extra dimensions. "

Vilzek frowned at an unexpected noun.

"Extra dimension?"

In fact, extra dimension is not a very new concept. All dimensions added by rewriting Einstein's relativistic equation can be called extra dimension.

It's like Theodore Kaluza added a fifth dimension to explain gravity. Because of string theory, this n value has been increased to 13.

However, what puzzles weitzek is why Witten, or the land boat, has to put this concept alone.

"Yes, he attributed the quality inflation to something that could not be proved or falsified." Looking at wilzek, whose face was full of confusion, Witten took a lighter out of his pocket and put it on the table. "Suppose the universe is made up of N dimensions of matter, like this lighter."

"And the disturbance that interferes with our experiment comes from the N + 1 dimension, like my thumb, which presses the switch of the lighter. Of course, the metaphor may seem rough. In fact, it may be something more poetic, such as In the N + 1 dimension, there is an almighty God, looking at us imprisoned in the box, who sings a beautiful song to us. "

His brow was locked tightly, and he watched as he clicked on the lighter, and vilzek murmured to himself.

"It sounds It's kind of interesting. "

Taking the lighter back, Witten looked at vilzek incredulously.

"Incredible You think it's funny. "

"After all, it's him who made the point," vilzek shrugged, muttering, "and there's no way you can prove that he's wrong by analyzing the problem from an objective point of view, can't you? As a matter of fact, we do see that when the collision energy reaches 5.12 TEV, the mass has an amazing expansion. According to the calculation method of lattice quantum chromodynamics, we should in fact get a smaller total mass

Hearing the old friend's explanation, Witten fell silent.

After a long time, he said.

"Let's put the matter aside for the time being. I didn't come to you to discuss an incomplete theory."

Vilzek: what's that for

Witten: what do you think about Professor Milo

"Milo?" Hearing the name he had never heard of, vilzek frowned and hesitated, "I'm sorry, who's Milo?"

Seeing that vilzek had never heard of the name, there was a strange expression on Witten's face.

Without any explanation, he reached for the remote control on the desk and turned on the Internet TV in the office that few people would normally turn on.

"Professor Garrett Milo, a 37 year old physics professor at Stanford University, holds the position of high energy physics experiment consultant in CERN and imcrc, and has won the Barclays award of American Physical Society and the Dirac award of International Center for Theoretical Physics..."

"A promising young man," gave a simple comment. Professor vilzek looked at the Fox News icon on TV and asked, "what's the problem?"

”…… And the leader of a new religion. " Pointing to the TV with his chin, Witten pressed a few buttons on the remote control. "It may be a bit of a hassle to explain. You'd better watch it yourself."

……

Fox radio.

The studio scene.

A tall man with deep eyes sits on the sofa. On the bridge of his nose is a pair of gold rimmed glasses. He is wearing a very common plaid shirt. It's easy to connect him with people engaged in science and engineering at a glance.

Sitting on the sofa opposite him was Ms. Cordell, the host of a fox talk show.

Looking at the professor Milo in front of her, Ms. Cordell's face showed a friendly smile and handed out her microphone.

"Hello, Professor Milo. Thank you for coming to our studio. It's said that a very recent event happened in the field of Physics It's a wonderful thing, is it like this? "

"Yes," it seems that he didn't adapt to the atmosphere here. Milo looked left and right with a bit of embarrassment, but finally came up with the calm that a scholar should have, and said in a positive tone, "what happened recently has subverted many of our understanding of physics."Asked Miss Cordell with a smile.

"We can see from the message on the website that many viewers are very concerned about this matter. We know that you are a physics professor at Stanford University and a researcher at imcrc. Let's explain in detail for the audience in front of our TV What amazing results have we got from the Hadron Collider? "

"The mass expanded above 5.12tev!"

Looking at the fanatical Professor Milo, Ms. Cordell frowned.

"I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand. After all What does that mean? "

"This means that at a fairly large mass level, the known mass may no longer be conserved!"

His eyes became more and more fanatical, and his voice trembled with excitement.

"For a long time, the buildings of our physics have been built on a flat wasteland. Through the exploration of standard models, we have been repairing this building, adding bricks and tiles to it, and finally it has become what it is now!"

"Just a month ago, however, imcrc's latest research pushed the building to the ground!"

"It's a pity that you are not there, otherwise you will understand why I am so excited after seeing such a result!"

Looking at Professor Milo, whose eyes were wide and bloodshot with emotion, Ms. Cordell's face was surprised.

What surprised her was not what he said, but his mental state. It seemed that there were some Not very normal.

In one second, she asked the director's opinion through her eyes, but she got the reply to continue the program.

But under, she also had to be brave to continue the program.

"It sounds It's incredible. In other words, you prove that mass is not conserved? "

"It is not conserved on a large scale of mass! Wait, it seems that you haven't figured out what this means. I don't like to talk it out with you! "

Without waiting for the hostess to speak, Professor Milo continued quickly.

"According to the view of traditional physics, our universe is entropy increasing, and all matter is developing from order to disorder. Now, however, this view can be overturned! Our physics has finally entered a world that Einstein could not predict, and our universe will no longer be an eternal decline, but from an old cycle to a new cycle, never ending in endless cycles! "

At this point, Professor Milo's thin body suddenly erupted into a frenzy which was totally inconsistent with his physique.

He leaned forward and stared at the frightened lady Cordell, who was like a lizard, speaking in a hoarse voice.

"Do you believe in God?"

Stunned by this momentum, Ms. Cordell, almost stunned, nodded quickly.

"I Believe it. "

"Maybe he really exists No, it must be. "

Looking at Professor Milo, who seemed to be mad, Ms. Cordell continued timidly: "you mean The mass is no longer conserved forever, and the universe will not increase entropy forever. These conclusions can be deduced that our God exists? "

"God?" There was a contemptuous smile on his face, and Professor Milo leaned back on the sofa and said gently, "it doesn't matter if you call it that."

"In a sense, it is omniscient and ubiquitous to the universe as we know it."

"It's like a ghost wandering in the universe, interfering with us through an invisible hand."

"Compared with the superficial name of God..."

"I prefer to call it the spirit of the universe."