Chapter 1292

Wilson Ohanian is a professor of physics at Stanford University. He is mainly engaged in the research of high energy physics. As a former Oliver Buckley prize winner, he is one of the best young physicists in recent years.

Although bathed in the envy of his peers, only Ohanian himself knew how difficult the road he had chosen was.

Limited by backward technology, they are still testing whether the last century's speculation is correct, while the exploration of the future has hardly begun.

Fortunately, in recent years, the Chinese suddenly became rich, and built a bigger imcrc than CERN on the crater of the moon, which made the development of high energy physics return to the fast track.

For example, boat (z) particles.

Since the end of last year, this particle, which fell into people's attention from the high-dimensional world, has broadened the research of high-energy physics directly to the invisible world by an entire n dimensions.

Because of this groundbreaking discovery, the land boat that discovered the particle won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics and became the candidate of the most outstanding physicist of this century.

At a glance, we can see the broad prospect behind this direction. Ohanian changed the research direction at the first time, entered the research of Z particle, and made quite good progress in the research of "explanation of Z particle's dimensional change".

Not surprisingly, the next Dirac prize is already in his pocket.

However

Now it's clear that the accident has happened.

"It's just farting..."

"Hyperspace channel? The curvature of space-time changes? "

"According to this statement, can I just make a hole in the same place and get to the other end of the galaxy?"

He crumpled the paper into a mess and threw it into the paper basket. O'hanian didn't mean to despise it. He didn't value the theory of "hyperspace channel" and "curvature change of time and space".

In fact, his contempt is not without foundation.

In general relativity, if the topological structure of a space changes in a bounded region, then there is a closed time-like curve in the space-time range of the change.

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

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

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

In fact, a long time ago, o'hanian had a similar brain hole when he saw the gravitational field disturbed by Z particles falling from high to low dimensions.

However, this kind of fuzzy brain hole was soon denied by himself.

Because whether we want to prove this view or reject it, we need a huge amount of calculation to support it. Even some mathematicians who specialize in topology and algebraic geometry will find it difficult.

And this point, he also looked for Stanford University mathematics professor to confirm.

In contrast, he prefers another explanation.

That is, the mass loss of Z particle occurs when it moves from high dimension to low dimension, and the mass loss in this dimension eventually leads to the smaller gravity observed in classical space-time.

And where does this part of gravity go?

He thought it might be extra dimension.

However, this paper, no doubt, overthrows his research completely, and also makes the Dirac prize in physics, which is almost at his fingertips

Looking at the Angry Professor o'hanian, the assistant of the office stood by him, afraid to speak.

When his anger seemed to subside, the assistant swallowed and whispered.

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

The air in the office froze in a flash.

Even professor Ohanian's fingers stretched out to the coffee cup were frozen on the handle of the coffee cup.

“…… What do you say? "

"The paper was written by Professor Lu He sent it to arXiv, and I printed all the papers worth seeing in your tracking direction according to your requirements. "

There was a sharp twitch in the corner of his mouth and a stiff expression on his face. Professor Ohanian still asked.

"Did you hang up his correspondent?"

This kind of thing often happens. Not all tutors have the time to correct every paper of their students word for word. Especially for academic leaders like Lu Zhou, he can't even remember how many students he has.

It's very helpful to put the name of the cowherd on the corresponding author. At least it can prevent the reviewer and editor from throwing the paper into the trash at the first time. The scholars' attitude towards correcting the paper during peer review will be relatively mild.

In the same way, if only the corresponding author is listed, it doesn't mean that Professor Lu participated in this paper. It's impossible for him not to read this paper.After all, the paper on arXiv is not just published, it's just a preprint --

"the only author..." While ohani was reading the telegram in peace, the words from his trembling assistant's mouth shattered his brain completely, "he is the only one in 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 handrail, and walked to the wastebasket.

He picked up the crumpled pages from the basket, took them back to his desk and spread them out. Ohanian sat down patiently again and read the whole 20 page paper again from the beginning to the end.

After about half an hour or so, he muttered in a low voice.

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

Staring at his grumpy boss, he changed his attitude in half an hour. The assistant in the office almost doubted whether professor Ohanian, who had been arguing with the Dean about some academic point of view or even pointing at the other side's nose, was the real Professor sitting here.

Swallowing, said the assistant, trembling.

"Professor."

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

"What's the matter?"

Assistant: "if he is right What does that mean? "

"What does it mean? Ha ha, what does it mean... "

Like crazy, Professor Ohanian grinned and stared at the paper as if it was stuck on it.

"It means that the concept of time and space in general relativity will be overturned, and our understanding of classical time and space will be refreshed In fact, it's nothing. Anyway, there are more than one and two patches on the building of physics. "

"But the most important thing is..."

When Professor Ohanian said a word and didn't speak for a long time, the young assistant couldn't help asking.

"What is the key?"

Almost certainly, Professor Ohanian said without hesitation.

"Crucially, this means that travel in light years will no longer be an unreliable dream."

"All the science fiction movies you've seen in the past, Hollywood or anywhere."

"At least half of them may have a chance to be true."