Chapter 1294

The boat found itself on fire.

And it's very thorough.

Although this kind of thing is not twice, but this time is totally out of his expectation. He thought that after the paper was thrown out, it was only a sensation in the physics world. Unexpectedly, even the headlines of the Washington Post had been arranged for him.

It's not just that.

Columbia TV also invited Professor Suskind of Stanford University to do an interview program of popular science for this news.

As one of the founders of string theory, Professor Suskind is one of the elders in the field of theoretical physics. Although the research on Z particle is not his specialty, his research on general relativity and the curvature of space-time is quite representative.

In front of an interviewer from Columbia TV, Professor Suskind, who was sitting in his lab, thought for a while, and drew a piece of white paper from his desk to make a draft.

"See the paper in my hand?"

Interviewer: "I see But is there anything special about it, Professor Suskind? "

"I assume that it represents three-dimensional space. Point a is the earth, and point B is a neighbor star 4.22 light-years away from us. Now I connect them with a straight line..."

As he spoke, Professor saskand drew a line and two AB points on the white paper with a ballpoint pen.

Looking at the confused interviewer, he continued.

"Usually, we go from the solar system to the neighboring stars, that is, from a to B. even if we ignore all kinds of complicated orbit changes and go straight ahead along the bikinmen bridge, we actually have a long way to go, because our universe is actually distorted, just like this..."

As he spoke, the old professor crumpled the white paper in his hand and put it in front of the interviewer.

"See, that's what our universe really looks like. The white paper representing three-dimensional space is like a paper ball, because the gravitation all over the universe is twisting in the higher dimensional space."

"As you can see, a and B are actually very close. Two pieces of paper may be pasted together, or even less than the distance of a nail plate But this is a higher dimension than three-dimensional space. "

"Because we are three-dimensional creatures, we can't leave the paper, so the shortest distance we actually walk is only the straight line drawn on the paper."

As he said this, Professor Suskind unfolded the paper in his hand, pointed to the crumpled and wrinkled paper and the straight line printed on the paper, and continued.

"This straight line is the way for the Falcon rocket."

"If it's a warp engine, this path won't appear on paper at all. It will appear in 4-D or 5-D And so on, in a word, higher than 3 dimensions, go straight to the past. "

"Like this!"

He crumpled the paper back into a ball, and Suskind pierced it roughly / violently with the pen in his hand.

Looking up at the stunned interviewer, the white haired old man smiled and continued.

"It's best that you can read and understand nature."

"I really don't understand. You understand that we may have found a shortcut."

"In this way, it may take only half a day or half an hour to go to Mars later."

"If I still can't understand, I can't help it."

The program continues.

No, there's not much nutrition in the second half.

Lift the remote control, turn off the TV, sit on the sofa in the living room, and give your own evaluation of the program that evaluates your research results.

"It's a very vivid interpretation, and the way of thinking is quite novel Nothing wrong. "

The only problem is that it's a little too optimistic.

Even if Z particle has this magical property that can act as a bridge, it's too difficult to use it to achieve curved speed At least it's not like something that can be done in 50 years.

Of course, as a popular science program, Professor Suskind's speech is quite good.

Especially for those who lack space imagination, it's a very simple way to imagine the universe as a paper ball, all of them are black spots on the paper.

However, director Li, who is sitting opposite to Lu Zhou, seems to have misunderstood his meaning.

I saw the old man with his hands clasped on the armrest of the leather sofa, his excited beard was shaking off, and his face was red as if he might have a heart attack at any time.

"Is it true? Will it take only half an hour to go to Mars from earth? "

Hearing this unreasonable speech, Lu Zhou Khan said.

“…… Half an hour is too much exaggeration, and it's just a theory. Do you understand the theory? Even atomic bombs, which are easy to understand, have been more than 20 years from mass energy equation to Otto Hahn's paper on uranium fission. "

Let alone Z particles, which are more difficult to exist stably than general subatomic particles. A large number of subatomic particles, such as mesons, quarks, gluons and photons, have not been fully developed. It is too early to consider how to use Z particles to solve practical problems.The progress of science needs time to precipitate. Only when the opportunity is mature, can it become a technology in the sense of reality.

The land boat also did not know how long it would take for this day to come.

According to experience, at least it will have to wait until the next century?

When thinking about it like this, Lu Zhou's eyes have been staring at director Li's fingers tightly clasping the armrest of the sofa.

He was not very worried about the old man's heart disease. The guy's mental endurance was much stronger than he thought. The only thing that worried Lu Zhou was that he tore his sofa.

He still likes this sofa.

Many famous physicists and mathematicians in the world or in the near future have sat here and had coffee with him.

If you don't say anything about historical relics, at least they have to be commemorative.

Hearing that Lu Zhou denied the claim that he could reach Mars within half an hour, the expression on the face of chief Li couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. The rising blood pressure gradually fell back, murmuring with regret.

"That is to say Can't you take a short cut to Mars? "

He took a sip of coffee without expression. After thinking about it, Lu Zhou suddenly sighed and said.

“…… It's not impossible. "

For a moment, director Li's blood pressure, which had just dropped, rose again at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This up and down toss did not trouble him.

The old man sat up straight and stared at the boat with almost fanatical eyes. He said sincerely.

"What should I do?"

"Let's start with the theory of verification," he said, putting down his coffee cup and looking at him carefully. "For example, send a Z particle clock to Mars."

Director Li then asked, "and then?"

"And then?"

Eyebrows gently raised, Lu Zhou smiled and leaned back on the sofa.

"Then we will send another pair of photons."