United Kingdom.

In a residential building on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

An old man was sitting at the wooden table by the window, facing a slightly old computer, tapping on the keyboard with the index finger one letter and one letter, and carefully editing an e-mail.

On the side of the table is a newspaper, and the date on the page is two weeks ago.

On the side of the spread, the printed news was the one that Brookhaven National Laboratory, which sparked a hot debate some time ago, announced that it had temporarily withdrawn from imcrc.

With tens of billions of dollars in investment and more than dozens of countries participating in scientific research projects, the result has just come out of such a big scorpion. This matter is not only raging in the physics community, but also caused a lot outside the physics community. topic of.

With a complicated mood, the old man wrote in the mail.

[...Physics should have been an enlightened discipline. It is because of respect for all viewpoints that we can achieve today's prosperity. I can't comment on Lu Zhou's choices right now, but even if he may be wrong, this is only academic immature, and should not be used in this irrational way. 】

[... In summary, withdrawing from the experiment at this time is definitely not a sensible choice. Whether it’s for Brookhaven’s National Laboratory or for the long-standing unity of physics, it’s going to be a huge injury... I don’t know if there are political considerations behind this, but no matter what For the purposes of this, it should not be a bet that we built with a hundred years of trust. 】

[I hope you can reconsider this matter, maybe you will be dissatisfied. 】

[Peter Higgs]

Peter Higgs.

Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh, winner of the 13-year Nobel Prize in Physics, and the reason for the award is because of the well-known Higgs particles.

For this name, let alone the vast majority of physicists, I am afraid that even those who do not know much about physics will know a little.

Knocked down the name of the landing, the old man brows gently, looked up and looked at the dark clouds that seemed to fall at any time.

Since retirement, the body has become more and more sensitive to the weather, and everything else has become a meal. Especially the concept of time, even if you look up every morning to look at the calendar, but he still always forgets what day is today, and what to do.

It’s like this newspaper next to him.

When he saw it, the whole thing had already passed for two weeks.

When he rushed to contact his friends to inquire and search for relevant information on the Internet, after understanding the beginning and end of the matter, his mood was as heavy as the bad weather outside the window.

Then, he did the only thing that had not been delayed until tomorrow.

That is, write a letter to his old friend Professor Brovich, who holds a senior position at the Brookhaven Science Society.

Regardless of whether the characteristic peak of 750gev is worth spending a whole year to dig deeper, no matter whether the director of the board of directors is willing to start the project, whether it is suspected of having an overhead board, at least the academic itself should not presume.

This can't help but remind him of sixty years ago.

He remembered that he had written a short paper published in the journal "Physics Communication" by Cern.

After the paper was drafted, he then wrote a paper for "Physics Communication", describing a theoretical model he envisioned, which is now called the "Higgs mechanism". The editor called back on ridiculous grounds.

The paper was finally published in the Physics Review.

If it weren't for his insistence, perhaps until today people still can't explain how the basic particles carrying weak interactions get quality.

I have been pondering for a long time in the face of a well-written message.

Looking at the penultimate line of "in summary," he hesitated for a moment, deleted the word from the mail, making the wording of the whole message look as embarrassing as possible, and then clicked the button sent.

"...I hope I can do something."

No matter whether the old friend can listen to his own opinions, he has to do something within his power.

In his mouth, he muttered to himself, holding the armrest of the chair, standing up from the seat and trembled to the window.

The clouds are densely covered, but it is clear that it is dark in the morning. The neighbors across the street had closed the windows and took the pots in the yard into the house. A rainstorm seemed to fall at any time.

"...I always feel that there is something big to happen today."

In the mouth, he whispered to himself, and the old man stretched out his hand on the curtain.

Academic intuition is a very metaphysical thing.

I am afraid that even he himself did not think that if he said anything, he would really fulfill it...

......

February 2nd.

For the international physics community, today is definitely a day of great significance.

Three days have elapsed since the end of the moon's dark night. The energy storage facilities for the accident collider should have been recharged, and imcrc will soon conduct the next collision test in the near future.

The experiment has not yet begun, and it has received extensive attention from the physics community.

There is no reason for him.

Because not long ago, Lu Zhou uploaded a theory about hyperspace on the arxiv website, and the elementary particles that make up the atom contain a particle that exists in the hyperspace.

Under normal circumstances, the particles are quite stable and hardly reveal their feet. Only in high-energy physics experiments where the collision can reach a certain order, will this special particle appear in the three-dimensional space and time in the conventional sense in an extremely unstable form.

At the time, when this theory was published, it immediately set off a wave of controversy in the physics community.

In an interview, Professor Lansova Engler, who once won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Professor Peter Higgs, told the media.

"This theory may sound even more surprising than the superstring theory, even inconspicuous... Although hyperspace theory is not an avant-garde point of view, m theory has been similar to the 'complete universe, there should be eleven super The prophecy of the spatial dimension, but this is only a guess after all. Compared to his theory, I am actually more curious about how he proves?"

"I mean, with the current physics experiment, the object we can observe is only the dimension we are in, or something lower than this dimension."

"I will give you the most popular particles. If we are just a piece of paper on a piece of white paper, a small ball is parallel to the paper we are on and we do vertical motion. Assuming the light source is absolutely vertical and paper, What we can see on paper is just a stationary point projected on the paper."

"If there is really a particle that exists in a high dimension, what we can see is at most its projection in three dimensions, let alone analyze its complete motion trajectory."

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

The creatures of the two-dimensional world can never know the whole of the three-dimensional world, and the creatures of the three-dimensional world are the same for the four-dimensional world.

Regardless of whether Professor Langsova Engler can imagine how the experiment will prove his conclusion, the new round of imcrc experiment is about to begin. At this time, he only expresses his curiosity and The negative views are not as vivid as Professor Whittle.

After all, from the perspective of a physicist, he is still very happy to see Lu Zhou can solve this problem.

If he can indeed 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 physics interface will be solved.

The process of waiting is so long.

Just when everyone was eagerly awaiting imcrc to update the experimental data, it was finally at 12 o'clock in the morning, and the latest experimental data was uploaded to the official database.

As the news spread, universities and universities that have cooperated with imcrc have acquired first-hand information and started processing raw data.

Even the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is full of ob, even though it has already announced a temporary withdrawal from the plan, still downloaded the data.

The results of the experiment were also surprisingly amazing.

Just as the entire physics community was amazed at the results of this experiment, a report hosted by Lu Zhou himself had already started at the headquarters of imcrc...

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