As the New Year passed, China physicists returned to Shanghai one after another. The ILHCRC headquarters became lively again.
The media that had previously clamored for the ILHCRC to be shut down also quieted down as if nothing had happened.
Everything went on as usual.
Even though the scholars from the Brookhaven National Laboratory probably wouldn't be coming, only a small number of people left the project. Even though there were still some people who weren't optimistic about the 750 GeV project, most people wouldn't give up the opportunity to change their name on the thesis.
Normally, a thesis on a large-scale international scientific research project could be more than a dozen pages long, and it was arranged alphabetically.
However, this was still an effective scientific research resume. Whether it was a university or a research institute, it would be helpful.
Office.
When Professor Witten saw Lu Zhou knocking on the door, he took off his glasses and spoke with a smile.
"How was your holiday?"
Lu Zhou: "It was quite fulfilling."
Witten looked at the stack of papers in Lu Zhou's hand and smiled.
"Looks like you didn't rest much."
"In the face of such exciting results, even if I wanted to rest, I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to do so."
Witten looked at the confident expression on Lu Zhou's face, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. He raised his eyebrows with interest.
"You already have a clue?"
"More than a clue." Lu Zhou had a confident smile on his face. He threw the documents in his hand on the table and said, "Remember the pendulum theory I talked about last year? I perfected it during Chinese New Year. "
Witten quickly picked up the stack of documents on the table and carefully browsed through them.
Lu Zhou wasn't in a hurry. He walked to the side and poured himself a cup of coffee. He then sat on the sofa and quietly waited.
This was all thanks to the inspiration he got from that memory.
Even though Dr. Lane didn't directly tell him anything about the 750 GeV energy zone particles, some things didn't need to be explained. Just knowing the existence of the 750 GeV energy zone was already a huge benefit to Lu Zhou.
For example, the concept of hyperspace.
If the hyperspace theory existed, then Einstein's wormhole theory was possible.
Based on this logic, assuming that the characteristic peak of the 750 GeV energy zone corresponded to some fundamental particles that existed in the hyperspace, then the phenomenon that appeared repeatedly in people's field of vision could be explained.
The theories that Lu Zhou derived through mathematical methods were also tenable.
Similar examples were not uncommon in physics. For example, when explaining the "breaking" of the gauge symmetry of the Grand Unification at the energy of 10 ^ 15 GeV, there was a view that based on supersymmetry, it provided a framework that could also describe fermions and bosons, allowing it to add another four-dimensional hyperspace to the four-dimensional spacetime in the sense of Minkowski space to accommodate the strange geometric properties of fermions.
However, the hyperspace theory was unproven.
However, this also meant that if the logic of this paper was self-consistent and this particle could really be found, it might be evidence of the existence of hyperspace!
Professor Witten's fingers trembled as he held the paper. The surprise in his eyes became more and more intense.
Ten minutes passed by. He raised his trembling index finger and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose as he muttered to himself.
"Interesting … Hyperspace theory?"
Lu Zhou took a sip of coffee and casually explained.
"Strictly speaking, it should be a guess based on hyperspace theory. It's too difficult for me to complete a huge proposition like hyperspace theory alone. For example, the most important part of gravity, modern physics knows too little about it … However, maybe after this experiment is over, I can complete this part. "
He paused for a second and continued.
"Of course, this depends on what we find from the experiment."
"Unbelievable …" Professor Witten put down the paper in his hand and looked up at Lu Zhou. He said excitedly, "You know what? I'm looking forward to tomorrow more and more. "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to it more than you."
Before the Chinese New Year was over, he couldn't wait to start the second round of experiments.
This time, he had to find the spirit that had been playing hide and seek with him for seven years and drag it out from the fog it was hiding in with his own hands!
Witten: "Then, do you plan on publishing this paper now?"
"Of course, good things should be shared with everyone. I plan on putting the preprint on arXiv." Lu Zhou joked and continued, "If the experimental results are ideal, I will attach the experimental results to the paper and publish it in the main journal of Future."
…
After more than a month of silence, the ILHCRC research seemed to have made new progress.
Lu Zhou's paper on hyperspace theory and the speculation on the possibility of 750 GeV characteristic peaks was uploaded to arXiv's website. It immediately caused a huge response in the physics community.
While people were surprised by the "advanced" ideas displayed in this paper, they were also surprised that Lu Zhou chose to publish the paper at this time.
In short, there were voices of support and opposition.
Some people commented that Lu Zhou's hyperspace theory might be too optimistic, and that conjectures based on conjectures were unreliable. Some people thought that this was indeed a good idea, and it could explain the "mass" that was lost in high-energy physics experiments.
If those fragments entered hyperspace or appeared in a higher-dimensional form, then they would not be discovered by traditional observation methods.
In any case, this paper gave an academic answer to the question of "why study the 750 GeV signal".
If this conclusion was true, not only would it greatly improve the part that was not mentioned in the standard model, but it would also open the horizons of the physics community to study the internal structure of elementary particles, allowing physics to penetrate into a more mysterious world than the Higgs particle …
"Hyperspace theory?"
Professor Whittle sat in his office chair and looked at the printed paper in his hand. A look of contempt appeared on his face as he said, "Throwing the unknown into the unknown wormhole, physics is getting more and more convenient."
He finished reading the paper.
He could barely understand it.
However, the things described in the paper made him scoff.
The existence of hyperspace itself was a controversial topic in physics. The root of this was that the unidirectionality of time was one of the most basic observational facts in physics and all natural sciences. Even the existence of hyperspace did not completely deny this. However, so far, physics research had pushed the existence of hyperspace to a position that was contrary to this "most basic observational fact".
"I think … his paper is quite interesting." An old professor with a sparse beard was sitting not far from Professor Whittle. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and said with great interest, "If he really finds this fragment outside of the standard model, this may become the greatest physics discovery in more than a decade. To be honest … We really shouldn't miss this opportunity. "
Verifying the standard model was easy. What the particle physics community had done the most over the past decade was to constantly verify Einstein's conclusions.
However, it was too difficult to find a puzzle outside of the standard model.
This old professor's statement obviously aroused Whittle's dissatisfaction.
He snorted and spoke in a mocking tone.
"The greatest physics discovery in more than a decade? Haha, in his dreams. "
Even though Professor Whittle was still trying to be brave, when he read this paper, he didn't even realize that his stubborn fortress in his heart had begun to crumble.
At least half of the reason why he didn't want to change his opinion was not because of his professional knowledge, but because he didn't want to lose face.
Maybe face wasn't important.
However, he had already said so many harsh words and even persuaded the Brookhaven Science Society to speak out together, criticizing Lu Zhou's actions. Even the committee members had a half-hearted attitude.
It was foreseeable that if Lu Zhou really did come up with something, he would definitely be the one to be thrown out.
"In his dreams …"
Professor Whittle reached out and grabbed the glass of water on the table. He took a sip and moistened his dry throat. However, he couldn't suppress the irritation in his heart.
He could only hope for the ILHCRC to fail and for the Lunar Hadron Collider to malfunction or to not be able to find anything at all.
While he was thinking about this, he didn't notice that his state of mind was no longer normal.
It was distorted to the point where he didn't even recognize himself …
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