It wasn't just Edinburgh that was experiencing heavy rain.
As if to celebrate the success 360,000 kilometers away, the sky above New York was also covered with clouds on this day, and it was raining cats and dogs before work time.
The raindrops picked up two-inch splashes on the road. A man in a long trench coat walked through the gate of Stony Brook University, walked through several streets, and walked all the way to the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Professor Whittle was sitting in his office drinking coffee. He was looking at the rain outside the window, lost in thought.
Ever since he came here early in the morning, he felt like he had forgotten something important. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember what it was.
He unconsciously took a sip of the coffee in his hand. Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door, so he turned his office chair back and spoke.
"Come in."
The door was pushed open.
A gust of humid air blew into the room. Professor Whittle looked at the person standing at the door. He almost spilled the coffee in his hand and stood up from his chair in surprise.
"Professor Brovich, what happened to you?!"
The person standing in front of him was the president of the Brookhaven Science Society. He was also the person in charge of the Institute of Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Other than that, he was also a physics professor at Stony Brook University, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Nobel Prize-level scholar … But none of this mattered anymore.
Professor Brovich glanced at his colleague standing in front of him. He thought of the email sent by Professor Peter Higgs, and a bitter expression appeared on his face.
His Adam's apple moved as he spoke.
"We lost."
"Lost … What lost? Come in and sit down, I'll find you some clothes to change into. "
Brovich didn't say anything about Professor Whittle's concern.
He shook his head slowly, turned around, and walked to the other end of the corridor as though he was here to deliver the news.
Professor Whittle stared dumbfoundedly at Professor Brovich. His mouth opened slightly, but in the end, he didn't say anything. Just as he was anxiously wondering what had happened, his heartbeat suddenly sped up a bit.
At that moment, he suddenly thought of something.
"… ILHCRC report! Damn it! "
He said that he seemed to have forgotten something important!
There was a hint of panic in his eyes. He quickly ran back to the office and logged into the ILHCRC website through his email and password.
As expected!
The ILHCRC report is today!
As expected, the video of the report was uploaded to the server.
When he opened the video and watched it for ten minutes, his pupils suddenly shrank.
What shocked him wasn't the content on Lu Zhou's whiteboard, since he couldn't understand it at his level anyway.
It was the solemn expressions on the faces of the big names in physics sitting in the front row, and the applause when Professor Lu announced the ILHCRC's major discovery called the "Zhou particle" …
His heart fell to the bottom in an instant, and he almost bounced back.
At this moment, Professor Whittle only felt that his vision was dark, and he felt like he was about to faint.
He did not know what kind of feeling this was.
But what was certain was that it was not because of excitement.
No matter what, the thing he was most worried about had finally happened …
…
Coincidentally, at the Institute of Physics at the University of Syracuse, two hundred kilometers away from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, a middle-aged female researcher was greeting someone's family enthusiastically. She angrily slammed her keyboard on the floor. Her colleagues were stunned, and they didn't even dare to breathe.
All of this seemed to be just a corner of the "chaos" caused by the report.
After seeing the live video of the report uploaded to the ILHCRC website, almost all of the scholars who paid attention to the latest progress of this research had surprised expressions on their faces.
A particle with a weight of up to 1.25 TeV!
A superheavy particle with a mass close to ten times that of the Higgs particle!
The most important thing was that this particle was outside the standard model!
If what Lu Zhou said was true, that the elementary particles that made up atoms corresponded to the higher-dimensional part of the components of matter, then the research on the source of mass and gravity would provide extremely important evidence.
Compared to North America, which was across the Pacific Ocean, and Europe, which was across the Atlantic Ocean, the ILHCRC was obviously more chaotic.
People rushed to the front of the stage, not just the reporters, but also the physicists who had a lot of questions.
Some people wanted to get closer to the whiteboard to take a clear picture, some people wanted to catch up with Lu Zhou, and some people … didn't know what they were doing.
Everyone seemed to have lost their minds.
The reporter who was holding the microphone spoke to the camera with a voice that was almost suffocating from the crowd.
"At 10 am Beijing time on February 3, Professor Lu Zhou, a physicist from China, announced the latest findings of the Lunar Hadron Collider at the ILHCRC report. He named this superheavy particle from a higher-dimensional world the 'Zhou particle', with the symbol Z.
"A few days ago, according to Peter Higgs, an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh, the discovery of this particle will mark the great significance of high-energy physics experiments in revealing the full picture of the universe. Our horizons in physics have been broadened by an entire dimension.
"According to Professor Lu Zhou's own prediction at the end of the report, the discovery of this particle may provide a theoretical basis for faster than light navigation between star systems … The scene is extremely chaotic, we are trying to get close to Professor Lu, sh * t, please move —
"— The BBC's correspondent is here."
It was impossible to get close.
Just through the lens, one could see the chaos at the scene and how desperate the wall of people was.
As for Lu Zhou, he was already standing in the staff elevator. He took a car parked in the garage and left the ILHCRC headquarters.
This was Wang Peng's suggestion.
It was always difficult to avoid all kinds of accidents in crowded places. In order to prevent further chaos, it was better to avoid crowded places.
Especially places like this where physicists gathered.
In any case, regardless of whether everyone was satisfied with this outcome, today was destined to be an extraordinary day for the entire physics community.
After a full seven years, the 750 GeV exploration finally came to an end.
The vision of human civilization had also truly expanded to a world that they did not understand, but had always been by everyone's side like a shadow.
The secrets of the universe had never been this close.
As for whether this particle could become the key to solving the faster than light cruise and communication problems like Lu Zhou predicted.
Perhaps only the people of the future would know …
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