An hour later, Lu Zhou was standing at the entrance of the ILHCRC headquarters building.
Lu Zhou looked at Luo Wenxuan, who was waving at him from afar. He waited for Luo Wenxuan to walk closer before speaking.
"I wish you'd called in the morning."
"Why?"
"Because I happened to be at the docking area this morning, and it's only a 30-minute drive from here. Now, I may have to stay in Shanghai for dinner."
"Port area? What about Star Voyage One? "
"Yes."
Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou curiously. "I heard that you calculated pi to 10 ^ 100 decimal places?"
"To be precise, it's Star Voyage One, and it's 3.14 x 10 ^ 100 bits … Is there a problem?"
"No … I just think it's pretty cool. Sigh! Unfortunately, we were all doing experiments at the time and didn't have a chance to go to the scene … "Luo Wenxuan sighed and said with some regret," Damn it, I seem to have missed the opportunity to witness history. "
"As long as you want, you can witness history every day …" Lu Zhou said while walking in the corridor of the ILHCRC headquarters building. He glanced at the silver watch on his left wrist and said, "Okay, let's get back to business, tell me what happened."
Luo Wenxuan shrugged noncommittally at Lu Zhou's statement.
"No problem, this is what happened …"
After about ten minutes, he told the whole story to Lu Zhou.
In short, just three days ago, they used the Lunar Hadron Collider to conduct a high-energy particle collision experiment in the 1.13-1.14 TeV energy zone, hoping to provide more experimental evidence for the high-dimensional particle theoretical model proposed by Lu Zhou. At the same time, they could complete the hyperspace theory that Einstein dreamed of.
However, just as they were completing the last set of experiments, they discovered something extremely strange …
"For the last three groups of experiments, we originally planned to end it as a control group. However, the energy data observed by the four detectors all showed violent fluctuations … Moreover, the fluctuations are not ordinary fluctuations that can be explained by quantum fluctuations, but fluctuations of an order of magnitude!"
"This feeling is just like …"
Lu Zhou looked at Luo Wenxuan, who couldn't think of a word to describe him even after thinking for a long time.
"It's like when you're playing billiards, and someone hits the white ball on the side?"
"That's right," Luo Wenxuan snapped his fingers. "That's the feeling! But there's still a slight difference. Not only did he add a stroke, he even added an extra black ball to the table. "
Hearing this, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly.
If it was just an increase in energy, there were many other explanations that could provide basis, but if it was an increase in energy and mass at the same time, then it was somewhat unusual.
"Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
"Please, am I such a careless person?" Seeing the obvious distrust on Lu Zhou's face, Luo Wenxuan sighed and continued, "Well, even if you don't believe me, you should believe all the engineers and physics experts at the ILHCRC."
Lu Zhou: "Have you checked the experiment equipment?"
Luo Wenxuan: "Do you even need to ask? The first thing I did after the experiment was finished, I asked the engineers at the lunar scientific research station to check the experimental equipment. However, whether it was the superconducting magnet or the high-energy particle emitter, they didn't see anything abnormal. "
"This is a bit unusual …" Lu Zhou rubbed his chin and pondered for a long time. He then asked, "What was the result of the meeting? Did you guys have a meeting? "
"I called you right after the meeting."
In fact, even the phone call itself was one of the opinions that came out of the discussion at the meeting.
Even though there were many Nobel Prize -level scholars at the ILHCRC, when faced with this kind of observation phenomenon, there was almost no experience that could be used for reference from past experiments.
Compared to the endless debate, many people wanted to hear Professor Lu's opinion.
After all, the purpose of this experiment was to perfect his theoretical model of high-dimensional particles.
Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou, who was lost in thought, and spoke.
"Professor Witten's guess is that the low-dimensional expansion of some kind of high-dimensional matter disturbed the curvature of nearby space-time, causing anomalies in the observation data. The mass and energy under the conventional space-time scale actually did not increase or decrease. In fact, my opinion is the same, but Professor Wilczek has a different opinion, and Academician Wu from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a different opinion … Anyway, no one can convince the other on this issue."
Lu Zhou: "No matter what caused the anomaly, there must be clues … I'll look at the experimental data first."
"Please come with me."
Luo Wenxuan quickly walked into his office and placed his laptop on the table. He entered his work email and password and logged into the server.
Soon after, he retrieved the experimental data and gave up his seat.
"Look at it yourself … Do you want something to drink?"
Lu Zhou was sitting in his office chair. His attention was completely focused on the data in front of him, and he spoke casually.
He casually replied, "Instant coffee is fine."
"Even if you want handmade coffee, I don't have it here … Wait a second."
Luo Wenxuan turned around to make a cup of coffee. Lu Zhou looked at the data line by line on the screen. The more he looked, the more he frowned.
Finally, his gaze stopped at a certain line, and it stopped for a very long time.
After about three minutes, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and muttered to himself.
"… Interesting."
Just like Luo Wenxuan said, the experimental data was quite unusual. The four detectors distributed in the collision area collected a mass that was far greater than the lead ions themselves from the fragments of the lead ion collision.
In fact, according to quantum chromodynamics, the increase and loss of mass and energy were very normal. After all, there were strange things like the zero-mass Goldstone boson, or the interference of the future quark mass, and it was even possible for some things to be born that could not be observed by current human technology.
However, there was a limit to this kind of mass or energy fluctuation.
Generally speaking, using a supercomputer to calculate lattice quantum chromodynamics could calculate 93% of the mass, which was the best answer so far.
However, the data presented in front of him overturned this result.
After analyzing the data collected from the experiment, the collision fragments collected on the energy spectrum exceeded the expected data by an entire order of magnitude …
This was no longer a problem that could be solved by quantum fluctuations.
Not only would his high-dimensional particle theoretical model be threatened, but even the theory of relativity, the standard model, and even the mass-energy equation … The cornerstone of the entire modern physics building would be shaken.
Or, something interfered with the experiment. Just like what Luo Wenxuan said, someone put an extra billiard ball on the billiard table and took a shot at the messy billiard table.
Just when Lu Zhou was thinking about this, something suddenly happened.
It was like he was hallucinating.
A light blue window gradually appeared in his field of vision.
[Urgent mission: Void Call]
Lu Zhou's eyes stared straight at the floating window in his field of vision. He was stunned.
The last time something like this happened was with the Martian bacteria …
At this time, Luo Wenxuan came back from the office with two cups of coffee.
Looking at Lu Zhou's unnatural expression, he paused for a second and asked curiously.
"Do you see anything?"
In the eyes of others, Lu Zhou, who was sitting in front of the computer, seemed to have discovered something.
As if confirming his own speculation, Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou and raised his head. After a moment of silence, he spoke without any reason.
"We … might be in trouble."
Luo Wenxuan looked at him in confusion as he placed the coffee cup on the desk.
"Trouble? Why do you say that? "
"Intuition …" Lu Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "Scientific intuition."
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