[Shocking! ILHCRC's latest results, mass is no longer conserved! Perpetual motion machine may no longer be a false proposition!]
When Lu Zhou saw this headline, he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
These people who worked in the media could always use all kinds of strange ways to interpret things, making his nose crooked time and time again.
When did the ILHCRC say mass was no longer conserved? Why haven't I heard of this before?
Is it really that difficult to understand the "abnormal mass expansion phenomenon in three sets of experimental data"?
Even if the foundation of physics was overturned, perpetual motion machine must be a false proposition.
At least on Earth!
"Why didn't these people make a draft when they wrote this?"
After reading a few lines, Lu Zhou felt his eyes hurt. He threw the newspaper into the trash can with disgust. He felt like it was a waste of time to read this kind of article.
"The print media industry is in a slump, so it's normal to attract an audience through gimmicks …" Witten looked at Lu Zhou, who was reading the newspaper. He couldn't help but ask, "How is it, do you have any clues?"
"Don't think of me as Doraemon, I don't know any more about this than you do." Lu Zhou sighed and reached for the mouse. He clicked on the browser and browsed through the physics forum.
Just like he expected, the physics community exploded.
Among the posts, at least nine of them expressed their disbelief.
First, a Stanford University professor said that if it weren't for the lunar collider's problems, he would eat his boxers and belt.
Even though Lu Zhou also wondered if there was a problem with the collider, or if the detectors were broken at the same time, it was hard to believe that there was such a consistent failure.
Then, a professor from the University of Oxford stood up, and his opinion was basically the same. However, he didn't suspect that there was a problem with the collider. Instead, he attributed the source of the error to a statistical problem. He believed that the ILHCRC researchers responsible for this project made a big mistake. The ILHCRC should immediately set up an expert group to re-analyze the data collected by the detectors.
On the other hand, many unknown professors on arXiv had already begun to place bets on why this phenomenon occurred.
After all, theoretical physics was too difficult.
This difficulty was not just in an academic sense.
There was also the meaning of real life.
In addition, it wasn't just the physics world that was affected, even the mathematics world was affected.
Especially on forums like Mathoverflow, there were already a lot of big names in the mathematics world discussing whether or not this was true. If this was true, would it bring inspiration to mathematics?
Lu Zhou didn't quite understand what this revelation meant.
Even if mass was no longer conserved, the universal algorithm of 1 + 1 = 2 shouldn't be overturned …
Probably not.
"Before coming to the ILHCRC, I worked at CERN for at least 30 years, but this is the first time I've seen such a strange situation." Witten walked to Lu Zhou's desk with a coffee cup. He thought for a while and said, "From the perspective of a mathematician, where do you think the extra mass might come from?"
"I don't know. Mathematics doesn't discuss concrete things, but I know that mass and energy can't increase or decrease out of thin air, unless …"
Witten: "Unless?"
"Unless it comes from the other side of time …" After saying this, Lu Zhou opened his mouth, but he quickly shook his head and denied his guess. He said, "That's impossible … This is even more unrealistic than increasing mass and energy out of thin air."
Time was irreversible, this was one of the basic theorems of physics.
The curvature of spacetime might change, but the direction it pointed in must be the same.
As for why this was said, it was a bit complicated.
In order to understand this point, at least in the mainstream physics community, time was not a "thing", and it had nothing to do with the dimensions that constituted the universe. Strictly speaking, time was a "scale" that appeared with the Big Bang and pointed to the end of the universe.
However, it could not be ruled out that there would be new discoveries in the future that would redefine the concept of time.
But for now, Lu Zhou didn't see any signs of this from the ILHCRC's latest discoveries. It could even be said that instead of using the concept of time to explain the extra mass, it was better to attribute it to the void …
Wait a minute!
Lu Zhou's eyes suddenly widened.
Witten keenly captured the change in expression on Lu Zhou's face, and he quickly asked.
"What did you think of?"
"A possibility … that might be a bit unrealistic."
Witten joked, "Even more unrealistic than string theory?"
"Maybe …" Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "What if, outside of the n strings that make up the universe, there is an n + 1 string. It doesn't belong to the universe we are familiar with, but it runs through the life of the universe. It's like … a wall on a wall, a lake reflected in a lake. "
Lu Zhou heard the second half of this sentence from a "person".
After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Witten raised his eyebrows.
"It seems like you also say some strange things occasionally."
"Did anyone else say that?"
"Nash … You might know him, he was a genius tortured by mental pain. When he was still alive, I still liked to discuss mathematics problems with him."
"That's a shame."
"Back to the point, about what you said … I can't rule out this possibility, but just like we can't prove it, there is no point in discussing this kind of thing."
Witten paused for a second and continued, "The starting point of physics is the Big Bang. There is no point in discussing things before that. That is the end of all science. Unless one day we can go beyond the box called the universe, we who are in the box have no hope of seeing the thing you are talking about … "
"The Void." Lu Zhou looked at Witten, who was struggling to describe this concept. He said, "I plan on calling it that."
"The Void? That's an interesting name. "Witten shrugged and said," But like I said, it doesn't make any sense. "
Was there really no meaning to it?
Lu Zhou spent the entire morning worrying about this matter.
This wasn't just scientific intuition.
The title of the mission itself already hinted at where the problem came from. The root of all the contradictions pointed to the extra dimension outside the n-dimension, the existence that was older than the Big Bang and closer to eternity than time itself.
However, if he wrote these things in a thesis, people would definitely suspect that he was crazy.
Somehow, he suddenly sympathized with Einstein.
Apparently, the old man's later years were quite "miserable". This kind of misery was not only because of political suspicion and exclusion, but also because his beloved physics had abandoned him.
People respected him, but they no longer believed him. The aura of absolute authority from his youth had faded away. Just like how no one could understand the things he calculated on the blackboard before he died, people had long since stopped trying to delve into the old man's chaotic mental world, and they didn't care so much about what he said.
A theory that was ahead of its time could be accepted, but if a theory was so far ahead that it had risen to the level of delusion, perhaps no one would easily agree.
Maybe he really found something, which was why he said such a ridiculous statement like "everything was arranged."
However, he was the only one who could prove that he had indeed discovered something unusual …
After lunch.
Lu Zhou returned to his desk and sat down. He then turned on his computer.
Suddenly, a string of bubbles popped up from the lower right corner.
Xiao Ai: [Master, there's a new email. (?????)??】
New email?
Lu Zhou logged into his email and clicked on the unread email.
When he saw the name of the email, he paused for a second.
Satoshi Nakamoto?
With a strange expression on his face, Lu Zhou continued to read the email.
There was only one sentence in the entire email.
[I want to talk to you.]
Is this a greeting?
Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile and typed a reply.
[I'm sorry, I don't have time right now. Let's talk after I finish the things at hand.]
After he clicked the send button, Lu Zhou closed the email and focused his attention on the draft paper on the table.
He couldn't solve any problems by letting his mind wander.
If he wanted to find reliable clues, he had to go through rigorous calculations.
It didn't matter if he could find the problem or not.
At the very least, he had to be fully prepared for his next experiment …
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