He walked into the cafe.
Sitting down by the window, Lu Zhou gestured to Wang Peng to wait for him. He then looked at Professor Miro, who was sitting across from him.
"Do you want something to drink?"
"As long as it's ice."
Lu Zhou nodded, looked at the waiter, and ordered two cups of iced coffee.
Then he turned his gaze to Professor Miro and asked.
"To be honest, I don't quite understand how the mass expansion of 53 is related to the spirit of the universe?"
"You are the first person to ask me this question." Professor Miro glanced at Lu Zhou with some surprise. He continued, "Most people's first reaction is that I am talking crazy, talking about some mysterious and unreliable theories."
"My opinion is not fundamentally different from theirs." Lu Zhou shrugged and continued, "My curiosity lies purely in the connection between the two."
Professor Miro did not speak immediately. Instead, he searched his body for a while.
This movement made Wang Peng, who was standing next to him, nervous for a while. He couldn't help but put his right hand in his pocket.
However, the professor from the United States did not do anything out of line. He just took out a notepad and a pen from his inner pocket.
"Since you are best at mathematics, then I will prove it to you with mathematics."
Lu Zhou looked at his movements with interest and made an inviting gesture.
"I agree with your point of view. Seeing may be false, but mathematics will definitely not lie."
Without making any comments on this sentence, Professor Miro quickly wrote a line of calculations on the notepad with the pen in his hand.
"This is the mass of the nucleus obtained by chiral extrapolation. 08801112 is the mass of the meson squared."
Lu Zhou took his coffee from the waiter's hand and spoke calmly.
"So? I'm not here to listen to you about quantum chromodynamics. "
"Please don't mind me. I'm just confirming the basic concepts so that I can better explain my point of view."
Professor Miro cleared his throat and continued, "According to this line of formulas, we can clearly find that most of the mass of visible matter in the universe can be explained by pure quantum chromodynamics without the introduction of quark mass. Except for the part of 7, it is temporarily unexplainable. It may come from outside the standard model, or it may come from statistical errors, but this is not a big problem."
Lu Zhou nodded and didn't say anything. He just quietly waited for him to continue.
"However, recent experiments have completely overturned all the speculations I had made before. Just when I thought that the collision of higher energy levels would reveal the secrets of this 7, we were shocked to find that this 7 had disappeared. "
"That's not all. Our observation system even has a mass of 53 unexplainable sources!"
"Amazing, isn't it? What we see should be less than what it actually is. That makes sense. But the fact is that what we see is more than what it actually is, to a ratio that cannot be ignored! "
"Think about it, only by introducing a particle with negative mass can we conserve both sides of the equation. The originally perfect universe is like a piece of plasticine, squeezed by an invisible hand, kneaded at will … "
"Perfection is just a subjective judgment." Lu Zhou interrupted him and said, "I never thought that the universe was perfect."
"Really? Haha, maybe! What if I tell you that I saw that ghost? Forget it, it's too weird. I don't think you'll think I'm crazy. "
Isn't it?
Lu Zhou subconsciously had this confusion in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.
Professor Miro's gaze stayed on Lu Zhou's expressionless face for a few seconds. He suddenly lowered his head and hurriedly wrote a few lines of calculations on the paper.
After doing all this, he carefully folded it and stuffed it in front of Lu Zhou.
"Bold hypotheses and careful verification are the experiences that we can summarize from the history of the progress of physics to this day. Just like how we perceive the existence of gravity from a falling apple, scientific thinking allows us to get rid of ignorance, learn to summarize the development of things, and make us forget our own insignificance. "
"Do you know?"
"This universe is like a designed game. Under normal circumstances, it will respond to our expectations. Until one day, the parameters we input to it finally exceed its threshold, and it finally can't respond to our expectations. All scientific theories collapse at this singularity, and the development of all matter is no longer regular. "
"Collisions above 5 shatter not only the conservation of mass, but also the entire physics."
Lu Zhou looked at him silently.
He now roughly understood why this talented young scholar had fallen into a state of paranoia and even madness.
Physics was the discipline that studied the most general laws of the movement of matter and the basic structure of matter. Now, their discoveries were revealing to them that the universe actually had no laws.
If it was only a physics theorem being overturned, it wouldn't be so alarming, but it obviously touched something closer to the origin.
That was, the so-called truth itself.
This boat exploring the truth of the universe was being dragged into a swamp by an invisible hand.
Lu Zhou finally understood why this matter developed to the extent that the system had to come forward and issue him an urgent mission.
Honestly speaking, if he hadn't heard the voice from the other end of the Void, he might have been more at a loss than Professor Miro at this moment.
"The universe itself has no laws. Our ignorance and insignificance make us think that the sky we see at the bottom of the well is the whole sky.
"It's like there is an invisible ghost wandering in this universe. It picked the apple on the tree, reached out and strangled Schrödinger's cat, so that light can be a particle or a wave. It manipulates everything at will, and we still want to explain its behavior with some crappy and self-righteous theories."
As he said some chilling words to himself, Professor Miro's pupils, which were gradually becoming bloodshot, suddenly widened a little.
He tapped his index finger on the small piece of paper and lowered his voice.
"This is my prediction, Dear Professor Lu.
"The mass expansion phenomenon in the high-energy area is irregular. We have been doing a very stupid thing for the past half century.
"We will start the experiment again in half a month, and soon you will prove that I am right.
"All of this has been arranged."
After saying this, Professor Miro put his hands on the table and took a step forward. Under the surprised gazes of countless people, he stumbled away.
It was obvious that the result of the experiment was a big blow to him.
Whether it was in a spiritual sense or a physiological sense.
After the meeting with Professor Miro ended, Lu Zhou returned to the car. He sat in the back without saying a word and looked at the note in his hand, as if he was thinking about something.
Wang Peng glanced at Lu Zhou through the rearview mirror. He hesitated for a moment and spoke.
"Who is that professor?"
"Collapse of faith."
Wang Peng: "?"
Lu Zhou: "If one day I told you that mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even language from childhood to college were all fake, how would you feel?"
Even though this wasn't the first time Professor Lu asked this kind of strange question, and he was already used to it, this time, it seemed more difficult than usual.
Wang Peng thought for a while, and a subtle expression appeared on his face.
"I can't imagine it. No matter what, language can't be fake.
"I'm just giving you a common example. After all, you haven't systematically studied quantum chromodynamics, and you haven't spent most of your life writing papers to reveal the true nature of nature."
Lu Zhou sighed. He thought for a while and spoke.
"Let me give you another example. Let's say that one day, the person you respect the most changes from a saint to an evil demon, or something similar, and pushes the world to the brink of destruction."
Wang Peng spoke without hesitation.
"That's impossible."
"Really?" Lu Zhou shrugged and said, "I also think it's impossible. But you should be able to imagine what kind of disaster it might mean for you once such a thing happens.
"This is the situation Professor Miro is facing. Something he has always thought was impossible and firmly believed in as a creed happened in front of his eyes.
"The things he has been studying for the past 20 years have become waste paper, and physics and life have lost their meaning.
"In this sense, sometimes science is not just a thought."
"At the same time, it's also a belief."
Professor Miro was suspended.
This was also the doctor's recommendation.
In any case, his current state was not suitable to participate in research.
Not only did he affect himself, but he also affected other people in the project team.
Lu Zhou originally thought that this young genius might feel unacceptable in the face of such a situation.
However, unexpectedly, after hearing the suggestion to receive treatment, he was unexpectedly calm. Even when he packed his things and left the office, the expression on his face was particularly relaxed.
"Okay, I finally have time to plan the trip I've always wanted to start."
After leaving this sentence, he said goodbye to his colleagues one by one and left his office.
Out of a certain degree of worry, Lu Zhou paid special attention to Professor Miro's situation. Interestingly, the physics professor did not leave Shanghai immediately. Instead, he still lived in a single apartment prepared for him.
It seemed that he was not so sure about his own guess. It seemed that he planned to wait until the end of the next experiment to see if he was right.
However, this also made Lu Zhou feel a little more uneasy.
Because this meant that all of his conclusions were made in a sober state.
Lu Zhou also noticed that during this period of suspension, Professor Miro had been updating his blog. Objectively speaking, his literary talent was quite good. He was able to present boring physics theories in an easy-to-understand form, so he had gained many fans and believers.
Half a month passed by while the entire physics community was in turmoil.
Finally, the next experiment cycle came.
This time, Lu Zhou personally stood at the ground command center.
It wasn't because of some necessary academic purpose. He just wanted to use his own eyes to confirm whether all of this was just a strange mistake or a true discovery that would revolutionize physics in a real sense.
His fists kept clenching and loosening. He paced back and forth in the hall of the ground command center several times. Finally, the moment the results came out.
The data that appeared on the screen made him open his eyes subconsciously.
The strange scene appeared again!
After the collision of the two lead ions in the high-energy zone, not only did the mass not decrease, but it also increased by a portion!
There was an uproar in the ground command center. People widened their eyes in disbelief. They exchanged looks of bewilderment and whispered nervously and even excitedly.
The expression on Lu Zhou's face was still calm, but it was slightly stiff.
This was the first time he felt that the situation was so tricky.
He subconsciously put his hand into his pocket and took out the note from his pocket.
Looking at the content, he muttered in a low voice.
"You've really guessed it."
The extra mass was no longer 053 lead ions.
It was 071.
Not just that.
The data collected by the four detectors through the unimpeded experiment was surprisingly highly consistent.
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