The lecture hall was packed with people, and there were about 800 people.
These were the top minds and the most authoritative scholars in the particle physics community.
Not only were there researchers working at the ILHCRC, but there were also big names in physics who came from other countries.
Everyone's purpose was unexpectedly the same.
That was to figure out where the inflated mass and the experimental results that subverted the standard model came from and what it meant …
In the front row of the lecture hall, an old man in a gray jacket sat next to Professor Witten.
He leaned his cane against the corner of the table, unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle on the table, and slowly took a sip. He then looked at the report stage.
"Thank you for saving a seat for me, there are too many people here … I almost got lost."
Professor Witten glanced at the old man sitting next to him and raised his eyebrows.
"I didn't expect you to actually come."
The old man chuckled and replied with a "what else?" look. He then continued to look at the report desk.
"How could I miss such an interesting thing? Maybe today, the rules of physics will be rewritten, and our horizons will be expanded to an entire dimension that we can't perceive … Is there anything more exciting than this? "
If someone heard this, they would be surprised.
Not because of the content of this sentence, but because of the person who said this.
The person sitting next to Professor Witten was none other than Professor Saul Perlmutter from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Perhaps people who didn't know much about physics might not have heard of this name, but he was also a great physicist.
As the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics and the person who proved the theory of the "accelerated expansion of the universe", he was quite famous in both the astrophysics and particle physics communities.
Witten glanced at him and said thoughtfully, "It seems that you believe in the theory of extra dimensions."
"The question is not whether I believe it or not, but whether he can give a logical and self-consistent proof to prove that his conclusion is correct. In the beginning, didn't we also disdain string theory? Although it's slowly starting to become like this … "
Professor Perlmutter saw that the expression on Witten's face was a little unhappy. He smiled and quickly changed the topic.
"Speaking of which, I really want to know what you think about this matter. Up until now, you haven't said anything. This is really … very unlike you. "
"Shh."
Professor Witten suddenly made a gesture of silence, interrupting Professor Perlmutter's chatter. He then pointed his index finger in the direction of the stage.
"The answer you want is there."
"It has already begun."
…
Just as the hour hand passed ten o'clock.
The originally noisy venue quietened down as if it had been hit by a silencing spell.
Fernando sat restlessly at the front of the lecture hall and looked at Lu Zhou unhappily. He wanted to do something for Lu Zhou.
However, the policeman sitting next to him, who didn't look like someone to mess with, and the bright handcuffs on his waist exuded an invisible pressure, making him not dare to do anything out of line.
Lu Zhou, who was standing on stage, looked around the lecture hall and spoke in a calm voice.
"We are sorry that Professor Miro has left."
"We've lost an outstanding scholar, and we've also lost a comrade."
"I know that his death might have affected many people … and that includes me as well."
Lu Zhou didn't say anything. He flipped through the stack of draft papers on the multimedia podium and spent around ten seconds organizing his thoughts before speaking.
He then spoke, "My feelings may be different from many of you."
"What touched me was not that our wisdom, which we are proud of, is vulnerable in the face of the vast universe, but that our willpower may be weaker than we thought."
"Please allow me to introduce the concept of 'willpower', which shouldn't have appeared here. Because as all of us can see and feel, this edifice that we have spent centuries to build is on the verge of collapse just because of the slightest disturbance. "
Lu Zhou paused for a moment. He turned to the whiteboard and wrote a line of calculations on it with a marker in his hand.
[mn = m0-4c1mπ2 + o (mπ3)]
Lu Zhou stopped writing and turned to look at the venue.
"This is the beginning of the trouble.
"It is also the source of all contradictions.
"Under normal circumstances, we can use the chiral extrapolation method to obtain the mass of nucleons, then use the quantum lattice calculation method and the help of supercomputers to explain the source of mass inside most nucleons.
"However, until today, we still have many unexplainable things … This part of the mass is about 7%."
Lu Zhou wrote this number on the whiteboard and continued to look at the noisy venue. "But now, because of the collision experiment of more than 5 TeV, this number has expanded to 53% or even 71%. It is like a string of disordered code. Our physics seems to be swallowed by an invisible black hole.
"In order to explain this phenomenon, we must introduce a new concept."
Lu Zhou reached out and wrote the letter n on the whiteboard.
Then, he wrote a "+ 1" next to it.
"N is all the dimensions that make up our current universe. The one we can analyze is 11, and some say it's 13. Perhaps in the distant future, this number will be broadened to infinity as our horizons expand, but all this is not important for now …"
"What we are going to discuss now is the n + 1 dimension.
"Outside the horizon that we can see, there is an axis that runs through the beginning to the end of the universe. It is a wall on a wall, a lake reflected in a lake. All the dimensions that can be observed by us will be bound at a certain point on it, and at the same time, they will be released at this point.
"Normally, its existence will not affect us under normal circumstances, unless … something on the other side of our horizon touches this string …"
"Or in other words, it reaches out and opens the box and observes us."
Professor Witten and other old friends were lost in thought, and Fernando was blushing. Lu Zhou looked at the calculations on the whiteboard.
He paused for a second and spoke.
"Because of the observation from the Void, the superposition state has collapsed."
The discussion in the lecture hall became more and more heated.
The reason for that was because it sounded truly unimaginable.
Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up.
"Why is it 5TeV?"
"That's a good question."
Lu Zhou looked at the young scholar who stood up and asked the question. He snapped his fingers and gave him an encouraging look. He then gestured for the scholar to sit down.
Then, Lu Zhou looked around the lecture hall and raised his voice.
"How do we identify whether an artificial intelligence is real or not? This is a very abstract concept, so we invented the Turing test. We defined that artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test is real artificial intelligence, while artificial intelligence that can't pass this test is just a machine.
"Similarly, how do we select the smartest few from a group of ants?"
"The method is very simple, we just need to set up some simple obstacles for them.
"I know this may sound a bit crazy, but I still want to say that the 5TeV energy level collision experiment is like a sieve. It screens the collection of all civilizations in this universe.
"The mass never increases, it just moves from the n + 1 dimension outside the universe to the n dimension that makes up the universe. Through this simple method, they were able to determine that there was something else here that was different from ants. "
"At the same time, they are also using this sieve …
"To declare their existence to us."
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