For the physics community, this was definitely an extraordinary day.
From that day onwards, human civilization had truly expanded the radius of their thinking to areas beyond the universe, and their understanding of the world had also broadened to a whole new dimension.
The changes that this would bring to society might not be as direct as a high-speed rail or a space shuttle, but the hidden value behind it couldn't be measured by money or goods.
"He saved us."
Professor Steven Weinberg looked at the paper downloaded from the ILHCRC official database and said, "An extra dimension beyond the n-dimension, a lake reflected in a lake … This metaphor is so vivid!"
"Let me guess what you're going to say is that I actually think the same thing?" Professor Perlman, who had just returned from Shanghai, spoke with a smile. He had a cup of coffee in his hand.
"I do think so!" Professor Weinberg blushed and said, "Don't look at me like that … You know, I said the same thing before the report started!"
He wasn't lying.
Steven Weinberg was one of the few openly atheists among Jewish physicists. From the beginning, he firmly stood on the side of material determinism and proposed a special dimension to summarize the phenomenon of mass expansion.
Just like how the physics community added an additional fifth dimension to the relativity equation in order to explain the electromagnetic force, the expanding mass might be moved from the n + 1 dimension outside the horizon (assuming that the observable boundary was n dimension).
This idea actually happened to coincide with Lu Zhou's. The only difference was that Lu Zhou couldn't prove his idea.
It was actually very easy to come up with a conjecture. Every day, arXiv would come up with ideas that were more sci-fi than science fiction. However, very few of them could be logically self-consistent. Most of the ones that were logically self-consistent would become "minority reports" because they could not be proved experimentally.
There was no doubt that Lu Zhou not only explained the existence of the n + 1 dimension from a mathematical point of view, but he also proved that this kind of disturbance was not unbounded and disorderly.
For the physics community, they had discovered a "new continent" that was larger than the universe.
For the world of politics …
Perhaps they should consider the threat that might be lurking in the void?
After all, no matter how they looked at it, this sieve did not seem to have been placed in front of them out of kindness.
But of course, Weinberg didn't have much hope.
This might become a reason for the ILHCRC to ask governments for money. After all, people were animals that yearned for privacy. No one would like to have something spying on them, but no government would be interested in something more boring than "global warming".
Even if such a crisis existed, it was still too far away.
Perhaps it might not even come after the sun went out …
"… There's no doubt that the Nobel Committee owes him a Nobel Prize. I've already said that he deserves this honor. When the electrostrong interaction theory first appeared, I suggested it to them. However, those stubborn old donkeys acted as if they didn't see it and continued to award the prize to some inexplicable thing. "
Perlmutter coughed and said, "You can't say that, his award-winning research is definitely not inexplicable … In fact, as far as I know, Professor Klitzing writes to the Nobel Prize Committee every year, nominating his name."
"I'll write a letter this year," Weinberg muttered. He threw the paper in his hand on the table and said, "No one deserves this honor more than him, I mean no one."
As if he felt that it wasn't convincing enough, he added another sentence.
"Of course, that includes me."
…
The second week after the experimental data was released, the ILHCRC released a paper called "The Void and the World on Extra Strings" on its official website.
After this paper was released, it was downloaded more than 100,000 times in less than half an hour.
At the same time, the same thesis was published in [Future] and was reprinted by various well-known journals. Especially "Nature" and "Science", they even placed it on the cover of the latest issue of the journal.
The most eye-catching one was probably Professor Weinberg, a well-known scholar in the physics community. He wrote a brief review of this paper in "Physics Express".
As the 1979 Nobel Prize winner, Professor Weinberg's influence in the physics community was huge. If one only considered his status in physics, even Edward Witten was slightly inferior to him.
Whether it was the unified theory of weak electricity, the scattering of mesons, infrared photons, quantum gravity, or the discovery of the Z boson, these things laid the foundation of modern physics. String theory couldn't be compared to these conjectured theories. In particular, his paper on the Z boson was the most cited paper until 2010.
If he had to rank the existing physicists, he was a scholar on the same level as Yang and Anderson.
Because of this, after this paper was published in "Physics Express", it caused a lot of heated discussion in the entire physics community and even in the academic world …
[For the physics community, the "Void" is undoubtedly a strange concept. Whether it is the extra string that runs through the universe or the observation from outside the universe, it sounds too mysterious. However, logically, it is indeed self-consistent and has been experimentally tested.
[Mass has never declined, but someone sprinkled a handful of sand in front of us. This mass from the n + 1 dimension has broken our understanding of the original universe, and it has also allowed us to enter a field that we have never understood before.
[As we can see, there are still many mysteries in this universe that we still don't know about. After this, we will continue to pursue them tirelessly.
[This is probably the biggest revelation that the Void has brought us.
[If there is really something out there staring at us, whether it has good intentions or not, we should at least respond to their expectations to some extent. Whether it is for the universe or for ourselves.]
While the entire physics community was in a state of shock and excitement because of the discovery of the "Void" and "extra dimensions", Lu Zhou, who had already returned to Jinling from Shanghai, was completely relaxed.
The uproar that threatened the entire physics community, as well as the controversy surrounding the "mass expansion effect", finally settled with the birth of the extra dimension theory.
However, he still had some questions in his mind.
For example, logically speaking, there should be no matter in the Void. How did it project mass into the n-dimensional universe? What exactly was the substance that was released?
This series of questions could not be explained by existing theories.
But in any case, the immediate trouble was over.
For those buildings that were destined to be completed by future generations, the only thing he could do was to propose some possible conjectures or ideas for those future generations.
For example, like the Observer civilization, before entering the Void, they used a special method to preserve a fragment of the old universe, curling up the entire civilization inside.
Or, through some way, they generated both positive and negative matter at the same time, sinking the antimatter into the endless Void, and projecting the positive matter into the new universe …
However, no matter which conjecture it was, it was too difficult to verify with current technological means.
In terms of difficulty itself, proving these things was no more difficult than proving or falsifying the existence of the spirit of the universe …
When Lu Zhou returned to his home in Zhongshan International, the first thing he did after washing up was to lie on his soft bed.
Even though the place he lived in for the past few days wasn't bad, it couldn't compare to the feeling of his own home.
Lu Zhou closed his eyes and emptied his consciousness.
It was also at this moment that he finally heard the heavenly voice that came from the depths of the void.
He also saw a light blue dialog box that appeared in his field of vision.
[Congratulations, User, for completing the urgent task!]
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