79, Higgs boson
In the northwest of Switzerland, on the border with Germany and France, there is a 360-kilometer-long, northeast-southwest mountain called Jura Mountain. Mount Jura is made of limestone, and the main peak, Rinai, is 1,718 meters above sea level. There are many underground streams and underground caves in the mountains, and you can see hot springs gushing out from under the stratum.
Whether the origin of the name Jura Mountain is related to the Jurassic period is not well understood, but many people know that the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a total circumference of 27 kilometers, is hidden in a circular tunnel at a depth of 100 meters at the bottom of the mountain.
Through the LHC, humanity has identified the Higgs boson on Earth, a particle that has existed since the time of the Big Bang. Because of it, particles have mass, which creates everything in the world.
Lao Tzu, the founder of the Taoist school in the Spring and Autumn Period of China, once put forward the philosophical concept of "one life is two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things" in his treatise "Tao Te Ching".
It is also known as the "Son of God" because if it had not been for the fact that it formed the Higgs field at the Big Bang to support the expanding universe, and the universe would soon collapse back to the singularity state, neither celestial bodies nor life would have been able to form and continue to this day.
Modern cosmology believes that everything visible in the universe is made up of particles, but these account for only 4% of the overall structure of the universe, and the remaining 96% belongs to non-luminous matter and dark energy, which are collectively called dark matter.
Whether there is a limit to space or not, human beings cannot be sure, so it can only be described as "boundless". In this grandeur, as long as life exists, they will probably be interested in dark matter, hoping to unravel as much of their mystery as possible. Because the only way to reduce fear is to deepen the understanding of whether the things we don't know are friends or foes, and how harmful they will be, and perhaps the most intelligent organisms in the universe can't tell. Therefore, "knowing" is the best weapon against dark matter, and the most appropriate word to describe dark matter is darkness.
In a small office in the tunnel where the LHC is located, Qu Zhaodi rests his feet on the table and plays with a glass bottle in his hand. The bottle contained a shiny, rice-grain-sized chip, which was exactly what the birdman had given him on the belly of a firefly that night on the Great Khing'an Mountains.
The metal door of the office was pushed open from the outside, and a young man with red hair and freckles on his face ran in, and as soon as he entered, he said in plain European English: "You bastard, you have even found this place!" ”
Qu Zhaodi tilted his head back from the back of the chair, looked at the red-haired young man upside down, and said with a grin: "This glorious English name exclusive to me, you still remember it, and it is not in vain that when you were in Stanford, you were asked to follow your boss and me for four years to drink and fool around." ”
The red-haired young man is named Andorf. Calforski, a native of Geneva, studied with Qu Zhaodi at Stanford for four years. Andorf was born in Geneva in an ordinary working family, although the family is not poor, but not rich, if he wants to enjoy life with a steady stream of money like Qu Zhaodi, he can't do it, so as soon as he entered his freshman year, he formed a bitter friend with this loser from Shanghai, China, and followed him to eat and drink spicy food.
After graduating from university, Andorf returned to Switzerland and worked as a computer hardware maintainer at CERN. After separating from Qu Zhaodi, he only heard about him from the news at most, and the two did not contact each other much in private.
The last time, and the most sensational news, said that Qu Zhaodi jumped into the Huangpu River and drowned in order to expose his murder of his wife, and Andorf, who should have been surprised, not only did not feel sad at all, but also nibbled on potato chips and hugged a beer bottle and laughed, as if watching a soap opera.
laughed not because he was ruthless to that old friend of wine and meat, wishing he had gone to the west as soon as possible, but because Qu Zhaodi was not afraid of heaven and earth, as long as he had the ability, he could even poke a hole in the sky, it was absolutely possible to do such a big thing that shocked the world, and he would definitely not die after doing it.
Jumping into the river? I'm afraid the Chinese news media doesn't know yet, right? Even if this kid jumps into Lake Geneva in the winter, he can make several rounds of ice swimming. If he really has a hundred ambitions, why doesn't he simply slash his neck with a knife, or break his head with a shot?
"Bastard, tell me what do you want me to do? There is a mainframe in the No. 8 monitoring room, and I have to rush over immediately! Andorf greeted his college parents rudely, and Bastard seemed to have really become Qu Zhaodi's English name.
"What? Do the big thing of saving all mankind and deceiving aliens, just say you can't help me. Qu Zhaodi put the glass bottle on the table and dialed it in front of Andorf with his foot in large leather shoes.
Under normal circumstances, Andorf should laugh it off when he heard this, but in fact he didn't mean to joke at all, but asked in horror and suspicion: "You guy! You don't really see those things, do you? ”
"Cut! Nonsense! Qu Zhaodi's hand waved into the air, like chasing mosquitoes, "In the astrophysics laboratory where Dr. Duven stayed at Stanford, didn't I show you the records that implied his research on the dark matter of the universe?" If he hadn't naively believed in my father and revealed to him what optical and magnetic technology, how could my inhuman Lao Tzu have the ability to summon the Black Mother and use the Black Mother to make a fortune from the people of the world? Andorf, let me tell you, I sprinkle his money out like sand, and I can't call it a luxury loser, but I can only say that I will pay it back, and return the money he has been abducted to society in the form of consumption. ”
"Why do you always find noble reasons for the bad things you do, you shameless bastard?" Andorf couldn't laugh or cry.
Qu Zhaodi looked at the ceiling with his eyes and rocked his chair lazily, "Don't talk nonsense, my unparalleled smart brain has also encountered difficulties, such as now." Only you can solve this difficulty, and you should not miss this honor. Maybe a hundred years from now, you'll be remembered like Conan Doyle's Watson. ”
Andolph scratched the red hair on his head, smirked and asked, "Why can't I be Sherlock Holmes?" ”
Qu Zhaodi laughed when he heard this, and almost rolled over from his chair on his back, "It's up to you?" Brain melon seeds are like a solid white radish, what can compare to Sherlock Holmes? Besides, you're going to be Sherlock Holmes, so where will you put your boss and me? ”
Andorf's face was demented, proving that Qu Zhaodi did not belittle him, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll be Watson, but you still haven't told me, what are you going to do?" ”