It was definitely a significant day for the physics community.

From this day on, human civilization has broadened the radius of thinking to areas outside the universe in a real sense, and has broadened its cognition of the world by another dimension.

The changes brought to society may not be as direct as a high-speed train or a space shuttle, but the value hidden behind it cannot be estimated with money or goods.

"He saved us."

Looking at the papers downloaded from the IMCRC official website database, Professor Steven Weinberg was full of praise and said, "The extra dimension beyond the n-dimension, the lake of reflection in the lake...... This metaphor is simply too graphic! ”

"I guess your next sentence is it, but that's what I think too?" With a cup of coffee in his hand, Professor Permar, who had just returned from Shanghai, said with a smile.

"That's exactly what I thought!" Seeing his old friend looking at him with a smirk, Professor Weinberg blushed and coughed dryly, "Don't look at me like that...... You know, that's what I said before this presentation! ”

He didn't lie about that.

As one of the few overt atheists among Jewish physicists, Steven Weinberg was firmly on the side of material determinism from the very beginning, and proposed a special dimension to summarize this phenomenon of mass expansion.

Just as physics added an additional fifth dimension to the relativistic equation in order to explain the electromagnetic force, the expanding mass may have moved from the n+1 dimension outside the event horizon (assuming the observable limit is n-dimensional).

This idea actually coincides with Lu Zhou, but the only difference is that he can't prove his idea.

It's actually easy to come up with a conjecture, Arxiv will give birth to more science fiction brain holes than the science fiction world every day, but there are very few of them that can be logically self-consistent, and most of them will be reduced to "minority reports" because they cannot be proved experimentally.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhou not only explained the inevitability of the existence of this n+1 dimension in a mathematical sense, but also proved this disturbance in an experimental sense—it is not a disordered behavior without boundaries.

For physics, they discovered a "new continent" that was larger than the universe.

For world politics......

Maybe they should think about the threat that might lurk in the Void?

After all, no matter how you look at it, this sieve doesn't look like it was put in front of them out of kindness.

But of course, Weinberg didn't have much hope.

This may be a reason for the IMCRC to ask governments for money, after all, people are creatures who crave privacy, and no one likes to have something unclean next to them to snoop on them, but most likely no government will be interested in something more boring than "global warming".

Even if such a crisis exists, it is too far away.

Maybe when the sun goes out, it won't necessarily come......

“…… There is no doubt that the Nobel Committee owes him a Nobel Prize, and as I have said a long time ago, he feels worthy of this honor, which I suggested to them when the unified theory of strong electricity appeared. However, those old-eyed stubborn donkeys still gave the prize to something inexplicable, as if they didn't see it. ”

Listening to the scolding of his old friend, Perlmutter coughed dryly: "I can't say that, no matter how award-winning research is, it is definitely not inexplicable...... And in fact, as I understand it, Professor Klitzing writes to the Nobel Prize Committee every year nominating his name. ”

"I'll write this year, too," Weinberg muttered, tossing his finished paper on the table, "and no one deserves this honor more than him, I mean no one." ”

As if he didn't think that was convincing enough, he added it later.

"Of course, that includes myself, too."

……

Just two weeks after the experimental data was released, a paper titled "The Void and the World on Extra Strings" was published on the IMCRC's website.

After the paper was released, the number of downloads exceeded 100,000 times in less than half an hour.

At the same time, the same paper was published in Future and reprinted in major journals. Nature and Science, in particular, even set it up with highlights and put it on the cover of the latest issue.

Among them, the most eye-catching is probably the brief review of this paper written by Professor Weinberg, a well-known scholar in the field of physics, in the "Quick Review of Physics".

As a Nobel laureate in 1979, Professor Weinberg's influence in the physics community can be said to be quite large. If only the status of physics is considered, even Edward Witten is slightly inferior to him.

Whether it is the unified theory of weak electricity, or the scattering of mesons, infrared photons, quantum gravity, and the discovery of the Z boson, these things that have laid the foundation of modern physics are not comparable to the conjecture theory of string theory. His paper on the Z boson, in particular, was the most cited until 2010.

If you have to rank the existing physicists, he is also a scholar in the same sequence as Yang and Anderson.

It is precisely for this reason that this paper published in the "Quick Review of Physics" has aroused a lot of heated discussions in the entire physics community and even the world academic community......

[To the physics community, "void" is undoubtedly an unfamiliar concept. Either the extra strings that run through the universe or the observations from outside the universe may sound too mysterious, but logically it is self-consistent and experimentally tested. 】

[The mass has never decayed, but someone has sprinkled a handful of sand in front of us, and these masses from the n+1 dimension have broken our perception of the original universe, and also allowed our vision to enter a field that we have never understood. 】

As we can see, there are still many mysteries in this universe that we still don't know about, and after that, we will continue to search tirelessly. 】

[This is probably also the greatest revelation that the Void has brought us. 】

If there really is something there staring at us, whether it is well-intentioned or not, we should at least respond to their expectations in some way. Both for the sake of the universe and for ourselves. 】

Just when the entire physics community was in a state of surprise and excitement because of the discovery of "Void" and "Extra Dimension", Lu Zhou, who had returned to Jinling from Shanghai, was completely relaxed.

The turmoil in physics and the controversy surrounding the "mass expansion effect" finally settled with the birth of the extradimensional theory.

Even though, he still had some doubts in his mind.

For example, it is logical that there should be no void of matter, but how does it project mass onto the universe in the n-dimension? And what is the substance that is released?

This series of problems is still unexplained by existing theories.

But one way or another, the immediate troubles are over.

For those edifices destined to be completed by future generations, all he can do is to put forward some possible conjectures, or brain holes, for those successors.

For example, just like the observer civilization, before entering the void, a fragment belonging to the old universe was preserved in a special way, and the entire civilization was curled up in it.

Or, in some way, the positive and negative matter are generated at the same time, sinking the antimatter into the endless void and projecting the positive matter into the new universe......

However, no matter what kind of speculation it is, it is too difficult to verify it with current technical means.

Even in terms of difficulty itself, it is no more difficult to prove these things than to prove or falsify the existence of the spirit of the universe......

Back at Zhongshan International's home, after Lu Zhou finished washing, the first thing he did was to lie on the soft bed.

Although the place where he lives these days is not bad, it can't be compared to the feeling of his own home.

Closing his eyes, Lu Zhou emptied his consciousness.

It was at this moment that he finally heard the heavenly voice from the depths of the void.

And, I saw the line of pale blue dialog boxes that appeared in the field of vision—

[Congratulations to the host, complete the urgent mission!] 】

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