The lecture hall was crowded, and at a glance there were about 800 people.

This is almost the top mind and the most authoritative scholar in the field of high-energy physics.

Not only the researchers who work at IMCRC, but also the physics gurus who have traveled from other countries.

All were unexpectedly aligned in purpose.

The purpose is to figure out where and what does the results of the inflated mass and the results of the experiments that subvert the Standard Model come from, and what does it mean......

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, took a slow sip, and then cast his eyes on the lecture table.

"Thank you for the seat you left me, there are so many people here...... I almost even got lost outside. ”

Glancing sideways at the old man sitting next to him, Professor Witten raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't expect you to come."

The old man smiled, gave him a "what else" look, and continued to look at the report table.

"How could I have missed such an interesting thing? Perhaps today, the rules of physics will be rewritten, and our horizons will expand by a whole dimension to areas that we cannot perceive...... What could be more exciting than that? ”

Anyone who hears this will be surprised.

Not so much because of the content of the sentence, but because of the person who said it.

Sitting next to Professor Witten at the moment is none other than Professor Salpermatt from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

People who don't know much about physics may not have heard of this name, but in fact he is also an amazing physicist.

As the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 and the provator of the theory of "accelerated expansion of the universe", he is quite famous in both the astrophysic and high-energy physics communities.

Witten glanced at him and said thoughtfully, "It seems that you believe in that extra-dimensional theory. ”

"The question is not whether I believe it, but whether he can give a logically self-consistent proof of whether his conclusions are correct. Didn't we also dismiss string theory in the beginning? Although this trend is slowly starting to start now......"

Seeing that the expression on Witten's face was a little carelessly pleasant, Professor Perlmutter smiled and hurriedly turned the topic aside without a trace.

"Speaking of which, I'm curious to know what you think about this. You haven't made an opinion until now, and that's really ...... It's so unlike you."

"Shh

Professor Witten interrupted Professor Perlmutter's chatter with a sudden gesture of silence, and then pointed with his index finger in the direction of the platform.

"The answer you want is there."

"It's already started."

……

At the moment when the hour hand passed ten o'clock.

The originally noisy venue was quieted down as if it had been silenced.

Fidgeting at the front of the lecture hall, Fernando looked at Lu Zhou on the stage with a displeased expression, wanting to do something for his faith.

However, the policeman who sat next to him didn't look easy to mess with, and the handcuffs pinned to his waist, invisibly exuded an invisible coercion, so that he didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary.

At this time, Lu Zhou, who was standing on the stage, glanced around the entire lecture hall and said in a steady voice.

"We are saddened by the departure of Professor Miró."

"We have lost a good scholar and a comrade-in-arms."

"I know that his death may have touched a lot of people...... And that includes me as well. ”

Looking at the venue where there was a lot of discussion, Lu Zhou didn't say anything, just opened the stack of scratch paper on the multimedia lectern, spent about ten seconds sorting out the ideas for speaking, and then spoke.

"I may not have been touched by many of you."

"What struck me was not that the wisdom we are proud of is vulnerable to the vastness of the universe, but that our will may be weaker than we imagined in the face of its coming."

"Allow me to introduce the concept of 'willpower' on this occasion that should not be here. Because as we all see, and are feeling, the edifice that we have spent centuries building is on the verge of collapse at the slightest hint of the wind. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, turned to face the whiteboard, and wrote a line of calculations on it with the marker pen in his hand.

【mn=m0-4c1mπ2+o(mπ3)】

Stopping his pen, Lu Zhou turned to face the meeting hall where there was a lot of ear-to-ear talking.

"This is where trouble begins."

"It is also the source of all contradictions."

"Normally, we can use the mass of the nucleon obtained by the chiral extrapolation method, and explain the source of the mass inside the vast majority of nucleons with the help of a supercomputer through the quantum lattice calculation method."

"Yet to this day, we still have a lot of things that we can't explain...... The mass of this part is about 7% so much. ”

Writing this number on the whiteboard, Lu Zhou continued to look at the commotion venue, "And now, because of the collision experiment of more than 5 TEV, this number has swelled to 53%, or even 71%, like a string of disordered garbled characters, our physics seems to be swallowed up by an invisible black hole." ”

"In order to explain this phenomenon, we have to introduce a new concept."

As he spoke, Lu Zhou reached out and wrote a letter n on the whiteboard.

Then, a "+1" was written after it.

"n is the whole dimension that makes up our current universe, what we can parse is 11, and there are also 13, maybe in the distant future this number will be broadened to infinity as our horizons increase, but all this is not important for the time being......"

"What we're going to talk about now is the N+1 dimension."

"Beyond 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 within a wall, a lake of reflections within a lake, and all the dimensions that can be observed by us will be confined at one point and released at the same time. ”

"In a normal sense, its existence usually does not affect us, unless...... Something on the other side of our horizon has touched this string."

"Or to put it more generally, it reached out and opened the box and observed us."

Looking at the lecture hall that gradually spread the sound of surprise, looking at Professor Witten and other old friends who were deep in thought, and looking at the tide of faces. Red Fernando, Lu Zhou retracted his gaze and looked at the equation on the whiteboard.

After a pause, he continued.

"Because of the observations from the Void, the superposition collapsed."

The discussion in the lecture hall became more and more boiling.

Because it sounds a little too bizarre.

Finally, someone couldn't help it and stood up.

"Why 5tev?"

"That's a good question."

Looking at the young scholar who stood up to ask a question, Lu Zhou snapped his fingers, threw an encouraging look at him with a worried face, and motioned for him to sit down first.

Then, Lu Zhou glanced around the boiling lecture hall, raised his voice and continued.

"How do we identify whether an AI is truly an AI? This is a very abstract concept, so we invented the Turing test, and defined that the artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test is the real artificial intelligence, and the artificial intelligence that cannot pass the test is a pure machine. ”

"In the same way, how do we sift through a group of ants to find the smartest ones?"

"The method is very simple, it is enough to put some simple obstacles on them."

"I know it may sound a little crazy, but what I still have to say is that the 5TEV level collision experiment is like a sieve that sifts through the collection of all the civilizations in this universe."

"Mass never increases, but it moves from the n+1 dimension outside the universe to the n-dimension that makes up the universe. With this simple method, they were able to determine what was different from the ants in the area. ”

"At the same time, they are ...... through this sieve"

"Declared to us their presence."