The meeting is over.

Striding out the door of the conference room, Professor Whittle whispered a curse with an indignant look on his face.

"This dubbin referee! Just shut the council out. ”

No one had ever dared to ignore his opinion in a similar position at CERN before, yet during his year on the IMCRC Board of Governors, he tasted frustration that was almost equal to the sum of his past forty years of life,

Walking beside him, Professor Fernando, the director of the British Mission in IMCRC, hesitated slightly, and said: "Actually, I think ...... There is some truth in what he said. ”

Looking at Professor Fernando in disbelief, Whittle said in disbelief, "I can't believe it...... Do you think he made sense? ”

Shrugging his shoulders, Professor Fernando continued.

"In the absence of a better option, it's better to do something than to waste time on meaningless arguments. And, as he said, few people can fully understand his proof process. If we are to wait until the physics community generally accepts his views, and then we can verify that he is right, we may have to wait until five years or even more in the future. ”

Professor Whittle was puzzled, "Don't you think doubt is a necessary procedure?" ”

"Skepticism is of course a necessary procedure, and we should remain skeptical at all times, but only if the skepticism is meaningful, such as if there is a hole in his paper that cannot be simply patched. You or I question it, and he explains it...... But now, we clearly don't have such conditions. ”

Looking at Professor Whittle as he lost his thoughts, Professor Fernando continued.

"Since he can prove himself through experiments, what's the difference?"

"Think about it, what a blessing it is to have a reliable leader in front."

……

The closed session of the IMCRC has ended.

The results of the discussions were also announced to the global media in a subsequent press conference.

And this time, IMCRC has once again shocked the world.

On the same day, the Wall Street Journal published this surprising news with a picture of a spark with the five letters IMCRC written on it.

[According to the results of the meeting, IMCRC will launch an experimental rocket equipped with a "Z-particle clock" to Mars synchronous orbit in the near future to test the correctness of the hyperspace theory. 】

[If this experiment is successful, it may mean that interstellar travel in light years is possible!] 】

From an objective point of view, in fact, this statement is still a bit too optimistic.

Even if the experiment is successful, it is only theoretically possible to achieve the speed of light through the hyperspace channel, and it is almost hopeless to maintain a stable hyperspace channel and transmit a spacecraft weighing tens or even hundreds of tons through this channel.

In fact, let alone maintaining a stable hyperspace channel, so far, the research on Z particles has only stayed on a few detectors of the Lunar Hadron Collider, and the physics community does not even have the technology to preserve or stably produce Z particles.

But having said that, if you only let the Z-particles appear for a short time and sustain the duration of a physics experiment, there are still many alternative solutions.

Like what.

High power laser!

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

In a spacious factory.

Dumbfounded as he looked at the experimental equipment in front of him, Professor Davick opened and closed his mouth wide for a long time before speaking in a difficult tone.

"It's ...... What is it? ”

It was a round metal ball about two people tall, and on the surface of the spherical shell you could see fist-sized rivets exposed, as well as various pipes and joints.

Structurally, it bears a strong resemblance to the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which has been swept into the graves of history.

In fact, it is indeed designed based on a similar technical philosophy. The only difference is that it's not designed to simulate a nuclear explosion, but to produce Z-particles.

"Z-particle clock, we can use it to generate Z particles," looking at the metal dome, Lu Zhou's face showed a slightly smug smile, narrowed his eyes and continued, "Although it has a series of shortcomings such as being expensive and not recyclable, it is definitely reliable enough. ”

According to his calculations, only when two lead ions collide with an energy of 1.25 Tev can the Z particle release 750 Gev of energy from a high dimension into the three-dimensional space – that is, the Z particle that produces oscillations.

After the device is activated, it can generate energy comparable to that of a star in a very small reaction chamber, so as to accumulate the lead core located in the center of the reaction chamber, and push the ionized lead ions to collide violently in friction and extrusion, so that Z particles continue to fall from high to low dimensions.

Since all of its energy is released within a minute, the massive heat destroys the device itself while producing Z-particles and disturbing the gravitational field, so the device is essentially scrapped after an experiment.

By the way, the cost of this equipment is about 200 million yuan.

And in one experiment, about two will be consumed.

Such a money-burning physics experiment can only be done by IMCRC.

"But...... I still don't understand, how did you make this thing in such a short period of time? Looking at Lu Zhou, Professor Davik said in an incredulous tone, "From the end of the meeting to the present...... It's only been less than two weeks, hasn't it? ”

Arguably, this was what surprised him the most.

If it took him a year to build, he probably wouldn't be surprised. But two weeks is too exaggerated.

"Because of the strong industrial capacity of the high-tech park, as well as the ...... Our smart manufacturing concept. As long as the materials are available and the processing conditions are met, the park can turn drawings into reality in a very short time, just like a 3D printer. After a pause, Lu Zhou continued, "As for the design work, I had already done it earlier. ”

For the former chief designer of controlled fusion engineering, designing a laser ignition device is not a difficult task. Especially now that his engineering level is LV7, it is not the same as it was back then.

Regardless of Davik, who was so shocked that he couldn't speak, Professor Wei, who was standing next to him, hadn't said a word since he stepped into this factory.

Staring at the Z-particle clock for a long time, he restrained the shocked expression on his face and said with emotion.

"If this Z-particle clock really does it...... The whole world will be changed by it. ”

"Maybe," Lu Zhou smiled, "but my expectations for it are more in the future." ”

Wei Hong: "When are you going to send it to Mars?" ”

Lu Zhou thought for a moment and spoke.

"The launch program will be launched before the end of the month."

"If all goes well."

"I want to get it done before the Chinese New Year!"