In fact, Lu Zhou's intuition is indeed accurate.

However, it was not because he had guessed some terrible scientific facts.

But this observation did cause them a lot of trouble.

An unexplained physical phenomenon is not terrible, but if it conflicts with the foundations of modern physics, then the implications behind it are somewhat extraordinary.

After leaving the toilet for a while, Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the toilet, entered a pure white system space and came to the light blue holographic screen.

"System, open the taskbar!"

It's almost the same as the last time you encountered an urgent mission.

A lock has been added to the upper right corner of the "Earth-Moon Mastery" quest chain, and below it, an additional taskbar has been added with an icon specific to urgent missions.

[Urgent Mission: Call of the Void (Danger Level:?) ）】

[Explanation: The path to the search for truth is not always easy, and there are too many endless and mysteries hidden in the vast universe that we do not understand. Be sure to listen to its call, even if it doesn't always mean enlightenment......]

[Requirements: To solve the invasion of alien species, the means that can be taken include but are not limited to:

(1) The Great Spirit of the Universe guides us forward. (Idealism +10)

(2) Causes must have effects, there is no perceptual language in the universe, only truth will always exist. (Materialism +10)

(3) Those who have achieved great things are not informal, and now is not the time to solve the problem, we can put aside the dispute for the time being. (Authoritarianism +10)

(4) Clear, Eliminate (Swarm Awareness +10)

】

【Reward: ??? 】

Lu Zhou: "??? ”

From the beginning to the end of the task list, the expression on Lu Zhou's face at the moment was even more confused than the three question marks in the task reward column.

Also, what is "clear, exterminate"?

Does that mean killing all the physicists who discovered the problem?

Of course, what made him even more curious was what that swarm consciousness was, which he didn't seem to have seen before.

In addition to that, there is the "spirit of the universe......

Thinking that a similar translation seemed to have appeared in the memory of the Jialan Empire, Lu Zhou couldn't help frowning and fell into deep thought.

Is this so-called spirit of the universe a unified translation of the "omnipotent" of the self-proclaimed "observer" of the void civilization to the "omnipotent one" in the religions and cultural forms of various civilizations in the universe, or does it mean that there is indeed a certain higher consciousness called "spirit of the universe" in this universe......

Just like the "omnipotent" higher civilization, it dominates a corner of the universe in some form, or a part of the matter and laws, and even becomes a part of nature itself.

If only there was a way to learn the language of the Void Civilization.

When looking at research materials, the most taboo thing is to chew on something that someone else has eaten and spit out, especially something like translation. 、

Of course, compared to some mysterious existence, Lu Zhou is still more inclined to understand the concept of "cosmic spirit" from the perspective of physics.

Even after seeing the results of such experiments, it did shake the edifice in his heart a little......

"Doesn't that seem too unscientific?"

Looking at Lu Zhou, who had returned to the office from outside, Luo Wenxuan, who was holding a coffee cup, said, "If our observations are objectively correct, the edifice of physics may be completely torn down by us." ”

The conservation of mass and energy is to physics what Piano's axiom is to mathematics.

If someone says that mass and energy can be created out of thin air, it is tantamount to saying such a ridiculous thing as 1+1=3, and even a schoolboy can laugh at him.

However, the results of the experiment were so dazzling that the mass increase was 53%. In short, when two lead ions collide with 1 unit of energy, the energy of 2.53 lead ions is generated.

Where does the energy of the extra 0.53 lead ions come from?

Nobody knows.

They also did not observe any signs of interference.

It's as if something supernatural happened.

Hearing Senior Brother Luo's emotion, Lu Zhou, who had regained his composure, spoke calmly.

"The edifice of physics has been toppled countless times, and this one is no worse. But most of the people who come up with the idea that 'this is not scientific' don't even understand what 'science' is. ”

Luo Wenxuan: "...... I could hear your mockery of me in the last sentence. ”

"Your delusion, I never mock anyone," ignoring the helpless expression on Senior Brother Luo's face, Lu Zhou paused and continued, "In addition, I actually prefer the explanation of 'there is something else hidden'. ”

"What's going on?" Luo Wenxuan raised his eyebrows, and there was obvious interest in his eyes, "So there are aliens interfering with our physical experiments?" Water droplets? ”

As if he was worried that Lu Zhou didn't get his own stalk, Luo Wenxuan then gestured with his finger again,

"I don't know if you've seen it, I mean...... The kind inside the three-body problem. ”

Looking at him with caring eyes, Lu Zhou said patiently.

"It's a possibility, and I can't rule it out until we catch at least one alien and interrogate it...... But it must be pointed out that the likelihood of such a thing happening is probably as small as our understanding of this universe. If they can do this kind of thing, and have the motivation to do it, then they have at least a hundred more efficient ways to take us back to the Stone Age. ”

Luo Wenxuan shrugged helplessly.

"I'm just kidding to liven up the atmosphere—"

Interrupting his words, Lu Zhou said seriously.

"In any case, we need more experimental data."

"Whether it's because of aliens, or because of some great being, or because of the truth of the universe that we don't understand, its appearance has indeed subverted our understanding of this universe."

"I still believe that mass and energy don't come into being in a vacuum, and that something must be interfering with our experiments...... And now, all we have to do is prove it and give it a reasonable explanation! ”

"It's not a joke, you should understand why I say that."

looked at Lu Zhou with a serious face in silence, and after a long while, Luo Wenxuan sighed softly, picked up the coffee cup and took a sip.

After a pause, he put away the frivolity in his tone and spoke.

"Do you want to make the results of the study public?"

After spending a full half a minute thinking about this issue, Lu Zhou finally nodded.

"Let's make it public."

"We need more good brains involved."

……

On the first Tuesday of early May, an extraordinary event occurred in the international physics community.

The latest research results published by IMCRC show that during the collision experiment in the 5.12~5.22Tev energy region, the collision lead ions did not have a "mass loss" as expected, but an unexpected "mass expansion".

The news has broken out, which immediately caused an uproar in the international physics community.

There is no other reason, because such a result has violated the "common sense" of physics.

In fact, this is not the first time that a collision experiment with lead ions has been carried out for a long time, and the collision material used in CERN's "Big Bang" simulation has been lead ions for a long time, but no one has ever turned the collision energy to such a high level.

Therefore, no one thought that such a result would be obtained.

The impact of this news on the physics community is no less than that in the second half of 2011, when CERN announced in a press release that Oprah researchers had discovered that neutrinos were moving 0.0025% faster than the speed of light during neutrino experiments.

And that incident happened for almost half a year before the resignation of Hereditato, the leader of the "Oprah" research team.

When they saw this, many people must have been surprised that such an oolong had happened in the temple of physics like CERN, and how idiots the members of this research team must be.

After all, even junior high school students know that nothing can exceed the speed of light.

However, in fact, scientific research does not follow the dogmatic logic of "examination".

First of all, the faster-than-light oolong is not the first case, as early as around 06, Fermilab's "Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search" (MINOS) project also found signs of neutrinos faster than the speed of light, but because the results are not statistically significant, they have not been recognized by the physics community.

Secondly, the researchers of "Oprah" did not believe the results of their experiments at first.

They even spent months checking the equipment and repeating the experiment in order to prove themselves wrong, but unfortunately, they still couldn't find where the problem was.

Against this background, they finally "bravely" published the results of the experiment, hoping to leave the issue to the entire physics community to judge.

In the end, there was such a big news.

Interestingly, there are subtle differences in the attitudes of scientists across the world towards this discovery – that is, not everyone completely believes that the conclusions of the Oprah project are wrong.

For example, many Japanese researchers engaged in research in this field expressed "confidence", while the statements of Chinese scientists were more ambiguous, or they were more adept at using the art of language to respond: "The study of the possibility of faster-than-light should start from the essence." ”

Replacing this sentence with "the weather is nice today" does not have any sense of disobedience.

As for the British and American physicists, they generally hold a resolute negative attitude.

Perhaps the most striking of these is Jim Ekari, a physicist at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.

In an interview, he directly and publicly declared - "If CERN's experiment proves to be right, neutrinos exceed the speed of light, then I will eat my boxer on live TV." ”

It can be seen that the poisonous oath of "eating something" is not an uncommon thing in the academic world.

In any case, that farce ended in an oolong.

The head of the Icarus project repeated the experiment, saying that the results they measured were exactly the same as Einstein's estimates, and finally rejected the results of Oprah.

As for the cause of the error, some say that the optical fiber cable between the GPS receiver and the computer is loose, and some say that the oscillator line is not properly connected, which causes the error, but what it is may only be known by the neutrino itself.

And now, something similar is happening again.

And it is not just the theory of relativity that is shaken, but something closer to the foundation of the edifice of physics.

It is conceivable that the entire physics community has to be like because of this incident......

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