Walk into the café.

Sitting down by the window, Lu Zhou motioned for Wang Peng to wait for him next to him, and then looked at Professor Miro, who was sitting opposite.

"Would you like something to drink?"

"As long as it's ice."

Lu Zhou nodded, then looked at the waiter and ordered two cups of iced coffee.

Then he turned his gaze to Professor Miró and asked.

"To be honest, I don't really understand how the mass expansion of 53 has to do with the cosmic spirit in your mouth?"

"You're the first person to ask me this question," Professor Miró continued, giving Lu Zhou a somewhat surprised look, "and the first reaction of most people is that I'm talking crazy and babbling about some mysterious and unreliable theories. ”

"There is no essential difference between my opinion and theirs," Lu Zhou shrugged his shoulders and continued, "My curiosity is purely about the connection between the two. ”

Professor Miró didn't speak immediately, but groped around for a while.

This action made Wang Peng, who was standing next to him, highly nervous for a while, and his right hand couldn't help but put it into his purse.

However, the professor from the United States did not make any unusual moves, but only took out a sticky note and a pen from his inner pocket.

"Since you're best at math, I'll use math proofs to show you."

Watching his movements with interest, Lu Zhou made a gesture of please.

"I agree with you, seeing may be false, but math certainly doesn't lie."

Without commenting on this sentence, Professor Miró used the pen in his hand to quickly write down a line of equations on the sticky note.

04123

"This is the mass of the nucleon obtained by extrapolation of chirals, 08801112 is the mass square of the meson"

Taking his coffee from the servant's hand, Lu Zhou said calmly.

"So what? I'm not here to listen to you about quantum chromodynamics. ”

"Don't worry, I'm just trying to confirm the basic concepts so that I can better explain my point."

Professor Miró cleared his throat and continued, "According to this line of formulation, it is clear that the vast majority of the mass of visible matter in the universe can be explained by pure quantum chromodynamics without introducing quark mass, except for part 7, which may come from the Standard Model, perhaps from statistical error, but this is not a big problem. ”

Lu Zhou nodded, without any indication, just quietly waiting for him to continue.

"However, recent experiments have completely overturned all my previous speculations. Just when I thought that a collision of higher energy levels would reveal the secret of this part of the 7 to us, we were shocked to find that the 7 was gone. ”

"Not only that, but we even have 53 more masses of unexplained sources in our observation system!"

"Surprising, isn't it? It makes sense that we should have seen less than what it actually had. However, the truth is that we see more than it actually has, in a proportion that cannot be ignored! ”

"Think about it, we can only conserve both sides of the equation by introducing a particle with negative mass. The originally perfect universe is like a piece of plasticine, pinched in an invisible hand, kneaded at will"

"Perfection is just a subjective judgment," Lu Zhou interrupted him, saying, "I never thought that the universe was perfect. ”

"Really? Haha, maybe! What if I told you that I saw that ghost, it would be weird to say that, and I don't think it would do you any good other than make you think I'm crazy. ”

Isn't it?

Lu Zhou subconsciously had such confusion in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.

His gaze stayed on Lu Zhou's face, which did not change much expression, for a few seconds, and Professor Miró suddenly lowered his head quickly, and hurriedly wrote a few lines of calculations and handwriting on the paper.

After doing all this, he then carefully folded it and stuffed it in front of Lu Zhou.

"Bold assumptions and careful verification are the lessons that we can draw from history as physics has advanced to this day. Just as we perceive gravity in a falling apple, scientific thinking frees us from ignorance, learns to summarize the laws of development and makes us forget our own insignificance. ”

"You know what?"

"This universe is like a game that has been designed, and more than not, it responds to our expectations. Until one day, the parameters we input to it finally exceed its threshold, and it finally can't respond to our expectations of it. All scientific theories have collapsed at this singularity, and there is no longer any law in the development of all matter. ”

"Collisions above 5 shatter not only the balance of mass, but also the entire physics."

Lu Zhou looked at him silently.

He probably knew now why this gifted young scholar had fallen into a state of paranoia and even madness.

Physics is the study of the most general laws of the motion of matter and the basic structure of matter, and now their discoveries are revealing to them that the universe is in fact irregular.

It wouldn't be so alarming if it was just a physical theorem that was overturned, but it clearly touched something closer to the source.

This is what is called truth itself.

This small boat exploring the truth of the universe is being dragged into a swamp by an invisible hand.

By now, Lu Zhou finally understood why this matter had developed to the extent that the system had to come forward and issue him an urgent mission.

To be honest, if he hadn't heard the voice from the other side of the void, he would have been even more overwhelmed than Professor Miro at this moment.

"The universe itself is irregular, and our ignorance and smallness make us wishful thinking that the sky we see at the bottom of the well is the whole of the sky."

"It's as if there is an invisible ghost hovering in this universe that plucks an apple from a tree, reaches out and strangles Schrödinger's cat, so that light can be particles or waves, manipulating everything as it pleases, while we still want to explain its behavior with some lame and self-righteous theory."

Saying something chilling to himself, Professor Miro's bloodshot pupils suddenly widened a little.

With his index finger tapping lightly on the small note, he lowered his voice.

"That's my prediction, esteemed Professor Lu."

"There is no pattern to the mass expansion of the high-energy zone, and we have been doing a very stupid thing for the past half century."

"We'll start experimenting again in half a month, and soon you'll prove me right."

"All of this was arranged."

After saying this, Professor Miró propped his hands on the table, took steps that he did not recognize, and stumbled away under the surprised gazes of countless people.

It was evident that the results of that experiment hit him hard.

Both in a spiritual sense and in a physical sense.

After finishing the meeting with Professor Miro, Lu Zhou returned to the car and sat in the back seat without saying a word, looking at the sticky notes in his hand, as if thinking about something.

Glancing at Lu Zhou through the rearview mirror, Wang Peng hesitated for a moment and spoke.

"What the hell is that professor?"

"Faith collapsed."

Wang Peng: "? ”

Lu Zhou: "If one day I tell you that everything in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even Chinese from your childhood to college is actually fake, how would you feel?" ”

Although it was not the first time that Professor Lu had asked such a strange question, and he had long been accustomed to it, this time it seemed to be more difficult to understand than usual.

Wang Peng thought for a while, and a subtle expression appeared on his face.

"I can't imagine that no matter how I say it, the language can't be fake."

"I'm just giving you a popular example, after all, you haven't studied quantum chromodynamics systematically, and you haven't spent most of your life writing papers to reveal what nature is like people."

Sighing softly, Lu Zhou thought for a while and continued.

"Let me give you another example, suppose that one day the person you admire the most goes from a saint to a demon who does all kinds of evil, or something like that, and pushes the world to the brink of destruction."

Wang Peng said almost without hesitation.

"It can't be."

"Really?" Lu Zhou shrugged noncommittally, "I also don't think it's possible. But you should be able to think about what kind of disaster it could mean for you if something like this happens. ”

"This is what Professor Miró is facing, what he has always thought is impossible, and which he has steadfastly enshrined as an article of faith, is happening right before his eyes."

"Everything that has been studied in the past two decades has become waste paper, and physics and life have lost their meaning."

"In that sense, sometimes science is more than just thought."

"At the same time, it's also a kind of faith."

Professor Miró was suspended.

This is also the advice of doctors.

Either way, his current state is not well suited to participate in research.

In particular, he has affected not only himself, but also others in the project team.

Originally, Lu Zhou thought that in the face of such a situation, it might make this young genius feel unacceptable.

However, to his surprise, after hearing the advice given for treatment, he was unexpectedly calm, and even when he packed up his things and left the office, the expression on his face was extremely relaxed.

"It's good that I finally have the time to plan the trip I've always wanted to start."

After leaving these words, he said goodbye to his colleagues one by one and left his office.

Out of some concern, Lu Zhou paid special attention to Professor Xiamiro's situation. Interestingly, the physics professor did not leave Shanghai immediately, but still lived in the bachelor apartment prepared for him.

It seems that he is not so sure about his guesses, and seems to be planning to wait until the end of the next experiment to see if he is right.

However, this also made Lu Zhou feel even more uneasy.

Because it means that all his conclusions are made in a state of sobriety.

At the same time, Lu Zhou also noticed that during this period of suspension, the professor Miró has been updating his blog. Objectively evaluated, his writing style is really good, and he can show boring physics theories in an easy-to-understand form, so he has also gained a lot of fans or believers.

In this way, in the turmoil of the whole physics, half a month passed.

Finally, the next experiment cycle came.

This time, Lu Zhou personally stood at the scene of the ground command center.

Not for some necessary academic purpose, he just wanted to use his own eyes to confirm whether all this was just a bizarre oolong or a discovery that really subverted physics.

The fist clenched and loosened, pacing back and forth in the hall of the ground command center several times, and finally, he waited for the moment when the results were in.

And the data presented on the screen also made him subconsciously open his eyes.

That strange scene has reappeared!

After the collision of two lead ions in the high-energy region, instead of losing mass, a part of it was overgained!

There was an uproar in the ground command center, and the people's eyes widened in disbelief, exchanging suspicious glances, and talking quietly, nervously, and even excitedly.

The expression on Lu Zhou's face was quite calm, but slightly stiff.

It was the first time he felt that the situation was so tricky.

Subconsciously put his hand into his pocket, he took out the sticky note paper from his pocket and unfolded it.

Looking at the content above, he whispered a sentence.

"You guessed it."

The extra mass is no longer 053 lead ions.

Rather, 071 pcs.

It's not all.

The data collected by the four detectors through unhindered experiments is surprisingly well coherent