[Shocked! IMCRC latest results, quality is no longer conserved! Perpetual motion machines may no longer be a false proposition! 】

Seeing this line of headlines, Lu Zhou almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood.

These media workers can always use all kinds of strange interpretations to tilt his nose again and again.

When did IMCRC say that mass is no longer conserved? Why haven't you heard of him, the chairman?

Is it so difficult to correctly understand the "abnormal mass inflation of the three sets of experimental data"?

Take 10,000 steps back, and even if the edifice of physics is overthrown, the perpetual motion machine must be a false proposition.

At least on Earth yes!

"Don't these people make a draft when they write these things?"

After reading a few lines and feeling spicy, Lu Zhou threw the newspaper into the trash can next to him with a disgusted face. He really took a look at this kind of report, and he felt that it was a waste of time.

"The paper media industry is sluggish, and it is normal to attract audiences through gimmicks......" Looking at Lu Zhou, who was actually idle and began to read the newspaper, Witten, who came here to visit the door, couldn't help but ask with interest, "How is it, do you have a clue?" ”

"Don't treat me like Tinker Bell or something, I don't know more about this than you do," sighed, Lu Zhou reached out to hold the mouse, clicked on the browser and logged in to the physics forum he was familiar with.

As he expected, the physics community exploded on the spot.

At least nine of the posts that were related to the discussion were expressions of disbelief.

First, a professor at Stanford University said that if it wasn't for the moonshot crash, he would have eaten boxers and a belt tied around his waist.

Although Lu Zhou is also very skeptical that there will be a problem with the collider, or the detector is broken at the same time, it is really difficult to believe this statement that the failure is so consistent.

Then a professor from Oxford University came forward, and his views were basically similar, but he did not suspect that there was a problem with the collider, but attributed the source of the error to a statistical problem, believing that the IMCRC researchers in charge of the project had made a big fuss, and the IMCRC should immediately set up an expert group to reanalyze the data collected by the detector.

On the other hand, there are already a lot of little-known professors on Arxiv who have begun to bet in advance on why this phenomenon will happen.

After all, theoretical physics is too difficult to get in.

This difficulty is not just academic.

There is also the sense of real life.

In addition, not only the physics community, but also the mathematics community has been affected.

Especially in forums like Mathoverflow, there are already many big names in the math community, who have begun to discuss with great interest whether if all this is true, will it bring some enlightenment to mathematics?

Lu Zhou didn't quite understand what this revelation meant.

Even if the mass is no longer conserved, it will not even be subverted that the universal algorithm of 1+1=2 will be subverted......

Probably not.

"I had been working at CERN for at least thirty years before coming to IMCRC, but this is the first time I've seen such a strange situation," walked to Lu Zhou's desk with a coffee cup, and Witten pondered for a while before speaking, "From a mathematician's point of view, where do you think that extra mass might come from?" ”

"I don't know, mathematics doesn't talk about what exists, but I do know that mass and energy can't be increased or subtracted out of thin air, unless ......"

Witten: "Unless? ”

"Unless it's from the other side of time......" After saying this, Lu Zhou opened his mouth, but quickly shook his head and rejected his guess, "This can't be...... This is even more impractical than an increase in mass and energy out of thin air. ”

Time is irreversible, and this is one of the fundamental theorems – or consensuses – of physics.

The curvature of space-time may change somewhere, but the direction it points in must be constant.

As for why this is said, it can be a little complicated to understand.

To understand this, we must first make it clear that, at least in the mainstream view of physics, time is not a "thing" and has nothing to do with the dimensions that make up the universe. Strictly speaking, it is a "scale" that appeared with the Big Bang, pointing to the end of the universe,

Although it cannot be ruled out that new discoveries will emerge in the future, redefining the concept of time.

But at least for now, Lu Zhou doesn't see any signs of that from the IMCRC's latest findings. It can even be said that instead of using the concept of time to explain this extra part of the mass, it is better to attribute it to the void -

Wait a minute!

Lu Zhou's eyes suddenly opened slightly.

Keenly capturing the change in the expression on Lu Zhou's face, Witten hurriedly asked.

"What do you think of?"

"A ...... Probably a little unrealistic possibility. ”

Witten joked: "More unreliable than string theory?" ”

"Possibly......" Lu Zhou thought for a while, "If, I say if, in addition to the n strings that make up the universe, there is a n+1 string, which does not belong to the universe as we know it, and runs through the life of the universe. It's like ...... It's a wall on the wall, a lake of reflections in the lake. ”

The second half of the sentence was heard by Lu Zhou from a "person".

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Witten raised his eyebrows.

"Looks like you're going to say weird things once in a while."

"Has anyone else said that?"

"Nash...... As you may know, he was a genius who was tormented by mental anguish, and I enjoyed discussing math with him even when he was alive. ”

"That's a shame."

"Straight to the point, about what you said...... I can't rule out the possibility, but just as we can't prove it too, there's no point in discussing this kind of thing. ”

After a pause, Witten continued, "The beginning of physics ends with the Big Bang, and there is no point in discussing anything before that except for imagination. It is the end of all science, and unless we can one day go beyond the box called the universe, we in the box will not have the slightest hope of seeing the ...... you are talking about."

"Void," looking at Witten, who was struggling with how to describe the concept, Lu Zhou preemptively spoke, "I'm going to call it that." ”

"The Void? It's an interesting name," Witten shrugged, "but like I said, it doesn't make any sense." ”

Does it really make no sense?

All morning, Lu Zhou was worried about this matter.

This is no longer scientific intuition.

It's that the title of the task itself already hints at it, where exactly the problem comes from. The root of all contradictions points to an extra dimension beyond the n-dimension, an existence that is older than the Big Bang and closer to eternity than time.

However, if he had written these things in his paper, there would have been suspicions that he had gone crazy at a young age.

Somehow, he suddenly felt a little sympathy for Einstein.

It is said that the old man's old age was quite "miserable", not only because of political suspicion and ostracism, but also because his beloved physics had abandoned him.

People respected him, but they no longer believed him, the aura of absolute authority of his youth had faded from him, just as the things he had calculated on the blackboard on his deathbed no longer had anyone able to understand, and people had long since stopped trying to penetrate the old man's almost deranged mental world, let alone care so much about what he said.

An advanced theory is acceptable, but if the span of a theory has risen to the level of delusion, I am afraid that no one will easily nod the head.

Maybe he really found something that would make such a ridiculous-sounding assertion that "everything was arranged".

However, only he can prove that he has indeed discovered something unusual......

Ate at noon.

Lu Zhou returned to his desk and sat down, turning on the computer.

Just then, a string of bubbles popped out of the lower right corner.

Xiao Ai: [Master, there is a new email. (??????)?? 】

New mail?

With doubts, Lu Zhou logged into the mailbox and clicked on the unread email.

When he saw the signature of the email, he was slightly stunned.

Satoshi Nakamoto?

A strange expression appeared on his face, and Lu Zhou continued to look down the email.

The whole text is only a short sentence.

[I want to talk to you.] 】

Is this a greeting?

Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile, and replied by knocking down a line.

[I'm sorry I don't have time lately, so I'll talk about it when I'm done with the matter at hand.] 】

After clicking the send button, Lu Zhou closed his mailbox and returned his attention to the scratch paper on the table.

Allowing divergent thinking will not solve anything.

Finding reliable leads requires rigorous calculations.

It doesn't matter if you can find out what the problem is.

At the very least, he had to be well prepared for the next experiment......