As the year passed, Chinese physicists returned to Shanghai one after another, and the headquarters of the IMCRC was bustling again.

And the media, which had previously shouted that the IMCRC had come to a halt and had gained a wave of heat, also died down as if nothing had happened.

It's business as usual.

Although the scholars at Brookhaven National Laboratory probably won't come, only a small number of people have left the project, and even if there are still some people who are not optimistic about the 750Gev project, which has been going on for a month without any progress, the vast majority of people will not give up the opportunity to change the name of the paper.

Even conventionally, the signatures of papers for such large-scale international research collaborations may be as thick as a dozen pages, and they are still in alphabetical order.

But this can still be regarded as an effective scientific research resume, and it will be helpful to go to universities and research institutes in the future.

Office.

Seeing Lu Zhou knocking on the door and coming in, Professor Witten took off the glasses he was wearing on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile.

"How's the holidays?"

Lu Zhou: "It's very fulfilling. ”

Glancing at the stack of paper in Lu Zhou's hand, Witten smiled and said.

"Looks like you haven't rested much."

"In the face of this exciting result, even if I want to rest, I am afraid it is difficult to really be idle."

Looking at the confident expression on Lu Zhou's face, a hint of surprise appeared in Witten's eyes, and his eyebrows quickly raised up half a point in interest.

"You already have a clue?"

"Don't you have a clue," Lu Zhou smiled confidently and threw the document in his hand on the table, "Do you remember the pendulum theory I talked about years ago?" Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, I perfected it. ”

Without commenting on anything, Witten quickly picked up the stack of papers on the table and carefully skimmed through them.

Lu Zhou was not in a hurry, walked to the side and poured himself a cup of coffee, sat on the sofa and waited quietly.

Thanks to the inspiration from that memory.

Although Dr. Ryan didn't directly tell him any theories related to particles or even physics in the 750Gev energy zone, there are some things that don't need to be explicitly stated, and just knowing that it exists is a big cheat.

Take that concept of hyperspace, for example.

If hyperspace theory is assumed, then Einstein's wormhole theory is possible.

Based on this logic, assuming that the characteristic peaks of the 750Gev energy region correspond to some elementary particles that partially exist in hyperspace, then the phenomenon of insufficient confidence but can repeatedly appear in people's field of vision can be explained.

And the theories that Lu Zhou had previously deduced through mathematical methods were also tenable.

Similar examples are not uncommon in physics, for example, when explaining the phenomenon of the "breaking" of the large unified gauge symmetry at the energy of 10^15 GeV, there is an idea that from supersymmetry, a framework can be used to describe fermions and bosons in the same way, so that it can be added to the four-dimensional space-time in the sense of Minkowski space to accommodate the strange geometric properties of fermions.

Hyperspace theory, however, is unproven.

But this also shows that if the logic of this paper is self-consistent, and this particle can really be found, it may become evidence of the existence of hyperspace!

The fingers holding the paper continued to tremble, and the surprise in Professor Witten's eyes grew stronger and stronger.

Ten minutes passed like this, and he raised his quivering index finger and pushed his glasses, muttering to himself.

"It's kind of interesting...... Hyperspace theory? ”

Taking a sip of coffee, Lu Zhou explained casually.

"Strictly speaking, it should be a speculation based on hyperspace theory. It is still too difficult for me to complete such a huge proposition as the theory of hyperspace, such as the most critical part of gravity, which modern physics knows too little...... However, maybe I'll be able to make up for it when this experiment is over. ”

After a pause, he added.

"Of course, it depends on what we find out from the experiment."

"Unbelievable ......" put down the paper in his hand, Professor Witten looked up at Lu Zhou, and said in a voice that couldn't suppress his excitement, "You know what? I'm looking forward to tomorrow more and more. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to it more than you." ”

Before the end of the year, he wished he could start the second round of experiments sooner.

This time, he must pull out the ghost that he has been hiding with him for seven years from the fog where he is hiding!

Witten: "Do you plan to publish this paper now?" ”

"Of course, good things should be shared with everyone, and I plan to hang the preprint on Arxiv," Lu Zhou joked and continued, "If the results of the experiment are satisfactory, I will attach the results of the experiment to the paper and publish them in the main issue of Future." ”

……

After more than a month of silence, there seems to be a new progress in IMCRC research.

When Lu Zhou's paper on hyperspace theory and speculation about the possibility of the 750Gev characteristic peak was uploaded to Arxiv's website, it immediately caused a huge response in the physics community.

While people were surprised by the "forward-thinking" ideas shown in this paper, they were also surprised that the landing boat chose to release the paper at this time.

In short, there are both pros and cons.

Some people have commented that Lu Zhou may be too optimistic about hyperspace theory, and the conjecture based on conjecture is unreliable, while others think that this is indeed a good idea, which can explain the fate of part of the "mass" when mass loss occurs in high-energy physics experiments.

If those debris had entered hyperspace, or had been presented in a higher-dimensional form, it had not been discovered by conventional observational means.

In any case, this paper can be regarded as an academic answer to the question of "why study the signal of 750Gev".

If this conclusion is true, it will not only greatly improve the part of the Standard Model that is not mentioned, but also open the eyes of the physics community to the study of the internal structure of elementary particles, and allow physics to penetrate deeper into the world than the Higgs particle......

"Hyperspace theory?"

Sitting in the office chair, looking at the printed paper in his hand, Professor Whittle's face showed a look of contempt, "Throwing the unknowable to the unknowable wormhole is really more and more convenient in physics now." ”

He finished reading the paper.

I can barely understand it.

But what was described in the paper made him scoff.

The existence of hyperspace itself is a controversial topic in physics, and its root cause lies in the fact that the unidirectionality of time is one of the most basic observational facts in physics and even in all natural sciences.

"I think ...... His essay was quite interesting. Sitting a short distance from Professor Whittle, a sparse old professor pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with interest, "If he does find this piece outside the Standard Model, it could probably be the greatest physics discovery in more than a decade." Honestly...... We really shouldn't miss this opportunity. ”

It's easy to validate the Standard Model, and the most that the high-energy physics community has done in the past decade or so is to constantly verify the conclusions of Einstein's old man.

However, it is too difficult to find a piece of the puzzle that sits outside of the Standard Model.

The old professor's statement clearly aroused Whittle's dissatisfaction.

With a nasal snort, he continued in a mocking tone.

"The greatest physics discovery in more than a decade? Hehe, dream of it. ”

Although he was still stubborn, in fact, when he saw this paper, even Professor Whittle himself did not realize that the stubborn fortress in his heart had been loosened.

The reason why he is reluctant to change his opinion is that at least half of it is no longer a judgment based on professional knowledge, and it just can't save face.

Maybe face doesn't matter.

But he had already spoken so harshly before, and even persuaded the Brookhaven Society to speak out and criticize the actions of the Overhead Council, even those members were half-pushing.

It is foreseeable that if Lu Zhou really makes up something in the end, he will definitely become the one who is thrown out to take the blame.

"Dream his dreams......"

Chewing on the words over and over again, Professor Whittle reached out and grabbed the glass of water on the table and took a sip, moistening his dry throat, but he couldn't suppress the irritability in his heart.

All he could hope for now was that the IMCRC would fail, and that the Lunar Hadron Collider would have failed somewhat, or that nothing could be found at all, and that it would end hastily.

While thinking about this, he didn't notice that his mentality was no longer normal.

It's even distorted to the point that he doesn't even recognize himself......

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