It's not just Edinburgh that is raining heavily.

As if to celebrate the success of 360,000 kilometers away some time ago, the sky over New York was covered with clouds on this day, and it rained heavily before it was time to go to work.

Raindrops picked up a two-inch-high splash on the pavement, and a man in a long trench coat walked through the gates of Stony Brook University, across several streets, and all the way to Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Sitting in his office sipping coffee, Professor Whittle was turning his back to his desk, looking out the window at the rain and lost in thought.

Ever since he came here early this morning, he felt as if he had forgotten something important, but no matter how much he recalled, he couldn't remember what it was.

Unconsciously took a sip of the coffee in his hand, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a knock at the door, so he turned the office chair back and spoke.

"Please come in."

The door opened.

A puff of damp air blew into the room, and Professor Whittle stood up from his chair in surprise as he looked at the man standing in the doorway drenched in soup.

"Professor Brovic, what's wrong with you?!"

Standing in front of him was the president of the Brookhaven Science Society and the head of the Physics Institute at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is also a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, a member of the American Academy of Sciences, and a Quasi-Nobel Prize...... But all this doesn't matter anymore.

Professor Brovich glanced at his colleague standing in front of him, and thought of the email from Professor Peter Higgs, and a bitter expression appeared on his face.

The Adam's apple moved slightly, and he spoke.

"We lost."

"Lose...... What lost? Come in and sit down, and I'll get you a dress to change into. ”

Brovich didn't say anything about Professor Whittle's concern.

As if he had just come to inform him of the news, he shook his head slowly, and just turned around and walked off the other side of the hallway.

Stunned as he watched in the direction Professor Brovich had left, Professor Whittle's mouth opened slightly, but he finally didn't say anything. Just as his heart was full of anxiety and wondering what was going on, his heart suddenly increased a little.

In an instant, it occurred to him.

“…… IMCRC Presentation! Damn it! ”

He said he seemed to have forgotten something important!

With a hint of panic in his eyes, he quickly rushed back to his office and logged in to the IMCRC website with his email address and password.

Really!

IMCRC's presentation is today!

As expected, the video of the presentation has been uploaded to the server.

When he clicked on the video and watched it for ten minutes, his pupils suddenly contracted.

What shocked him was not the content of the board book on Lu Zhou's whiteboard, anyway, he couldn't understand it at his level.

It was the solemn expressions on the faces of the physics gurus sitting in the front row, and the applause of the audience when Professor Lu announced the major discovery of the IMCRC called the "boat particle......

The heart hit rock bottom in an instant, and it almost didn't bounce back.

Professor Whittle only felt a blackness in front of him at the moment, and he felt like he was about to faint.

He didn't know what it was like.

But what is certain is that it must not be because of excitement.

In any case, what he feared most happened after all......

……

Coincidentally, at the Institute of Physics of Syracuse University, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Brookhaven National Laboratory, a female researcher who is close to her teens is warmly greeting someone's family, and she slammed the keyboard in a rage, so frightened that the inexplicable colleague next to her was stunned and didn't dare to catch a breath.

And all of this seems to be just the tip of the "chaos" caused by that briefing.

After seeing the live video of the report uploaded to the IMCRC official website, almost all the scholars who followed the latest progress of this research showed surprised expressions on their faces, and even exclaimed in disbelief.

A particle weighing up to 1.25 TeV!

A super-heavy particle with a mass close to ten times that of the Higgs particle!

Crucially, the particles are outside the Standard Model!

If, as Lu Zhou said, the elementary particle that makes up the atom corresponds to the higher dimension of the material component, then the study of the origin of mass and gravity will provide extremely important evidence.

Compared with North America across the Pacific Ocean and Europe across the Atlantic, the IMCRC scene is obviously more chaotic.

People frantically flocked to the stage, not only journalists, but also physicists with a stomach full of questions to ask.

Some people want to be able to get a little closer to the whiteboard and take a clear photo, some people want to catch up with the footsteps of the land boat and ask them face to face, and some people ...... They don't know what they're doing.

Everyone was like crazy.

Resisting the crowd and trying to move forward, the reporter with the microphone said in a voice that was about to be squeezed out of breath, facing the camera aimed at him.

“…… At 10 o'clock in the morning of February 3, Beijing time, Professor Lu Zhou, a physicist from China, announced the latest discovery of the Lunar Hadron Collider in high-energy physics experiments at the IMCRC report meeting, and named this superheavy particle, which is said to be from the high-dimensional world, as 'boat particle', with the symbol Z. ”

"A few days ago, according to Peter Higgs, professor emeritus of the University of Edinburgh, we connected to, the discovery of this particle will mark the great significance of high-energy physics experiments in revealing the whole picture of the universe, and our horizons in physics have been broadened by a whole dimension."

According to Professor Lu Zhou's prediction at the end of the report, the discovery of this particle may provide a theoretical basis for faster-than-light travel between star systems...... The scene is extremely chaotic, and we are trying to get close to Professor Lu, Shet, please let me go-"

"—A BBC reporter reports for you."

Approaching is impossible to approach.

Just looking through the lens is enough to get a glimpse of the chaos at the scene and how desperate the human wall really is.

As for Lu Zhou, he had already stood on the elevator for the staff at this time, took the special car parked in the garage, and left the scene of the IMCRC headquarters.

This is Wang Peng's suggestion.

In a crowded place, it is always difficult to avoid all kinds of accidents. In order to prevent the confusion from further expanding, it is better to avoid crowded occasions as much as possible today.

Especially this kind of place where physicists get together.

In any case, whether everyone is happy with this ending or not, today is destined to be a significant day for the entire physics community.

After a full seven years, the exploration of the 750Gev has finally come to an end.

And the vision of human civilization has also expanded to a world that they have never understood, but has always followed everyone around.

The secrets of the universe have never been so close.

As for whether this particle can become the key to solving the problem of faster-than-light cruise and communication, as predicted by Lu Zhou.

I'm afraid, and only the future will know......