United Kingdom.

In a private house on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

An old man was sitting at a wooden table by the window, facing an old computer, typing letter by letter on the keyboard with his index finger, intently editing an email.

In the corner of the table was a newspaper with a date from two weeks ago.

On the side of the spread, the printed news is the announcement of the temporary withdrawal of Brookhaven National Laboratory, which caused heated discussions some time ago.

Tens of billions of dollars of investment, more than dozens of countries have participated in scientific research projects, and the result is such a big problem at the beginning, this matter has not only caused a stir in the physics community, but also caused a lot of discussion outside the physics community.

With mixed feelings, the old man wrote in the email.

【…… Physics is supposed to be an enlightened discipline, and it is because of respect for all points of view that we have the prosperity we have today. I can't comment on whether Lu Zhou's choice was correct or not, but even if he may be wrong, it is just academic immaturity and should not be responded to in such an irrational way. 】

【…… To sum up, quitting the experiment at this time is definitely not a rational choice. It would be a great disservice to both Brookhaven National Laboratory and the long-standing unity of the physics community...... I don't know if there are political considerations behind this, but for whatever purpose, it shouldn't be a bet on the trust we've built over the course of a hundred years. 】

[I hope you can reconsider this matter, maybe it's too late.] 】

[—Peter Higgs]

Peter Higgs.

Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 13 years, and the reason for the award is because of the well-known Higgs particle.

Not to mention the vast majority of physicists, I'm afraid even people who don't know much about physics will know a little bit about this name.

Knocking down the name of the check-off office, the old man frowned slightly, and looked up at the dark clouds outside the window that seemed to be about to fall at any time.

Since retirement, only the body has become more and more sensitive to the weather, and everything else has become more and more enjoyable. Especially the concept of time, even if he wakes up every morning and glances at the calendar, he still always forgets what day it is and what he wants to do.

It's like this newspaper next to him.

By the time he saw it, the whole thing had been almost two weeks in the past.

And when he hurriedly contacted his friends to inquire, and searched for relevant information on the Internet, and finally understood what happened, his mood was as heavy as the bad weather outside the window.

Then, he did the only thing he had done since retirement that he hadn't put off until tomorrow.

That is, to write to his old friend Professor Brovic, who held a prominent position at the Brookhaven Society of Science.

Regardless of whether the characteristic peaks of the 750Gev are worth spending a whole year digging into, and whether Lu Zhou, who is the chairman, insists on starting the project or whether there is a suspicion of overheading the council, at least the academic itself should not presuppose a position.

It reminded him of sixty years ago.

He remembers writing a short paper that was published in the CERN journal Physics Communications.

After that paper was approved, he wrote another paper to the Physics Correspondence, describing a theoretical model of his own vision, now known as the "Higgs mechanism," only to be rejected by the editor on the grounds of absurdity.

The paper was finally published in the Physics Bulletin.

If it weren't for his insistence, perhaps to this day people would still not be able to explain exactly how elementary particles carrying weak interactions acquire mass.

I pondered for a long time in the face of the written email.

Looking at the penultimate line of "To sum up", he hesitated for a moment, then removed the word from the email, making the whole email look as euphemistic as possible, and then clicked the send button.

“…… I hope it helps. ”

Whether or not that old friend listened to his own opinions, he had to do what he could.

Babbling to himself, he grabbed the arm of his chair, struggled to his feet, and walked tremblingly to the window.

Outside the window, there were dark clouds, and it felt like it was getting dark. The neighbors across the street had closed their windows and put the pots in the yard into their houses, and a rainstorm seemed to be ready to fall at any moment.

“…… It always feels like something big is going to happen today. ”

Muttering to himself, the old man reached out and closed the curtain.

Academic intuition is a very metaphysical thing.

I'm afraid that even he didn't expect that what he said casually would really come true......

……

February 2nd.

Today is definitely a significant day for the international physics community.

Three days have passed since the end of the moon's dark night, and it is not surprising that the energy storage facility supporting the collider should have been fully charged, and the IMCRC will soon conduct the next collision experiment.

Before the experiment began, it received a lot of attention from the physics community.

There is no other reason.

Because not long ago, Lu Zhou uploaded an article on the Arxiv website about the theory of hyperspace, and that the elementary particles that make up atoms contain a particle that exists in hyperspace.

Under normal circumstances, this particle is quite stable and barely shows its feet. Only in high-energy physics experiments with collision energy of a certain magnitude can this special particle appear in an extremely unstable form in a three-dimensional space-time in the conventional sense.

At that time, as soon as this theory was published, it immediately set off a wave of controversy in the physics community.

Professor François Engler, who co-won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Professor Peter Higgs, told the media in an interview.

This theory may sound even more surprising than the superstring theory, even bizarre...... Although hyperspace theory is not an avant-garde view, M theory has made predictions such as "the complete universe should have eleven hyperspace dimensions", but this is only a guess after all. Compared to his theory, I'm actually more curious about how he proves it? ”

"I mean, with the current methods of physics experiments, the only thing we can observe is the dimension we are in, or something lower than that."

"I'll give you the most popular particle, if we are just a piece of paper living on a blank piece of paper, a small ball is parallel to the surface of the paper we are on, and it moves vertically. Assuming that the light source is absolutely perpendicular to the paper, all we can see on the paper is a stationary point projected on the paper. ”

"If there really is that kind of particle that exists in a higher dimension, the most we can see is its projection in three-dimensional space, let alone analyze its complete trajectory."

So, what kind of experiments does he intend to use to prove that this theory, which is almost impossible to prove, holds true? Even if he is logically self-consistent. ”

Creatures in the two-dimensional world can never know the whole of the three-dimensional world, and the creatures in the three-dimensional world are confused about the four-dimensional world.

Regardless of whether Professor Rançois Engler could imagine what kind of experiments Lu Zhou would use to prove his conclusions, a new round of experiments at the IMCRC was about to begin, and at this time he was only expressing his curiosity, and did not express his negative views as clearly as Professor Whittle.

After all, from the perspective of a physicist, he is still very happy to see that Lu Zhou can solve this problem.

If he can indeed prove that the elementary particles that make up the universe are indeed hidden in the high-dimensional world, many of the problems that are facing the interface of physics today will be solved.

The waiting process is so long.

Just when everyone was looking forward to the IMCRC update of the experimental data, it was finally 12 o'clock in the morning when Beijing time, and the latest experimental data was uploaded to the official database simultaneously.

As the news spread, universities around the world that have cooperated with IMCRC have obtained first-hand information and started processing the raw data.

Even the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is full of OB, has still cheekily downloaded the data, even though it has announced that it has temporarily withdrawn from this plan.

And the results of the experiment were also unexpectedly amazing.

Just when the entire physics community was amazed by the results of this experiment, a report meeting chaired by Lu Zhou himself had begun at the headquarters of the IMCRC......

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