The controversy over the 750GeV characteristic peak and the withdrawal of Brookhaven National Laboratory caused a stir in the international community, but Lu Zhou still completed his daily work as if he didn't see it, directing the operation of the collider.

There is no nuclear fusion on the moon, and there is no way to get nuclear fusion up for the time being, with the heat of the Pangu pile, it can heat the local temperature of the nearby waters by 1~2 degrees, and the heat exhaust port must be replaced from time to time to prevent excessive heat accumulation.

Moreover, there is not such a large demand for electricity on the moon, and although the collider consumes electricity, it is impossible to turn on all the time. The current mode of operation of the collider is solar power, and the electrical energy is stored in the form of chemical energy, which is about three minutes to charge for three days.

However, this model also faces a problem, the cycle of the moon is about 27.3 days, half of which is night, and only about 13 days of day, which can fully charge the battery array 4 times.

In other words, there are only 4 experimental opportunities in a month, and each experimental opportunity is extremely critical.

IMCRC Headquarters.

Sending the latest experimental data to Lu Zhou, Luo Wenxuan spoke.

"It's going to be dark soon, and we'll have one last experiment this month."

After taking the document and looking at it twice, Lu Zhou's brows furrowed slightly.

Suddenly, he sighed softly and placed the papers in his hand on the table.

"If only we could run a few more sets of data, our chances of winning would be much better."

Luo Wenxuan: "There is a way...... At my last meeting, it was suggested that another set of solar power arrays and power storage facilities could be built next to the collider, and that the number of experiments per month could be increased by 1.5~2 times by exchanging space for time. ”

Lu Zhou: "What about the budget?" ”

Luo Wenxuan was a little embarrassed and said: "A conservative estimate requires $1 billion. ”

$1 billion ......

Hearing this number, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smash his tongue.

Even if he wanted to take out so much money at once, I'm afraid it would be a little difficult.

The fixed budget of IMCRC is about 20~3 billion US dollars a year, which is shared by all countries. Compared to CERN's fixed budget of just over $1 billion, the IMCRC's economy is quite generous, and it is not impossible to get the money.

But spending nearly half of the budget at the beginning of the year was too risky.

After all, with such a huge research institute as IMCRC, it is not enough to feed the collider, there are too many places that need to use money.

Adding solar arrays would mean doubling maintenance costs, and increasing the number of experiments in a single month may sound tempting, but it's a palliative treat.

Originally, the 750GeV scheme he proposed was risky enough.

The index finger tapped lightly on the table, and after pondering for a long time, Lu Zhou shook his head and said.

"It doesn't make much sense, the collider pipeline needs to be maintained after each experiment, and increasing the frequency of use will pile up the maintenance cost of the entire device......"

It can even overdraw the service life of the device.

The radiation damage of high-energy particle rays to materials is permanent, and the higher the impact of high-energy collision experiments, the greater the impact and the higher the maintenance cost.

This is not just a problem for the Lunar Hadron Collider, but also for high-energy collision experiments around the world.

"The problem is still the money, once the collider is turned on, no amount of money will be enough to burn," Luo Wenxuan sighed and said in an emotional tone, "It would be nice if I could make money from the moon." ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile.

Make money from the moon?

He is not the only one who has thought so, including senior sisters, many people have had this idea.

But it is clear that the current level of development of the moon is not yet to the point where it can be profitable. At least until his "Earth-Moon Control" quest chain is complete, it's too hard to achieve.

Lu Zhou: "Don't worry about money, not to mention that the problem we are encountering now cannot be solved by money alone." By the way, it will be the New Year in a few days, and when the last experiment is over, everyone will go back to celebrate the New Year, and come back to continue after the New Year. ”

Luo Wenxuan made a helpless expression.

"That's all it can be."

……

The last experiment, in January 2023, ended in a "spark" shot from 360,000 kilometers away.

As the long night period began, the collider entered a maintenance cycle and began to prepare for next month's experiments.

Although the experiment has ended, Lu Zhou has not been idle because of this.

These days, he is basically either at IMCRC headquarters listening to the presentations of the study groups and listening to the presentations of the representatives from each group on the data analysis of the previous month, or he is meeting with other experts at the IMCRC headquarters to discuss the experimental data collected in the last month and make a plan for the next experiment.

The huge amount of data determines that it is impossible for him to carefully filter the data of each segment in every detail, and can only rely on his intuition in mathematics and physics to check as many links as possible.

I remember seven years ago, when everyone was making a summary report on the experimental data, and his place was supposed to be on the stage in the lecture hall.

Now, his work has risen from the local to the whole, and his identity has changed from an ordinary scientific research dog to an academic leader who leads the future process of global physics.

Thinking about it now, it's really emotional.

However, now is clearly not the time to look back on a lifetime.

The mountain of work made Lu Zhou want to split himself in half, one on the other side of the conference room, and one in the chairman's office.

Eleven a.m.

in the conference room.

Looking at the experimental data sorted out repeatedly, Lu Zhou frowned.

The results of the last experiment are still not very good, and from the data fed back from several sets of detectors, although the characteristic peak of 750Gev appears, the confidence level still hovers below 3sigema.

After looking at the Dalitz diagram several times, looking at the series of green dots hovering below 125Gev, Lu Zhou suddenly spoke.

"It's not completely fruitless, at least the data we collected in the low-energy segment are consistent with CERN's results. At the same time, the characteristic peaks of 750GeV do show weak confidence, and the experimental evidence tells us that the occurrence of characteristic peaks is not an accident. ”

Everyone at the conference table looked at each other.

This sentence sounds more like a "no loss" comfort than a valuable clue.

After pondering for a long time, Witten spoke.

"And what do you think it will be?"

"It's just a conjecture," Lu Zhou continued, after a pause, "that there is something that makes up the matter of elementary particles that is difficult for us to observe or understand directly. Like what...... Look at that wall clock on the wall. ”

Following the sight of the landing boat, everyone threw the realization into the gently rattling wall clock.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

“…… Just like the pendulum, when the pendulum moves to the sides, it is blocked by something, so we can't see it, and only when it appears in the center can we observe it directly in the traditional way. ”

Witten touched his chin with interest.

"Very interesting analogy...... You mean that it is possible that the treasure we are looking for will only appear at a certain time? ”

Lu Zhou replied in an ambiguous tone: "It's not ...... But it is possible that it can only be observed by us at a certain time. ”

Professor Frank Wilzek asked, turning his pen and frowning.

"How are you going to test this conclusion?"

Ambiguous conclusions that can only be observed under certain conditions do not solve any problems, and they are now talking about methods of observation, rather than finding reasons for not being able to observe.

Lu Zhou shrugged: "No conclusion can be verified at the beginning of the proposal, including your 'Time Crystal'...... Of course, I'm going to design the experiment, figure it out, and try to fix it before the experiment starts next month, at least to give our collider something to do. ”

Witten hesitated and asked, "It's the New Year of Huaguo soon, is it okay?" ”

"It's a trivial matter, don't worry about me," knocked on the conference table with the lid of the pen, Lu Zhou glanced around the conference table, and continued, "Let's hold this meeting here for the time being, and adjourn." ”

The meeting is over.

Lu Zhou, who left the conference room, went straight back to the chairman's office.

Telling the secretary to bring him a sandwich and a cup of coffee, Lu Zhou took out the notes he had made at the meeting from his bag and looked at them repeatedly in his hand.

"What's the problem......

After thinking about it for a long time, Lu Zhou already had a clue in his mind, and his intuition told him that this clue pointed to the result he dreamed of.

However, the clue was so vague that he didn't get an answer after thinking about it for a long time.

At this moment, a string of bubbles suddenly floated in the lower right corner of the laptop, interrupting his thoughts.

Xiao Ai: [Master! Good news! (???? ▽??) ノ】

Glancing up at the computer, Lu Zhou asked, "...... What's the good news? ”

Xiao Ai: [The master's experiment has come to fruition!] (????????????)???? 】

Experiment?

Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and quickly reacted.

What Xiao Ai is talking about should not be a physics experiment.

It's another.

Experiments on Void Memories......

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