Chapter 1139

The dispute over the 750 GeV characteristic peak and the news about the withdrawal of the Brookhaven National Laboratory have made a great deal of noise in the world. However, the land boat is still completing every day's work and commanding the operation of the collider as if it had not been seen.

There is no nuclear fusion on the moon, and there is no way to get it up for the time being. With the heating capacity of Pangu reactor, the local temperature of the nearby water area can be heated by 1-2 degrees, and the heat vent must be replaced from time to time to prevent excessive heat accumulation. The same device can be moved to the moon without lakes and atmospheric environment, even if it will happen in a few minutes.

Besides, there is not so much power demand on the moon. Although the collider consumes electricity, it can't be on all the time. Now the operation mode of the collider is to use solar energy to supply power and store the electric energy in the form of chemical energy. The electric energy for about three days will take three minutes.

However, this mode also faces a problem: the moon's cycle is about 27.3 days, half of which is night, and only about 13 days in the daytime. At best, the battery array can be filled four times.

That is to say, there are only four experimental opportunities in a month, and each one is very important.

Imcrc headquarters.

The latest experimental data was sent to Lu zhoushou, Luo said.

"It's going to be dark, and we can do the last experiment this month."

He took the document and looked at it twice, and the brow of the boat was slightly wrinkled.

All of a sudden, he sighed softly and put the paper in his hand on the table.

"If we could run a few more sets of data, we would win a lot."

Luo Wenxuan: "there are ways At my last meeting, someone suggested that we could build another set of solar power arrays and power storage facilities next to the collider. Using space for time could increase the number of experiments per month by 1.5-2 times. "

Lu Zhou: "what about the budget?"

"It's a conservative estimate of $1 billion," Mr. Luo said with embarrassment

$1 billion

Hearing the figure, the boat smashed its tongue.

Even if he wants to pay so much money at one time, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

Imcrc has a fixed budget of about US $2-3 billion a year, which is shared by all countries. Compared with CERN's fixed budget, which is just over $1 billion, imcrc's economy is still abundant, and it's not impossible to get money.

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

After all, imcrc is such a huge research institution, it's not just enough to feed the collider, there are too many places to spend money.

Moreover, adding solar arrays will mean double the maintenance cost. It sounds tempting to increase the number of experiments in a single month, but after all, it will not cure the symptoms.

Originally, his 750 GeV plan was risky enough.

The index finger tapped lightly on the table. 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. Increasing the frequency of use will increase the maintenance cost of the whole device..."

Even, it will overdraw the service life of the device.

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

This is not only the problem facing the LHC, but also the same problem facing the high energy collision experiments all over the world.

"The problem is money. Once the collider is turned on, no amount of money will be enough," said Luo with a sigh. "I wish I could make money from the moon."

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

Making money from the moon?

He is not the only one who thinks about it. Many people, including his elder sister, have thought about it.

But it's clear that the moon's current level of development is not yet profitable. At least until his "Earth Moon control" task chain is completed, it is too difficult to achieve this.

Lu Zhou: "don't worry about money. What's more, the problem we're facing now can't be solved just by money. By the way, it's new year's day in a few days. When the last experiment is over, let's go back and have a good new year, and then come back and continue. "

Luo Wenxuan made a helpless expression.

"That's the only way."

……

The last experiment, in January 2023, ended in a "spark" of laser fire from 360000 kilometers away.

With the start of the long night period, the collider has also entered the maintenance cycle and started to prepare for the next month's experiment.

Although the experiment is over, the boat is not idle.

These days, he basically listened to the report meetings of each research group at imcrc headquarters, listened to the representatives sent by each group to report on the data analysis of last month, or met with other experts from imcrc headquarters to discuss the experimental data collected last month, and worked out the next experimental plan.Because of the huge amount of data, it is impossible for him to screen every segment of data carefully. He can only rely on his intuition in mathematics and physics to check as many links as possible.

I remember that seven years ago, when everyone was summarizing the experimental data for two weeks, his position should be on the stage of the lecture hall.

Now, his work has risen from a part to a whole, and his identity has changed from an ordinary research dog to an academic leader leading the future process of global physics.

Now think about it, it's really emotional.

But this is clearly not the time to look back on life.

A mountain of work makes Lu Zhou want to split himself in two. There is one in the conference room and one in the director's office.

11 a.m.

In the conference room.

Looking over and over again at the experimental data, Lu Zhou frowned.

The results of the last experiment are still not very ideal. From the data fed back by several groups of detectors, although the characteristic peak of 750gev appears, the confidence still hovers below 3siema.

Looking at the Dalitz diagram several times, looking at the series of green spots hovering below 125Gev, Lu Zhou suddenly said.

"It's not completely unproductive, at least the data we collected in the low-energy section are consistent with the results of CERN. At the same time, the characteristic peak of 750gev does show a weak signal, and the experimental evidence tells us that the appearance of the characteristic peak is no accident. "

Everyone at the conference table looked at each other.

Compared with valuable clues, this sentence sounds more like the comfort of "this wave is not lost".

Thought for a long time, said Witten.

"What do you think it will be?"

"It's just a conjecture," continued the boat after a pause. "There's something in the matter that makes up the elementary particles that we can't directly observe or understand. For example Look at the wall clock. "

From the sight of the land boat, everyone will turn to the wall clock that rings softly.

After a pause, the boat continued.

“…… Just like its pendulum, when it moves to both sides, because it is blocked by something, we can't see it. Only when it appears in the center, can we observe it directly with traditional methods. "

Witten touched his chin with interest.

"Interesting metaphor Do 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's possible that it can only be observed at a certain time. "

Professor Frank vilzek asked with a frown as he turned his pen.

"How are you going to test this conclusion?"

Only under certain conditions can it be observed. This kind of ambiguous conclusion can not solve any problem. They are now exploring the method of observation, rather than finding reasons for the inability to observe.

Lu Zhou shrugged: "there is no conclusion that can be verified at the beginning of the proposal, including your" time crystal " Of course, I will design experiments to solve this problem, and strive to solve it before next month's experiment, at least let our collider have something to do. "

Witten hesitated and asked, "it's the new year of China. Is that ok?"

"Little things, don't worry about me," he continued, knocking on the conference table with the pen cover. The boat looked around the conference table and said, "this conference will be here for the time being. It's over."

The meeting is over.

The boat left the conference room and went straight back to the office of the president.

He asked the Secretary to bring him a sandwich and a cup of coffee. Lu Zhou took the notes he had made at the meeting out of his bag and looked at them repeatedly.

"What's the problem..."

Thinking hard, there was a clue in the mind of the land boat in the dark, and intuition told him that the clue was the result he dreamed of.

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

At this time, the lower right corner of the laptop, suddenly floating a string of bubbles, interrupted his thoughts.

AI: [Master! hot wire! (??) ノ]

looking up at the computer, Lu Zhou opened his mouth and asked: " What's the good news? "

AI: the master's experiment has a result! (??)?]

experiment?

Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and quickly responded.

AI is not talking about physical experiments.

It's another one.

The experiment of virtual memory