"Void," Lu Zhou said before looking at Witten, who was struggling with how to describe this concept, "I plan to call it that."
As for why we say this, it may be a bit complicated to understand.
Lu Zhou heard the second half of the sentence from a "person".
And in the sense of real life.
Even if mass is no longer conserved, the universal algorithm of 1+1=2 will not be overturned...
"The paper media industry is in a slump, so it's normal to use gimmicks to attract audiences..." Seeing Lu Zhou who was leisurely starting to read the newspaper, Witten, who came here to visit, couldn't help but asked with interest, "How is it? Is there any?" Do you have any idea?"
Lu Zhou didn't quite understand what this revelation meant.
Time is irreversible, which is also one of the basic theorems of physics—or one of the consensuses.
At least, he must be fully prepared for the next experiment...
"It seems like you occasionally say some weird things."
"Don't think of me as Tinker Bell or anything like that. I don't know any more about this matter than you." Lu Zhou sighed, stretched out his hand to hold the mouse, opened the browser and logged into the physics forum he was familiar with. Take a look.
New email
"Don't these people make a draft when they write these things?"
Although Lu Zhou also doubted whether there was a problem with the collider or the detectors were broken at the same time, the failure was so consistent that it was difficult to believe this statement.
This difficulty is not just in an academic sense.
Then a professor from the University of Oxford stood up, and his views were basically similar. However, he did not suspect that there was a problem with the collider. Instead, he attributed the source of the error to statistical problems and believed that the IMCRC was responsible for this. The researchers of the project made a big mistake. IMCRC should immediately set up an expert group to re-analyze the data collected by the detector.
Is this a greeting
But at least for now, Lu Zhou has not seen such signs from the latest findings of IMCRC. It can even be said that instead of using the concept of time to explain the extra mass, it is better to attribute it to void -
When he saw the signature of the email, he was slightly stunned.
"Unless it comes from the other side of time..." After saying this, Lu Zhou opened his mouth, but quickly shook his head and rejected his guess, "This is impossible... This is worse than the increase in mass and energy out of thin air. Be realistic.”
Does it really mean nothing
Seeing this line of title, Lu Zhou almost spit out blood.
Throughout the morning, Lu Zhou was worried about this matter.
Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head, then typed out a line of reply.
Probably not.
The entire text is only one short sentence.
After all, the direction of theoretical physics is really difficult.
Lu Zhou's eyes suddenly opened slightly.
"Void? It's an interesting name," Witten shrugged, "but like I said, it doesn't make any sense."
"That's such a shame."
After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Witten raised his eyebrows.
Xiao Ai: [Master, there is a new email. (·▽·)]
Somehow, he suddenly felt sympathy for Einstein.
After a pause, Witten continued, "The starting point of physics is up to the Big Bang. Discussion of things before that has no meaning other than imagination. That is the end of all science, unless we can one day reach a place called Outside the box of the universe, otherwise we, who are in the box, have no hope of seeing what you are talking about... "
To understand this, we must first make it clear that, at least from the perspective of the mainstream physics community, time is not a “thing” and has nothing to do with the dimensions that make up the universe. Strictly speaking, it is a "scale" that appeared with the Big Bang and points to the end of the universe.
However, if he writes these things in a paper, some people will definitely suspect that he has gone crazy at a young age.
First, a professor at Stanford University said that if there had not been a problem with the lunar collider, he would have eaten his boxers and the belt around his waist.
Regardless of whether the problem can be found or not.
Among the posts that were related to discussions, at least nine of them expressed incredible emotions.
Witten: "Unless?"
However, only he can prove that he has indeed discovered something unusual...
At this moment, a string of bubbles popped out from the lower right corner.
With a strange expression on his face, Lu Zhou continued to read down the email.
Had dinner at noon.
At least on Earth yes!
etc!
When did the IMCRC say mass is no longer conserved? Why haven't you heard of him as the chairman
After reading a few lines and it hurt his eyes, Lu Zhou threw the newspaper into the trash can next to him with a look of disgust. He felt it was a waste of time to look at this kind of report more than once.
Witten joked: "More unreliable than string theory?"
"Maybe..." Lu Zhou thought for a while, "If, I say if, there is an n+1th string outside the n strings that make up the universe. It does not belong to the universe as we know it and runs through the universe. life. It's like... a wall on a wall, a lake reflected in a lake."
This is no longer scientific intuition.
As expected, the world of physics exploded on the spot.
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the building of physics is overturned, perpetual motion must be a false proposition.
Is it so difficult to correctly understand "abnormal mass expansion phenomenon in three sets of experimental data"
After clicking the send button, Lu Zhou closed the mailbox and returned his attention to the draft paper on the table.
People respect him, but no longer believe in him. The aura of absolute authority in his youth has faded from him. Just like what he calculated on the blackboard before his death, no one can understand it. People have stopped trying to understand it. The old man's mental world was almost chaotic, and he didn't care so much about what he said.
A forward-looking theory can be accepted, but if the span of a theory has risen to the level of delusion, I am afraid no one will nod easily.
Especially in mathoverflow, a forum where great people gather, many experts in the field of mathematics have begun to discuss with great interest that if all this is true, will it bring some enlightenment to mathematics
Keenly catching the change of expression on Lu Zhou's face, Witten quickly asked.
"I don't know. Mathematics doesn't discuss specific things that exist, but I know that mass and energy cannot increase or decrease out of thin air, unless..."
"A...possibly a bit unrealistic possibility."
"Nash... you may know that he was a genius tortured by mental pain. When he was still alive, I still liked to discuss mathematical problems with him."
These people who work in the media can always use all kinds of weird interpretation methods to make his nose angry again and again.
Rather, the title of the task itself already hints at it, where the problem comes from. The root of all contradictions all point to the extra dimension beyond the n dimension, that existence that is older than the Big Bang and closer to eternity than time.
If you want to find reliable clues, you must go through rigorous calculations.
You won't be able to solve any problems by allowing your thoughts to diverge.
The curvature of space-time may change somewhere, but the direction it points to must remain the same.
"Did anyone else say that too?"
Satoshi Nakamoto
On the other hand, there are already many unknown professors on Arxiv who have begun to place bets in advance on why this phenomenon occurs.
Lu Zhou returned to his desk, sat down, and turned on his computer.
Although it cannot be ruled out that new discoveries will be made in the future that will redefine the concept of time.
With doubts, Lu Zhou logged into his mailbox and clicked on the unread email.
[Shock! The latest results of IMCRC, mass is no longer conserved! Perpetual motion may no longer be a false proposition!]
"What did you think of?"
[I'm sorry that I don't have time recently. Let's wait until I finish handling the things at hand.]
[I want to talk to you.]
In addition, not only the physics community, but also the mathematics community has been greatly affected.
Maybe he really discovered something before he made such a ridiculous statement as "everything was arranged."
"Getting back to the subject, about what you said... I can't rule out this possibility, but just like we can't prove it, there is no point in discussing such a thing."
It is said that the old man lived a "miserable" life in his later years. This misery was not only due to political suspicion and rejection, but also because the physics he loved had abandoned him.
"Before coming to IMCRC, I worked at CERN for at least thirty years, but this is the first time I have seen such a weird situation," Witten walked to Lu Zhou's desk with a coffee cup and pondered for a while. He said, "From a mathematician's perspective, where do you think the extra mass might come from?"