Chapter 646 Sheldon's Nightmare Returns

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"Professor Weiss, I think there's something wrong with the signal we observed last month!" said Shelton, waving the printer paper in his hand at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Hanford, New Jersey, and chasing Professor Weiss of Caltech.

"I know, Sheldon!, but this signal is too weak, and the numbers that come out of the table are very vague! We can't determine whether this is a gravitational wave or not according to these vague numbers!" Professor Weiss shrugged helplessly, "If it weren't for the National Science Foundation of the United States vetoing our decision to make additional investment, so that we couldn't build a laser interferometer with ten times the power now, we would definitely be able to seize this opportunity!"

"It's terrible! Even if they give us the money to approve it now, and when we build a new observatory, we don't know how many years it will take to wait for such a signal!" It's like dropping bait in a pond with unknown water and trying to fish, you just know that there will be carp here, but you don't know for sure when it will swim to the area where you put the bait and when it will bite! The process can be ten minutes or ten years!

Sheldon's direct complaint to him that the signal observed last month must be gravitational waves, and an opportunity like this is rare in a century, and if you miss this time, you don't know how long it will take to catch a similar signal next time! It's like a striker waiting for a shot opportunity, if you miss this opportunity, the next time it won't be so easy.

"No way! Now the basic research funding of the whole country is shrinking!" Professor Weiss sighed, "Since we gave up SSC, the people of the United States have lost the enterprising spirit that leads the country to a strong country in the field of basic research!"

"Where did all the research money that should have been given to us go?" Sheldon couldn't help but ask, there is really nothing more painful for a scientist than not being able to meet his own needs!

"I went to the major materials research studios!" Professor Weiss said rather depressedly, "You know, the new type of battery launched by Huaguo recently has given Mi Guo David a headache! They are now urgently allocating a lot of money to invest in this research! Unfortunately, not much progress has been made until now!"

"Is this the battery for this kind of phone?" Sheldon took out his new Weihua phone from his pocket, "It's really great, the battery life is better than all the phones I've used before! It's a pity that I can't find my own phone charger! I have to have three chargers after only one month of buying it! By the way, who invented this great achievement? I think I can award him the Nobel Prize!"

"It's Lu Qiujian of Huaguo! He invented a special metal material when he was presiding over Huaguo's space exploration program, which can greatly improve the performance of batteries!" Professor Weiss suddenly thought of something, it seemed that Sheldon hated to hear this name!

"Ahh

Damn, I switched from dark matter to gravitational wave research because I wanted to avoid your research field, and I came to work at Ligo! I didn't expect that it was because of you that Ligo lost the funds to improve its performance! You guy, you can't be sent by God to fight against me!

"I think that's why! Sooner or later, those Foundation guys will regret this decision! They cut the SSC budget and gave Cern the honor of discovering the Higgs boson and dark matter! Now they are going to give away the honor of discovering gravitational waves!" Professor Weiss was furious when he remembered the faces of those Foundation members when they rejected the funding application.

"Wouldn't it?" Hearing this, Sheldon's heart immediately hung up, "Didn't you say that the Ligo detector is the strongest gravitational wave detector in the world? Whether it's the Italian Virgo detector, the German GEO600 detector, or the neon TAMA300 detector, they can't compare to Ligo, since we can't find the gravitational waves, fortunately, then they won't succeed, right?"

"Yes, but that was a few years ago! Now the Chinese have surpassed us in some way! Have you not noticed that many articles on gravitational waves in the last three years have been published in the name of the Lyra Project?" asked Professor Weiss.

"I don't pay much attention to the author's name!The ideas in those articles are not new!" Sheldon scratched his head in embarrassment, "but they may have taken a new approach to detection!By the way, who is running this project?"

"As a qualified scientist, you should pay more attention to your competitors!" Professor Weiss said, "The host of the Tianqin Project is Academician Luo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but the idea of the plan was put forward by Lu Qiujian! It is precisely because he persuaded the Chinese government that the Tianqin Project was implemented!"

How can it be you again! An ominous feeling swelled up in Sheldon's heart, this guy is also involved in the competition for gravitational wave exploration! His hard work in the past few years should not be in vain!

"Professor!, the latest issue of Nature!" one researcher rushed in nervously hugging the magazine, "their cover article is from the Tianqin Project team in China! They claim to have detected a gravitational wave signal last month!"

Oh! No! Sheldon's eyes went dark, and he almost fainted! God! Could it be that guy made it again? He rushed to the researcher in three steps and two steps, snatched the magazine from his hand, and quickly flipped to the article on gravitational waves, and Lu Qiujian's name was written in the author's column!

Looking at the text of the paper, "The Gravitational Wave Observatory of the Tianqin Project Team observed a signal from 1.26 billion light-years away at 17:52:36 Beijing time on September 22, 2011!

September 22, 2011 17:52:36 Beijing time! Isn't this the time I discovered that signal last month? Damn, it's all because Ligo's performance is too weak to confirm this discovery! Sheldon was empty-headed, and fainted on the ground. (To be continued.) )

PS: The fate of the American aircraft carrier will be seen next week!