Chapter 276: Dark Matter

"What I'm going to study next is dark matter!" Lu Qiujian typed a sentence into the dialog box, and then sent it to a reporter from Youth Daily!

"Are you talking about Dark-Matter?" The reporter on the other side obviously had a few brushes, and quickly understood what Lu Qiujian was talking about, the visible matter in the universe only accounts for less than 4% of the total matter in the universe, and the remaining 23% of the matter content is dark matter, and the remaining 73% is dark energy (there is a slight gap between the proportions of these three in different materials, and one is chosen here at random, which will not have much impact on the next plot.) )

"Yes, dark matter and dark energy are both hot topics in physics research at present, and I can't be exempt from vulgarity, I want to try to see what kind of results I can make!" Without waiting for a response from there, Lu Qiujian was ready to leave, "I'm sorry, there are still things in the laboratory, that's all for today's interview, see you next time I have time!"

“。 Oh, okay, see you next time!" It took a long time for the reporter on the other side to react, and by the time he typed the above words and sent them over, Lu Qiujian's avatar had already dimmed.

"Editor-in-chief! Leave me a page, I have interviewed Lu Qiujian!" In the editorial department of the "Team Daily", a reporter stood up in front of the computer and said excitedly, and at the same time sighed in his heart, paralyzing my QQ account has hung out several stars, and finally let me catch Lu Qiujian!

This kind of scene happened in the editorial offices of almost every major sports media in Europe, and when Lu Qiujian retired and returned to China, the QQ accounts of these reporters were hung out for several days! This QQ level is simply comparable to those boring college students who spend the night in Internet cafes every day!

"How. Did you dig up any big news?" The editor-in-chief of "Youth Daily" has been spying on this reporter who has just been recruited from the physics department of Mizuki University for a long time.

"Well, there's important news that Dr. Lu doesn't plan to continue studying the Higgs boson. He has a new research direction!" replied Li Meng, a female reporter who was in charge of following Lu Qiujian shortly after he arrived at the newspaper.

"Oh, what is he going to study?" the editor-in-chief stood there a little awkwardly, hey, this kid is good at everything, but he doesn't know how to look at the eyes, is this kind of inscrutable knowledge of physics that I can understand?

"Dr. Lu's new direction of Dark-Matter, that is, dark matter!" Li Meng finally realized that he had graduated from school. Now it was not her own teacher in front of her, and the editor-in-chief probably wouldn't understand what dark matter was, so she quickly explained. "On the last day of the 19th century, William Thomson, a famous British physicist, looked forward to 20th-century physics and said, 'The theory of dynamics affirms that heat and light are two ways of moving, and now. Its beautiful and clear sky was shrouded in two dark clouds'. These two dark clouds are aether drift and blackbody radiation. ”

Seeing that Li Meng seemed to be talking for a long time, the editor-in-chief simply pulled a chair and sat next to her and listened closely, "In order to solve these two problems, physicists have made unremitting efforts to give birth to two great physical theories, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which have also become the basis of modern physics!"

Li Meng took a sip of water to moisten his throat and continued to popularize knowledge to the editor-in-chief, "Up to now, the Standard Model of particle physics can explain the properties of all known elementary particles quite well. It has also laid a solid foundation for theories such as condensed matter physics, optics, and quantum optics, and Dr. Lu's previous achievements in discovering the Higgs boson belong to this category. His discovery completes the Standard Model!"

"However, at the end of the 20th century, physicists discovered that there were two new dark clouds in the sky of physics, that is, dark matter and dark energy!" Li Meng finally got to the point, "These two dark clouds have also become the most concerned research areas in the physics world, and in the physics page of Discover magazine in 02, dark matter and dark energy are ranked first and second! The origin of the universe is only ranked eleventh!"

Although he still didn't understand what dark matter was, his years of experience in journalism allowed the editor-in-chief to quickly grasp the point of the problem, "So if Dr. Lu makes achievements in this field called dark matter, wouldn't it be comparable to Einstein's discovery of the theory of relativity?"

"Well, you can't say that!" Li Meng is full of black lines, and it is so difficult to talk to laymen!"Because after all, we don't know what kind of things Dr. Lu can make, so we can't judge his results, but what is certain is that if Dr. Lu finds evidence of the exact existence of dark matter like he found the Higgs boson, then he will definitely win the Nobel Prize in the shortest possible time!" Li Meng said firmly.

"Then why can't the discovery of the Higgs boson win the prize, but the discovery of dark matter can't win the prize?"

"This is different!" Li Meng subconsciously retorted, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his tone was wrong, and quickly stuck out his tongue to explain to the editor-in-chief, "First of all, the Nobel Prize allows up to three people to win at the same time, and the three professors Higgs, Engler and Braut have already filled up the quota, and even Gerald Guralnik, Dick Hagen and Tom Keepo, who predicted the God particle almost at the same time as them, are not eligible to win the award, let alone Dr. Lu!" Because according to the theories of Higgs and others, if the God particle really exists, it will be discovered sooner or later, even without Dr. Lui, the LHC will still make this discovery in a few more years, and although Dr. Lui's work is great, it is not irreplaceable. ”

If Dr. Lu really discovered dark matter, then he would have to come up with a complete model first, and then look for dark matter according to the properties predicted in the model. Li Meng said in words that the editor-in-chief could understand.

"If his theory is confirmed by experiments, then it will be a major earthquake in the physics world, which will have an extremely far-reaching impact on the future development of the physics industry, and there will be no suspense that he will win the award!" Li Meng finally concluded after saying so many words in one breath.

"You have to have a theory first, and then do experiments based on the theory, and prove the correctness of the theory through the results of the experiments! (To be continued.) )

PS: Woo woo, this month has changed almost 300,000 words, for the sake of me being so diligent, come up with a monthly pass, a recommended ticket and a subscription! I saw that some people in the book review area said that Tu Youyou is a lady, not suitable to be called Mr., here to explain, on some occasions Mr. is an honorific title, both men and women, such as Mr. Song Qingling, Mr. Xu Guangping, Mr. Yang Jiang and so on.