Chapter 185: What is the Collider for? (1100 Monthly Pass Update)
The place where Lu Qiujian is now is not accessible to ordinary people, and a place like the Institute of High Energy Physics doesn't care how awesome the background of those reporters is, not to mention that not many people except Professor Zhang and the people from the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University know that Lu Qiujian went to this place.
"You've learned almost all these things! But there are still some differences between actual contact and theory, I'll let Xia Jia accompany you, and you can ask her any questions!" Director Guo said to Lu Qiujian on the way to the high-energy institute.
It is said that she is also a top student in the Department of Physics, and she participated in the cooperation between the Department of Physics and the Institute of High Energy of Beijing Normal University as early as last year, and her theoretical and experimental skills are quite good.
Speaking of the gap between his experimental level and his theoretical skills, Lu Qiujian remembered his future master, Heisenberg; this big bull had a theoretical level, but he also had an extremely weak experimental ability; because of this, he almost didn't get a doctorate.
Heisenberg's doctoral dissertation defense at that time was the founder of quantum mechanics and atomic physics, and the outstanding mentor of Sommerfeld, who taught the most Nobel Prize winners in physics in history.
During the dissertation defense, Heisenberg's whimsical theoretical ability and experimental ability, which were inferior to even kindergarten children, shocked both Sommerfeld and Wiane, who gave completely different results: Sommerfeld gave the highest A, and Venn gave the lowest E, and finally Heisenberg was lucky to get a Ph.D. with a grade of C.
Of course, Professor Schiff learned the lessons of his own teacher, and when he studied theories, he did not forget his experimental ability, and became a world-class presence in both fields, which is also an important reason why Lu Qiujian chose him instead of Witten as his mentor.
The reason why Director Guo found a girl to come over doesn't necessarily have any dark thoughts, it's just that Xia Jia's level is really good, and secondly, women always have some advantages in social interactions, and some things make Lu Qiujian angry. The meekness and weakness that is unique to women is also easier to forgive.
"Then it's going to trouble Xia Xuemei!" Xia Jia is two levels lower than Lu Qiujian, and she is only a sophomore this year.
"It's not troublesome at all!" Xia Jia's eyes flashed with curiosity, "I can't wait to have the opportunity to get in touch with a great scientist like you, maybe it can bring a lot of inspiration to my writing!"
"Writing?" Xia Xiao likes to draw comics, this is also writing, could it be that the surname Xia is a young woman in literature and art?
"Hehe, Xiao Xia is a talented girl in our physics department!" Director Guo introduced with a smile, "Not only is this major a good student, but the writing is also first-class, Xiao Xia has published a lot of science fiction novels so far!
"Then I'll have to find it, read it, read it!" Lu Qiujian's mind flashed with a flash of inspiration. Any major project requires the support of a large amount of manpower and material resources, so can we use the power of literary and artistic works to create public opinion, so as to promote the development of public opinion in a direction favorable to ourselves? At this thought, he couldn't help but say, "It just so happens that I also have some ideas here, and if I have time, I can tell you about it and see if I can give birth to a new work!"
Talking about his hobbies, Xia Jia's nervousness just now disappeared unconsciously, and he quickly chatted with Lu Qiujian with a smile, and when he arrived at the gate of the high-energy institute. The two of them seem to have been friends for many years.
Director Guo had already made an appointment before coming, and after waiting at the door for a while, someone hurriedly came out of it to pick them up, and after a series of trivial and complicated procedures, Lu Qiujian finally entered inside.
"When a lot of people come here, they ask us what is the use of spending so much money to build colliders, can they make our country stronger, why don't we put this money in the poor mountainous areas where we need more money?" Xia Jia said as he walked inside with Lu Qiujian.
This question can be answered by a 1970 letter from Dr. Ernst Stullinger of NASA to Zambian nun Mary Yukenda. On the one hand, the country's investment in scientific research and the investment in poverty alleviation belong to different budgets, and on the other hand, the return on investment in science will play a huge role in solving poverty, which is far more than simply using money to relieve poverty!" Xia Jia is familiar with many allusions in the history of science and technology, and at the same time, under the calmness of scientists, there are also hidden humanistic feelings of literary and artistic workers.
"That's right. Have you ever heard of the name Da Liu? Recently, I saw a metaphor about the collider in one of his manuscripts, which is very vivid!" Xia Jia suddenly turned his head.
"Of course, but I don't want the scene he described in "Chaowen Dao" to really happen!" Lu Qiujian knew that the big Liu she was talking about was Liu Cixin. And "Chaowen Dao" tells the story of aliens erasing the largest particle accelerator of mankind, because the proof of the grand unified model will bring about the destruction of the universe, "If this is really the case, then isn't our work meaningless?"
"Hehe, that's just a novel!" Xia Jia's laughter was very unique, and the cold machines around her seemed to bring a trace of warmth because of her laughter, "Da Liu in his new novel, compares the collider to a watermelon knife!"
Xia Jia stretched out his hand and gestured, "Let's cut the proton first, its charge flows to the coffee table, sticky, emitting a fragrance, after the neutron let me cut it in half, the quarks inside rolled out with a clang, all the size of walnuts, colorful, rolling around on the coffee table, and some even rolled to the ground."
"Protons, neutrons, and quarks all exhibit quantum effects, and they shouldn't look like that!" Lu Qiujian, of course, had read "Ball Lightning", and he replied with Lin Yun's words in the original text, "But if protons and neutrons can really be put to such a big size, then it will be a great blessing to the entire physics world!"
"Yes! This is the role of the collider! This is a watermelon knife worth tens of billions, a great tool that can help us understand the operation and principles of the smallest particle physical world to the largest stellar world!" At this moment, Xia Jia looked like a poet.
Da Liu's analogy is simply amazing! (To be continued.) )