Chapter 262: The Path of Miracles (Gal. 14/32)
"Thank you, Lu! Thank you for bringing me this good news!" At the train station in Geneva, Higgs, Engler and others, who were already in their seventies, came to greet Lu Qiujian and his party in person, and the three of them first hugged Lu Qiujian, and then held Professor Schiffer's hand tightly, "Hillman, thank you for bringing the lucky messenger from the far east to Europe. ”
Then there was Dietrich, "You were said to be the first to discover that data?
Of course, Karl, Ludwig and Frederick did not ignore the others, "You are a very good team, thank you for your efforts!"
So at the pick-up gate, the group was delayed for a full ten minutes, during which the flash lights lit up from time to time, and it seemed that many well-informed reporters already knew about this big discovery.
When I came to CERN, the person who greeted them this time was Dr. Evans, who first congratulated them like Professor Higgs, and then pulled Lu Qiujian to his side, "Now the data analysis results of each cooperative unit have been sent to the grid data center, and the sorting work has come to an end, and everyone agrees that you should give the report the day after tomorrow!"
Is this an affirmation of his work in the previous stage? Out of the habit of Chinese people, Lu Qiujian first modestly lowered his words, "The work of the LHC is carried out under your leadership, and I think it is more appropriate for you to make a report!"
"Haha!" Evans was very satisfied with Lu Qiujian's modest attitude, but it didn't make him change his mind, "Listen, Lu, if you don't change the experimental plan, we don't know how long it will take to raise the energy level to the point where the Higgs boson can be found, and even if the Higgs boson is indeed produced during the experiment, without your data analysis method, the screening work will last for a long time!"
"Yes, you deserve it!" Lafayette, the former second-in-command of the experimental group, continued Evans's conversation. "You have saved hundreds of millions of dollars for CERN, and more importantly, you have saved us too much time!" If he still had doubts about Lu Qiujian's ability when he first joined the group, now all that remains is deep admiration.
When he saw Lu Qiujian in the experimental group, he thought that Lu Qiujian was only here to help the experimental group solve some mathematical problems, after all, he was the winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics and was well-known in the mathematical community, but he did not think that Lu Qiujian would play much role in the experiment. Because experimental physics, like medicine, is too experience-oriented, many members of the experimental team have worked at CERN for longer than Lu Qiujian has been born since he was born; unexpectedly, in the process of formulating the plan, Lu Qiujian brought them one surprise after another, fast report processing ability, perfect grasp of details, and familiarity with the function and status of each equipment in the LHC, which made his mentality change from dissatisfaction to appreciation.
When the tree fern that could prove the existence of the Higgs boson was discovered, the slightest doubt in his mind was gone, and all that remained was admiration for genius and hope for the future.
"Yes, Lu. Accede to Dr. Evans and Dr. Lafayette's invitation!" Higgs was also on the side, and compared to Evans and other LHC staff, he was only a little more grateful to Lu Qiujian.
"Okay then!" Lu Qiujian saw that the time had come, so he no longer insisted, and readily agreed, this is a good opportunity to brush up his reputation! If he is really taken by others, he will not regret dying?
After a busy day, Lu Qiujian prepared the speech and made it into a beautiful courseware, and on the third day of his arrival at CERN, he went back to the lecture hall where he had taught data analysis methods last time.
The same is the audience. The only difference is that last time the audience was dominated by experimental physicists, but this time the audience was divided between theoretical physicists and experimental physicists. The only difference is that last time there were a lot of sports reporters, and this time they are all from the world's top media such as BBC, CNN, NHK, and Xinhua News Agency.
Lu Qiujian came to the stage and looked at Higgs and the others in the center of the front row. I saw that his face was nervous, and even when he heard Engler's words, he looked absent-minded, and his eyes kept glancing at the big screen behind the podium, lest the title of the speech on the curtain would be replaced by the words "The experiment failed" if he was not careful.
Hawking was being teased by the people around him. One of the happiest laughers was the physicist Kip Thorne, who gambled with him, and the findings of CERN's experiment earned him a hundred dollars from Hawking.
But Hawking didn't have much to bet and lost after losing, still using his unique electronic voice to joke with Thorne, Witten and others, and I don't know if he came up with any good idea for betting.
Witten's face was complicated, I don't know if I remembered my string theory that could not be verified by experiments; well, it is not quite right to say that it could not be verified by experiments, in fact, Witten's theory can still be verified by experiments, but the requirements of this experiment are a little more stringent!
All string theories are verifiable in principle: whatever string theory, it treats elementary particles as vibrating strings rather than point particles on the Planck scale, in other words, if the collider scale can be raised to the Planck scale, then the basic assumptions of string theory can be verified in principle.
However, the Planck energy standard is too far away from us, because the gravitational force is too weak, the Planck energy standard is more than a trillion times the highest energy standard of the LHC, with the current accelerator technology, the accelerator radius that can reach the Planck energy standard will be larger than the solar system, and human beings will not consider this when they can build a star system-level civilization that can build a Dyson sphere, of course, if there is an unimaginable breakthrough in accelerator technology, it is another matter, it can be expected that unless it is frozen, Witten has little hope to see this scene.
All the reporters aimed their long guns and short guns at Lu Qiujian on the stage, quietly waiting for the great news he was about to announce! Feng Hongqi sighed in his heart in the corner -- no way, it would be good to be able to come in with the level of the media he was in, and he didn't care about the quality of the position -- from the NCAA to the Seven Millennial Mathematical Problems, from the Munich Olympic Stadium to CERN, how many miracles did this young man he knew? But he can say for sure that this cloud will not be the end of this young man's miracle path. (To be continued.) )
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