University Chapter 714 Tachyon?

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"But nothing can stump the world's smartest people, physicists!" The hurried voice continued, the proud voice of this middle-aged Swedish man, and his identity was very compatible, a scholar who studied the basic theories of physics almost to the realm of madness. ∑。 ∑ even in order not to waste time, this Professor Nils is almost fifty years old and has not yet had time to marry and have children, and he is alone.

Obviously, this guy is very proud of being a physicist, and for him, the discoveries in his research are far more enjoyable than the little things in life. So for this guy who didn't get to the point for a long time, and boasted about his words, Wang Shizi didn't show any impatience, on the contrary, he listened very carefully, and he was definitely the best listener.

Or this is also related to the environment at this time, surrounded by a group of physics researchers, Nils's words obviously hit the cool point of this group of people, and everyone's face was full of pride and joy.

"We did develop a Standard Model that perfectly describes the three fundamental forces of force, weakness, and electromagnetism, as well as the mechanisms by which all elementary particles are made. However, to establish this model, physicists at that time introduced a mechanism proposed by the British physicist Higgs, that is, space is filled with a special particle, when accelerating the elementary particle, it is more difficult to accelerate if it is easy to collide with this elementary particle, and the corresponding mass is higher, and the probability of collision is lower is easy to accelerate, and the mass is low. From this, physicists at the time came to the conclusion that matter itself does not matter about mass, and mass is the interaction of matter with such particles. We call this the Higgs particle, or the God particle! ”

"At the end of the nineties of the last century, the American Fermi real yàn room successfully found the top quark storage zài, the statistical certainty of its number jù is 5.3 standard deviation, in our particle physics community, the number jù statistical certainty of 5 standard deviation is enough to prove that its existence zài is correct, since then the standard model predicted 60 of the 61 elementary particles have been supported and verified by the real yàn number jù, only the last elementary particle, that is, the God particle has not been discovered. But it's the most important particle of the Standard Model! After all, the whole model is based on this particle existence, which is also known as the God particle, the source of mass of all things in the world! ”

"Five years ago, CERN discovered a ghost particle at their Large Hadron Collider, which they thought was the God particle, and with this discovered a particle that transcended the speed of light, proving the existence of tachyons! This was a source of great controversy at the time, and according to the evidence they gave for the numbers, it was only 2.3 standard deviations, meaning that there was a probability of a few hundredths of errors, or even 3 standard deviations to be the minimum standard of evidence. ”

"As a result, a year later, according to the inspection results of the equipment, it was finally determined that the so-called faster-than-light neutrinos they found were actually due to the calculation error caused by the connection problem of a certain optical cable in the computer room, so the legendary tachyon has not been discovered by us! But today, although there is no test of the number of guò jù, we are almost certain that the particle we have just captured is a particle that truly has the ability to exceed the speed of light! It is not a little bit surpassed, and from what we have observed so far, it is a particle whose relative speed is definitely not lower than the speed of light, which means that it has been moving faster than the speed of light, and because of this, we can never observe it with our eyes. Of course, these are just my guesses for the time being, but I believe that when the specific number jù report comes out, it will definitely confirm my guess! ”

Speaking of which, Nils had already entered a state of extreme euphoria, not noticing that his spitting saliva had soaked his beard, but his statement probably made Wang Shizi understand that the accident in this experiment made his mother discover a kind of parachyon, which is what physicists call tachyons.

And Wang Shizi probably understood why Nils was so excited.

The Swedish scientist has always been a staunch supporter of the fast quantum and believes in the existence of a fast universe. The concept of tachyon is what was predicted in the early days of string theory, and it does not conform to the law of cause and effect, and the tachyon theory has been eliminated in supersymmetric strings, and at the same time, no faster-than-light particles have been found. Not to mention exceeding the speed of light, which has always been the dream of physicists.

It's just Niels' explanation that made Wang Shizi even more confused.

Obviously, this discovery is a natural sound for future space navigation, but in the knowledge system that Wang Shizi mastered, space exploration was not achieved by purely traveling beyond the speed of light. Instead, it should be based on the theory of space folding, reducing the distance between two points to a minimum, and creating an illusion of space and time to achieve the purpose of ultra-long-distance leapfrogging. To put it simply, it is the wormhole theory described by countless science fiction writers.

Two dots on a piece of paper is geometrically the shortest straight line, but when the paper is overlapped, the two dots can be combined into one. This is also the method of ultra-long-distance navigation in most of the universe C-level and above civilization universes, that is, space jumping technology. Of course, this technique naturally cannot fold a piece of paper as perfectly as in theory. Disturbed by various fundamental forces, energies or unexpected circumstances, the probability of this kind of spatial jump completely overlapping two points is very small, so small that it is basically impossible to achieve, and there will inevitably be an error in the middle, so that the two points that should coincide will inevitably be separated by a certain distance in the middle.

The solution to this problem for intelligent beings in the universe is to create a straight passage between two points, that is, a wormhole passage that can be traversed, and this passage can often reduce the distance by hundreds of billions of times, so as to achieve the purpose of traveling beyond the speed of light in the universe.

The wormhole tunnel opened by this process does not need to be entered by the spacecraft at the speed of light, as many scientists imagine, in fact, when the three-dimensional channel is opened, it only needs one-tenth of the speed of light to enter.

So what the hell is this tachyon?

This doesn't seem to be his research direction, how could it suddenly pop up? It can even be said that even the old man doesn't seem to know the existence of this particle, right?

"Ahem, you mean, what we just captured is the kind of tachyon you said?"

"One hundred percent yes! Even I suspect it's the God particle! Nils, who had already gotten excited and carried away, blurted out almost without thinking, it was too arbitrary! (To be continued.) )