In the next month, Lu Zhou's life was irregular, basically listening to the two nests during the day, and having dinner at night, he was free to move, either going to the activity room on the R1 floor with Senior Brother Yan to play billiards, or playing card board games with a few foreigners in the activity room next door.

This month is probably the most fulfilling month he has lived during this time.

Not only can I learn new knowledge every day, but this knowledge is hard to find in books.

The last time I felt this way was at an academic conference in Princeton, and it was only a short day, after all, he spent the next few days picking on the twin prime conjecture. And this time, it's as long as a month

However, leisure time is always short-lived.

Soon at the end of the month, the originally loose schedule suddenly tightened.

Lynn Evans, head of the LHCb International Cooperation Group, met in the largest conference room to compile the reports submitted by the study groups and finalize the guidelines for the experiment.

Almost half of the physics community is sitting in this conference room.

It is a great honor for Lu Zhou, as an intern, to attend this meeting.

However, this time he did not have a chance to speak, but just sat next to Academician Lu and listened.

At the end of the meeting, physicists from various laboratories made additional suggestions on the details of the experiment, and Evans responded on behalf of LHCb.

Of course, it was not only physicists who were present, but also people from all walks of life, as well as major media who followed the experiment. Leaving 10 minutes for irrelevant people after the professionals have finished asking questions, which has almost become a common practice in similar meetings.

And these questions are generally very interesting

For example, a British journalist stood up.

"Hello, Mr. Evans, when we interviewed Otto Rosler, a retired professor of chemistry at the University of Munich, Mr. Rosler said that the collider experiment was being carried out, saying that it was being carried out that it could lead to the formation of a quasar such as a black hole in the Earth's interior, could you give the public a reasonable explanation?"

In the face of this reporter's difficulty, Mr. Evans was also experienced in a hundred battles and answered skillfully.

"In each of our 37 replies to Mr. Rosler, we have pointed out where his fundamental mistakes were. Of course, we also understand that most people like him don't listen. Thousands of academics around the world have sweated for this machine, and we know what we ourselves are talking about, unlike this guy. Well, next. ”

Another reporter stood up.

"Could the theory produced by the hadron collider experiment be the theoretical basis for the time machine?"

Evans: "Our job is to test the correctness of the Standard Model, to study the elementary particles that make up matter, and there is no plan to study the time machine for the time being, and I have said it countless times, and this topic has been handed over to SERN, the next one. ”

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Listening to those strange questions, Lu Zhou secretly admired this old gentleman's good temper in his heart. If someone entertains themselves with so many stupid questions, they will definitely not have the patience to answer them one by one.

At this time, Academician Lu, who was sitting next to him, tilted his head slightly, and said to the two apprentices, Lu Zhou and Yan Xinjue.

"After today, we may be busy, you two pay attention to adjust the time."

Yan Xinjue nodded and said, "Okay professor." ”

As soon as he heard that there was a mission, Lu Zhou suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Is there a mission?" ”

"Of course," Academician Lu nodded, "We're not here to see the excitement. ”

What specific work needs to be done, Academician Lu did not explain to Lu Zhou in detail here, but Lu Zhou is not in a hurry. After all, after the test is over, these things will have to be told to yourself sooner or later.

After the meeting, the Hadron Collider experiment entered the final stage of preparation.

Not only physicists, but also French and Swiss special forces who began to be stationed in the vicinity at some point.

In fact, since three days ago, this situation has been like martial law.

The soldiers temporarily stationed at the entrance of the order will check almost every car that enters the order.

As for the access points of the Hadron Collider tunnel, checkpoints have been set up to temporarily seal off and unrelated personnel are not allowed to enter, and those who try to approach will be immediately discouraged.

About a week passed like this, and soon the day of the experiment was restarted.

Senior Brother Yan borrowed a car and took Lu Zhou to the scene on the side of the Gex district in Ontario, France, that is, the staff called "North District".

It is worth mentioning that in fact, the whole experiment does not need to enter and exit the hadron collider, several professional staff do elevators to go down to check the tunnel, confirm that there is no abnormality and then report the situation, dozens of kilometers away from the headquarters to press the button, the researchers stationed at the site to collect data, sitting dozens of kilometers away can also be seen.

However, according to Senior Brother Yan, it would be a pity not to go to the current speculation to see what he was doing↓ I also borrowed a car, so Lu Zhou agreed to his proposal to go out for a walk.

As they approached the northern district, the two happened to encounter the soldiers who were being interrogated, but after showing the relevant documents, they were quickly allowed to pass.

Sitting in the car, Lu Zhou looked back at the checkpoint behind him and asked casually, "Are they here to protect the Hadron Collider?" ”

While driving, Senior Brother Yan replied casually: "The collider still needs human protection?" Well, it may seem like this to outsiders, but in fact they are not protecting the collider, but the citizens of both countries. ”

"What?"

Holding on to the steering wheel, Senior Brother Yan shrugged his shoulders: "Every year, people say that the black hole created by the Hadron Collider could destroy the whole of Europe, and every year the Hadron Collider experiment is restarted, and there will be protests. This year it may have been in Paris, and then the French sent a force over and said they could control the gestures when everything unexpected happened, although it sounds like French humor, but it seems to be the case. ”

Lu Zhou couldn't help but ask, "How can anyone believe this kind of nonsense?" ”

"Because I always ask for trouble, I invite those unreliable press spokesmen, and I always say unreliable things at press conferences. I don't remember what year it was, it seems to be '08 or '07, their press spokesperson smugly joked at the press conference, saying that the upgraded LHC can even create a miniature black hole with a collision of lead ions, but it doesn't have time to interact with particles from the outside world before it automatically decomposes I guess he may just want to show off how advanced the LHC is, but the media only reported the first half of his sentence. ”

"And then?"

Senior Brother Yan smiled and said: "Later, they successfully made a big news, and now almost every year when they do experiments, almost everyone comes here to protest, and even some environmental protection organizations have even taken action, wanting to dive into the orbit to carry out sabotage and stop experiments, so that they have to hire a large number of firefighters to take the trouble to rescue those idiots from the orbit, and then ask how they got into it, and it is only a little better recently." ”

Hearing these riotous operations, Lu Zhou was secretly speechless.

Infiltrating the Hadron Collider, it was really fatal, and I was impatient.

It seems that only one person in history has been hit by the particle beam of the collider, and although this brother saved his life, he was as miserable as the Soviet Russian veteran who returned from Chernobyl in the second half of his life.

Not only the high-intensity radiation produced in the experiment, but also the more deadly danger of hypoxia, because the magnetic tracks of the accelerator are soaked in liquid helium, and in the event of a leak, it will quickly fill up the space, and how far you can run depends on how long you can sit still.

In a sense, this is also the reason why Lu Zhou did not choose Mission 3 to make history.