Fermilab's announcement has given the entire physics community a hard blow.

Are W bosons really overweight?

Many physicists are at a loss for a moment.

Even those physicists who originally supported Li Mu were the same, after all, even if they supported Li Mu's prediction, they also understood that it would still take a long time to re-measure the mass of the W boson.

CERN, for example, has already begun preparations to re-measure the mass of the W boson, which is expected to be completed within three years.

As a result, they never expected that only a long time had passed before Fermilab made an announcement.

Although Fermilab's status in the field of particle physics is not as good as that of CERN, it was once called the world's top particle physics laboratory.

So in any case, their announcement directly aroused the concern of physicists.

True or fake?

……

Inside CERN, in a discussion room, a group of physicists are watching a live interview on the big screen in front of them.

These physicists have basically participated in Li Mu's report meeting, and have not returned to their institutions for the time being.

Like George Parisi, David Gross is among them.

As for the live broadcast of the interview they watched, it was an interview with the New York Times of the United States, and the subject of the interview was Dave Bartók, the spokesman of Fermilab.

“…… Although the CDF has been dismantled, it collected a large amount of particle collision data between 1985 and 2011, and our researchers used the collision data of about 4 million W bosons over a 10-year period to arrive at this result......"

"In fact, we have already found this result last year, that is, the mass of the W boson is one thousandth higher than the mass predicted by the standard model under perturbation unfolding, but we have always had some disbelief."

"After all, you know, it's not just that it's wrong, it's also that something fundamentally wrong in our understanding of nature."

"So we started to re-check for a long time, and it was not until the beginning of this year that Li Mu deduced the results, which made us feel very surprised, and his theoretical prediction results were so similar to our experimental results, which gave us a lot of confidence."

Dave Bartók's face was full of excitement, and at the same time, there was emotion, the experimental calculations on their side collided with Li Mu's theoretical speculation, which was really a wonderful coincidence.

The New York Times reporter who interviewed him said with a smile on his face: "So at the beginning of the year, why didn't you announce this immediately?" ”

Dave Bartók laughed: "This kind of thing needs to be cautious, not to mention that we have not completed the second calculation at that time, although physics is not as rigorous as mathematics, but it does not mean that we have to give up rigor." ”

"And now, we can confidently show that the mass of the W boson is definitely overweight, we are right, Li Mu is also right, and similarly, the dimensional force obviously exists, and the various speculations that come from it are also correct."

"Our universe is more complex and exciting than we ever imagined......"

Dave Bartók's voice resounded in the CERN room, and then the physicists' expressions were very different.

"Hahaha, that's a good point!"

David Gross burst out laughing and clapped his hands.

Then he turned his head to look at George Parisi next to him, and said with a smile: "Didn't you say yesterday that you were going to eat the Large Hadron Collider?" Why don't you apply to the chairman now? ”

"By the way, I remember that there are still a lot of people who support you, saying that they want to eat together? Like that Yusup Stricker, Devin Gill...... These guys. ”

"Tsk, the Large Hadron Collider worth tens of billions of euros, I really envy you for being able to eat it."

George Parisi's expression was bad.

He was interviewed only yesterday afternoon, and he never expected that this kind of thing would happen after waking up.

Hearing the cynicism of David Gross next to him, George Parisi snorted and said, "Don't be happy yet, but don't forget that this is Fermi Lab." ”

"The cables in the Physics Building and Fermi Lab are always loose."

George Parisi's words caused another round of laughter in the discussion room.

Fermilab's cable is one of the more famous memes in physics.

A research team once discovered a faster-than-light particle, and according to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible for any matter to reach superluminal speed.

As a result, the entire physics community suddenly vibrate, as if it were the discovery of dimensional forces.

The advent of faster-than-light definitely means that the edifice of physics is about to collapse again.

然而就在物理学家们摩拳擦掌的时候，结果这个研究团队经过了反复的调查，发现原来是设备中的某一个电缆松了，所以才导致统计出来的数据发生了差错。

As a result, the physics community was suddenly disappointed, and this incident became a well-known meme in the academic community.

Surely such a top-notch lab would make the same mistake twice?

David Gross was the first to express disbelief.

"Don't be under any illusions, George."

"Accept it."

Patting George Parisi on the shoulder, Gross said with a smile: "Even if you eat the Large Hadron Collider, it won't affect your Nobel Prize." ”

Giorgio Parisi: "......"

The fists are a little hard, and I really want to hit someone.

In the end, he resisted the urge to beat people and said, "Don't get excited, let's wait for their papers to be released first, maybe they are wrong?" ”

而就在这个时候，采访中的戴夫·巴托克就说道：“另外我们的论文也已经提前放到了arxiv上面，相信对于很多物理学家们，已经等不到4月7号了。 ”

"We'd also like physicists to help us verify if there's anything wrong with our calculations, and of course—"

Speaking of this, Dave Bartók smiled slightly: "I'm sure we won't have problems." ”

Dave Bartók's words made the physicists in the discussion room react immediately.

"Quick! Go to arxiv and take a look at the papers they posted! ”

Suddenly, someone shouted.

David Gross didn't talk nonsense at all, he just walked up, opened Arxiv, and found the paper.

Subsequently, so many physicists read the article together.

The paper is not long, only a few pages, which mainly introduces the data processing method, as well as the processing process and results.

As for the data, it is certainly not possible to take out all the data, as Dave Bartók said in the interview, they counted the mass of about 4 million W bosons, and it is obviously impossible to put all these data out in the paper.

And just like that, just a few pages of paper, they quickly read it.

David Gross laughed first.

"George, what else do you have to say now?"

George Parisi didn't say a word.

After reading the whole paper, he couldn't find anything to find wrong, and even praised the paper.

The Fermilab research team has used a new method of data processing, which is very good, at least much better than the previous data processing methods.

It's no wonder they're able to calculate a different result.

At this moment, George Parisi deeply understands why physics is a science that slaps the face.

This time, it wasn't just him, there were many physicists, and their faces were crackled.

And it's fast.

His eyes couldn't help but look out the window, in the direction of the Large Hadron Collider.

You can't really let him eat it, can you......

He slapped his face, and for a while he wanted to cry without tears.

……

With the release of Fermilab's paper on arxiv, the number of downloads soon exceeded 1,000.

As Dave Bartók said, although the paper will be published in Science on April 7, physicists can't wait.

Particle physicists all over the world have read this paper almost immediately.

Then, this also officially proves that Li Mu is right!

There is no longer any doubt about the existence of dimensional forces.

The world of physics has ushered in the era of the fifth fundamental force!

In the same way, there is no longer any doubt about the third miracle year.

……

"Congratulations to the host, you have completed the task [Problems hidden in the new theory?] 】。 ”

"The host has successfully used theory to negate the experiment, and when the mathematical derivation process is absolutely rigorous, it represents the absolute rules of the universe, because the rules of the universe are also written in mathematics."

"And the discovery of dimensional force also means that you are one step closer to the truth of the universe, the ubiquitous dimension constitutes the ubiquitous emptiness in the cosmic space, of course, there are many secrets about dimensional power, these secrets are still to be explored by the host."

"This quest brings 15,000 energy to the upgrade! The current upgrade progress is 43201/30000. ”

"The energy value has met the upgrade demand, will I upgrade it?" Note: It is not possible to downgrade after upgrading. ”

CERN offers hotel rooms.

After hearing the prompt sound of the system in his head, Li Mu's eyes lit up.

Finally, after all this time, it is finally time to harvest.

15,000 points of energy was already the most he had received in a long time.

至于是否升级……

This is, of course, nonsense, "Upgrade now!" ”

He should have confirmed it in his mind.

"Confirm the upgrade, the mind computer upgrade begins, loading the fourth level of the mind computer architecture......"

(End of chapter)