Annihilation of the solar system

Zhou Cheng put down the curled-up material in his hand. It was a paper with "The Discovery of Gravitons and the Unification of the Four Fundamental Actions" on the cover. After rubbing his bloodshot eyes, he put on

He took off his glasses and looked out the plane window at the ground that was gradually getting bigger.

A small plain surrounded by ring-shaped hills below me came into view. 300 meters below the plain covered with green vegetation, there was a 100-kilometer-long circular vacuum pipeline buried like beads.

Countless superconducting electromagnetic coils are the only high-energy physics experimental device still in operation in the world - the "Super Eastern Ring".

Since entering the crisis era, all high-energy physics experimental facilities around the world have been deactivated. However, because of Liu Chaowen's key role in crisis warning and his extremely high attainments in the frontier field, the "Super Eastern Ring" is the only frontier that has been preserved.

Scientific experiment equipment, and there was not a single negative vote at the eda demonstration meeting.

The purpose of Zhou Cheng's coming here is to be invited by the Nobel Committee. As a member of the expert group, he is here to verify the contents of the paper on the small table in front of him. According to previous practice, the experimental verification of a theory needs to be carried out in different places.

Only the verification of different equipment will be recognized. In the era of crisis, this is already the only high-energy particle experimental instrument in the world.

As for that award, all formal ceremonies were canceled at the beginning of the crisis era. But it may be that the unification of the four basic forces is too much of a milestone in the history of human science. Or maybe those who once stood at the forefront of science are now almost ignored by the world.

The last stubbornness of the forgotten theoretical scientists. They still came to Sichuan with the medal made of gold.

For Zhou Cheng, it doesn't matter whether it is verified or not. Although he still doesn't understand where his student's scientific power comes from, he understands that verifying Liu Chaowen's theory is actually a waste of power resources.

What was more interesting to him was that when he was studying the "Super Oriental Ring" transformation plan formulated by Liu Chaowen, he found that there were some additional structural parts on the vacuum pipeline. In his opinion, those constructions had nothing to do with the design functions.

As the height of the plane dropped, the small plain below him filled the entire port window. Suddenly, Zhou Cheng discovered a strange scene on the lush plain. Around the edge of the plain, a circle of vegetation was slightly yellowish in color.

, the entire yellowed shape looks perfectly round from the air, like a huge brass ring lying flat on the plain.

Although he was not involved in the construction process of the "Super Oriental Ring", Zhou Cheng was still very clear about the basic design parameters. After careful calculation, he found that the circle of yellowed grass marks happened to be the collider vacuum pipe 300 meters deep below.

The location he passed by made Zhou Cheng very confused.

The collider buried deep underground can not only isolate all known particles except neutrinos from interfering with the experimental results. It can also isolate some high-energy particles that have lost their magnetic constraints from flying out of the ground. But Zhou Cheng really couldn't figure it out.

Are there any particles in the known standard example model that can penetrate 300 meters of soil and affect the vegetation on the ground?

Before he could think any more, the small plain where the "Super Mobile Oriental Ring" was buried had floated past the porthole. After the plane landed, Zhou Cheng arrived at the High Energy Particle Research Center. There was only a tall seven-story office building in front of him.

And a two-story building on the edge of the plain in the distance. Most of the scientific research buildings are buried deep underground.

The staff greeted us warmly:

"Hello, Professor Zhou! Welcome to the High Energy Particle Research Center!"

"Are all the other experts on the review team here?" Zhou Cheng asked.

The staff led Zhou Cheng towards the open-top electric car that looked like a sightseeing car parked in front of the office building:

"Foreign experts have arrived early in the morning. They have gone underground to inspect the collider. I will take you there right now."

Zhou Cheng asked casually:

"Is Liu Chaowen also with them?"

The staff member got into the cab of the electric vehicle:

"General Master Liu is not with them."

"Then where is he?" Zhou Cheng asked.

"General Master Liu is in his office."

"Office? He didn't accompany the review team to the underground experimental base?" Zhou Cheng asked.

"No, in fact General Manager Liu rarely goes to the underground test base." The staff's answer was calm, as if they were used to it.

This puzzled Zhou Cheng. Although he is a theoretical physicist, he is still very familiar with high-energy particle experiments. When he was doing scientific research projects at CERN and the Stanford National Linear Acceleration Center, he spent most of his time working with vacuums.

Pipes, superconducting electromagnetic coils and collision sensors are being dealt with.

When his wife Shen Manling went to visit several times, she saw Zhou Cheng wearing a safety helmet and running around the base and jokingly said:

"Old Zhou, I thought you changed your career to become an engineer!"

Zhou Cheng was greatly puzzled by what the staff said, "General Master Liu rarely goes to the underground test base."

"Professor Zhou, please get in the car. I will take you to meet the experts from the review team." The staff politely reminded Zhou Cheng when he saw that Zhou Cheng had been frozen in place for a long time without moving.

Zhou Cheng came back to his senses:

"Oh, no. I'll go see General Master Liu first."

The staff took Zhou Cheng to the door of Liu Chaowen's chief engineer's office, knocked on the door and entered. Liu Chaowen lowered his head and was sitting at his neat desk writing something on a piece of paper. When he saw that the person led by the staff was Zhou Chengli.

A strange expression that looked like a smile but not a smile flashed across his face, and then he immediately stood up.

With a solemn and formal smile on his face, he said seriously:

"Teacher Zhou, you are here!"

Although they haven't seen each other for a long time, Zhou Cheng was still a little surprised by Liu Chaowen's enthusiastic and decent performance. Under normal circumstances, Liu Chaowen would only shyly shout "Hello, Teacher Zhou" when seeing him. But just now, Liu Chaowen's face suddenly changed.

In the fleeting strange expression, Zhou Cheng read a hint of suppressed excitement.

"I still haven't finished some calculations here, so I didn't go to the underground experimental base to accompany the review team." Liu Chaowen seemed to have noticed Zhou Cheng's doubts.

Zhou Cheng glanced at the few pieces of paper on the large desk. For theoretical physics under today's complex mathematical system, those three or two pages were barely enough to write a table of contents. He walked forward and took out a copy from his bag.

Put the information on your desk:

"It's okay to let them read it for themselves. Anyway, your paper explains it very clearly. There is something I want to ask you."

Zhou Cheng turned to a page full of notes:

"I saw your 'Super Oriental Ring' transformation plan a while ago. Two cavities are set up at the symmetrical ends of the annular pipe. There are only structural drawings, and no theoretical correspondence can be found in the paper. I just want to ask you this

What are the functions of the two cavities?”

The question Zhou Cheng asked was purely out of academic curiosity.

"It's just a system auxiliary device. It has no real impact on the experiment itself." Liu Chaowen's voice fluctuated a little when he said this. But Zhou Cheng didn't care.

"Why don't you take me down to have a look?" Zhou Cheng didn't think much about it when he said this. Although Liu Chaowen is now a superstar in cutting-edge science, their ten-year master-disciple relationship. During the exchange

Zhou Cheng has never cared about others.

Liu Chaowen's body trembled slightly, and his eyes were a little blurry. He seemed to be afraid of something, and seemed to be struggling with something.

"Professor Zhou, our Chief Master Liu..." Although the staff member on the side did not finish what he said, Zhou Cheng could already hear the second half of what he wanted to express from his skilled tone.

At this time, Liu Chaowen shuddered and interrupted his assistant.

"Okay...Okay, Teacher Zhou. I'll accompany you to take a look."

The assistant next to him looked at Liu Chaowen and Zhou Cheng in astonishment, as if such a thing had never happened before and could never happen. In the end, he didn't say anything and just followed Liu Chaowen's instructions and drove the electric car.

They go to the underground experimental base.