Great Country Academician

Jinling, Nanjing University.

Xu Chuan, who had just finished a math class, rolled up the math textbook in his hand and walked out of the teaching building.

After giving instructions to Liu Jiaying and Yin Shi on their graduation papers, he submitted a teaching class to the Academic Affairs Office of Nanjing University.

Although in general, the courses of colleges and universities are scheduled and determined a week in advance, his behavior of temporarily jumping the queue does not comply with the regulations.

However, the regulations are dead, and people are alive.

Whether for Nanjing University itself or for the students in Nanjing University, his courses have always been the focus of everyone.

Not to mention the students of the school, sometimes even the mathematics professors of Nanjing University will squat behind the lecture hall with thermos cups.

Even if it is a basic open class, sometimes speaking from this person's mouth will bring them some new inspiration or ideas.

Not everyone is just messing around, especially in key 985 universities like Nanjing University, there are more people who yearn to move forward overall.

After returning to the office from the teaching building, Xu Chuan hadn't even sat down yet when Lin Feng called.

"Junior Brother Chuan, something happened. I just got the news that CERN has made a major breakthrough in the detection of inert neutrinos!"

As soon as the call was connected, Lin Feng on the other end spoke in a hurry.

Hearing this news, Xu Chuan was slightly stunned and asked, "What's the situation?"

Lin Feng quickly reported, "It is said that experimental data of inert neutrinos belonging to the dark matter form have been found, which may be part of the data or all of the data."

"The specific situation is not known yet. The news was revealed by a theoretical physicist who was doing research there before."

"He said that CERN has made certain breakthroughs in inert neutrinos and may hold an acceptance report meeting soon."

"If they really did it, it's probably not good news for us."

The competition between CRHPC and CERN has been determined from the beginning.

Although for the physics community, having two large particle colliders is something that all physicists are looking forward to.

But for the countries behind them, both sides are competitors who wish the other side to die.

After all, the Large Intense Particle Collider involves the development of basic physics and can also attract a large number of foreign talents.

Perhaps these scholars will not immigrate directly, but doing experiments in China can also drive the development of science and cultivate talents in this field.

Just like there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, there cannot be two holy places of physics in the world at the same time.

Hearing this news, Xu Chuan was a little surprised, frowned slightly, and said: "Is there any more specific information?"

He did not doubt the authenticity of the news. If it was false, it would not mean anything to them. CERN could not rise by relying on a false news.

Especially now that there is the CRHPC Circular Super Intense Particle Collider, it is a very simple thing to repeat and verify their collision results.

But the other party's speed did surprise him a little.

In the morning, he talked to Lin Feng on the phone about this matter.

Although it was said that CERN might have made a breakthrough in the detection of dark matter, the two did not take it too seriously.

After all, the academic community has been searching for dark matter for countless years, but in addition to the cosmic microwave background radiation, galaxy cluster observations, the formation of large-scale cosmic structures and other macroscopic cosmic phenomena that confirm that there is indeed a kind of matter in the universe that humans cannot see or detect, affecting the development of the entire universe.

In any other aspects, whether through the Large Hadron Collider or other scientific research equipment, no signs related to dark matter have ever been observed.

The only exception is the results he made at CERN a few years ago, observing some properties of inert neutrino particles that may belong to dark matter.

And this, from the perspective of this era, is actually just a "possibility" to belong to dark matter.

Although influenced by Xu Chuan, many people in the contemporary physics community have accepted that inert neutrinos are a type of dark matter.

But in fact, whether it really belongs to dark matter is actually not certain at present.

On the one hand, there are too few "samples" available for analysis.

The only particle found to be related to dark matter is the inert neutrino, and theoretically, the number of dark matter types is not less than the number of particles that make up real matter, and may even be more.

On the other hand, the data of inert neutrinos currently observed are all manifestations of its discontinuous resonant state structure, and there are predictions about the properties of dark matter that have not been fully detected.

So to be precise, except for Xu Chuan himself, no one else can guarantee that inert neutrinos are definitely dark matter particles.

It's just that compared with other things, it is more likely.

On the other side of the phone, Lin Feng sighed and said, "This is the biggest problem."

"At present, our relationship with CERN can be said to be very unfriendly. The other party's research progress information is impossible to be opened to us before it is officially disclosed."

"I have asked Professor Reinhard Genzel, and he doesn't know much about the experiments at the University of Munich and Harvard University."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. You continue to pay attention to the follow-up situation and contact me in time if there is any news."

"In addition, the acceptance work of the last important predicted coupling constant of the strong-electric unified theory will be put on hold for three days. You should communicate with Director Tai about this matter."

Lin Feng nodded and said, "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan sent a message to Zheng Hai, asking him to help book a high-speed rail ticket to Xingcheng.

Then he opened the computer mailbox and downloaded the acceptance data of the last important predicted coupling constant in the strong-electric unified theory submitted by the Magic City Jiaotong University.

Regardless of whether the experimental data detected by CERN is inert neutrinos or other dark matter or something else.

At present, the most important thing for him and the CRHPC organization is actually the verification of the strong-electric unified theory.

Although he has always believed that in addition to his personal participation in the detection of dark matter, it will take at least a few years for other scholars or institutions to find and fully confirm dark matter particles.

This is the case when he has confirmed that inert neutrinos are a type of warm dark matter, otherwise it will take longer.

But sometimes, accidents may happen.

Maybe under the stimulation of CRHPC, CERN really exploded? This is also possible.

Although it is a pity to lose the title of the first "completely" confirmed dark matter, there is nothing you can do if you really lose it.

After all, sometimes life is like this, no one knows which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.

In fact, to be honest, as early as when the CRHPC organization started to operate and began to arrange the next collision experiment and research work, someone had proposed to advance the detection experiment of dark matter.

At least they should complete the detection of inert neutrinos before CERN and grab the honor of being the first to completely confirm dark matter.

However, this matter was eventually rejected after discussion.

It's very simple. Compared with the strong-electric unified theory, even if dark matter is discovered and confirmed, it cannot bring benefits and technological progress in a short time.

The strong-electric unified theory is different.

Although it is also at the forefront of theoretical physics, it will take decades or even longer to turn it into applied results.

However, some secondary theories or lower-level results derived from the strong-electric unified theory can actually promote the development of some science and technology.

For example, the cutting-edge technologies such as plasma electromagnetic deflection shield and the foundation of neutrino communication technology that are still under research are all related to the strong-electric unified theory.

Compared with the discovery of dark matter, the importance of the verification of the strong-electric unified theory is far more than just a glory.

This paper contains more treasures, waiting for later digging.

Therefore, the final collision experiment is still based on the verification of the strong-electric unified theory, and the detection of dark matter is put behind.

If the detection of inert neutrinos or dark matter is really discovered by CERN first, Xu Chuan will not have much to say.

Whether it is CERN or CRHPC, even if both sides are about to fight their brains out, they still maintain a tacit understanding.

That is, this cutting-edge theoretical research is fully open to the outside world.

It is not just about openness. For every collision result and exploration experiment, if it wants to be completely recognized by the academic community, then an acceptance report meeting must be held and the questioning session must be passed.

This is similar to the "peer review" in the paper review process, and it can be regarded as a piece of pure land in the academic community.

The next day, afternoon.

Xingcheng, the Bagua Building of the Taohualing CRHPC headquarters.

First, go to the office of Director Tai Xuewen, who is responsible for the daily affairs management of the CRHPC organization. After chatting about the acceptance report meeting of the unified theory of strong electricity, Xu Chuan knocked on the door of Lin Feng's office and walked in.

"I thought you would come in two days when the acceptance report meeting was held, but I didn't expect to come today."

Hearing the knock on the door, Lin Feng, who was handling his work, looked up and saw him. He was stunned for a moment after seeing him, and then smiled and stood up to greet him.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It just so happens that I'm not too busy with other things, so I came to check the situation first."

Take out a box of tea from the locker, and while making tea, Lin Feng continued, "Speaking of which, there has been some progress on the matter you asked me to pay attention to yesterday."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan looked over in surprise: "So fast?"

"Yeah."

Lin Feng nodded, came over with two cups of hot tea, handed one cup to Xu Chuan, and then said, "I contacted a few friends who are still working at CERN, and through them indirectly contacted the teams of the University of Munich and Harvard University to understand the specific situation of the leaked information."

"How do you say it?" Xu Chuan asked curiously.

Lin Feng thought for a while, and said, "The specific information is not very detailed, but from the information I have found out, CERN seems to have observed the signal generated by the annihilation of dark matter after the collision."

"From the experimental data, some of these data show the same signal as the inert neutrinos you observed before."

"In addition, the β decay reaction in the experimental data violates the law of conservation of energy, and after calculation, the inert neutrino signal increased by about 6% to 7%."

"After excluding other experimental interferences, the teams of the University of Munich and Harvard University believe that this may be data generated by some dark matter particle collision experiments."

"In short, they believe that some of the neutrinos produced in the collision of particles have completed the mutual transformation process between visible particles and field particles, and have become inert neutrinos through neutrino oscillation."

"What exactly is the situation? I'm afraid we have to wait for CERN to hold a press conference or acceptance report meeting to know."

Hearing Lin Feng's description, Xu Chuan frowned and pondered for a long time before shaking his head and saying: "The amount of information is too little. It may be difficult to judge the other party's true situation based on this alone."

Dark matter itself is at the forefront of theoretical physics research. Just a few general descriptions make it difficult for even him to make a judgment.

Especially the fact that the β decay reaction in the experimental data violated the law of conservation of energy and increased the inert neutrino signal by about 6% to 7%, made him feel a little strange.

Across the sofa, Lin Feng shrugged, looked at Xu Chuan and said with a smile: "No matter what the situation is, as long as the results are true, CERN will definitely hold a press conference and acceptance report meeting."

"I dare not say about others, but what is certain is that you will definitely receive an invitation from the other party at that time."

The person in front of him is the leader of inert neutrino detection. Through the LHC collider, it is confirmed that there is indeed at least one particle in the universe that is beyond the explanation of the standard model.

Regardless of whether it is dark matter or not, as long as the results of the CERN institution are based on the inert neutrino correlation, it is impossible to bypass him.

If it really bypasses him to hold an acceptance report meeting, I am afraid that the entire physics community will not recognize this achievement, or at least there will be considerable doubts.

"That's right."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and nodded.

Indeed, no matter what, CERN cannot bypass him to hold an acceptance report meeting.

Because the outside world will be skeptical about this acceptance report, just like the verification of the predicted coupling constant in the strong electric unified theory completed by CERN before.

Bypassing him as the founder, holding a relevant report meeting, and then passing it rashly, whether the theoretical physics community accepts it or not is a matter of one thing.

While chatting, a loud phone rang in the office.

Feeling the vibration from his pocket, Xu Chuan reached out and took out his mobile phone and looked at the screen.

The call was from his assistant Tang Ran at Nanjing University.

"Hello, Tang Ran."

His thumb swiped across the screen, and Xu Chuan answered the call. On the other side, Tang Ran's voice quickly reported over.

"Professor, your work mailbox has just received an email from the CERN Board of Directors, the European Atomic Energy Research Organization, inviting you to attend an acceptance report meeting called 'Kardra Dark Matter'."

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