Great Country Academician

Chapter 956 Puzzles from high-energy collision experiments~

If you want to say what the most eye-catching news this summer is, it is undoubtedly the manned landing on Mars carried out by China.

For mankind, this is undoubtedly an epic milestone in deep space exploration.

Whether it succeeds or not, it will be written into the long river of history and remembered by the world.

Of course, the manned landing on Mars carried out by Xinghai Research Institute has also gained the envy of many countries.

Especially the space shuttle that can freely enter and exit the atmosphere and outer space, it can be said that all countries shed envy and jealousy.

You know, the significance of such a space shuttle is not only in the expansion of the aerospace field and outer space. It is also unparalleled for the country's national defense and military deterrence.

After all, no matter how powerful your satellite and radar monitoring system is, it is impossible to observe the near-Earth orbit of outer space at all times.

A spacecraft that can dive directly from outer space to your head at any time may be carrying the mission of human exploration of outer space in peacetime, but in chaotic times, it is the sword of Dakota hanging over the heads of all people and countries.

Especially the Tsarist Russia in the north.

Whether it is the rapidly developing aerospace technology of China or this new type of space shuttle, they are all salivating, and have even proposed to China more than once to obtain space shuttles or related technologies through technology exchange.

However, it is obvious that for China at present, Tsarist Russia does not have any advanced technology that can be shown off.

Even the large engine technology and nuclear submarine technology that once made China drooling are just so-so now.

What's more, whether it is for China or Xinghai Research Institute, the new space shuttle itself is a prohibited item that cannot be sold to the outside world.

In mid-to-late June.

At the suggestion of Xu Chuan, the Xiashu Space Base held a press conference and selectively disclosed a batch of previously unmanned exploration data on Mars.

For example, the water ice resources found at the bottom of the Mariner Grand Canyon and the Cande Canyon, the detection data of the Martian surface soil, the igneous rock data of the Olympus Mons volcano, etc.

Although the Xiashu Space Base did not release some specific data, such as how much water ice resources there are and the specific content of various elements in the soil.

But this press conference still attracted the attention of countries around the world.

In particular, the water ice resources found by the Firefly-3 Mars rover in the Mariner Grand Canyon and the Cande Canyon have attracted the attention of many countries' space agencies.

The existence of water ice resources on Mars has long been detected.

But past explorations of Mars have shown that the water resources on Mars are mainly concentrated in the north and south poles of Mars or may exist underground several kilometers below.

The environment in which these resources are located is relatively harsh, and it is not so easy to exploit and utilize them.

But the water ice resources at the bottom of the Cande Canyon are completely different.

Although it is at the bottom of the canyon, it sounds difficult to resist.

But the huge size of the Mariner Grand Canyon and the sufficient space inside are enough for various probes and even space shuttles to land directly.

Even based on some barriers brought by the Grand Canyon itself, it is not impossible to build a base directly at the bottom of the canyon.

This means that China can quickly develop the water ice resources at the bottom of the Kande Canyon.

It is not impossible that they can even replicate the construction of the Moon·Yuehuatai Outpost Research Station.

After all, a few years ago, no one thought that China could build a permanent qualitative research base on the moon in just two years.

The environment on Mars is more favorable than that on the moon.

Compared with the gravity on the moon, which is only one-sixth of the earth, the gravity on Mars is also weak, but it is enough to support astronauts to walk on it relatively normally.

As for mobility.

To this day, I am afraid that no country will question China's mobility and infrastructure capabilities.

This is not good news for countries that are still planning manned lunar landings.

Especially for the United States and Tsarist Russia, it is even worse news.

Needless to say, the United States has always been the pride of the Americans. Now it is hard to accept that China is overtaking them.

As for Tsarist Russia.

In fact, like the United States, China's sudden rise in the field of aerospace is not only unbelievable, but also difficult to accept.

After all, in the past few years, Tsarist Russia has always regarded itself as the second largest aerospace power.

Aerospace is not only the pride of the United States, but also of Tsarist Russia.

Having inherited most of the heritage and technology of the Red Soviet Union, they are not inferior to the United States in the field of aerospace.

Whether it is chemical fuel launch vehicles or space shuttles, Tsarist Russia has complete technical solutions and design drawings.

Even in the early 21st century, after the United States abandoned the use of space shuttles, it once relied on Tsarist Russia's launch vehicles to send astronauts and supplies to space and space stations.

Although all this comes from that powerful country in the last century, for the people of Tsarist Russia, this is their own thing.

Inspired by the manned moon landing and manned Mars landing, especially the desire for space shuttles, the Russian Space Agency quickly held an internal meeting to re-discuss the development direction of space technology, chose to restart the technology related to the Buran space shuttle left over from the Red Soviet period, and formulated a series of plans such as manned moon landing and manned Mars landing.

And it was not just the United States and Tsarist Russia that were stimulated.

Including the European Union, the Sakura Country, the Maple Leaf Country, India and other countries and regions also quickly held press conferences to disclose their own space plans.

Perhaps it was out of the intention of not falling behind other countries in the development of the space field.

Or it was like the concerns of ordinary netizens, worrying that the moon and Mars, the two closest and most critical planets for human civilization to expand into outer space, would all fall into the control of China.

In short, this round of space competition seemed to have expanded from China and the United States to the whole world overnight.

Under the blooming of a hundred flowers, the aerospace field quickly ushered in a new prosperous era.

For Xu Chuan, he didn't think so much.

I never thought that a manned landing on Mars would cause such a big change in the world's aerospace situation.     But from the perspective of aerospace, it is a good thing that countries are scrambling to increase investment and expansion in the development of outer space.

On the one hand, China has mastered aerospace technology that is at least ten years ahead of other countries in the field of aerospace. The emergence of the first and second generation space shuttles means that they can occupy an absolutely dominant position in the future development of space.

No matter how much other countries invest in the field of aerospace, it is difficult to catch up with them in this field.

After all, the core technology of the new space shuttle lies in the miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor and aerospace engine.

These two key technologies are not so easy to break through.

Let alone miniaturized fusion reactors, even large civilian fusion reactors, countries have invested tens of billions of funds and resources, but there is no breakthrough progress.

The core high-temperature plasma turbulence control model and the first wall material are still like a copper wall and iron wall blocking all countries.

The traditional space shuttle model is not very applicable to today's rapidly developing space exploration.

Even from the perspective of economy and cost-effectiveness, traditional space shuttles are far from being comparable to chemical fuel launch vehicles.

Especially after the rapid development of SpaceX's reusable rocket technology, the cost of chemical fuel launch vehicles cannot be compared with the new space shuttle, but it is much cheaper than the previous disposable launch vehicles.

However, the strategic advantages brought by space shuttles in the field of national defense and security are indeed incomparable to traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles.

Even the old space shuttles have great strategic value.

This is also the reason why the United States, Tsarist Russia, the European Union and other countries are trying to promote the development of space shuttles.

On the other hand, it is also good for China that countries invest money to strengthen the development of the aerospace field.

After all, outer space is too vast. To successfully develop outer space, it does not require the power of a country, but the power of the entire human civilization.

As long as they occupy a dominant position in this process, it is enough.

Without paying too much attention to the advancement and development of various countries in the field of aerospace, Xu Chuan returned to Star City with the data sent back by Mars exploration.

He plans to deal with the affairs of the CRHPC agency first, and then deal with the work related to manned landing on Mars and Mars transformation.

After all, although manned landing on Mars is important, the six astronauts have just set off and it will take at least a month to reach Mars' low-Earth orbit.

The analysis of the experimental data of the collision between inert neutrinos and massive dark matter particles is still in progress and is even approaching its end.

CRHPC, headquarters in the Bagua Building.

After spending a few days in Jinling to handle manned landing on Mars and aerospace related work, Xu Chuan returned to his chairman's office.

With the joint efforts of top physicists from all over the world, the collision experiment between inert neutrinos and massive dark matter particles has completed the analysis of experimental data at multiple energy levels such as 35Tev, 50Tev, and 75Tev.

Sitting on the sofa, Xu Chuan held a paper in his hand and was watching it intently.

Across the sofa, after glancing at the experimental report results in his hand, theoretical physicist Professor Frank Wilczek pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and spoke with some emotion.

"It's incredible!"

"From the results of collision experiments below 75Tev, the properties of dark matter particles almost perfectly match the predictions of the void field dark matter theory you completed."

"They showed different energy level surges in multiple energy level regions and collision experiments, especially in the 75Tev collision energy level detection, the highest one actually reached an astonishing ultra-high energy level of 89.7Tev."

"This is simply unbelievable. It is hard to imagine that in such a high energy level region, there are still massive particles that we cannot detect."

Across the sofa, Witten's eyes fell on the report experiment in his hand, and he spoke with interest in his eyes.

"If it is in accordance with the prediction of the void field dark matter theory, the high-energy level of large-mass dark matter particles in the experiment should be close to 125Tev."

"Such a high particle energy level has far exceeded the prediction of the standard model. It has a huge role in helping us understand the formation of the universe and dark matter particles."

At this point, Witten paused for a while, his eyes moved from the experimental report in his hand to Xu Chuan, frowned and said:

"The most important thing is that although the theory and experimental data are currently on the right track, we still don't understand why such high-energy dark matter particles can exist in the universe."

"Because in theory, it should only exist in the energy sea in the early universe. As time goes by, high-energy particles should continue to decay and release their own energy, and evolve to be close to the energy level of the surrounding."

This is the biggest problem in the data of the multi-energy collision experiment, and it is also a problem that almost violates the current human observation of the universe.

Although the scientific community still does not know how the universe originated, whether it originated from the Big Bang or other ways.

But what is certain is that the observable universe is expanding and its energy level is decreasing.

This means that after more than 10 billion years of development, there should be no particles with such high energy levels.

This is the biggest mystery in this experiment of inert neutrinos and massive dark matter particles colliding. Everyone looked at Xu Chuan who returned to CRHPC without thinking, expecting him to give an explanation.

After all, he completed the theory of void field and dark matter. If we talk about understanding, I am afraid no one knows more about this than him.

Feeling the gazes of the crowd, Xu Chuan shook his head gently and said, "Although I speculated and predicted that there may be massive dark matter particles with an energy level of 125Tev in the universe, I cannot give an accurate answer as to why they can still survive for more than 10 billion years."

"What I know is not necessarily much more than you do."

To be honest, the current collision experiment work of the CRHPC organization has exceeded the theoretical physics limit he knew in his previous life.

After all, the energy level of the high-brightness large particle collider LH-LHC of the CERN organization in his previous life was less than 35Tev.

And the experimental data in front of him almost all occurred in collision experiments above the 35Tev energy level.

Entering a new unknown field, what he can know is not much more than other physicists who have also seen this batch of experimental data.

How the massive and high-energy dark matter particles have been preserved from the original universe to today is also a mystery to him.

PS: It's the end of the month, and I'm begging for the monthly tickets in the hands of the big guys~, there are so few monthly tickets this month, o(╥﹏╥)o, just over a thousand