Great Country Academician

Chapter 964 Perhaps faster-than-light travel is not impossible~

When the second issue of "Exploration·General Journal" began to be published to the world, almost all physicists were addicted to it.

Not only the "Discover" journal, but other international academic journals such as "Nature" and "Science" have tracked it and arranged their own editors to interview top physicists.

Even the Review of Modern Physics, which generally does not accept free submissions, invites physicists who have made outstanding achievements in various fields to write historical summaries, principle elaborations, current situation analyses, and trend predictions on major hot issues in today's physics research.

They all arranged for the editor-in-chief to find Professor Roger Penrose, the mathematical physicist who never sets on the sun, the Nobel Prize winner in physics. While interviewing him, he hoped that he could write an article on the discovery of dark matter. Review.

Of course, it is not that "Modern Physics Reviews" has not considered inviting Professor Xu Chuan to write a review.

Especially when it comes to the acceptance report, there is now a prediction about faster-than-light travel. Even though several days have passed, discussions about this aspect are still a hot topic in major media.

But after careful consideration, the editor-in-chief of "Modern Physics Reviews" temporarily gave up the idea.

After all, the current concerns about warp engines and space-time wormholes are just predictions and speculations. It would be too late to find Professor Xu in the future after he completes his thesis on this subject.

This rare opportunity should be reserved for more important things.

For now, Professor Roger Penrose will suffice.

When the editor-in-chief of "Modern Physics Review" found this top physics expert, he was retiring in a small town near Oxford University.

The 94-year-old Nobel Prize winner has been mainly engaged in research in the fields of mathematical physics such as general relativity and quantum mechanics in the past.

Especially in the research on black hole singularities and space-time, he is widely known.

"In the distant past, the universe must have started from an infinitesimal singularity" was the proof he and Hawking completed in collaboration, and applied it to cosmology to prove the ubiquity of the Big Bang singularity.

This is completely consistent with the observations of the universe by the physics community at that time. At the singularity, all known physical laws will collapse.

Editor-in-Chief of Reviews of Modern Physics: "Hello, Professor Penrose, it's an honor to interview you today."

Without wasting time, after saying hello, the editor-in-chief of "Modern Physics Review" went directly to the topic and asked.

"Not long ago, the CRHPC agency officially completed the verification of the dark matter particle 'Cτ sterile neutrino particle', and successfully found the first dark matter particle in human history. What do you think of this?"

Without almost any thought, Roger Penrose smiled and said: "This is a great thing. They have opened up the boundaries of physics and also opened up the frontier world of human cognition."

"Under the leadership of Professor Xu Chuan, dark matter was confirmed from the microscopic world. This is a particle that exceeds the standard model. It and other types of dark matter particles form a new world beyond our knowledge, a new continent. ”

"There is no doubt that this will be the greatest achievement of the early 21st century, bar none!"

Editor-in-Chief of "Modern Physics Review": "At the end of the report, Professor Xu personally added some bold predictions to the void field and dark matter theory."

"For example, there may be more dark matter particles in the center of the sun than we imagine. There is a limit to the expansion speed of the universe. As well as the curvature engines and space-time wormholes that the public is most concerned about, etc."

"What do you think of these predictions and conjectures?"

After hearing this question, Professor Penrose thought for a while before slowly replying: "I'm afraid I can't give any answer to this question."

"After all, even if the CRHPC agency has confirmed the existence of dark matter particles, we still don't know much about their properties."

"Even the most detailed Cτ sterile neutrino particle only knows part of its properties."

"but."

After a pause, he continued: "But for some of these predictions, we can conduct observational verification."

"For example, whether there are more dark matter particles in the center of the sun and the expansion rate of the universe, these can be verified to a certain extent through astronomical observation equipment."

"This will be one of the most important future areas of detection in physics and astronomy."

"As for the curvature engines and space-time wormholes that the public is most concerned about, I think it is too early to give a yes or no answer to this question."

The editor-in-chief of "Reviews of Modern Physics" was keenly aware of the potential meaning and asked curiously: "You don't seem to be very optimistic about the concept of warp navigation proposed by Professor Xu?"

Professor Roger Penrose shook his head and said: "Although his idea is very novel, it is not enough to say that he is not optimistic about it."

"Personally, I hope he's right."

"Just from the perspective of scientific theory and research, it doesn't make much sense to discuss these at the moment."

"After all, these things are just speculations at the moment. I think it would be more appropriate to discuss related theories at least until Professor Xu completes this part of the paper."

Editor-in-chief of "Modern Physics Review": "If Professor Xu Chuan's prediction is correct, then when can we use these theories to achieve superluminal warp travel?"

After hearing this question, Roger Penrose thought for a moment and replied: "I can't give an accurate time for this question."

"However, based on the current level of technology, if we want to successfully control dark matter and use it to achieve superluminal warp travel, the time required may be in the unit of hundreds of years."

"Maybe it will be a century later, or maybe two centuries later, or maybe even more distant."

As he spoke, Professor Penrose added with some sarcasm and some regret.

"But at least, I will definitely not see it."

Although superluminal warp travel is just a prediction and conjecture made by that person at the acceptance report meeting, the entire academic community knows the habits of this big guy.

He will never speak casually without full confidence.

Especially in the field of academic research, with his personality, he must have made such a judgment based on what he discovered through the Cτ inert neutrino particle. It is no exaggeration to say that once he publicly expresses any opinion, even if it is just a speculation, it will be made public after countless thoughts and calculations to ensure that at least there is no problem with this opinion in logic and theory.

The only regret for Penrose is that time waits for no one. He is old and has reached the age where a fall may cost him the last bit of his life. He cannot see the day when superluminal curvature navigation is verified.

What he hopes now is that the person can perfect the relevant theories of superluminal travel in his limited days, so that he can take a look before leaving. This is enough.

Coincidentally, in addition to Roger Penrose, the top expert in the field of mathematical physics, who has made a certain degree of public statement on dark matter particles and related theories.

Another top expert in the field of theoretical physics, Professor Sal Perlmutter, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe by observing distant supernovae, also publicly responded to the research results of the CRHPC organization.

This scholar, who wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Prize Selection Committee as early as 2018 to recommend the expanded application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, publicly stated in front of reporters.

".I don't understand what the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Prize selection committee are thinking. It's a big joke that the physics prize last year was awarded to the achievements in the field of AI."

"Isn't the theory of strong electric unification more worthy of a medal than the so-called artificial neural network for machine learning?"

"Of course, I have continued to write letters to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year. Both the theory of strong electric unification and the Cτ inert neutrino particle are worthy of a Nobel Prize medal."

"It is no exaggeration to say that this is not that Professor Xu needs a second Nobel Prize, but that the Nobel Prize must consider awarding him a second, third, or even more medals."

"If scholars who have unified the theory of strong electric force for the physics community and opened up the world of dark matter for mankind cannot win a second Nobel Prize, I think I will doubt the fairness of the Nobel Prize!"

"As for the predictions and speculations about superluminal travel, I have no doubt that Professor Xu has made major breakthroughs in this regard, but the specific situation still needs to wait until he releases the relevant papers before we can judge."

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It has to be said that compared with the discussions outside the academic community, the physics community is indeed calmer.

Even though it was Xu Chuan who proposed the prediction related to superluminal travel, these top scholars in the physics community still maintained a rigorous attitude towards this theory.

Even though everyone expected this to be true, they were all waiting for the relevant papers to be officially released.

However, even if they were calm, it was only related to superluminal travel.

And the entire physics community was completely crazy about the official exploration and confirmation of the dark matter particle Cτ sterile neutrino.

This is the first particle that truly exceeds the standard model, and it is also a particle that constitutes the huge dark matter in the universe, and it is also a particle that opens up a whole new world in the physics community.

Not to mention Professor Sal Perlmutter, even Professor François Engler, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for the discovery of the "God Particle" Higgs boson, also publicly stated that the discovery of the Cτ sterile neutrino particle is worthy of a Nobel Prize.

He hopes that this year's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will seriously consider the relevant awards instead of awarding them to other achievements.

At the same time, on the other side.

Xingcheng, Taohualing.

In the chairman's office at the headquarters of CRHPC, Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to the outside world's discussions.

Even the Nobel Prize is just that to him now.

If you count his previous life, he has won three Nobel Prizes, so this medal is not that attractive to him.

Of course, if the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gives him the award, he will still be happy to accept it.

After all, although the number of scholars who have won two Nobel Prizes is limited, there are still some.

As for the future, he may consider establishing an award in his own name?

For example, the 'Xu Chuan Award' or the 'Void Award'?

But that's all for the future. Compared to these honors, Xu Chuan is more concerned about the theory related to superluminal travel.

After the paper on Cτ inert neutrinos was officially completed, he has not been out much in the past week. He has been in his office to continue to improve the prediction theory he proposed at the 125Tev energy level acceptance report meeting.

It is not just scholars and people from the outside world who care about this aspect. Compared with others, Xu Chuan himself is undoubtedly the one who cares most about this theory.

Use the energy generated by the fission of massive dark matter particles during void breaking to distort the folds in space-time, so as to travel close to the speed of light or faster than the speed of light.

This is undoubtedly impossible to do at the current technological level.

Because even the CRHPC organization can only use the large-scale particle collider to detect dark matter particles almost "randomly", and cannot effectively control them.

But what if it is a different idea?

In the void field dark matter theory he constructed, the two core key points to travel faster than light through dark matter are the void breaking effect + a large amount of energy.

Dark matter particles are not actually among them.

If a large amount of energy is released through fusion or fission of conventional matter, can it effectively replace the large mass of dark matter particles?

At present, they are not short of energy, and controlled nuclear fusion reactors can provide enormous energy.

But the key is not energy, but whether energy can be effectively used to "distort or straighten" space-time.

This is the question he has been thinking about these days.

If it can be done, perhaps in his lifetime, superluminal space-time travel may not necessarily be impossible.

But vaguely, Xu Chuan also speculated that dark matter may have an advantage over the energy released by conventional matter in pulling the curvature of space-time.

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