Into Unscientific

As a scientist of European descent.

In the previous sixty years of his life, Gabriel Veniziano had actually had some intersections with Huaxia.

For example, he mentioned in his autobiography that there is a Cantonese restaurant next to his home, the owner is a very kind couple, and he has a special liking for the dish of sweet and sour pork.

Another example is that among his college classmates, there are some foreign students from Huaxia.

Gabriel Veniziano was in college in the 1980s, and the composition of foreign students in China was not as complicated as it is now.

Although there were some who were able to go abroad through the back door at that time, most of them were public school masters. This group of wall hangings from the East left an indelible impression on Gabriel Veniziano.

But on the other hand.

Huaxia's impression of Gabriel Veniziano was nothing more than that.

Gabriel Veniziano has always believed that he will not have much intersection with Huaxia, and the element of Huaxia will only appear in his memoirs and autobiographies.

But it wasn't until today that Gabriel Veniziano found out.

China.

This word, no, it should be said that this country has so many intersections with my life?

really amazing

buzz buzz --

Just when Gabriel Veniziano was in a daze.

In the big pit in front of him that had already been filled with water-based fluid, there was a sudden vibration.

This is the signal for the official launch of the device.

In fact, according to the experimental requirements, there should be no people in the F4 library at this time.

It's not just a matter of hygiene.

What's more important is that the human body will emit radiation due to life activities, and the electronic equipment on the body will also affect the experiment. Although this magnitude is actually very small, for high-precision experiments, These are errors that cannot be tolerated.

but today

Gabriel Veniziano did not choose to leave.

He just stood in the aisle, quietly looking at the water surface below. Or the liquid surface.

In fact, due to the blue color of the water-based fluid, Gabriel Veniziano has no view of the bottom of the pit from where he stands.

But at this moment.

Gabriel Veniziano's gaze seemed to see the operation of the experimental equipment at the bottom of the pit through the azure liquid surface.

First the particle beam is emitted.

Then the particles collide

Scattering and trapping of high energy particles.

Then after the ground state treatment, the magneto-optical trap falls, and the isolated particles are separated separately

Then peripheral radiation shielding, short-term damage field generation

J/psi particle correction module import

in a microscopic field.

An ultra-low temperature particle smaller than dust 'walks' in the water-based liquid with a certain unique spin, leaving one after another beautiful tails.

biubiubiu~

The initial oscillating arc of this particle invisible to the naked eye in the water-based liquid was very small, but with the accumulation of various equipment, the water above it suddenly began to oscillate.

Snapped--

A few drops of water fell on Gabriel Veniziano's feet, and quickly seeped through the trousers and into the socks.

The composition of the upper water-based liquid is mainly heavy water, which will not cause any harm when splashed on the human body.

But in the low temperature form, it is inexplicably bitingly cold.

This tunnel of more than 30 meters is like a bumping bucket at this time, and the liquid is constantly surging and undulating.

Gabriel Veniziano didn't have the slightest thought of shrinking back. The little silver-haired old man grabbed the guardrail with all his strength, his eyes locked tightly on the bottom.

He was waiting for a signal visible to the naked eye.

five minutes.

ten minutes.

fifteen minutes

When the time slowly came to the eighteenth minute.

In the big pit that was originally azure blue, an extremely dazzling red light suddenly appeared from the bottom.

Gabriel Veniziano suddenly caught his breath.

This signal represents an incoming particle hitting a xenon nucleus, which produces free charges and/or photons.

At the same time, due to the energy of a single xenon atom endowed by the collision, it is a pseudo-scalar after commuting with the model quantity of the non-self-morphic impacting particle, and the brightness of the red light represents the excess vector contingency—this sentence No typos or word order mistakes.

In human terms it is.

The more dark matter fits the Standard Model, the more red it glows.

According to the existing preset model.

Hot dark matter is the flow of neutrinos, even if they collide with atomic nuclei, no light will be produced.

Theoretically, warm dark matter can produce a light source with a width of about two centimeters. Due to the accumulation of lenses, the people at the top can still see this beam of light with some effort.

As for cold dark matter, that is, dark matter in the standard sense, it can be divided into several situations.

That is, the five models mentioned before:

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs),

axion,

inert neutrinos,

supermassive particles,

Ultralight vector particles.

Among them, the theoretical aperture thickness of supermassive particles and ultralight vector particles should be ten centimeters to fifteen centimeters.

Inert neutrinos are relatively controversial due to their unknown properties, but they are generally believed to be between 18-30 centimeters.

The axion is about 40 cm.

WIMP is currently considered to be the most likely particle of dark matter, and its width is 60-80 cm.

And this ray of light that appeared in front of Gabriel Veniziano right now.

As long as it is not an interstellar player, even the naked eye can clearly see its width, at least it will not be lower than

Two meters!

Indeed.

Due to the refractive index of the lens and water-based liquid medium, the aperture seen by the naked eye may be somewhat different from the model standard.

For example, supermassive particles may be confused with inert neutrinos, and the specific distinction needs to be distinguished by a more sophisticated tool called an instrument.

But the so-called "in and out" here is only a dozen or twenty centimeters, and it is impossible to expand an 8 centimeter aperture to two meters so outrageous.

In other words.

this time.

The Liner Dark Matter Lab actually found standard dark matter particles.

Dash, under the guidance of the Huaxia people.

Looking at the surface of the water-based liquid glowing red.

Gabriel Veniziano thought for a moment, and took out a piece of A4 paper with various experimental data printed on it from the jumpsuit.

Then he folded the piece of paper into a small paper boat, bent down, and put it into the water through the gap in the guardrail.

The oscillating water-based fluid caused the paper boat to float, while quickly soaking its body.

In less than half a minute at most, the paper boat would get wet and sink.

Gabriel Veniziano stared at the paper boat for a few seconds, then put the harmonica in the corner of the aisle.

Then he patted Nelson on the shoulder, and left the F4 library without looking back:

"We should go, Nelson."

Two minutes later.

Gabriel Veniziano, who took off his jumpsuit, returned to the main control room and walked to Angie Pedro's side:

"Pedro, how's the situation?"

Angie Pedro glanced at his friend, picked up a report from the table and handed it to him:

"The verification is correct. The Chinese people have indeed discovered the standard dark matter particles."

Gabriel Veniziano took the report, put it aside without looking at it, shook his head and said:

"I know this. The red light in the F4 library has been snapped onto my face. That thing is much more intuitive than the data."

"Pedro, I'm not asking about the result, but"

"What's our rank?"

Angie Pedro smiled at him, pointed to the live broadcast on the main control screen, and said:

"See that light in the front? Ours."

Gabriel Veniziano was stunned for a moment, but he was not overjoyed when he came back to his senses. Instead, he puffed out his cheeks and let out a long breath.

He pulled a stool casually and sat down heavily.

He leaned forward, inserted his fingers into his silver-white hair, with a dazed expression.

But Gabriel Veniziano didn't cry.

Precisely

He doesn't even know which mood he should switch to.

For Gabriel Veniziano, now 65 and in the middle stages of esophageal cancer.

To be able to see the discovery of dark matter before retirement or death is actually quite a gratifying thing.

This means that the direction he insisted on is not wrong-this sentence sounds simple, but for scientists, this sentence is a blessing in life.

In the long history of science, I don’t know how many people failed to find the goal they wanted to pursue until their death, and were even told that the direction of their life was wrong.

Like Friedrich Frege.

late nineteenth century,

The German mathematician Cantor founded the set theory, which was later regarded as the basic theory of the entire mathematical edifice.

Almost all scientists believe that all mathematics can be built on the basis of set theory, among which Friedrich Frege is an enthusiastic supporter.

Frege tried to use the concept of sets to define numbers, and completed the first volume of his book "Fundamental Laws of Arithmetic" in 1893, and stepped up writing the second volume while the iron was hot.

As a result, in 1902, Russell's paradox appeared.

Frege tried to solve this paradox, but his solution was quickly rejected by Lesniewski.

Frege could only give up the direction he had been working on for more than 20 years, gave up mathematics, and finally died of depression.

Also in the documentary of the European Hadron Collider, there is a little old man who has been studying supersymmetry theory for 40 years.

When he had to face the camera and admit to his friends that his hard work for so many years turned out to be in vain, the helplessness, depression, loss and sadness were really heartbreaking. (I strongly recommend you to watch this documentary, there is a Chinese version)

Other than that.

Beringia is also a famous example.

Many people may not have much impression of this name, but they must have read such a text when they were studying:

At the beginning of the 18th century, the eve of the great development of science.

At the University of Pittsburgh in Germany, some students brought an old professor some wonderful fossils that he had never seen before.

It not only depicts birds, insects and other rare birds and monsters, but also introduces the sun, moon and ancient and incomprehensible stone books similar to Hebrew.

The professor was very excited after seeing it, and immediately went to the site where the fossil was discovered with the students, and excavated several pieces of fossils again.

From this day on, the professor devoted himself to sorting out the collected specimens without sleep or food.

After decades of hard work, the professor's efforts finally bore fruit:

A splendid monograph of twenty-one fossil lithographs has been published, entitled The Pittsburgh Chronicles.

However, in the end, the professor discovered that these fossils were forged, and that the students had played a prank on him.

So soon the old professor died of depression.

This person is Beringa.

Gabriel Veniziano, therefore, was undoubtedly lucky compared to the above.

This means that he has chosen the right path.

But on the other hand.

Gabriel Veniziano has devoted almost his entire scientific research career in the field of dark matter for more than thirty years.

At the same time, in terms of resume and achievements, he undoubtedly has the qualifications and strength to discover dark matter.

But the current discoverer of dark matter is not him, but someone else.

It is undoubtedly a pity to watch others climb the ranks of Conferred Gods in front of them and add honor to them.

Gabriel Veniziano will probably never forget this day and this scene in his life.

in front of the wreck.

He spread his arms out like his idol Wallace Hartley.

But when the sea water submerged his body, he was far from being able to feel relieved like his idol.

this.

Maybe it's the cruel side of science.

Just like that old Chinese saying.

One will succeed and all will die.

This moment.

Almost all experimental institutions around the world have the same experimental results as Liner's dark matter laboratory.

This is an irrefutable report.

In these experimental institutions, everyone's emotions are different.

Someone rejoices.

Some people are dumb.

Someone cursed.

There were also people crying.

But no matter what these people think in their hearts, they can't change the occurrence of an established fact:

At the press conference, more and more lights began to turn green.

At the same time, it is still due to the 'general trend'.

Even those institutions that have an extremely bad attitude towards Huaxia can only helplessly press the corresponding indicator light at this time - at this time, if they don't admit the facts, only themselves will be ashamed.

Ever since.

first light

seventh light

Fifteenth lamp.

The moment the last indicator light turns green.

The scene fell silent.

But a second later.

Thunderous applause suddenly erupted at the venue, and the invisible heat wave seemed to lift the roof.

Xu Yun and Lu Chaoyang didn't need anyone's signal, they stood up from their seats at the same time and clapped their hands vigorously.

Christine beside Xu Yun also stood up.

Although this filial daughter's expression was not as excited as Xu Yun and Lu Chaoyang's, it was full of reverence.

Relatively emotional girls like Chen Shanshan and Zhang Han already had tears in their eyes.

This is not worth it, this is a scene that will inevitably be recorded in the entire history of human science and technology.

Just like the photo in the CERN conference room in 2013, it will last forever.

Higgs.

Te Hooft

Salinger.

Old Yang.

These top bigwigs also applauded and congratulated in their seats.

Look at the whole scene.

Only the two of them didn't have smiles on their faces.

One of them was Atsuto Suzuki.

At this time, the little old man was smelling a face comparable to Sun Xiaochuan, clapping his hands reluctantly, the frequency was as slow as the slow motion shot of "In the Snow".

And the other is.

Edward Witten.

Push a friend's book, "Above the High Sky" by the cloudy sky, the update is stable, the plot is novel and beautiful~