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The ultra-large particle collider project of Future Technology Company has always attracted the attention of the physics community. At this time, the news of the construction of the ultra-large particle collider caused a sensation in the physics community. Many physicists said that they could not refuse the ultra-large particle collider. The temptation of the particle collider has contacted future technology companies one after another, hoping to join the research team of future technology companies to jointly unlock a series of modern physics such as the secrets of the Higgs boson, the secret of antimatter, the secret of dark matter and dark energy, etc. problem.

The media also reported on this matter, but most ordinary people were stunned, super large particle collider? Higgs boson? Why do objects have mass? Antimatter? standard model? Dark matter and dark energy... I'll go, I can't understand it at all, there is no reason, physics is really difficult, I'd better put on a virtual helmet and go to the virtual world to enjoy it, our tiger reincarnation team will soon compete with the other five A reincarnation team is engaged in a team battle in the magically revised version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!

Zhang Wei and the physicists of the future technology company completely ignored the opinions of the outside world. They came to the moon immediately and prepared to start the experiment.

An hour and a half later, Zhang Wei arrived at the high-energy physics research center on the moon from the earth. The entrance was empty without even a single guard, but its security measures were extremely strict. Everyone had to verify their brain waves before they could able to enter. If you want to break in illegally, the laser weapon installed in the hidden corner will be activated immediately to kill the intruder.

"Welcome Dr. Zhang Wei!"

When Zhang Wei walked to the door, a voice sounded, and then the door of the research center opened automatically, and closed immediately after Zhang Wei entered.

In this research center, there is actually nothing on the surface of the building, just an entrance, and the real working place is 50 meters deep underground.

Zhang Wei walked to the front. There are 20 elevators leading to the underground. These elevators also need to verify brain waves before they can be unlocked.

After stepping out of the elevator, there is a hall with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters, and the area of ​​the entire underground building is more than 100,000 square meters, the experimental area is 70,000 square meters, the living area is 30,000 square meters, and there are more than 1,000 scientists. work here.

"When can the experiment begin?"

Zhang Wei looked at Lu Zhilong, the head of the High Energy Physics Research Center who came to greet him, and asked.

"Doctor, experiments are available at any time."

Lu Zhilong smiled, with a look of anticipation on his face. In fact, all the scientists involved in this project hoped that the super-large particle collider would be able to operate as soon as possible.

"In an hour, start the experiment."

After Zhang Wei gave his orders,

Lu Zhilong immediately started to arrange work, and the scene was very busy.

Zhang Wei came to the control center and took command. At this time, the status of the particle collider and various parameters were displayed on the virtual screens in the control center.

One of the key parameters is temperature, because superconducting magnets are used in large particle colliders, and in order for the electromagnets to become superconductors and effectively conduct current without resistance consumption or energy loss, they need to be cooled to Ultra-low temperature. At present, the temperature of the particle collider is -272.3°C. This is one of the coldest places on earth, even lower than the temperature of outer space-the temperature of outer space is stable at around -270.5°C. For this reason, particle colliders must be connected to a liquid helium bypass system, which is used to cool the magnets, and other equipment.

Interestingly, when the particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and then collide, the highest man-made temperature can be produced - about 10 trillion degrees Celsius.

Soon, an hour passed, and all the preparations were ready.

"The first experiment of the ultra-large particle collider of Future Technology Corporation has officially started."

Following Zhang Wei's order, the six large nuclear fusion power plants connected to the particle collider were immediately activated to provide the particle collider with tremendous energy.

"The magnetic field is activated!"

"Release the proton beam!"

The two beams of protons pass through different accelerating tubes and propagate in opposite directions. They begin to accelerate continuously under the action of the magnetic field, and will eventually accelerate to 0.9999999 times the speed of light, and then collide.

As mentioned above, according to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, the energy of an object is equal to its mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light (E=mc2), increasing the energy of the particle actually increases the mass of the particle, so when the proton is farther away from the speed of light As you get closer, the accelerator energy consumed to increase the particle's kinetic energy increases. And now the limit of this ultra-large particle collider is to accelerate protons to 0.9999999 times the speed of light. (In general, it is impossible for ordinary physics to reach the speed of light, except for special particles such as photons that have no mass at rest.)

And when the proton is accelerated to close to the speed of light, in addition to having great energy, there is also a magical thing-time slows down. Using this principle, it may be possible to create a time machine. Professor Stephen Hawking once pointed out that if there is a "human accelerator" comparable in performance to the European Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which can make the passenger's speed close to the speed of light, according to special relativity, for the same period of time, the distance between the machine People outside feel that years have passed, but passengers inside the accelerator will feel that only a few days have passed. When they finish this accelerated journey, they will be much younger than others. Of course, this is almost impossible, because if you want to accelerate a 100-kilogram object to 99.9% of the speed of light, you need to use 1 billion billion joules of energy, which is too expensive!

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As time goes by, the two beams of protons have completed the first level of acceleration, then the second level, and the third level... The speed of each proton is getting faster and faster, reaching 0.9 times the speed of light, 0.999 times the speed of light... The energy of the proton is getting higher and higher, and the quality is also slowly increasing...

Proton beams at this time are extremely dangerous. In 1978, Anatoli Bugorski, an ordinary physicist at the National Institute of High Energy Physics of the former Soviet Union, was "headshot" by a high-energy proton beam emitted by a particle accelerator. At that time, he "saw something bigger than A thousand suns brighter", but felt no pain.

Fortunately, he survived, but the high-energy proton beam had passed through his face, burning his bones and damaging the underlying brain tissue, leaving him completely deaf in his left ear, paralyzed on the left side of his face, and often suffered from seizures . As of now, he is the first and only person in the world to have his head shot by a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator.

After step-by-step acceleration, the gap between the speed of the two beams of protons and the speed of light continued to narrow, and finally reached the limit of this large particle collider in the Super Proton Synchrotron - 0.9999999 times the speed of light.

"The collision is about to begin!"

"Detector ready!"

"Quantum computer ready!"

Then, the two streams of protons propagating in opposite directions met head-on, and a violent collision occurred! It is predicted that there will be more than 1 billion collisions in one second!

The protons were smashed to pieces, releasing unimaginable energy, generating a high temperature 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun in an extremely small space, that is, about 10 trillion degrees. The "Big Bang" was staged, and micro-black holes were also born. The existing physical theory believes that this is the instantaneous process of the formation of the universe nearly 14 billion years ago. However, all of this lasts for a very short time, less than one millionth of a second, which cannot be observed by human eyes and must rely on detectors.

In order to sample and record the results of proton collisions as many as one billion times per second, Future Technologies has built huge instruments that measure particles with nanometer precision, and has equipped the very large particle collider with advanced electronic triggers The system, which measures the time it takes a particle to pass, has an accuracy of about six billionths of a second. This trigger system can determine the particle's position with an accuracy of one billionth of a meter. This incredibly fast and precise response is fundamental to ensuring that the particles recorded within successive layers of a detector remain consistent. Without these technologies, accurate data cannot be obtained, which will bring great difficulties to research!

For these huge data, the future technology company also prepared a quantum computer with 80 qubits and thousands of physicists. It can be seen that scientific research is extremely expensive, and there is no place to spend it except for a lot of money Future technology companies, even if other countries or companies have the corresponding technology, they may not be willing to invest!

After the detectors transmitted the collected data to the quantum computer, the scientists did not start research immediately, but conducted the second experiment and the third experiment under Zhang Wei's order...

Every time there is a collision, a huge amount of data will be generated. If it were not for the excellent storage capacity of the quantum computer, it would definitely be full of data by now.

After countless experiments, Zhang Weicai ordered the experiment to be stopped, and then he and many scientists analyzed the experimental data. (To be continued.)