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This space multi-point particle collider is a collider that integrates electrons and hadrons, but its main body or main function is hadron collision.

One of the great hopes of the Large Hadron Collider is that it may discover supersymmetry.

It is for this reason that when the Space Multi-Point Particle Collider was just about to start construction, Yue Yuan received a lot of applications for collision experiments just after it was put into use.

Yes, as soon as construction started, a large number of applications were submitted by scientists who were already hungry and thirsty.

Among these applications, the first one that was put into the experimental record was an experimental project called Exploring the Strange Mathematics of Supersymmetry.

That's right, it's a project jointly launched by physicists and mathematicians to explore mathematics with a collider. Of course, this is not ordinary mathematics, but supersymmetric strange mathematics.

Supersymmetry is the symmetry that balances superstring theory, and the factor that balances superstring theory is the removal of tachyons in the theory. In other words, this jointly initiated project is not only an exploration of the strange mathematics of supersymmetry, but is also expected to confirm the existence of tachyons in theory.

At the same time, supersymmetry is also the symmetry that connects gravitons and photons, and it also ensures the stability of the D0 brane.

In short, the demonstration and confirmation of many cutting-edge theories and the exploration of new theories are inseparable from the collider.

The reason why we need to explore the strange mathematics of supersymmetry is because it is needed to describe various physical phenomena. For example, the relationship between bosons and fermions, take the Higgs fermion, which is theoretically a Higgs boson moving along a certain Fermi dimension.

The Fermi dimension is an extra dimension. If you want to explore the Fermi dimension, you must explore supersymmetry, because the Fermi dimension is an extra dimension in supersymmetry.

People are usually used to measuring dimensions in terms of length, and length is a number, such as 3 centimeters, 12 kilometers, 4 microns, etc. One can add two lengths to get another length, or one can multiply two lengths to get an area.

But the extra dimensions of supersymmetry are not measured by numbers, at least not ordinary numbers. They are described by commutation numbers, which is the cornerstone of the strange mathematics of supersymmetry.

The antitransaction number plays an extremely critical role in describing the process of fermions such as electrons, quarks, and neutrinos, such as the well-known spin.

The physical quantity of spin, if you ask a person to explain it, will basically describe it with an intrinsic property that is similar to rotation but not rotation. However, in the eyes of physicists, it cannot be described verbally with one description. Instead, it requires the real "Hongmeng Tianru" - mathematics.

The reason why strange mathematics is related to this is because of the Fermi-dimensional description of spin.

When a being enters a Fermi dimension, it can only move at a "speed", and this so-called "speed" itself is only a rough analogy to what movement in the Fermi dimension is. Another appropriate way of saying it is, It's spin.

Although spin is an intrinsic property of particles, it also varies in size. Moving in a Fermi dimension means that the spin is stronger than not moving.

The spin of a gyroscope can be larger or smaller, depending on how much force is used before releasing it, but elementary particles can only have specific spins, such as the Higgs boson has no spin, the electron has a minimum spin, and the photon The spin of a graviton must be parallel to its direction of motion, the spin of a graviton is twice the spin of a photon, and so on.

As the saying goes, ridges and peaks appear when viewed from a distance. The heights vary from near to far, but only a glimpse of a leopard can be seen through a tube. If humans want to truly understand a certain particle or a certain physical phenomenon, they need to observe it from all aspects.

Among all aspects, one is related to supersymmetry research.

If you want to explore supersymmetry, you must have the tool of strange mathematics, because the Fermi dimension is difficult to be described by other tools. Only the mathematical rules such as anti-transmutation and Fermi quantity multiplication in strange mathematics can describe it.

For example, in ordinary mathematics, there are a and b. If we add or multiply them, we will get a set of formulas a+a=2a, 2(a+b)=2a+2b, a +b=b+a, these operations work for most algebraic laws, but not for the Fermi quantity.

It requires another set of strange algorithms, such as the formula, a*b=-b*a, a*a=0, b*b=0, where a represents a movement along the Fermi dimension, and b represents If the second motion along the Fermi dimension is to represent an object trying to move along a Fermi dimension twice, it would be expressed as a*a. The equation a*a=0 means that this movement is not allowed.

So what is the use of studying this thing? Then we have to talk about supersymmetry again. As mentioned earlier, supersymmetry is the symmetry that balances superstring theory. It does this by cutting off tachyons.

As for tachyons, after the road to quantum entanglement and long-distance communication was blocked, in human physical theory, it is the only particle that can travel faster than the speed of light.

The ghostly quantum entanglement has been proven to be unable to be used for long-distance communication, so the only hope left is the mysterious tachyon.

So this exploration of the strange mathematics of supersymmetry is actually a way for humans to explore tachyons.

Of course, there may be more than one way.

The world is not perfectly supersymmetric. This is known to everyone after the non-conservation of parity in the weak interaction was confirmed.

But the research on supersymmetry will not stop because of this, because many scientists believe that the limitations of many theories may be due to the limitations of human cognition and exploration tools. People can only use one Another phenomenon that peeps into the nature of everything in the universe from one angle after another. I believe that as long as you peep from enough angles, you will be able to fully understand the essence behind each physical theory.

Isn’t that what the so-called Theory of Everything is like?

The space multi-point particle collider, which is now under construction, is one of the keys for mankind to explore the truth.

Perhaps tachyons and the grand unified theory are still far away for humans. After all, they can only be mastered by the legendary fourth-level civilization. However, this is not the case with nanotechnology. Humans can completely use the collider to once again peep into the mysteries of the deeper microscopic world.

The standard technology of the third-level civilization, nanotechnology, and the thought imprinting technology that humans have already set up research on. Although humans have no clue yet, they must be related to the microscopic quantum field. If the collider can knock out something, maybe It is not certain that some relevant theories will emerge.

The science and technology trees are interconnected, and many scientific theories have a certain relationship. In short, people attach great importance to this unprecedented large collider, and the new government has great expectations for it.

Of course, it is very difficult to build such a huge collider. According to engineers' estimates, it is conservatively estimated that it will take two hundred years to complete from the moment construction begins.