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Chapter 87 That’s a physical discovery!

"The Computing Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics has discovered an unknown physical phenomenon!"

"Is this a conclusion reached through analysis of experimental data deviations? That is, the algorithm research done by Zhang Shuo?"

"should be……"

"Is the news reliable? Is it true or false?"

"It may be true, or it may be false. Who knows? But I hope it is true..."

Many people hope it is true.

A brand new physical discovery may represent a feast of physics.

New discoveries in the field of high-energy physics may fill in the gaps in particle physics research, such as the defects of the standard model of particles, and at the same time help scholars find a new research direction.

and many more.

Many scholars are discussing this issue.

The team from the Institute of High Energy Physics Center arrived earlier and stayed at the conference center hotel.

From the end of the report yesterday until now, Tan Zhiming has not left the hotel.

Zhang Shuo and Agostini's research has not yet been confirmed, it has only been included in the conference, but many people already believe it is true.

As a result, the CP group became the focus.

Tan Zhiming's CP group is one of the three major international CP teams. He felt very depressed at the thought of being pointed at by others when he went out, so he had to stay in the hotel.

He was also in a bad mood.

What Zhang Shuo said about "improving technology" and "finding a clear direction through algorithms" is indeed feasible, but after all, more than ten years of hard work have come to naught, and many of the results have become insignificant. Just thinking about it makes me feel bad.

At noon, Gao Hongli, Liao Zhenyu, and Yu Fei all returned to the hotel to have lunch with Tan Zhiming.

They talked about the morning meeting report, and the topic turned to 'gossip'.

"I was wondering why Cui Kaiwen and Bao Hexing were here too. It turns out that the Computing Center was going to release such a major achievement, but they hadn't communicated in advance." Yu Fei said with surprise.

Tan Zhiming didn't know the news, so he asked in confusion, "What results?"

Yu Fei gave a brief explanation.

Tan Zhiming was immediately surprised. "New physical phenomenon? How did they determine it?"

Liao Zhenyu said, "I only know that they are going to make a report. It seems to be related to a value called 'deviation degree'. As for the new physical phenomenon, it may be related to the particle fault phenomenon in the deviation analysis results?"

he guessed.

Tan Zhiming frowned immediately. "Particle fault, there is no way to confirm this, right?"

“Maybe there’s no certainty at all.”

Liao Zhenyu said, "We just publish the analysis results and say it might be a new physical phenomenon. That should be it."

"What's the point of talking about the result when it's not confirmed yet!" Tan Zhiming shook his head somewhat dissatisfiedly.

“Isn’t it okay to speculate like that?”

Gao Hongli said, "Regarding the phenomenon of particle fault, we initially thought it was the influence of air particles, but after analyzing dozens of experiments, we found that the same phenomenon occurred several times. Unless there is a problem with our equipment, it is definitely not the influence of air particles."

"There is no reason for this problem, so it's OK to say it might be an unknown physical phenomenon."

Tan Zhiming still shook his head, "It could be other influences, but we don't know yet. How can it be so easy to discover unknown physical phenomena? Can the analysis data come out?"

"They definitely don't have any evidence!"

"You can just publish the results, but why bother to state your guess? What if it turns out not to be true? It's a big joke!"

Gao Hongli shook his head slightly. He was old and didn't want to argue with Tan Zhiming, but he felt that what Tan Zhiming said was unreasonable.

New physical discoveries do not have to be confirmed before they can be published. On the contrary, most research goes from unknown to theory, and from theory to scientific discovery.

Unknown, this step may go wrong.

In the experimental research field of high-energy physics, many unknown physical discoveries have emerged, most of which have to be proven to be wrong, but as long as one of them is correct, it will lead to significant progress in physics.

For example, neutrinos.

The discovery of neutrinos was initially based on the study of radioactivity. The study found that the spectrum of atoms is discontinuous, and the alpha rays and gamma rays emitted from the nucleus are also discontinuous.

When this discovery was made public, there was no definitive evidence at all, and even the experimental measurement results may have been biased.

The accuracy of equipment from a hundred years ago was much lower, so it is very normal for deviations to occur.

Later, repeated experiments confirmed the problem of "spectral discontinuity".

Then, some physicists proposed a 'theoretical hypothesis' - in β decay, a new particle with zero rest mass, electrical neutrality, and different from photons is emitted, taking away another part of the energy, thus resulting in energy loss.

This is the neutrino.

Liao Zhenyu and Yu Fei were also not impressed by Tan Zhiming's statement. They did not think it was that complicated. They just felt that if it was proven to be wrong, then it was wrong. So what?

Many discoveries announced abroad were later proved to be wrong. In scientific research, mistakes are not allowed?

What if it's right?

That is a physical discovery!

They also said nothing. Tan Zhiming was hit hard enough. Most of the results of his research over more than ten years were wasted.

Let him say whatever he wants.

……

The news was deliberately spread by Cui Kevin and Bao Hexing. They wanted to test the scholars' reactions in the report.

After all, it was the first time doing this.

They are researchers at the Computing Center, and they feel that they have nothing to do with the so-called "new physics discoveries," and they are still a little nervous.

When I found out that many people were expecting it, and some even came to ask about it, I knew it was okay even if there was no "conclusive evidence".

They suddenly gained confidence.

The Computing Center's report was on the last day, and they were reporting on behalf of the High Energy Physics Institute.

The last day was also the least interesting, with reports from major institutions on the progress of large-scale research, including some technical breakthroughs, such as revealing how close particles can be accelerated to the speed of light, or various research works based on particle external experiments.

The study of baryon CP violation is an important research direction based on particle external experiments.

But the relevant content has been removed.

Francisco and Graywood had already left Melbourne early, so it was impossible for Tan Zhiming to be in the mood to make any report.

Zhang Shuo was in a good mood. He listened to reports for two consecutive days, all of which were about particle-related research and discoveries, such as the discovery of two special particles formed by four quarks, the changes in the interaction between light particles and matter, etc. The next day, Zhang Shuo did not listen to the report, but went to the Melbourne coast with Bao Hexing and Cui Kaiwen, and finally went to a beach with more people.

The scenery of the beach is very nice, with sand, sunshine, rocks and sea, as well as bikini beauties laughing and playing.

When walking down a rock, a foreign woman suddenly called out Zhang Shuo's name, "Zhang Shuo?"

Zhang Shuo looked over with confusion.

It was a young brown-haired woman wearing a bikini that revealed her beautiful figure. She was sitting on the sand under the rock, hugging her knees with her arms, her big eyes blinking with curiosity.

When she saw Zhang Shuo turning his head, she immediately stood up, walked over and stretched out her hand, "You are Zhang Shuo, right? I wasn't sure just now, but now I am sure."

"Hello."

Zhang Shuo shook her hand lightly and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"

"Nora Swenson, you can call me Nora. We've met before. I was sitting behind Annie in Hall 2." Nora said with a smile, "Your report was very interesting. Although I didn't understand it, I could tell from the situation on the spot that Annie thought highly of you."

Zhang Shuo thought about it carefully and asked, "Anne-Lurier?"

"Correct."

Noila pursed her lips and said, "I came here with her, just to visit Australia. I just graduated from college, and I will start working after I go back this time."

"Why don't you continue reading?"

"I didn't go to a famous school, and Annie also suggested that I go out to work. She thought I was not suitable for studying..."

Cui Kaiwen said hello to Zhang Shuo and walked away with Bao Hexing.

Zhang Shuo asked doubtfully, "Annie is yours...?"

"Mother."

"So that's it."

Zhang Shuo and Nora walked to the rock and sat down together before continuing, "I have a friend who admires Ms. Luliye very much and says she is the light of mankind. You are her daughter, so should I call you 'Daughter of Light'?"

Nora was amused. She covered her mouth and laughed, "I don't like people calling me 'Annie's daughter', but I like this name, Daughter of Light, Daughter of Light... It's very good."

"Zhang Shuo, you are such a romantic person..."

……

Zhang Shuo and Nora chatted under the rock for a while before they separated to look for Cui Kevin and Bao Hexing.

They were walking along the beach together.

Bao Hexing asked about what happened just now with interest, "How did you two meet?"

"She also went to the lecture hall and read my report."

Kevin Cui said, "She seemed to have mentioned Annie. Is that the Annie I know?"

"Anne-Lurier is her mother."

"That's a coincidence." Bao Hexing said immediately, "Lüliye is the light of mankind, so she is the daughter of light? She is indeed very beautiful."

"That's what I said."

Zhang Shuo smiled and said, "We talked a lot about Lü Liye. I mentioned a friend of mine, Bao Hexing, who admires Lü Liye very much and calls her the 'light of humanity'. He gets excited every time he mentions her."

"She said she would tell her mother when she got home, and she thought her mother would be very happy too."

"By the way, she also asked for your room number..."

The more Bao Hexing listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He was already imagining that a woman in her sixties came to him while he was sleeping that night, and then...

"You're kidding, aren't you?" he asked quickly.

"I'm serious." Zhang Shuo's expression was very serious. "Such a beautiful girl asked me for her room number, how could I refuse?"

"She asked for my room number, and she was asking for it on behalf of her mother."

Cui Kaiwen patted Bao Hexing on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I wish you happiness!"

"It must be fake!"

Bao Hexing quickly shook his head vigorously.

Zhang Shuo joked a few words and stopped talking. In his mind, he kept thinking of the word "Daughter of Light", "Daughter of Light"...

Light?
He has been thinking about the issue of 'deviation'.

The report I will give tomorrow will explain the value of "deviation degree" and will also link it to the experimental deviation analysis results to explain the "unknown physical phenomena" that exist in the experiment.

However, the "degree of deviation" alone is not convincing enough and can only be regarded as a "data analysis result that cannot be explained for the time being."

It’s not a physical phenomenon, yet.

After all, other institutions do not yet have bias analysis algorithms, and are unable to conduct bias analysis on experiments and draw conclusions.

To increase persuasiveness, there must be other relevant content.

Zhang Shuo has already thought about this part, which is to create a jump function based on the "normal electromagnetic energy ratio experiment" to describe the deviation degree.

There was no measurement of electromagnetic energy in the experiment, and only basic data could be used for calculations.

The jump function created in this way is not convincing enough.

Now he suddenly had an idea, could he study the relationship between overall energy loss and deviation value?

Light is energy.

In particle collision experiments, a large number of light particles will be produced, and the basic principle that any physical experiment will follow is the conservation of energy.

The law of conservation of energy also applies in particle collision experiments, which produce chaotic force fields and lead to deviations in experimental simulations.

In actual experiments, there is always a phenomenon of missing energy in the initial energy of particle collision experiments and the energy detected after the experiment.

For example, the initial energy is 100.

The final energy detected, including mass conversion, kinetic energy of particles, light energy, etc., all added together, the calculated result may be 98.

There is a difference between the two.

In the field of high-energy physics, the energy difference before and after the experiment is attributed to possibilities such as "incomplete detection data" and "mysterious phenomenon of disappearing particles".

The former is a detection problem.

The latter is an inexplicable physical phenomenon, but its proportion is very low and can even be ignored.

So is it possible to link 'total energy loss' and 'deviation' together?

(End of this chapter)