Chapter 309 New Physics Building

After explaining the relevant information about sterile neutrinos, David Gross pushed up his glasses and spoke again: "The following is a routine question and answer session. Professor Chen Zhengping from China is invited to join us on behalf of Professor Xu Chuan. Please answer your questions.”

Hearing this, Chen Zhengping, who had been prepared for a long time, took a deep breath, straightened his suit, walked to the podium calmly, and stood with David Gross, the chairman of CERN.

"If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

Almost as soon as the words fell, a pair of hands in the venue bounced up as if they were pricked by the tip of a needle.

"Hello, Professor Gross, hello Professor Chen, I am a media reporter from CTV. What does your latest discovery mean? Is it related to dark matter. Can you please explain it to us ordinary people?"

After Chen Zhengping thought about it for a moment, he slowly said: "The discovery of sterile neutrinos is of great significance to both the physical world and mankind as a whole."

"First of all, it is the first particle that we have observed and confirmed that exceeds the predictions of the standard model. Its appearance breaks the standard model and tells us that the universe is not just the standard model, but there are more unknown things."

"Secondly, whether it is related to dark matter cannot be determined."

"Because of the limitations of the performance of the observation equipment, in this observation of sterile neutrinos, we have only confirmed its existence and part of its properties and information, while there is another part of its properties hidden in the fog of chaos, which we cannot confirm."

"Of course, this is also the meaning of the existence of the physics community, to find mysteries and solve mysteries. If one day, our observation equipment can observe the full picture of sterile neutrinos, we may be able to figure out whether they are related to dark matter."

After finishing speaking, the BBC, a broadcasting company where the sun never sets, stretched out the microphone in his hand: "Hello, Academician Chen, may I ask why Professor Xu did not come to attend the press conference this time? Is he studying something new? Can you tell me?"

Chen Zhengping glanced at the reporter: "You can choose to go to China to ask Professor Xu yourself about this question. I don't know. Next."

Hearing this, another reporter quickly handed over the microphone: "Hello, Professor Chen, will the discovery of sterile neutrinos bring down the physics edifice of the Standard Model?"

Chen Zhengping: "No, sterile neutrinos are indeed particles that exceed the predictions of the standard model, but it does not mean that the standard model will be overturned."

"It is more likely that the physics community will build a new physics building outside of the Standard Model and use it to accommodate the wider world."

The moment he finished his answer, a microphone came up quickly.

"Academician Chen, according to Professor Xu's previously published theory, sterile neutrinos are part of dark matter. When can we officially observe dark matter and dark energy? How long will it take to use these two substances?"

Chen Zhengping thought for a while and replied: "As for the relationship between sterile neutrinos and dark matter, I prefer to consult Professor Xu. He is the real authority in this regard. I cannot answer on his behalf." "

"When dark matter and dark energy can be officially observed, it depends on when our observation equipment and collider can be upgraded to a sufficient standard threshold."

"As for utilizing these two substances, I'm afraid it will take at least a century or more."

The CERN press conference is over.

The Q&A session lasted a full hour.

The news that sterile neutrinos are confirmed to exist and may be related to dark matter and dark energy quickly occupied the headlines of major media.

"CTV Media: Professor Xu, a well-known Chinese scholar, confirmed the existence of sterile neutrinos. This is the first particle in history that exceeds the predictions of the standard model, and may be related to dark matter!"

"Wall Street Journal: CERN's major discovery, particles beyond the standard model! Our universe is more mysterious than imagined!"

"BBC Daily: Professor Xu Chuan, who was unable to attend the press conference, may be conducting more mysterious research than sterile neutrinos."

“Washington Post: Be careful, China’s latest discovery may destroy the world, and sterile neutrinos will open the door to an unknown hell.”

""New York Times"."

Regardless of whether it is traditional paper media or online media, after CERN's press conference, terms such as 'cern', 'sterile neutrinos', 'dark matter', 'dark energy', and 'Professor Xu' were all on the screen. .

Almost most media use eye-catching names such as dark matter or the universe in their titles to attract traffic.

For the general public, dark matter is undoubtedly very attractive.

After all, it is extremely mysterious. It only exists in theory and has never been observed.

News reports from major media, coupled with forwarding by some technology bloggers and influencers, made the relevant news a hot search at an extremely fast speed.

By the time netizens reacted, sterile neutrinos and dark matter had directly occupied the top spots on major software platforms.

[Gan, it’s all just clickbait! I thought dark matter had really been discovered. 】

[How can dark matter be so easy to discover? Isn’t it true that only half of this fallen neutrino has been observed? The other half belonging to dark matter has not been observed. 】

[To discover dark matter, the performance of human colliders and detectors must be improved by at least several orders of magnitude. ]

[Humans' search for dark matter is like a fish with thoughts at the bottom of the sea, wanting to know water. In the fish's worldview, it may never be able to perceive the existence of water.

And we humans, standing from the perspective of God, can see the existence of water, and can also invent the theory of atoms, solid, liquid and gas, which can unify the world we see, but you can't explain it to the fish, so you have to stand from the four-dimensional perspective to see dark matter. ]

[Witness a day in history, new particles beyond the standard model, Chuan Shen is worthy of being a god! This time his godhood in physics is stable. ]

[The material for the first multiple-choice question in the postgraduate entrance examination this morning was dark matter. It happened that I just watched the press conference, and I was very happy. I understood it very well, but the answer was a little uncertain.]

[If you don't understand, ask, why is there a dark matter question in the political exam? ]

[When you are undecided, quantum mechanics. If the mass is not enough, dark matter will make up for it! ]

[Six, it's even rhymed. ]

[Dark matter may not actually exist, it is just a problem of the adaptability of existing theories. It is similar to the previous concept of ether. To put it bluntly, it is just a patch that scientists put on the theory of relativity. 】

【I won’t say much, I just say one sentence, Sichuan is awesome! 】

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As expected, the discovery of sterile neutrinos has become the most eye-catching research achievement in the physics community this year.

Let’s not talk about the discussions of netizens for now. On the other hand, on preprint websites such as Arxiv, theories and papers related to sterile neutrinos and dark matter have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The number is so large that it can be said to be extremely rare.

Some physicists speculate and supplement the undiscovered properties of sterile neutrinos; some physicists speculate on the relationship between sterile neutrinos and dark matter.

Countless physicists, not only graduate students and doctoral students, but also physics professors and even masters in the physics community have sorted out their ideas and uploaded them to the Arxiv preprint website.

After all, for the physics community, there is a default rule: "Those famous awards, such as the Nobel Prize, the Wolf Prize in Physics, etc., are not awarded to the discoverer of a certain particle or phenomenon. Instead, they are awarded to the proposer."

Just like in 2012/2013, CERN discovered the Higgs boson, but the Nobel Prize was not awarded to CERN, but to Peter Higgs and Francois Engler, who proposed the Higgs boson theory.

Even if the Higgs boson theory was proposed in the 1960s.

So even if the sterile neutrino was discovered by Xu Chuan, the probability of him winning the Nobel Prize is not 100%. Because the sterile neutrino was not proposed by him, but by American physicists.

Of course, it is not impossible for Xu Chuan to win the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the sterile neutrino.

This is because in the past, although American scientists proposed the concept of sterile neutrinos, they did not make detailed data predictions for it.

Because it is impossible.

After all, it is quite difficult to make predictions about particles that cannot be observed and are not in the standard model.

This time, the relevant data was perfected by him.

So if he can continue to improve the information of inert neutrinos in the future, he still has a chance to win another Nobel Prize.

But for Xu Chuan, the Nobel Prize is not very attractive to him.

Not to mention the previous life, he has made several Nobel Prize-level physics achievements in this life alone.

Of course, the Nobel Prize, which is not very attractive to him, is extremely attractive to other physicists.

What's more, inert neutrinos are particles beyond the standard model. They are the foundation of a new physics building. The future is not only bright, but also a new world.

Therefore, after the discovery of inert neutrinos, countless physicists began to "perfect" the properties of inert neutrinos, and began to "speculate" the properties of dark matter, and then bet on them.

After all, everything is possible. If you bet right, you may be able to win the Nobel Prize and go down in history in a few decades.

But the difficulty of winning the Nobel Prize from the unknown is too high, even harder than winning the first prize in the lottery.

On the one hand, if a brand new theory, or a prediction of a certain particle, is to be accepted by the physics community, at least your theory must be logically autonomous, have a firm basis, and cannot be overturned.

Just like the string theory and M theory created by Edward Witten, it is a long way to go to prove it, perhaps it will take two centuries, three centuries or even longer.

But similarly, if you want to falsify it, from the current physics community, no one can overturn string theory and M theory.

Because it is indeed logically self-consistent and the theory exists.

From this aspect, the difficulty is quite great.

Because you not only have to understand this particle, but also various other physics. For example, relativity, Newtonian mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc.

And you can't just understand it half-heartedly, you have to understand it very deeply.

Otherwise, other big guys will point out loopholes or problems to you as soon as they see your paper and theory.

So most of the people who bet on it basically failed.

In the long history of the physics community, there are only one or two lucky ones.

For example, Louis Victor de Broglie, he is a French theoretical physicist, the founder of matter wave theory, and one of the founders of quantum mechanics.

De Broglie did not study physics at first. He was a rich second-generation young man from a wealthy family and studied history.

Later, because of family connections, he went to a good university and followed a good tutor. He also happened to publish a half-guess and half-academic graduation thesis that was noticed by Einstein, attracting widespread attention from the academic community.

In the end, the physics community found that he guessed correctly, and then this big guy took the Nobel Prize.

Of course, in the later period of his academic career, de Broglie's physics level was not low.

Even though he did not study physics at first, after entering the physics community, he still made up for his knowledge of physics at a very fast speed.

However, the concept of "matter waves" he proposed during college was indeed half-guessed and half-guessed, and this luck can be said to be a son of heaven.

Compared with de Broglie, in the history of the physics community, those who have made various famous theories and proved them to be correct are basically physicists who have studied physics very deeply.

For example, Einstein, Bohr, Planck, etc.

Because without a solid foundation of physics knowledge, it is impossible to make any correct theories and judgments.

In the fields of science such as mathematical physics, even if there are occasionally some lucky ones, they still have to rely on real strength to speak.

As for the remaining data prediction of inert neutrinos, the properties and data prediction of dark matter, Xu Chuan will naturally not miss them.

As early as when he analyzed the signs of inert neutrinos with a confidence level of 3sigma, he had already predicted and announced the remaining unobserved data of inert neutrinos.

After all, this is his own achievement in the future, and there is no need to let others take it away.

Even now, many theories on the arxiv preprint website are based on the prediction theories he published before.

After all, in the eyes of many people, it is better to follow the back of this big guy than to exhaust their own thoughts to make some theories that they don’t know whether they can succeed.

The big guy’s theory is definitely more reliable than his own, and then some expansion and expansion on it is equivalent to standing on the shoulders of giants to see the world.

The success rate is definitely higher than blindly guessing.

Xu Chuan didn't care much about these opportunists.

Before his rebirth, he had only started studying and observing dark matter not long ago. He didn't know what was behind it, let alone others.

If they could be fooled, it would be considered lucky.

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