Chapter 446: There was a sound of thunder on the ground, Dr. Xu coughed, and made his debut (Part 1)
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I heard this voice from the audience.
Academician Pan was suddenly stunned.
To know.
Although in theory, anyone at the press conference can interrupt the speech on stage.
But actually.
It is actually not an easy task to produce a sound that is clear enough for other participants to hear in such a large venue.
At least you can't do it simply by relying on your bare voice.
In other words, the interrupter either brings his own loudspeaker like Atsuto Suzuki, or holds a microphone.
And look at the entire press conference.
Apart from Field Control and Academician Pan, there are only one and only people who can independently own microphones
The five top guys sitting at the front are:
Mr. Yang,
Tehoft,
Peter Higgs,
Polyakov,
and
Edward Witten.
I only see this moment.
Edward Witten was standing on his seat, holding a microphone in one hand and raising the other hand high to indicate.
See this situation.
Academician Rao Shi Pan has participated in many academic seminars, and he can't help but feel a little dazed.
In fact, it was not only Academician Pan who was surprised.
Higgs, Polyakov and even Mr. Yang next to Edward Witten all showed slightly surprised expressions at this time.
There was still a look of confusion on Mr. Yang's face, "Little brother, what are you doing?"
There are also barrages from major live broadcast platforms.
Originally, when Academician Pan was attacking the heads of those institutions one by one, the barrage would either say 666, or the word "relieve qi" or the homophone of "relief of qi", "athlete's foot".
Wait until Academician Pan finishes asking.
The barrage turned into [Chinese Academy of Sciences awesome review! ] or [Long live China! ] and other exaggerated barrages.
But after Edward Witten spoke up.
The barrages turned into the same question mark:
【? ? ? ? ? 】
After all, during the live broadcast of the experiment just now, guest commentators from the Academy of Sciences such as Zhang Han also introduced the situation of these big guys at the scene, and the audience knew more or less about them.
Edward Witten is a big boss with a relatively friendly attitude towards China. He has participated in many conferences held by domestic universities in recent years.
In addition, he insisted on using "chinesenewyear" when celebrating the New Year, and he was criticized by a lot of sticks for this.
By the way, since the Spring Festival has been mentioned, let’s talk about one more thing.
At present, many people think that chinesenewyear and lunarnewyear are actually only different in letters, and it is too sensitive to pay too much attention to chinesenewyear.
And what is the reality?
Please exit the starting point, open your mobile phone, find social media - Weibo is recommended at this time, and then enter the two keywords "FIFA Football Game Mission" and "British Museum".
Then you will find two entries.
The content of the entry is that they have begun to blatantly celebrate the Spring Festival with Korean Lunar New Year. The British Museum even declared that this is stick culture.
That's right, it's today, January 20, 2023, the 29th day of the Chinese lunar calendar.
This is the result of eight years of concerted efforts by Haidian Duan and Bangzi.
The two words "infiltration" and "cannibalization" can actually be seen from the meaning of the words. Their progress is long-term and slow, and the purpose is to paralyze the target bit by bit.
When many people think, "Why are you so sensitive?" and "The lunar calendar is not wrong in the first place," the Spring Festival is already in the shape of a stick.
There is a standard term for this approach in political science, called rendering advancement, and the next step is to turn it into the cultural history of sticks.
Okay, let’s get down to business.
all in all.
If you say Edward Witten likes China very much, that's not necessarily true. After all, he has not had a trace of Chinese blood in his ancestors for eight generations.
But at least they don’t have any deep hatred against China, and at least they are unlikely to come out to undermine the Chinese Academy of Sciences - especially now that the final decision is almost coming.
So
Why did this top physics boss come out to interrupt Academician Pan?
With this doubt.
Academician Pan bit his lip with his back molars, relying on the pain to regain consciousness and calm down, and said to Witten:
"Professor Witten, do you have any questions?"
Since it was not related to the release of results, Academician Pan used English this time.
After all, Witten has a good reputation, so this kind of respect can still be given.
Well, provided he doesn't cause trouble.
After hearing this, Witten's face in the audience also showed a trace of embarrassment, and he seemed to be somewhat embarrassed about interrupting Academician Pan's behavior.
But soon his face straightened up and he asked:
"Academician Pan, I'm sorry to interrupt you at this juncture, but this issue is really important to me"
"So no matter what the outcome is, I will issue a public apology statement on social media after the meeting."
"Of course, I don't want to question your results. I personally express my sincere admiration for this re-examination of dark matter. This is a textbook operation."
Academician Pan's chest suddenly relaxed.
Although Witten's words did not fully express his intention, they were somewhat of a statement:
He really wasn't here to cause trouble.
In other words.
There is a high probability that he will not question the results of dark matter, which is the final conclusion.
This is barely good news.
After all, with Witten's status, if he really questions dark matter, the Academy of Sciences will still have some trouble.
At the same time exactly at this time.
Academician Pan’s ears also heard Hou Xingyuan’s voice:
"Xiao Pan, try your best to control the situation and see what Witten is going to say."
"Our service personnel are already in place, and the broadcast signal can be switched to the advertising page at any time. The situation cannot be said to be controllable, but it will not cause a big mess."
Academician Pan quietly tapped his ear twice to indicate that he was aware of the situation, and at the same time said to Witten:
"Mr. Witten, you are serious. We welcome questions or inquiries from any direction during this press conference. You can feel free to ask questions boldly, and the Academy of Sciences will do its best to answer them for you."
After hearing this, Wei Teng bowed his hands towards Academician Pan, made a very Chinese etiquette, and asked:
"Mr. Pan, please allow me to ask first, is the official name of this dark matter particle called a solitary point particle?"
Academician Pan shook his head decisively this time and said:
"No, the solitary point particle is just the initial name. Originally, we would announce the official name of the solitary point particle in President Hou's speech later."
"But since Mr. Witten is curious, I will tell you its name now. The only name given to it by the Academy of Sciences is "
"Pangu."
Witten raised his brows and said something in less than authentic Chinese:
"Fatty Goo?"
Academician Pan nodded.
Before the properties of dark matter were discovered, the name of the lone point particle was relatively arbitrary. After all, it was just a relatively rare special particle.
But after it was determined that it did not have weak interactions, everything changed.
This is a particle that is more important than the Higgs particle and comparable to gravitational waves.
At the same time, according to the dark matter model, there is a high probability that there is more than one kind of dark matter in theory.
Therefore, it is very important to give a formal name to the solitary point particle.
After many discussions with the Academy of Sciences and even higher-ups, these big guys finally decided to give the solitary point particle a very cool name:
Pangu.
After all, this is the first dark matter discovered in human history. Research in the field of dark matter is also in line with Pangu’s ‘creation of the world’.
Secondly, according to Chinese legends.
Pangu collapsed from exhaustion after opening the sky. His limbs turned into the four poles of the earth, his skin turned into the vast earth, and his blood turned into an endless river.
He is the fulcrum of all things in mythology.
This statement is also consistent with the ‘support’ role of solitary point particles in basic physics.
The last thing
Naturally, it is the oriental romance unique to the Chinese people.
Although Mr. Ting Zhaozhong discovered the J particle back then, he still has a nationality across the sea until now. Therefore, after discovering the J particle in 1976, it was naturally impossible for him to name the J particle with Chinese terms.
But this time it was different.
Solitary point particles are particles discovered by the Chinese themselves from beginning to end. There is no need to look at other people's colors. Even if they are called cockroach particles, there is no problem.
Therefore, several big bosses gathered together and immediately decided on the name Pangu.
From now on, any article or research that mentions isolated point particles, even if it is a foreign journal, must use the pinyin description of [PanGu].
At the same time, for some scientific researchers, especially the new generation of scientific researchers.
After hearing the word Pangu for a long time, not to mention everyone, at least some of them will definitely search for the meaning of Pangu.
After finding Pangu, the remaining characters from Chinese myths and legends such as Nuwa and Sanqing could not escape.
If the guarantee is not complete, someone will search here and there, and they will also find the great works created by Shenji
When this time span is measured in ten or twenty years, there are always people who will be attracted and influenced by these stories.
Like the Higgs particle.
The name of this particle is different from the common pi meson or electron gluon, so after hearing it too much, someone will always search for the name Higgs.
Search and search and you will find out that he proposed the Higgs mechanism 49 years ago, and is the winner with the longest time span between the birth of the result and the Nobel Prize. His little granddaughter even went to sea to make a film last year, etc.
Data displayed based on keywordsplanner.
Between 05-12 years.
The average monthly search volume for the name Higgs on Google is 20,000, with a peak of 70,000.
And since the discovery of the Higgs particle in 12 years.
The average monthly search volume for the name Higgs jumped directly to 1.36 million times, which is almost the same as the keywords of Harlem Shake.
This is the influence of the right to speak, which is subtle and cannot be ignored.
Of course.
These are things that need to be considered or expected after today. What Academician Pan wants to know right now is
What kind of medicine is sold in Weiteng's gourd?
After reciting Pangu Particles in Chinese several times.
Witten paused and continued to ask:
"Mr. Pan, I remember that you have given a set of data before, in which the flux value is 17.885 and the exponential mapping generator is 1.3399596, right?"
Academician Pan was slightly startled, then nodded:
"That's right."
At the beginning of the press conference, the Academy of Sciences released a set of data.
The data includes a series of values such as quadratic divergence parameters, parity differences, wave function derivative operators, flux values, and exponential mapping generators.
These data can be used to calculate the oxika value of the isolated point particle through the relevant formula of the wave function.
This is used to simply calculate whether the lone point particle conforms to the characteristics of dark matter.
Later, Suzuki Atsushi's doubts about the Academy of Sciences also started from the quadratic divergence parameters in the numerical values.
But the problem is
Although the oxika value is a simple value that can be calculated by writing.
However, the computational data provided by the Academy of Sciences for the calculation of oxika values were measured and statistically calculated using instruments, and are extremely accurate.
Give an example.
Everyone knows that Niu Er is F=ma.
When the data is complete, the resultant external force F can be easily calculated with a pen.
Then you can use the results to judge whether the combined external force is large or small, whether it is the force pulled by a person or a force pulled by a donkey, etc. Just like using the oxika value to determine which dark matter model the calculation target conforms to.
However, the difficulty of calculating the resultant external force F is actually not directly related to the difficulty of measuring mass m and acceleration a.
m may be an estimated value measured with a weight or even the palm of your hand, or it may be a high-precision value obtained with the most sophisticated instrument.
Among them, the calculation data provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences this time falls into the latter situation.
At the same time, with the final success of major institutions being released.
These values are not made up by the Academy of Sciences - the real evidence of dark matter is there.
In other words, it is impossible for Witten to question the secondary divergence parameters like Atsushi Suzuki did and think that HKUST had falsified.
So what is the purpose of Witten asking these two values?
Just when Academician Pan frowned slightly, Witten in the audience said again:
"Mr. Pan, what I want to ask is, don't you feel that there seems to be something weird between the flux value and the exponential mapping generator?"
Academician Pan stared at Witten for a few seconds, and then he said meaningfully:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Witten, I think it is necessary to emphasize one point to you - or you should also know that according to the re-test results reported by major institutions, there is no fraud in the data given by the Academy of Sciences this time. ”
"Moreover, the flux value and the index mapping generator are both values obtained in the second round, and no less than forty institutions participated"
Academician Pan still maintained restraint and respect at this time, but his tone and semantics already contained some warning.
What makes Academician Pan a little strange is.
After Witten listened to these words quietly in the audience, he neither expressed dissatisfaction nor showed timidity, but waved his hand quickly:
"Sorry, Mr. Pan, you may have misunderstood me."
"I am not accusing the Academy of Sciences of having problems with the data, but I am pointing out that these two data should not be those two sets of numbers - if only Pangea particles are used as parameters."
Then he thought about it and gave another example:
"Everyone should know the history of planet discovery in the solar system, right? In the 18th century, William Herschel discovered what is now Uranus."
"Then Oban Le Verrier and others calculated the position of Neptune using Newton's laws through the perturbation of the orbit of Uranus. This is also a well-known achievement of classical physics in cosmology."
"But as time went by, the scientific community discovered that the presence of Neptune was not enough to correct the deviation of Uranus."
"For example, the theoretical influence of Neptune on Uranus is -2.2, but the actual deviation of Uranus is -3."
"It wasn't until Pluto was discovered that this error was optimized to a relatively reasonable range - although there is still a deviation, it is an extremely precise value that requires supercomputing to reflect."
"According to my calculations just now, it seems that the flux value and the exponential mapping generator given by the Academy of Sciences are also in such a situation - the former is too large and the latter is too small."
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Academician Pan was silent for a few seconds, and a guess suddenly appeared in his mind:
"Mr. Witten, what do you mean"
Witten and Academician Pan looked at each other for a long time, and then nodded solemnly:
"Yes, Mr. Pan, I think there may be an undiscovered one in the orbit around the Pangu particle"
"Pluto."(End of Chapter)