Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The shorter the word, the greater the amount of information.

Associated with what Dean Lu said to himself after coming back from the Brussels International Conference on Theoretical Physics, the Ark had a hidden premonition of what Professor Frank might be important to say to himself.

He then responded promptly to the e-mail, not at all lazy.

[I can do it anytime, see when you're free?

After a while, Professor Frank did not reply.

After looking at the time, he probably fell asleep and walked into the bathroom to take a shower and rest.

Nothing to say overnight.

The next morning, when the Ark heard the alarm, it woke up, checked its e-mail and did receive a reply.

[I'm going to Stonecreek University the day after tomorrow and will probably stay there for three days. If you're free, we can meet there.

The Ark looked at the calendar.

Two days later there was a lecture, but he had already requested leave from Professor Deligne.

Think about it, he edited an email and replied.

[All right, I'll call you the day after tomorrow at noon.

The reply is only two letters long.

……

Located on the East Coast of New York, it is the economic and cultural hub of the entire East Coast and one of the science and technology centers of the East Coast.

Many people know Wall Street and Broadway on Manhattan Island, but few know that it's right next door on Long Island, and it's also situated at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, one of the world's top integrated scientific research bases.

There have been many Nobel Prizes, including Yang Zhenzhen and Li Zhengdao's unfaithful title and the J particles found in Ding Zhao. There are about 3,000 researchers and engineers here today, and on average, more than 4,000 visiting scholars work there each year.

Though not as good as CERN, it's also a pretty good number.

Much of what colliders mean is here. Finding a novel particle on the surface doesn't seem to change human life immediately, but it can attract a large group of scholars, generate a large number of suppliers focused on cutting-edge equipment, and form a huge "research ecology”.

For example, the storage rings of the Hadron Collider require near-stringent vacuum conditions, which have led to the development of ultra-high vacuum technologies, which have ultimately played an industrial role in the medical, electronics and other fields.

And something like that, there's a lot more.

The laboratory currently belongs to the Ministry of Energy, but is managed by the Brookhaven Society of Sciences, a company established by the University of Stone Creek and the Butter Institute.

It happened to be Monday that the Ark arrived in New York in a newly bought car.

Professor Frank had an appointment with him at a cafe on the doorstep of Stone Creek University. I don't know if it's the illusion of an ark, but I always thought that several professors he knew had a passion for coffee and stuff like that.

At exactly twelve o'clock in the cafe, Professor Frank arrived punctually at the meeting point with his laptop on his hand.

“I'm sorry I took so long to hold the meeting. ”

The Ark laughed and said, "No, I just got here. ”

Across the ark, Professor Frank saw the waiter and said softly: "Bring me an American coffee and a tuna sandwich. ”

Waiter: “Need sugar? ”

“No need.”

As he ordered from the waiter, Professor Frank placed his laptop on the table, opened the folder and looked at the ark and asked: "Bring your flash drive. ”

The ark nodded and took the USB disk out of its pocket and placed it on the table, “Here you go... can you tell me what's going on? While I don't mind having coffee with you, if it's just data, why don't we use email as usual? ”

Instead of answering the question immediately, Professor Frank opened a chart file and turned the laptop around and presented it to the Ark.

Looking at the image on the screen, the ark frowned slightly, "This? ”

Professor Frank moved the chair down to the side of the table, and the image on this screen said.

“This is CERN's latest experimental record, and the two graphs above are the distribution curves and statistical graphs of collision cases across energy regions collected by the ATLAS and CMS probes, and you should be able to see what this graph means. ”

After staring at the image for a while, the expression of the ark gradually became a little heavy, “Confidence dropped? ”

Professor Frank sighed softly, "Yes, no matter how many sets of experiments we repeated, confidence still fell short of the 3sigma standard. And the experiment at the end of last year, it was at the peak of the 750GeV energy zone, and it even shrunk… that is, you see a return to confidence. ”

I stared at the icon for a long time, and the ark hasn't spoken for a long time.

He has implicitly guessed why Professor Frank wants to talk to him face to face.

Professor Frank paused for a moment when he did not speak to the Ark and continued.

“It's a pity you missed the big international conference on theoretical physics in Brussels at the end of the year. ”

“The latest discovery on the report accelerator at that time was made by Ms. Fabiola Giannotti, the newly elected 16th President of the CERN Board. The debriefing was full of people sitting on the ground, even in the corridors outside. ”

“That report reported a lot of things, especially the fact that it took exactly 20 minutes to report CERN findings on 750GeV. ”

“You should be able to read these diagrams, or you can take them back for research," said Professor Frank, sighing softly, "although it doesn't make much sense anymore. ”

Instead of looking at the computer, the Ark stared at Professor Frank and waited for him to continue.

Responding to the sight of the younger generation, Professor Frank shrugged his shoulders and tried to make his tone sound less heavy, continuing: "But in any case, you've been very helpful. Between May and two months ago, there were plenty of papers on ARXIV, many of them novel physical models. They may not be correct, but they are useful. And the two papers we collaborated on were cited a number of times by our peers. ”

Although it sounds comforting, the Ark has no sense of comfort whatsoever.

He has spent half a year on this subject, and while half a year is nothing to a theoretical physicist, not even enough for them to grow back the hair that was lost, it means something completely different to an ark.

Not only because of the time he squeezed out of his busy schedule to build the models, but also because of the hopes he poured on the 750GeV...

Taking a deep breath, the ark looked at Professor Frank and said slowly, “You mean? ”

Professor Frank's reaction confirmed his speculation.

The old man stood up, took off his hat, nodded slightly and thanked him.

“CERN's official interpretation of the experts of the member States is promising, but it is clear that no experimental retrieval of the anomaly of the 750 GeV feature peak will be scheduled from the experimental plan after 1 January, as it is disappearing and every collision of particle masses is burning money. It was a pleasure working with you, and I really appreciate your work, but..."

Speaking, Professor Frank cleared his voice and lowered his eyes slightly, expressing regret, "Rationality tells us that it is much easier to build a physical model to explain why the 750GeV does not exist than to find this non-existent particle. ”

However, the significance of this work is no longer significant.

Explain why a particle does not exist, a speculation that cannot be perjured or verified, at best, is only at the level of a doctoral thesis. It may help a few high-energy physics doctors who don't graduate successfully get their degrees, but it's far from “new physics”.

The ark was silent for a long time.

After a long time, he seemed determined to say.

“But I haven't given up. ”

Professor Frank said nothing more, put his hat back on and sighed softly.

“Good luck with that. ”