From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"First of all, I would like to welcome everyone here for our first meeting."

"It has been more than ten years since CEPC-SppC was first proposed and now successfully constructed. Such a feat is not only an event worthy of celebration in our scientific community, but also It is also an event worthy of celebration for all mankind."

"Because this not only means that our human science and technology level has been further developed, but also means that we are one step closer to discovering new science."

"As the chairman of the academic committee, but also as a person who was born and lived in this country, I am also very proud of this."

"Of course, I won't say more about other specific things, but I believe in these specific things, such as how powerful our collider is and what status it has in our scientific community. I don't need to say any more."

"Then, what I want to talk about next is about the arrangement of scientific research plans."

"The first phase of the program, which is the program that will start in two weeks."

"This plan is not only a test run to test the stability of our CEPC-SccP, but also to conduct scientific research on gravitons, Higgs bosons, neutrinos, miniature black holes, etc. discussion."

"The collision energy of 118TeV will reveal to us even more wonderful scenes in the microscopic field, as well as our true thoughts! I believe that whether it is me or any of my friends here, I have been looking forward to this for a long time."

"Then, I won't say more about other things. Please let me wish here that the first operation plan will be a complete success, and at the same time, I also wish that our science will be able to , blooming more wonderful results."

"Thank you."

Lin Xiao's speech ended, and the audience also gave him applause. Obviously, compared with the previous speeches, Lin Xiao's narration of their collider scientific research plan in the future is the most interesting to these scientists. After all, , which means whether they can have room to play in this plan.

Obviously, fortunately, the scientific plan that Lin Xiao said was basically the same as what they thought.

The discovery of gravitons is obviously one of the most concerned matters in the field of high-energy physics during this period of time. After all, it concerns the most basic concept in physics, that is, the gravitational interaction force, one of the four fundamental forces.

If it is said that the electromagnetic interaction force, strong interaction force and weak interaction force constitute various manifestations in the microcosm, then gravity constitutes the basis of the entire universe phenomenon.

Gravity makes celestial bodies show that kind of magnificent spectacle, allowing planets to condense, and the orbit between planets and stars also makes weird and wonderful celestial bodies such as neutron stars and black holes appear.

So every physicist can't wait for this.

Even Lin Xiao is the same. After all, he is the one who told the physics community that gravitons do exist.

In addition to gravitons, other projects have also been hot research topics in the scientific community, such as further observations of the Higgs boson and neutrinos.

As for the topic of micro-black holes, it is also because Lin Xiao discovered its existence after in-depth processing of experimental data by using the "mathematical vaccine" root-check method at CERN. Therefore, in this experiment, these physicists They all want to further discover its existence.

The study of miniature black holes will help them to further understand the secrets of gravity, and the secrets of gravity are naturally not only fully revealed by the discovery of a graviton.

Just like the inside of a black hole, whether it is a higher dimension or another world is still an unsolved mystery. It is not impossible to have anything in a black hole, but what is it? For scientists , is an unsolved mystery.

In this way, under the common expectation of thousands of high-energy physicists who have come to the scene, as well as tens of thousands of scholars around the world, the time has gradually come to the first two days before CEPC-SccP will run.

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The underground tunnel where the CEPC-SccP proton collision detector is located.

Lin Xiao walked here, and many people followed him, including Wang Yi.

"How? Is our underground world shocking enough?"

Seeing Lin Xiao stopping and looking at the detector, Wang Yi said with a smile.

Probably because the heart knot has been untied, Wang Yi and Lin Xiao have become more and more familiar with each other during this period of time.

But this time, Lin Xiao said that before the first run, he would go underground to see the [-]-kilometer-long collider in person. Although he didn't know why Lin Xiao suddenly became so interested, Wang Yi still took the time Followed Lin Xiao over here, and introduced this thing to Lin Xiao like a treasure along the way.

"It's really shocking."

Lin Xiao nodded and said with a smile.

The space of the detector is different from the main body of the pipeline. Because the detector is where the collision occurs, a large number of sensors and processors are needed to process the data, so its volume is also very large.

It's like a building built underground.

Wang Yi smiled and said: "Although, you are indeed much smarter than me, and I am not as good as you in scientific research, but I think I am quite experienced in the construction of such a super large project, although the one you are in charge of is controllable. The nuclear fusion device is also a big project, but it is still not as big as my project."

Hearing Wang Yi talking and getting complacent, Lin Xiao didn't care, and said casually: "Yes, yes, it is indeed bigger than mine."

While speaking, he looked up again, as if he was looking for something.

And Wang Yi also heard the perfunctory in Lin Xiao's words, and was about to say a few more words when he suddenly saw Lin Xiao walking towards the detector.

I saw Lin Xiao approaching a staff member who was undergoing final maintenance and asked: "Hi, may I ask, can this detector go in? I want to take a look at the internal pipeline."

The staff member turned his head and saw that it was Lin Xiao talking to him, and immediately became surprised: "God Lin?"

Then he realized that Lin Xiao was asking himself a question, and he quickly replied: "Yes, yes, you need to go to the top of the detector first, and there is a maintenance passage there. After entering the passage, you can enter the interior at the pipeline."

At this time, Wang Yi also came up and asked suspiciously: "Academician Lin, what's wrong with you?"

And Lin Xiao patted the shoulder of the employee in front of him with a smile, and said, "Thank you."

Then he smiled at Wang Yi: "Our channel is running for the first time, I want to leave something commemorative."

"Something to commemorate?"

Wang Yi became puzzled.

At this time, Lin Xiao also took out the truth recording pen from his arms.

He laughed: "I want to record the sound of collision."

Now Wang Yi was even more puzzled.

"The sound of collisions? But we are particle collisions. Where is the sound coming from? It doesn't vibrate and make sound."

"Electromagnetic waves."

Lin Xiao spread his hands, "Just like the sounds belonging to the universe recorded by those who study astronomy, this recording pen of mine can also record electromagnetic waves."

Wang Yi was taken aback for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing, "So that's the case, I thought you were going to record the sound of the collision."

"However, if the sound of electromagnetic waves is recorded, there should be a lot of noise, right?"

Lin Xiao smiled, "The noise is just the noise, I don't expect to be able to record anything, even if it's a commemoration, that's what I said just now."

Wang Yi nodded, "Okay, since you are interested, then go, but the maintenance passage inside seems a bit small, why don't you ask the staff here for help?"

Lin Xiao waved his hand, "No need, I'll just come in person."

"alright."

Wang Yi nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

And Lin Xiao also climbed to the top of the detector from the ladder, and then came to the maintenance passage under the guidance of other staff.

Through this very narrow maintenance passage, Lin Xiao finally came to the bottom.

Seeing the pipe inside, a smile appeared on his face.

Finally, I got here smoothly.

The months of waiting have finally come to an end.

He took out the truth recording pen again, and pressed the depression on it.

And the voice of the system also sounded: "The recorder starts and starts working. It can be turned off at any time, and at the end it will capture a segment for the system to translate."

Lin Xiao had a satisfied expression on his face.

That's right, in this way, you only need to wait until the collision is over, come over and take the recording pen away.

This recorder seems to have infinite energy and can record forever.

Of course, he can only intercept two fragments for translation at most.

Without thinking about it, he fixed the recording pen on the pipe, and left here.

He was not worried about this recording pen being discovered by others, because in other people's eyes, this recording pen could only be a recording pen, not a truth recording pen.

Then he didn't care too much, he left here, went back outside, and continued to tour with Wang Yi here.

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Two days passed quickly, and the day of official operation arrived.

In the ground monitoring laboratory, multiple working groups composed of thousands of people have begun to make preparations.

In the central control room, Lin Xiao, Wang Yi and other core figures of Huaguo's high-energy physics research organization are all here.

"All departments and working groups have been prepared, and the equipment and instruments have also undergone final calibration. All equipment can operate normally and can now be officially launched."

A staff member told Wang Yi the news.

And Wang Yi also showed excitement, and then said: "Then, there is no need to say more, now, let's start our collider!"

"Yes!"

The staff responded immediately, and then conveyed the instructions given by Wang Yi to all departments.

Then, in the underground tunnel where everyone had been withdrawn, huge energy began to be transmitted, and at the same time, huge electrical energy was also input into it.

With a collision energy of 118TeV, the required power is also quite huge.

Of course, because they have prepared superconducting energy storage coils in advance, there is basically no need to worry about insufficient power supply.

In this way, an incomparably huge electric current started to run in the internal superconducting coil, together with a magnetic field force as high as 18T.

And the equipment serving as the "ammunition compartment" has also injected an extremely large number of particles from it.

The collision has begun!

Under the action of a strong magnetic field, the charged particles were pushed up, and began to rotate rapidly around the pipe. In this way, their speed was accelerated from 0 to a level not far from the speed of light, and then, Collisions took place at the positions of each collider.

The number of collisions per second is as high as hundreds of millions. Of course, limited by the technology of sensors and data processing, the data that can be retained in the end is very rare.

But this is the case, what needs to be known is that the data generated by a single collision has a size of a few MB, which means that even if there is very little data retained in the end, the amount of data generated per second is also tens of terabytes in size .

Therefore, in the process of building CEPC-SppC, the construction of the database is also a costly project.

Of course, the most cutting-edge science corresponds to burning money.

So for these scientists, as long as they don't use their own funds, money is really just a number.

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In this way, over time, after the collision began, various departments and work groups also got the data after the collision.

These data are very huge, but after all, it is an era of computers. Through computers, they can get various processing results more easily.

In this way, as the data was processed one by one, the operation of the collider ended when all the spare superconducting energy storage coils were almost used up.

The whole thing is about three hours.

The data generated in three hours is enough for them to study it for a period of time.

"Okay, it's over."

In the central control room, Wang Yi watched the display showing that all the power had been disconnected and the collider had entered a shutdown state, then sat back in his seat and let out a long breath.

For him, he can be called the most stressful person. After all, as the main person in charge, if something goes wrong during the operation, it will not only be a failure of his hard work over the past ten years, but also mean that he needs to pay for the failure. responsible for.

Fortunately, though, the results are good.

The people next to him smiled and sent blessings to him, and Lin Xiao did the same.

Of course, compared to their joy, Lin Xiao was more concerned about the condition of his recording pen.

Come to think of it, the most intense collision should have been recorded, right?
With a slight movement of his eyes, he was already a little impatient.

Of course, due to the presence of radiation in the collider, it is not possible to enter in the short term. It needs to wait for a period of time before the radiation level drops to the point where you can enter with safety clothing, and this period of time is at least one month.

So even if he was in a hurry, it was impossible for others to agree to him, let alone just go to get a recording pen.

Even if it is not a recording pen, but a very important thing, Huaguo today will not allow its own scientists to go into the radiation to obtain experimental data.

Ever since, Lin Xiao had nothing to do next, so he also joined the research team and began to process the experimental data.

The data generated by the collision energy of 118TeV is very "wonderful", that is to say, the data becomes more messy, at least more messy than the data generated by the LHC in Europe next door.

Of course, this kind of chaos is a very good signal in the eyes of scientists, because it means that there may be some new physics and new particles in it, and they only need to process these messy data through mathematical methods That's it.

It's just that when it comes to actually dealing with these data, most people feel embarrassed.

Because these data are too difficult to process.

Even though they have used the "mathematical vaccine" proposed by Lin Xiao to process these data, the final data complexity still makes them feel difficult.

However, only the vast majority of people think so, that is to say, some people don't think so.

This is naturally Lin Xiao.

As the proposer of the "mathematical vaccine", his position in the research of chaotic systems has been directly elevated to the top level, so when faced with these data, even at the beginning he found it a bit tricky, but after a while, he completely familiar.

Therefore, within a month, he completed two papers in succession and uploaded them to their website.

These two papers are about the determination of gravitons and micro black holes respectively.

In his two papers, he respectively proved the definite existence of gravitons, and at the same time found out the existence of representative miniature black holes from the huge data.

Once these two papers were uploaded, they spread wildly in their research organization. Similarly, the outside world also got the news.

Ever since, this time not only the high-energy physics community, but the entire physics community was shaken by this news.

Although Lin Xiao had already proved the existence of gravitons in his papers before, just as some physicists, especially relativity physicists insisted, they still refused to admit the existence of gravitons if they were not discovered through experiments .

But now, in Lin Xiao's thesis, the existence of gravitons is already hard evidence, even if you want to deny it, this is an unchangeable fact.

It is impossible to have to observe directly through a microscope.

Today's microscopes can't even detect atomic nuclei, so how can we talk about gravitons?

So, not long after Lin Xiao's paper was uploaded, the Huaguo High Energy Physics Research Organization officially held a press conference to officially announce the news.

Even the government is very concerned about this matter.

"All in all, according to Professor Lin Xiao's thesis, we can now basically confirm that under the huge collision energy of CEPC-SppC, gravitons are produced as predicted, and according to calculations, the margin of error is only within ±0.15% , exactly in line with our expected error!"

At the press conference, following Wang Yi's announcement, the reporters present were all snapping photos, while the scientists who were invited applauded to celebrate such a great event.

"Next, I will invite Professor Lin Xiao to give a speech."

Then, Wang Yi smiled and turned to look at Lin Xiao next to him.

This time, he was very grateful to Lin Xiao.

This paper clearly highlights the importance of their CEPC and its role in promoting world science.

It is believed that under the influence of this paper, they will be able to attract more first-class physicists to come here, thereby further enhancing their Huaguo's scientific influence.

This point was also guaranteed by the above when he applied for this project, and at least for now, this goal has been achieved.

At this time, Lin Xiao also smiled slightly, then stood up, picked up the microphone, and expressed his thoughts: "I have firmly believed in the existence of gravitons after my original paper was published. And now, it really confirms my conjecture."

"At this moment, I just want to tell everyone that we have taken another important step on the road to the truth!"

"..."

This press conference was also broadcast live on their official website.

And there are many people watching this live broadcast. Of course, these people are also people from the physics world.

"Well, Maldacena, are you willing to admit the existence of gravitons now?"

In the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Witten said to Maldacena with a smile.

He did not forget that Maldacena had always refused to admit it.

Maldassina pouted, "Just admit it, it's no big deal."

Witten laughed.

It's really interesting to watch this old friend be reluctant, but also have to admit defeat in the face of "truth".

Of course, this is also the power of truth.

Looking at Lin Xiao in the live broadcast, Witten felt a little emotional in his heart, this young man proved himself once again.

……

The press conference was over quickly.

And when Lin Xiao was about to leave, he suddenly received a message.

"Your recording pen has been taken out, and it is now in the research institute."

Upon hearing the news, Lin Xiao became excited immediately, and then went to the research institute non-stop.

It has been more than a month now, and the radiation level inside the collider has dropped below the safe value, so they also sent maintenance personnel to enter it for maintenance, and at the same time helped Lin Xiao take his recording pen .

As for Lin Xiao, who couldn't wait for the recorder, he naturally didn't want to wait for a moment.

When he came to the research institute, Lin Xiao found the staff member who helped him fetch the recording pen.

"Academician Lin, your pen."

I took the pen handed over, but the pen was actually packed in a radiation-proof box, probably to prevent the radiation underneath.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." The staff member responded, but then asked curiously: "By the way, Academician Lin, what material is your recording pen made of? After I took it out, I couldn't detect it from it. radiation value."

Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Can't detect the radiation value? I don't know, but thank you anyway."

The staff member didn't pay too much attention to it. Compared to Lin Shen's gratitude, these are not worth mentioning.

He waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I've said it all, you're welcome, then academician Lin, you're busy first, I have other things to do, so I'll leave first."

"Ok."

Lin Xiao nodded, and then he didn't stay any longer and left here.

He wants to see what truth is recorded in this pen!