Fermilab's announcement sent another shock to the entire physics community.
Is the W boson really overweight?
Many physicists were unable to react for a while.
This is true even for those physicists who originally supported Li Mu. After all, no matter what, even if they support Li Mu's prediction, they also understand that it will still take a long time to re-measure the mass of the W boson.
For example, CERN has begun preparations and put the remeasurement plan of the W boson mass on the agenda, which is expected to be completed within three years.
As a result, they never expected that Fermilab would make an announcement just a short time later.
Although Fermilab's status in the particle physics community is not as good as CERN, it was once regarded as the world's top particle physics laboratory.
So no matter what, their announcement directly aroused the concern of physicists.
true or false?
…
In a discussion room at CERN, a group of physicists were watching the live interview on the big screen in front of them.
These physicists have basically not returned to their institutions after attending Li Mu's report meeting.
People like George Parisi and David Gross are among them.
As for the live interview they watched, it was an interview with the New York Times in the United States, and the interviewee was none other than Fermilab spokesman Dave Bartok.
"...Although the CDF has been dismantled, it collected a large amount of particle collision data between 1985 and 2011. Our researchers used approximately 4 million W glasses in 10 years. The collision data of dice finally got this result..."
“In fact, we discovered this result last year, that is, the mass of the W boson is one thousandth higher than the mass predicted by the standard model under perturbation expansion, but we have always been a little unbelievable. "
"After all, you know, it doesn't just mean that something is wrong, it also means that something fundamental is wrong in our understanding of nature."
"So we started re-calculating for a long time. At the beginning of this year, the results deduced by Li Mu surprised us. His theoretical predictions were so similar to our experimental results. This It gave us a lot of confidence.”
Dave Bartok's face was full of excitement and emotion. Their experimental calculations collided with Li Mu's theoretical speculations. It was really a wonderful coincidence.
The New York Times reporter who was interviewing him said with a smile on his face: "Then why didn't you announce this immediately at the beginning of the year?"
Dave Bartok said with a smile: "This kind of thing requires caution, not to mention that our secondary verification had not yet been completed. Although physics is not as rigorous as mathematics, it does not mean that we have to give up rigor."
"Now, we can show with enough confidence that the mass of the W boson is definitely super heavy. We are correct, and so is Li Mu. Similarly, dimensional forces obviously exist, and various consequences arise from it. There is nothing wrong with speculation.”
"Our universe is more complex and more wonderful than we once imagined..."
Dave Bartok's voice echoed in the discussion room at CERN, followed by completely different expressions from the physicists.
"Hahaha, well said!"
David Gross laughed loudly and clapped his hands.
Then he turned to look at George Parisi next to him, and said with a smile: "Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to eat up the Large Hadron Collider? Why don't you go and apply with Madam Chairman now?"
"By the way, I remember there are a lot of people who support you, saying they want to eat together? Like Yusup Stricker, Devin Gill... these guys."
"Tsk tsk, the Large Hadron Collider is worth tens of billions of euros. I really envy you for being able to eat it."
George Parisi had a bad look on his face.
He only accepted the interview yesterday afternoon, but he never expected that this would happen as soon as he woke up.
Hearing the cynicism from David Gross next to him, George Parisi snorted and said, "Don't be happy yet, but don't forget that this is Fermilab."
“There’s always a loose cable between the Physics Building and Fermilab.”
George Parisi's words caused laughter in the discussion room again.
Fermilab's cables are a relatively famous joke in physics.
A research team once discovered a super-light particle. According to the principles of Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible for any substance to reach super-light speed.
As a result, the entire world of physics suddenly vibrated, just like the discovery of dimensional forces.
The emergence of superluminal speed definitely means that the building of physics is about to collapse again.
However, just as the physicists were gearing up, the research team conducted repeated investigations and found that a certain cable in the equipment was loose, which caused errors in the statistical data.
As a result, the physics community was suddenly disappointed, and this incident became a well-known meme in academic circles.
Of course, would such a top laboratory make the same mistake twice?
David Gross was the first to express disbelief.
"Don't have any illusions, George."
"Just accept it."
Patting George Parisi on the shoulder, Gross said with a smile: "Even if you eat the Large Hadron Collider, it will not affect your Nobel Prize."
George Parisi: “…”
My fists are a bit hard and I want to hit people.
In the end, he resisted the urge to hit and said, "Don't get excited first. Let's wait until their paper is released. Maybe they are wrong?"
At this time, Dave Bartok said in the interview: "In addition, our paper has been put on arxiv in advance. I believe that many physicists can no longer wait until April 7."
"We also hope that physicists can help us verify whether there is any problem with our calculation process. Of course -"
Having said this, Dave Bartok smiled slightly: "I believe we will not have any problems."
Dave Bartok's words made the physicists in the discussion room react immediately.
"Quick! Go to arxiv and take a look at the papers they posted! "
Suddenly someone shouted.
David Gross didn't talk nonsense at all. He went straight up, opened arxiv, and found the paper.
Later, so many physicists among them read this article together.
The paper is not long, only a few pages. It mainly introduces the data processing method, as well as the processing process and results.
As for the data, it is definitely not possible to provide all the data. As Dave Bartok said in the interview, they calculated the masses of about 4 million W bosons, and it is obviously impossible to include all of these data in the paper. Released.
In this way, they quickly finished reading the paper of just a few pages.
David Gross laughed first.
"George, what else do you have to say now?"
George Parisi said nothing.
After reading the entire paper, he couldn't find anything to fault, and even praised the paper.
The Fermilab research team used a new data processing method. This new data processing method is very good, at least much better than those in the past.
No wonder they were able to calculate results that were different from before.
At this moment, George Parisi deeply understood why physics is said to be a slap in the face.
This time it was not just him, but also many physicists, whose faces were slapped.
And it's fast.
He couldn't help but look out the window, in the direction of the Large Hadron Collider.
You can't really let him eat this stuff...
He slapped his face, and for a moment he felt like crying.
…
As the Fermilab paper was released on arxiv, the number of downloads quickly exceeded one thousand.
As Dave Bartok said, although "Science" will publish this paper on April 7, physicists can't wait.
Particle physicists around the world almost all read this paper immediately.
Then, this officially proved that Li Mu was right!
There is no longer any doubt about the existence of dimensional force.
The world of physics has ushered in the era of the fifth fundamental force!
Likewise, there is no longer any doubt about the third miracle year.
…
"Congratulations to the host, you have completed the task [Problems hidden in the new theory?]."
"The host has successfully used theory to negate experiments. When the mathematical derivation process is absolutely rigorous, it represents the absolute rules of the universe, because the rules of the universe are also written in mathematics."
"The discovery of dimensional force also means that you are one step closer to the truth of the universe. The ubiquitous dimensions constitute the ubiquity of space in the universe. Of course, there are many secrets about dimensional force. These The secret remains to be explored by the host.”
"This mission brought 15,000 energy points to the upgrade! The current upgrade progress is 43201/30000."
"The energy value has met the upgrade requirements. Do you want to upgrade? Note: You cannot downgrade after upgrading."
In a hotel room provided by CERN.
After hearing the system prompt sound in his mind, Li Mu's eyes lit up.
Finally, after so long, it’s finally time to reap the rewards.
15,000 points of energy was already the most energy he had received in a long time.
As for whether to upgrade...
Of course this is bullshit, “Upgrade now!”
He immediately confirmed it in his mind.
"Confirm the upgrade, the brain computer upgrade has begun, and the fourth-level brain computer architecture is being loaded..."
(End of chapter)
