Chapter 444: There was a sound of thunder on the ground, Dr. Xu... ahem, first appearance (Part 1)
"...."
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 in fact.
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.
That is to say, the interrupter either brings his own loudspeaker like Atsushi Suzuki, or holds a microphone.
And look at the entire press conference.
Apart from Field Control and Academician Pan, there are only one who can independently own a microphone...
The five top bosses sitting at the front are:
Yang Lao,
Tehooft,
Peter Higgs,
Polyakov,
as well as.....
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.
Even though Academician Pan has participated in many academic seminars, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
In fact, it was not only Academician Pan who was surprised.
Higgs, Polyakov and even Mr. Yang who were beside 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 "jie qi" or the homophone of "jie qi" (athlete's foot).
Wait until Academician Pan finishes asking.
The barrage became exaggerated barrages such as "Chinese Academy of Sciences' awesome review!" or "Long live China!".
But after Edward Witten spoke out.
The barrage unified 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 elders at the scene, and the audience knew more or less about them.
Edward Witten is an elder who has a relatively friendly attitude towards China. He has participated in many conferences held by domestic universities in recent years.
In addition, he also insisted on using "ew year" when celebrating the New Year, and he was criticized by a lot of Bangzi.com for this.
By the way, since we mentioned the Spring Festival, let me talk about one more thing.
At present, many people think that ew year and lunar new year are actually only different in letters, and it is too sensitive to pay too much attention to ew year.
And what is the fact?
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.
In fact, the meaning of the two words "infiltration" and "cannibalization" can be seen. 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 terminology for this approach in political science, called rendering advancement, and the next step is to turn it into the cultural history of sticks.
well, let's get back 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, the premise is that 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 publicly issue an 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 indicate his intention, they were somewhat of a statement:
He really didn't come here to cause trouble.
In other words...
There is a high probability that he will not question the results of dark matter...that is, the final conclusion.
This is barely good news.
After all, with Witten's status, if he really raises questions about dark matter, the Academy of Sciences will still have some trouble.
At exactly the same 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:
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Mr. Witten, you are serious. We welcome questions or inquiries from any direction at this press conference. You can feel free to ask questions boldly. Academy of Sciences
I will do my best to answer your questions.”
Upon 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, in Dean Hou's speech later, we would announce the official name of the solitary point particle."
"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 bosses 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's 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 elders gathered together and immediately decided on the name Pangu.
From now on, any article or research that mentions solitary 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 searching for Pangu, the remaining Nuwa, Sanqing... naturally these Chinese mythological characters cannot be avoided.
If you are not sure, someone will search here and there, and you will 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.
Just like the Higgs particle.
The name of this particle is different from the common pi meson or electron gluon, so after hearing it too many times, some people will always search for the name Higgs.
Search and search and you will find out that he proposed the Higgs mechanism 49 years ago. He 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 according to keywords nner.
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 gave a set of data before, in which the flux value was 17.885 and the exponential mapping generator was 1., 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, exponential mapping generators, etc.
These data can be used to calculate the oxika value of the isolated point particle through the relevant formulas 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 parameter in the numerical value.
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 are measured and statistically calculated using instruments, and are extremely accurate.
for example.
Everyone knows that Niu Er is f=ma.
When the data is complete, the total 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 not directly related to the difficulty of measuring the mass m and acceleration a.
m may be an estimated value measured with weights or even palms, or it may be a high-precision value obtained using the most precise instrument.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! 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 release of the final success of major institutions.
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 quadratic 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 retest results reported by major institutions, there is no fraud in the data given by the Academy of Sciences this time.
"
"Besides, the flux value and index mapping generator are both values obtained in the second round, and no fewer 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 quickly waved his hand:
"Sorry, Mr. Pan, you may have misunderstood me."
"I am not accusing the Academy of Sciences of having problems with its 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 calculation 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."
"...."
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..."
