When we arrived at the CERN headquarters, we entered a reception room and saw seven people sitting inside, chatting.
Three of them, whom Lin Xiao knew, were from CERN, including Fabiola Gianotti.
The other four people probably came from Fermilab in the United States.
When they saw Lin Xiao enter the room, they all stood up.
"Mr. Lin."
"Hello Mr. Lin."
Lin Xiao nodded towards them.
Gianotti came up and introduced them.
"I believe Mr. Lin, I don't need to explain any more. Lin, this is Nigel Lockyer, the director of Fermilab. Fermilab is also an important international partner of our CERN."
Lin Xiao looked at the man in front of him, stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Lockyer."
"Mr. Lin, I have also wanted to see you for a long time."
Lockyer nodded with a smile and shook hands with Lin Xiao, "I'm so lucky that a physicist like you can appear in our world, leading us physicists to find the way to success in the lost world. Believe in multi-dimensional field theory
It is definitely the greatest theory in the world, and I see the glory of God in it."
"That's ridiculous." Lin Xiao said with a smile: "My theory is also based on the wisdom of countless predecessors. My work is just to sublimate them."
"It's just? Then I think your sublimation is like the hand of God, enlightening them."
Lockyer laughed loudly.
After some compliments, Lockyer seemed to be quite easy to talk to, but this also surprised others.
As the director of the Fermilab Laboratory in the United States, he used to appear very arrogant. He did not think highly of ordinary scholars, especially those young scholars. Now when facing Lin Xiao, his attitude was different.
It's a bit incredible to put it so low.
However, the person in front of him is the proposer of multidimensional field theory after all, and his strength is respected in the academic world. Lin Xiao is indeed enough to win the respect of Lockyer.
Of course, after the praise was over, Gianotti introduced several other people to Lin Xiao, and then got down to business.
"Have you heard that Lin is measuring the mass of the W boson recently? How is the situation now?"
Hearing this question, Lin Xiao said with a smile: "Just like that, as you know, measuring the mass of the W boson is not that easy, and our progress is not particularly great."
Lockyer waved his hand and said: "I don't think so. Lin, didn't you say that you would complete the measurement before this year's Solvay Conference? It's August now, and with a math master like Lin here, you definitely won't.
Isn’t that a big problem?”
Lin Xiao spread his hands and said: "How can it be so easy? We are still collecting data."
"Collect data? Isn't your data ready?"
Lin Xiao smiled: "There is still some new data that needs to be collected."
Lockyer was stunned, "New data? Isn't the LHC still undergoing upgrades and maintenance? Where should new data be collected?"
Lin Xiao picked up the tea next to him and took a sip. Although foreigners prefer to drink coffee, he gradually developed the habit of drinking tea.
Then, he looked at Lockyer and said, "Mr. Lockyer, do you think those noisy radio electromagnetic waves in our experimental environment are annoying?"
Lockyer nodded in agreement: "Yes, it is indeed annoying. These noises are as annoying as mosquitoes when sleeping at night."
Without these radio electromagnetic waves, I don’t know how much the accuracy of their experiments could be improved. Unfortunately, this problem obviously cannot be completely solved, it can only be alleviated, but the mitigation efficiency is not high.
Lin Xiao put down the tea cup and said: "So if we reduce these noises and remove them as much as possible from our measurement data, will it be easier for us to measure the mass of the W boson?"
Lockyer was stunned and said: "Lin, you don't have such a plan, do you?"
"why not?"
Lin Xiao spread his hands, "Get rid of these noises, and then we will find those traces that may represent W bosons. Believe me, this will be the only way we can measure W bosons more accurately."
Before Lockyer could speak, another researcher from Fermilab couldn't help but said: "This is impossible!"
"If electromagnetic wave noise is really so easy to solve, I'm afraid it would have been solved long ago. Its impact on all our experiments accounts for at least about 15%! If this problem can be solved, it means that the accuracy of our experiments can be improved on average.
15%, we don’t know how much research we have done in this area before!”
"Lin, don't tell me that you want to solve this problem before the Solvay Conference officially starts on December 19th, and then solve the problem of measuring the mass of the W boson?!"
Lin Xiao looked at the researcher. His name was Reese Peckett, a physics professor at the University of Chicago. Fermilab is affiliated with the University of Chicago, so Professor Peckett also works at Fermilab.
Of course, his reputation is not small at all, and he is quite prestigious in the physics community.
Faced with such a professor's doubts, probably no one would take it seriously.
However, Lin Xiao just smiled and said: "Professor Parker, sometimes life requires a certain amount of surprises, doesn't it? Maybe one day before the Solvay Conference, you will hear such a surprise.
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"Besides, I didn't say we would completely eliminate the noise caused by radio electromagnetic waves, I just tried to minimize their influence."
"If you try to summarize them all into an approximate functional formula, these problems will not be a problem."
Reese Spector looked at Lin Xiao's face full of confidence, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but in the end he leaned back on his seat and sighed: "Maybe it's because I'm getting old."
He couldn't understand this young man, just like the previous multi-dimensional field theory.
Now they are actually talking about solving the problem of interference of radio electromagnetic waves to particle accelerators.
This was unimaginable to him.
Not to mention that Lin Xiao actually has to complete this matter in less than five months, which is even more unimaginable.
Is this something that humans can do at this stage?
Lockyer, who was next to him, smiled and patted Piketer, and said: "Old Reese, we are not math experts after all, so we should trust Lin."
Then he nodded towards Lin Xiao and said: "Then I hope you can succeed. If you really do it, this will be a blessing to all of us researchers in particle physics. Unfortunately, this matter
We can’t help you with the matter, so I can only wish God’s blessings on you.”
"Just don't worry, Mr. Lockyer." Lin Xiao smiled, "At least, I haven't failed yet."
Hearing Lin Xiao's words, everyone present could not help but be stunned.
Yes, in their impression, Lin Xiaoke had never failed.
From mathematics to materials chemistry, and then to physics, he was always able to make various astonishing achievements.
Elizabeth, who was standing aside, also looked at Lin Xiao's profile, with admiration in her eyes. A confident man is always so charming.
…
The meeting did not end there. They then exchanged a lot of experiences in research, and it was not over until more than an hour later.
Nigel Lockyer and his group did not leave after saying goodbye to Lin Xiao. They had other exchanges and visits afterwards. After all, they did not come here just to meet Lin Xiao.
However, looking at Lin Xiao's leaving figure, some people couldn't help but ask: "Can he succeed?"
"Whether he succeeds or not, he just needs to do our job well."
Nigel Lockyer said.
"A few months... we have been working on it for more than a year! If he succeeds first, all our efforts will be in vain."
Their Fermilab laboratory is also measuring the mass of the W boson. As Elizabeth said before, they do have the idea of spying on ‘military intelligence’.
Originally, they thought that Lin Xiao had only been researching for a few months, and there was no way he could succeed before them. However, after seeing Lin Xiao who was so confident today, they had a feeling that Lin Xiao might be able to succeed before them.
"No experiment is in vain." Nigel Lockyer waved his hand and said: "If he succeeds, our experiment will be to help them perform the 'checking' process, and if he fails, he will also do it for us."
Provide experience, help us, and then we will complete our common original intention for him."
He turned around and said, "This is our science."
Updates will resume tomorrow, but I’ll keep it to two chapters to facilitate equal ordering.
In addition, there may be a fully ordered extra chapter in the near future, and the content is very exciting (to brag, it is about one-tenth of the volume of "The Three-Body Problem"). I hope everyone will support it.