From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 198 This is our science

At the CERN headquarters, when we arrived at a reception room, we could see seven people sitting inside, chatting.

Three of them, known to Lin Xiao, 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 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 theories are also based on the wisdom of countless predecessors. My work is just to sublimate them.”

“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 really incredible to put it so low.

However, the person in front of him was the proposer of multidimensional field theory after all, and his strength was respected in the academic world. Lin Xiao was 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 smiled and said: “That’s it. 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 and 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 the noise, and then we will find those traces that may represent the W boson. Believe me, this will be the only way we can measure the W boson more accurately.”

Before Lockyer could speak, another researcher from Fermilab next to him 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 has been done on this before!”

“Lin, don’t tell me that you want to solve this problem before the Solvay Conference officially starts on December 19, 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 you will hear such a surprise one day before the Solvay Conference. ?”

“Besides, I didn’t say that we would completely eliminate the noise caused by radio electromagnetic waves, I just wanted to minimize their impact.”

“If you try to summarize them all into an approximate functional formula, these problems will not be a problem.”

Reese Pattor 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 actually say that they want to solve the problem of interference of radio electromagnetic waves to particle accelerators.

This was unimaginable to him.

Not to mention that Lin Xiao actually had to complete this matter in less than five months, which was 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 situation, so I can only wish God to bless 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 can always make various amazing achievements.

Elizabeth, who was standing aside, also looked at Lin Xiao’s profile, her eyes showing admiration. 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, just 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. But after seeing Lin Xiao who was so confident today, they had a feeling that maybe Lin Xiao could 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.” Give us experience, help us, and we will fulfill our common purpose for him.”

He turned around and said, “This is our science.”

Updates will resume tomorrow, but I’ll stick to two chapters to facilitate even ordering.

In addition, there may be a fully ordered extra chapter in the near future. 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.