Into Unscientific

"CERN?"

Hear what Gelman said.

Opposite him, the expression on John Crump's face suddenly froze.

But soon.

A forced smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he said in a dazed manner:

"Murray, what are you talking about? How could CERN equipment fall into the hands of the Chinese?"

"It's not like you don't know the current international situation. The East and the West are at odds with each other. How can a transaction of that magnitude be possible?"

"Besides, you should have seen the burnout report of that accelerator. It was a joint announcement from the three countries of Britain, Germany and Gaul. How can the Chinese have the ability to connect with those three countries?"

As he talked, John's confidence gradually increased.

The accelerator sent to CERN by Cambridge University has attracted a lot of attention during this period. After all, it involves Heisenberg, a top physics tycoon and the highest-energy particle accelerator in the world.

So after learning that the accelerator was burned, intense discussions broke out within the European and American physics circles.

Due to the joint announcement by Britain, Germany and France, the focus of discussion was generally on the security efficiency of Normandy.

Many scholars believe that if the Gallic side could strengthen security management, this tragedy could be completely avoided - why is such important equipment stored next to flammable and explosive materials?

There are also some famous Nobel Prize winners who hold this attitude, such as Percy Bridgman, Patrick Blackett and so on.

If these big guys are like this, Gelman should not be able to get relevant inside information outside the game.

So after the initial surprise.

John's expression quickly returned to normal when he looked at Gell-Man - if nothing else, Gel-Man was just blowing his hair.

But what surprised him was that Gelman still shook his head firmly after hearing this:

"No, Mr. John, the Chinese people should be using the CERN equipment."

Then he took out a page from the paper and put it in front of John:

"Mr. John, look at this."

John subconsciously took the paper, shook it like a doctor checking a medical record, and put it in front of him to read.

This is a cloud chamber image related to particle deflection angle, which is also a relatively mainstream particle observation method at present.

The cloud chamber is usually filled with supersaturated gas, and then after the charged particles enter, the supersaturated gas is ionized, and it is easy for the supersaturated gas in the cloud chamber to condense into small droplets.

Like a jet plane showing a trail behind it, that's its trajectory.

The nuclear-to-mass ratio determines the different track radii, the charge determines the different deflection directions, and the track thickness also has some characteristics that can be distinguished, etc.

John curiously flipped through the image report in his hand a few times, and then looked at Gelman again in confusion:

"Murray, what's wrong with this image?"

Hearing this, Gelman coughed lightly, pointed at one of the tracks and said:

"Mr. John, look, this is the trajectory of beta particles, right?"

John nodded.

Gelman's index finger slid down a little further:

"Looking at the detection structure of this particle, the shower process is a rare tree diagram, and the end branches of the image exceed seven."

"The reason for the appearance of this kind of image can only be that the lattice atoms of the p-n junction are ionized, and as far as I know."

"There is only one accelerator with this kind of lattice structure, which is the tandem electrostatic accelerator that Cambridge University is sending to CERN."

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John was silent for a few seconds, shook his head and said:

"Jasmine, is it possible that this is a coincidence?"

"impossible."

Gelman immediately shook his head, continued to take out another paper, and said:

"Mr. John, look at this again - this is a diagram of the deposited energy of secondary particles."

"This is an event in which a hadron decayed to ττ. I just made a simple backward calculation and found that the number of gold-plated tungsten wires in the main drift chamber of the experimental equipment should be around 6,500."

"The number of gold-plated tungsten wires in the accelerator sent to CERN by the University of Cambridge is 6,786."

"With this value and the similarity in the lattice structure, Mr. John, I am at least 90% confident in guessing that the tandem electrostatic accelerator at CERN fell into the hands of the Chinese."

"Of course, as for what transactions are involved, I don't know how Britain, Germany and France are willing to cooperate with China in performing such a scene."

This time.

John opened his mouth again, but in the end he remained silent.

To be precise, he had nothing to say.

after all

Everyone is engaged in physics research, and their logical thinking is much higher than ordinary people.

There is no point in pretending to be stupid in the face of some obviously convincing evidence.

As everyone knows.

Generally speaking, the particle shower process is mostly circular like a firework explosion, that is, there are equal-length radii around the center of the circle.

But the shower process in the image Gell-Mann showed is similar to a tree-like tree with spreading roots. The reason for this situation can only be due to the p-n junction...that is, the existence of silicon semiconductor:

When an external voltage is applied to the p-n junction, a depletion layer will be generated inside the p-n junction, and there will be an electric field in the depletion layer.

When a high-energy charged particle passes through the depletion layer, it ionizes the lattice atoms of the p-n junction and generates positive and negative charges that can move freely.

These positive and negative charges move to the edge of the p-n junction under the action of the electric field, and then form a tree root-like tree diagram.

Of course.

If it was just an anomaly, John could try to explain it.

But another picture Gelman showed later completely silenced John.

The event of hadron decay to ττ.

In 2023, when Xu Yun traveled back in time, the decay of hadrons to ττ can be seen almost everywhere, and even the decay of Higgs particles to ττ can often be observed.

But at this time, it is indeed a rare 'instance'.

Because it involves displacement jets.

When particles decay into quarks, they undergo a process called hadronization, which causes collimated particles to be ejected in a detector—a process called a jet.

If a new neutral LLP decays into quarks in the calorimeter's outer shell, it leaves behind a "displacement" jet.

These will leave a very unusual feature in the experiment:

The jets have no associated particle trajectories in tracking detectors and will be very narrow compared to their Standard Model counterparts because the spray of particles does not have time to separate spatially and will retain a large portion of their total energy in the heat The hadronic part of the plan.

In this era, the physics community has not yet recognized the concept of quarks, so there are only two accelerators capable of producing displacement jets:

The 80MeV electrostatic accelerator at the University of Cambridge, and the 60MeV electrostatic accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory across the sea.

The way to directly apply displacement jet technology is to add gold-plated tungsten wire to the main drift chamber of the experimental equipment.

This kind of tungsten wire requires the use of very advanced electroplating technology, involving magnetron electroplating coating. Now even many European countries have not mastered it, let alone China, a poor country.

In this case, the number of gold-plated tungsten wires exceeds 6,700.

Combined with the previous shower process, Gellman's 90% estimate was actually a bit low.

Seeing that John was silent, Gelman looked at him again and guessed:

"Mr. John, you have known about this for a long time, right?"

John nodded slowly.

Nowadays, some of the embargoed equipment of the Rabbits are shipped to China by him, including electrostatic analysis modules and other materials. It is his relationship with some of the accelerator transportation routes. John naturally knows about this a long time ago.

Then John returned the two paper reports to Gell-Mann and asked:

"Murray, since you have seen this a long time ago, why didn't you tell Mr. Guzmit?"

Hearing this, Gelman glanced at the sky, and a smile appeared on his lips:

"What are you telling him for? To make this matter known to everyone in advance?"

"Although Mr. Guzmit has some friendship with Professor Zhao, he obviously will not side with China on this matter."

"Professor Zhao's country is really too difficult. If this kind of thing is exposed one day later, they will get one more day of dividends. Don't you think so, Mr. John?"

Say it.

Gelman also exhaled a breath.

like he said.

Although Guzmit is an anti-war activist and has a good relationship with Zhao Zhongyao, it is obviously impossible to side with China on this issue of national interests.

Otherwise, Guzmit had already directly agreed to publish the paper when he saw it. Why would he have to wait until John mentioned his hope for the Nobel Prize before he was interested?

But Gell-Mann was different.

In addition to Zhao Zhongyao's relationship, the reason why he chose to hide it from Guzmit was because there was another very crucial point:

He is a Hebrew.

The Hebrews have always had a lot of controversies, but one thing that cannot be denied is that they have always been pursuing the restoration of the nation.

After the establishment of the state of Israel, many Hebrews returned to their own country to contribute.

Therefore, in terms of national sentiment, Gell-Man still prefers the Chinese side. The two sides have a deep sympathy for the words "strong country" - of course, only at this time, in a few years the two sides will Taking a completely different path.

This emotion, combined with Gelman's relationship with Zhao Zhongyao, finally made Gelman choose to play dumb in front of Guzmit.

His starting point is fundamentally different from John's. The reason why John continues to keep the secret is largely because of his long-term deal with China.

Once the transaction between the two parties stops, John may draw a clear line with the rabbits at that time - he is still a businessman after all.

True.

Nowadays, there are many top scholars across the sea. Even if Gell-Mann does not expose this matter at this time, it is estimated that someone will discover these two anomalies.

But as Gelman said.

As long as the Chinese side can be delayed for one day, the Chinese side can enjoy one more day of dividends - this is the limit of what Gelman can do.

As for secretly hiding these two images.

joke.

If it was really possible to hide the two images and not publish them, how could Zhao Zhongyao and the others attach them to the paper?

Although these two images are not core data, they are indispensable links in the description process of the entire meta-hadron model.

Whether it is hiding illegal activities or modifying data, it will have a great impact on the persuasiveness of the meta-hadron model.

So when they decided to publish the paper, Xu Yun, Zhao Zhongyao and others prepared to expose the deal with CERN.

That's why the rabbits have been desperate to trade linear oscillation detection components with Germany in the past period, just in case the Germans stopped trading after the accelerator incident was made public.

But then again.

Neither Xu Yun nor Zhao Zhongyao expected that this matter would be exposed so soon.

But if you think about it carefully, it’s normal. After all, this is Gell-Mann.

Even in today's era, there are only five people who can compete with his abilities.

After a while.

Gelman looked at John again, with a hint of curiosity in his tone:

"Mr. John, I have a question to ask you again."

John nodded to him:

"But it doesn't matter. I will tell you everything I know."

Gelman looked at him deeply:

"Dongfang. What happened?"

John was startled.

Then Gell-Mann waved his hands in the air a few times and said:

"I have seen a piece of news before, saying that three U2s of the military in 4V crashed in China."

"Although the military's statement is that it was a complete accident, this argument can barely fool Ni. Ahem, a simple-minded person."

"Now that the U2 incident has not dissipated, China has obtained a tandem accelerator from CERN, that ancient big country in the East. What is the situation now?"

Say it.

Gelman looked like he was possessed by Chitanda, staring at John in front of him with an "I'm very curious" expression.

Not long ago.

The military across the sea released a message late one night, saying that three U2s on mission in 4V crashed in China.

This news quickly attracted the attention of all walks of life across the sea, and the topic was even higher than the burning of the CERN accelerator.

After all, the CERN accelerator itself has relatively heavy professional barriers, and those who are not practitioners of particle physics will hardly be too interested.

But U2 is different.

Military-related news is a hot topic in any country in any era, let alone the U2 reconnaissance plane that crashed across the sea and was being marketed crazily.

Although a U2 was shot down in Mao Xiong a year ago, that incident was actually caused by Mao Xiong's spies having tampered with the U2 body in advance. Strictly speaking, it was not a technical problem.

But now three U2s have crashed in China, which obviously challenges cognition.

In addition, according to the gossip Gelman heard.

In fact, China has long spoken out to the international community through the channel of Mao Xiong, saying that these three U2s were kicked down by donkeys.

The donkey in it is obviously an excuse. The real meaning of this news should actually be

U2 was shot down by the rabbits.

It's just that the military across the sea blocked the news, so there were basically no reports of Hua Xia's speech in Europe and the United States.

Not long after the U2 incident, the rabbits quietly obtained CERN's tandem electrostatic accelerator, which made Gell-Mann curious:

What changes happened in the East?

Note:

My body temperature is as high as 39.3 and I probably won’t be able to type in the past few days. I have saved the manuscript and published it in chapters of 4,000 words. I don’t know how many days it will last.

I can only use one leave request this month. If I take more than one day off, I will lose 20% of my full attendance.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Seeing how miserable this is, I would like to buy some monthly tickets. I promise to continue posting updates as soon as I recover. Sigh.