As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 87 Large Hadron Collider

Only those who have experienced aging know how happy it is to regain their youth.

As his stagnant brain gradually resumed working and his thinking became sharp again, Simmons was grateful for his decision.

What you lose are only material things like wealth, but what you gain is a longer time.

Witten is younger than Simmons, but his youth is limited. He had a conversation with Simmons once when he went to Pfizer's laboratory last time.

The other party's thinking is much faster than his. Although he has known Simmons for many years, this experience is the first time for Witten.

Jieha said enviously: "If our plan goes well, you should have a chance to get a magic brain."

"The Demon Brain is such a magical creation. It would be so nice if Merlin wasn't called Merlin. He shouldn't have a name!"

"Then tell me in detail how it feels to be injected with the magic brain, and what magic is."

Wei Teng was noncommittal: "Maybe, if I get the magic brain, you may not be able to see me."

"And the second magic brain we obtained will most likely not be distributed. The biologists want to use this one for experiments."

"Whether the research can be replicated or not, I estimate that I will have to wait until the third magic brain before I can do it."

Although Jha is a Nobel Prize winner and Witten has never won a Nobel Prize, Witten's status in the scientific community is much higher than Jha's.

There are so many Nobel Prize winners in America, and Witten is one of the greatest physicists.

Jha can only be said to be a relatively good physicist.

"By the way, has the application for the Large Hadron Collider on Europa been approved?" asked Jha.

Witten: "I don't know. It should still be under debate. Since the discovery of the soul, Europa has also stopped applying for the use of the Large Hadron Collider."

"CERN has expelled all foreign scientists, leaving only the scientists from Europa."

The Large Hadron Collider on Europa is currently the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world.

The method everyone thought of was to accelerate protons to collide with the out-of-body soul, and then observe the phenomena produced by the soul particles after the collision.

Europa's LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was built through cooperation among more than 80 countries and regions, and its main management agency is CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research).

Previously, there were more than 20 Chinese scientists working on the LHC, but now all of them have returned to China.

Not only China, but all scientists except those from the 27 Europa member states were expelled.

Even scientists from some small European countries have been marginalized, leaving only a few major European countries to work together with the country where the LHC is located to control the operation of the entire LHC.

CERN claimed that due to certain technical reasons, the LHC could not operate, so it suspended international cooperation and would restart cooperation after the LHC was restored.

Jha said disdainfully: "If Europa refuses to agree, we will force them to agree."

“We have so many ways to achieve our goals.”

Witten: "What if they cooperate with China? You know, China is also eager to use the LHC."

Jieha asked in return: "Can China offer more than us?"

Witten: "Whatever we can provide, China can also provide. The Webb telescope has not yet been assembled. China can lend their Sky Eye to Europa."

Jieha said: "We can share information related to magic with China."

Wei Teng reminded: "How do you know that China does not have a magic brain? You know, the magic coin represented by Mars is not in our hands."

At this time, in a tunnel one hundred meters deep underground in the Jura Mountains, thousands of miles away from Oak Ridge, the remaining scientists at CERN were busy preparing for the next experiment.

“下一次实验将质子的能量调到14TeV，将光度调整至10e34 cm-2 s-1。”

"Pay attention to the installation of the pure collimator in the LHC ring, and be careful to avoid errors caused by the superconducting magnet beam!" "Everyone, focus!"

"Poor man, his life will be taken away if I press the button in my hand."

"Don't be sentimental, he's a criminal."

"But the criminal also has his rights."

"Shut up!"

The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre-long ring of superconducting magnets with many accelerating structures to increase the energy of particles along the way.

People have measured the energy and speed of cosmic rays reaching the Earth's atmosphere here.

Cosmic rays are particles produced in outer space.

Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at nearly the speed of light before colliding.

The light beams propagate in opposite directions in different beam tubes, which are kept in a state close to the theoretical vacuum.

They are guided around the accelerator ring by strong magnetic fields maintained by superconducting magnets.

The electromagnets are made from special coils of cable operating in a superconducting state, which allows them to efficiently conduct electricity without resistance or energy loss.

This requires cooling the magnets to -271.3 degrees Celsius, colder than outer space.

The LHC is located underground, but its operating systems are above ground, in a large tower at CERN.

Scientists working at CERN work in a control center and operate the Large Hadron Collider remotely via computers.

"This time we made the particle detectors at four locations, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, work simultaneously!"

"Professor, do you think we will observe the combination of exotic particles and ordinary particles this time?"

"I don't know. I am a beginner like everyone else in terms of the soul. I am standing at the door of the mysterious side, wandering, trying to find the door that can let me in!"

The concept of exotic particles was first proposed by American University in 2000 before the launch of the heavy ion collider.

They believe that exotic particles contain nearly equal numbers of up quarks, down quarks, and strange quarks.

In theoretical physics, it is believed that this strange particle will become an ordinary particle within one millionth of a second, but there is currently no definite result as to whether ordinary particles will become strange particles when they collide with strange particles.

It’s just that such a phenomenon has not been found in past LHC experiments.

"To be honest, I am as nervous as everyone else. We know nothing about the soul, and we can't even be sure whether the white flocculent substance we observed is the soul."

"Merlin said it was a soul, but we don't know whether Merlin's definition of a soul is the same as ours."

The LHC experiment adds energy to particles little by little, and they are also afraid of encountering safety issues.

For example, the formation of microscopic black holes, uncontrolled nuclear fusion, etc.

Although the soul exists, nothing similar has ever happened when cosmic rays hit the Earth in the millions of years of Earth's history.

But there is no guarantee that this won't happen.

What if the one in a million chance is encountered by CERN scientists?

CERN scientists are cautious.

"Are you ready?"

"Everyone get ready, I hope we can gain something this time!"

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