Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 116: The discovery of graviton

　　 Zhang Yuan met an old acquaintance in his office, Mr. John Wilson, the pessimistic scientist in the nuclear fusion engine.

　　 John woke up two months earlier than him. He seemed to have been hit by the bleak reality. He just greeted Zhang Yuan and sat in his seat all day long, dazed in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking. .

　　 Zhang Yuan sighed, almost everyone here is like this.

　　With the current social environment, it is no longer possible to do some complicated work. At least half of the population is depressed, and it is quite rare to be able to do a simple job. Don't think of creating too much social value.

　　 Fortunately, the decision-makers have estimated this situation in advance, and made certain adjustments when formulating the hibernation policy.

　　 There are currently a sober population of 600 people. More than one hundred people are responsible for the maintenance of the power system. The rest of the population is distributed in communications, medical affairs, botanical gardens, and material management.

　　 There are also a small number of military and administrative personnel responsible for maintaining law and order.

　　In this small, self-sufficient society, everyone’s workload is very small.

The engine of 　　Earth Age is in a state of extinguishment, and it is navigating by inertia in the universe, and most of the functions have been shut down, so more than a hundred years of work will not accumulate catastrophic accidents. Everyone is a little slack. It's nothing.

　　……

　　In this uncomfortable atmosphere, time passes day by day. Zhang Yuan has restrained all his emotions and started to learn new knowledge normally.

　　 Enough new things have happened on the earth, whether it is academic, historical, or humanities, there are many things that are worthy of serious study.

　　 Because of the qualitative change caused by the quantitative change, Zhang Yuan found that he could not even understand the most cutting-edge scientific papers. He can only read relevant news written on popular science websites to grasp the overall scientific developments.

　　He said to himself: "It's pretty good, it's a good thing not to understand. If ancient people like me can still understand it, human beings must be finished."

　　 "What happened to the ancient people? I'll be a university teacher and it's okay!" John said: "In the 25th century, the students in the university are not learning calculus yet? It's so boring."

　　 Zhang Yuan couldn't help but smiled. This sentence is true. Before the emergence of the intelligence-enhancing technology of the whole people, college students of any age should be learning calculus. The entire civilization still has to be promoted by genius.

　　 "John, what does this super alpha state mean?"

　　 "I don't know, it may be a new academic term in condensed matter physics... I will help you look up related papers."

　　 The two people in the office faced modern knowledge, and they didn’t understand much. However, it is actually quite interesting to study with multiple people, and the progress of the research is faster than that of one person.

　　 There was a question on the Internet. If Einstein travels to the modern age, can he become a top scientist?

　　 It's not necessarily top-notch, but it's quite easy to become a good scientist again. Because under the influence of good habits, learning new knowledge is actually a relatively pleasant thing for Einstein. After a few years of work, it is estimated that he will be able to learn cutting-edge subjects.

　　 Even if there is new knowledge in front of you but not learning it, it will produce a sense of depravity.

　　"...The good news of cutting-edge science, through a condensed matter superfluid experiment, it seems to have found evidence of the existence of gravitons!"

　　 Zhang Yuan suddenly yelled as if he had discovered some big news.

　　 "It's really not easy!"

　　 After reading one of the papers, he sighed deeply.

　　The mood at the moment can only be described in one word: cool!

　　According to the description of this paper, after scientists used superfluid to surround a limited area, they discovered that this part of the area had a very small amount of gravitational change.

　　 This gravitational change has exceeded expectations.

　　 In some theories, gravitons are bosons with spin 2, which will produce a superfluid mechanism similar to helium-4. In other words, this part of the superfluid is likely to short-circuit some of the gravitons flowing through this area, thereby realizing local shielding.

　　 The evidence for the existence of gravitons may be the greatest scientific discovery in the past two centuries!

　　 It means that some basic theories seem to be able to be developed further.

　　A variety of related papers have emerged one after another, and until now, no winner has been selected.

　　 Seeing this, Zhang Yuan’s heartbeat speeds up slightly. He deeply knows how important the discovery of gravitons is to cutting-edge science!

　　"The gravitons involved in physical phenomena are gravity. If gravity can be unified into quantum theory, then the "grand unification theory" will no longer be a dream!"

　　 "If anti-gravity and artificial gravity-related technologies can truly emerge under the guidance of theoretical foundations, mankind will once again achieve a qualitative change in technology!"

　　 Zhang Yuan is still very willing to engage in research in this area.

　　 Of course, as far as he is currently concerned, he can only be a remote watchman, looking for some fun in the news.

　　 Any progress in human civilization is a very safe and gratifying thing for him.

　　 "I am already a two-hundred-year-old elder, younger generations, come on." Zhang Yuan joked because he was in a good mood.

　　"Ahem, if you want to understand the earth’s civilization, you can take a look at the annual special report of the Deep Space Foundation~IndoMTL.com~ instead of looking for information here, there are a lot of news sent over. Outrageous, some of them were fabricated by the media."

　　 John said slowly.

　　 After so many months, he has slowly returned to normal. Moreover, Zhang Yuan's violent learning spirit directly drove him, and he had to follow along with him.

　　 This guy still sighs sometimes, but at any rate he can communicate.

　　 I have to say that time can dilute everything, and human beings are also very receptive creatures. If you choose to keep yourself busy, all the heavy weight will be slowly thrown behind...

　　 People always have to live for themselves.

　　"Why, seeing these scientific research results, you are not pessimistic about the future of earth civilization?" Zhang Yuan smiled and asked: "It is still very refreshing to see scientific progress. Once the technology of earth civilization changes qualitatively, we It also has a qualitative change"

　　 John said excitedly: "It is indeed an amazing discovery! I was also happy for a long time the other day, and diluted that pessimistic expectation. By the way, what do you think about the phenomenon of gravitational loss caused by the superfluid phenomenon? How to realize anti-gravity in industrialization?"

　　" There is a kind of interaction between graviton and fermion. In addition to the Yukawa coupling similar to the electron-photon interaction, there may be other terms in the Lagrangian. I think as long as these terms are clarified, the effect of gravitational shielding Can continue to enhance!"

　　"The nature of the world is really beyond imagination!"

　　"Aren't the four basic forces the ultimate essence?"

　　"Don't be too optimistic. At present, the whole theory has not been fully understood."

　　 The more they talked, the more excited they became, and they began to talk about the mountains indiscriminately, as if anti-gravity technology could really be realized...