Xiao Yi looked at his calculation results in disbelief, his face full of surprise.
When he derived the unknown quantity that represented the aperture acceleration, he found that this unknown quantity still could not be analyzed. At least, from the surface, it was impossible to see the physical meaning it represented.
A top physicist can see the physical meaning behind a mathematical formula.
To put it simply, for example, the mass-energy equation of Einstein, E=mc^2.
Looking directly from this formula, anyone who has studied physics can clearly understand that it represents the relationship between mass and energy. Even a very small mass contains an extremely huge amount of energy.
Then physicists can think that if the annihilation of mass can be achieved, a large amount of energy can be exchanged, and then the energy can be utilized to help humans obtain energy benefits that far exceed the cost.
But unfortunately, the first thing that humans thought of at that time was to build a super bomb.
But in short, that's how nuclear fission and nuclear fusion technology came about.
Of course, judging from the general education situation of people today, the mass-energy equation is already a very simple physical formula, and quite a few people can see the physical phenomena behind it from this formula. However, top physicists can still see its physical meaning from those more complex formulas.
And Xiao Yi is undoubtedly such a top physicist.
He was able to understand the physical meaning of almost all physical formulas in the past, and could even simulate the physical phenomena they represented in his mind.
But when faced with the unknown quantity that he finally derived using Quantum Hodge theory, he couldn't see it.
This shows that the meaning behind it cannot be explained by the theoretical knowledge currently possessed by Xiao Yi.
Until he tentatively re-observed this unknown quantity based on the form of X particle.
The connection between the two allowed Xiao Yi to find an exit.
"X particle..."
X particle is the key factor causing W boson to be overweight.
And now, it has become a key factor in this mysterious aperture acceleration phenomenon.
Xiao Yi frowned and thought.
It seems that their previous experimental situations on the aperture acceleration phenomenon have also been explained.
In those experiments, they made various observations and found no changes in other surrounding particles when electrons passed through the aperture and were accelerated.
It seems that the electrons are accelerating on their own without any other reason.
But now, these situations have been explained, and it turns out to be the impact of X particle.
After all, X particle itself is very mysterious. According to some rough calculations, if humans currently want to discover X particle in a particle collider, the existence of X particle still needs to increase the energy of particle collisions by at least twenty times, or even higher.
For this goal, the projects related to the future circular collider originally planned by CERN have been put on hold, in the hope of getting more funds from the EU and other member states to expand the scale of the future circular collider to a larger scale.
The current planned maximum collision energy of the future circular collider is only about 7 times that of Large Hadron Collider LHC, which is almost 100Tev, while the maximum collision energy of Large Hadron Collider is 13-14Tev.
But no matter what, it is very difficult to achieve a collider with at least 20 times more collision energy than the LHC.
This not only means that the cost of construction will become more, but also means that future maintenance costs will also increase exponentially.
All in all, it will still be a long time before direct proof of the existence of the x-particle is discovered.
However, Xiao Yi suddenly narrowed his eyes and started thinking.
"If this principle of aperture acceleration is used in a particle collider, wouldn't it be possible to directly increase the energy of the collision?"
This is a very feasible application that can even greatly reduce the cost of building a collider.
Increase the speed of particles by 10 times...
Of course, in a particle collider, this cannot simply be described as a 10-fold increase in particle speed.
For example, in the LHC proton collision, the speed of protons has been accelerated to 99.9999991% of the speed of light. In this case, it is obviously impossible to directly increase the speed ten times. Therefore, more essentially, the aperture acceleration phenomenon is more of a direct endowment of energy.
Therefore, the electrons in the aperture acceleration are out of thin air... No, it should be from some effects brought by X particle, thus gaining energy that can increase its speed ten times.
Of course, because the aperture acceleration phenomenon initially discovered is only the current speed in the battery, its speed itself will not be very fast, so it can be improved tenfold. According to the formula K=1/2mv^2, it is basically equivalent to an increase of one hundred times in energy.
Undoubtedly, this is an amazing energy boost.
However, it cheered up Xiao Yi's mood.
"If this effect is used on the engine of a spaceship..."
It is easy to imagine that any spacecraft will receive extremely amazing power.
Of course, for the time being, this scenario can only exist in theory. After all, how to stably reproduce aperture acceleration is still a problem.
This probably requires a more in-depth discussion of X particle.
Moreover, the most critical question is, since it is related to X particle, why can pore acceleration only occur within carbon nanopores?
Does carbon have to be extra special?
Xiao Yi also used his imagination and thought that carbon is the cornerstone of life elements. Maybe it is precisely because of the relationship between carbon and X particle that the birth of life has the source of power.
Of course, as to why life was born, Xiao Yi is very clear that this is a goal that is further away than achieving nuclear fusion.
"Well, let's not think about these things for now. However, with this basic introduction, we can have a deeper understanding of carbon."
Stopping his writing, Xiao Yi picked up the phone and called Liu Xiaodong to ask him to come to the office. Soon Liu Xiaodong arrived at the office.
"Professor Xiao, why did you come to see me?"
Xiao Yi pushed the draft paper towards Liu Xiaodong and said at the same time, "I should have figured out the cause of the aperture acceleration. However, this result can only be said to be doubtful at present."
Liu Xiaodong's expression of surprise suddenly became confused.
What's the meaning?
Why still have doubts?
It wasn't until he took the pieces of scratch paper and read them briefly that he was shocked, "It's actually related to X particle?"
Although he is engaged in materials, people like him who study nanometers will naturally do a lot of research on Quantum Mechanics.
Of course, after discovering the aperture acceleration phenomenon, he naturally thought that this phenomenon might be caused by Quantum Mechanics, so he also spent a lot of time and studied Quantum Mechanics.
It is also because of this that he knows about X particle that Xiao Yi originally created.
Xiao Yi nodded slightly. "If my mathematical derivation is not wrong."
Liu Xiaodong looked excited. "Isn't this another proof of the existence of X particle! Professor, if this paper is published, it will definitely bring another shock to the physics world!"
Xiao Yi shook his head and said, "Although it can be roughly deduced now that aperture acceleration should be deeply related to X particle, the specific process in the middle is still a problem. It may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of X particle."
"However, I don't have any good solutions for this aspect at the moment."
"Of course, you can also think about how to solve this problem after you go back."
Upon hearing what Xiao Yi said, Liu Xiaodong was stunned and pointed at himself. "Me?"
Then he started scratching his head.
"This... Professor Xiao, you don't have any good ideas, let alone me?"
Xiao Yi laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I believe you."
Liu Xiaodong said helplessly, "I don't even believe in myself."
Xiao Yi smiled again, and then said seriously, "Okay, no matter what, I will not focus on this research for the time being. You can choose whether to continue the research, or you can choose to publish the paper directly."
"This paper should be able to be published in any top journal. After it is published, it will meet the requirements for full membership. I can also coordinate with you at that time, and you will directly become the official Assistant Researcher."
Liu Xiaodong was stunned for a moment, and finally nodded solemnly. "Thank you, Professor Xiao!"
Assistant Researcher, which was almost not rated at Jiaotong University at the beginning, is now not only close at hand here, but has even been rated in advance.
He couldn't express how moved he was, but he already deeply remembered the help Xiao Yi had brought to him.
Xiao Yi smiled and waved his hand and said, "Nothing to thank you for. After all, weren't you the first to discover this aperture acceleration phenomenon?"
Liu Xiaodong was almost in tears. If it were SJTU, his tutor would most likely not admit that he discovered it first.
Next, Xiao Yi focused his time on the research of carbon element again, because knowing the impact of X particle on carbon element also opened up more ideas for him.
At the same time, he also began to try to unify all the currently summarized properties of carbon into an overall framework.
This overall framework is roughly similar to the periodic table of elements.
The periodic table allows people to predict new elements and analyze the properties of some of them.
The carbon element framework he wants to establish can help him predict under what kind of structure the carbon element will possess the key properties of the first wall material.
We are very close to this goal.
On the other hand, after another month of research, Liu Xiaodong finally gave up on solving the problem that even Xiao Yi had no good solution for the time being.
Then he decided to publish the paper.
Before publishing the paper, he also informed Xiao Yi. Of course, Xiao Yi did not say anything. He expressed support whether it was published or continued research.
As for the author, Xiao Yi is the corresponding author and author, and he is also the author.
As for the journal to which I would submit my manuscript, it would naturally be Science.
Because of the corresponding author Xiao Yi, the paper was submitted almost immediately on the first day, and the next day it was in the mailbox of Javin Bonas, editor-in-chief of the physics department of Science.
When Javon Bonas went to work the next day, he opened his inbox and scanned it briefly.
I was quickly attracted by this paper.
"Xiao Yi's paper?"
Hehehe smiled, their "Science" is quite grateful to Xiao Yi, which made the reputation of "Nature" a lot worse. Now it is basically "Science" that suppresses "Nature".
However, the sub-journals of "Nature" are still more influential than their "Science".
Shaking his head, he no longer cared about this matter. This was what their editor-in-chief was concerned about.
Let's read this paper first.
"This title... "Electrons experience a huge speed increase when passing through 20-30nm carbon nanoporous material pores"?"
Javon Bonas narrowed his eyes and suddenly realized that this paper might not be that simple.
Then, he started to read.
Until the end, his face showed shock.
"Gift crab...!"
"Is this true? Is this really related to X particle?"
"Unbelievable!"
He immediately shouted outside the office, "Dorothy!"
Soon, a young female assistant walked in and asked, "Professor Boras, what can I do?"
"Help me arrange the laboratory, I want to do an experiment!"
As an editor-in-chief, of course he also has his own laboratory.
Therefore, if he could do the experiment on such a very important result, he would do it himself.
The laboratory was quickly arranged, and after some experiments, he obtained the same results as the phenomenon explained in the paper.
"The speed of electrons has actually increased by more than ten times!"
He can also easily calculate that this is equivalent to a direct increase of 100 times in energy!
"This is simply..."
After marveling for an unknown amount of time, he seemed to be able to realize what kind of shock the physics world was going to have next.
In the end, it did not exceed his expectations.
In the next issue of "Science", this paper was on the cover as expected, and as expected, it directly detonated the entire physics community.
Everyone was shocked by this incredible discovery.
As the editor-in-chief, Javin Bonas also accepted interviews from the media after the latest issue of "Science" was released.
"Believe me, this is definitely one of the most important physical discoveries in the past 100 years. Can you imagine? Just by passing through a nanometer-level aperture, the speed of the electron is increased by 10 times or more out of thin air! And the relationship between speed and kinetic energy is a square relationship, which means that its energy is directly increased by more than 100 times!"
"This is a miracle!"
"An absolute scientific miracle!"
"Can you imagine that after you pass through a tunnel, the money you carry becomes 100 times what it was before?"
"Do you think this is a miracle?"
Although Bonas's metaphor sounded a bit strange, the reporter quickly understood its meaning.
Money increased 100 times out of thin air. This is not a miracle. What else is a miracle?
In addition to Bonas, even Edward Witten also accepted the interview and said, "It is very certain that this discovery is the most important discovery in the world of physics!"
"Think about it, if we can stably reproduce this ten-fold speed increase and then use it in superconductors, calculated according to the I=neSv formula, the current will directly increase ten times!"
"As for why a superconductor is necessary, it is because in a resistive circuit, the resistance will affect the actual speed of the current, and we must consider the heat generation, so the most ideal situation is to use this aperture acceleration effect in a superconductor."
"To a certain extent, this can directly increase all the electricity we generate by a hundred times! Before nuclear fusion is realized, perhaps this will help mankind find another efficient and clean energy source."
"Why do we call it clean energy? Think about it, using this effect can ensure that the pollution is reduced to one hundredth of the original level with the same energy output. Do you think this is a clean energy?"
The reporter asked in surprise, "Does this mean that this aperture acceleration effect can be regarded as an intermediate energy technology for the transition of human civilization to nuclear fusion civilization?"
However, upon hearing this question, Witten was somewhat silent, and said after a moment, "To a certain extent, this is feasible, but to another extent, this technology may be more like a transitional technology that allows us to advance from nuclear fusion civilization to a next-level civilization."
"Because this technology involves X particle, if we cannot understand X particle, it may be difficult for us to stably reproduce the aperture acceleration phenomenon. What's more, even if we understand X particle, there is still a considerable difficulty."
"Think about it, what is the diameter of an electron? It is generally considered a point particle and has no size in the classical sense. Experimentally, its interaction scale is about 10^18 meters or less. And then such a small thing has to pass through a hole of more than 20 nanometers, which is about the size of a cell for an electron, and obtain an acceleration of more than 10 times. Can you imagine how difficult it is to reproduce this phenomenon stably?"
The reporter was stunned. It sounded really difficult.
But then, the reporter asked, "I heard that CERN is already preparing to try to study this project. It is even said that if there is a chance, it can also help X particle, or even the discovery of strings in string theory?"
Hearing this question, Witten smiled and said, "There is indeed a chance. Although this phenomenon cannot be reproduced stably, if the positrons and positrons emitted by chance happen to be accelerated, and two accelerated positrons and positrons happen to collide together, there is indeed a chance to help X particle's discovery."
"As for the discovery of strings..."
Regarding this result, Witten shook his head and said, "I think there is a high probability that it will not work, because in order to discover the string, a collision with an energy level of Planck is required, which is about 10^15 times that of Large Hadron Collider."
But then, he still smiled and said, "Of course, if supersymmetric particles can be discovered, it can also provide indirect proof for string theory."
"I look forward to the day when their experiment succeeds."