Demon School

"Professor Weiss, I think there must be something wrong with the signal we observed last month!" In the laser interference gravitational wave observatory in Hanford, New Jersey, Shelton waved the printing paper in his hand to chase the California Institute of Technology. Professor Weiss said, "The characteristics of this signal are very similar to gravitational waves!"

"I know, Shelton! But this signal is too weak, and the data shown is very vague! We can't determine whether this is a gravitational wave based on these vague data!" Professor Weiss shrugged helplessly. "If it weren't for the National Science Foundation of America to veto our additional investment decision, it would be impossible for us to build a laser interference detector with ten times the power now. We can certainly grasp this opportunity!"

"It's too bad! Even if they give us the fee now and wait for us to build a new observatory, I don't know how many years it will take to wait for such a signal!" This is equivalent to dropping bait in a pond of unknown waters If you want to fish, you only know that there will be carp here, but you are not sure when it will swim to the area where you bait, and when you will bite! This process can be ten minutes or ten years!

Shelton directly told him that the signal observed last month must be a gravitational wave. An opportunity like this was a rare one. It was missed this time. I missed this time. I would like to capture a similar signal next time. How long to wait! It's like a striker waiting for a shooting opportunity. Missing this opportunity, it won't be so easy next time.

"No way! Now the basic research funding of the entire country is shrinking!" Professor Weiss sighed. "Since we gave up SSC, the people of the United States have lost the spirit of progress that leads the country to a strong enterprising spirit in the field of basic research! "

"Where did all the research funding that should have been given to us go?" Shelton couldn't help but ask, for a scientist, there is really nothing more painful than the funding that he needs can't be met!

"I went to the major material research laboratories!" Professor Weiss said rather depressively, "You know, the new battery launched by Huaguo has made David Miguel headache! They are now urgently disbursing a lot of money to invest in this Go to the study! Unfortunately, not much progress has been made until now! "

"Is this the battery of this kind of mobile phone?" Sheldon found out his newly purchased Weihua mobile phone from his pocket. "It's really great. The battery life is better than all the mobile phones I used before! Unfortunately, it is I can't find my own mobile phone charger! I have to buy three chargers within a month of buying it! By the way, who invented this great achievement? I feel that I can award him a Nobel prize!"

"It is Lu Qiujian of China! He invented a special metal material when he hosted the space exploration program of China, which can greatly improve the performance of the battery!" Professor Weis suddenly thought of something, it seems that Shelton is very I hate hearing this name!

"Ah! Why is he again!" Shelton looked at the mobile phone in his hand, and on several occasions he just wanted to drop it to the ground, but he still didn't want it. "You mean it was because Lu Qiujian invented the new Did the battery material cause the National Science Foundation of America to reduce our budget? "

Damn, because I wanted to evade your research field, I switched from dark matter to gravitational wave research and came to work at LIGO! Unexpectedly, because of your reason, LIGO lost the funds to improve performance! Wouldn't you be the one sent by God to fight against me?

"I think that's the reason! Sooner or later the Foundation guys will regret this decision! They had cut the SSC budget and gave CERN the honor of discovering the Higgs boson and dark matter! Now they Is it necessary to make the honor of discovering the gravitational wave so impressive? "Thinking of the face of those Foundation members who refused to apply for funds, Professor Weiss was angry.

"No?" Shelton's heart hung up immediately when he heard this. "Did you not say that the LIGO detector is the world's strongest gravitational wave detector? Regardless of the Italian VIRGO detector and the German GEO600 detection The device, or the neon TAMA300 detector, is not as good as LIGO. Since we ca n’t find the gravitational wave fortunately, then they will not be successful, right? "

"Yeah, but this was a few years ago! Now the Chinese people's Lyra project has surpassed us to some extent! Did you not find that many articles about gravitational waves in the last three years are based on Lyra Was it published in the name of the plan? "Professor Weiss asked.

"I rarely pay attention to the author's name! The opinions of those articles are not new!" Sheldon scratched his head embarrassedly, "but they may have adopted a new detection method! By the way, the project is hosted by Who?"

"As a qualified scientist, you should pay more attention to your competitors!" Professor Weiss made a point, "The academician Luo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the host of the Tianqin project, but the idea of ​​the plan is by Lu Qiu Jian proposed! It was precisely because he persuaded the Chinese government that the Tianqin plan was implemented! "

why is it you again! There was an ominous feeling in Shelton's heart, and this guy also participated in the competition of gravitational wave exploration! The hard work of these years should not be wasted!

"Professor! The latest issue of" Nature "!" A researcher rushed in with the expression nervously holding the magazine ~ www.readwn.com ~ Their cover article came from the Lyra Project team of China! They claimed that they detected a gravitational wave signal last month! "

Oh! Do not! Shelton's eyes were black and almost fainted! Oh, God! Must it be something that guy made? He rushed to the researcher in three steps, grabbed the magazine from his hand, and quickly turned to the article about gravitational waves. The author column wrote Lv Qiujian's name!

Looking at the text of the paper, "... The gravitational wave observatory of the Tianqin project team observed a signal from 1.26 billion light years outside at 17:52:36 on September 22, 2011, Beijing time. After our verification, we can be sure that this is a gravitational wave signal produced by the merger of two super-constant star-shaped black holes that are 31 times the solar mass and 42 times the solar mass! ...... "

17:52:36 Beijing time, September 22, 2011! Isn't this the time when I discovered that signal last month? Damn, it's because LIGO's performance is too weak to confirm this finding! Shelton's mind went blank and he fainted to the ground. (To be continued ~ ^ ~)

PS: You can see the fate of the US aircraft carrier next week!