Chapter 130 Fill in the Blanks
This research report does not provide detailed information on the study of neon trifluoride gas. It is obvious that the researchers themselves did not grasp too many principles, but only observed a phenomenon and made some guesses about it.
But the three words "dark matter" still touched Zhou Cheng's sensitive nerves.
Dark matter...
Dark matter could be responsible for the unusual vibrations in neon trifluoride molecules.
My original research direction was also dark matter.
The Ascending School said that they originally had the potential to become saviors.
So... is there some connection here?
Zhou Cheng thought about it and immediately drove to the chemical laboratory to meet the scientist who led the research.
"As you know, neon trifluoride is a gas that simply cannot exist in our scientific system.
But now that it truly exists, we know that what makes it stable must be some new principles, new science, or even... some new forces."
The scientist explained his research results: "This new force or principle leads to its existence and also leads to some new modes of action. We believe this is the reason for its abnormal vibration.
We are actually using the process of elimination to identify the particle or force that causes this abnormal vibration.
By locating our experiments underground, we eliminated most known types of radiation.
We lowered the experimental temperature to a point extremely close to absolute zero, thus eliminating the influence of internal electromagnetic waves.
After eliminating all of these, we only have three options left: gravitons, neutrinos, or... dark matter particles.
Among these, we think neutrinos are less likely because they are too small and do not seem to have the ability to cause such vibrations.
Gravitons are also unlikely. After all, in our experimental environment, the gravitational strength is almost stable, but the vibrations show some irregular changes.
All in all, we believe that dark matter particles are the most likely possibility.
but……"
He emphasized that "the current research is still very imperfect, and many of the results are just guesswork, which may contain errors."
Zhou Cheng nodded gently: "I understand. Give me the test data first."
The white-haired old man looked at Zhou Cheng with some doubt: "Of course. But... can I ask you? What do you want to do with this data?"
Zhou Cheng said, "Since this is just a guess, let's be a bit bolder. For now, let's assume that the vibration of neon trifluoride particles is caused by dark matter. Then, based on this, and using this interaction model, we can calculate the characteristics of dark matter particles and infer the nature of dark matter."
The old man looked a little nervous: "The existing research data is not complete."
He seemed very worried that these data would mislead Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng smiled and said, "There's nothing else to do anyway, so just treat it as a math game. It's okay."
The old man finally handed all the data to Zhou Cheng.
Back in his office, Zhou Cheng fell into deep thought as he looked at the special vibration mode of neon trifluoride molecules.
If molecules like neon trifluoride can actually interact with dark matter particles, and if this vibration is really caused by dark matter particles, then what characteristics and properties should the dark matter particles that cause this vibration pattern have?
This is a question that requires inferring the process from the result.
The result was the peculiar vibration of neon trifluoride molecules. Now, Zhou Cheng would use his expertise to reverse engineer the process that led to this result and, from there, determine the nature of the hypothesized dark matter particle.
Zhou Cheng fell into a long and somewhat difficult calculation and research.
This is purely theoretical research, without any real-world experiments involved. This can be achieved simply through mathematical tools and physical theories.
To simplify it a bit, it's like a fill-in-the-blank math game.
In a math problem, there is some missing data. Zhou Cheng needs to use existing knowledge and contextual data to calculate the missing data.
Of course, this math fill-in-the-blank game is extremely complicated, so complicated that Zhou Cheng needs to put all his energy into it, and even using a supercomputer, he is not sure enough to actually complete it.
After actually making it, Zhou Cheng had no idea whether the result would be meaningful and useful.
But just because of that coincidence, because "the correct path may be dark matter research" and "the abnormal vibration of neon trifluoride molecules may be caused by dark matter", and because dark matter appeared in both of these prerequisites, Zhou Cheng resolutely launched this research.
Time passed quietly. With the failure of the sperm-egg combination experiment in space and the uprooting of the dimensional ascending faction, the human world seemed to have fallen into silence again.
People have not given up making various attempts, but it seems that they no longer have much hope for it.
Life became calm.
Zhou Cheng began a regular life. Every day after work, he would go home, spend the evening with Liu Yu, and go to the office in the morning to start research.
Although Zhou Cheng always goes out early and comes back late every day and devotes most of his energy to research, his life is generally calm and regular.
The same is true for Liu Yu.
She is also a physicist, but her research direction is different from Zhou Cheng's. She is in the field of general relativity.
During this period, she also resumed work and, like Zhou Cheng, went to work every morning and came back in the evening.
Life was so peaceful, so peaceful that the things I experienced during that period seemed like a dream.
But this peace was eventually broken.
In the office, Zhou Cheng looked at the final data that had taken countless efforts to calculate, with a solemn expression.
Based on the previous data, he calculated some of the properties of the hypothesized dark matter particles.
It was only a small part, not perfect. At this stage, Zhou Cheng knew that he couldn't possibly perfect it.
The entire human world does not have this ability.
This is already the limit.
But even if there is only this small part of the results at this moment, it also indicates a possibility.
It's long been known that dark matter interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter, but now there's a possibility that, in a strong enough gravitational field and at high enough energies, dark matter particles could cause some strange phenomena.
At this moment, Zhou Cheng didn't know what the specific phenomenon would be. He only knew that if his calculations were correct, then this phenomenon, which had never been noticed by people before, would definitely occur.
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