Chapter 223 The Underground World
"Can you take photos here?" After receiving a positive answer, Liu Yuzhou picked up the camera hanging around his neck and looked at the sign for a while.
I saw the words "heretheebas wavern" written on it. Obviously, this inconspicuous office is the birthplace of the Internet, which brought earth-shaking changes to the whole world. It is here that Tim Berners Lee changed the lives of people all over the world.
"Its server is in the exhibition hall you just saw, and it also read in red ink: 'This machine is a server, please don't shut down!'" Dr. Voss is not surprised by this. Almost every visitor who comes to Cern will stop here and take photos, and then pass the photos onto the Internet created by Tim Berners Lee.
"Isn't this a nuclear physics center? Do you still study these things that seem to have nothing to do with physics?" Liu Yuzhou couldn't help asking.
"The earliest purpose of the Internet was to provide a fast and convenient way of communication for laboratories around the world, but Tim probably didn't expect it to have such a big impact at the beginning!" Seeing that the shooting had been completed, Dr. Voss led them to move forward, "At the same time, promoting the research and development of new technologies is also an important function of Cern."
When passing by another office, he pointed to it and said, "The team here invented the touch screen technology. It was originally intended to be applied to the accelerator's control system. Later, people found that using the mouse seemed to be more convenient, so they abandoned it; but now many mobile phone developers have found us to buy this technology, and it may not take long for you to use the touch screen phone!"
Damn, I didn’t expect that this thing was also developed by you! Lu Qiujian looked at that office and saw how many young teenagers’ waists cut off!
After looking at it, Dr. Worth continued to move forward, "There are research on the use of high-energy protons and other heavy ion beams to treat cancer. If successful, cern will once again bring good news to all mankind!"
Well, I just cut my waist, but now I’m curing the broken waist. Cern provides a full set of services! Lu Qiujian secretly complained.
After leaving the R&D center, Dr. Vos shrugged at Liu Yuzhou apologetically, "Your journey seems to be about to end here. I'm afraid that only Lu and his classmates can enter the rest!"
"Tsk, that's so regretful!" Liu Yuzhou reluctantly looked at other buildings that had not been in sight, "Then I'll go back to the hotel first, you can continue to visit!"
After arranging the staff to take him out, Dr. Vos, Lu Qiujian and others came to the entrance of the Atlas detector, which is the code name of the largest detector super-to-circular instrument on the LHC; we are finally going to see the true face of this big guy!
After a series of complicated procedures such as iris verification and testing, Lu Qiu Jianping was very excited and walked into the elevator.
After a minute of descent, the elevator came to the platform area ninety meters underground. From here, you can observe the full picture of Atlas. Dr. Vos took out a radiation measuring instrument and took them out after confirming that there was no problem.
"Wow!" Dietrich, who came here for the first time like Lu Qiujian, couldn't help but exclaim. He saw a metallic round surface radiating to all sides with an extremely thick blue column as the center. The round surface was covered with dense reflective plates made of unknown materials. This seemed to be the atlas detector.
"It is 46 meters long, 25 meters in diameter, and weighs 7,000 tons. It is the same as the weight of the Eiffel Tower!" Dr. Vos introduced proudly, "The reason why it was named Hercules (atlas was a Titan tribe that supported the sky with its shoulders in Greek mythology) was to use its unparalleled power to discover those tiny particles that were not happy in other instruments!"
Well, if you have greater power, you can observe tinier particles? What is this logic? If you want to use Greek mythology as a metaphor, it seems that using the Hundred-eyed giant Argos or the goddess of light and vision Thea is more suitable? Lu Qiujian gave a bad review of the literary literacy of cern scientists.
"Atlas can take 40 million photos per second." Dr. Vos continued to introduce the big guy to them with great enthusiasm. "Only about 500 photos have had head-on collisions and were read out and analyzed."
Those opponents hit each other will produce a microscopic big explosion, recreating the state of 1 microsecond after the universe's Big Bang. Well, one second is equal to one thousand milliseconds. One millisecond is equal to one thousand microseconds. You can calculate how short this time is.
The work done by Lu Qiujian, Dietrich and others some time ago can be said to be to find the five hundred useful pictures from the 40 million photos, and then discover new things from these five hundred pictures.
You can imagine how boring and long this process was. It can also explain why the work Lu Qiujian did some time ago brought such great stimulation to Higgs; if Higgs is compared to a capitalist, then Lu Qiujian's new method can allow his factory to produce twice the previous product within the same time. The capitalist will be so excited that he can't extricate himself after hearing this!
"Okay, let's go and see another big guy!" Then Dr. Vos took them in front of the compact sub-coil (that is, the cms detector, another important detector of lhc).
"Gentlemen, you have now entered the territory of the French Republic! If you enter from the ground, you may have to go through some procedures!" Dr. Vos joked.
The cms detector is a cylindrical structure about 21 meters long and 16 meters in diameter, weighing 12,500 tons. It is located in an underground cave in the French town of cessy, so Dr. Voss made such a joke.
Well, if you go straight up from here, you will be out of the backyard of Yang Ceylon, the former star captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team. It is said that her villa is in this small town.
"The operation status of cooling systems, power systems, underground air systems and other systems will be fed back here!" Dr. Vos asked them to observe the situation inside the monitoring room through the glass. The walls inside were densely covered with monitors, which felt very sci-fi!
With such a large base, the power grid of Switzerland alone cannot provide enough power, so France also undertakes part of the task of supplying energy to Cern; whenever the experiment begins, it has to negotiate the issue of power quota with these two countries, which shows the investment required for high-energy physics experiments.
Only a few major countries or international cooperative organizations are able to accomplish this feat. As for private companies, there is basically no need to think about it! Otherwise, photoelectric energy can give them a headache. (To be continued.)
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