Chapter 645 A Signal From A Billion Light Years Away
The headquarters of Ren Zhenfei's company is in Guangdong Province. I heard that Lu Qiujian is in Guangdong Province now. He can still sit there! He immediately dealt with the matter here and flew back to Guangdong Province overnight, planning to take this opportunity to meet Lu Qiujian.
Build a set of relationships! If Professor Lu is in a good mood and is willing to visit his company and give some advice, his company will make a lot of money!
However, Assistant Lu Qiujian's mobile phone always failed to reach the phone, and Ren Zhenfei did not have Lu Qiujian's phone number, so he had to try his best to inquire from the side! Fortunately, Lu Qiujian did not ask anything about him when he came to Guangdong Province this time.
The itinerary was kept secret, and he soon found out that Lu Qiujian was currently at Yixian University for exchange! So he quickly led someone to find him.
Mr. Ren came to the door, and the president of Yixian University immediately came to greet him! Ren Zhenfei couldn't bear to greet him empty-handed because he was so generous, so he signed a check and donated it to Yixian University to establish a special scholarship. Then he asked
News came from Lu Qiujian, "Principal, I heard that Professor Lu is currently visiting your school for exchanges? I wonder if you can let me meet Professor Lu?"
Tsk, the principal looked embarrassed, and after a while he said hesitantly, "If it were any other time, if President Ren had spoken, I would always help find a solution! But at this juncture, I'm afraid it's hard for me to disturb Professor Lu?"
Huh? I just donated a lot of money! Why is the principal still like this? Does Professor Lu really have something important to do? But now that he is here, he is always unwilling to miss him! So Ren Zhenfei pretended not to notice.
Seeing the principal's embarrassed expression, he continued to ask, "Oh? What is Professor Lu busy with now?"
"This started when Professor Lu just returned to China! Lu Qiujian pushed the government to invest in the Tianqin project as soon as he returned to China! He also cooperated with Beijing Normal University to build a brand new gravitational wave observatory in our school! This observatory has been built since then.
From theoretical design to work flow, everything is
It was formulated by Professor Lu! It seems that something was discovered in the observatory two days ago, so I called Professor Lu specially!" At this point, the principal couldn't help showing an excited look, "If gravitational waves are really discovered this time,
This is a Nobel Prize-level achievement!”
Ever since Lu Qiujian won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, Capital University has been suppressing Shuimu University for several years! If gravitational waves are really confirmed at Yixian University this time, how will our school’s ranking be?
Couldn't it be possible to rise several positions in a row? Now is the critical moment of the research. The principal refused to let others disturb Lu Qiujian no matter what. If Ren Zhenfei hadn't presented him with a large check as soon as he came up, he might not have even heard the news.
willing to reveal.
So that's it! Hey, it seems that I won't be able to see Professor Lu this time! But now that he's here, Ren Zhenfei can't bear to leave like this, so he has to sign another check and hand it to the principal, "We are a Chinese company
I have always supported research in basic fields, so this small gesture should be regarded as a reward for the staff of the Tianqin Project! Thank you for their silent hard work for the advancement of China's basic science and technology over the years!"
"Your hard work over the years has finally paid off today!" At the same time, in the office of the Yixian University Gravitational Wave Observatory, Lu Qiujian looked up from a large pile of data and said with a smile, "After my verification
, the signal you observed three days ago was exactly the gravitational wave signal produced by the merger of two super-stellar black holes with 31 and 42 times the solar mass 1.26 billion light-years away!"
"I knew it! I knew it!" Director Guo of the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University burst into tears. It has been more than four years since Lu Qiujian returned to China to win the establishment of the gravitational wave observatory! He spent half of his time on
On this project, thousands of ****'s hard work every night finally paid off today.
"I have never believed that I would be so lucky. I never thought that I would see the confirmation of gravitational waves in my lifetime!" Academician Luo, the person in charge of the Tianqin Project at Sun Yat-sen University, was equally excited; Director Guo just waited four days.
It’s only been more than a year, and it has been decades since Yang Zhenning advocated gravitational wave research at Sun Yat-sen University! This has turned Academician Luo from a young scholar to an old man. To be honest, his investment in this area is greater than that of Director Guo.
Much bigger, of course the mood will be more exciting!
In 1916, the second year after Einstein proposed the gravitational field equation, he made the famous prediction of gravitational waves: changes in the gravitational field propagate in the form of waves at the speed of light, and gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space-time. He also predicted
Gravitational waves stretch space-time (objects) in a certain cross-sectional direction while squeezing space-time (objects) in the vertical direction.
Today, Einstein's article on gravitational waves is still preserved in the Einstein Archives in Jerusalem! In the following nearly a hundred years, the physics community launched a fierce debate surrounding the existence of gravitational waves; scientists have done
Through calculation, it was found that the amount of compression and expansion of gravitational waves is extremely small, "a fraction of the diameter of an atom." In other words, it is difficult to detect.
However, in the face of such challenges, physicists did not give up. American physicists Joseph Hooton-Taylor and Russell Allen-Hulse jointly observed the pulsar binary system psrb1913+16 and discovered gravity for the first time.
Indirect quantitative evidence for the existence of waves, for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993.
The California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States have jointly launched the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory Project, also known as ligo. They used US$394 million sponsored by the National Science Foundation to establish facilities in Livingston, Louisiana and Washington State.
Hanford has built two 4-kilometer-long vacuum pipeline launchers for the detection of gravitational waves.
The Chinese government also spent 350 million US dollars to relaunch the Tianqin Project under the promotion of Lu Qiujian, and built a gravitational wave observatory according to Lu Qiujian's design. Academician Luo and Director Guo followed the detection methods left by Lu Qiujian
The long and boring exploration has begun! All the hard work has finally yielded fruitful results today.
"We are really lucky! For such basic research, more than four years is a great deal!" This is different from the original discovery of dark matter using the LHC. At that time, dark matter particles were discovered and then carried out on the backbone, Tianqin
The plan is to detect the vast universe, and whether it can be found depends entirely on luck.
"According to international practice, this gravitational wave signal will be named gw110922!" gw is the abbreviation for gravitational waves, and 110922 is the date when this signal was discovered! "Next, let's sort out the data and write it into an article and send it out!" (To be completed)
Chapter completed!