I really don't want to lie down and win

"Academician Xu!"

"Our team discovered a problem just now." The other party hurriedly said: "We found that the cosmic fine structure constant that should have been constant in a galaxy has changed, and the change seems to only occur in that direction, as if it was modified by someone. .”

what?

how can that be!

Xu Mang's first reaction was negative, because there is a Lorentz invariance in the universe, which comes from Einstein's special theory of relativity.

"Which constant is it?" Xu Mang asked.

"!"

? !

Xu Mang's brows could not help but frown together, because the fine structure constant of the universe is not an ordinary number, it is directly related to whether matter can be formed, whether planets can condense, whether you and I can appear.

The cosmic fine structure constant plays an important role in natural science and is used to measure the strength of the electromagnetic force, that is, it can be used to measure the interaction strength between charged particles and electromagnetic fields.

It determines the properties of atoms and molecules, affects the interaction of electrons and protons and determines their binding energy and the binding energy of atomic nuclei.

If it is too large, then atoms and molecules cannot exist, and the universe cannot produce stars, and without stars, it is impossible to produce human beings. This is so subtle and magical, so fascinating.

"This..."

"Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" Xu Mang asked seriously, "This discovery may rewrite the laws of physics we know. You can't just make fun of me."

"no!"

"I'm really not kidding." The other party said urgently: "We observed a quasar from more than 130 billion light-years away. It is probably a similar galaxy structure produced [-] million years after the Big Bang."

"Observations of this one quasar with the Roentgen Ray Spectrograph for almost a month, and four measurements of the cosmic fine structure constant, resulted in ... this morning, when compared with measurements from other parts of the universe, we found that ...the gap is obvious." The other party said.

This...

What's the situation?

Xu Mang was completely confused. According to what the other party said, it meant that the laws of physics in that area were different from those on the earth. If nuclear weapons were exploded in that galaxy, the atomic bomb might fail, because the value might make the radiated nuclei less likely to decay.

"I'll come over now!"

Xu Mang hung up the phone in a hurry, looked up at Xiaoman, and said seriously, "I'm going to work..."

"..."

"What happened?" Yang Xiaoman asked worriedly: "Seeing that after you answered a call, your expression suddenly became so serious."

"nothing..."

"The universe may be disintegrated." Xu Mang said seriously, "I'm leaving now."

words fell,

Xu Mang left directly.

...

quickly,

Xu Mang came to the research institute. He was very anxious all the way. There was nothing he could do... The matter was so big that it might change the laws of physics in the entire universe. In fact... more than 20 years ago, someone had already discovered the fine structure of the universe Constant values ​​are subject to change.

However, no conclusions were drawn at that time, only that the value of the cosmic fine structure constant may change with the increase of collision energy, that's all.

to his office,

Xu Mang called the person in charge of that group directly and asked him to bring the materials.

A few minutes later,

The person in charge came to Xu Mang's office and handed over all the documents in his hand to Xu Mang.

Looking at the comparison of the above data, Xu Mang's brows, which were already tightly furrowed, became even more frowning. This is really shocking... If it is really the same as the situation after the comparison of the data, then maybe human beings The understanding of the universe in the past few hundred years has been almost wrong.

"Seems to be growing..."

Xu Mang said to himself, from the above data analysis, the universe's fine structure constant can indeed change, and it seems to have a growing trend.

"Correct!"

"Academician Xu... Does this mean that there is an invisible force in the universe that is quietly modifying the laws of the entire universe?" The person in charge said cautiously: "Will one day in the future, we Will the known laws of physics break down?"

Xu Mang didn't speak, and turned on the computer silently, and searched for similar theories, not to mention...USA NASA published a paper last month, and found a similar situation, but their data did not record it. to the intuitive gap.

And NASA has no follow-up reports, and it is very likely that it has given up research in this area.

"Academician Xu?"

"What's the problem?" asked the other party.

"do not know..."

Xu Mang said seriously, "Send it directly."

"what?"

"Just sent it out like this?" The person in charge said in surprise: "Isn't it too reckless? We don't even know the reason."

"What's the..."

"The whole world doesn't know, so send it out boldly." Xu Mang handed the document back to the person in charge, and said slowly, "Sometimes you don't need to break the casserole and ask the end, leave the problem to the whole world, and we can solve it together .”

"it is good!"

words fell,

The person in charge left the office.

however,

Xu Mang never expected that his decision...caused a sensation in the entire scientific community, and even put Xu Yang Research Institute on the brink of crisis.

......

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As for why the value of the cosmic fine structure constant changes, Xu Mang pondered for a long time... Still there is no answer, in his understanding... It may be because it changes over time, just like the data of the cosmic microwave background radiation express.

The value of the fine structure constant of the ancient universe... must have decreased a bit compared to the present. As for how much it has decreased... it needs to be accurately calculated to know.