Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 391: Chapter 253: This is Obviously Cheating!

"Correlation Law" just fed back an image location information.

Upon receiving the information, Zhao Yi listened to Edmir’s words and nodded repeatedly. He found a gap and pointed to a small spot on the screen, asking, "What is this?"

"Which one?" There were too many dots and lines on the screen, and it was uncertain which one he was referring to with a simple pointer.

"Zoom in on the image."

Zhao Yi reminded him.

Edmir zoomed in on the previous location, and there were still many points and lines on the screen, but the distance was relatively larger.

Zhao Yi simply moved the mouse and placed it on a bright spot on the screen, "I mean this one."

"This one?"

Edmir was somewhat puzzled, "It’s a photon emitted by a particle, right? Such things are all over here. They’re products of particle collisions and decays, which will decelerate under the influence of the magnetic field, thereby releasing photons. Why do you ask about this? This point is no different from the others."

Anyway, he can’t tell.

There were too many dots and lines on the screen, and the spot Zhao Yi was pointing to didn’t seem to be much different from the others.

Edmir continued, "Many of the points on this are just the same. They can only form a very small point, indicating that the released photons have very low energy. There are many, many such points, likely the products of very small particles."

"It could be decay, or it could just be due to deceleration, or even possibly just environmental influences. Even some noise in the pipe could cause particle vibrations."

Zhao Yi listened carefully.

Although Edmir spoke casually, the content revealed through his words was what Zhao Yi should study and understand.

He nodded and said, "But it could also be the product of Higgs particle decay, right?"

"Of course."

Edmir said with a smile, "If you want to search for Higgs particles, you must study these very small points. Only they may be related to the Higgs particle."

"But my job doesn’t require any search for a Higgs particle, that’s too difficult. Look at this image, how many small spots are there? Each small spot requires careful computation to determine what it specifically represents. Even a slight deviation can lead to incorrect results."

"Most importantly, even if your calculations are completely accurate, the conclusions could still be wrong."

"To be honest, I’ve also studied Higgs particles. Everyone working here hopes to find the God particle, but it’s really too hard. With the current collider performance, it’s almost impossible."

"Why?" Zhao Yi asked with a puzzled frown.

"Because the production of Higgs particles is too scarce." Edmir laughed, "We assume Higgs particles exist, but according to particle model predictions, our particle collision experiments may only produce a few dozen, or maybe none at all."

"Under this small amount of data, it’s impossible to find the Higgs particle because the decay products don’t have much effect across every mass range."

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Zhao Yi understood after thinking it over.

For some time now, he has understood a lot about Higgs particles, such as how Higgs particles are formed.

To understand Higgs particles, one must first understand the Higgs field. The central idea of the Higgs field is that even in the lowest energy state, space is far from empty.

Particles traveling through space-more or less interact with the Higgs field, giving them a "sticky" characteristic, or mass, as they move.

The W and Z bosons acquire their mass through some interaction with this field.

Fermions acquire mass through another interaction.

Since the Higgs field carries no net charge or color charge, photons and gluons don’t interact with it at all, meaning they remain massless.

Higgs particles can be understood as the vibrations or ripples of the Higgs field, like creating something massy or detectable in a vacuum, seemingly creating something from nothing, but it truly is the case.

So, some say that the study of Higgs particles could even explain the origin of the universe.

Even theoretically, the production of Higgs particles is quite difficult.

That’s why Edmir said that in collision experiments, the number of Higgs particles is too scarce, so scarce perhaps there aren’t any at all and even if there were, they’d be almost undetectable.

After understanding this, Zhao Yi suddenly realized that he was really lucky, able to spot a light point related to the Higgs particle while reviewing an image on the computer.

"Mr. Edmir, could you change the picture? I’d like to take another look," Zhao Yi asked with anticipation.

"Of course."

As Edmir operated the computer, he added, "Call me Gil, I prefer people addressing me by my name. Calling me Mr. Edmir seems so formal."

"Alright, Gil."

Edmir quickly replaced the image, scanning through them one by one, also showing Zhao Yi an image he was particularly fond of, "Look at this one, it’s the most densely packed."

There were lots of points and lines on the image, and one incredibly thick line. The density was over three times higher than the first image.