Pushing open the door of Ding Yi's brand-new three-bedroom apartment, Wang Miao smelled the smell of alcohol and saw Ding Yi lying on the sofa with the TV on and his eyes looking at the ceiling. Wang Miao looked around.

I saw that the room had not been decorated much, and there was no furniture or furnishings. The large living room seemed very empty. The most conspicuous thing was a billiard table placed in the corner of the living room.

Ding Yi did not express any objection to Wang Miao's uninvited visit. He obviously also wanted to find someone to talk to.

"I bought this house three months ago," Ding Yi said. "Why should I buy a house? Will she really come into the family?" He shook his head with a drunken smile.

"You..." Wang Miao wanted to know everything about Yang Dong's life, but didn't know how to ask.

"She is like a star, always so far away, and the light that shines on me is always cold." Ding Yi walked to the window and looked at the night sky, as if looking for the lost star.

Wang Miao also fell silent. It was strange that he just wanted to hear her voice now. At that sunset moment a year ago, she didn't speak the moment she looked at him. He had never heard her voice before.

sound.

Ding Yi waved her hand, as if to drive away something, to free herself from these sad thoughts. "Professor Wang, you are right, don't get involved with the military and police, they are a group of self-righteous idiots. Those

The suicide of physicists has nothing to do with 'scientific boundaries'. I have explained it to them, but they can't explain it clearly."

"They seem to have done some research."

"Yes, and this kind of investigation is on a global scale, then they should also know that two of them have no contact with the 'scientific boundary', including Yang Dong." Ding Yi seemed to have difficulty saying the name.

"Ding Yi, you know, I am also involved in this matter now. So, I really want to know the reasons that made Yang Dong make this choice. I think you must know something." Wang Miao said awkwardly.

, trying to conceal his true intentions.

"If you know, you will only get involved deeper. Now you are just involved in people and things. When you find out, your spirit will also be involved, and the trouble will be big."

"I am engaged in applied research, and I am not as sensitive as you theoretical people."

"Okay then, have you ever played billiards?" Ding Yi walked to the pool table.

"I played with it a few times when I was in school."

"She and I like playing because it reminds us of particle collisions in accelerators." Ding Yi said, picking up the black and white balls, placing the black ball next to the hole, and placing the white ball only ten centimeters away from the black ball.

From the left and right positions, he asked Wang Miao, "Can you hit the black ball in?"

"Anyone can do it this close."

"Try it."

Wang Miao took the cue stick, tapped the white ball, and knocked the black ball into the hole.

"Very good, come on, let's change the position of the table." Ding Yi greeted Wang Miao, who looked confused. The two of them lifted the heavy table and moved it to the corner of the living room by the window. After setting it down, Ding Yi moved from

He took out the black ball he just hit from his golf bag, placed it next to the hole, picked up the white ball, and placed it again about ten centimeters away from the black ball. "Can I still hit it this time?"

"certainly."

"let's hit."

Wang Miao easily hit the black ball into the hole again.

"Move." Ding Yi waved and the two men lifted the table again and moved it to the third corner of the living room. Ding Yi placed the black and white balls in the same position, "Let's play."

"I said, we..."

"let's hit."

Wang Miao smiled helplessly and hit the black ball into the hole for the third time.

They moved the pool table twice more, once to the corner of the living room near the door, and the last time back to its original position. Ding Yi placed the black and white balls in front of the hole twice more, and Wang Miao hit the black ball twice more.

Entering the cave, both of them were sweating a little.

"Okay, the experiment is over, let's analyze the results." Ding Yi lit a cigarette and said, "We conducted a total of five experiments, four of which were at different spatial locations and different times, and two at the same time.

The spatial location is different but the time is different. Aren't you shocked by the results?" He spread his arms exaggeratedly, "Five times, the results of the impact test are actually the same!"

"What exactly do you want to express?" Wang Miao asked breathlessly.

"You now have an explanation for this incredible result, using the language of physics."

"This... in the five tests, the mass of the two balls has not changed; the position, of course, based on the ball table as the reference system, has not changed; the velocity vector of the white ball hitting the black ball has basically not changed.

, so the momentum exchange between the two balls has not changed, so of course the black ball was hit into the hole in the five trials."

Ding Yi picked up a bottle of brandy lying on the floor, filled two dirty glasses respectively, and handed one to Wang Miao, who declined. "We should celebrate, we have discovered a great law of physics:

The law is uniform in time and space. All physical theories in human history, from Archimedes' principle to string theory, and all scientific discoveries and ideological achievements of mankind so far, are by-products of this great law, and are related to

Compared with us, Einstein and Hawking are really application-oriented people."

"I still don't understand what you want to express."

"Imagine another result: the first time, the white ball hits the black ball into the hole; the second time, the black ball goes astray; the third time, the black ball flies up to the ceiling; the fourth time, the black ball looks like a

Frightened sparrows flew around the room, and finally got into your pocket; for the fifth time, the black ball flew out at a speed close to the speed of light, knocked a gap in the edge of the pool table, penetrated the wall, and then flew out of the earth.

Flying out of the solar system, just like Asimov described [2]. What do you think at this time?"

Ding Yi stared at Wang Miao, who was silent for a long time before asking: "This really happened, didn't it?"

Ding Yi poured down the two glasses of wine in his hand, looking straight at the pool table as if it were a devil, "Yes, it happened. In recent years, the conditions for experimental verification of basic theoretical research have gradually matured.

There are three expensive 'pool tables' built, one in North America, one in Europe, and one, of course you know, in Liangxiang, China, where your Nano Center made a lot of money."

"These high-energy accelerators have increased the energy of particle collisions in experiments by an order of magnitude, which has never been achieved by humans before. At the new collision energy level, the same particles, the same impact energy, and all experimental conditions are the same

, the results are different. Not only are they different in different accelerators, but they are also different in experiments at different times of the same accelerator. Physicists panicked and repeated this ultra-high-energy impact test under the same conditions again and again, but

The results are different every time and there is no pattern.”

"What does this mean?" Wang Miao asked. Seeing Ding Yi staring at him silently, he added, "Oh, I do nanotechnology and I am also exposed to the microstructure of matter, but it is several levels shallower than yours.

Please give me some advice."

"This means that the laws of physics are not uniform in time and space."

"What does this mean?"

"You should be able to deduce it from the following. The general has figured it out. He is really a smart man."

Wang Miao looked out the window and pondered. The sea of ​​lights in the city outside was brilliant, and the stars in the night sky were drowned out of sight.

"This means that the universal physical laws of the universe do not exist, and then physics... also does not exist." Wang Miao looked away from the window and said.

"'I know it is irresponsible for me to do this, but I have no choice.'" Ding Yi continued, "This is the second half of her suicide note. You just said the first half accidentally. You can understand it more or less now."

Let her."

Wang Miao picked up the white ball that he had hit five times from the billiard table, stroked it for a while and gently put it down, "This is indeed a disaster for an explorer of cutting-edge theories."

"To make achievements in the field of theoretical physics, you need a kind of religious persistence, which can easily lead people into the abyss."

When saying goodbye, Ding Yi gave Wang Miao an address. "If you have time, please go and see Yang Dong's mother. Yang Dong has been living with her. Her daughter is everything in her life. Now she is alone. It's very difficult."

Pitiful."

Wang Miao said: "Ding Yi, you obviously know more than me, can't you reveal a little more? Do you really believe that the laws of physics are not uniform in space and time?"

"I do not know anything……"

Ding Yi and Wang Miao looked at each other for a long time, and finally said: "This is a problem."

Wang Miao knew that he was just taking what the British colonel said: To live or to die, that is the question.
Chapter completed!