Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 408: There is always room for crowding
There are places to eat in many places throughout MIT.
There are various fast food restaurants on the first and second floors of the student center.
There is also a food court in Kendall Square that offers Chinese and Western fast food.
At the intersection of Main Street and Vassar Street, there is also a building with "Whitehead" written on it.
Every noon, Western lunch is provided on the first floor of the building.
In addition, there are some cafes in the main building, national center and other places, which also provide breakfast and lunch.
These are places frequented by MIT students.
And most of them can register "TechCash" and pay with their MIT ID.
The most important thing is that you can save 5 % tax.
Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi naturally went to the student center and chose Chinese fast food.
Although the taste is not quite right, it is barely acceptable.
Before getting used to the food here, even Yang Yiyi, a foodie, did not choose some new foods.
First of all, you have to be responsible for your own stomach.
To better taste the food.
These are what Yang Yiyi said.
Chen Zhou could only sigh, this guy is a fake foodie...
While eating, Chen Zhou also learned about Yang Yiyi's situation.
When Rainer Weiss made preliminary arrangements for Yang Yiyi, he asked her to read this information first and wait until he returned from Hong Kong.
I will take Yang Yiyi to LIGO to participate in specific experimental projects.
This Xiangjiang is the Xiangjiang of China.
About half a month later, on September 27, the 2016 Shaw Prize Award Ceremony will be held in Hong Kong.
And Professor Rainer Weiss went to receive the award.
With the first observation of gravitational waves, Rainer Weiss is bound to experience a wave of award wins.
Among them, the most anticipated is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Although most people believed that Rainer Weiss would win the award.
But who knows if the Nobel Prize committee will suddenly go crazy?
Even though the probability of this happening is very small, it does happen.
After all, there were too many people waiting in line.
Earlier, in 2006, Dr. John Mather and Professor George Smoot shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring the microwave spectrum and detecting such fluctuations, respectively.
Some physicists believe that Rainer Weiss should share the honor.
Because Rainer Weiss is the person in charge of the measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation in NASA.
Both this measurement and the detection of traces of extremely small quantum fluctuations that appeared in the newborn universe and are crucial to the standard model of cosmology.
All of which were contributed by Rainer Weiss.
Perhaps as Mather, who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, puts it, Rainer Weiss is good at deciding who should do what and making sure that person gets the credit they deserve.
This is also one of the reasons why Chen Zhou supported Yang Yiyi in choosing Rainer Weiss as her mentor.
This old professor, who works diligently, does have a strong personal charm.
After dinner, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi went straight back to the dormitory.
Yang Yiyi naturally went back to her dormitory to pack up, and then came to Chen Zhou's dormitory with the information.
For two people who are already accustomed to supervising and learning from each other.
This way of learning is more suitable for them.
Although time was tight, Chen Zhou was in such an empty room.
Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi first checked the furniture transfer list in Edgerton.
The two planned to buy some simple furniture.
Chen Zhou doesn't have too many requirements when choosing furniture, practicality is the main consideration.
As for whether it is old-fashioned or not, it doesn’t matter.
Yang Yiyi, on the other hand, gave full play to her girlish nature, which was to at least look good.
It didn't take long for the two of them to choose the furniture.
After agreeing on the payment method and transportation method.
The two of them moved to the window and looked at the materials they had brought back from their instructor.
Chen Zhou mainly relied on the information provided by Friedman, while the information provided by Arting was slightly delayed by him.
Of course, the information given by Professor Friedman here is about experiments.
In the field of high-energy physics, the big theoretical problems, after all, cannot be avoided.
Supersymmetry theory, standard model, grand unified theory, string theory, and so on.
But physics is a science based on experiments, and experimental physics and theoretical physics coexist.
Just like Edward Witten, who won the Fields Medal for his outstanding mathematical ability, and is also an outstanding physicist.
His main research result in the field of physics is M theory.
M-theory is a supergravity theory that combines five superstring theories and eleven-dimensional space.
Although this is extremely creative, it makes quantum mechanics and general relativity compatible within a new theoretical framework.
However, no matter how fruitful M theory is.
Before it is experimentally verified and the true nature of M theory is truly revealed.
Edward Witten's M-theory is still just a theory.
Maybe one day, after it's been experimentally verified.
This physicist who won the Fields Medal will also become a mathematician who won the Physics Prize.
But I don’t know how much time this will take.
Compared with the big theoretical problems, the main research hotspots and difficult problems in the experimental field of high-energy physics are more reliable.
Like the "glueball" that Friedman plans to look for in his next experiment.
And the experimental project ongoing at the SNO lab in Ontario, Canada, the measurement of neutrinos.
There is also proton decay, which has a great impact on unified field theory.
Although there are no answers yet and there is still a long way to go, these are problems that can be solved.
Take Professor Friedman's experiment for example.
So far , Chinese scientists have collected 1.3 billion J/ψ events using the Yenching Electron-Positron Collider and the Yenching Spectrometer.
This is also the largest sample of J/ψ events in the world.
The J/ψ meson is a subatomic particle belonging to the meson family, composed of a charm quark and an anti-charm quark.
It is the first excited state among subatomic particles composed of charm quarks and anti-charm quarks.
The Yanjing Electron-Positron Collider has been in operation for 8 years after its renovation and upgrading.
On April 5 of this year (2016), it finally reached its final designed brightness.
According to the original design plan, China will continue to obtain more data through collisions in the next few years.
The ultimate goal is to obtain 10 billion J/ψ events!
These 10 billion data contain enormous scientific wealth.
Among them, the secret of the "rubber ball" may be hidden.
An entire afternoon was spent in this peaceful time with endless words.
Chen Zhou also once again experienced the joy of Physics Level 6.
He was very satisfied with both the efficiency and the thinking.
After checking the time, Chen Zhou said to Yang Yiyi, "Let's go, Yiyi, let's go to the freshman dance."
Yang Yiyi looked at Chen Zhou in surprise: "You still have time to go to the freshman dance? I thought you were going to work day and night..."
Chen Zhou smiled slightly: "Time is like a sponge. If you squeeze it, there will always be some."
"Okay then..." Yang Yiyi said, stretching.
This posture of sitting on the floor and reading is more tiring than before.
Chen Zhou's gaze remained on Yang Yiyi.
I have to say, this girl has a great figure, it's simply perfect.
Apart from anything else, the one thing that others have to squeeze for is something that Yang Yiyi doesn't need at all.
She is a natural...
