When it comes to the Large Hadron Collider, everyone may think of knocking out a black hole, and some people may think of the Higgs boson. The collision machine knocked out the black hole from the panic of the strange object of the black hole, and the collision of the Higgs boson is the most brilliant experimental achievement of the European Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Large Hadron Collider is a large experimental instrument that accelerates charged particles in larger ring orbits through super electromagnetic fields, and accelerates charged particles to a high-energy state close to the speed of light for collision experiments to verify the theoretical predictions of microscopic mechanics. Its orbital circumference directly determines the upper limit of the energy it can accelerate particles, and once the theoretical expectation of discovering new particles requires energy levels that exceed the energy limit of existing colliders, the historical mission of this collider is over.
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the historical mission of the 27-kilometer-long European large hadron collider is also completed, due to the limitation of the orbital circumference, it is difficult to make major discoveries under its collision energy level, therefore, the world's high-energy physics community and superstring theory community look forward to the emergence of a new generation of more powerful colliders to verify their theory, and the orbital circumference of the collider currently planned to be built is millions of kilometers. However, the investment in the construction of the large hadron collider is so huge that the average country cannot afford it, and the United States as a superpower can no longer count on it, because in the last century, the United States stopped a large collider project due to continuous over-investment. Although the EU side has been planned and built, the EU's execution is obvious to all, as can be seen from the Global Positioning System project... Therefore, scientists from all over the world have set their sights on China, which has the second largest GDP in the world.
Therefore, global scientists supplemented by the high-energy physics community led by the superstring theory community unanimously suggested that China build a large hadron collider to verify the supersymmetry theory of the basic superstring theory.
When the sound of construction is menacing, and they are all extremely prestigious figures in the world, then a person stands out and stands against them, he is Yang Zhenning, a giant scientist in the field of physics. He firmly opposes our country spending huge sums of money to build a large collider at this stage, and he gives 7 reasons. I summarized his central idea: there are not many things that high-energy physics can do, and it is difficult to make major discoveries; supersymmetry theory is a castle in the air, and it is expected that finding supersymmetric particles is likely to hit a bamboo basket; the investment in this large project will greatly compress the scientific research funds in other fields, which will limit the development of other fields.
In fact, there must be not a few scientists who oppose the construction of the collider, but for various reasons, few scientists dare to stand up and openly call out the high-energy physics and superstring circles, only Yang Zhenning firmly stands up and single-handedly opposes the entire high-energy physics community.
"Civilizations continue to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains the same."
This is the second axiom proposed by Ye Wenjie in the "Three-Body Problem", and Luo Ji discovered the law of the dark forest accordingly. Today, I want to change this axiom: "There are many scientific research projects, but the total amount of scientific research funds in our country remains unchanged." This is an important reason why Yang Zhenning opposed the construction of the collider. If you invest huge sums of money in a project that may not achieve anything, this is not only a huge waste of scientific research funds, but also causes other projects to come to a standstill due to lack of funding. As a developing country, my country should devote more funds to those areas that are productive. Yang Zhenning pointed out that the achievements of high-energy physics will not have any positive impact on our lives in the next 3 to 50 years.
One of Yang Zhenning's arguments is that the United States stopped the Large Hadron Collider project in the last century. This was due to the ever-increasing budget, which initially applied for a budget of $4.4 billion, and before construction was halfway through, the budget had nearly doubled to $8 billion, and finally the third president, Bill Clinton, who was in the project, scrapped the project and immediately invested $20 billion into the International Space Station project. Obviously, the United States is not short of money, but they think the International Space Station is more worth spending.
The investment budget of the first phase of the positron-negative electron collider of the large-scale hadron collider planned to be built in China is 36 billion yuan, and the investment in the second phase of the proton collider will be as high as 100 billion. This is still only the initial plan of the basic investment, even if not overspended, the operating investment after the completion of the collider is still a huge pit, not to mention the maintenance cost, the power consumption alone is a huge pit, the current European large hadron collider power consumption is 200 megawatts, that is, 200,000 kilowatts. This is equivalent to the power generation of a large hydropower station... According to the electricity cost of 1 yuan / kWh, the electricity cost of running for one hour is as high as 200,000, and the circumference of the collider that China plans to build is 4 times that of it...
There are too many projects that need scientific research funds in China, aerospace, quantum information, chips, etc., these are scientific research projects directly linked to national defense and the economy, is it more worthwhile for us as developing countries to invest? The United States has chosen to invest the funds of the Large Hadron Collider in the space field, what about us?
Aerospace technology and defense technology are interconnected, quantum information technology is of great significance in information security, chips are not to mention, in recent years, there has been enough information on the Internet to let us know its importance, as for other fields are not listed one by one.
From the online science interest group, we learned that the vast majority of science enthusiasts who are not high-energy physics majors support Yang Zhenning, so do you think China should build it?
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