"Professor Weiss, I think there must be something wrong with the signal we observed last month!" At the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory in Hanford, New Jersey, Sheldon waved the printing paper in his hand and chased after the researcher from the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Weiss said, "The characteristics of this signal are very similar to gravitational waves!"

"I know, Sheldon! But this signal is too weak, and the data it shows is very fuzzy! We can't determine whether this is a gravitational wave based on these fuzzy data!" Professor Weiss shrugged helplessly.

, "If the National Science Foundation of the United States had not vetoed our decision to increase investment and prevented us from building a laser interference detector with ten times the power now, we would have definitely seized this opportunity!"

"It's really too bad! Even if they approve the fee now, when we build a new observatory, it will take who knows how many years to wait for such a signal!" This is equivalent to throwing bait in a pond with unknown waters.

If you want to fish, you only know that there will definitely be carp here, but you are not sure when it will swim to the area where you put the bait, and when it will bite the hook! This process can take ten minutes or ten.

Year!

Sheldon directly told him that the signal observed last month must be gravitational waves. An opportunity like this is a once-in-a-century opportunity. If you miss it this time, you don’t know how to catch a similar signal next time.

What a long wait! It's like a forward waiting for a chance to shoot. If you miss this opportunity, the next time it won't come so easily.

"No way! Funding for basic research in the entire United States is shrinking now!" Professor Weiss sighed, "Since we gave up SSC, Americans have lost the enterprising spirit in the field of basic research that led the country to become stronger!

"

"Where have all the research funds that should have been given to us gone?" Sheldon couldn't help but ask. For a scientist, there is really nothing more painful than not being able to get the funds he needs!

"I've been to major materials research laboratories!" Professor Weiss said quite depressedly, "You know, the new battery recently launched by China has given David a headache in the United States! They are now urgently allocating a large amount of funds to invest in this

Let’s go into research! Unfortunately, not much progress has been made until now!”

"Is this the battery of a mobile phone?" Sheldon took out his new Huawei mobile phone from his pocket, "It is indeed great, and the battery life is better than all the mobile phones I have used before! It's a pity that it makes

I can't find my own mobile phone charger! I had to buy three chargers just one month after buying it! By the way, who invented this great achievement? I think he can be awarded the Nobel Prize!"

"It's Lu Qiujian of China! When he was in charge of China's space exploration program, he invented a special metal material that can greatly improve the performance of batteries!" Professor Weiss suddenly thought of something. It seemed that Sheldon was very interested.

I hate hearing this name!

"Ah! Why is it him again!" Sheldon looked at the mobile phone in his hand, and wanted to throw it to the ground a few times, but finally refused, "You are saying that it was because Lu Qiujian invented the new mobile phone

Battery materials caused the National Science Foundation to cut our budget?"

Damn it, because I wanted to avoid your research field, I switched from dark matter research to gravitational wave research and came to work at Ligo! I didn’t expect that Ligo lost the funds to improve its performance because of you! Shouldn’t you, this guy?

Will he be sent by God to fight against me?

"I think that's the reason! Sooner or later, those guys at the foundation will regret this decision! They cut the SSC's budget and gave the honor of discovering the Higgs boson and dark matter to Cern! Now they

Are we going to give up the honor of discovering gravitational waves to someone else again?" Thinking of the faces of those foundation committee members when they rejected the funding application, Professor Weiss was filled with anger.

"No way?" Sheldon's heart immediately jumped up after hearing this, "Didn't you say that the Ligo detector is the world's most powerful gravitational wave detector? No matter the Italian Virgo detector or the German Geo600 detector

Neither the detector nor the Neon Tama300 detector is as good as Ligo. Since we can’t detect gravitational waves, they will definitely not succeed, right?”

"Yes, but this was all a few years ago! Now the Chinese Tianqin project has surpassed us to some extent! Haven't you noticed that many articles about gravitational waves in the past three years are based on Tianqin?

Was it published in the name of the project?" Professor Weiss asked.

"I rarely pay attention to the author's name! The views in those articles are not new!" Sheldon scratched his head sheepishly, "But they may have adopted a new detection method! By the way, the person in charge of this project is

who?"

"As a qualified scientist, you should pay more attention to your competitors!" Professor Weiss reminded, "The leader of Tianqin Project is Academician Luo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but the idea of ​​​​the project was developed by Lu

Qiu Jian proposed it! It was precisely because he convinced the Chinese government that the Tianqin Project was implemented!"

Why is it you again! Sheldon felt an ominous feeling in his heart. This guy has also participated in the competition to explore gravitational waves! His hard work over the past few years must not have been in vain!

"Professor! The latest issue of "Nature"!" A researcher rushed in nervously holding the magazine, "Their cover article is from China's Tianqin project team! They claimed that they detected a

Gravitational wave signal!”

Oh! No! Sheldon's vision went dark and he almost fainted! God! It must be that guy who made something again? He rushed to the researcher in two or three steps and snatched it from his hand.

Magazine, I quickly turned to the article about gravitational waves, and Lu Qiujian's name was clearly written in the author column!

Looking at the text of the paper, "The Gravitational Wave Observatory of the Tianqin Project Team observed a signal originating from 1.26 billion light-years away at 17:52:36 Beijing time on September 22, 2011! Passing through our image

After verification, we can be sure that this is a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of two super-stellar black holes with 31 and 42 times the solar mass respectively!"

September 22, 2011, 17:52:36 Beijing time! Isn’t this the time when I discovered the signal last month? Damn it, it’s all because ligo’s performance is too weak to confirm this discovery! Sheldon

My mind went blank and I fainted on the ground. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!