The Apartment

  Opening the door of Dr. Winchester's brand new apartment, littered with trash like a goblin, Ivan smelled alcohol and saw Dr. Winchester lying on the large sofa in the corner, with the TV on and his eyes looking at the ceiling, he looked at the counter with pills labeled anti-depressants. Ivan looked around and 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 chess board, pool table, and cards placed in the corner of the living room.

  Dr. Winchester did not express any objection to Ivan's uninvited visit. He obviously also wanted to find someone to talk to.

  "I bought this place a year ago," Dr. Winchester said. "Why did I buy it? Will she really come here when we're married?" He shook his head with a drunken smile.

  "You..." Ivan wanted to know everything about Natashe's life, but he didn't know how to ask.

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

  Ivan also fell silent. It's strange that he just wants to hear her voice now. At that sunrise moment a year ago, she didn't speak the moment she looked at him. He had never heard her voice before.

  Dr. Winchester waved his hand, as if to drive away something, to free himself from these sad thoughts. "Professor Ivan, you're right. Don't get involved with the government. They're a group of self-righteous idiots. The suicides of those physicists have nothing to do with the 'Profession's Frontiers of Science'. I explained it to them, but they don't want this type of excuse."

  "They seem to have done some investigations."

  "Yes, and this kind of investigation is done on a global scale, so they should also know that two of us have no connection with the 'Profession's Frontiers of Science', including - Natashe. "Dr. Winchester seemed to have difficulty speaking the name.

  "Dr. Winchester, you know, I also want to be involved in this matter now. So, I really want to know the reasons that made Natashe make her choice. I think you must know something." Ivan said awkwardly, trying to conceal some words that could harm Winchester's mental state.

  "If you know, you will only get deeply involved into a pit hole of nothingness. Know you are only involved in things which shouldn't be. When you find out, your mentality will also be involved, and the trouble will be big as it could fall."

  "I am engaged in applied research, and I am not a person like you who studied theories all they're life.You're too sensitive."

  "Okay, have you ever played Cue Ball?" Dr. Winchester walked to the pool table.

  "I played casually a few times when I was in college."

  "She and I liked playing because it reminded us of accelerators." Dr. Winchester said, picking up the black and white balls and placing the black ball next to the hole. He placed the white ball only about ten centimeters away from the black ball and asked Ivan, "Can you hit the special orange 8 ball in?" 

 "Anyone can hit it this close."

  "Try to hit it."

  Ivan took the cue and tapped the ball, knocking the ball into the hole.

  "Very good, come on, let's move the table." Dr. Winchester greeted Ivan, 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, Dr. Winchester took out the black ball he had just hit from the bag, placed it next to the hole, picked up the white starter ball, and placed it again about ten centimeters away from the special 8 ball. "Can you still hit it this time?"

  "Of course."

  "Let's hit it."

  Ivan easily hit the ball into the hole again.

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

  "I said, " Let's..." As Dr. Winchester almost stumbled and tripped

  "Let's play."

  Ivan smiled helplessly and hit the ball into the hole for the third time.

  They moved the pool table three times more, once to a corner of the kitchen room near the door, and then back to its original location. Dr. Winchester placed the special 8 and white ball in front of the hole twice more, and Ivan hit the ball into the hole in the side twice more. At this time, both of them were sweating a little due to moving around the pool table.

  "Okay, the experiment is over, let's analyze our results." Dr. Winchester chugged down a bottle, lit a cigar, and said, "We conducted a total of six experiments, five of which were at different locations and different times, and two at the same locations but the time is different. Aren't you shocked by the results?" He opened his arms in an exaggerated manner, "Six times, the results of the impact test are all the same!"

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

  "You now have to explain this incredible result, using the language of physics, Newton's first law of motion."

  "This... In the six experiments, the mass of the two balls did not change; the position was, of course, based on the surface of the ball. In terms of the reference system, there is no change; the velocity vector of the white ball hitting the 8 ball is basically unchanged, so the momentum exchange between the two balls is also unchanged, so of course the ball was hit into the same hole six different times."

  Dr. Winchester picked up a bottle of 1978 lying on the floor, filled two glasses from the kitchen counter, and handed one to Ivan, who declined. "We should celebrate that we have discovered a great law: the laws of physics are uniform in time and space, the so-called 11th dimensions. All physical theories in human history, who are really ordinary people who are engaged in application."

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

  "Imagine another result: Once, the white starter ball hit the 8 ball into the hole; the second time, the 8 ball went astray; the third time, the 8 ball flew up to the ceiling; the fourth time, the black ball flew around the room like a frightened sparrow, the fifth time the ball goes nowhere staying put, and finally got into your pocket; for the six 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 and out of our solar system. What do you think at this time?"

  Dr. Winchester stared at Ivan, who was silent for a long time before asking: "Has this really happened, didn't it?"

  Dr. Winchester took the two glasses of wine in his hand. They all raised their heads and drank, looking straight at the pool table, as if it were a deity, "Yes, it happened. In recent years, the conditions for experimental verification of basic theoretical research have gradually matured, and there are hundreds of expensive 'pool tables' that were built, dozens in North America especially the one in Texas, many of those in Europe, mainly three in the UK, and of course you know, Russia, China, many countries in the UN."

  "These high-level project 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, but the results are different. Not only are they different in these accelerators, but they are also different in experiments data 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 ironclad rule."

  "What does this mean?" Ivan asked. Seeing Dr. Winchester, staring at him silently, he added, "Oh, I do nano level strong interaction research, which I also came into contact with the microstructure of this matter, but it is several levels shallower than yours. Please give me some advice." Dr. Winchester tried to mock Ivan and stretched out his hand in a bow

  "This means that physical laws are not uniform in time and space."

  "What does this mean?"

  "You should be able to deduce it further. The general, Nguyen, has figured it out, he is really a smart person."

  Ivan 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 that physics... also does not exist." Ivan looked away from the window and said.

  "'I know it is irresponsible for me to do this, but I have no choice.'" Dr. Winchester then said, "This is the two/thirds of her suicide note. You just said the first accidentally. You can understand it more or less now. She was fighting for us!"

 "What do you mean?"

 "Humanity"

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

  In the field of theoretical physics, If you want to achieve something, you need a kind of religious persistence, which can easily lead people to a hole that they can never climb back up."

  When leaving, Dr. Winchester gave Ivan an address. "If you have time, please go and see Natashe's mother. Natashe has been living with her. Her daughter is everything in her life. Now she is alone. It's very pitiful."

  Ivan said: "Dr. Winchester, you obviously know more than me, so can't you reveal a little more? Do you really believe that the laws of physics are not uniform in space and time?"

  "I don't know anything..."

  Dr. Winchester and Ivan looked at each other for a long time, and finally said : "That's a question."

  Ivan knew that he was just talking about what the officer said.