I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 843 CERN’s latest experimental results will be announced soon!
Edward Witten is one of the most authoritative and respected physicists of our time, and he is also a great physicist who is considered to be comparable to Einstein in the future. Only the centenarian Mr. Yang, who is still alive, can keep pace with him.

——Although Qin Ke won the Nobel Prize in Physics, he is currently more famous in the international academic circle than Mr. Witten, but when it comes to his qualifications and prestige in the field of particle physics, he is only 23 years old. Qin Ke, who only solved the mass gap problem in the "Yang-Mills equation" and did not propose his own independent new theory, is still slightly inferior to Mr. Witten who created the "Superstring Theory" and the "Yang-Mills Equation". Mr. Yang Lao of Adams Theory.

Therefore, Qingmu University held a grand welcome ceremony for the arrival of the Witten couple.

Including President Gu Bojun, all the school leaders attended the dinner. Wei Yuanfu, Dean of the School of Mathematics, Zhou Shanchun, Dean of the School of Physics, and the teaching staff in the school enthusiastically communicated with the Witten couple. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun was naturally also the protagonist of the dinner.

Because Qin Ke and his wife were here, Mr. Qiu, Academician Jiang Weixian, Academician Guo Weiyang, and Academician Tian Jianlan also attended the dinner.

Mr. Qiu also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before, and he was an old acquaintance with Edward Witten. It was a great pleasure to meet him this time. During the chat, Mr. Qiu also asked about his old friend Professor Karen Uhlenbeck. information.

Professor Witten was a little surprised: "Professor Uhlenbeck? She has already returned to teach in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, but she is currently a senior visiting research scholar at Princeton University. I heard that she returned to Princeton to give lectures in August last year. I was also in Xia Kingdom at that time, so I didn’t see her.”

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun naturally wanted to accompany them. Hearing this unfamiliar name, Qin Ke asked curiously: "Mr. Qiu, is this Professor Uhlenbeck your good friend?"

Mr. Qiu winked at Qin Ke: "I don't know her very well, but Edward is very familiar with her. This Professor Uhlenbeck is a female scholar I admire very much. She is the most outstanding female mathematician of this era One of them has achieved outstanding results in minimal surfaces, harmonic maps, Yang-Mills theory, nonlinear waves, topological quantum field theory and integrable systems, and has made outstanding achievements in differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology and mathematical physics. It has had a huge impact. For example, she is one of the founders of the field of geometric analysis and the first person to use differential geometry to study the solution of differential equations. If nothing else, she will also be the reviewer of your and Xiao Ning's paper this time One of the experts on the 'Yang-Mills equation'."

Professor Witten said with a smile: "Qiu, if I remember correctly, you have worked with Professor Uhlenbeck for two years, right? And she won the 2019 Abel Prize and became the first female Abel Prize winner in the world. Is it also because of your letter of recommendation?"

Old Mr. Qiu laughed, and said, "Edward, how about inviting her to our Qiuzhen Academy for an academic visit when you have the chance? It is inconvenient to invite her because I recommended her."

After hearing this, several people understood that it was because of their kindness that they could not be invited, otherwise it would easily cause misunderstandings by outsiders.

"Moreover, as the authors of the 'Yang-Mills Equation' paper, Qin Ke and Xiao Ning, I believe that Professor Uhlenbeck should also be very interested in communicating with them face to face, after all, she has studied the 'Yang-Mills Equation' all her life. Adams equation'."

Professor Witten turned to Qin Ke and said: "I can see that you, Dean Qiu, are worried that Professor Ulenbeck will embarrass you at the review meeting. Professor Ulenbeck is considered to be the most respected researcher in the world today - One of the mathematicians who has studied Mills' equation for the longest time, you have solved the problem of mass gap first. Professor Uhlenbeck's nearly 30 years of hard work have been reduced to waste paper. She is arrogant and a bit stubborn, probably She will be very unhappy. Qiu wants to invite her to come and turn enemies into friends with you. Qiu is more careful in this regard, I didn't expect this. "

Mr. Qiu has been well-versed in human relationships all his life, so he is naturally better at penetrating people's hearts than Professor Witten, who is obsessed with academics. Professor Witten readily agreed to the job invitation while feeling emotional.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun raised their wine glasses (Ning Qingyun's wine glasses contained warm water), and silently respected the old gentleman who had always cared about them with gratitude.

In addition to this small episode, Principal Gu Bojun also announced that the subject of "Promoting Deeper Research on M Theory and Particle Physics with Mathematical Theory" has been officially approved, and Qin Ke's "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory" will be awarded 6000 million yuan of scientific research funding support, and this topic will also be the scientific research topic of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's "Cheung Kong Scholars Distinguished Professor" this year.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were also a little surprised. You must know that they never submitted any materials except the name of the project. They didn't expect Principal Gu to be so thoughtful and handle all the procedures.

Professor Witten was even more surprised when he heard this: "6000 million yuan? It's equivalent to almost 1000 million U.S. dollars?"

Even if Princeton University has a lot of money, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton spares no effort to support key research projects, but generally speaking, the funding for ordinary research projects is only about 100 million US dollars, and large projects that can get several million US dollars in funding have to be reviewed for one or two years. Like the current project of "promoting the in-depth research of M theory and particle physics with mathematical theory", it took only two or three weeks from the proposal to the allocation of funds. The approval efficiency is unimaginable in the United States, let alone a full 1000 million Dollar funding.

In fact, for a vertical subject of purely theoretical mathematics and physics, it is the first time in China that it can obtain 6000 million scientific research funds allocated by the superior science and technology department. You must know that most vertical theoretical scientific research projects can receive 300 million yuan. 20 is extremely rare, and the mainstream is only between 100 and [-] million.

This is also because the "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory" is already the top mathematics research institution in China. After all, it has brought together three Philippine Prize winners and two Nobel Prize winners at the same time, which is enough to sweep the world. Falling behind developed countries, how can we miss such an opportunity to catch up?
Moreover, "particle physics" is inseparable from experiments, which requires Professor Witten and Qin Ke to jointly use their contacts and borrow European equipment. The 6000 million budget obviously also takes into account the expenses in this area.

At the end of the banquet, Professor Witten looked at the time on his watch and muttered to himself: "It seems that it should be almost over... You should know the answer tomorrow, right?"

……

Yes, just as Qingmu University was "cleaning up the dust" for Professor Witten, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, far away in Europe, west of Geneva, Switzerland, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was busy .

The entire small town where CERN is located has long been under a high degree of martial law, and the headquarters of CERN is in a state of tension and anxiety, because the latest experiment of the Large Hadron Collider is in progress. The duration has exceeded 20 hours, and all the personnel related to the experiment did not close their eyes during the whole process.

The purpose of this experiment is to accurately measure the mass of several particles, including W bosons, and to further understand their characteristics. To this end, CERN has been upgrading the Large Hadron Collider and sensor systems for nearly a year. It is possible to achieve new breakthroughs in precision.

The large hadron collider experiment this time has also attracted great attention. Countless reporters from all over the world have come to interview, Xia Guo is no exception.

Because some unscrupulous media in the past month, in order to attract attention, deliberately spread rumors and confuse the public, making the public think that CERN rejected Qin Kening Qingyun's "Proof of the Mass Gap Problem of the Yang-Mills Equation and the Mathematicalization of the Standard Model of Particle Physics" Explanation" paper.

Later, CERN came forward and officially issued a statement, stating that there was absolutely no such matter. This is just the opinion of individual scholars and does not represent the position of the institution. CERN has always respected and admired Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingyun for their attainments in mathematics and physics. This paper is of great reference value to CERN.

However, preconceived impressions have been formed. Many media believe that CERN is not sincere, and some people are advocating that CERN will conduct a Large Hadron Collider experiment in mid-February in order to overturn the conclusion of the paper.

In the eyes of insiders, this is naturally a childish and ridiculous rumor. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider costs more than tens of billions of dollars. The cost of each experiment plan is also astronomical, and preparations are often made a year or even a few years in advance. How is it possible? Will LHC experiments be conducted to disprove or prove a thesis?

Helpless people just like such "stories" with contradictions, plots and conflicts, which made the Large Hadron Collider experiment planned three years ago attract much attention. Countless media reporters from various countries applied for interviews. Even the rumors that if the experiment of the Large Hadron Collider fails and explodes, it will produce severe nuclear radiation did not deter them.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the experiment, CERN had to temporarily hold a press conference in a big hotel to gather all the reporters who wanted to interview, and a special spokesperson would report the progress of the experiment at any time and respond to the endless inquiries from the reporters.

At this time, the spokesperson, Professor Nigel Ellison, was patiently explaining to the reporters: "Yes, our experimental principle is the same as before, that is, two beams of high-energy particles travel 27 kilometers underground at a speed close to the speed of light. Flying counterclockwise and clockwise in the circular tunnel, and finally colliding with the center of the detector, and collecting data through 15 billion sensors... We have not changed any experimental details for the thesis of Academician Qin and Academician Ning."

"Will this experiment produce miniature black holes and lead to the destruction of the world? No, the production of miniature black holes requires extreme conditions, even if the Large Hadron Collider is almost impossible to achieve. Take a step back, even if it does produce Miniature black holes, such black holes will be evaporated due to "Hawking radiation" at the moment of creation, they will not exist for a long enough time, and naturally they will not affect the surrounding environment, let alone destroy the world... Well, something like We have answered the question countless times, please refer to our previous reply for details, and I will not repeat it.”

"The 'strange cloud phenomenon' that appeared in the sky [-] kilometers away this morning? This has nothing to do with our experiment this time. It is converted into heat energy and will not have a substantial impact on the atmosphere above the ground. The "weird cloud phenomenon" has appeared three times in the past few years, all of which are rare phenomena caused by the joint action of the "mountain wave" stratum and climate change. Except this time, we are not conducting experiments, which is enough to prove that it has nothing to do with our experiments, thank you."

Professor Nigel Ellison has a good personality, but most of the reporters are laymen, and some of them don’t even know what a large-scale particle collider experiment is, so the questions are so varied that Nigel Professor Ellison's lips went dry as he explained.

But in order not to cause misunderstandings, and in order not to affect the normal progress of the experiment, he had to hold back the reporters here, which really made him suffer a lot.

Finally, there was a burst of cheers from the headquarters command center on the other side of the projection screen, and Professor Nigel Ellison breathed a sigh of exhaustion, which proved that the experiment of the Large Hadron Collider had finally ended successfully.

"Everyone, our experiment has successfully ended, but because the data collection and analysis still takes time, the results of the experiment will be released at the press conference at the same time tomorrow. Please wait patiently for our latest news."

Professor Nigel Ellison finally "escaped from the sea of ​​suffering", but the attention of the whole world to this experiment is constantly increasing, especially knowing that the success of the experiment means that the most accurate value of the mass of the W boson so far will be released tomorrow. It was freshly released, which also caused countless people to dig out the "80466 MeV/c^2" in Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's papers and repeat it.

The more you pay attention, the more you look forward to it, the slower time goes by, and the hour hand finally turned around. Xia Guo's reporter Yuan Zhaoying has long been waiting outside the hall where the press conference was held.He has smoked two cigarettes, but there has been no news from CERN, except that the press conference originally scheduled for 2 pm was postponed for half an hour.

Yuan Zhaoying doesn't know how big the data volume of this LHC experiment is, nor does it know whether the W boson mass measurement can display specific values ​​in real time like a weighing scale, but it is reasonable to say that a top research institution like CERN , and super-computing computing power, how can you come to a conclusion in one day?How could it be delayed for half an hour?What's the inside story?
Not only he was anxiously waiting, but also nearly a thousand journalists from various countries around him were also anxiously waiting.

After all, when it comes to "explosive traffic" now, what can compare to whether the conclusions of academician Qin Ke and academician Ning Qingyun, who are popular Xia scientists, are correct?
The results announced by CERN are likely to push these two Xia scientists who are concerned by the whole world to a higher altar, or they will be trampled down, and their godhood will be damaged.

Yuan Zhaoying naturally hopes that the two young academicians of his country can create another glorious miracle, and the country is also waiting for him to send back good news.

While Yuan Zhaoying was waiting anxiously, the glass door of the reception hall opened, and CERN staff invited media reporters to enter.

Yuan Zhaoying was refreshed, the latest CERN experiment results will be announced soon!
(End of this chapter)