From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 184 Yang Zhenning's formula

In the lecture hall, more and more people entered, until the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began.

The first person to speak was Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, a female physicist.

This Gianotti is still very important in the field of high-energy physics. Of course, his achievements are also quite important, and he has also provided a lot of help for the upgrade and maintenance of the LHC.

After she went up, she mainly introduced the current maintenance progress of the LHC, as well as the plans and preparations for the next experiment. This can be regarded as a matter of concern to everyone present. After all, high-energy physics cannot do without such a large-scale collision. Machine, everyone is very concerned about when it will be able to start.

Soon, Gianotti's speech ended, and after wishing the meeting a successful convening, the next scientist began to share on stage.

And this scientist is a heavyweight, it is Peter Higgs.

Seeing this old man in his 90s on the stage, everyone applauded in unison.

Although Higgs is not the only physicist who has contributed to the discovery of the Higgs mechanism, as the first person to discover the mechanism, he undoubtedly enjoys its naming rights.

Therefore, in academia, discovering one step ahead always has such an opportunity.

"Hi everyone, I'm very glad to be here to share with you." Higgs's old-fashioned eyes still shone with the wisdom of being a top scientist in physics. He said with a smile: "As you can see, I I am getting old, so I am a bit stretched to share my academic knowledge with you.”

"Then, I will take you to review the history of scientific exploration in the past, hoping to provide some inspiration for our future research in the historical experience."

"So, first of all, let's go back to the 1954 paper that Yang Zhenning and Mills jointly published."

Then, Higgs began to talk about the Yang-Mills gauge field theory.

As the pre-foundation of the Higgs mechanism, the Yang-Mills gauge field plays an extremely important role in all aspects of high-energy physics.

The physicists present followed Higgs to trace the history of those decades ago, and for most of the people present, they did not even make a sound at that time, so only old people like this, To be able to bring them a historical review.

In fact, as an old man of that era, Higgs learned a lot. At the same time, he can also retell some things that have not been recorded in history.

In this way, time passed slowly, starting from Yang Mills' gauge field, until he researched the process of the Higgs mechanism, and finally, in 2013, CERN officially announced that the mysterious particle they discovered in 2012 was exactly the Higgs mechanism. Gus particles.

Between them, the change of times and the communication of centuries have been crossed.

Everyone present seemed to have gained some experience and inspiration from this period of history.

till the end.

"By the way, I suddenly remembered something."

Higgs smiled slightly and said: "After I published the paper on the Higgs mechanism, I had a discussion with Yang. Yang's sensitivity to physics, I believe no one in the world can compare with him."

"During the discussion with him, I learned some of his past thinking. Like me, he once had some ideas about the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Higgs mechanism."

"He said maybe there was something undiscovered in the Goldstone particle when it was canceled out to give the new particle its mass, and he showed me a mathematical formula for, uh, what I Anyway, I forgot, anyway, it is related to the energy of light, but when we offset it with Planck’s constant, we found a remainder. This is an incredible thing, but later, Yang transformed this formula into We found a formula that can be substituted into the Higgs mechanism, so after we substituted the Higgs mechanism into it, we found that the remainder disappeared miraculously, so we guessed that there were some mathematical problems in the previous calculation.”

Speaking of this, Higgs shook his head: "But a few days ago, I suddenly remembered this matter again, and I thought, maybe that formula is an important discovery that Yang and I missed, but now I am old, and I can only share this news with you, and I hope that you can reveal the problems in the future."

Hearing what Higgs said, everyone present couldn't help thinking, what is that?
Planck's constant defines the energy unit of light, that is to say, the energy of light is a piece, not continuous, and the energy of light is an integer multiple of Planck's constant.

And this is the original concept of the so-called quantum.

Now Higgs actually said that when Yang wrote a formula related to the energy of light, and it couldn't cancel out with Planck's constant, this was something worth thinking about.

Of course, the "remainder" mentioned by Higgs is not exactly the same as the remainder in the field of mathematics. It means that some physical quantities cannot be completely replaced, so as to achieve elimination. More discussion.

Therefore, everyone expects Higgs to say what the formula written by Yang Zhenning is.

However, Higgs blinked, spread his hands and said, "Of course, I forgot the formula that Yang wrote back then, maybe you need to ask Yang again."

"Okay, let's end my sharing here, and don't waste your young people's time anymore."

Higgs smiled slightly, then nodded to the people present, and walked off the stage directly.

Seeing the old man go down so simply, everyone present was stunned, and finally couldn't help but feel helpless, aren't you embarrassing everyone?
How about writing that formula down?

But there was no other way, everyone had already gone down, so they had no choice but to applaud the old man.

Afterwards, there was a 10-minute break, and then the next meeting. The report below is the recent results of the ATLAS experiment international cooperation team from the Large Hadron Collider.

During this time, everyone also started a discussion.

"Lin, have you met Yang before?"

Henry turned to look at Lin Xiao beside him.

At this time, Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone, lowered his head to do something, and replied without turning his head: "Yes."

"That's great!" Henry showed an envious expression. Being able to meet his idol is certainly worthy of his envy.

"What kind of person do you think Yang is?"

"A very respectable man."

Lin Xiao said something, then put the phone next to his ear, and said to Henry at the same time: "I'm going to call him now, what's the matter, wait until I finish the call."

Henry was taken aback: "He? Who?"

"Yang."

Henry froze for a moment, Yang?
After reacting, his eyes widened immediately: "What did you say? Yang?! Do you have his phone number?"

At this time, the phone was already connected, and Lin Xiao said: "Old Yang, I am Lin Xiao, how are you doing recently?... As long as you are in good health, hehe, I am calling to ask you for a favor, you Did you chat with Peter Higgs once before, and then you discussed such a thing with Peter Higgs:...do you still remember the formula you wrote?"

　Tomorrow is May [-]st, I wish you all a happy holiday in advance.

　　In addition, you need to rest for a few days - the daily update volume is adjusted to two chapters with a total of [-] words.

　　After being put on the shelves, I have to sit in front of the computer for ten hours every day for a month. I feel a little numb. I need to adjust my status. It will take about 3-7 days. When I feel better, I will resume the third shift.

　　thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)