From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 188 The person who understands multidimensional field theory best is Lin Xiao

For the physics community in this century, progress has somewhat stalled.

In other words, this century is more like what physicists generally believed before the two dark clouds floated over more than 100 years ago-the building of physics has been built, and the rest is just sewing.

Around this point in the early twentieth century, the successive emergence of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics has brought a wider theoretical world to physics, and everything has become difficult for people to understand. At least for ordinary people, they have seen I don’t understand those theories anymore, because quantum mechanics is a counter-intuitive theory. Unlike classical mechanics, ordinary people can at least understand some of it based on their own life experience.

And the superstring theory in the second half of the [-]th century brought the physics world into a mysterious and mysterious world.

Such a rapid development has made the entire physics community a bit overwhelmed, so when digesting these theories, it seems that the development of the physics community seems to have stagnated.

But even with so many unanswered questions, the physics community is still looking for something new to emerge.

After all, pursuing new theories is the desire of physicists, and human desires are endless, so of course they are not satisfied.

However, since M theory, there have been no new theories that can shock the physics community.

Moreover, although the superstring theory is correct in terms of the demonstration process, because no physical experiment can prove even one of the arguments, the superstring theory has not been fully recognized by the physics community, just like the proponent of M theory , Witten only won a Fields Medal in recognition of his application of mathematics, but the Nobel Prize in Physics was still not awarded to him, because the M-theory has not been experimentally verified.

First of all, the Nobel Prize in Science has a criterion for judging, that is, it must be verified by experiments. Without verification, you cannot win the Nobel Prize in Science, just like Higgs proposed the Higgs mechanism for decades, and until After the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year.

Therefore, this has always been a pity for Edward Witten, because he is a physicist. Although he is honored to have won the highest award in mathematics as a physicist, he was able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics The academic award is what he wants most, after all, it means the recognition of his achievements.

But for such a long time, there has never been any result that can testify to M theory, which made him lose such hope for a while, and he even made up his mind not to hear of such a result before his death.

However, today Witten sees a hope in this issue of Physical Review Letters.

This "On Multidimensional Field and Its Situation Superposition", although discussing multidimensionality from another direction, has no theoretical intersection with M theory, but there is obviously an intersection between the things discussed by the two parties, which means, He can try to find the place where the two can intersect, and then communicate with the two. There is a good chance.

What's more, this paper is also based on quantum field theory.

And why Witten saw the hope of being able to justify the name of M theory in this is because this theory successfully found a logical and self-consistent argument for the vacuum catastrophe.

There is a huge gap of 107 orders of magnitude between the upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy predicted by quantum field theory and the upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy tested in practice. This phenomenon is called vacuum catastrophe, and it also makes physicists feel baffled untie.

But the multi-dimensional field theory has made an answer for it, because according to the value predicted by the quantum field theory, because of the original defect of the quantum field theory, the influence of multiple dimensions has not been considered, and according to the conditions of the multi-dimensional field theory, as long as multiple The effect of dimension on the zero-point energy of vacuum will be able to infinitely approximate the predicted results and experimental results.

Although the calculation results are not clearly given in the paper, anyone who is a little better at mathematics can get the final result based on the calculation formula inside.

And it is this empirical evidence that gives an excellent proof of the multidimensional field theory.

This is also the most important.

Conversely, it is equivalent to saying that it has been confirmed experimentally.

Einstein's theory of relativity has not been recognized until 1919 when Arthur Stan Lee Eddington detected the curvature of space-time through the observation of a total solar eclipse, and finally proved the correctness of the theory of relativity, so Einstein has since He was promoted to the altar of physicists in the world and compared with Newton.

As soon as Lin Xiao's multidimensional field theory came out, he solved a dark cloud in the physics world. He even predicted the two dark clouds of dark matter and dark energy. Although this prediction has not yet been verified by experiments, but Obviously, no one can deny its explanation for the phenomenon of vacuum catastrophe.

Therefore, Witten was extremely pleasantly surprised.

He looked at Adler and shouted:

"Adler."

But it just so happened that Adler also called out to him: "Witten."

Then both of them smiled.

Regardless of how incredible this paper is, at this time, they all feel that they are the happiest people in the world.

Because they once again witnessed an advancement in physics during their lifetime, and they were once again one step closer to the truth.

Suddenly, Edward Witten stood up and looked around at the people around him.

There are mathematicians, theoretical physicists, astrophysicists, historians, political scientists, etc., as well as many postdoctoral fellows of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

At this moment, Edward Witten just wanted to share this good news with all of them.

So he said loudly: "Friends! Everyone look here."

Immediately, everyone looked over.

Those who were familiar with Witten all smiled and asked, "Witten, could it be that your grandson is getting married?"

Edward Witten smiled and said, "No, the news I'm going to say next is more important than this."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned. What is the thing that can make an old man think is more important than the life events of the younger generation?
And Edward Witten did not give a shit, and revealed the answer: "We in the physics community can now tell everyone with certainty——"

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"There are really multi-dimensional spaces in the world!"

TV, the Internet and other places where news can be disseminated, such a news has spread all over the world.

All the media moved upon hearing the news, conveying this shocking news that the public can understand to everyone.

And the whole world, like a powder keg, was directly detonated by such a fire.

For such a news, no one, whether it is scientists in academia or the general public, will not have great interest.

Discussing the universe always makes people feel mysterious and full of style, anyway, it is very high-end and high-end.

For example, whether there are aliens, whether they can travel through time and space, whether it is possible to achieve teleportation, etc. - and obviously, there is one of the most attractive discussions among them, and that is whether there is multi-dimensional space.

If so, how do life in other dimensions live?

As for the latter question, there is no need to discuss it, because for the physics community, there is no argument that can prove the existence of multidimensional space.

Even in the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, the discussion is more about the phenomenon in the three-dimensional space in which human beings live, and for higher dimensions, its existence can only be assumed, and its existence cannot be verified.

However, the multidimensional field theory can already be considered as proving the existence of multidimensional space, because now it is the only theory that can explain the vacuum catastrophe, that is to say, the vacuum catastrophe is caused by the influence of multidimensional space, and then Indirectly prove the existence of multi-dimensional space.

Of course, the general public cannot understand the details. For them, they only need to know that there is such a thing.

As a result, on the world's major forums, this topic has unsurprisingly topped the hot list, and almost all netizens who have seen this news have also participated in the discussion.

"Ohhhhhhhh! ! ! !Multidimensional space, it's unbelievable! 』

"It's really incredible! 』

"Sometimes I really envy the heads of these physicists, I really don't know how he came up with it"

"I heard that the person who came up with this idea was only 20 years old, which is incredible! 』

"What's more, that Lin Xiao is also a mathematical genius, and he even proved Goldbach's conjecture!" 』

"My God! 』

"Lin Shen!My forest god!you make me Crazy! 』

"Can we also have a top physicist like Einstein in Huaguo? 』

"We already have one Elder Yang, and now we are the second one. However, Lin Xiao's achievement seems to be even more powerful."

"Isn't it too strong? !It's outrageous! 』

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People talked excitedly. When discussing the greatness of such an achievement, they would of course pay attention to the person who made this achievement. Lin Xiao's name appeared in front of the world again, and at this time, people also Pay more attention to the position of Lin Xiao's theory in the physics world, and whether it can really make Lin Xiao compare with the top physicists in history?
The world-renowned magazine Time Magazine invited Edward Witten to conduct an interview on these matters.

"Professor Witten, how do you evaluate multidimensional field theory?"

Witten: "This is a miraculous achievement. Its theory has successfully explained countless difficult problems in the physics world. I am extremely excited for such a breakthrough in the physics world. I haven't had a good night's sleep."

"Does this mean that this is a theory that can be compared with the theory of relativity?"

Witten shook his head, and gave a rigorous answer: "The theory of relativity has been developed for more than 100 years, and has achieved rich results, so we can be sure that the theory of relativity is correct, but the multidimensional field theory has just been born, so it cannot be compared with The current theory of relativity is used for comparison, although it has explained the problem of vacuum catastrophe for us.”

"However, what needs to be known is that there are countless straight lines after one point, and a straight line can only be determined after two points. What if it is just a coincidence that it solves the vacuum catastrophe? Therefore, only if it can get more actual verification, it is considered A really successful theory."

"Of course, if we compare it with the years when the theory of relativity just appeared, I think the multidimensional field theory may be more valuable and attractive. After all, it involves multidimensional space. In any case, even if it just sounds very interesting. Interesting, isn't it?"

The interviewer smiled: "Indeed, as you said, the multi-dimensional space does make us more interesting."

"Then, what do you think of the fact that Lin Xiao, the inventor of the multidimensional field theory, is only 20 years old this year? Is this a bit unbelievable?"

Edward Witten smiled and said: "Einstein published the theory of relativity at the age of 26, Newton came up with calculus and the law of universal gravitation at the age of 23, and Lin Xiao solved Goldbach's conjecture at the age of 19, and at the age of 20 he came up with Another theory that shocked the physics world seems not so impossible, of course, as a person, I still feel incredible."

"Okay, then I will ask you the last question now, just like when the theory of relativity was first published, few people in the world could understand it, so can you understand multidimensional field theory now?"

Edward Witten said with a smile: "Physicists back then couldn't understand the theory of relativity because their thinking was still limited by classical physics, but now physicists are very brainy and imaginative. So no matter how amazing this paper is, it may be slightly understandable."

"However, I believe that there is only one person who understands the most in the world now, and that is Lin Xiao."

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And as the person who knows multidimensional field theory best, what is Lin Xiao doing now?

(End of this chapter)