From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 398 Thank You, Sun
"Lin, your report is about to start tomorrow, how about it, are you ready?"

In Lin Xiao's office, Witten found him and asked with a smile.

But Lin Xiao lowered his head, as if the academic report that will be carried out tomorrow, which can be recorded in the monument of physics history, has nothing to do with him.

Witten couldn't help being puzzled. At such a time, is Lin Xiao still doing other research?

No wonder he was able to do what he is doing today.

After Witten felt a burst of admiration in his heart, he couldn't help but think of the most important report in his life.

In 1990, he formally proposed M-theory at a meeting that brought together many top string theory physicists in the world at that time. Since then, he has classified all kinds of string theories in the world into one, realizing The grand unification of string theory.

It was after that that he became one of the most important physicists in string theory, and at the same time gained a lot of fame in the entire physics community.

Recalling the day before the report, he had already expected how shocking his report would bring to the physics community, and he was so excited. He was far from being as calm as Lin Xiao.

After all, it is the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity!
The most important step in the theory of everything, only when this step is completed, can they finally realize the unification of the four forces.

Although there are still many unsolved problems in physics, the unification of the four fundamental forces is not their only goal, but if they can understand this problem, the significance to physics is of an incomparable stage, at least better than simply discovering The existence of [string] is even bigger.

Of course, as the proponent of the M theory, Witten still believes in the status of the M theory he proposed. If they have researched the M theory to a complete level, it is likely to be the ultimate theory of the universe. Witten naturally quite agrees with the evaluation made.

However, Witten does not know what the complete body of M theory looks like. It may take hundreds of thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years to complete, or the day when human beings usher in the end, It is not impossible that human beings have not found the complete body of M theory.

After recovering from the memories in his heart, Witten looked at Lin Xiao again. Although he said something when he came in just now, Lin Xiao probably entered the state, so he didn't reply to him. Still steeped in research.

For this special state of immersion, Witten has nothing but envy besides envy. Maybe he could do this when he was young, but now that he is old, he can no longer achieve this completely immersed state .

Shaking his head, he leaned forward and glanced at what Lin Xiao was writing.

[φ(0,t)φ(0)~∑Anexp(-nt)...]

Looking at these things, Witten thought for a while, and then he knew what Lin Xiao was writing.

"Is it the mass gap problem... He really is still working on this problem... Huh? Wait?"

When his eyes moved forward, Witten was suddenly stunned.

"Oh my God, what is this?!"

"This...proves that Yang-Mills theory satisfies Whiteman's axioms?"

"This means that, for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial quantum Yang-Mills theory exists on R^4?!"

Witten could no longer control his voice and exclaimed.

He is so familiar with this line of text that he even wrote it out by himself at the beginning, but when he wrote this line of text back then, he was asking for a question, and what Lin Xiao wrote at this time This line of text, however, is a statement that solves the problem!

That's right, this is one of the seven millennium problems, one of the most important problems in theoretical physics, which will bring great significance to physicists' understanding of the strong interaction force, the first problem of the Yang-Mills gauge field problem One problem, namely the existence of Yang-Mills gauge field!
Although Lin Xiao's words were written in Chinese, and Witten couldn't understand the Chinese inside, the mathematical symbols were common, so he could easily see the meaning of Lin Xiao's previous part of the mathematical derivation process.

Seeing this, the shock in Witten's heart can no longer be added.

In this way, half of this problem that has plagued the physics community for many years has been solved at this time?

Although strictly speaking, he only saw Lin Xiao's conclusion and did not see the previous content. Whether Lin Xiao really completed the proof still needs to be seen in the previous process.

But if you think about it being done by Lin Xiao, then half of the doubts will disappear immediately. After all, Lin Xiao's ability is obvious to the whole world. Is there anything he has proved to have failed in the past?

Obviously not!

Well, in Witten's heart, he has already believed more than half of it.

And the first question has been completed, then, isn't Lin Xiao just proving the existence of the quality gap?

Looking back at the formula written by Lin Xiao on the draft paper, Witten was immediately convinced of it.

And at this time, maybe Witten's exclamations just now were louder, so Lin Xiao finally came back to his senses.

After he stopped writing, he looked at Witten next to him suspiciously, and then said, "Witten? Why are you here?"

Witten immediately pointed to his draft paper and said excitedly: "Have you successfully proved that the Yang-Mills gauge field satisfies the requirements of Whiteman's axiom?"

Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the part that Witten pointed to, and then said with a smile: "I think it probably succeeded."

"It's unbelievable, it's really unbelievable, although as you said before, as long as you solve the contradiction between quantum mechanics and relativity on gravity, you can help prove this problem in turn, but no matter what, you actually succeeded so quickly! "

Lin Xiao shook his head, "It's only half of the success, and the other half is more critical."

The mass gap is the core issue. If the former is the first question, which only reveals more mathematical correlations, then the proof of the mass gap will directly reveal that the current quantum collider collision cannot A physical phenomenon was discovered, which is what physicists are after.

Although mathematics is very important to physics, the physical phenomena and the nature of the universe revealed through mathematics are the most critical.

"But no matter what, you are now very close to success."

Witten admired sincerely.

"My question has not been completed yet, but you have completed two questions. Oh, now I suddenly understand why some people on the Internet say that you are as smart as an alien. Now I am also curious."

"Uh..." Lin Xiao touched his nose and said, "Maybe aliens are not as smart as me?"

After all, aliens don't necessarily have cheats like him, do they?
Witten froze for a moment, then laughed again, "It makes sense."

"By the way, tomorrow is your report. Are you planning to bring this proof to the report?" Witten said, "It's just right, I saw many mathematicians coming. The field report attracts more than just physics, I really want to know what their expressions will be when you tell them this surprise in the report tomorrow."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "This proposal can be considered."

But then, he lowered his head again, looked at his draft paper, and frowned slightly.

"However, instead of talking about giving them a surprise tomorrow, it's better to think about how to give them a bigger surprise."

"An even bigger surprise?"

There was a puzzled expression on Witten's face.

"Well, an even bigger surprise."

Lin Xiao nodded.

"You mean..." Witten followed Lin Xiao's gaze and looked at the end of his line of sight, which was still the proof of the mass gap.

Witten suddenly had a sense of absurdity: "Could it be that you want to prove the quality gap problem before the report tomorrow? Can this... be done?"

No matter how you think about it, it shouldn't be possible, right?

After all, looking at Lin Xiao's writing process on the draft paper, he has just begun to prove the quality gap.

Lin Xiao smiled, "Witten, do you still remember the suggestions I gave to your question?"

"Of course... Could it be that you can also use that method?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Maybe, of course, tomorrow, you may receive a surprise that I specially prepared for you."

"A surprise just for me?"

Witten became even more curious. How can Lin Xiao surprise him by proving the gap in quality?

But when he wanted to ask, Lin Xiao had already lowered his head again, probably because of another train of thought.

Seeing this, Witten shook his head slightly, forget it, since it was a surprise, let's save the answer until tomorrow.

After that, he didn't stay any longer, and quietly left Lin Xiao's office.

The office was quiet again.

The birds outside the window chirped a few times. For these creatures suspected of being descendants of dinosaurs, they probably would never imagine what kind of things the scary erect apes inside were studying. However, for the birds anyway, there is no need to care The birth and destruction of the universe.

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The earth has turned around by itself, and for the human beings on it, it is a day.

At the same time, in Lin Xiao's office, he straightened his waist and yawned deeply.

Then, he lowered his head again and looked at the draft paper, his eyes wrinkled tightly.

"No... No, no, it's still one step away, but which step should it be..."

The whole night passed, and he didn't rest all night, trying to solve the final mass gap problem. However, he still hasn't done it until now.

Just as he thought at the beginning, the idea he told Witten at the beginning was also helpful for the problem of quality gap, but when he wrote the last step, he was finally stumped.

And at this moment, his cell phone rang.

"Lin Xiao, your report will start at ten o'clock, and it's already past eight o'clock, why don't you come to school yet?"

Dean Zhao Qi called. Although he lost the opportunity to undertake this report alone, his enthusiasm is still quite high.

Lin Xiao woke up suddenly, opened the curtains, looked outside, the sun had already crossed the distance of one astronomical unit, and the light from the sun's surface [-] seconds ago covered his body.

"It's already dawn..."

"Huh? Bright...?"

"That's right, Photon!"

Suddenly, Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and his sleepy brain, as if under the sunlight, had energy due to the photoelectric effect.

And maybe Lin Xiao lost his voice, Zhao Qi said again: "Lin Xiao?"

Lin Xiao finally came back to his senses, and then said with a smile: "I see, Dean Zhao, I'll be right here."

"it is good."

Then, hung up the phone.

Lin Xiao stood up, and first called Qi Shangao who is now in charge of protecting him.

"Prepare to take me to Beijing University. Also, please buy me a bottle of coffee. Well, okay, hang up."

Putting down his phone, he raised his head again and looked at the morning sun in the sky outside the window.

"Thank you, Sun."

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(End of this chapter)