From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"It's a good idea. Do you want to use computational materials science to further explore the mechanism of electronic topological bonding?"

"Yes, Director." The leader nodded.

"Your electronic topological bonding mechanism has been studied very deeply by our material world... er, and the condensed matter world, so we want to continue to try to study it, so that the cost of funds will be reduced. It won’t be too much, and the budget can be controlled.”

With a funding of 40 yuan, there is no need to think about researching new materials. This is definitely unrealistic, so they choose more theoretical things, such as Lin Xiao's electronic topological bonding mechanism, which obviously belongs to theory. In terms of things, it is an exaggeration to say that they go to an Internet cafe and use the computer to verify it all the time.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration. After all, their research also needs some professional experimental equipment to cooperate, so a simple computer is obviously not enough to support all their research.

"Well, it's a good idea."

Regarding their plan to control the budget, Lin Xiao nodded and praised.

Although it was probably the first time for these four people to host the project, their thoughts on the most critical issue of funding have also passed the test with Lin Xiao.

Although the budget problem has never been his problem, it is obviously very important for most other researchers to control the budget, let alone these few intern researchers, they only have 40 funds, and Compared with other topics engaged in materials research, this funding is simply pitiful.

Then Lin Xiao groped his chin. Since these people have shown abilities worthy of his initial trust, why don't we put more burden on them?
He thought for a while, and then said, "I see what's written on this form, you are the applicant Kang Chengning, right?"

"Well, it's me." The leader, Kang Chengning, nodded, with a little excitement on his face. After all, this meant that Lin Xiao had remembered his name.

Of course, he didn't forget to introduce the others at this time. The other three were named Ma Bin, Li Xiang, and Chen Gong.

Lin Xiao nodded, it seems that these four people have already elected the leader of their group.

Then he said: "Okay, I see. In addition, regarding your subject, I have an idea now, that is, you can try in another direction after completing your research."

These four people were taken aback, another direction?
In other words, Lin Xiao still plans to give them some advice?
This made them all feel happy. If Lin Xiao is also interested in their subject, as Lin Xiao, it is definitely impossible to compete with them for the results, and maybe it will bring them a lot by then. What about important advice?
Thinking of this, excitement appeared on their faces, and Kang Chengning immediately said, "Director, what direction is it?"

Lin Xiao said, "Do you know a paper I published recently?"

"Your most recent paper?"

The four of them couldn't help thinking, what paper did Lin Xiao publish recently?

Of course, it wasn't long before Lin Xiao released his papers some time ago, and those papers were all heavyweight papers, so they thought about it quickly.

"You mean, the problem of the Yang-Mills gauge field that was proved?"

"And that paper you published with that physicist named Witten that confirmed the existence of strings?"

"Oh, by the way, you also had a paper before that unified quantum mechanics and relativity?"

After talking about Lin Xiaofa's recent papers, they fell into doubts again. Although each of these papers is better than the other, what does this have to do with their topic?

They just want to study the theory of electronic topological bonding, and none of these things have anything to do with their research, right?
Isn't it these?
However, as soon as they thought about it, Lin Xiao said, "Yes, it's just these few papers. Of course, the paper that Professor Witten and I published don't matter, it doesn't count."

"Then my two papers ultimately point to the strong interaction force, but when it is related to the strong interaction force, one of them is also related to the electromagnetic interaction force, so I hope that what you want to solve, It is to find the relationship between the electromagnetic interaction force and the strong interaction force."

As soon as Lin Xiao's words came out of his mouth, the four trainee researchers were dumbfounded.

ha?us?What is the relationship between the electromagnetic force and the strong force?

My god, are you kidding me?

Could this thing be made by the four of us?

Let’s not talk about whether they can solve it, but let’s talk about their professional problems first. They are just a few small computational materials scientists, and the relationship between the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic interaction force is a super giant in the physics world. Boss, this is irrelevant, what should they do?

If they have the ability to study this kind of problem, they are probably not just ordinary intern researchers. At least they have to be associate researchers, and even academicians are not impossible.

"Director, is this... a bit difficult?"

Kang Chengning said with a bitter face.

But Lin Xiao chuckled and said, "Of course, I know this is still too difficult for you, of course, I will give you a little help here."

As he spoke, he took a piece of draft paper from the side and started writing on it.

What he wrote are all calculation formulas, which belong to the electromagnetic interaction force.

The four intern researchers could understand all of these, but then Lin Xiao introduced other things, and at this moment, they were a little confused.

However, Lin Xiao didn't write a lot, and it was over after a few lines of calculation.

Then, Lin Xiao explained to them: "Well, the previous part is the electromagnetic interaction force. If you have studied the theory of electron topological bonding, it should be clear, so I won't say much, but, The latter part is the part related to the strong interaction force."

"Your calculation materials may not study the strong interaction force, but I will not force you to study the strong interaction force seriously. I just hope that if you discover in the experiment that If there are phenomena related to the formulas I listed, then you must tell me."

"Of course, this is just a direction that I personally suggest you to extend. You can also decide whether to do it according to your own ability. Before that, you should first produce the results of your own projects, and you don't need to spend money first. On top of what I said."

"That's it."

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he picked up their funding application form, signed his name on it, and then stamped his official seal.

In this way, this application form has been approved by his director, and now it can be used to apply for funding.

Seeing the imprint of the official seal, Kang Chengning and the others showed excitement again on their faces.

This is an official seal worth 40 yuan, so how can we not make them excited?

Kang Chengning said: "Well, we know, we will try our best to try the question you mentioned."

"Ah."

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, then waved his hands and said, "Okay, that's it."

"Okay, then I won't bother you."

Kang Chengning nodded, then took their application form and the draft paper written by Lin Xiao from Lin Xiao's hands, and then left here with the other three people.

Seeing them leave, Lin Xiao also lowered his head, and rewrote the formulas he had just written to them.

Looking at these formulas, his eyes sank into thinking.

For such a long time, he has been thinking about the photons he used when he solved the mass gap problem and solved the last step.

Or strictly speaking, photons in the mathematical sense.

But it is precisely this photon in the mathematical sense that is particularly important.

Because what needs to be known is that virtual particles in physics can basically be understood as a kind of particle based on mathematical processing techniques, because compared with real particles, virtual particles have an extra imaginary unit "i", and in Such virtual particles cannot be observed in reality.

For example, virtual photons are the particles that transmit the electromagnetic interaction force, but we know that the transmission of the electromagnetic interaction force occurs instantaneously, which means that its transmission speed is infinite and exceeds the speed of light, so although we assume The existence of virtual photons, but virtual photons do not transmit the interaction force at the speed of light, but transmit the interaction force at super-light speed and instantaneously.

And this is very critical to Lin Xiao.

He discovered this mathematical virtual photon in his solution to the problem of the mass gap that exists between quarks, the domain that permeates the strong force.

Well, it's hard not to let him think of whether there will be any connection between the two.

Of course, the same is true for the current physics community.

With the end of his report proving the existence of the mass gap, physicists today have long since entered a frenzy for this problem.

After all, as long as they can find the correlation, it means that the relationship between the electromagnetic interaction force and the strong interaction force has been found.

Similarly, this also means that the time for the unification of the three forces is not long.

After all, the electroweakness has already been unified, and once the strong interaction force is also unified with the electromagnetic interaction force, then the three forces will naturally be unified.

The unification of interaction forces does not mean that they are unified by writing them into an equation or formula, just like in the Standard Model, although several forces are included in it, obviously they cannot be said to be unified.

Even the electroweak interaction force that has been unified can finally be unified through a lot of complicated theories.

Therefore, if you really want to include the strong interaction force, the theory you need must not be understood by a simple virtual photon.

Of course, there is no need to talk about these things. At least the discovery of this virtual photon now provides a very important clue for finding the relationship between the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic interaction force.

Lin Xiao finally squeezed the space between his eyebrows, he couldn't think of anything for the time being, he couldn't help thinking of his proposal to Kang Chengning and the four of them.

Is this proposal of mine a bit too difficult?
However, he quickly smiled and shook his head. No matter how many things there are, he didn't really think about what Kang Chengning and the others could research. Maybe they would think this problem was too difficult, and then gave up. .

Those four people can complete their own projects, and Lin Xiao can look up to them.

"Forget it, let's study honestly."

"Even if it doesn't work in the end, at least there is a way out."

Although at present, it is still a bit far away to research the key materials for silicon-controlled nuclear fusion, but for Lin Xiao, he can still use the truth.

Before solving the problem of the existence and mass gap of the Yang-Mills gauge field, one thousand truth points were needed to obtain the technology to prepare this material, but now it has become 800 truth points, and this is very important for today’s 500 Lin Xiaolai, who is more truthful, is not so unacceptable anymore.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao's heart suddenly moved, "Perhaps, we can start the construction of this controllable nuclear fusion reactor now?"

His eyes froze suddenly, and then he didn't say anything, but took out his phone and made a call.

And this phone call can probably be called a phone call recorded in history in the future.

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