From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 210 The Idea of ​​Building a Collider
It has been 174 years since the twin prime number conjecture. Although Will Savin and Will Savin published the rubbings of the paper proof on arxiv, they have not issued a formal proof.

Everyone in the mathematics community thought that it would take a long, long time to produce results. Unexpectedly, Will Savin and Zhou Yi announced the proof of the twin prime number conjecture.

Not only Zhou Yi promoted it on this platform, but the two of them also promoted it on their own media accounts.

And publicly stated that any major achievements in the future will be published in the "Journal of Mathematics of Yuzhou Higher Institute" first.

To the anger of many mathematicians, Zhou Yi and Will Savin did not give a special report publicly, nor did they invite well-known experts in number theory to review the manuscript.

It was published so hastily.

And what the hell is "Journal of Mathematics of Yuzhou Higher Academy"?

Will new journals be included in SCI?
If papers are published without peer review, will the new journal appear to be unauthoritative and rigorous?
However, the two papers made countless number theory experts depressed,
Who should look first?
One is Zhou Yi, a prince of number theory who specializes in number theory, and the other two are veteran mathematicians who study the twin prime number conjecture.

This time, it's confusing.

Wiles from Cambridge University looked at the papers sent by the two assistants in his hand, finally sighed, and murmured alone:

"Let's look at Zhou Yi first. Since his debut, at least he hasn't missed it."

Maynard of Oxford University also held two papers, smiled wryly, and said:

"It's so terrifying, I'm not as good as it is."

Then he put down Will Savin's paper and looked at Zhou Yi's paper for the first time.

Schulz from the University of Bonn in Germany looked at the paper in Zhou Yi's hand and fell silent.

I thought I would be the strongest and the youngest mathematical genius in the mathematics world, but in the end I just killed a book of changes from the ancient eastern country.

After he proved Kepler's conjecture, in more than a year, he created Zhou's geometry and Zhou's analytical method.

Among them, Zhou's geometry is applied in all directions, and Zhou's analytical method is a sharp sword that cuts towards number theory.

The future is not as good as an accident. Any conjecture related to number theory will more or less refer to Zhou's analytical method.

Schultz pondered for a while, then picked up Zhou Yi's paper and began to read it.

Many of the world's top mathematics departments, including the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, have begun to study the papers of Zhou Yi and others.

No one would ignore Zhou Yi's achievements and strength now, his talent is beyond doubt.

For more than a year, all the awarding organizations wanted to put all the medals in Zhou Yi's hands.

The Science Breakthrough Award was even more exaggerated. Zhou Yi was awarded two awards in one go. In order for Zhou Yi to accept it, he went directly to Shuimu University to award it in person.

As for the Internet, it was even more of an uproar.

[If you don’t understand, ask, is this "Journal of Mathematics of Yuzhou Higher Institute" founded by Professor Zhou? 】

[Why doesn't Professor Zhou hold a press conference this time, and doesn't allow peer reviews? Isn't he so confident that he's afraid of capsized in the gutter? 】

[I'm a brainless fan, and I have no brains to support Professor Zhou, Professor Zhou is awesome! 】

[Although I am not very clear about the gold content of mathematical conjectures in mathematics, I think mathematicians who can prove Goldbach's conjecture and twin prime number conjecture must be very great mathematicians! 】

[What Mr. Zhang Yitang failed to do was actually proved by Professor Zhou Yi, the chosen son of Professor Zhou Yi in mathematics. 】

[When will Professor Zhou come out to interact? I really miss the time when Professor Zhou Yi interacted with us. 】

At this moment in Zhou Yi, the mobile phone was bombarded by calls from all walks of life.

While Zhou Yi was on the phone, he was dealing with Qiu Chengtong who was in his office.

"Mr. Milno, why don't you read my thesis first."

Zhou Yi said while holding the phone.

Milnor said over the phone:
"Your magazine was launched so suddenly, and you even registered your own articles in your own magazine, what is the difference from that Mochizuki Shinichi.

Isn't it good to publish the Mathematical Annals? "

Zhou Yi respectfully replied:

"Mr. Milno, don't get excited. I have full confidence that my thesis is correct. In addition, I plan to establish a research institute similar to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in our hometown, so we must have a copy of our own. Magazines will do.

I have repeatedly verified these two papers, and they are used to gain fame. "

After talking for a while, Zhou Yi hung up the phone.

Qiu Chengtong on the side said:
"Although you are very confident in doing this, this is actually a kind of disrespect for your colleagues, and it is also an act of not taking your colleagues seriously. It's okay to hold a press conference, isn't it?"

Zhou Yi said:

"Teacher Qiu, I'm a little thoughtless, but if you want a magazine to be famous, doesn't it have to go this way? Don't many of the papers submitted to the four major journals have no development conferences?

They haven't been looking for peer review, and it will be published only after everyone confirms that it is correct.As a mathematician in the field of number theory, I have this confidence. Of course, only this time, I will still develop the conference if there are any achievements in the future.
If my reputation reaches a certain level, maybe I won’t develop a press conference, and maybe I will choose to release it first on the research assistant. "

Qiu Chengtong shook his head and said:
"You still underestimate the mathematicians in this world. At the time, the British mathematician Atiya announced the proof of Riemann's conjecture.
Didn't you also hold a press conference?It is still a global live broadcast. Although the method of proof by contradiction is a wrong idea, and the paper is also an oolong, it can be seen that the development conference is important.

Atiyah is also a double winner of the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize, and his contribution to mathematics is also very large. "

Zhou Yi sighed, knowing that these teachers were kind and unable to lose their temper, so he had to say:

"Okay, Mr. Qiu, I will hold a press conference next time."

Not long after, Qiu Chengtong left with mixed feelings.

The joy is that the talent of the strongest apprentice has once again refreshed his understanding, but the worry is that Zhou Yi seems to be a little drifting now.

But Qiu Chengtong thought about it again, if he was allowed to be so powerful at the age of 20, he would probably be even more rampant than Zhou Yi.

Qiu Chengtong said to Bill Carr beside him:

"Youth and frivolity seem to be the sign of young people, and Zhou Yi is still restrained."

Bill Carr said:

"Compared with Zhou Yi's achievements, I think his temper is the smallest. You can know a thing or two by looking at Professor Deligne's temper.

What's more, we mathematicians are inherently arrogant, and Zhou Yi's operation is not outrageous. As long as it is proven correct, it may still be a good story. "

Qiu Chengtong said:
"That's right, the winners are right. No matter how unlucky the losers are, they can only be judged as making excuses. In this world, strength is the most important thing."

In the next few days, countless people began to review the papers of Zhou Yi and Will Savin,
There are great mathematicians, mathematicians who have studied the twin prime number conjecture for a long time, and of course there are teachers of civil science.

Zhou Yi was not idle either.

Because Xiao Wanyi got a lot of data about LHCb from somewhere.

With a lot of data, Zhou Yi couldn't start at all for a while, so he could only come up bit by bit.

In just a few days, it is impossible to analyze this pile of explosive data.

However, Xiao Wanyi also included some application news about CERN.

This news made Zhou Yi very interested.

Use light to fight cancer.

It sounds cool.

Zhou Yi looked at the profile,
About 30 years ago, CERN contributed to cancer irradiation with hadron beams by bringing carbon ion therapy for radiation-resistant tumors to the medical community, treating more than 300 patients to date.

As various collaborations and projects have sprung up over the past few decades, new approaches aimed at improving and democratizing the treatment of this type of cancer have sprung up.

Among these methods, proton beam therapy from circular accelerators stands out as a particularly effective therapy: protons destroy tumors at a higher rate than conventional electron or photon therapy, sparing surrounding healthy tissue.

Unfortunately, current proton and ion therapy centers are very large and place high demands on the design of accelerators and guidance systems.

However, technological breakthroughs in recent years,
CERN Technology's new proton accelerator for cancer treatment is preparing to receive the first patients in the UK, and Zhou Yi speculates that it may achieve very good results.

CERN's CLEAR facility has tested beams of ultra-high-energy electrons, and some cancer tumors cannot even be cured by surgery, chemotherapy or traditional radiation therapy.

The development of drug-resistant tumors has made the disease one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but the scientific community is full of ideas that will make cancer deaths a thing of the past.

Among the latest medical and technological innovations, advances in particle therapy -- the process of irradiating tumors with beams of high-energy particles produced by particle accelerators -- could treat otherwise deadly tumors.

At present, there are more than 1W small electron linear accelerators (linac) used in cancer treatment in the world.Most of these machines rely on beams of photons generated by electrons to illuminate their targets.

However, some use the electron beam itself for direct low-energy electron irradiation, although this only reaches superficial tumors.These methods differ from hadron therapy, a technique based on irradiation with proton or heavy ion beams.

This gave Zhou Yi more ideas about building a large collider.

The reason why Mr. Yang objected at the beginning was also very simple, because the hundreds of billions of funding would drag down the scientific research funding of all universities in the Great Xia Kingdom.

What will be lost at that time will be the progress of scientific research in various fields,

Once this scientific research funding is allocated to the collider, all other disciplines and all scientific research will be subject to funding restrictions, and their progress will be greatly affected.

Compared with publishing a few top physics journals and taking one or two Nobel Prizes in physics,
It may be more beneficial to use the money on the cutting edge.

Moreover, there are less than 1% of the world's scholars who study high-energy physics in the Great Xia Kingdom. After the project is completed, it is likely to become dominated by foreigners and make wedding dresses for others.

However, Zhou Yi also knew his teacher Qiu Chengtong's opinion, that is, five or six thousand world-class scientists could move to the Great Xia Kingdom with their families for experiments and live there for a long time.

This will have a great and far-reaching impact on the basic scientific research of the Great Xia Kingdom.

Thousands of the world's top intelligent minds gathered in the Great Xia Kingdom, and Zhou Yi also felt that many important technologies and knowledge that transcended the field of physics would be produced.

This is one of the debates between conservatives and reformers.

There are also some reasons Zhou Yi also knows, with the 200 billion dollars in funds, it is absolutely possible for five or six thousand scholars from the Great Xia Kingdom to challenge the world's first-class scholars.

People who are not of my race must have different hearts, and Zhou Yi also recognizes this idea.

Zhou Yi also knew Mr. Yang's thoughts. After the establishment of the high-energy collider, there is a high probability that it will not be able to feed back the Great Xia Kingdom within 50 years.

Moreover, Daxia Kingdom was still in a relatively backward position in the world at that time. Many schools in mountainous and impoverished areas urgently needed to be improved, and many impoverished families also needed help.
Mr. Yang's objection may be right for the moment, maybe.

After all, it was only 16 years ago, and the technology in the world now undergoes a huge change every ten years.

Ten years ago, smartphones were just emerging. Ten years later, the convenience brought by smartphones can be imagined by people ten years ago?

How science and technology will change in the next ten years, what huge innovations there will be, is even beyond the imagination of Zhou Yi and everyone now.

Mr. Qiu and Mr. Yang's views, Zhou Yi somewhat agrees and some disagrees.

Fortunately, these two top figures in mathematics and physics are now at the Daxia State Shuimu University.

At least they are playing for Great Xia.

Zhou Yi felt that he was rich now, and he might be even richer in the future, so no one should gossip about establishing an organization like CERN at his own expense.

At that time, everything will be dominated by Zhou Yi himself, and there will be no such thing as making wedding dresses for others.

Zhou Yi also felt that the progress of training apprentices needed to be accelerated. He had more than a dozen top mathematical physicists under his command.

The future is technological innovation, the key to changing the world.

With the big sales of smart home appliances and the loading of mobile phone voice systems, Zhou Yi conservatively expects to earn tens of billions.

There may also be 400 billion after tax.

Three to 400 billion. Thinking of this figure, Zhou Yi still sighed that the money was too little, and the annual maintenance, energy supply, and various maintenance were also a huge expense.

Without a budget of 1500 billion, it is impossible to have good results.

It seems impossible to build within three or four years.

Zhou Yi shook his head after reading some simple information.

Let's deal with this pile of data first.

According to Xiao Wanyi's news, these huge amounts of data are the latest data, comparable to a large-scale physics experiment, and my physics task may be completed.

Mathematics and physics grades will be improved soon.

After processing this batch of data, Zhou Yi is going to discuss with his teacher to see if he can use tens of billions to build some first, and invest some money every year.

It wasn't the time to build it before, but now Zhou Yi thinks it's time, and the collider can't be built on the first day. Zhou Yi feels it is necessary just because of the prospect of cancer treatment.

At that time, maybe you can earn back by relying on this technology alone.

There are so many people suffering from cancer all over the world. If each person can be cured with 10 yuan, it is estimated that some people will be willing to pay the money.

And you can also use the collider to gain physics experience and improve the physics level. This alone is enough for Zhou Yi to spend money to build it.

While Zhou Yi was working hard to study and analyze the data,
The proof of the twin prime number conjecture in the mathematical community seems to have a result.

At least there is a result of this proof paper about Zhou Yi.

As for Will Savin's thesis, many powerful mathematicians have already begun to read it after reading the Zhouyi thesis.

Two completely different methods, so many people are very interested.

If some unique mathematical methods are harvested from it, it may be helpful to their research topics.

Witnessing the enthronement of a great conjecture is also what every mathematician hopes to see, even though the person who proved it is not himself.

(End of this chapter)