From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"So, where does it come from? The vacuum breaks spontaneously?"

Countless thoughts came to Lin Xiao's mind.

Civilians have rich imaginations, but compared with real scientists, their imaginations are still limited or even barren.

Because scientists have a rich reserve of knowledge, even in permutations and combinations, they can come up with a bunch of ideas that even civilian scientists admire.

Of course, scientists do not think that their rich ideas are true, because they know that they cannot find a logical and self-consistent argumentation process for their rich imagination.

But for Lin Xiao, he has the ability to demonstrate such a process.

This is like Einstein proposing the theory of relativity and Yang Lao proposing parity non-conservation. After the two of them proposed these two theories, they were not recognized by the academic community at the beginning. Perhaps their theories were regarded by others at that time as A civilian idea.

But as long as it is proven, the greatness and foresight of their theory will amaze everyone in the academic world.

In this way, Lin Xiao's derivation became more and more complicated.

And his purpose has temporarily changed from thinking about the mass of W boson to studying the zero point energy of vacuum.

Of course, the discussion of vacuum zero point energy may ultimately provide some help for the measurement of W boson mass, or even more.

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Just like Henry said, Lin Xiao is creating miracles, but miracles are obviously not that easy to create.

The establishment of each of the eight wonders of the world took several years or even decades, but Lin Xiao, an academic and theoretical miracle, also needs a long time to have a chance to succeed.

After all, everyone is a miracle.

Of course, the miracles of academic theory can only take a few years or even decades, or even just one year, to create countless miracles.

For example, in 1666, the 23-year-old Newton successively worked out the binomial theorem, the decomposition of light, and calculus. He also determined the basic ideas of Newton's first and second theorems, and the law of universal gravitation.

In addition, in 1905, the 26-year-old Einstein published various theories on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the famous E=mc mass-energy equation.

In the past two years, their achievements have made great contributions to human understanding of the world. Because of this, these two years have been called the Miracle Years.

But as for how long it will take Lin Xiao to complete his miracle, no one in this world knows.

But obviously, it was impossible for Lin Xiao to fully come up with his own theory in just a few days in Lyon.

The discussion on the second day was over, and there was another meeting on the third day. After the meeting, Swensey took a few students to watch the Lyon football team's game. As for who lost or won, they didn't care. After all, Everyone lives in Paris, so of course they have to be fans of Paris Saint-Germain.

In this way, on the fourth day, they got on the plane back to Paris.

On the plane, Swansey looked at Lin Xiao who was still thinking about things and asked, "Henry said, are you about to create a miracle?"

Lin Xiao came back to his senses and said in shock: "Create a miracle?"

Swansey looked at Henry next to him.

Henry spread his hands and said: "It's those theories that sound incredible, like the parity non-conservation created by Yang. Isn't this theory incredible?"

Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing, and then said: "If I can succeed, maybe? Of course, maybe it is worthless."

Svensey said with a smile: "Some theories seem worthless, but in fact they are worth a huge fortune. Some theories seem to be worth a thousand fortunes, but in fact they are meaningless."

"Actually, the theories we are studying now are generally like this for human beings. They are worth thousands of dollars but worthless. You say that we have discovered the Higgs particle, but what is the use? It has no impact on human living standards. Any help, and we have even spent tens of billions of euros to build a super collider, so many people say that this option can be called 'dangerous'."

"Perhaps it is true that we built it just to satisfy the desires of professionals like us. This desire also made us ignore ordinary people."

"But, if you put it this way, it seems bad to just follow your own desires and ignore others. This is obviously wrong. We know that we must do this because our desire is for the truth and to reveal the universe , this is also for the future of mankind, even if we make mistakes sometimes, as long as the purpose is to be right in the end, it doesn’t matter.”

"So the same goes for your research. Even if it is wrong and worthless, you have to persevere. At least this process is worth a thousand dollars to you."

Listening to Svensey's words, Lin Xiao smiled and nodded, saying: "Of course I agree with what you said, but as I just said, if I succeed, it may be a miracle, but just because it is a miracle, So there is still a certain degree of difficulty.”

"Oh? Can you tell me about it?" Svensey asked with interest.

"Can you do any research on the zero point of vacuum?"

"Vacuum zero-point energy?" Svensey thought for a moment and said, "Of course I know this, but I haven't done much research on it. Of course, I am still interested in it. Do you know about vacuum catastrophe?"

Lin Xiao thought for a while and said: "You know, there seems to be a big gap between the upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy predicted by quantum field theory and the upper limit of experimental measurement?"

"Yes, and it's not just very big, it's very, very large." Swansey said: "According to quantum field theory, we estimate that the upper limit of the vacuum zero-point energy of quantum field theory is 10 to the power of 121 GeV/m, and the results are based on experimental measurements. , the actual upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy is 14 times 10, and this gap is as high as 107 orders of magnitude."

Lin Xiao: "That's a really bad prediction."

"Of course, this can be called the worst prediction in physics. Even if our standard model has not been truly perfected, or no one dares to say that it can be truly perfected, it still predicts a A lot of particles, such as the Higgs particle." Svensey said with a smile, "But then again, this thing doesn't seem to be able to provide you with much help."

Speaking of this, he shook his head and sighed: "For those of us who are engaged in particle physics, the more we know, the less we know. Just like I once heard a joke, there are only two things modern physicists don't know. , I don’t know this or that, so I once told every young person who wanted to study for a master’s degree from me, go study condensed matter instead of particle physics.”

Hearing this, Lin Xiao couldn't help but smile. He didn't know this or that?

Henry next to him said at this time: "I have also heard a joke. Physicists in the past thought that there were only two dark clouds left in the sky. So after more than a hundred years of hard work, today's physicists finally I can proudly announce that our skies are now filled with dark clouds."

The surrounding physicists who heard this joke also laughed.

Yes, how many problems in physics are unsolved now?

Dark matter and dark energy are the first two dark clouds. The vacuum catastrophe just mentioned is also a dark cloud. Then there is another issue called the timing protection conjecture. Generally speaking, according to the theory of general relativity, a particle may even be in a closed loop. The timeline keeps returning from the end to the starting point, that is to say, it returns from the present to the 'past', completing time travel, and it is theoretically correct from the theory of general relativity; except for these Besides, there are a lot more.

All in all, these physical problems are increasing more and more, so that it is not an exaggeration to call the current physics community a dark cloud.

Then, other people also talked about the jokes they had heard, and more and more physicists joined the interaction.

However, Lin Xiao fell into his own thoughts during these interactions and did not join their physics joke awards.

"Quantum field theory?"

Although the prediction of the zero point energy of vacuum by quantum field theory can be called poor, the theoretical system of quantum field theory does not need to be questioned.

Recalling various theories in quantum field theory in his mind, Lin Xiao's eyes gradually brightened.

"Maybe, this is it!"

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April in Paris ends with flowers in bloom, and May is followed by the fragrance of flowers.

As for the academic world, except for the twin prime number conjecture, which made people marvel for a while, it fell back into dullness again. Everyone continued to study their own things while observing whether anything big would happen in the academic world.

But the month of May passed by without incident.

June.

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Of course, if something big happens in the academic world, in most cases, the major journals will receive the news first, because for most scholars, it is normal to send the paper to the journal first. Send the paper to arxiv, but not every author will do this.

For the editors of "Physical Review Letters", June 6 seems to be an ordinary day, and nothing big will happen.

But until they saw such a submission, all the editors were stunned.

"On Multidimensional Fields and Their Situation Superposition"

[Abstract: Establish multi-dimensional field theory using quantum field theory method, and based on multi-dimensional field theory, demonstrate that zero-point energy comes from multi-dimensional situation superposition...]

At first, the editor who saw this submission thought it was another submission from a civil science department, so he couldn't help complaining to his colleagues next to him: "Oh my God, these civil sciences are really full of rich imagination. Power."

The colleague smiled and said: "Let me guess, is it called Tongas? Or is it Dimitri? I am familiar with these two guys."

The editor shook his head: "He's from China. Let me take a look. His name is XiaoLin...?"

He was silent for a moment and said, "This name seems a bit familiar..."

The provers of Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture, although they are editors of physics journals, have certainly heard of them.

The colleague was also stunned for a moment and said in disbelief: "No way? It's not really that person, is it? Can you take a look at his history paper?"

The editor immediately checked it, and found out that the few simple papers the other party had published were all published in the world's top journals. Among them, the proofs of Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture were unsurprisingly expressed. The identity of this person was revealed.

"It's really him!"

The colleague was stunned.

There is obviously no need to question his ability, so the other party obviously cannot be a civilian, so this paper...?

"Let's take a look first."

The editor silently opened the paper and began to read.

But after reading about a few pages, he gave up trying to understand the paper. It used various complex mathematical methods, including topology, geometry, and multi-dimensional space theory. He wanted to read it through and fully understand it, but he didn't know How long does it take.

Therefore, he should just review the format first, and then hand it over to the real boss.

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