From all-round academic master to chief scientist

In Faltings's review article, everyone was surprised by his explanation of the difficult-to-understand mathematical derivation of Lin Xiao's paper.

It is actually related to the P=NP problem.

This is really incredible.

One is an important unsolved problem in physics, and the other is an important problem in mathematics, especially the P=NP problem. Strictly speaking, it belongs to computer mathematics. As a result, the idea of ​​​​this problem is now used to solve everything. Unifying quantum mechanics and relativity in theory?

For the scientific community, Lin Xiao was obviously suspected of showing off his skills.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if you show off your skills. The most important thing is that after you show off your skills, others still can’t understand.

Even though the explanation given by Faltings is now available, it is still a bit difficult for most people to understand.

As a result, this article by Faltings also triggered a lot of complaining comments.

"I know every word, but how come I can't understand anything when combined?" 』

"Mr. Faltings, can you explain to us more how the several steps here come about?" I still can’t quite understand it T-T』

"I strongly recommend that Mr. Faltins publish a more... stupid version. Looking at Lin's paper now, it almost seems to take me back to the time when I was dominated by the teacher when I first entered college. Although it has become a Associate professor of physics at MIT, but I still can’t forget that feeling.』

"Hey, even if I felt dominated by the teacher at that time, I'm afraid it wouldn't be more helpless than being dominated by Lin now, right?" Every time I see Lin publish a paper, and it is the kind that I must read in my major, I only feel pain in my heart, just like the multi-dimensional field theory at the beginning. To be honest, there are no people in the world who really understand multi-dimensional field theory. , besides Lin, how many people are there? 』

"Professor Faltings, please explain it to us again!" 』

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Among these calls, Faltins finally responded.

[I think I have explained it very clearly. If you don’t understand it, I suggest you read more books. If you still don’t understand it, then don’t study this paper, or change your job or something. Of course, you can also go Ask Lin if he has a better explanation]

Obviously, Faltings did not intend to explain any more.

This makes those who study physics complain endlessly. The math giant doesn't care. What about the physics people who are not very good at mathematics?

Just like Einstein at the time, he was not very good at mathematics - of course this is a relative term, so he encountered mathematical problems when studying the theory of relativity, and finally went to Hilbert to help him This problem was solved, and because he asked Hilbert for help, he also worried that Hilbert would rush to publish his paper.

So this can be regarded as a major reason restricting the development of theoretical physics. After all, many problems that need to be solved in theoretical physics require extremely complex mathematics to solve, and most of the top mathematicians do not study physics, which leads to many problems in physics. Difficult development dilemmas.

The appearance of Lin Xiao made these dilemmas seem not to exist, but this was for him, and for those physicists, they still faced such dilemmas, so Lin Xiao's This paper still feels like a blow to dimensionality reduction for them.

So, in the end, these physicists also followed Faltings's suggestion and went to Lin Xiao's external account to inquire, hoping that he could give a fool's version of the explanation of that part of the mathematical content.

However, while the world's scientific community is obsessed with this paper, what is Lin Xiao doing?

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Dingguang Research Institute.

"This paper of yours is so experiential, even a little incredible."

Witten flipped through the science magazine in his hand, looked at the paper on it, and exclaimed to Lin Xiao, who was drinking tea in front of him.

Even the cover of this issue of "Science" magazine is based on Lin Xiao's paper, and "Nature" also cited it and gave it a highlight.

Highlights can be simply understood as recent important results and research hotspots. Only those papers that are truly important and valuable can be cited by "Nature", let alone articles cited by "Science". For these two competitors, This is obviously rare.

Putting down the tea cup, Lin Xiao smiled and said: "It's okay, it's mainly a coincidence. If you hadn't suddenly brought up the problem of P=NP, I wouldn't have thought that it could be solved in this direction. So, it's really thanks to you. ”

"Haha, if this can be regarded as my help, then I can only say that it is good. In this way, I will have something to brag about in the future, because I brought some tips to Lin, so that he could finally solve the problem of unification. The theory of relativity and quantum mechanics can be considered a bit of a participatory experience."

Witten said with a smile.

Lin Xiao spread his hands and said with a smile: "Of course there is no problem. If someone asks me this, I will answer this."

"Okay." Witten laughed, and then said: "However, I also saw that many people on the Internet said that they could not understand the P-form problem of your derivation of it. Aren't you going to give a report or something? "

"Well..." Lin Xiao thought for a while and said, "This is indeed something we can consider. Well, let's make it next month."

"Next month?" Witten nodded, "Then it seems that I have to stay next month."

"To be honest, I still feel like I don't want to leave." Witten sighed.

The research atmosphere of Dingguang Research Institute is not inferior to any place. For him, it is the most attractive, and research is obviously the most important thing in his life. It is like a house to live in, a comfortable house, which is very important to life. The quality will be greatly improved.

Of course, apart from the environment, the most important thing for Witten here is that he can communicate with Lin Xiao almost at any time, and in the process of communicating with Lin Xiao, he can always get something useful. This is even if Something he didn't even feel at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

At this time, Lin Xiao would not let it go, and immediately said with a smile: "Then just stay, and the guest researcher will directly promote you to a tenured researcher, how about that?"

Witten waved his hands and sighed: "Forget it, Lin, you'd better stop tempting me. After all, I can't let my family stay in the United States. Having said that, I've been here for almost two months. My family almost blew up my cell phone.”

"That's it, okay then." Lin Xiao could only shake his head regretfully.

Family is everything, well, everyone has the potential to be a family hero.

"But having said that, do you still remember the inspirations you told me at the beginning? Now I think I have probably found a way to perfectly interpret the existence of strings."

"Is that so? It seems that I want to congratulate you in advance. The proof of the existence of strings will probably make you the greatest physicist from the past to the future."

"One." Witten added, somewhat enviously: "You have now successfully unified gravitons into the theory of relativity. This will be an important step for us to truly complete the theory of everything. Together with your multi-dimensional field Theory, so I think you can now become the greatest physicist from the past to the future."

Lin Xiao smiled, then patted Witten on the shoulder and said, "Okay, let's stop flattering each other. It's time to go back and solve other problems."

"That's right. I really hope that I can successfully verify that my idea today is correct within a few years."

"Good luck to you then."

"Thanks."

After that, the two separated, and Lin Xiao was about to conduct his next research.

Now that the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics have been basically unified in his hands, the issue of the existence and mass gap of the Yang-Mills gauge field will also become the direction he will aim at next.

At the same time, just as he had guessed at the beginning, the issue of the unification of relativity and quantum mechanics has become as clear as a cook trying to solve a cow.

Although the two seem far apart and have no relationship, in fact, once they can be truly understood, they will be of extraordinary help in explaining some physical problems.

This is why so many physicists are now seeking to understand Lin Xiao's paper, because if they don't understand it, they won't have much confidence in the next steps, and this is for those who It is obviously very painful for people who want to achieve significant results.

Oh, speaking of this issue, Lin Xiao did not forget to find someone to announce the news to the outside world, indicating that he would launch a report on his paper next month, that is, in mid-June.

Of course, the venue is still at Beijing University.

And when Zhao Qi, the dean of their academy, learned about this, he was filled with joy.

Just kidding, Lin Xiao's report must still be done in the name of their institute, right?

Then their School of Mathematics hosted a report from the School of Physics?

Hey, those guys in the Wuyuan are probably worried.

As we all know, they are the four major lunatic asylums in Beijing University, including the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics. The relationship between their Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Institute of Physics can be said to be both competition and cooperation. Now this wave of grand gatherings of many physicists from around the world will be conducted by them. It is held by the college, and at the same time it is hosted by the professors of their college. Doesn't this mean that they are ranked first in the college?

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In the office of the dean of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dean Zhao Qi made a phone call with a smile and said: "Ah, yes, yes, there is nothing we can do about it. Who knows that Lin Xiao is from our Institute of Mathematical Sciences? Lao Wang, if your Institute of Physics has the ability, you can take Lin Xiao Will Xiao snatch it away?"