Demon School

Although the scale of the European Nuclear Center is magnificent, it is functionally no different from other collider centers in the world. They all provide evidence for various physical theories through experiments and test whether the various physical hypotheses are in line with reality.

In a sense, this work is the same as Lu Qiujian's cracking of Poincaré's conjecture, the only difference is that the cost of testing the physical hypothesis is much higher than the cost of the mathematical conjecture; high pay naturally has high returns, Once it is tested that a certain theory is indeed credible, then humanity is one step closer to revealing the truth of the universe.

Therefore, thousands of scientists, engineers, and more assistants and interns in cern are for physic theorists such as Higgs and Witten, and physicists who can make cern validate their theories are Standing at the top of the pyramid and traversing all corners of the world, there can be up to about 20 people, and the Higgs trio are on this list.

Of course, Higgs is still luckier than Witten. Although the Higgs boson is difficult to find, it is nothing more than finding and not finding two options. If the experiment successfully finds the Higgs boson, then hope The Gus mechanism will be established, the three pillars of matter and motion will tend to improve, physics will usher in a new chapter, and the Higgs trio will also quickly reach the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physics .

If the Higgs boson cannot be found or other products that negate the Higgs mechanism are found in the experiment, then the Higgs mechanism will be proved wrong, and the theorists can start to construct new theories.

And Edward Witten is not so lucky. His main contributions include the proof of the positive energy theorem of general relativity, supersymmetry and Morse theory, topological quantum field theory, the establishment of superstring theory and conjecture on the existence of m theory and many more.

However, his core work, superstring theory, just encountered a big crisis in 2003-string landscape thinking, the so-called string landscape, in simple terms, superstring theory is actually a collection of possible alternative theories (these Most of the alternative theories have not been completely constructed and discussed, and there are great difficulties in construction, but we can expect them to exist.) Those who did string theory in the early years believe that there is a method / principle that can eventually eliminate this situation. The only theory left is for the experiment to test its predictions. However, after many years, this principle has not appeared, and in order to achieve a certain harmony of superstring theory. It may be necessary to consider that the number of correct theories of the remaining candidates reaches more than 10 ^ 500 (-yau compacting curl high-dimensional space method), which means that no matter what phenomenon you find in the experiment, you can almost expect from 10 ^ Find one of the 500 alternative theories to explain this experimental phenomenon, which makes string theory almost unprovable.

In simple terms, no matter what results the experimental physicists get from the laboratory. Will be included in the range foreseen by string theory, which will make the superstring theory lose the chance of being confirmed by experiment!

Higgs can also wait patiently for the next experiment, and pray that God bless him so that he can live to the day when the Higgs boson appears; and Witten has almost lost the promise of facing his theory through experiment. The chance of the Bell Award!

Edward Witten lost more than just a Nobel Prize in Physics. If the blueprint of superstring theory is finally proved to be the truth of the universe, then it will be a revolution of Newton ’s classic mechanics and Einstein ’s modern physics The physics revolution, several founders and leaders of string theory Edward Witten will be one of the drafters of the physics paradigm standing at the height of Einstein and Dirac, Heisenberg and others in the long future.

It is a pity that the crisis caused by the string landscape thought shattered the hopes of Witten and others, and the string theory does not seem to see a way out in a short period of time, and may gradually decline after not obtaining substantial progress for a long time. for sure.

Can certainly become one of the world's top scientists, and Edward Witten is not so easily defeated. He still appears in cern from time to time, maybe Lv Qiujian will meet him next time he goes,

Leaving Edward-Witten's misfortune aside, Lu Qiujian thought about the wording of the speech at the exchange meeting for a while. The problem that needs to be solved now is to make Higgs interested in his own views.

"Welcome to Hebrew University!" Fusternberg took them off the door of the school. Hebrew University has been built for nearly eighty years. Einstein is the first board member of the university ; Perhaps for this reason, the Hebrew University attaches great importance to mathematics and science and engineering. After years of hard work, the Hebrew University's science ranking has reached the top 50 in the world.

"Here is the communication place I prepared for you. What are the shortcomings of you?" Not far away, everyone came to a small, fully-equipped multi-function hall with whiteboards, projectors, laptops, etc. .

"No ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is already good!" Lu Qiujian shook his head and said. At this time, Natalie also hurried over and was talking to the staff at the door. Lu Qiujian beckoned, and the staff put her in.

Wait for the staff to deliver coffee, Higgs can't wait to look at Lu Qiujian, "Shall we start now?"

"Okay!" Professor Furstenberg, who was the host, had no objection. Lv Qiujian took the USB stick from his arms and walked to the computer to open his thesis, and then debugged the projector to project the article on the screen.

After everything was ready, I started my speech. "It is well known that when analyzing the data generated by the collision experiment, mathematical methods such as subdistribution functions and large number statistics are used. However, in the work of the previous stage It is found that the current method of physics is not the most efficient option ... "

While explaining, press the mouse to show his thesis line by line to the physicists and mathematicians present here, and ... Natalie, a graduate student of Middle East culture and history at the Hebrew University

The reactions of all the people on the scene were different. Although Natalie could not understand what Lu Qiujian said at all, his confident and free spirit was enough to make her intoxicated.

The Higgs trio was frowned and fell into deep thinking. After all, their major was still physics, and the mathematical knowledge expounded by Lu Qiujian was somewhat esoteric for them.

Only Steinberg heard it with relish, and nodded slightly from time to time, as if to appreciate the views expressed in Lu Qiujian's thesis. (To be continued.)