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Chapter 646 Before the last reminder

7 month 21 day.

It has been two days since the last reminder from the International Mathematical Union.

If there is no accident, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Chen Zhou will face another draft reminder.

As the agreed time approached, corresponding to the frequent reminders, Chen Zhou felt that the contact person of the International Mathematical Union became more and more anxious.

After all, the manuscript has been urged for nearly two months.

If in the end, he had to go with the alternative, then the mood of the contact person must not be much better.

Among other things, it is necessary to urge emotions to press the draft, but the expectation is empty, so don't you have to feel uncomfortable?

In addition, the contact person of the International Mathematical Union actually wanted to witness the birth of the miracle as soon as possible.

Witness that one of the seven millennium prize problems was personally killed by Chen Zhou.

Speaking of it, the experience of this reminder is like his own participation in solving this difficult problem.

If he really got an affirmative answer from Chen Zhou, he believed that this must be an extremely wonderful experience.

Because of this, the staff of the International Mathematical Union who was in charge of contacting Chen Zhou was actually thinking about whether to ask again today.

But in the end, he resisted the urge.

How should I put it, Professor Chen Zhou must be given a little more time, right?

It is better to maintain a regular and rhythmic reminder.

If this is urgent, the boss will not be angry.

What he didn't know was that Chen Zhou was actually also calculating the time for his next reminder.

Because, Chen Zhou intends to solve the problem of the Millennium Award before the last reminder.

Sitting at the desk, Chen Zhou carefully looked at the draft paper in front of him.

That is, the research manuscript he has left behind for so long.

In his mind, he kept thinking about two questions.

Does the Yang-Mills gauge field exist or not?

How to solve the mass interval hypothesis problem called "mass gap"?
After sorting out all the research manuscripts as a whole, Chen Zhou took the wrong question collection again and read it.

Along with the set of wrong questions, there is also a notepad.

This notebook was temporarily used by Chen Zhou.

The purpose is to record those directional research changes and the key research results he has achieved throughout the research process.

The reason for this is also to better confirm each other with the wrong question set.

After all, the wrong content recorded on the wrong question set will disappear automatically after being solved by Chen Zhou.

And this topic is a long-term research topic.

Even Chen Zhou couldn't guarantee that he would be able to recall the details of each key node after a period of time.

And these are the most important content in the research process.

It is also something that cannot be ignored.

This is also the experience that Chen Zhou has gradually summed up in the process of using wrong question sets for so many years.

Only in this way can he better utilize the power of this artifact.

Although sometimes the wrong question set is not so "reliable".

However, when the wrong question set was "unreliable" and caused Chen Zhou's doubts, it was precisely when Chen Zhou himself was "reliable".

In the notepad, Chen Zhou recorded a full ten pages.

Every page is full.

Some pages even have notes made by Chen Zhou in small print.

Chen Zhou carefully and carefully flipped through the contents recorded on each page.

While looking at the contents of the notepad, Chen Zhou was also comparing the general directions in the wrong question set.

At this time, the two-way power is brought into play.

The whole research idea is like a thin thread, implicating Chen Zhou's thoughts and moving forward.

During the whole day, except for going to the bathroom and leaving the desk, Chen Zhou lay down in front of the desk the whole time.

Until February 7th.

The lights in Chen Zhou's house stayed on all night long.

On July 7, it was another day closer to the reminder of the unknown date.

Facing the morning sun, Chen Zhou raised his head briefly and looked out the window.

The sun is rising and the sun is just right.

But for researchers like Chen Zhou, they are not in the mood to appreciate and appreciate the beauty of the rising sun.

At least, not now.

To exist, or not to exist.

How to solve the gap in quality assumptions.

These two questions still filled Chen Zhou's mind.

"Dong dong dong..."

There was a knock on the door of Chen Zhou's room.

Turning his gaze from the window to the door, Chen Zhou slowly got up and opened the door.

After the door opened, Cross's face came into view.

Cross asked cautiously: "I bought it and came back early, so I just wanted to call you over to eat, didn't I bother you?"

Chen Zhou glanced at the dining table behind Cross.

Sure enough, porridge and steamed stuffed buns were already set on the dining table.

The corners of Chen Zhou's mouth moved slightly, and he said with a soft smile, "It's not an interruption, I just happened to be staring out the window in a daze."

Cross glanced at Chen Zhou secretly, and then said, "Then hurry up and eat..."

"En." Chen Zhou responded lightly, passed Cross, and walked towards the dining table.

Cross looked at Chen Zhou again, and asked, "Well, you didn't sleep last night?"

Chen Zhou nodded: "I had too many thoughts last night, if I'm not careful, it will be dawn."

Croston was speechless, isn't this too careless?
After a pause, Cross asked again: "Then, what happened?"

Chen Zhou was silent for a while, and did not answer directly. Instead, he said: "Since Newton's theory has achieved great success in the prediction of macroscopic celestial bodies. People have tried to extend this idea to the microscopic field."

"It's just that this macroscopic theoretical idea has not achieved the same success in the microscopic field. Even after a series of tinkering and tinkering later, this microscopic model was still abandoned."

"Even if this is a deterministic theory that people have believed in for thousands of years, even if this is a model of the laws of matter motion in the microscopic field established by the theories of scientific giants such as Newton and Einstein."

"And it is still the same, ridiculed and discarded with the most ruthlessness. For when God begins to roll the dice, men no longer seem to be able to grasp the nature of the world..."

Speaking of this, Chen Zhou took a sip of millet porridge, then looked at Cross.

Cross's expression at the moment is quite interesting.

Because he didn't know what Chen Zhou meant when he said these words.

True, when God starts rolling the dice, one never knows which side the dice will land on.

But isn't it also because of this that human beings have scientific research?
Thinking of this, Cross seemed to understand what Chen Zhou wanted to say.

And Chen Zhou, after swallowing the millet porridge, continued: "We can't say that this kind of ruthless ridicule and abandonment is wrong. Because this time, God's dice fell on the side of quantum theory."

"Even Einstein couldn't accept the fall of this kind of dice all his life, but it is undeniable that quantum theory is the key to people's understanding of the microscopic world."

"Of course, Einstein's theory of relativity still occupies the core position when studying astronomical-scale stars. These two theories have also made extraordinary achievements in their respective fields, and are also considered by physicists to be It's a solid foundation."

"It's just that in this world, apart from mathematical formulas, where is there any solid foundation? When black holes were discovered, physicists became embarrassed again."

"On the one hand, black holes have extremely high density and mass, which is where the theory of relativity can show its strength. On the other hand, black holes are extremely microscopic, and they are bound to be restricted by quantum theory..."

Hearing this, Cross said with piercing eyes: "However, when these two most outstanding scientific achievements compete in the field of black holes, they have drawn irreconcilable contradictions inside the black hole!"

"People are either forced to give up a theory, or they are forced to accept it. There are more basic and more essential theories than these two theories! This ultimate theory that can reconcile the conflicts between the two theories is the great theory. Unified theory!"

Chen Zhou looked at Cross and smiled slightly: "That's right, the holy grail of modern physics, the Grand Unified Theory!"

Cross raised his head suddenly, stared at Chen Zhou, and asked a little excitedly: "Have you already studied the grand unified theory?"

"That's not true..." Chen Zhou shook his head, but then continued, "However, as the vanguard of quantum field theory conquering the grand unified theory of matter, I'm about to solve the problem of Yang-Mills gauge field theory. "

Cross was taken aback for a moment, and the excitement on his face increased instead of diminishing.

The grand unified theory is to find a unified framework to unify the four basic forces existing in nature.

Quantum field theory is developed by physicists trying to expand quantum theory to achieve the final grand unified theory.

And, since the birth of quantum field theory, it has presented the most profound insights about people, understanding the material picture.

Among them, the Yang-Mills gauge field theory, as Chen Zhou said, is the vanguard of quantum field theory conquering the grand unified theory!
It is also the first step towards a grand unified theory in the physics community!
However, this first step has a key mathematical problem.

That is the quality gap hypothesis.

That is the mass interval assumption described in the Millennium Prize puzzle.

The origin of this problem is a thorny problem encountered when using the Yang-Mills gauge field theory to unify the electromagnetic force and the weak force, or the strong force.

In simple terms, the classical version of the Yang-Mills equations, describing a zero-mass wave traveling at the speed of light.

In quantum mechanics, however, each particle can be thought of as a special type of wave.

Therefore, "no quality" becomes the crux of the problem.

Later, for the weak force, people established the electroweak theory and introduced the Higgs field to avoid masslessness.

Subsequently, the discovery of an important property of asymptotic freedom in the Yang-Mills gauge field theory led to the only quantum field theory including the strong force.

That is the predecessor of quantum chromodynamics.

In the study of deriving quantum chromodynamics, this millennium prize problem was born.

One needs to prove that a solution of the Yang-Mills equation exists and to establish a special property of the solution.

This special property is the mass interval assumption.

This hypothesis needs to explain why strong force works only over extremely short distances.

If this solution is confirmed, it means that people's understanding of the universe will become profound again.

And the grand unified theory has taken this step firmly.

That's why when Cross heard Chen Zhou say "it's almost done", the excitement on his face didn't decrease but increased.

Originally, he just saw that the light in Chen Zhou's room was on all night, so he asked curiously.

But I didn't expect to get such a surprising answer.

If what Chen Zhou said is true, then he will become the person closest to the Grand Unified Theory in history.

Even if he can't complete the research on the grand unified theory, then he will push theoretical physics to a new level again!
no no no...

Thinking of this, Cross repeatedly denied himself in his heart.

Because he thought of one thing.

That is, when did Chen Zhou tell a lie?
For a moment, Cross's eyes on Chen Zhou became hotter.

Just opened the door of new physics, is it necessary to push the height of theoretical physics to a new height again?

Cross suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was not human at all!

He should be, the god of physics!

Chen Zhou also noticed the change in Cross' eyes, and he asked with a strange expression: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Cross said excitedly: "I am excited that I can witness another miracle!"

Chen Zhou raised his eyebrows and asked, "A miracle?"

Cross nodded vigorously: "I think there is no difference between you now and those bosses in the history of physics who can be called the gods of physics!"

Hearing this, Chen Zhou suddenly smiled and said, "Then do you know why I said such a thing to you just now?"

Cross froze for a moment, and said aloud, "Isn't it just to show the importance of the Yang-Mills gauge field theory?"

Chen Zhou didn't answer in a hurry, but after finishing the porridge in the bowl, he said: "There are also reasons for this, but the main thing is, I want to tell you that the birth of important theories in physics is for the current research and development."

Cross asked in a daze, "What do you mean?"

Chen Zhou smiled strangely and said, "But I'm not, I was urged to write..."

Cross: "..."

Seeing Cross's inexplicable and speechless expression, Chen Zhou suddenly burst out laughing.

After saying "I'm going back to the house", Chen Zhou went straight back to his room.

Cross looked at Chen Zhou who walked into the room quite speechlessly, and silently spit out two words: "Boring..."

But after a while, he whispered again: "I also want to be so boring..."

Of course, Chen Zhou couldn't hear Cross's words.

After returning to the room, Chen Zhou stood by the window for a while, then sat back at the desk.

Chen Zhou, who was in the state of research again, seemed to have opened his mind.

All problems became clear.

The two questions that had always been lingering in his mind also became clear.

Sunset Moonrise.

The moon is hidden and the sun is showing.

Day and night passed again.

7 month 23 day.

A day destined to be remembered by the world.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Chen Zhou received another email from the person in charge of contacting him from the International Mathematical Union.

But this time, what Chen Zhou replied was: "It's done, wait for me to sort out the paper."

That's right, before the last reminder, Chen Zhou completely solved the mathematical problem of Yang-Mills gauge field existence and mass interval hypothesis!

As this email arrives in the mailbox of the contact person, in the office of the International Mathematical Union.

Suddenly someone went from a silent state to a maniac...

　Thanks to book friend a strange gentleman 666 for rewarding Yang Yiyi's 100 starting coins!
　　Thanks to book friend Yan Hongxue for the 100 starting coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)