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Chapter 861 March towards the "theoretical unification of strong interaction force and electromagnetic force"!
Now the main focus of the Yuanzhou Research Center is on the "Integrated Technical Solution for Saltwater Desalination and Purification of Qinghai Lake". Most of the technical difficulties related to efficiency and effect have been overcome. The current difficulty lies in "cost reduction", which must be done in On the premise of ensuring that quality and efficiency are not reduced or even improved, we strive to reduce costs and improve market competitiveness and promotion difficulty as much as possible.

Qin Ke spent a lot of time on remote guidance. After all, once this technical solution is formed, it can be directly applied to the Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Eyre with similar conditions, as well as Lake Namtso, Lake Selinco, and Lake Ayre in Xia Kingdom. Saltwater lakes such as Ulungu Lake and Yamdrok Lake are effectively utilized to increase freshwater resources, salt and organic chemical fertilizers, and increase food production.

And time is tight. According to Qin Ke’s latest forecast model, it will start in June this year, or even in late May. For this reason, Qin Ke contacted Uncle Yang Chengke early to apply for land and build a saltwater desalination plant in advance. A water pipe network was established and connected to the main water supply pipe network in the northwest region. A large amount of equipment was purchased in advance and shipped to the factory, so that after the final "Qinghai Lake saltwater desalination and purification integrated technical plan" is released, it can It was officially put into operation in two months, providing sufficient domestic and industrial water for the northwest region that is in a fresh water crisis.

In addition, using the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" to promote the implementation of various disaster prevention matters in Xiaguoli to avoid excessive property and personnel losses caused by drought in summer is also the most urgent matter at present.

In comparison, research on the purification of nuclear sewage is less urgent.

Nuclear sewage has been discharged long ago and has begun to flow into the world's oceans. If the source cannot be stopped, this discharge will continue for 30 to 50 years.

If Qin Ke cannot stop the catastrophe of climate change, the "first sign" and the "second sign" will appear one after another. In 30 years, the world will be destroyed, and the number of humans will drop to less than one ten thousandth. , who can care about the harm and damage caused by nuclear sewage in the sea to marine ecology?

Therefore, for Qin Ke, preventing the catastrophe of climate change is the real big goal to go all out. With the food crisis basically resolved, the upcoming fresh water crisis has naturally become the most urgent problem that needs to be solved. problem.

However, even if it is not urgent, Qin Ke does not underestimate the dangers of nuclear sewage. Nuclear contaminated water contains up to 64 types of nuclear radioactive elements, and more than 14% of them exceed the standard. It is difficult for the ALPS multi-nuclide removal equipment to completely process these radioactive elements. After entering the marine environment and ecology, tritium may not be the most harmful. Carbon-129, iodine-90, strontium-60, and cobalt-[-] are the most harmful to humans and marine life.

The half-life of carbon-14 is about 5370 years, and the half-life of iodine-129 is even longer, about 1570 million years. In particular, carbon-14 will accumulate in the bodies of various marine organisms, including fish. The abundance or concentration of carbon-14 accumulation It may be 50 times more powerful than tritium. These radioactive substances that enter the human body will continue to emit a variety of rays in the human body, causing internal exposure, causing various diseases and genetic mutations and inheritance.

However, there is no suitable method in the world today to convert radioactive elements into harmless elements.

The current methods for treating nuclear sewage and nuclear wastewater, whether chemical precipitation, ion exchange, adsorption, evaporation concentration, etc., are to concentrate the radioactive elements as much as possible, liquefy, solidify or adsorb them and then physically seal them to maximize their effectiveness. Minimize environmental pollution.

Faced with the spread of nuclear sewage throughout the ocean, such methods and methods are undoubtedly ineffective. Even if they can be filtered at human water sources, nuclear radiation to marine organisms is inevitable, and radioactive elements will accumulate in their bodies. Eventually, It will still endanger humanity itself.

At this time, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were sitting in the living room on the first floor of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Building, receiving Academician Du Jianzhang from the School of Physics of Yanda and his two graduate students.

Academician Du Jianzhang is an expert in atomic physics. He is only 42 years old this year. He is considered very young and promising. Moreover, he was elected as an academician at such a young age. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun did not participate in the academician selection two years ago, freeing up two The quota has a big relationship, so Academician Du Jianzhang still has a good impression of Qin Ke and Qin Ke. This time, Yan University chose him to cooperate with Qin Ke and Qin Ke in the purification research of nuclear sewage. In addition, Qingmu University has Academician Ji Xingming, an atomic physics expert arranged by Bian, formed a scientific research team.

Why not arrange academicians in nuclear physics?Because these academicians in the field of nuclear physics are leading their own teams to tackle similar nuclear sewage purification research topics, they naturally have no time and energy to cooperate with Qin Ke.

Relatively speaking, although the research directions of atomic physics and nuclear physics are different in details, they are always close.For example, nuclear physics is a branch of physics that studies the properties of atomic nuclei, including radioactive decay, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, and the establishment of atomic nucleus models. The goal is to study the structure and physical reactions inside the nucleus; atomic physics studies the structure and movement of atoms. The branch of physics that deals with laws and interactions focuses on physical laws at the atomic level, including the direction of electrons and atomic ionization, as well as the spectra of different atoms.

From Qin Ke's perspective, he actually prefers to cooperate with academicians in the field of quantum physics or even particle physics.

Because he believes that to solve the problem of nuclear sewage, whether it is atomic physics or nuclear physics, it is still too "macroscopic" and belongs to the category of classical physics. Only from the perspective of quantum physics or even particle physics can we find ways to transform radioactive elements. , a truly harmless method.

It is a pity that in the direction of quantum physics and particle physics, there is really no physicist better than him in China. After all, if he wants to truly become a master of quantum physics and particle physics, he must be very good at mathematical group theory and linear algebra. , calculus, especially gauge field theory, requires extremely profound attainments, and the degree of fragmentation in this regard in China is still relatively deep.

Fortunately, he still had a particle physics master like Edward Witten at home, so he retreated and chose academicians of atomic physics for cooperation.

Academician Du Jianzhang and Academician Ji Xingming have their own teams behind them, and they are mainly responsible for leading the team to help complete the experimental plan proposed by him and Ning Qingyun.

After the greetings, Academician Du Jianzhang took an encrypted mobile hard drive from the graduate student behind him and handed it over: "Academician Qin, these are all the research materials and data on radioactive elements at Yanda."

Qin Ke took it with both hands and solemnly thanked him: "Thank you, Academician Du, and thank you to Yanda for your strong support!"

These data are priceless treasures. Although most people don't know how to use them, Qin Ke is best at data analysis and finding the most useful information.With this data, he can save at least ten or eight years of research time.

Previously, Qin Ke had obtained all the experimental data and research information related to radioactive elements from Qingmu University from Academician Ji Xingming. Together with this part from Yan University, he basically mastered a considerable part of the research results of radioactive elements in domestic universities. .

It would be extremely difficult for others to obtain these research data, but when Qin Ke opened his mouth, it was different. Whether it was Qingmu University or Yanda University, they were given the green light all the way, and two academicians personally delivered it to their door.

Of course, there is no need to be an academician to give a mobile hard drive. Academician Du mainly wants to get acquainted with Qin Kening Qingyun. After all, these two young academicians have a transcendent status today, and it is not possible to get close to each other if they are both academicians.

After chatting with Academician Du Jianzhang for more than half an hour, we both understood each other's professional level before saying goodbye.

...The research information and data on radioactive elements add up to nearly 50T. Even if LV4 Shimmer, which has super computing power, wants to preliminary sort it out and generate various charts according to the rules set by Qin Ke, it will take a long time. Last week or so.

During this week, Qin Ke absorbed and digested the master-level knowledge related to "atomic physics" and "nuclear physics" in his mind in advance.

At this point, he has completed the digestion and absorption of master-level knowledge in sub-subjects such as "Particle Physics", "Fluid Mechanics", "Quantum Mechanics", "Atomic Physics" and "Nuclear Physics". The amount and level of knowledge in these sub-subjects are , have all reached the level of true physics masters and Nobel Prize winners.

However, most of Qin Ke's energy is still focused on the work of the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" and the optimization of the "Integrated Technical Plan for Saltwater Desalination and Purification of Qinghai Lake". The research on the purification of nuclear sewage is temporarily placed on the 50T data Only one or two hours a day are spent on reading, data analysis, and mathematical modeling.

The topic "Theoretical Unification of Strong Interaction Force and Electromagnetic Force" in collaboration with Professor Witten is also carried out regularly every night.

Rather than discussing particle physics, the two of them are studying mathematics, especially how the Yang-Mills equation mathematically establishes the relationship between the electron force and the strong interaction force in the framework of quantum field theory.

As we all know, photons transmit electromagnetic force, and gluons transmit strong force. In previous papers, Ning Qingyun has used mathematical language to explain and prove why photons have no mass, but gluons have mass, and how the mass is related to fermions and glass particles. Theoretically speaking, the correlation between dice can directly establish the mathematical correlation between photons and gluons.

However, in the process of actually establishing the correlation, many contradictions with the local gauge symmetry in the "Yang-Mills theory" were discovered.

In the end, Qin Ke and Professor Witten chose the same point of attack, which was to conduct in-depth optimization and expansion of the gauge field theory with the gauge group SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1).

This is a big project. From the development of gauge field theory into quantized gauge field theory in 1954, to its application in the Standard Model, it has become relatively complete with the contributions of countless mathematicians.In 1994, Professor Witten and Professor Nathan Seberg invented the gauge field technology based on supersymmetry, which made it possible to calculate specific topological invariants, further completing the important puzzle of gauge field theory.

But it doesn't stop there.

From that day until today, countless mathematicians have made various small optimizations of gauge field theory, but no one has been able to carry out fruitful optimization and expansion to realize mathematics within the scope of quantum field theory. Unification of the theory, and thus deducing how to express quantum field theory in the most concise and rigorous form.

Now Qin Ke and Professor Witten, in order to establish the connection between the electronic force and the strong interaction force, have begun to join forces to challenge this extremely difficult problem.

Academic exchanges will naturally lead to collisions of ideas. A top particle physicist will definitely be a top math master. The cooperation and discussion between Qin Ke and Professor Witten are carried out alternately, and "contradictions" will break out between the two from time to time. , then both parties would pull up a large whiteboard, take turns holding a pen to write down their own opinions, and conduct derivation and argumentation.

Professor Witten, as a top genius across the two major disciplines of mathematics and physics, fully demonstrated his strength in such a collision of ideas, which stunned the professors of Qingmu University who occasionally came to listen. Qin Ke's performance was even more amazing, even in front of him. Facing an old "grand master" like Professor Witten, he can still come and go without falling behind in the slightest.

After Professor Uhlenbeck finished giving Ning Qingyun a "small stove", he would join the discussion between Qin Ke and Professor Witten when he had nothing to do. Mr. Qiu would sometimes go out in person if he was too technical.

Ning Qingyun rarely joins discussions, but whenever she expresses an opinion, it must be to the point, showing her delicate and keen mathematical vision as a girl.

These five people are all the top experts in gauge field theory in the world today, which has caused the standard of tea parties in the garden villa to skyrocket. At the same time, they have also caused the number of mathematics professors who come to listen to change one after another. Basically, they are all in the " "Who am I?" "Where am I?" and "Why do I want to listen to the Holy Book?" most of them only come to listen once and then decide not to waste time anymore.

Later, even Mr. Qiu Er, whose level was second only to Mr. Qiu, shook his head and left with a wry smile, and did not attend the meeting again. He came to attend after three days because of something else, but found that he could no longer keep up with the thinking of Qin Ke and others.

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The pace of time is moving towards the future step by step in such intense and fulfilling academic and scientific research, and in a blink of an eye, the morning of April 4th came.

April 4th is Sunday, a public holiday for working-class people all over the world. Of course, many people will work overtime on Sunday. For example, a large number of faculty members at Qingmu University are working overtime at this time, busy checking the layout of the auditorium. and live broadcast equipment, because starting at two o'clock in the afternoon, IMU's discussion of the paper "Proof of the Mass Gap Problem of the Yang-Mills Equation and Mathematical Interpretation of the Standard Model of Particle Physics" by Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun will be held here. Public review meeting.

There will be a simultaneous live broadcast on TV and the Internet. According to the budget, at least nearly 3 million viewers will watch the live broadcast. For such an important event, Principal Gu Bojun personally came to the scene to direct and inspect the equipment over and over again.

This live broadcast is also related to whether Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun can be recognized by IMU and the Clay Institute, recognizing that this young couple has officially overcome the third millennium mathematics problem.

Although Qin Ke and his wife are now well-known in the international mathematics community and their academic status is high enough, the honor of successfully solving three millennium mathematical problems will still greatly enhance the international image of Qingmu University. Improve Xia Guo's status in the international mathematics community.

And if the live broadcast is interrupted due to equipment problems, then he and Qingmu University will become an international laughing stock and a national sinner!
At the same time, Gu Bojun was also a little uneasy, because according to the news he heard, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun had not prepared for today's review meeting at all. They had been talking with Professor Witten, Professor Uhlenbeck, Mr. Qiu and others last night. Discussing particle physics issues late into the night...

Even though he had great confidence in Qin Ke and Qin Ke, considering that today was such a high-level meeting with nearly thirty of the world's top mathematicians taking turns to ask questions to them, Qin Ke and Qin Ke were too relaxed. How could Principal Gu Bojun feel at ease? ?
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