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As if to confirm Professor Tao's guess, Edward Witten, accompanied by Mathias Higgins, editor-in-chief of Nature Physics, walked in and sat in the first row of the preparatory speaking seats.

The appearance of Professor Witten attracted the attention of most of the physicists and mathematicians present.

As the most famous physicist who won the Fields Medal, Edward Witten can be said to be a monumental figure spanning the two universities of physics and mathematics.

Except for Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun, who won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in Physics at the same time, there is probably no third person in the world who can achieve academic achievements in mathematics and physics that surpass Edward Witten at the same time.

Of course, Edward Witten is not here to be a review expert at this time, because he also has an important identity - in this article titled "Unifying the Strong and Weak Interactions with a New Quantum Gauge Field Theory" In the paper "String Theory Framework of Action Force and Electromagnetic Force", he is the joint first author with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

His appearance means that this seminar, which brings together 150 top experts in physics and mathematics from around the world, is about to reach its final stage, the on-site defense session.

Mr. Matthias Higgins, editor-in-chief of "Nature Physics", walked up to the podium, faced the attention of the audience, and said loudly: "First of all, thank you for taking the time to participate in this 'Unification of Strong and Weak Electric Forces' "Verification of String Theory" symposium. During the past month-long discussion, we discussed the string theory framework titled "String Theory Framework Unifying the Strong Interaction Force, Weak Interaction Force and Electromagnetic Force with a New Quantum Gauge Field Theory" The paper has been analyzed and studied almost word for word. Now, the long discussion is coming to an end. We are fortunate to invite one of the core authors of this great paper, Professor Edward Witten, to the scene. Please give everyone a warm applause. Welcome Professor Witten!”

Immediately there was thunderous applause from the audience.

"Professor Witten will conduct a one-hour Q&A session to answer your questions!"

There was another wave of applause, this time it was obviously more intense.

From theory to data analysis, this paper involves many advanced fields of physics and mathematics, especially mathematics. It uses more than fifty original mathematical processing methods. The 'AQN goodness of fit test method' alone is Countless physicists couldn't understand it - this paper is more suitable to be called a mathematics paper than a physics paper, because two-thirds of the paper is based on mathematical operations and derivation, and the difficulty is so high that it even tops the list. The mathematicians all felt their scalps numb.

At this time, one of the core authors of the paper came to the scene to answer questions on the spot, which couldn't be better.

Edward Witten came to the stage amidst applause. He took the wireless microphone handed by the emcee, bowed slightly to everyone, and said with a smile: "The people who are most suitable to stand here should be my two best partners. , Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun, but they have been in a state of "reclusion" recently. Oh, they just can't do research behind closed doors, and it is inconvenient to go abroad, so I am the representative to participate in this Q&A session. "

Mr. Higgins was obviously an expert in regulating the atmosphere. He smiled and asked: "I wonder what research Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun are doing? Is it mathematics or physics? I heard that you have also been invited to participate?"

Edward Witten nodded and said: "Yes, I am indeed happy to participate in this research, but I am still on vacation and will not go to Xia Country to join their research until next month. This new topic is about radioactive elements. Based on the research results of this paper, string theory is applied to control the 'random events of decay' of radioactive elements, thereby solving the problem of nuclear sewage."

There was an uproar again!
Everyone is aware of the nuclear sewage incident. Everyone has their own opinions on whether it will harm the health of marine life on the planet and even humans themselves. However, the "random events of decay" that control radioactive elements are definitely eye-catching. The largest scientific research project!
The safety of radioactive elements has always been of concern to the scientific community. At present, the mainstream nuclear power plants still use nuclear fission. The side effect of nuclear fission is to produce a large amount of radioactive elements. How to deal with these radioactive elements is also a headache and costs countless money. Big problem.

Once this problem can be solved, it will greatly promote the application of nuclear power plants and open up a new pattern for the world's energy supply - after all, before the success of controllable nuclear fusion research, nuclear power plants based on nuclear fission will still be one of the important ways to solve human energy problems. one.

It will also bring new possibilities to the fields of medicine, high-energy physics, superconducting materials research and other fields!
Unfortunately, although the scientific community knows that the key to the safety of radioactive elements is the probabilistic event "half-life", no one has ever been able to clearly study the "main cause" that affects this probabilistic event.

But this time is different. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun started this research. This young couple almost never failed in whatever they wanted to study. Plus Edward Witten - maybe Qiu Old gentleman, that is simply an invincible combination!
No one would be too surprised if Qin Ke’s team suddenly announced a few years later that they had solved the control mechanism of the “random events of decay” of radioactive elements.

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, then looked at the paper in their hands, and were suddenly a little shocked.

People like me are still racking their brains to prove the correctness of this paper. Others have launched new research projects based on this paper. They obviously have absolute confidence in the correctness of this paper - but I really can't. Find something wrong.Wow, this is so shocking.

Perhaps influenced by this news, the final questions in the Q&A session were not as heated as expected. Edward Witten, with his profound mathematics and physics skills, as well as his deep understanding of this paper, basically put all the questions into question. All questions were answered clearly and clearly.

The last person to raise his hand was a physics professor in his early 60s. He asked: "Professor Witten, can you tell us about the division of labor among the five authors of this paper?"

Edward Witten thought for a while before replying: "I can only say that without any one person, the publication of this paper will be delayed for a long time, especially Academician Qin Ke. Without him, this paper will probably never be published. None of them could be born, and the most critical 'paradox problem of supersymmetry contradiction in quantum gauge field theory' was solved by Qin Ke alone, which is on pages 112 to 115 of the paper."

At this point, he laughed: "Actually, the five of us have been discussing this problem for nearly a month, but we have not been able to solve it. Later, I had to go out to travel to relax and let my mind wander in order to find new inspiration. The result is this During this period, Academician Qin Ke solved this big problem alone. He joked that the safe birth of his two babies gave him the greatest spiritual motivation, but I think this is the best testimony of his talent and inspiration in mathematics. He is the most genius mathematician I have ever met, and I think he surpasses all mathematicians who have ever lived in terms of mathematical talent and inspiration!”

This evaluation is indeed very, very high. You must know that Edward Witten himself is known as a "mathematically inspired physicist" by the world. To be able to receive such unreserved praise from him, Qin Ke, who was not present, tied for first place. An author once again aroused the exclamation of the audience.

Finally, after the one-hour question-and-answer session, Chief Editor Matthias Higgins Sr. announced a show of hands vote:
"Thanks to Professor Witten for answering questions. Although the other authors unfortunately could not be present, Professor Witten's answers are enough for us to see the great contribution these co-authors have made to this paper, as well as the wisdom shining in the paper. Light. Well, the entire international physics community has been waiting for our conclusion for a long time, and CERN has also been waiting for our final conclusion to determine the next experimental plan. We should be grateful for this long and arduous review process. That’s the end of it. If you agree with the value of this paper and think it is correct, please raise your hand.”

More than 140 hands went up.

Those who did not raise their hands to express their opinions indicated that they had not yet fully understood the paper and were unwilling to express their uncertain opinions.

But a pass rate of more than 9% is enough for this vote to pass smoothly.When all the physicists and mathematicians who raised their hands signed the final conclusion, Sir Stokes, the chairman of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), stepped onto the podium and said loudly:
"Now I announce that the unified theory of the strong and weak electric three forces in the paper "String Theory Framework Unifying the Strong Interaction Force, Weak Interaction Force and Electromagnetic Force with a New Quantum Gauge Field Theory", as well as the existence of string theory, have been obtained More than 9% of the experts and professors present recognized that it has officially become a correct theory recognized by the international physics community! Gentlemen and ladies, please remember this day. Our understanding of the origin of the world and the unified theory of physics will usher in a new era. page, the physical landscape in the next hundred years will enter a new era! We at IUPAP will also work with CERN to continue to conduct more experimental verifications of the theoretical part of this paper to show the world more about the existence of strings Experimental evidence! Thank you all for your hard work over the past month!"

A wave of applause flooded the entire conference hall and spread out to the Stockholm Grand Hotel, attracting the attention of countless passers-by and hotel guests.

After the meeting that day, IUPAP, IMU, CERN, and ICTP announced the voting results almost simultaneously on the homepage of their websites. The whole world was shocked for a while. No one expected that the paper that attracted the attention of countless people would actually be published in just a short period of time. It was confirmed and recognized after one and a half months. Many people originally thought it would take at least two or three years, but after seeing the photo of the voting result book full of signatures, no one could say "no".

——Because there is no more luxurious jury lineup than this list.

So media from various countries rushed to report:

"The Unification of Physics" is three-quarters complete, perhaps it will no longer be a series in my lifetime! 》

"String theory has been confirmed by observable experimental data!"Edward Witten, the father of superstring theory, is about to win the Nobel Medal! 》

"The great moment of particle physics has arrived, the three forces of strong force, weak force and electromagnetic force have completed the theoretical unification! 》

"The origin of the world has been confirmed, we are all composed of "strings"! 》

"Xia Guo and top American physicists and mathematicians join forces to solve the problem of the century, and human civilization takes a big step forward!" 》

"Edward Witten praised Academician Qin Ke as the most talented mathematician that no one has ever surpassed!" 》

"Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun of Xia State and Professor Edward Witten of the United States will join forces again to address the safety issue of radioactive elements! 》

This major research result in the physics community has brought new vitality and hope to the northern hemisphere, which has been shrouded in the shadow of high temperature and drought disasters. In particular, it is the second important prover of the "unification of three forces" and the "existence of string theory". Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are now regarded as the strongest climate disaster prediction masters.

Because the two refused to be interviewed, countless media and experts interpreted all their public statements on climate disaster predictions over and over again, and used this as the most effective evidence to reassure the public - "Whether it is high temperature or drought, the weather will be affected by early September." Peak turning point, then great relief a month later…”

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Amidst the bustle of people, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who had been living in Yuanzhou for more than a month, quietly took a special plane and flew back to Qingmu University in the capital. They were accompanied by two babies and the couple who were about to welcome the baby. Qin Xiaoke is here for the start of his sophomore year.

The main reason for returning to the capital is naturally that Qingmu University is about to start school, and Qin Ke and the two have to continue to perform their educational duties as professors and tutors.

Moreover, only Qingmu and Yanda had sufficient conditions to carry out experiments on radioactive elements.

However, after returning to the capital, the first thing Qin Ke did was to inspect the Qing Ning Technology Data Center, which is also the Qing Ning Technology computer room.

As the reputation of Mr. and Mrs. Qin Ke has soared in the international meteorological community, the European Meteorological Center has truly regarded them as strategic partners. More and more open data permissions have been opened. The huge amount of data has made LV4 with ordinary supercomputing power more and more popular. Shimmer also became nervous.

So Qin Ke made a big wave of his hand and expanded the data center of Qing Ning Technology for the third time.

This expansion took nearly three months and invested more than one billion. Not only did the power supply line, UPS system and disaster recovery system of the entire computer room be upgraded, but more than 2000 high-performance servers were added, making LV4's glimmer In terms of computing resources, it has surpassed most supercomputers and is estimated to be among the top five in the world.

After returning from the computer room, Qin Ke checked Shimmer's ability to process massive data. Currently facing the huge amount of data from Xia Guo and the European Meteorological Center, LV4 Shimmer can still barely cope with it relying on the powerful computing power of the top five in the world. It's possible, but if you add in the amount of data from the United States and other national meteorological centers in the southern hemisphere, it becomes obvious that it is beyond its capabilities.

Qin Ke sighed lightly. He knew very well that the current computing power expansion in the Qingning computer room has reached the limit of Weiguang's resource pool management. Unless the quantum chip computer can truly be put into large-scale multi-task parallel computing applications, Weiguang will The computing power of conventional servers that can be used has reached a bottleneck.

Of course, there is an exception, that is, his pseudonym "Mr. Q" can remotely guide the "Chip Materials Research Team" of the Qingbei Integrated Circuit and Chip Joint R&D Innovation Center to research "new carbon crystal composite nanomaterials" The performance of the current non-quantum CPU can be qualitatively improved. Coupled with the upgrade of Weiguang to LV5, it can probably easily handle the analysis and processing of all climate data around the world.

Qin Ke has been in regular communication with the "chip material research team". Judging from the current research progress, it is estimated that there are only about two months left before the launch of the "new carbon crystal composite nanomaterial".

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