From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

At this time, Svensey had already shown a satisfied smile. It seemed that his project might be over in less than two months.

"Thank you, Lin." He patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder, and then said to everyone: "Okay, in order to celebrate our phased success, I invite everyone to have a big meal today!"

"Great!"

Everyone immediately cheered.

Then they packed up their things and went to have a big meal together.

……

Coming here to verify the subject is just a incidental matter, and the high-energy physics seminar on the second day is the main purpose.

Once again came to the IN2P3 computing center, Lin Xiao and the others came to one of the large lecture halls.

There were 400 to [-] people present. Of course, in addition to all kinds of scientists who are really famous in the academic circle, there are also students like Henry and the others who came with their tutors.

"There are a lot of people."

Lin Xiao sighed with emotion.

"Well, and there are still many bigwigs coming, Nobel Prize winners in physics, including Higgs, too. It's a pity that Mr. Yang from your Huaguo didn't come. He is my idol."

Henry said.

Lin Xiao smiled: "Mr. Yang is over 90 years old and needs a good rest. Huaguo is too far away from France."

"Okay." Henry said, "Sometimes I really want to know how he found out that parity was not conserved."

"Why not Yang-Mills gauge theory?"

"That's okay. Parity violation sounds cool, but the Yang-Mills gauge field reminds me of the Standard Model. The Standard Model is such a headache."

Lin Xiao smiled. The Standard Model is based on Yang-Mills gauge bin theory. When Yang Zhenning was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, there was an award speech: "This work has been ranked among Newton, Maxwell and Einstein. list of jobs."

Thinking of Yang Zhenning's work, Lin Xiao also thought of his own research topic.

How did Mr. Yang complete the proof?

He suddenly felt that he could ask him, maybe he could get some inspiration from this senior?

Chapter 183 Yang Zhenning's style

In the lecture hall, more and more people entered, until the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began.

The first person to speak was Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, a female physicist.

This Gianotti is still very important in the field of high-energy physics. Of course, his achievements are also quite important, and he has also provided a lot of help for the upgrade and maintenance of the LHC.

After she went up, she mainly introduced the current maintenance progress of the LHC, as well as the plans and preparations for the next experiment. This can be regarded as a matter of concern to everyone present. After all, high-energy physics cannot do without such a large-scale collision. Machine, everyone is very concerned about when it will be able to start.

Soon, Gianotti's speech ended, and after wishing the meeting a successful convening, the next scientist began to share on stage.

And this scientist is a heavyweight, it is Peter Higgs.

Seeing this old man in his 90s on the stage, everyone applauded in unison.

Although Higgs is not the only physicist who has contributed to the discovery of the Higgs mechanism, as the first person to discover the mechanism, he undoubtedly enjoys its naming rights.

Therefore, in academia, discovering one step ahead always has such an opportunity.

"Hi everyone, I'm very glad to be here to share with you." Higgs's old-fashioned eyes still shone with the wisdom of being a top scientist in physics. He said with a smile: "As you can see, I I am getting old, so I am a bit stretched to share my academic knowledge with you.”

"Then, I will take you to review the history of scientific exploration in the past, hoping to provide some inspiration for our future research in the historical experience."

"So, first of all, let's go back to the 1954 paper that Yang Zhenning and Mills jointly published."

Then, Higgs began to talk about the Yang-Mills gauge field theory.

As the pre-foundation of the Higgs mechanism, the Yang-Mills gauge field plays an extremely important role in all aspects of high-energy physics.

The physicists present followed Higgs to trace the history of those decades ago, and for most of the people present, they did not even make a sound at that time, so only old people like this, To be able to bring them a historical review.

In fact, as an old man of that era, Higgs learned a lot. At the same time, he can also retell some things that have not been recorded in history.

In this way, time passed slowly, starting from Yang Mills' gauge field, until he researched the process of the Higgs mechanism, and finally, in 2013, CERN officially announced that the mysterious particle they discovered in 2012 was exactly the Higgs mechanism. Gus particles.

Between them, the change of times and the communication of centuries have been crossed.

Everyone present seemed to have gained some experience and inspiration from this period of history.

till the end.

"By the way, I suddenly remembered something."

Higgs smiled slightly and said: "After I published the paper on the Higgs mechanism, I had a discussion with Yang. Yang's sensitivity to physics, I believe no one in the world can compare with him."

"During the discussion with him, I learned some of his past thinking. Like me, he once had some ideas about the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Higgs mechanism."

"He said maybe there was something undiscovered in the Goldstone particle when it was canceled out to give the new particle its mass, and he showed me a mathematical formula for, uh, what I Anyway, I forgot, anyway, it is related to the energy of light, but when we offset it with Planck’s constant, we found a remainder. This is an incredible thing, but later, Yang transformed this formula into We found a formula that can be substituted into the Higgs mechanism, so after we substituted the Higgs mechanism into it, we found that the remainder disappeared miraculously, so we guessed that there were some mathematical problems in the previous calculation.”

Speaking of this, Higgs shook his head: "But a few days ago, I suddenly remembered this matter again, and I thought, maybe that formula is an important discovery that Yang and I missed, but now I am old, and I can only share this news with you, and I hope that you can reveal the problems in the future."

Hearing what Higgs said, everyone present couldn't help thinking, what is that?

Planck's constant defines the energy unit of light, that is to say, the energy of light is a piece, not continuous, and the energy of light is an integer multiple of Planck's constant.

And this is the original concept of the so-called quantum.

Now Higgs actually said that when Yang wrote a formula related to the energy of light, and it couldn't cancel out with Planck's constant, this was something worth thinking about.

Of course, the "remainder" mentioned by Higgs is not exactly the same as the remainder in the field of mathematics. It means that some physical quantities cannot be completely replaced, so as to achieve elimination. More discussion.

Therefore, everyone expects Higgs to say what the formula written by Yang Zhenning is.

However, Higgs blinked, spread his hands and said, "Of course, I forgot the formula that Yang wrote back then, maybe you need to ask Yang again."

"Okay, let's end my sharing here, and don't waste your young people's time anymore."

Higgs smiled slightly, then nodded to the people present, and walked off the stage directly.

Seeing the old man go down so simply, everyone present was stunned, and finally couldn't help but feel helpless, aren't you embarrassing everyone?

How about writing that formula down?

But there was no other way, everyone had already gone down, so they had no choice but to applaud the old man.

Afterwards, there was a 10-minute break, and then the next meeting. The report below is the recent results of the ATLAS experiment international cooperation team from the Large Hadron Collider.

During this time, everyone also started a discussion.

"Lin, have you met Yang before?"

Henry turned to look at Lin Xiao beside him.

At this time, Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone, lowered his head to do something, and replied without turning his head: "Yes."

"That's great!" Henry showed an envious expression. Being able to meet his idol is certainly worthy of his envy.

"What kind of person do you think Yang is?"

"A very respectable man."

Lin Xiao said something, then put the phone next to his ear, and said to Henry at the same time: "I'm going to call him now, what's the matter, wait until I finish the call."

Henry was taken aback: "He? Who?"

"Yang."

Henry froze for a moment, Yang?

After reacting, his eyes widened immediately: "What did you say? Yang?! Do you have his phone number?"

At this time, the phone was already connected, and Lin Xiao said: "Old Yang, I am Lin Xiao, how are you doing recently?... As long as you are in good health, hehe, I am calling to ask you for a favor, you Did you chat with Peter Higgs once before, and then you discussed such a thing with Peter Higgs:...do you still remember the formula you wrote?"

Chapter 184 Maybe it's a fallacy, maybe it's a miracle

The reason why Lin Xiao called Mr. Yang immediately was because he felt that what Higgs said might bring some thinking direction to the issues he was thinking about in the past two days.

He would not let go of any opportunity that could bring him inspiration. Since he happened to have a close relationship with Mr. Yang, of course he had to take advantage of this opportunity.

Huaguo is seven hours ahead of French time, so Huaguo is still past six o'clock, so there is no need to worry about disturbing others.

Mr. Yang was also very surprised that Lin Xiao suddenly asked him for help, but for this young man, he was also very happy to help Lin Xiao.

"The formula that Higgs and I talked about? I still have a little impression, but it's been a long time ago. Let me think about it."

Elder Yang said, "But having said that, where did you hear the news?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "I'm participating in a high-energy physics discussion in Lyon today, and Mr. Higgs is also there, and then he talked about this matter."

"He thinks that the formula you discussed at the beginning may hide some things that have not been discovered in particle physics, so I want to find out."

"Hmm...so that's how it is. I had always had doubts about that formula at the beginning. Although a harmonious result can be obtained after introducing the Higgs mechanism, there are still some unexplainable problems in it." Elder Yang said. : "Oh, I remember I wrote it in a notebook, let me look for it."

"Well, please excuse me."

Then, Lin Xiao waited slowly, until the next meeting was about to start, Mr. Yang seemed to be still looking for it. In order to avoid affecting the seminar, Lin Xiao left temporarily.

Seeing him go out, Henry quickly followed.

Calling his idol, of course he wanted to listen to it, and up to now, he was surprised that Lin Xiao actually had his idol's phone number, and even made a phone call.

After coming outside and waiting for a while, Lin Xiao finally heard Elder Yang's voice again: "Yes, I found it, but this formula is more troublesome and contains more physical quantities. I will send it to you directly later. Let’s take a picture, shall we?”

"Okay!" Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you."

"No trouble, hehe, it seems that you have officially entered high-energy physics, so I can look forward to your future achievements."

"Okay." Lin Xiao responded, if his previous idea can really be successful, he can even bet that this will definitely be an extremely shocking theory for the current physics world, although he doesn't know that he will be able to do it in the end. What will come out, just like before Einstein came up with the theory of relativity, he also didn't know what he would eventually come up with.

So now, he can't wait to know what the style that Elder Yang and Higgs talked about back then looks like.

However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed Henry next to him, winking at him.

He was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh, by the way, Mr. Yang, I have a French friend here who admires you very much and wants to have a few words with you."

Old Yang smiled and said, "Since he is your friend, of course it is fine."

Lin Xiao said to Henry, "Henry, talk to your idol, Yang and I mentioned you."

An excited expression appeared on Henry's face, he grabbed Lin Xiao's hand and shook it a few times to express his thanks, and then changed his mouth to speak in English, even a little incoherent: "Hello, Professor Yang, I... I It's Henri Bernard! Nice to talk to you, I'm a big fan of yours... I'm... I'm also a master student in physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, also in high energy physics, and I'm very interested in your gauge theory and parity Non-conservation theories are especially admired."

Mr. Yang said with a smile: "Henry, hello, I am also very happy to talk to you. I believe that as Lin's friend, you must also be an excellent young man. It took me a lot of time to come up with those theories. Hard work, such as disbelief from others, or even criticism from senior academics, of course, as long as you can be sure that your theory is not wrong, then you can wait for the world to prove it for you, so keep working hard.”

For the first half of the sentence, Henry showed embarrassment on his face. He felt that compared with Lin Xiao, he seemed a bit too mediocre, but after hearing the encouragement from Mr. Yang in the second half of the sentence, he said excitedly: "Thank you I will work hard in the future."

"Okay, I look forward to that day too."

Old Yang encouraged.

Then Henry clenched his fist excitedly, nodded to Lin Xiao, and signaled that he had finished speaking.

He is already satisfied with being inspired by idols, after all, how many people can have the experience of "chasing stars successfully".

Seeing this, Lin Xiao couldn't help smiling, and after talking to Mr. Yang for a few more words, he hung up the phone.

"Yay! Yay!"

Seeing Lin Xiao put down his phone, Henry shouted excitedly.

Then he hugged Lin Xiao directly, and cheered: "Lin! I really love you to death!"

Lin Xiao: "..."

Brother, there are people around here, if you want to be excited, don't get excited here, okay?

He seemed to be able to see the glances of other people around him, and his face showed the expression of knowing brother or subway uncle.

So he quickly pushed this guy away, and said with disgust: "Go, go, pay attention to the occasion."

Henry smiled and said, "If this occasion is not what you want, it's also possible in the hotel. I'll be there on call, of course, only once."

Lin Xiao said speechlessly: "Roll as far as you can."

At this time, he suddenly heard the voice of the prestige message on the phone, and his eyes lit up, it should be the picture sent by Old General Yang.

So he immediately took out his mobile phone, and sure enough, he saw a picture sent by Mr. Yang.

Seeing the complicated formula in the picture, Lin Xiao was slightly taken aback.

This formula includes many physical constants, and it is also very complicated.

However, for him, after some mathematical thinking, it was easy to think of how to deal with it, so he simply deduced it in his mind, and finally, as Higgs said before, the general After the Rank constant was written in, it became impossible to continue writing down, and then, after the Higgs mechanism was substituted in, it became harmonious.