From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"why is that?"

Lin Xiao thought about it.

So, is there a problem with the Higgs mechanism, or is there something hidden in this formula that cannot explain the physical meaning?

However, it is equally difficult to explain the physical meaning of this formula itself.

"However, what if some unexplained principle occurs in the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking?"

Lin Xiao's heart moved, he might have found a direction to start with.

So he immediately said to Henry: "Henry, I need to go back to the hotel to continue my research, so I will trouble you to stay here, and then tell Professor Swensey that I won't have dinner together."

"Ah? Did you find anything else?"

Henry was taken aback and couldn't help asking.

"It may be a fallacy, or it may be another God particle." Lin Xiao smiled at him, then turned and left.

Seeing Lin Xiao leaving, Henry could only shrug his shoulders. He also saw the picture sent by Mr. Yang, but after looking at it for a while, he just sorted out these physical quantities and was about to deduce them in his mind. Akatsuki seemed to have completed the derivation.

And you must know that his speed is already considered good for the students of the Paris Normal University.

Well, he is used to this, and now he can only silently wish Lin Xiao in his heart.

Hope to discover another God particle as he said.

He returned to the seminar and found a place.

Seeing that he was the only one coming back, Swen Sai couldn't help asking, "Where's Lin?"

Henry replied: "Lin went back to work miracles."

"Miracle?"

Svensey froze.

……

In the hotel room, Lin Xiao sat at the table, spread out the draft paper and started the calculation.

Although high-energy physics is an experimental science, the process of mathematical derivation can still give birth to some previously unknown theories.

This is why, its own name is called particle physics. By transforming these particles into numbers, and then according to the relationship between them that have been discovered, it is possible to get a result from a piece of paper full of mathematical formulas. As the truth of the microcosm emerges, there will also be some magical things in it, waiting for their discovery.

And in history, such a thing has been proven more than once.

Just like Maxwell's equations, Maxwell combined the four formulas of the electromagnetic world and successfully predicted the property that light is an electromagnetic wave, so that it is called the most perfect formula.

Another example is the mass-energy equation, which is also derived mathematically, and they are hidden in the theories discovered in the past.

Therefore, no one can guarantee whether there are some truths hidden in the various existing formulas that have not been discovered by human beings.

And Lin Xiao's job now is to find out this hidden truth.

[Assume that the Higgs potential is: V(ΦΦ^*)=μ^2ΦΦ^*+λ(ΦΦ^*)^2, then there are...]

As Lin Xiao's work continued, his eyes kept shining with wisdom.

"Assuming that some kind of symmetry group transformation can only transform the lowest energy state into itself, it is said that the lowest energy state has 'invariance' for this transformation, that is, the lowest energy state has this symmetry, then we can easily produce One question - where does this energy come from?"

"Like vacuum zero point energy."

Lin Xiaolian thought of this magical thing.

It means that there is energy even in an empty vacuum, and this energy exists forever, that is, the so-called vacuum is not empty.

And this theory is also very easy for people to relate to. Does this mean that we can prostitute an unlimited energy source for free?

In fact, there are even objects in the world that can harness this energy, such as the Casimir battery.

Of course, this kind of battery is disposable and cannot be recharged spontaneously, so compared to the energy consumed to manufacture it, it is obviously not worth it.

However, this does not make sense to physicists. What physicists care about is what is hidden behind it.

"Although Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us that quantum mechanics cannot be without zero-point energy, it still does not explain where the vacuum zero-point energy comes from."

Chapter 185 On Multidimensional Field and Its Situation Superposition

"So, where did it come from? The vacuum broke spontaneously?"

Countless thoughts appeared in Lin Xiao's mind.

Minke's imagination is very rich, but compared with real scientists, their imagination is still stretched, even barren.

Because of the rich knowledge reserves of scientists, even if they are permuted and combined, they can come up with a bunch of ideas that even the civil scientists admire.

Of course, scientists will not think that their rich ideas are true, because they know that they cannot find a logical and self-consistent argumentation process for their rich imagination.

But for Lin Xiao, he has the ability to demonstrate such a process.

It's like Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, and Mr. Yang proposed the non-conservation of parity. After they proposed these two theories, they were not recognized by the academic circle at the beginning. Perhaps their theories at that time seemed to others to be A civilized idea.

But as long as they are proven, the greatness and forward-looking nature of their theories will amaze everyone in the academic world.

In this way, Lin Xiao's deduction became more and more complicated.

And his purpose has temporarily changed from thinking about the mass of the W boson to studying the zero-point energy of vacuum.

Of course, the discussion on the zero-point energy of vacuum may eventually provide some help to the measurement of the mass of the W boson, or even more.

……

……

Just like what Henry said, Lin Xiao is creating miracles, but miracles are obviously not so easy to create.

The establishment of each of the eight wonders of the world took several years or even decades of effort, while Lin Xiao, a miracle in academic theory, also took a long time to have a chance to succeed.

After all, everyone is a miracle.

Of course, the miracles of academic theories will not take a few years or even decades, or even a short period of one year, to create countless miracles.

For example, in 1666, the 23-year-old Newton successively worked out the binomial theorem, the decomposition of light, and calculus.

In addition, in 1905, the 26-year-old Einstein published various theories about the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the famous E=mc^2 mass-energy equation.

In the past two years, their achievements have made great contributions to human understanding of the world, and because of this, these two years have been called miracle years.

But as for how long it will take Lin Xiao to complete his miracle, no one in this world knows.

But obviously, it was impossible for Lin Xiao to completely come up with his own theory during the simple few days in Lyon.

The discussion on the second day was over, and there was another meeting on the third day. After the meeting, Sven Sai took a few students to watch the Lyon football game. They didn't care who won or lost, after all Everyone lives in Paris, so of course they have to be fans of Paris Saint-Germain.

In this way, the time came to the fourth day, and they got on the plane back to Paris.

On the plane, Swen Sai looked at Lin Xiao who was still thinking about things, and asked, "Henry said, are you going to create a miracle?"

Lin Xiao came back to his senses, and said in a daze, "A miracle?"

Svensey looked at Henry beside him.

Henry spread his hands and said, "It's those theories that sound incredible, just like the non-conservation of parity created by Yang. Isn't this theory incredible?"

Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing, and then said: "If I can succeed, maybe? Of course it may be worthless."

Swencer said with a smile: "Some theories seem worthless, but they are actually of great value, and some theories seem to be of great value, but they are actually meaningless."

"Actually, the theories we are studying are generally like this for human beings. They are worth a lot of money but are worthless. You say that we have discovered the Higgs particle, but what is the use? It has no effect on the living standards of human beings." Any help, and for this we have even spent tens of billions of euros to build a supercollider, so many people say that this option can be called 'dangerous'."

"Perhaps it is true. We built it just to satisfy the desire of professionals like us. This desire also makes us ignore those ordinary people."

"However, if you say this, it seems bad to ignore others just for your own desire. This is obviously wrong. We know that we have to do this, because our desire is for the truth, to reveal the universe. , this is also for the future of mankind, even if we sometimes make mistakes, as long as the goal is ultimately to be right, it doesn't matter."

"So your research is the same, even if it will be wrong or worthless, then you have to persevere, at least this process is worth a thousand gold to you."

Listening to Swen Sai's words, Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and said, "Of course I agree with your words, but as I said just now, if I succeed, it may be a miracle, but because it is a miracle, So there are still some difficulties.”

"Oh? Is it convenient for you to talk to me?" Svensey asked with interest.

"Can you do research on vacuum zero point?"

"Vacuum zero-point energy?" Svensey thought for a moment, and said, "Of course I know this, but I haven't done much research on it. Of course, I still have some interest in it. Do you know about vacuum catastrophe?"

Lin Xiao thought for a while and said, "You know, the upper limit of the vacuum zero-point energy predicted by quantum field theory seems to be very different from the upper limit of the experimental measurement?"

"Yes, and it's not just very big, it's very, very big." Svensey said: "According to quantum field theory, we estimate that the vacuum zero-point energy of quantum field theory can be limited to 10 to the power of 121 GeV/m^3. The results are based on According to the experimental measurement, the actual upper limit of the vacuum zero point energy is 10 times of 14, and the gap is as high as 107 orders of magnitude."

Lin Xiao: "That's really a bad prediction."

"Of course, this can be called the worst prediction in the physics world. Even if our standard model has not been really perfected, or no one dares to say that it can be really perfected, but it still predicts a A lot of particles, such as the Higgs particle." Swansea said with a smile, "but then again, this thing doesn't seem to be of much help to you."

Speaking of this, he shook his head and sighed: "For those of us who are engaged in particle physics, the more we know, the less we know, just like I once heard a joke that there are only two things modern physicists don't know. , I don’t know this, I don’t know that, so much so that I once said to every young man who wants to find me to study for a master’s degree, go learn condensed matter, not particle physics.”

Hearing this, Lin Xiao couldn't help but smile, don't know this, don't know that?

Henry next to him said at this time: "I also heard a joke. The former physicists thought that there were only two dark clouds left in the sky. After more than 100 years of hard work, the current physicists can finally be proud." Announcement: Our skies are now clouded."

Physicists around who heard the joke also laughed.

Yeah, how many unsolved problems are there in physics now?

Dark matter and dark energy are the first two dark clouds. The vacuum catastrophe mentioned just now is also a dark cloud. Then, for example, a problem called the timing protection conjecture, roughly speaking, according to the theory of general relativity, a particle may even be in a closed loop. The timeline of the timeline keeps going back to the starting point from the end point, that is to say, it returns to the 'past' from the present to complete the time travel, and it is correct from the theory of general relativity; except for these Besides, there are a whole lot more.

All in all, these physical problems are getting more and more involved, so that it is not an exaggeration to call the current physics world full of dark clouds.

Then, other people also talked about the jokes they heard, so more and more physicists joined the interaction.

However, Lin Xiao fell into his own contemplation during these interactions, and did not join their physics joke awards.

"Quantum field theory?"

Although the prediction of the zero-point energy of vacuum by quantum field theory can be called bad and thorough, the theoretical system of quantum field theory does not need to be questioned.

Thinking back to various theories in quantum field theory in his mind, Lin Xiao's eyes gradually brightened.

"Perhaps, that's it!"

……

April in Paris ended with flowers in full bloom, followed by May full of flowers.

As for the academic world, except for the twin prime number conjecture that made people marvel at it, it entered the ordinary again. Everyone continued to study their own things while observing whether there would be any big things happening in the academic world.

But the month of May passed by like this.

June.

……

Of course, if there is any major event in the academic world, in most cases, the major journals will receive the news first, because for most scholars, it is a common thing to send papers to journals first. The paper is sent to arxiv, but not every author will do this.

For the editors of "Physical Review Letters", June [-]th seems to be an ordinary day, and nothing big will happen.

But until they saw such a submission, all editors were stunned.

"On Multidimensional Field and Its Situation Superposition"

[Abstract: Establish a multidimensional field theory with the method of quantum field theory, and according to the multidimensional field theory, demonstrate that the zero-point energy comes from the multidimensional state superposition...]

At first, the editor who saw this submission thought it was another Minke’s contribution, so he couldn’t help complaining to the colleagues next to him: “My God, these Minkes are really full of rich imaginations. Strength."

The colleague laughed and said, "Let me guess, is it Tongass? Or Dimitri? I'm familiar with these two guys."

The editor shook his head: "He's from Hua, let me take a look, his name is XiaoLin...?"

He was silent for a while, and said, "This name is a bit familiar..."

The provers of Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime number conjecture, although they are editors of physics journals, of course they have heard of them.

The colleague was also stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "No way? It can't be that person, right? Can you read his historical paper?"

The editor checked it immediately, and then the other party's simple papers were all papers published in the world's top journals. Among them, the proofs of Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime number conjecture were unsurprisingly expressed Out of the identity of this person.

"It's really him!"

The colleague was stunned.

Obviously, there is no need to question his ability, so it is obviously impossible for the other party to be Minke, so this paper...?

"Let's take a look first."

The editor silently opened the paper and began to read it.

But after reading about a few pages, he gave up trying to understand this paper. It uses various complex mathematical methods, topology, geometry, and multi-dimensional space theory. He wants to read it through and fully understand it. How much time it will take.