From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Therefore, he should go through the format of the first trial, and then hand it over to the real boss.

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Chapter 186 July 2020, 6

Italy Italy, the first University of Rome.

In the office of Professor George Parisi.

"Huh? A review request for Physical Review Letters?"

Checking his mailbox routinely every day, George Parisi saw an email from Physical Review Letters.

As one of the most important scientists in quantum mechanics, George Parisi has won too many awards in the physics community. Basically, he has not won the Wolf Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Physics. In addition, I have won other awards that should be received, such as the Dirac Medal, the Boltzmann Medal, the Lagrange Award...etc., and even the Wolf Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Physics , he is completely waiting in line now, and if he is ranked according to importance, he may be able to get it in the next few years.

And his research directions are mainly quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems, so "Physical Review Letters" will often ask him to serve as a reviewer for some manuscripts on quantum mechanics.

It just so happens that he has nothing to do now, so it would be good to review this article, and it would be worthwhile for Physical Review Letters to ask him to review the manuscript, and maybe he can find some good ideas from it.

Then he opened the email and downloaded the attachment, but at this time, he saw the "Physical Review Letters" and made a note.

[Professor Parisi, the author of this article is the prover of Goldbach’s conjecture and the twin prime number conjecture, so don’t just throw it away after reading the title and abstract of the paper. 】

Seeing this, George Parisi couldn't help but shook his head with a smile. Although he did do this kind of thing, it was because the paper was so nonsense that he didn't reply for more than two months. Finally, the editor It was only after I found him that I found out the whole story.

Of course, since this paper was written by that genius in the mathematics world, he was even more interested. I believe that such a person would not be able to write that kind of nonsense paper.

So he opened the paper and began to read it.

But when he finished reading the title and abstract, he immediately realized why the editor had to remind him specifically.

At first glance, isn't this paper more nonsense than the one he reviewed before?

What multi-dimensional field, the same space field of all dimensions overlaps together, which means that all dimensions are closely connected, and there is mutual influence between dimensions?

And what kind of state superposition is this, the three-dimensional zero-point energy of vacuum is actually the mean value of the total matter energy of zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional?

Why don't you write science fiction here?

What other theories are there, dark matter is actually the projection of matter in other dimensions in the three-dimensional world?The dark matter we currently observe all comes from the 26.8 and [-]th dimensions, and because the projection of higher-dimensional matter cannot pass through the projection of more dimensions, it can only be projected in order from one dimension to one dimension, so the currently observed dark matter is only [-]% of the total mass energy of the universe, as well as dark energy and so on, also permeate from other dimensions——

At this time, George Parisi once thought that he had read something wrong. What he was actually reading now was that a certain sci-fi author wanted to reflect the awesomeness in his novel, and then randomly broke up some theories that sounded very lofty. Come do something.

However, when George Parisi remembered the author of the paper, all his impatience dissipated.

No matter how nonsensical the theory published by a famous person in the academic circle is, they still need to read it carefully, because only after reading it can they express their opinions on it, which is also a testament to the other party's achievements in the past. kind of respect.

In particular, the author of this quantum physics paper, which seems to be extremely nonsensical, is a super famous scholar. After all, he is already a scholar who is destined to win the Fields Medal in the future.

For such a person, even a Nobel Prize winner would have to treat him as a scholar of the same status, so George Parisi stopped thinking about it and began to read Lin Xiao's paper seriously.

The mathematics of physicists is usually not as good as that of mathematicians. Of course, there are some exceptions, such as George Parisi. Parisi's comprehension speed also slowed down, but he was still able to understand.

However, he still has to marvel at the use of mathematics in this paper. He has read countless physics papers, and the depth and breadth of mathematics used in this paper are unprecedented in George Parisi's life. See you.

Moreover, the relationship between them is so coordinated and the structure is so rigorous that even George Parisi is amazed at the beauty of mathematics at this time.

Of course, he did not forget to verify the theory of this paper.

He wanted to find the mistakes in it, so he could reject what he considered to be still just a whimsical paper.

However, the result disappointed him.

In the process of these theories, he did not find any flaws in the demonstration process, no matter from the previous mathematical demonstration process to the subsequent physical analysis process, he could not find any mistakes.

If it was a paper on other aspects, he probably couldn't help admiring it. This kind of paper, which can be called a master, would make him read it a hundred times and he would find it pleasing to the eye.

But this paper is not an ordinary paper. The results mentioned in it are still no less than "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", which is the first article on the theory of relativity published by Einstein.

Once this paper is published, the physics community, which has been silent for an unknown period of time, may cause a shocking wave like a meteorite with a diameter of 100 meters falling into the ocean.

All of a sudden, his eyes became more serious, and at the same time he felt a great sense of responsibility.

Next, he must review all the processes in this paper more rigorously. If this theory shows its importance, then he, as a reviewer, will also be honored for it.

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June 2020, 6——

For the world, this day will go down in history and will be remembered forever by future scientists.

Just because a paper was published.

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Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences.

"Mr. Witten, this issue of Physical Review Letters is down."

In Edward Witten's office, his door was knocked, and staff from the institute came outside and handed him a journal.

"OK, thanks."

Witten nodded towards the staff member, took the journal, removed the outer plastic film, and glanced at it, volume 124, issue 25 of "Physical Review Letters".

"It seems that this is the last issue of Volume 124. Let's take a look. It happens to be fine."

As a top mathematical physicist, it is a common thing to look at these top journals every issue.

Then he tucked the journal between his elbows, left the office, and walked towards the afternoon tea restaurant, where reading the journal was a good pastime for him.

Soon, he came to the restaurant, ordered a cup of coffee first, and then looked for a seat in the restaurant.

There were quite a lot of people who came to drink afternoon tea. He looked around, and finally sat down beside an old professor. Express?

So he smiled and said, "Adler, have you read the journal too?"

Adler is an important scholar in quantum mechanics, and his many groundbreaking papers have laid a certain foundation for the Standard Model. After all, being a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is certainly not a simple person.

However, the old professor just looked up at him and said, "Okay, Witten, let's stop talking about this nonsense, you'd better read the third paper of this issue."

Edward Witten was taken aback, "The third paper?"

But Professor Adler had lowered his head again and ignored him.

With doubts in his heart, Edward Witten opened the journal and saw the papers first. He wanted to take a brief look at the papers in this issue.

"Signal of the quantum universe? Sounds good...and this, the electromagnetic counterpart of a binary black hole merger gravitational wave event? Interesting."

At this time, he finally saw the third paper.

He was slightly taken aback.

"On the multi-dimensional field and its situational superposition?"

What is the theory of multidimensional field?

Haven't heard of it before, but it seems quite interesting, but seeing Adler's serious eyes, he can't help but guess in his heart.

Could it be... This is a paper with more important results?

So he also became a little impatient, and quickly opened the third paper.

"The author is... Lin Xiao?"

Seeing this author, he couldn't help being taken aback. Of course, he was familiar with this young genius, but now he came to study theoretical physics again?

There is also a reviewer's guide below this paper.

George Parisi: "After reading this paper, my heart is complicated, because at this time I finally realized why the special theory of relativity was not sought after by the academic community in the first place after it was released for the first time. Because at this moment, like the scholars in the academic circles at that time, I feel extremely confused about this advanced theory-it should be false-but obviously I hope and believe that it is true, just like this article I also couldn't find any mistakes in the argumentation process of the thesis. 』

Seeing the comments of this world-renowned physicist, Edward Witten's eyes gradually became serious.

A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics can make such high-level comments, so he has to have a great sense of curiosity about the results in this paper.

Then, he moved his gaze down, and began to look back from the abstract.

In this way, time passed slowly.

And until the end, Witten and Adler on the opposite side raised their heads almost at the same time, and after looking at each other, they both saw the deep shock in each other's eyes.

They all realized at this time that something very important to the physics community—should be to the entire human race—has happened.

Chapter 187 The person who understands multidimensional field theory best is Lin Xiao

For the physics community in this century, progress has somewhat stalled.

In other words, this century is more like what physicists generally believed before the two dark clouds floated over more than 100 years ago-the building of physics has been built, and the rest is just sewing.

Around this point in the early twentieth century, the successive emergence of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics has brought a wider theoretical world to physics, and everything has become difficult for people to understand. At least for ordinary people, they have seen I don’t understand those theories anymore, because quantum mechanics is a counter-intuitive theory. Unlike classical mechanics, ordinary people can at least understand some of it based on their own life experience.

And the superstring theory in the second half of the [-]th century brought the physics world into a mysterious and mysterious world.

Such a rapid development has made the entire physics community a bit overwhelmed, so when digesting these theories, it seems that the development of the physics community seems to have stagnated.

But even with so many unanswered questions, the physics community is still looking for something new to emerge.

After all, pursuing new theories is the desire of physicists, and human desires are endless, so of course they are not satisfied.

However, since M theory, there have been no new theories that can shock the physics community.

Moreover, although the superstring theory is correct in terms of the demonstration process, because no physical experiment can prove even one of the arguments, the superstring theory has not been fully recognized by the physics community, just like the proponent of M theory , Witten only won a Fields Medal in recognition of his application of mathematics, but the Nobel Prize in Physics was still not awarded to him, because the M-theory has not been experimentally verified.

First of all, the Nobel Prize in Science has a criterion for judging, that is, it must be verified by experiments. Without verification, you cannot win the Nobel Prize in Science, just like Higgs proposed the Higgs mechanism for decades, and until After the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year.

Therefore, this has always been a pity for Edward Witten, because he is a physicist. Although he is honored to have won the highest award in mathematics as a physicist, he was able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics The academic award is what he wants most, after all, it means the recognition of his achievements.

But for such a long time, there has never been any result that can testify to M theory, which made him lose such hope for a while, and he even made up his mind not to hear of such a result before his death.

However, today Witten sees a hope in this issue of Physical Review Letters.

This "On Multidimensional Field and Its Situation Superposition", although discussing multidimensionality from another direction, has no theoretical intersection with M theory, but there is obviously an intersection between the things discussed by the two parties, which means, He can try to find the place where the two can intersect, and then communicate with the two. There is a good chance.

What's more, this paper is also based on quantum field theory.

And why Witten saw the hope of being able to justify the name of M theory in this is because this theory successfully found a logical and self-consistent argument for the vacuum catastrophe.

There is a huge gap of 107 orders of magnitude between the upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy predicted by quantum field theory and the upper limit of vacuum zero-point energy tested in practice. This phenomenon is called vacuum catastrophe, and it also makes physicists feel baffled untie.

But the multi-dimensional field theory has made an answer for it, because according to the value predicted by the quantum field theory, because of the original defect of the quantum field theory, the influence of multiple dimensions has not been considered, and according to the conditions of the multi-dimensional field theory, as long as multiple The effect of dimension on the zero-point energy of vacuum will be able to infinitely approximate the predicted results and experimental results.

Although the calculation results are not clearly given in the paper, anyone who is a little better at mathematics can get the final result based on the calculation formula inside.

And it is this empirical evidence that gives an excellent proof of the multidimensional field theory.

This is also the most important.

Conversely, it is equivalent to saying that it has been confirmed experimentally.

Einstein's theory of relativity has not been recognized until 1919 when Arthur Stan Lee Eddington detected the curvature of space-time through the observation of a total solar eclipse, and finally proved the correctness of the theory of relativity, so Einstein has since He was promoted to the altar of physicists in the world and compared with Newton.

As soon as Lin Xiao's multidimensional field theory came out, he solved a dark cloud in the physics world. He even predicted the two dark clouds of dark matter and dark energy. Although this prediction has not yet been verified by experiments, but Obviously, no one can deny its explanation for the phenomenon of vacuum catastrophe.

Therefore, Witten was extremely pleasantly surprised.

He looked at Adler and shouted:

"Adler."

But it just so happened that Adler also called out to him: "Witten."

Then both of them smiled.

Regardless of how incredible this paper is, at this time, they all feel that they are the happiest people in the world.

Because they once again witnessed an advancement in physics during their lifetime, and they were once again one step closer to the truth.

Suddenly, Edward Witten stood up and looked around at the people around him.

There are mathematicians, theoretical physicists, astrophysicists, historians, political scientists, etc., as well as many postdoctoral fellows of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

At this moment, Edward Witten just wanted to share this good news with all of them.

So he said loudly: "Friends! Everyone look here."

Immediately, everyone looked over.

Those who were familiar with Witten all smiled and asked, "Witten, could it be that your grandson is getting married?"

Edward Witten smiled and said, "No, the news I'm going to say next is more important than this."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned. What is the thing that can make an old man think is more important than the life events of the younger generation?