From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"That's all, put it away."

"Okay." Chen Mingkai immediately took it. Although he still can't understand it now, maybe he has finished the content of the basic version, so he can touch the content of the deluxe version, right?

After putting away the things, thinking that the content inside might be something that would allow him to receive invitations to those high-end mathematics conferences, he couldn't help but ask again: "By the way, Professor Lin, for you, what is the most important thing for you to publish "Annual Journal of Mathematics"? Such journals should be easy, right? But why don't you publish them often?"

He is very curious about this question, and wants to understand what the strong think about publishing papers.

But Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing, spread his hands and said, "You said it's easy, so why should I spend time on it?"

"Okay, okay, hurry up and study your problem, I have to continue to study the mass gap problem of the Yang Mills gauge field." He waved his hand dismissively, then looked down at the paper.

Hearing Lin Xiao's seemingly unintentional words, Chen Mingkai was stunned for a moment.

What?Yang...Mills gauge field mass gap problem?

He understood the view of the strong on publishing papers in the eyes of the strong, because for the strong, if they want to publish a paper, they must publish such a powerful paper.

But at this moment, Lin Xiao suddenly raised his head and said: "Oh, by the way, there is another item in the content of your deluxe edition, that is, after completing all the contents of the basic and deluxe editions, after you graduate, you can Come directly to the Dingguang Research Institute."

When Chen Mingkai, who was still shocked just now, heard the news again, he immediately forgot about the strong man, and turned into incomparable joy.

He can actually go to the Dingguang Research Institute?

"Okay! Long live the professor! The professor will always be a god!"

He immediately cheered.

Thinking about the treatment of Dingguang Research Institute, at this moment, he only felt extremely excited in his heart.

Seeing him like this, Lin Xiao couldn't help feeling amused, so he said, "Don't be too happy, you should finish your thesis first."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Chen Mingkai stood at attention and saluted, and then ran out.

Lin Xiao shook his head helplessly, and his thoughts returned to the Hodge-Lin theorem that Chen Mingkai said earlier.

"Fire Qilin? Interesting."

Without thinking too much, he lowered his head and continued his research.

Chapter 386 The Bridge Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

Time passed quietly.

Lin Xiao's research has not stopped, but the research progress is not as fast as a bamboo.

Although the seven problems of the millennium are all placed in the same position, if you want to use numerical values ​​to describe their difficulty, obviously, the difficulty of these seven problems is not the same.

1 Among them, the existence of the Yang-Mills gauge field and the mass gap problem can obviously be ranked in the forefront, because this requires not only a sufficient understanding of mathematics, but also a sufficient understanding of physics, such as particle physics and quantum mechanics. At the same time, its requirements for mathematics are also very high.

However, there is an obvious problem that physicists who can study the Yang-Mills gauge field often devote their minds to physics, and do not do much research on mathematics, so this leads to Most of the people who study this seven major mathematical problems of the millennium are physicists.

Therefore, this has become a restrictive threshold, and at the same time, there are not many research results on this issue.

Therefore, Lin Xiao's current research cannot even refer to too much content.

"The Yang-Mills equation field equation is nonlinear and is a generalization of the linear Maxwell equation."

"And Maxwell's equations contain all electromagnetism, so the electromagnetic interaction force is embedded in it like this."

"Including the original electroweak unified theory, it was also completed based on this premise."

"Heh... is it nonlinear and linear again?"

When thinking came here, Lin Xiao sighed softly.

Is the gap between linearity and nonlinearity really so difficult to bridge?

At this time, he didn't know, just like his claim of unifying linearity and nonlinearity that he put forward at the beginning, it had caused a lot of excitement in the mathematics world, but nearly a year has passed, and the statement about this Lin's program The boom, too, subsided.

Because for all the mathematicians who spent time on research, even if they achieved results, it was just a slight promotion of the special case given by Lin Xiao at the beginning, and no one found any valuable breakthrough direction.

However, like the original Langlands program, this is by no means the case. On the contrary, there are always important progress and results, full of vitality, which is completely different from the current Lin's program, which seems rather indifferent.

In the end, Lin Xiao shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Of course, this brief thought also gave him a hint, "To solve nonlinear problems, you can try to approximate them as linear problems."

"Then, let's go back to our own problem first. If we want to solve this problem, we need to introduce new content from both physics and mathematics..."

"New content in mathematics... let's not talk about it, new content in physics?"

Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up.

"In the current physics, the latest content is still my turn to multidimensional field theory."

"Although in my previous research, I didn't try to use multidimensional field theory to describe the major interaction forces, but it is not difficult to do so."

As soon as his heart moved, he picked up his pen and began to write. At this time, he already had some inspiration.

"First start with the electromagnetic interaction force."

【▽＊H=J＋αD/αt…▽＊E=－αB/αt…】

In this way, after a few steps, Lin Xiao described the electric, weak, and strong forces using multidimensional field theory.

"There is still a gravitational force..."

Lin Xiao frowned. Gravity, as the thorn in these interactions, is not difficult to express using multidimensional field theory, but the most important thing is that the physics community does not have a generally accepted view on gravity yet. .

It's like an argument between quantum mechanics and relativity.

Although in his standard model of multidimensional field theory, a prediction has been made on the existence of gravitons, at least mathematically proved that there is a particle similar to gravitons, but on this point, physicists who study the theory of relativity temporarily But they are still unwilling to admit it, and show that unless it can be proved by experiments, they will still not admit the existence of gravitons.

However, for the graviton-like particles predicted in the standard model of multidimensional field theory, even Lin Xiao and other physicists who study this thing cannot jump to conclusions at this time, because they are just like, but not completely Yes, no one can make an assertion about this kind of academic rigor.

"Well... Let's take it out and have a look, anyway, it won't waste time."

So soon, Lin Xiao wrote a description of gravity based on multidimensional field theory.

However, looking at this result, Lin Xiao fell into hesitation for a moment.

Because, he found that this final description seems to correspond to the description of gravity in general relativity.

"What the hell is this?"

Lin Xiao felt that he was researching and found a little surprise.

General relativity and gravitons are incompatible, because in general relativity, once gravitons exist, general relativity will be overthrown.

But the result he gave is based on the existence of gravitons, just like the other three forces, all of which can exist only with particles.

"Could it be that?"

A ray of light flashed across Lin Xiao's eyes.

If his idea is correct, then this will realize a grand unified theory in another sense, and this will be of great help to what he is currently trying to accomplish.

And his idea is to unify quantum mechanics and relativity before unifying the four fundamental forces.

The unity between quantum mechanics and relativity is another kind of grand unified theory, which may also be called the theory of everything.

For the latter, there is a purpose to unify quantum mechanics and relativity.

Of course, both the grand unified theory and the theory of everything can be regarded as one thing, because their ultimate goal is the same, that is, to unify the four fundamental forces.

Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Lin Xiao decisively suspended his original plan, and started to try this step instead.

Once his attempt is successful, his original intention, which is to solve the mass gap problem, may even become as simple as a broken bamboo.

"So, first write out the description of gravity in the theory of relativity."

"That's the so-called distortion of time and space... Hey, in terms of imagination, Einstein's imagination is really very advanced, at least for that era."

Lin Xiao sighed with emotion in his heart, and at the same time quickly wrote out the expression of gravity in the theory of relativity.

For this point, he completed it as if it came at his fingertips.

Soon, relevant content appeared on his paper.

"Then next..."

Lin Xiao's gaze was fixed, and after comparing the two, he was slightly amazed for a moment, and the corners of his mouth curled up accordingly.

"Finally, let me find the most critical point."

"The bridge between quantum mechanics and relativity?"

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Chapter 387 The Graviton Projection

"So, this is it."

Gravity of relativity, and gravity of multidimensional field theory.

He needed only a slight transformation of the gravitational force of the multidimensional field theory to find that the two formulas were so similar that he couldn't even make any difference.

Then, some simple transformations were performed, so the two equations could be connected with an equal sign.

"Is this just a coincidence in physics?"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but admire in his heart.

This is equivalent to the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which were almost completely incompatible in the discussion of gravity, can now be connected with an equal sign.

Of course, although it is connected, what kind of physical meaning is contained in it still needs some discussion.

Although the current Lin Xiaoda can directly publish the equation he accidentally discovered, and he also believes that this is just an article in "Physical Review Letters", and it can easily set off a wave in the physics community.

However, with Lin Xiao's personality, he would not allow himself to publish it without even getting the meaning out of it.

Looking at this equation and the left and right formulas, Lin Xiao squeezed his chin. How to see the actual physical meaning from the mathematical symbols is a relatively common thing for an excellent physicist. After all, they originally It is to use mathematics to discuss physics. If they cannot understand the physical meaning, it will obviously hinder their research.

However, for Lin Xiao, seeing the meaning behind it is not the most important thing. The most important thing is whether he can make more deduction after seeing the meaning.

And at this very moment, that's exactly what he was doing.

Looking at the formula in front of me, although both sides of the equation are harmonious, but no matter what, as a person who has a deep research on physics, after being pleasantly surprised by the formula that has a relationship between the theory of relativity and the graviton, It's just a kind of awkwardness, of course, it's a kind of awkwardness out of habit, not the kind of awkwardness that feels that this formula is wrong.

In this way, after observing the equation carefully, Lin Xiao frowned slightly, and had some thoughts.

General relativity includes the classical Newton's law of universal gravitation within the framework of special relativity.

In general relativity, gravity is described as a geometric property of space-time, that is, curvature, and this space-time curvature is directly related to the matter in space-time, and its connection method is the Einstein field equation.

"Therefore, Einstein's description of gravity in the theory of relativity is presented by this Einstein's field equation."

【Gμv=Rμv－1/2gμvR...】

Lin Xiao wrote down this Einstein field equation on paper. The equation is very simple, but the various meanings contained in it are not simple at all.

"This is based on the definition of gravity under the general theory of relativity, and according to the multidimensional field theory, various dimensions are superimposed, and gravity...gravity..."

Lin Xiao groped for his chin, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

He suddenly had a feeling of completely simplifying this problem.

"Just like the description of gravity under the general theory of relativity in the current physics community, an extremely heavy matter presses out a hole in the large network of space-time, and then other matter around this extremely heavy matter will start to circle this space. The pit surrounds."

As shown in the videos describing gravity on the Internet, there is a stretchy cloth, and then a big ball representing a star is put on it, and the big ball presses out a crater, and then throws it from the edge A few balls representing planets were entered, and these balls representing planets began to circle the big ball representing stars and began to circle around.

"But obviously, in our world, space-time is three-dimensional, and stars are also three-dimensional, so it is impossible for three-dimensional stars to press out a big net on three-dimensional space-time, but if gravity acts on our three-dimensional space-time from the perspective of four-dimensional What effect does it have?"

"And in fact, the academic community has always had this view."

That is to say, gravity should belong to the four-dimensional space, not the three-dimensional space they are in, so they cannot observe gravity in the three-dimensional universe.

"However, how can gravity interfere with our three-dimensional space from a four-dimensional perspective? Is there something in between that connects these two things?"

At this moment, Lin Xiao already felt that he was very close to that key.

"Contact... Contact..."

Lin Xiao's heart suddenly moved, and he had a bold idea.

"Perhaps, gravitons are like this?"

He started the derivation again.

This time, he integrated the graviton-like particle predicted in the standard model of multidimensional field theory.

Integral is the inverse operation of differentiation.

Derivation is the differentiation of the original function, and integration is to find the original function.