From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"This...proves that Yang-Mills theory satisfies Whiteman's axioms?"

"This means that, for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial quantum Yang-Mills theory exists on R^4?!"

Witten could no longer control his voice and exclaimed.

He is so familiar with this line of text that he even wrote it out by himself at the beginning, but when he wrote this line of text back then, he was asking for a question, and what Lin Xiao wrote at this time This line of text, however, is a statement that solves the problem!

That's right, this is one of the seven millennium problems, one of the most important problems in theoretical physics, which will bring great significance to physicists' understanding of the strong force, the first problem of the Yang-Mills gauge field problem A problem, that is, the existence of Yang-Mills gauge field!

Although Lin Xiao's words were written in Chinese, and Witten couldn't understand the Chinese inside, the mathematical symbols were common, so he could easily see the meaning of Lin Xiao's previous part of the mathematical derivation process.

Seeing this, the shock in Witten's heart can no longer be added.

In this way, half of this problem that has plagued the physics community for many years has been solved at this time?

Although strictly speaking, he only saw Lin Xiao's conclusion and did not see the previous content. Whether Lin Xiao really completed the proof still needs to be seen in the previous process.

But if you think about it being done by Lin Xiao, then half of the doubts will disappear immediately. After all, Lin Xiao's ability is obvious to the whole world. Is there anything he has proved to have failed in the past?

Obviously not!

Well, in Witten's heart, he has already believed more than half of it.

And the first question has been completed, then, isn't Lin Xiao just proving the existence of the quality gap?

Looking back at the formula written by Lin Xiao on the draft paper, Witten was immediately convinced of it.

And at this time, maybe Witten's exclamations just now were louder, so Lin Xiao finally came back to his senses.

After he stopped writing, he looked at Witten next to him suspiciously, and then said, "Witten? Why are you here?"

Witten immediately pointed to his draft paper and said excitedly: "Have you successfully proved that the Yang-Mills gauge field satisfies the requirements of Whiteman's axiom?"

Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the part that Witten pointed to, and then said with a smile: "I think it probably succeeded."

"It's unbelievable, it's really unbelievable, although as you said before, as long as you solve the contradiction between quantum mechanics and relativity on gravity, you can in turn help to prove this problem, but no matter what, you actually succeeded so quickly! "

Lin Xiao shook his head, "It's only half of the success, and the other half is more critical."

The mass gap is the core issue. If the former is the first question, which only reveals more mathematical correlations, then the proof of the mass gap will directly reveal that the current quantum collider collision cannot A physical phenomenon was discovered, which is what physicists are after.

Although mathematics is very important to physics, the physical phenomena and the nature of the universe revealed through mathematics are the most critical.

"But no matter what, you are now very close to success."

Witten admired sincerely.

"My question has not been completed yet, but you have completed two questions. Oh, now I suddenly understand why some people on the Internet say that you are as smart as an alien. Now I am also curious."

"Uh..." Lin Xiao touched his nose and said, "Maybe aliens are not as smart as me?"

After all, aliens don't necessarily have cheats like him, do they?

Witten froze for a moment, then laughed again, "It makes sense."

"By the way, tomorrow is your report. Are you planning to bring this proof to the report?" Witten said, "It's just right, I saw many mathematicians coming. The field report attracts more than just physics, I really want to know what their expressions will be when you tell them this surprise in the report tomorrow."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "This proposal can be considered."

But then, he lowered his head again, looked at his draft paper, and frowned slightly.

"However, instead of talking about giving them a surprise tomorrow, it's better to think about how to give them a bigger surprise."

"An even bigger surprise?"

There was a puzzled expression on Witten's face.

"Well, an even bigger surprise."

Lin Xiao nodded.

"You mean..." Witten followed Lin Xiao's gaze and looked at the end of his line of sight, which was still the proof of the mass gap.

Witten suddenly had a sense of absurdity: "Could it be that you want to prove the quality gap problem before the report tomorrow? Can this... be done?"

No matter how you think about it, it shouldn't be possible, right?

After all, looking at Lin Xiao's writing process on the draft paper, he has just begun to prove the quality gap.

Lin Xiao smiled, "Witten, do you still remember the suggestions I gave to your question?"

"Of course... Could it be that you can also use that method?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Maybe, of course, tomorrow, you may receive a surprise that I specially prepared for you."

"A surprise just for me?"

Witten became even more curious. How can Lin Xiao surprise him by proving the gap in quality?

But when he wanted to ask, Lin Xiao had already lowered his head again, probably because of another train of thought.

Seeing this, Witten shook his head slightly, forget it, since it was a surprise, let's save the answer until tomorrow.

After that, he didn't stay any longer, and quietly left Lin Xiao's office.

The office was quiet again.

The birds outside the window chirped a few times. For these creatures suspected of being descendants of dinosaurs, they probably would never imagine what kind of things the scary erect apes inside were studying. However, for the birds anyway, there is no need to care The birth and destruction of the universe.

……

The earth has turned around by itself, and for the human beings on it, it is a day.

At the same time, in Lin Xiao's office, he straightened his waist and yawned deeply.

Then, he lowered his head again and looked at the draft paper, his eyes wrinkled tightly.

"No... No, no, it's still one step away, but which step should it be..."

The whole night passed, and he didn't rest all night, trying to solve the final mass gap problem. However, he still hasn't done it until now.

Just as he thought at the beginning, the idea he told Witten at the beginning was also helpful for the problem of quality gap, but when he wrote the last step, he was finally stumped.

And at this moment, his cell phone rang.

"Lin Xiao, your report will start at ten o'clock, and it's already past eight o'clock, why don't you come to school yet?"

Dean Zhao Qi called. Although he lost the opportunity to undertake this report alone, his enthusiasm is still quite high.

Lin Xiao woke up suddenly, opened the curtains, looked outside, the sun had already crossed the distance of one astronomical unit, and the light from the sun's surface [-] seconds ago covered his body.

"It's already dawn..."

"Huh? Bright...?"

"That's right, Photon!"

Suddenly, Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and his sleepy brain, as if under the sunlight, had energy due to the photoelectric effect.

And maybe Lin Xiao lost his voice, Zhao Qi said again: "Lin Xiao?"

Lin Xiao finally came back to his senses, and then said with a smile: "I see, Dean Zhao, I'll be right here."

"it is good."

Then, hung up the phone.

Lin Xiao stood up, and first called Qi Shangao who is now in charge of protecting him.

"Prepare to take me to Beijing University. Also, please buy me a bottle of coffee. Well, okay, hang up."

Putting down his phone, he raised his head again and looked at the morning sun in the sky outside the window.

"Thank you, Sun."

……

Chapter 398 Erased Blackboard, Re-writing

The familiar Beijing auditorium, as well as some familiar faces, of course, there are also some unfamiliar faces.

However, these unfamiliar faces are only unfamiliar to the auditorium of the Beijing University, but to the physics community, these people are all familiar faces.

Among them are Juan Maldacina, who also came from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, as well as Nobel Prize winners in physics Penrose, Jim Peebles, Gross and so on.

All in all, if these physicists disappear, human physics may have to stagnate for at least 20 years, or even longer.

Of course, if everyone else except these physicists disappears, then let alone physics, mathematics will probably stagnate for decades.

Because many familiar faces present are the world's top mathematicians who have come here several times to listen to Lin Xiao's report.

For these mathematicians, they have been here too many times recently, and they are all familiar with the way when they come in.

"Hey, Deligne, was the bun just delicious?"

"Oh, it's Roujiamo, Roujiamo, Pompieri, not Mojiarou, please correct me."

"Oh! Look at my memory, I almost forgot again, it's Roujiamo."

Deligne and Pompieri continued to chat about the original Rougamo issue, while Maldacina next to him heard the conversation of these two colleagues and couldn't help asking curiously: "What are you talking about? Steamed buns, steamed buns with meat?"

"Oh, it's the breakfast we ate today. It's a unique snack in Huaguo and Qin Province. You can try it more." Deligne said with a smile, "It's called Roujiamo, it's...well, it's like a hamburger, It's just that instead of sandwiching meat with bread, they sandwich meat with pizza-like dough."

"Oh, so it's this one. I remembered it. I saw it today." Maldassina nodded, and then said: "But speaking of this, I recommend you to try the snack called tofu nao, especially It’s salty tofu nao, that’s a must.”

At this time, a voice came from the side: "Salty tofu nao? No, no, you have to eat sweet tofu nao, it's delicious."

Maldassina turned his head and said, "Witten, Witten, you have completely forgotten us old fellows, and you are reluctant to go back after staying in Huaguo?"

"Of course not." Witten said with a smile, "It's probably the sweet tofu that makes me want to stay."

"Hehe, then you still have to try salted tofu nao." Maldacina said, "You will find another world."

"No no, you probably haven't tried sweet ones, you..."

The two foreigners just started arguing over sweet and salty tofu, which confused Deligne and Pompieri next to them. Is there any difference between sweet and salty?

So they discussed whether they should try separately next time.

Of course, as time passed, it was almost ten o'clock, and everyone present became quiet, and did not talk about other things. After all, they all knew that the really important thing was Lin Xiao's few days of lectures.

Everyone present was a little impatient.

Especially physicists like Maldacena.

Compared with those Nobel Prize winners who came here just to witness the history of the physics world, they have already achieved their fame, but for a young physicist like Maldassina, he still needs a Nobel Prize winner. Bell Prize in Physics to thoroughly prove himself.

Even in the current physics world, the main force of research is young physicists like them.

"Witten, you have been with Lin for a long time, do you know how to report to Lin?"

Just before the start, Maldacena asked Witten in a low voice.

The people around also looked at Witten, showing curiosity.

Witten shook his head and said, "I don't know the details."

"However, all I can say is that there will be surprises in this report, and it will probably be a big one."

"big surprise?"

Everyone else became curious.

And at this moment, the host stepped onto the stage.

The host is the dean of the School of Physics. Facing those faces who are extremely well-known in the academic world, Dean Wang said with a smile: "Hello everyone, welcome to all respected professors and doctors who have come here from a long distance. After today, the monument of physics will once again be added with a rich and colorful touch. At the same time, our physics will also open a new page. From then on, we will study the theory of everything without worrying about It's relativity and quantum mechanics after all."

"Then, don't say anything else, let's invite our protagonist now, welcome Professor Lin Xiao!"

Applause rang out, and everyone present saw that very familiar figure walk onto the stage.

No matter for mathematicians or physicists, Lin Xiao's figure is very familiar to them. For mathematicians, Lin Xiao's figure has been engraved in their hearts. For physicists, Lin Xiao The report that proposed the multidimensional field theory, this young figure, has made them unable to forget.

"Hello everyone."

At this moment, Lin Xiao, who came to the acting stage, faced every scholar off the stage, with a faint smile on his face, and then bowed slightly.

"Then, most of the friends here should know me, and I basically know every friend here, so let's start directly."

Lin Xiao opened a PPT, the PPT is very simple, basically there is no bells and whistles.

On the first page of PPT, there are only a few words

[Gravity, graviton, relativity, quantum mechanics]

"The reason why everyone came here is very clear to me, and it is probably because of my original paper."