Chapter 1130 Greater Upheaval Is Brewing in the Physics World

The turmoil about the Grand Unified Theory of Algebra and Geometry has not yet completely subsided, and the completion ceremony of the Lunar Hadron Collider and related meetings will begin soon.

One after another, one after another of heavy news, one after another, washes people's eyes, shakes people's brains, and makes people overwhelmed.

It’s okay if you’re outside the academic circle. Whether it’s the Grand Unified Theory or what kind of collider, it may not be as good as a press conference about the Phantom System, and even a blog post updated by a beta tester is more shocking. and more popular.

But if you are in the academic circle, you can clearly feel this feeling of being pushed forward by a huge force majeure.

It seems that what they were discussing yesterday is no longer a problem today, and then they have to face and adapt to new topics.

Numerous Ph.D.s have been postponed, some of them are forced, and some of them are voluntary applications. After all, after the completion of the grand unified theory, especially about algebraic geometry, there are too many things that need to be relearned.

Many people even suffer from anxiety disorders because of this, and have to rely on drugs to relieve their tired and fragile nerves.

At the same time, as the birthplace of the Grand Unified Theory and the first university to offer this course, the opportunity to study at Jinling University is hard to find for a while.

It took less than half a month from the beginning when you could apply as long as you applied, to the time when the people who signed up had already lined up in a long line, and even those who had already signed up had to "add money".

In physics, the situation is roughly the same.

The completion of the Lunar Hadron Collider may not have had a great impact on the Physics Department of Jinling University, but it has a huge impact on IMCRC.

Just a year ago, or even half a year ago, it was quite difficult to get opportunities to visit CERN or even do volunteer work.

And now this scene seems to be replicated on the pearl in the Western Pacific.

IMCRC receives tens of thousands of applications from all over the world every day. Some hope to come here to apply for positions, visit exchanges, hold lectures, etc., and some apply for experiments, hoping to use the lunar hadron collider Powerful functions to verify your own ideas about the microcosm and the quantum world.

When receiving these applications, even Luo Wenxuan, who had seen many things in the world with Professor Witten, was quite surprised.

If it wasn't for work, he would not even know that there are so many people studying physics in this world after seeing the mountain of applications.

Does the discipline really need so many people?

He, who had never doubted this matter before, began to doubt it now.

The conference will be held on December 18th.

Although there is only one week before the Western New Year—that is, Christmas, if you are not careful, you may miss the reunion with your family, but no one has the slightest complaint.

It is not easy to get the qualification to participate in this event.

As early as two months ago, when IMCRC had just applied for the right to use the venue at the Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center, this top-level event that was destined to completely change the future pattern of high-energy physics attracted the attention of the world.

Except for those scholars who were invited, most of the people who applied to participate in this society on their own have been queuing up since then...

...

Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

In an ordinary, even monotonous, nostalgic office, Professor Deligne was sitting at his desk, staring at a piece of draft paper with half-line calculations written on it, frowning and thinking hard.

It has been almost a week since that report ended.

He has been thinking about this problem on paper these days, but he still has no clue until now.

Sure enough, I still have to be old.

Sighing softly in his heart, Professor Deligne shook his head.

Although his knowledge would not decline to the level of an ordinary person along with his eyesight, he could already clearly feel that he was gradually starting to feel powerless in accepting new things.

Just when he was about to put this question aside temporarily and make himself a cup of coffee, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

Putting down the pen in his hand, Professor Deligne sighed softly, took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose and raised his head, speaking in a clear voice.

"The door is unlocked, please come in."

The door opened, and an old man with thinning hair and a slightly tall stature walked in with an easy-going smile on his face.

"My old friend, I heard that you came back from Huaguo?"

"I came back a few days ago." Seeing that it was Witten, thinking that he probably had nothing important to discuss with himself, Professor Deligne put on his glasses again, and rewrote the piece of draft paper on which only half-line calculations were written. picked up.

Noticing his movements, Wei Teng asked with a look of interest on his face.

"What are you studying?"

Deligne: "The paper on the unified theory of algebra and geometry... that is, the one that caused a sensation in the academic world during this period, I recommend you to take a good look, although I don't know if you are still studying mathematics, but I Dare to say it will definitely help your research.”

Wei Teng: "Didn't you just come back from Huaguo? Haven't understood yet?"

"The value of this paper is not only to understand it, but also to dig it out."

Professor Deligne smiled lightly, with a little praise and emotion in his eyes, and continued with a slight sigh, "This forty-page paper not only demonstrates the unified theory of algebraic geometry, but also puts forward A series of promotional propositions related to it, and most of these propositions are unproved, that is, the so-called conjectures... Unexpectedly, he not only solved the problems that have troubled us for thousands of years, but even the road ahead for the next hundred or even thousands of years How to go, he has already pointed out to the latecomers."

Wei Teng asked with interest: "So you are studying Lu's conjecture?"

"I just thought these questions were interesting, so I took them out and looked them up during this time." As if not wanting to admit that he was stumped by these questions, Professor Deligne frowned, looked at him and asked, "... ...is there anything wrong with asking these questions?"

Wei Teng said with a smile: "It's really nothing, I just came to see my old friend before the trip, and by the way... remind him about the bet."

Seeing the happy smile on the old guy's face, the corners of Professor Deligne's mouth couldn't help twitching, but in the end he didn't renege on his debt. He opened the drawer with a stern face, and took out a notebook with a hard paper cover from it. .

"take it."

Ecstatically, he took the research notebook on Goldbach's conjecture, and Witten took it in his hand with great interest and began to read it.

Although he has never studied the ancient, profound and pure art of number theory, no one knows the value of this notebook better than him.

"It's so clean...couldn't it be a fake?"

Professor Deligne said with a straight face: "Next time you go to Huaguo, you can stop by Jinling and ask him this question face to face."

"Haha, I was just joking." Wei Teng laughed, paused for a moment, and continued, "Speaking of which, I happen to be going to China soon."

Deligne: "Is that collider finished?"

Wei Teng nodded and said with a smile.

"Yes."

"I can't believe it," Deligne smashed his tongue, "They really repaired the collider to the moon."

Putting the notebook into his arms, Professor Witten smiled, with a little emotion in his tone.

"The magic of technology is so fascinating... If only I was born a few decades later, maybe in another fifty years, the problems we are worrying about now will no longer be problems."

Professor Deligne said disapprovingly.

"Don't worry, as long as you still choose this line of work, there will definitely be new troubles waiting for you."

Slightly stunned, Professor Wei Teng said with a smile.

"That's true."

Mathematics is undergoing an upheaval.

As old problems are solved, more new problems are bound to be born.

And physics, why not?

He has foreseen this day since the problem of Yang-Mills equation was solved and the "Unified Theory of Strong Electricity" was born.

As long as that person's footsteps haven't stopped.

This day will come sooner or later.