Chapter 1321 Two Thousand Physics Problems

Shanghai.

Maglev train station.

Looking at Lu Zhou coming out of the exit passage, Luo Wenxuan couldn't help complaining.

"I waited all day at the maglev station yesterday!"

"You should give me a call."

"I called, at three o'clock in the afternoon and five o'clock in the afternoon! But it reminded me that the other party was not in the service area? What were you doing at that time?"

Looking at Senior Brother Luo who complained to him, Lu Zhou carefully recalled that he seemed to be on the third basement floor of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study. Because of the very strict protection measures, no signal from the outside world can be received there at all, and no signal will leak out.

As for the missed text messages...

Perhaps it was because Lu Zhou was so focused on the memory of the old universe that Lu Zhou didn't notice it at all.

"...This is my negligence. In short, let's put these things aside for the time being." With a light cough, Lu Zhou forcibly broke the topic, looked at Senior Brother Luo, and continued, "Have all the invitations been sent out?"

"It has been sent! At present, the eight major high-energy physics institutes in the world have sent replies, expressing their support for the initiative jointly proposed by us and CERN. Needless to say, CERN's delegation has already arrived in Shanghai. Want to meet them?"

Lu Zhou: "I'll be there later... I'll trouble you to entertain them during this time."

With a helpless expression on his face, Luo Wenxuan sighed and said.

"I knew you would say that."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly and gave a thumbs up.

"You still understand me."

The welcoming vehicle stopped at the exit of the station, and Wang Peng, who was walking in front, opened the door for the two of them, and then sat in the co-pilot seat himself.

Along the way, Lu Zhou simply asked Brother Luo about the progress of the preparations for the meeting.

"At present, the preparations for the meeting have been completed. We have made an appointment for the main venue of the International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the hotel is set at the nearby Yihao, and the reservation time is seven days. The Shanghai-listed ZF is very supportive of our work, and the traffic control has been done in advance And the security plan for the venue..."

Lu Zhou: "What about the physics community?"

Luo Wenxuan: "The response from the physics community is quite strong, and the mainstream opinions are basically very supportive of this conference. So far, except for the invitation letter we sent, the number of applicants through various channels has reached 100,000. The number of applications for poster booths is as high as 6,731... At present, there are not enough places in the venue, and we plan to conduct a round of pre-screening for the poster presentation, and then arrange academic booths."

There was a little surprise on his face, Lu Zhou frowned and asked.

"Are there so many people?"

100,000 people...

Does this move the entire physics community to Shanghai?

Seeing Lu Zhou's hesitant expression, Luo Wenxuan couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face.

"Who do you think it's because of..."

From the Z particle to the void theory to the hyperspace theory, a series of achievements made by IMCRC in just two years have become the focus of the entire physics community.

Especially in high energy physics.

In terms of scientific research strength alone, even CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, which are the second and third respectively, are no match for IMCRC.

After all, almost two-thirds of the world's high-energy physics research results are born from the lunar hadron collider or at least indirectly related to it.

Such a giant in the physics world, under the leadership of the most outstanding scholars in the physics world today, has issued an initiative to explore the future of physics. If the entire physics world is indifferent, it will be called hopeless.

Looking at the expression on Luo Wenxuan's face, Lu Zhou probably guessed what he wanted to say, and smiled embarrassedly.

"...This is causing trouble to your work."

"It's too troublesome. Although this is the first time for a conference of this scale, we have held several high-level international academic conferences." After a pause, Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou and continued, "And , You have more troubles than us handymen."

"for example?"

"Have you forgotten what will be discussed at this meeting?" Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Anyway, it's coming soon, and I'll take you to see it in a while."

While talking, the car has already driven into the underground parking lot of the IMCRC headquarters building.

After getting out of the car, Lu Zhou followed Senior Brother Luo's footsteps and got on the elevator. He came to the reference room on the third floor and walked to the nearest long table.

A book as thick as two heads stacked on top of each other was placed on the table.

On the cover of this book, there is only a line of bland numbers written.

【2000】

"Two thousand physics problems, covering all branches and research directions of the entire physics," Luo Wenxuan stood next to Lu Zhou, cast his eyes on this thick book, and continued, "We refer to other Based on recommendations from eight physics research institutions, the top scholars in each research branch were selected through recommendation letters, and based on their opinions, the most representative or main problems faced by this branch were selected .”

"The next thing we have to do...or what I would trouble you to do is to select one hundred of the most representative problems in physics that are expected to be solved in this century. "

Looking at the "difficulty set" as thick as a dictionary, Lu Zhou stretched out his hand and picked it up from the table with great difficulty, then quickly turned it over like counting money.

From the first image alone, this thing is really similar to the exercise book, with the serial number of the topic, the category it belongs to, and even the questioner, "source" and the earliest literature that can be traced back.

Of course, the most important thing is the "stem part" of the topic.

The whole topic is like a rigorous thesis, with descriptive language describing what the problem is, and what kind of physical background and significance it has.

Some of these topics can be explained clearly in a few words, such as "can the so-called color superfluidity similar to quantum chromodynamics be formed by pairing two kinds of Fermi atoms".

There are also questions such as "Yangian representation theory and solving nonlinear models" or "can the spectrum of one-dimensional Hubbard model and H-S model be solved with the help of Yangian representation theory", even if it takes three pages, it is not enough. It must be able to fully describe clearly, and even has certain requirements for readers' mathematical skills.

If nothing else, this is definitely the most difficult "exercise set" in the world.

Even if one of the questions is solved, it is enough to become an expert in a certain branch of research and be accepted by the entire physics community...

Looking at this collection of difficult problems that condensed the wisdom of almost all physicists in the entire human civilization, Lu Zhou felt his scalp tingling, and he couldn't help feeling quite emotional.

"...Even if it is not selected, I think this thing can be published as a masterpiece."

"I think so too," Luo Wenxuan said with a nod, "I spent two weeks flipping through it roughly, and many of the questions in it are not just simple questions, but also include questions that the author of the question asked about. Thinking about research branches. Some of this part is even more academically valuable than the topic itself.”

"...In short, let's wait for the delegations from other research institutes to arrive. The selection work cannot be done by me alone," said Lu Zhou on the collection of the most cutting-edge problems in today's physics field. Looking at Senior Brother Luo, he continued, "I'll put this book here for now, and I plan to spend a few days going through it briefly."

Luo Wenxuan: "That's what I suggested too...By the way, as an independent research institution, IMCRC also needs to send a delegation to participate in the selection of 100 physics propositions. Who do you think is better to arrange? "

"Don't ask me such trivial things."

Lu Zhou looked at Luo Wenxuan, and said in a half-joking tone, "As the next chairman, if you can't even handle this little thing well, you'd be too sorry for me."