Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 400: The Cold Water on String Theory

This sudden good news made Qin Yuanqing come to the Institute for Advanced Study with a relaxed and happy mood, and he hadn't come to the Institute for Advanced Study for a while.

The Institute for Advanced Study is now a star-studded place. Although Mr. Yang is old, he still occasionally visits the Institute for Advanced Study to communicate with other researchers.Perelman is in the field of mathematics. Although he is not good at communication and hates reporters, he has no problem with academic exchanges. Now Perelman can communicate with people around him in Chinese.Wei Teng is in charge of string theory. Relying on the prestige of him and Qin Yuanqing, he has attracted more than [-] researchers in the field of string theory during this period, making Shuimu University leap from a third-rate university in string theory to a first-class university in string theory. Comparable to Princeton University.

This is the role of the domain boss!

It is possible to upgrade a field to a level or even several levels.

The computer itself is Mizuki's strong point, and it is already the undisputed No. [-] in the world!

"The two-dimensional membrane was discovered from the ten-dimensional supergravity theory, and it can even be considered as a high-dimensional extension of the black hole solution." Qin Yuanqing just arrived at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Wei Teng is colliding with other researchers. Some students were listening, showing obsession: "Schwarzzid's black hole solution is a three-dimensional space solution, while Einstein's equations are any dimension and can be solved. Interesting and worth thinking about topics. Ten The two-dimensional space is distributed with two-dimensional surfaces equal to membranes, not points or strings."

"In other words, the question we urgently need to answer is, what happens to the brane in ten-dimensional space after compacting the supergravity theory in ten-dimensional space into nine-dimensional space using a one-dimensional circle?" Witten proposed an interesting question.

When the others heard this, they rubbed their hands together excitedly, their faces glowing red. Could it be that they were about to witness the solution of a world problem in physics?
"Superstring theory is applicable to the space within nine dimensions, and in the ten-dimensional space, the membrane is considered as the basic unit of elementary particles. After the space is increased by one dimension, the basic unit is also increased by one dimension. The only constant is the quantum Mechanics, pay homage to Einstein, Schrödinger, Bohr and Heisenberg!" Witten's eyes sparkled with excitement.

Wei Teng was not used to leaving Princeton at the beginning and came all the way to Shuimu University, but soon Wei Teng found that this place is indeed full of vitality, just like the morning sun, and Shuimu University is also constantly attracting talents.

Slowly, he also settled down and continued to study string theory, trying to make another breakthrough and lead a new string theory revolution.

Here, there is a group of like-minded people with him!
Like Witten, they believe that string theory, superstring theory, and M theory are correct. They also want to trigger a new string theory and make string theory an important branch of theoretical physics.

"However, it is almost impossible to use a two-dimensional membrane to construct a theory, which is also an important reason why superstring theory is in trouble." Just when everyone was frantically discovering the truth of the world, a faint voice came , It's like spraying a basin of cold water on this group of fanatical scientists.

Then everyone looked in the direction of the sound with angry eyes. If eyes can kill, their angry eyes are enough to kill each other thousands of times.

But when it was Qin Yuanqing who spoke, everyone had to put away their angry eyes, because Qin Yuanqing was not only the head of Shuimu, but also a great god, and his status in the field of theoretical physics was even higher than that of Wei Teng. superior.

Although Qin Yuanqing came to the Institute for Advanced Study a handful of times, the profound knowledge shown by Qin Yuanqing convinced these string theory experts and made them realize that this is a string theory comparable to Wei Teng, Even surpassed the Great God of Weiteng!
"Tracing back to the source, I think the source of the problem is to thoroughly prove that the Kabila Qiu Chengtong space with an absolute value of Euler's number of 6 is the best choice. Because the trajectory formed by the one-dimensional string moving in the space is a two-dimensional surface , and the topology of a two-dimensional surface is completely determined by the Euler number." Qin Yuan smiled lightly.

Wei Teng said angrily: "Qin, I also know that this is the source of the problem, but to be honest, I have no ability to prove it. You are responsible for this matter!"

"Don't worry, Witten, I think in this special year of 2018, when mankind embarks on the fourth industrial revolution, string theory will also usher in a major change! You have waited for so many years, do you still care about waiting for another year!" Qin Yuan smiled lightly.

Theories are always ahead of reality, and the basic theories of physics usually take a long time to be verified.

It took about 100 years for Newton's law of universal gravitation to be verified by Cavendish's sophisticated experiments.

Einstein's E=mc2 was confirmed by experiments by Croft and Walton, 27 years after the formula was published.

In 2012, CERN discovered the Higgs boson, which excited the physics world, and the prediction of the Higgs boson appeared half a century ago in 1964.

Superstring theory was born about half a century ago, and until now, precise experiments and observations about it are still difficult to achieve.

In 2005, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, USA used a particle accelerator to conduct heavy ion collision experiments, successfully released protons and quarks in the middle finger, and obtained quark-gluon plasma, which verified a prediction in superstring theory .

The verification of this prophecy revealed the tip of the iceberg of superstring theory, and it is extremely difficult to directly observe the entire "iceberg" with the current level of human technology.

Witten also understands this truth. If he wants to observe, then maybe he has to live to be 90 or even 100 years old before he can witness it, and then he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with tears in his eyes.

Therefore, in order to be able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in his lifetime, Witten chose to leave his favorite Princeton University and came to Shuimu.It is because he believes that if anyone in this world can solve the source of string theory problems, then it is undoubtedly Qin Yuanqing.

Qin Yuan looked at the crowd with a faint smile. These are basic theory researchers, and they all understand one thing. Even if modern technology cannot thoroughly verify the superstring theory, they can only bite the bullet and go on.Because the contradiction between the theory of gravity and the theory of quantum mechanics can only be resolved by superstring theory.

Regardless of how many years later humans can design an accurate experiment to prove that superstring theory is a correct proposition, what contemporary scientists have to do is to realize the self-justification of superstring theory at the theoretical level and improve its self-consistency.

Why is it that although string theory and superstring theory are hot frontiers in theoretical physics and have made many achievements, in the field of theoretical physics, there are still a large number of physicists who do not recognize it, because string theory and superstring theory have been There is a fatal problem from the very beginning, but scholars in the field of string theory and superstring theory have not been able to answer this problem.

It's like someone who claims to be a man, but when he takes off his pants, he finds that there is no JJ!
Wei Teng calmed down, yes, as Qin Yuanqing said, since he has been waiting for so many years, can't he wait for a year now?

"Qin, that's what you said. If you can't explain why the absolute value of Euler's number is 6, I'm going to challenge you to a duel!" Wei Teng said.

Qin Yuanqing smiled. In fact, Qin Yuanqing already had an idea about the absolute value of Euler's number 6, but too many trivial matters hindered his progress and prevented him from studying it quietly.

But he is still very confident to solve this problem in 2018.

Then Qin Yuanqing, Witten, and Perelman got together, no longer discussing string theory, but chatting about the upcoming World Mathematical Union Congress, which this year will be held in Rio, Brazil.

"I really don't understand why it's held in Rio. The law and order there is extremely poor. There are frequent robberies and even gun battles in the Olympics." Witten kept complaining about this.

"Who knows, maybe I want to invite all mathematicians in the world to enjoy a football match." Qin Yuanqing said with a smile.

The airplane crisis that happened last year made Qin Yuanqing no longer plan to go abroad. It stands to reason that as the kindest star in the world of mathematics today, Qin Yuanqing has the responsibility and obligation to promote the influence of the conference, because it is not in the interests of anyone. It is for the benefit of all mathematicians in the world.

So he communicated with the chairman of the conference before, and he has made it clear that he will not participate in this year's Union of Mathematicians conference.

"To be honest, this conference is getting more and more boring, it's not as good as an academic report meeting!" Perelman has no interest in this at all.

"It seems that this conference is lively. It stands to reason that your excellence in the Riemann conjecture is limited, and it is fully worthy of the Fields Medal. If the conference decides to award you the award and you are not here, it will be interesting." Witten said with a smile.

It stands to reason that Perelman is over 40 years old, and it is impossible to win the Fields Medal again.Qin Yuanqing also won the Fields Medal twice, basically it is very difficult to win the Fields Medal again.However, the quasi-Riemann conjecture made by the two last year was of great significance. It directly made the mathematics circle go from 0 steps directly to 99 steps. Only the final capping work was needed to announce that the Riemann conjecture building stood in the mathematics circles.

But even so, the proof of the quasi-Riemann conjecture has directly led to more than 1000 conjectures attached to the Riemann conjecture, and 600 conjectures have been proved. From conjectures to theorems and formulas, the significance is too great. I can't say enough about it.

Therefore, Witten feels that this conference of mathematicians is likely to make an exception and award the Fields Medal to Qin Yuanqing and Perelman in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the Riemann conjecture.

(End of this chapter)