Chapter 191: Inspiration always comes by accident

After a while, Lu Zhou typed a line and asked.
[If not found? 】
The old man typed very quickly and waited less than five minutes before responding to his question.
[The possibility you said certainly exists. If the energy standard below TeV cannot find what we need, we can only declare the bankruptcy of the minimum supersymmetric standard model, and then go to the higher energy region to find what we are looking for. s things. Proving that our previous work was wrong, this is also an important discovery. Although it is not necessarily what we want to see ... but I think that you can actually have more confidence in our theory. The new continent is right in front of us. I even smelled the fragrance of the spices. 】
In the end, the old gentleman even joked easily with his tone.
However, Lu Zhou was not so optimistic and could not laugh at all.
It may be because he did not experience the feeling of decades of day-long study in the maze of the quantum world, so he did not cultivate the humor that a theoretical physicist must have in the face of unsolved mysteries. spirit.
Thinking about a problem doesn't make him frustrated.
But if a research doesn't see the end and the future, it's hard to keep him from feeling irritable.
Yes, this subject gave him this feeling.
Even if there is a Nobel laureate in the team, he cannot draw a reliable path for him with a positive tone. There are countless ways in front of them, and all they can do is compare the magnitude of the possibilities.
Unlike the mathematical problems he studies, what is wrong is wrong, and what is right is right. It may take time to review the manuscript, but in the end he will definitely put an end to his efforts.
What makes Lu Zhou feel irritable is not just the dilemma he faces in this subject, but the dilemma of the entire theoretical physics community.
The development of theory is far from the experiment. The building of this building is not even rigorous experimental data, but a line of things that have not been tested experimentally, or even impossible to test for decades.
Propose conjectures based on proven theories and limited phenomena, and then build a model with countless conjectures. The "standard model" on which theoretical physics relies is probably such a "unreliable" thing.
The 1960s supersymmetric wheel was proposed, and the string theory rose in the 1980s. However, God particles were only found in the laboratory a few years ago. The theoretical physics community hastily announced that it has entered the "post-standard model" era. The neutrino oscillated, and almost duang the standard model.
Lu Zhou can understand why Mr. Frank was so obsessed with the theory of supersymmetry that he so desperately wanted to find supersymmetric particles.
This obsession is definitely not because of something so superficial, but because if the theory of supersymmetry does not hold, the loopholes in the standard model cannot be filled, and the string theory based on the theory of supersymmetry will collapse ...
If these things happen once, there will be many people who ask them a heartfelt sentence-"What are you doing in this half century?"
It would be nice if theoretical physics were like news.
I found this today, overthrow it tomorrow, and hammer it again the day after tomorrow. Every day is a new page ...
But in fact, anyone who is attentive can find that almost all theoretical physicists add the word "may" to their own words when describing a novel idea publicly.
Regarding dark matter speculation, Lu Zhou did not know whether his speculation was correct.
Both theories are possible, but the conclusion is very different. If he has conclusive evidence to refute the other's theory, he will certainly come out without hesitation and convince Mr. Frank, but It's a pity he didn't.
Can only wait for experiments to test.
After hesitating, Lu Zhou's hands resting on the keyboard finally moved and knocked down a line.
Click to send.
[Maybe you are right, but I still prefer to think that what we found is not a new continent, but Iceland. 】
Far on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Professor Frank, sitting in the co-pilot seat, waiting for a reply, suddenly laughed and startled the doctoral student sitting next to him.
Quickly slowed down, the doctoral student looked at the computer and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Mr. Frank shook his head, closed the lid of the notebook, and said with a smile, "The Chinese guy you said to me is kind of humorous."
...
Although joking in the end, Lu Zhou's mood was not good.
Staring at the files in the computer for a long time, and then looking at the stack of A4 paper next to it, he was holding his hair in both hands, his face was impetuous.
Two-line battle seems to be a wrong choice, one is number theory, the other is functional analysis and group theory.
And this is not the most uncomfortable, the most uncomfortable is that Mr. Frank introduced the extra dimension operation outside the symmetrical field, which lacks the mathematical beauty. Obviously, according to his set of views, to solve this problem from the perspective of dark matter. Problems that cannot be explained mathematically can be avoided.
If from the perspective of dark matter, each Z / PZ generator can be mapped to a function such as exp (2pi · i / p), the Pontryagin dual problem can also be properly solved ... probably?
In short, his mathematical intuition told him that this possibility is very large, as much as the amount of engineering to perfect this theory!
Leaning on a chair, Lu Zhou looked at the ceiling, and those symbols were constantly lingering in his brain, even forgetting to go to eat soon.
Group theory ...
Group theory ...
If only the problem of this group theory is as simple as number theory ... although number theory is not simple.
Wait, group theory? !!
Lu Zhou's eyes brightened, and suddenly a flash of aura in his head.
This ephemeral light did not illuminate the shadow under the characteristic peak of 750GeV, but accidentally lighted on the top of Polignac's conjecture.
Sitting up from the chair, Lu Zhou turned his pen in his hand and his brain turned quickly.
Group theory is a very powerful tool. It is not only tied with Hilbert space in functional analysis as two theoretical artifacts of quantum mechanics, but also often plays a role in number theory, especially when researching infinite prime numbers. Strange effect.
For example, any teacher of basic number theory will mention a very classic example in the first or second class-Fermat's Little Theorem.
There are many proof methods for this theorem. Among them, the most concise proof method is generally proved by group theory.
As for how concise it is, standard fonts only need three lines to do it ~ EbookFREE.me ~ That is, if α and p are prime, the Euler theorem has α ^ φ (p) ≡ 1 (modp), but φ (P) = p-1, so α ^ (p-1) ≡1 (modp), multiply both sides by α to get the conclusion: when α is a natural number and p is a prime number, there is α ^ p≡α (modp) .
Is not it simple?
In fact, Fermat's little theorem is just a special case of Euler's theorem.
However, using Euler's theorem, it can still be solved by group theory, and the whole proof process can't use half a page.
During this time, when Lu Zhou was thinking about the proof of Polignac's conjecture, his idea has been how to supplement the topological principle of the sieve method, and how to extend the form of K = 1 to infinite natural numbers, but he did not consider it. By using other mathematical methods ...
In fact, many papers on the Arxiv website have been doing the same thing for more than half a year, trying to improve his method, and then solving the Polignac conjecture on this basis.
However, even Lu Zhou himself did not expect that he was inspired by an irrelevant physics issue.
The way to rescue the princess trapped by the dragon in the castle is not to enchant the sword that once cut off a dragon, but to take off the long bow on his back.
The ballpoint pen between the fingers turned faster and faster, and finally flew out, hitting the lamp with a "snap".
Without picking it up, Lu Zhou suddenly sighed and lay on the table, feeling a little annoyed.
"Neglect ... this idea may work!"
With inspiration, ideas like diarrhea can't be blocked!
Putting the "750GeV" thing aside for a moment, Lu Zhou pulled a brand-new A4 paper out of the drawer without saying a word. Following this new idea, he began to study carefully ...