Chapter 653: Aging is a sad topic

The report ended with failure.
Although the world of physics is generally tolerant of such world-class problems, as long as he can give reasonable repairs to the problems appearing in this thesis, no one will immediately sentence him to death, but for him personally In other words, this is still a heavy blow.
After all, under normal circumstances, if it is not a paper that has been released for a long time or is obviously full of loopholes, even the most outstanding scholars will find it difficult to point out the errors in the demonstration process at the report meeting, especially for most people who are not mainly engaged in the field. Research scholars are even more so.
For example, amendments to papers, lengthy debate and communication with the jury, those troublesome things are usually carried out in the review process of journal submissions.
But now, it is only the link of the report meeting that ended in such a disastrous defeat.
While frustrating him, he couldn't help but feel a sense of shame ...
"Damn!"
Throwing the manuscript paper to the ground, Professor Brian's fist clenched, but finally he didn't pinch himself on the table because he was worried that he might hurt himself.
Looking at the angry Professor Brian, no one dared to make a sound in the office.
Although the old gentleman usually looks like a handsome old gentleman, this does not mean that he is always like this. As you spend more time with him, you will know that his mind is not as broad as it seems.
Especially when he is angry, if anyone has stimulated him, as long as the person is still at Oxford University, don't think of a good life.
His chest was undulating, and after a while, Professor Brian finally calmed down.
The assistant standing next looked at his expression, and it seemed that the timing was almost the same, so he hesitated for a while and spoke comfortably.
"This is not a fatal error. Although we can't explain the problem, at least we used the scalar field on the space-time manifold to calculate the mass m of that particle, and the computer simulation results are basically consistent ... maybe our argument process There are loopholes, but at least no one can prove that we are wrong. "
Hearing this sentence, Professor Brian's expression eased a little, but he still couldn't talk about how friendly.
"It doesn't make sense ... Computer simulation results are not always convincing, especially on this kind of problem," said the index finger and thumb on the brow, Professor Brian thought for a long time with a headache, and finally spoke. "But you're right, at least no one can prove that we are wrong, it's just that it's not perfect."
Brows gradually relaxed, Professor Brian took a deep breath, raised his head and renewed his spirits, and cleared his throat.
"Well, guys, you are ready to work ... The professor from Asia is right, this loophole is critical. If there is no way to prove that the grid step size is approaching the zero-hour limit, it will have a fatal flaw in our proof. It might be a good thing to find this loophole earlier. "
After hearing Professor Brian's words, everyone was relieved and relieved, and the office was busy again.
Before starting work, Professor Brian got up and walked to the coffee machine next to the cupboard, and made himself a cup of coffee.
Back at the desk and sitting down, before planning to solve the problem, he planned to put a revised state on the paper hanging on arxiv.
However, when he landed on the arxiv website, he found that a new paper was posted on the tag he was tracking, and it was exactly the mass gap of the Young Mills equation, a proposition that he had claimed to prove.
Slightly hesitated, Professor Brian thought about who was so iron, and opened the paper.
However, this mouse doesn't matter at all. The moment he saw the title of the paper and the author, he was shocked.
lu.zhou? !!
wtf? !!
Before he could hesitate, he quickly glanced at the abstract of the dissertation and immediately jumped to the main body.
However, the more he looked down, the more he couldn't restrain his eyelids.
Especially when he saw the middle part and saw the key formula of "m = √ (2 + o (λ ^ 3))", the beating scared in his eyes and instantly turned into the flame of anger.
Prove that the idea is the same as him?
The preprints posted by Lu Zhou also quoted Jia Fei's paper published in the "Academic Yearbook" and the asymptotic expansion method of mass m on λ!
At most, there is a "minor" deviation in the way of solving the problem ... at least in his opinion it is quite small.
For example, he used a scalar field on a space-time manifold, which is a continuation of the method used by Weinberger in the establishment of the unified theory of weak electricity. However, Lu Zhou used a quantum corresponding to the classical interaction amount in the previous problem Field-the quantum Young Mills field.
A thunderous roar sounded in the office, and Professor Brian rose angrily from his chair.
"It can never be a coincidence!"
He fully understood.
Why did Luzhou not appear at the scene.
Why it appeared on the scene was an "unknown little soldier" from Jinling University.
Why does this "unknown little pawn" punctuate the weakness in his thesis?
It turned out that everything was set up, everything was just to destroy his lecture, and then while he was modifying the paper, he improved his proof of thought, and finally took it in front of him. This achievement.
This situation is not uncommon in academia, at least not in physics. When an idea is released but it is not well used, it is quickly processed by its peers into their own things, in order to the "first "Or" separately "reputation.
However, he never thought that a well-known scholar like Lu Zhou would do such a thing!
"professor--"
Looking at the professor who stood up stunned, the assistant sitting next to the desk just said a few words, but swallowed back again.
I saw that distorted face, filled with anger.
When a person's eyes have been obscured by the flames of hatred, it is useless to say anything at this time.
With dissatisfied eyes staring at the paper on the screen, Professor Brian gritted his teeth and said, "Help reporters who contact me with bbc, I must let everyone know that this unscrupulous guy did it on the back. What a shameless act! "
...
The campus of Oxford University.
With the departure of scholars from all over the world, the academic atmosphere on campus has returned to the tranquility of the past.
On the tarmac in front of a nearby cafe, two doctors of theoretical physics with books under their elbows walked side by side. Judging from the conversation between the two, they probably just came out of the library and were preparing to return to the dormitory.
The topic quickly shifted from quantum chromodynamics to the latest research on gauge field theory.
"Have you heard? The mass-interaction problem of strong interactions has been solved!"
"You mean Professor Brian Carlo's proof? Didn't that prove to be wrong?"
"Not him, I'm talking about Professor Lu's thesis."
"Lu? That Lu of Jinling University?"
"Don't you know? He hung a preprint last night at arxiv. My professor also posted an" incredible "on Twitter at three o'clock in the morning. I got up and liked it after I got up in the morning."
"On arxiv ?! Thank you, I suddenly remembered that I had something in the library, and I took a step!"
"..."
Under the umbrella outside the cafe.
Witten, wearing sunglasses, smiled as he watched the young man hurried by the road.
"Looks like it was first boarded by Professor Lu."
In these two days, he did not rush to return to cern, but exchanged the new idea of ​​"solving the quality gap problem from the perspective of string theory" with Dean Goddard. However, it seems that the discussions in these two days seem to be Some are unnecessary.
After all, Professor Lu, who has always been known for his rigor, released preprints.
It's harder to find faults in his dissertation, especially in the field of mathematics, than to write one.
Sitting opposite Witten, Goddard took a sip of coffee, as if to expect it.
"As expected."
"The day after tomorrow cern has a meeting," looking at his watch, Witten looked up at Dean Goddard. "So, now that the quality gap issue has been resolved, do we need to continue the discussion?"
Goddard: "Although the problem of mass gaps has been solved, the problem of correlation between strong interactions and electromagnetic interactions has not yet been resolved. Are you not interested in the Nobel Prize?"
He was well aware of Witten's weaknesses, and he clearly started the era of string theory, but failed to win the Nobel Prize.
At present, it is impossible to win the Nobel Prize through the m theory. After all, this theory has no hope of being verified for at least a century. However, string theory is not the only thing worth pursuing in theoretical physics, and there is not only one way to the grand unified theory.
however……
"Don't waste your efforts ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Wito smiled and stood up from his seat." If he is right, then no one in this world is closer to the truth than he is. In order to walk in front of him, in addition to having talent and sweat far better than him. If I were 20 years younger ... or 30 years old, I would be interested to compete with him, but now ... "
After a pause, Witten looked at Goddard and shrugged, continuing.
"Don't say it's me, do you have this confidence?"
Goddard didn't speak, just reached out his index finger, touched the coffee cup lightly, and took a silent sip.
Aging is a sad topic.
Especially for them who regard academics as life.
Although I don't mind adding a few gullies on my face, the slowness of thinking and the decline of energy are irreversible. Whether he or his old friend Witten is no longer an academic problem. Discussed a few day and night ages.
The era that belongs to them is over ...
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