From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 184 Yang Zhenning’s trick

More and more people entered the lecture hall, until the time reached nine o’clock in the morning, and the meeting officially began.

The first person to speak was Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a female physicist.

Gianotti is still very well-known in the high-energy physics community. Of course, his achievements are also quite important, and he has also provided a lot of help for the upgrading and maintenance of the LHC.

After she went up, she mainly introduced the current maintenance progress of the LHC, as well as the plans and preparations for the next experiment. This is also something that everyone present is more concerned about. After all, high-energy physics is indispensable for such large-scale collisions. machine, everyone is very concerned about when it will be able to start.

Soon, Gianotti’s speech ended, and after wishing the meeting a successful conclusion, the next scientist began to take the stage to share.

And this scientist is a heavyweight, Peter Higgs.

Seeing this ninety-year-old man on the stage, people all applauded in unison.

Although Higgs is not the only physicist who has contributed to the discovery of the Higgs mechanism, as the first person to discover this mechanism, he undoubtedly also enjoys the right to name it.

Therefore, in academia, those who discover something one step ahead always have such a head start.

“Hello everyone, I am very happy to be able to stand here and share with you.” Higgs’s eyes, which were already showing his age, still shone with the wisdom of being a top scientist in physics. He said with a smile: “As you can see, I I am already very old, so I am a bit limited in sharing my academic knowledge with you.”

“Then, I will take you to review the history of scientific exploration in the past. I hope that historical experience can provide us with some inspiration for future research.”

“So, first of all, let’s go back to the paper published by Chen Ning Yang and Mills in 1954.”

Then, Higgs began to talk about Yang-Mills’ gauge field theory.

As the pre-foundation of the Higgs mechanism, the Yang-Mills gauge field plays an extremely important role in research on all aspects of high-energy physics.

The physicists present all followed Higgs to trace the history of those decades ago. For most of the people present, they had not even spoken out at that time, so only old people like this, Only then can we bring them a historical review.

In fact, as an old man of that era, Higgs knew a lot. At the same time, he could also retell some things that were not recorded in history.

Time passed slowly like this, starting from the Yang-Mills gauge field, until he studied the Higgs mechanism, and finally, in 2013, CERN officially announced that the mysterious particle they discovered in 2012 was the Higgs mechanism. Gus particles.

In between, it spanned the changes of the times and centuries of communication.

Everyone present seemed to have gained some experience and inspiration from this period of history.

till the end.

“By the way, I suddenly remembered something.”

Higgs smiled slightly and said: “After I published my paper on the Higgs mechanism, I had a discussion with Yang. I believe that no one in the world can compare with Yang’s sensitivity to physics.”

“During discussions with him, I learned about some of his past thinking. Like me, he once had some thoughts on the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Higgs mechanism.”

“He said that maybe there was something undiscovered when the Goldstone particles were canceled out and the new particles were given mass, and then he showed me a mathematical formula for, well, what I Anyway, I forgot, it is related to the energy of light anyway, but when we canceled it with Planck’s constant, we found the remainder. This is an incredible thing, but later, Yang transformed this formula into We came up with an equation that can substitute the Higgs mechanism into it, so after we substituted the Higgs mechanism into it, we magically found that the remainder disappeared, so we guessed that there were just some mathematical problems in the previous calculations.”

Speaking of this, Higgs shook his head: “But a few days ago, I suddenly remembered this matter again. I felt that maybe that formula was an important discovery that Yang and I missed. However, now I am already old, so I can only share this news with everyone, and hope that you can reveal the problems in the future.”

After hearing Higgs’ words, everyone present couldn’t help but think, what is that?

Planck’s constant defines the energy unit of light, that is to say, the energy of light is part by part, not continuous. The energy of light is an integer multiple of Planck’s constant.

And this is the so-called original concept of quantum.

Now Higgs actually said that Yang originally wrote a formula related to the energy of light, but it cannot cancel each other out with Planck’s constant. This is something worth thinking about.

Of course, the ‘remainder’ that Higgs talks about is not exactly the same as the remainder in the field of mathematics. Instead, it means that some physical quantities cannot be completely replaced, thereby achieving elimination. However, this requires them to carry out More discussion.

Therefore, everyone expected Higgs to be able to tell what the formula Yang Zhenning wrote was.

However, Higgs blinked, spread his hands and said, “Of course, I forgot the formula that Yang wrote down. Maybe you need to ask Yang again.”

“Okay, that’s it for my sharing. I won’t waste your young people’s time anymore.”

Higgs smiled slightly, nodded to the people present, and walked off the stage directly.

Seeing the old man going down so quickly, everyone present was stunned. In the end, they couldn’t help but asked, “Aren’t you causing trouble for everyone?”

How about writing that formula out?

But there was no way, everyone had already gone down, so they had no choice but to applaud and give applause to the old man.

Then, there was a twenty-minute break, and then it was time for the next meeting. The following report is about the recent results of the ATLAS experiment international cooperation team at the Large Hadron Collider.

Taking advantage of this time, everyone also started a discussion.

“Lin, have you met Yang before?”

Henry turned to look at Lin Xiao next to him.

Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone at this time, lowered his head to do something, and replied without turning his head: “I’ve seen it.”

“That’s great!” Henry showed an envious expression. Being able to meet his idol was certainly worthy of his envy.

“What kind of person do you think Yang is?”

“He is a very respectable person.”

Lin Xiao said something, then put the phone next to his ear and said to Henry: “I’m going to call him now. If you have anything to say, wait until I finish the call.”

Henry was stunned: “He? Who?”

“Yang.”

Henry was stunned for a moment, Yang?

After reacting, his eyes widened: “What did you say? Yang?! Do you actually have his phone number?”

At this time, the phone call was also connected, and Lin Xiao said: “Mr. Yang, this is Lin Xiao, how are you doing recently?… Just be well, haha, I’m calling because I want to ask you for a favor, please. Did you have a chat with Peter Higgs before, and then you and Peter Higgs discussed this matter: …Do you still remember the formula you wrote?”

Tomorrow is May 1st, so I wish everyone a happy holiday in advance.

In addition, I will need to rest for a few days – the daily update volume will be adjusted to two chapters with a total of 6,000 words.

After being put on the shelves, I have to sit in front of the computer for ten hours every day for a month. I feel a little numb and need to adjust my state. It will take about 3-7 days. When I feel better, I will resume the third update.

thank you all.