From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 205 Surprises in Physics

Seeing a group of people bowing to him, Lin Xiao couldn’t help but feel helpless. Why did it feel like he was being sent away?

Go back and take a nap. Maybe you will be fully recovered after a few hours of sleep, and you can celebrate with them tonight.

He waved his hand and said, “No, you can just celebrate on your own. I’ll be fine if I take a nap. It’s mainly because I haven’t had a good sleep in the past few days. I’ll definitely have a few drinks with everyone after I have a good rest.”

“No, absolutely no, you have a good rest, we will talk about the celebration tomorrow.”

Byron Winston said.

Others also agreed, asking Lin Xiao to have a good rest, and the celebration could wait until later.

They believed that Lin Xiao had not slept well these days, because many of the data they processed had to be reviewed by Lin Xiao. This was also his responsibility as the general person in charge. It was precisely because of this that he There really wasn’t much time to rest.

Especially since the Solvay Conference on December 19 is about to begin, Lin Xiao, as the protagonist, will definitely have to make the most preparations, so it is completely conceivable how busy Lin Xiao is now.

Everyone immediately respected Lin Xiao even more.

Lin Xiao shrugged and was too lazy to argue with them about this matter. Let them think whatever they wanted.

So then he and Elizabeth left here.

After seeing Lin Xiao go out, the people present cheered again. No matter what, we still have to celebrate what should be celebrated.

Of course, the most important celebration banquet will definitely not be held until Lin Xiao is around.

At the same time, while they were scrambling to celebrate, they also spread this extremely important news to the physics community.

There are already a lot of people paying attention to this matter. They have been waiting for the final result for a long time, so it didn’t take long for many people to know the final result.

Then, the world of physics was shocked again.

The redetermination of the mass of the W boson will bring a major change to the Standard Model. The Standard Model, modified by multi-dimensional field theory, will become the orthodoxy of the Standard Model.

Although the modified standard model of multi-dimensional field theory has successfully calculated the masses of other particles, those masses were all calculated by the old standard model. The results of the two theories are the same, which obviously cannot explain the new standard model. Right or wrong, and this can only be proven by finding out the differences between the two and then proving who is right and who is wrong.

Now, the results of the W boson mass measurement are in line with the predictions of the new standard model, which undoubtedly proves which one is right and which one is wrong.

Therefore, the future particle physics community will abide by the standard model modified by multi-dimensional field theory in the future. As for the old standard model, it will become history.

Of course, particle physicists have long been looking forward to this day.

New physics means new directions and more unexplored ‘treasures’, which means more honors, which is very important to the physics community. Of course, this is from a sociological perspective. Let’s discuss it. According to the hierarchy of needs theory, people engage in their own industries naturally to meet their own needs. In addition to making money to meet their daily needs, the most important thing is the need for self-realization.

Especially among those who study physics, who doesn’t have the dream of winning a Nobel Prize, rivaling Einstein and Newton, and reaching the pinnacle of life?

A new physical field can bring them such benefits, because this is an uncultivated treasure island. Maybe with a little work here, many treasures can be dug out.

Just like this new standard model, it is more comprehensive than the old standard model and makes predictions for more particles, especially the unknown number that is very similar to the graviton. Physicists are even more excited. If they can prove That’s the graviton, which means someone may be among the top in the world.

Therefore, no one is not surprised.

In addition to the determination of the mass of the W boson, what shocked them the most was the determination of the artificial black hole.

Although there was news before that a black hole may have been discovered, which indeed caused a lot of discussion among the general public, the physics community still has a wait-and-see attitude. Although they are looking forward to it, they are not looking forward to it too much. After all, just like Lin Like Xiao’s project team, not many samples were found, which further lowered expectations.

After all, the probability of creating a black hole is quite low. This requires two particles to almost completely collide together, and then form a singularity at that moment, and then create a black hole. But just thinking about it, you know that it is difficult, so even if If it doesn’t happen, it won’t be a big problem.

Therefore, in the past, people felt that it was necessary to re-run the experiment after the LHC was upgraded, and then collect more data before it was possible to make a determination.

However, the final result now comes out, which still makes people feel a little unexpected surprise.

As a result, CERN once again attracted more physicists. Physicists who studied the theory of relativity wanted to produce evidence that overpowered quantum mechanics, while physicists who studied quantum mechanics wanted to produce evidence that overturned the theory of relativity.

This black hole is believed to be their future battlefield.

Of course, physicists who study string theory have also come here, because black holes are also linked to string theory. For physicists who are in urgent need of verifying string theory, studying microscopic black holes can obviously also provide them with great help, including just one month ago. Edward Witten, who returned to the United States, is now running back again because he originally came to see the root method. By the way, he discussed with Lin Xiao the possibility of observing strings. If it hadn’t been for the discovery of microscopic black holes, After that, he stayed for another month.

However, he had seen that there was too little data collected about black holes, so he felt that the possibility was too low, and there were things at home, so he went back.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be successful.

Of course, in addition to coming here to see things about microscopic black holes, they also wanted to come and meet Lin Xiao.

No one will ignore Lin Xiao’s important contribution to these two results.

And it can be said that without Lin Xiao, even if his project team has so many first-class physicists, it would be impossible to achieve these two results.

This is enough to show that Lin Xiao not only has very profound research on theoretical physics, but also has a huge impact on experimental physics.

So more and more people want to come and get to know Lin Xiao. Maybe if they encounter research problems in the future, they can ask Lin Xiao for help or something.

No one dislikes a collaborator like Lin Xiao.

So, just like that, time came to the third day.

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In CERN, if an important work is completed and outstanding results are achieved, a celebration will be held, such as a cocktail party.

This is also in line with their European habits.

Now that two important results have been born at CERN, of course it is necessary to celebrate them well, hold a grand cocktail party, invite all researchers, and even ordinary people around to attend the cocktail party, and At this cocktail party, you can also introduce to these ordinary people what big thing they have just accomplished that shocked the world of physics.

Just an artificial black hole is enough to shock these laymen. As for the W boson or something, they probably don’t understand it.

Of course, there are also some ordinary people asking: “Will the black hole you create destroy the world? Are you building a time machine?”

For these questions, researchers at CERN have already mastered how to answer: “Regarding this question, if the black holes we create can destroy the world, our world may already be gone. As for the time machine… you may have to go Ask SERN, of course you have to have watched the anime.”

However, sometimes there are some opponents hidden among these ordinary people. For example, two people suddenly ran up and shouted, “Evil CERN, you must immediately stop using weapons that can destroy the world!”

In the end, these people were naturally kicked out by the security guards present.

Looking at this scene, the researchers present were a little dumbfounded. They might find it unreasonable at first, but after time, they got used to this kind of thing.

Looking at this scene, Lin Xiao and Xu Da beside him couldn’t help but feel funny.

Xu Da said: “I bet these guys are from the United States.”

“Why?”

“Personal heroism, that’s not what American heroism is. I absolutely don’t believe what you say, and I will definitely stop you.”

Xu Da said.

Lin Xiao couldn’t help but laugh, “It seems quite reasonable.”

“of course.”

Xu Da waved his hand, then shook his head and said: “However, it is not ruled out that they are Europeans. The cultural export of the United States is quite powerful.”

“Um.”

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, and then said: “However, personal heroism does not belong to others, it belongs to the world.”

Personal heroism in American movies is quite strong, and people watch it with gusto, but when Chinese movies have personal heroism, they are criticized in various ways?

This is obviously wrong.

Hearing Lin Xiao’s words, Xu Da smiled heartily and said: “That’s true, after all, you are now living personal heroism.”

“Oh? Why do you say that?”

“Look, in our project team, you are not the only one performing the operations. Without you, we would still be processing the experimental data, let alone discovering the black hole.”

Lin Xiao spread his hands and said with a smile: “This is not personal heroism. Personal heroism is about solving all problems individually. If I were the only one, even if I came up with the root investigation method, I would probably still be unable to do it now. When processing data, it may take a long time to succeed, so this heroism belongs to all of us. It is not just the so-called personal heroism, but it may be called collective heroism.”

Xu Da was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up and said in admiration: “The ideological realm is high.”

At this moment, another voice came from the side: “That’s right.”

The two of them turned around and saw a foreigner in a suit and leather shoes walking over. He was holding a glass of red wine and walked up to Lin Xiao with a smile.

“I really didn’t expect Lin to have such admirable thoughts. It’s admirable and worth a drink.”

Then the man stretched the wine glass in front of Lin Xiao with a smile on his face.

Lin Xiao glanced at the man suspiciously. He didn’t recognize him, but he didn’t refuse the other person’s request for a drink. Then he picked up his wine glass, briefly touched it with him, and then took a brief sip of the wine.

After the man put down his glass, he smiled and said: “Excuse me for interrupting, let me introduce myself. I am Dawson Edinson, CEO of Asmail Company.”

“Asmail?”

Lin Xiao was startled and asked again.

“Yes.” Dawson Edinson nodded and said with a smile: “I admire physicists like you very much. I remember when I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a physicist, but unfortunately I still went to Studied business administration.”

“Einstein and Maxwell were my idols at the beginning. Now it seems that I have a new idol, multidimensional field theory, which reveals multidimensional space. What a great theory this is.”

Lin Xiao smiled and said: “Thank you for your praise. Of course, I don’t believe that the CEO of a world-leading technology company came to me just to discuss this matter, right?”

Dawson Edinson smiled and said, “Of course not, can we take a step to talk?”

“No problem at all.”

Lin Xiao nodded, signaled to Xu Da, and then came to a corner with Dawson Edinson.

“You can talk now.”

Dawson Edinson smiled and said: “Mr. Lin, as you can see, I am the CEO of Asmail, so naturally I am looking for you because of Asmail.”

“The root search method is definitely a great theory. It allows physics to develop better, and this is enough to show how significant the root search method is.”

“However, it still has a problem, that is, its current application scope is still a bit too small. For example, it cannot yet help the production of our photolithography machines.”

“Mr. Lin should also know that in the production process of our photolithography machines, one of the more important steps is the installation of the light source. But now a key problem is that there are always some errors in this process, and It is the control of light source diffraction. During our production process, the adjustment of this problem takes up a lot of our time. However, there are always large and small errors during the debugging process, which all lead to the failure of our production of lithography machines. speed.”

“Mr. Lin, your mathematical ability is so powerful, so Asmail and I hope to cooperate with you. With your help, we can develop a great method like the root search method for us. solve this problem.”

“But now I just don’t know if you agree.”