Luan Jingtong frowned. What exactly is a project that requires 1.5 million research funding?

Lu Pang Xuelin's mathematical achievements are undoubted, but the project he said requires the participation of professors in the chemical engineering department, and Luan Jingtong hesitated a bit.

However, thinking of where Pang Xuelin went last night, Luan Jingtong gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Teacher Pang, with 1.5 million yuan, the school is all-inclusive."

Xi Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Principal Luan, please troubleshoot the contract again. In addition, you can rest assured that this 1.5 million won't be in vain."

Luan Jing smiled helplessly, and now Pang Xuelin said nothing, and he would believe it only when he saw the results.

Then, Luan Jingtong and Pang Xuelin talked for a while, and then they left with Li Zhiguo.

In the living room, there were only Pang Xuelin, Edward Witten, Zhu Fengzhang, and Yang Quan.

Xi Pang Xuelin turned his eyes to Zhu Fengzhang and Yang Quan and asked, "Doctor Yang, Xiao Zhu, have you arranged where you live?"

Yang Quan pouted: "Professor Pang, I'm from Beijing. My home is just over Zhichun Road. Every day I go to work by bike."

Zhu Fengzhang said, "Professor Pang, I will live with you. You can call me at any time if you want to go out."

Pang Xuelin nodded and said, "Okay, then I will trouble you. Then let's have a meal at home together at night, everyone is familiar with it."

Zhu Fengzhang and Yang Quan looked at each other and nodded.

Then Pang Xuelin said the same thing to Witten again.

Witten is invincible.

He followed Pang Xuelin alone and came to China. Although the school assigned him a full-time assistant, he will come over tomorrow. Anyway, there is nothing to do today.

Every night everyone decided to eat the old Beijing copper pot lamb. Yang Quan volunteered to prepare the ingredients and copper pot. Zhu Fengzhang was sent by Yang Quan to buy vegetables.

Xu Pang Xuelin went upstairs and took a look again. Upstairs there were three bedrooms plus a bathroom and a small terrace.

All rooms are cleaned, the furniture and bedding are brand new, and you can check in at any time.

When Yang Quan cleaned up the kitchen, he also found a can of West Lake Longjing new tea and a complete set of tea utensils that had not been unsealed.

Xi Pang Xuelin brewed a pot of tea and came to the terrace with Witten, drinking tea and chatting.

After more than a month of communication, the two have long been like old friends who have known each other for many years.

In the first few worlds, Pang Xuelin devoted his main energy to the fields of mathematics, chemistry, and carbon-based materials. I know the physics, but I don't research the advanced theory.

In this month, Pang Xuelin explained the related theory of Ponzi geometry to Witten, and Witten popularized the knowledge of theoretical physics and string theory to Pang Xuelin, both of them benefited a lot.

"Pang, sometimes I wonder, does this work make any sense? Even if we really use mathematical methods to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, and build a new grand unified theory. We can depict from In the subatomic world, the crazy dance of quarks to the elegant waltz of the orbiting double stars in space has inferred from the original fireball of the big bang to the magnificent vortex of the galaxy, but it is impossible to see that the ultimate theory is confirmed in life. Now Many people have said that those of us who are engaged in theoretical physics are typical representatives of utopian science. Sometimes I think they are right. If the theory cannot be proved, even the most beautiful physical theory will fall into the field of metaphysics ... "

Witten said with some emotion.

Pang Xuelin was a little surprised. Although he was a mathematician, he had heard such sighs more than once in the real world.

In the field of theoretical physics, this is not an individual's point of view, but the consensus of many physicists: theoretical physics has begun to enter utopism, and the "holy grail of science" is getting farther and farther away from mankind, relying on large colliders to attack basic particles. The research of this has pushed physics forward, and has entered a dead end.

There is a lot of evidence to prove this.

For almost 60 years, no great physics theory has emerged that has reached consensus.

For almost 60 years, no great physicist has ever been regarded as a "lighthouse".

In the past 60 years, no exciting newcomer theory has been verified.

Uh ...

Even if he and Witten get the M theory, whether this theory can be verified in the future is still a question.

After all, according to the results calculated by the superstring theory, the unified theoretical energy magnitude is currently predicted to be 10 ^ 24eV, and the Large Hadron Collider produces a collision of 10 ^ 13eV, which is 11 orders of magnitude. For the "Great Desert."

If a conventional linear accelerator is used, it takes 7 light years to reach 10 ^ 24eV. The use of a coda accelerator requires 4.7 billion kilometers, which is almost as long as the circumsolar accelerator in the three-body body. In order to reach the quantum gravitational energy level, it may take hundreds of thousands of light years to use a conventional accelerator, which is the legendary galactic accelerator. It is basically impossible to create an accelerator that can break the "Great Desert" with the current capabilities of humans of.

Even the discovery of the Higgs boson in the real world in 2012 was based only on the theory discovered by Yang Zhenning and his student Mills in 1954.

The Poyang-Mills field has been able to unlock the secrets of all nuclear matter and can explain any experimental data about subatomic particles.

解释 When explaining the interaction between electrons and light, its accuracy is one ten millionth, which is said to be the most accurate theory ever!

This theory is so precise that it is called the "standard model" by the scientific community.

But since then, any new ideas proposed by the theoretical physics community have no way to verify them.

This is why later generations, Mr. Yang Zhenmeng, said that high-energy physics has "feasted" and openly opposed China's construction of large colliders.

On the surface, Yang Zhenning opposed China's construction of the collider, but in fact he lost confidence in "basic particle research". This is the forefront of physics and the hope of the ultimate theory of physics.

顶尖 A top physicist no longer trusts the most cutting-edge research directions in physics today, perhaps this is the sadness of physics.

Pang Xuelin smiled ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ He didn't have the emotion of Witten.

On the one hand, his main research area is still in mathematics, and he does not have a deep understanding of this problem. On the other hand, whether it is the magical system he carries, or the worlds he has experienced, it indicates that The great unified theory that human beings try to find is far from the end of physics.

"Professor Witten, we don't need to be so pessimistic at all. Before Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, physicists thought that Newtonian mechanics was the end of physics. Before Riemann proposed Riemann geometry, European-style geometry ruled the mathematical world for two whole years. Millennium. Maybe the new theory we are trying to find is not necessarily correct, but we are on the way to the future of mankind. The progress of science and the advancement of civilization always advance through trial and error and find the truth Geniuses are human heroes, but scientists who are drowning in the long river of history and searching for their lives on the wrong path are also heroes. What we need to do is to find the most likely one under the existing conditions. Road, as to whether this road is right or wrong, leave it to future generations to judge it! "

Edward Witten laughed and raised his tea cup and said, "Pang, you are right, let us toast for the scientific elites who are on the wrong path and drowned in the long river of history!"

"Cheers!"