Lu Zhou's thesis on arXiv was like a stone that caused a thousand ripples.
Professor Ohanian's shock could only be regarded as a microcosm of the chaos that was happening in the physics community at this moment.
He hurriedly booked a plane ticket and a hotel for tomorrow, wrote a leave application, and prepared to fly to Shanghai. Almost the entire physics community was boiling because of this amazing thesis.
"This is really amazing, I don't know how to describe the surprise in my heart at this moment!
"As for the thesis itself, I think it's too early to give a yes or no answer. I think … At least wait until Professor Lu's report is over before giving an evaluation … This is also a sign of respect for him."
Professor Wilczek, who had always been keen on making bets and never avoided commenting on his peers, chose to be quite conservative this time.
Perhaps it was because he lost so badly to Lu Zhou, or perhaps it was because he missed the second Nobel Prize in his life, but the uncertainty made him not know whether he should express his opinion or not.
As a big name in theoretical physics, Professor Edward Witten, who had won the Fields Award, also expressed his surprise on his personal blog after reading the thesis.
And almost the same as Professor Wilczek, he did not make a judgment on the correctness of this thesis … Even though many colleagues hoped that he could do so.
"Z particles that move from a higher dimension to a lower dimension open a channel between dimensions? Straightening the curled space-time? This sounds like science fiction … In other words, we can use this method to find a real straight path in the curled universe?
"Although I can't be sure if he is correct, I hope he is correct."
Even though Lu Zhou's thesis was only a preprint, everyone in the physics community knew this big name's habits.
Unless it was absolutely foolproof, he would never speak carelessly.
Once he publicly expressed his views, even if it was just a preprint on the Internet, he would only release the preprint after countless repeated calculations and when he was absolutely sure of the conclusion.
In addition to the two elders of the contemporary theoretical physics community, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, Professor Duncan Haldane of Princeton University, also expressed his views on the thesis.
This boss was a little different from the previous two.
As someone who discovered topological phase transitions and topological phase matter in theory, he was one of the few physicists who had reached the pinnacle of mathematics research.
Especially for topology and algebraic geometry.
Therefore, for Lu Zhou's paper titled "The Effect of the Z Particle Transition Effect on the Curvature of Spacetime", he gave an evaluation from a mathematical point of view, which was quite in line with his own persona.
"… The mathematical argument part of the thesis is quite difficult. Frankly speaking, it's quite difficult even for me."
"If you know nothing about the unified theory of algebra and geometry, and you have obstacles in your spatial imagination, I advise you to temporarily give up on understanding it because it will burn all your brain cells, and it may not bring you any results in the future."
This sentence was very tactful, but the meaning was very clear.
If one was not proficient in mathematics, it was better not to read this thesis.
However, even though that was what they said, it was clear that not everyone could recognize the reality.
While the entire theoretical physics community was going crazy over this thesis, many big names in the academic community also cast their curious eyes on this thesis.
After all, this was Professor Lu's thesis.
After this big name won the Fields Prize and the Gauss Prize, he completed the world-shocking unified theory of algebraic geometry. Since then, he faded from the field of mathematics and hadn't published any new research results for a while.
Even though this thesis wasn't a result in mathematics, the mathematical theory used in it was the most cutting-edge research in the mathematics community.
In fact, this was indeed the case. In addition to the most important physics part of this thesis, the mathematical argument part, especially the application of differential manifolds and the explanation of the unified theory of algebraic geometry, could be said to be a textbook classic!
Because of this, many mathematicians began to study this thesis.
Just like this, the influence of this thesis quickly spread from the physics community to the entire university circle, then to the public.
Even though most people didn't know what the Z particle was, and most people didn't care about its high-dimensional form and low-dimensional expansion, one thing caught everyone's attention.
This thing could be the key to warp travel!
This easy-to-understand explanation not only made everyone understand what the Z particle was in an instant, but it also shocked everyone.
On Twitter.
The topic of the Z particle was directly pushed to the top of the search rankings.
This was a term that was only understood by professionals in the particle physics community. Now, almost anyone who had access to the internet knew what this thing was.
[Warp travel? Does this mean that it won't take more than a day to get to the moon?]
[Jesus … This is terrifying!]
[Joining the China's ILHCRC project was a wrong decision. Now physicists all over the world are working for them. Soon, they will master the mystery of warp travel and completely leave us behind! Just like they did with the moon landing project!]
[This must be the darkest moment in human history … Remember the ILHCRC research some time ago? That Void Theory! Maybe the channel they opened isn't to other planets at all, but to hell …]
[Wait a minute, have you guys ever wondered if this might be fake news? That guy named Lu Zhou just published a paper, and you guys are already so scared! Maybe he's just joking with us.]
[The question is, have you ever seen him joke around?]
This sentence put an end to all doubting voices.
That was right.
That guy didn't have the slightest bit of entertainment in science. He almost never made a joke.
Not even once!
If it were other physicists, they might have argued that some physics institute was short of funding again, so they sent a Nobel Prize winner to scam money.
But if it was Professor Lu …
It didn't seem possible at all.
Not only that, but just a theoretical research that might become the key to warp navigation was no different from a real warp engine in the eyes of many people.
After all, the name Lu Zhou was too eye-catching.
It wasn't just the Internet that was talking about this topic. This matter quickly attracted the attention of major media outlets around the world.
On the third day after the paper was uploaded, related news made the headlines of the Washington Post.
The headline of this headline was extraordinarily long.
It was just like the shock and anxiety in people's hearts.
[Is it the key to interstellar travel? Or a passage to hell? The latest discovery of a world-renowned scholar may change our future …]
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