Professor Felix looked at the whiteboard that the waiter dragged over. He was stunned.
Faced with his doubts about the fairness of the selection of the Century of Questions of the Century, this guy actually asked someone to drag over a whiteboard.
What is he trying to do?
Is he trying to find a way to apply the "type-iiiseesaw mechanism" to solve the problem of the origin of neutrino mass, so as to prove that the problem he raised is not worth mentioning?
How is this possible?!
Professor Felix was almost amused by this strange idea.
If this problem was really so easy to solve, the physics community would not be so helpless about the mysterious neutrinos.
Lu Zhou didn't care about the strange expression on Professor Felix's face. He stood up from his chair and walked leisurely to the whiteboard.
"Thank you."
After giving the waiter a tip of 100 yuan, Lu Zhou, who was standing in front of the whiteboard, picked up the marker hanging on it.
After thinking for less than half a minute, he put the pen in his hand on the whiteboard and began to write on the whiteboard.
The tip of the pen swept across the whiteboard, and Professor Felix stared at it intently.
Although there was no big movement, such a large whiteboard placed in the coffee shop was still a bit conspicuous.
Especially since the person standing in front of the whiteboard was Lu Zhou, the chairman of the ILHCRC! Nobel Prize in Physics winner! The creator of hyperspace theory!
With countless halos piled up above his head, it was difficult to ignore this person.
Gradually, the content on the whiteboard attracted the attention of many people. Many people left their seats and gathered in groups of three to five with a stomach full of curiosity.
"What is Professor Lu writing?"
"The expression of the majorana mass term and the Dirac mass term should be the mass of fermions."
"No, no! It's the seesaw mechanism! If I'm not mistaken … He is explaining the origin of neutrino mass! "
As soon as these words left his mouth, it was like throwing a bomb into the calm surface of a lake, instantly igniting the surrounding air.
"Hiss!"
"The origin of neutrino mass?!"
"No way? This kind of thing … Can be explained clearly on a whiteboard? "
"Nutty! That's awesome! "
For a place like the ILHCRC, the cafe itself was used to communicate and discuss academic issues, so no one cared if it was too noisy here.
Attracted by the hubbub of voices, more and more people started to gather here.
Professor Felix looked at the calculations on the whiteboard and gulped.
In order to demonstrate the awkwardness of not being able to fully understand what was going on, he shifted his gaze and looked around. However, what he saw gave him a fright.
Unbeknownst to him, the area around the whiteboard was already filled with people. It was so crowded that he couldn't see the way out.
At the same time, Lu Zhou, who was standing in front of the whiteboard, looked quite calm.
From the moment he entered the zone, his attention was completely focused on the whiteboard in front of him, so he was naturally not affected by the people and sounds around him.
The realm of level 10 was very mysterious.
The lines of calculations did not seem to be calculations, but rather a spell woven from the words of the gods. Although it did not have the energy to summon the wind and rain, it dominated and affected the laws of changes in the universe.
Every time Lu Zhou entered this state, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
No wonder the level of mathematics determined the upper limit of other subject levels.
Without the support of level 10 mathematics, it would be difficult for even him to master this language that communicated with the universe …
Time slowly passed by. When he squatted down in front of the whiteboard and wrote the last line of calculations on it, Lu Zhou straightened up and took half a step back.
He looked at the calculations on the whiteboard with a satisfied smile on his face and nodded slightly.
"Not bad."
As Lu Zhou spoke, he turned around and looked at Professor Felix, who was sitting in the chair, completely dumbfounded.
He then continued, "The answer you want is here. I think these calculations are enough to tell you why your paper was screened out in the review meeting. "
"Wait a minute." Professor Felix looked at Lu Zhou, who put down the marker. He blushed and said hurriedly, "I still don't quite understand. What … Did you do? Can you … tell me about it? "
Although he didn't want to admit this, this was the truth.
Halfway through Lu Zhou's writing, he was completely left behind by this smooth thinking. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't keep up with Lu Zhou's rhythm.
This sentence was agreed by many people nearby, and voices of agreement gradually spread around them.
Obviously, it wasn't just Professor Felix who didn't keep up with the rhythm of Lu Zhou's writing on the blackboard. The people around him were the same; they only understood a little bit.
"Of course, in fact, I'm going to do this." With a faint smile, Lu Zhou turned to look at the content on the whiteboard. He took about three seconds to organize his words, then said, "The dynamics of the origin of neutrino mass is the frontier of high-energy physics research in recent years. This is true, but not all research directions are possible.
"At present, there are two possible mass terms for fermions, the majorana mass term and the Dirac mass term.
"If neutrinos are Dirac particles, then the mass of neutrinos can be directly given by the Yukawa interaction.
"However, our observations of phenomena such as the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation show that the absolute mass of neutrinos should be less than 0.2ev. Considering that the mass of the top quark is 172gev, it is obvious that it is very difficult and unnatural to use the Higgs mechanism to explain the fermion mass spectrum with such a huge difference!
"Therefore, the more common method is to regard neutrinos as majorana particles, so that we can use the seesaw mechanism to study the origin of neutrino mass."
"That's right!" Professor Felix was instantly energized. "Is there a problem with my paper? Isn't that how I expressed it? "
Lu Zhou looked at the excited Professor Felix. He smiled and continued.
"Don't be too happy, I haven't finished yet. Using the seesaw mechanism to study the origin of neutrino mass is indeed attractive, but the tev energy standard seesaw model will lead to the destruction of the lepton flavor mixing matrix … Have you considered this issue?"
The sound of whispers spread from all around.
Obviously, Lu Zhou's speech caused a lot of controversy in the crowd.
Professor Felix was dumbfounded by this sentence. He was stunned for a while before slowly coming back to his senses.
"The tev energy standard seesaw model will lead to the destruction of the lepton flavor mixing matrix … There seems to be such a debate in the physics community, but it is just a conjecture. How do you know it must be right?"
"It used to be a conjecture." Lu Zhou raised his chin to the whiteboard behind him and said with a smile, "But it is not now."
There was an uproar.
The moment they heard these words, the onlookers at the scene went crazy instantly.
Countless people took out their phones from their pockets and took photos of the content on the whiteboard.
Although some people had been recording the whole process, people's reactions were far less enthusiastic than now.
Solved a long-debated controversy in the physics community!?
Just a whiteboard?!
How is this possible!
"This is impossible …" Professor Felix said what everyone was thinking. He stared at the calculations on the whiteboard and couldn't say anything more. He just kept repeating the sentence, "This is impossible."
If the tev energy standard seesaw model would lead to the destruction of the lepton flavor mixing matrix, then the type-iiiseesaw mechanism was not the best solution to the origin of neutrino mass.
So what the hell was he doing with his research?!
A touch of sadness appeared on Professor Felix's face.
Although he wanted to deny Lu Zhou and stand up to refute his views loudly, he couldn't make a single sound at all.
This wasn't a surrender to academic authority.
After just a few words, he gradually began to understand the calculations on the whiteboard and gradually realized that what Lu Zhou said was true.
However, he simply couldn't accept this reality.
For the past ten years, he had been working on the type-iiiseesaw mechanism and trying his best to find the puzzle that could fill in the source of neutrino mass.
But now the facts in front of him told him that he had been walking around a dead end for the past ten years, complacent about some meaningless results …
Lu Zhou looked at Professor Felix, who seemed to have lost his soul. He was silent for a while and sighed softly.
He could feel the frustration and sadness in Felix's heart.
How many decades did one have in life?
The golden period for a person to engage in scientific research was no more than twenty or thirty years.
"Sometimes … it's like this." Lu Zhou paused for a moment as he looked at Professor Felix, who had an ashen face. He continued, "The truth is always difficult to accept because it is usually not sweet talk."
"The seesaw mechanism may be a suitable idea, but the fatal loophole makes it almost impossible to reach the end of this road.
"… What should I do?"
"I'm afraid you have to ask yourself this. After all, I'm not an expert in this area." Lu Zhou looked at Professor Felix, who had lost his soul. He thought for a while and said, "If the tool is not up to the task, try to repair it.
"Although there are many problems with the seesaw mechanism, I believe this is also an opportunity for you.
"Why don't you try to adjust the seesaw mechanism in combination with the leptogenesis mechanism? This model can well explain the small mass of neutrinos and the asymmetry of the baryon number in the universe, and it can be used in the Large Hadron Collider to make it possible to test this mechanism experimentally … These are things that the seesaw mechanism does not have yet. "
Lu Zhou smiled faintly as he looked at her pupils that were gradually glowing.
He smiled faintly and said, "Although I can't explain why for a while, as an alternative, I recommend you to start from this aspect and think about it."
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