Less than five minutes after the class ended, Jin Ling University's WeChat moments were flooded by a physics class.
[F * ck me, God Lu just came to our physics class.]
[Which class?]
[Zhang Zhongqing's quantum mechanics, what other class could it be?]
[F * ck me, God Lu's physics class? Which classroom???]
[What time is it, class is over already!]
[The class is over already? Sh * t, can't these big names give us a preview of their lectures?]
There were a lot of people in universities, but there were also a lot of people who really knew how to seize opportunities. Especially at Jin Ling University, which was one of the top five universities in the country, there were quite a lot of genius students.
For those physics students who wanted to go further academically, they definitely wouldn't miss this kind of opportunity to listen to a big name's lecture.
After all, this kind of opportunity was hard to come by.
It didn't matter if they didn't understand. Most of the time, just listening to an idea was much more useful than reading a book by themselves. Because these things were often things that couldn't be learned in class or in books …
After Lu Zhou came out of the classroom, he walked straight toward the mathematics department.
The only thing he wanted to do now was to record his previous inspirations.
In fact, the evidence for the strong interaction "Yang-Mills existence and mass gap" had already been obtained from theoretical physics experiments and verified by computer simulations.
However, how to explain it from a mathematical perspective was still an unsolved mystery.
To put it bluntly, for most mathematicians, this was a complicated physics problem. For most physicists, this was another mathematical problem.
If they wanted to solve this problem, they would have to discover new mathematics and new physics at the same time.
Faced with this problem, Lu Zhou didn't dare to say that he was 100% confident.
After all, strictly speaking, theoretical physics wasn't his field of expertise.
During his time at Princeton, his main research problems were basically in the field of mathematics. Other than discovering the 750 GeV signal, he basically didn't have any other research results in the field of theoretical physics.
If he were at Princeton, he would choose to seek advice from Edward Witten or Dean Goddard. They were both experts in theoretical physics and had a deep understanding of the unified field theory.
But now, he could only communicate with his old friends in academia through email. There were many problems that were difficult to explain clearly in an email.
As for China …
To be honest, it was a bit difficult to find someone to discuss this issue with.
Mr. Yang, one of the founders of this field, would probably be happy to discuss this issue with him, but Lu Zhou really didn't want to embarrass him at his age of nearly a hundred years.
Especially when he thought about Professor Atiyah's five-page thesis on Riemann's conjecture, he did not have any expectations.
After all, age was like a curse to scholars …
"I can only rely on myself now?"
Lu Zhou sat down in his office chair and picked up a pen. He muttered to himself and wrote a line of words on a piece of paper, describing the entire problem in mathematical language.
[Proof: For any compact simple group G, there exists a quantum Yang-Mills field with G as the canonical group on R ^ 4, and there is a mass gap? > 0.]
The tip of the pen gently tapped on the draft paper. Lu Zhou stared at the piece of paper with only one line of words and began to think.
Although he wasn't particularly confident that he could solve this problem, he still had a way to solve it.
First of all, this huge proposition could be split into two parts.
The first part of the proof could be done using mathematical methods alone.
Which was to use mathematical methods to prove the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills equations or to find the general solution.
This part might not be useful for physicists. After all, they had already obtained the conclusions they wanted through high-energy experiments and computer simulations. However, for mathematicians, finding the general solution to this system of equations was of great significance.
Just like Edward Witten once said, if anyone could accomplish this feat, they would become a milestone for mathematics in the 21st century to catch up with theoretical physics in the 20th century …
Of course, this was said by a physicist who won a Fields Prize, so Lu Zhou had reservations about it. In his opinion, mathematics had its own development trajectory, and he never thought that mathematics needed to catch up with physics.
However, if he wanted to argue about this topic, then it would be too far fetched.
As for the second part, it involved more important content.
Which was, the proof of the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap.
If this proof could be completed, both the mathematics and physics communities would benefit a lot from it. Because this proof would not only give birth to new mathematical methods, but it would also clarify the laws of nature that physicists had yet to fully understand. It might even be able to propose more advanced theories on this basis.
For example, unifying the strong interaction and electromagnetic force …
If this could be done, the entire physics community would take a big step toward the Grand Unified Theory.
Time slowly passed by.
Lu Zhou was deep in thought as he looked at the mathematical proposition on the draft paper. He was sitting at his desk while holding a ballpoint pen. Other than a series of ink dots, he didn't write a single number.
It wasn't until six o 'clock that the bell from the next building rang. Lu Zhou finally snapped back to reality and wrote two lines of equations on the paper.
Then, he stood up and left the office.
Inside the office.
Two minutes passed by.
Feng Jin looked at the door and saw that Lu Zhou didn't seem to plan on coming back. He stopped writing and stood up.
Half an hour ago, he noticed that Lu Zhou was sitting there "in a daze".
He had been in this office for a while, but this was the first time he noticed that Lu Zhou had this kind of expression on his face.
He was curious as to what question his supervisor was stumped by, so he pretended to go to the water dispenser. When he passed by Lu Zhou's desk, he planned to take a look at the question on the paper.
After all, he was a top student in Jin Ling University's mathematics department. If he could help, maybe the prospective supervisor would be impressed by his ability?
However, reality was cruel.
When he saw the equations on the paper, he was stunned.
[HΛ (L) = ∑ (ros) ∑ (c) · h ^ (c, c + 1) + ∑ (columns) ∑ (r) · h ^ (r, r + 1) + ∑ (i ∈ λ (L)) · h (i)]
[…]
Feng Jin: "…???"
F * ck me, what the hell is this?
He Changwen, who was about to get up and go to the cafeteria for dinner, stood up.
He noticed Lu Zhou standing in front of Lu Zhou's desk with a muddled look on his face. He coughed and reminded Lu Zhou.
"Don't look at my supervisor's stuff."
He felt like this sentence wasn't convincing enough, so he added another sentence.
"I'll go bald."
Feng Jin: "…"
Liu Siyuan: "…"
Han Mengqi: "…"
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