It was also dinner time.
Lu Zhou quickly finished his dinner and returned to his office. He called Chen Yushan and told her about the equipment.
After Chen Yushan heard Lu Zhou's explanation, she sighed and said, "You should have called me.
"You should have called me for this kind of thing. The price is obviously too low."
Lu Zhou made a helpless expression and said, "I thought of it later, but it was too late to change my mind."
Chen Yushan said, "Why is it too late? Who cares about face? If you think the price is too low, you can just change it. "
Lu Zhou: "Uh, that's not a good idea, I already agreed."
Chen Yushan: "Okay then, if you don't want face, we can do it another way."
Lu Zhou: "What way?"
With a smirk, Chen Yushan continued.
"One million is just the installation fee, we haven't even talked about the service fee for the system updates."
Lu Zhou said, "… Don't go too far."
Honestly speaking, even though he didn't like the two leaders from Shenyang Machine Tool, he still wanted domestic machine tools to have a place in the international market.
Even though he was a layman in this field, production and research were inseparable enemies. If one of them was weak, the other wouldn't be able to get any benefits.
If he wanted to build a collider, build an outer-space laboratory, and research some exciting high-tech projects, he would need the support of the country's industrial foundation. If he had to import everything, he would end up working for someone else …
"You're worried about them?" Chen Yushan said, "Let me tell you, if you really want to do that, you shouldn't have set the price so low! If you fall behind, you should pay more. Only when you know the pain will you move forward. If they don't care about the tuition, they will never think about doing research and development, and they will never think about treating their technical staff better. Do you see any high-tech company that relies on government subsidies to get to where they are today? Companies that are truly competitive in the market are built by patent fees! "
After hearing what Chen Yushan said, Lu Zhou felt that it made sense. He thought for a while and nodded.
"I don't really want to get involved in this matter. Let's do as you say."
Chen Yushan: "You should have left it to me!"
When it came to work, Chen Yushan was like a different person. Whether it was the way she spoke or the way she did things, they were all different from the past.
However, for Lu Zhou, it was quite refreshing to see a different side of her.
At night, when no one was around, Lu Zhou returned to the research institute's warehouse. He installed the numerical control system written by Xiao Ai into another machine tool. He didn't have to worry about the rest of the matter. Star Sky Technology would take care of it.
The next day, the people from the State Administration for National Defense came and loaded the machine tool from the warehouse onto the truck.
When passing by the truck, Lu Zhou happened to see Yang Zhongquan, so he smiled and greeted him.
"Oh, Yang Zhongquan, are you waiting for dinner?"
Yang Zhongquan's face turned red. He knew he was in the wrong, so he turned around and walked away.
Secretary Wu smiled apologetically.
"This … machine tool is too expensive, it costs tens of millions. I can't afford it, I can't afford it."
Lu Zhou smiled and didn't say anything. He looked at Secretary Wu and walked away.
…
The space launch site was still being approved. With the guarantee from the State Administration for National Defense, there shouldn't be a big problem. As for the space shuttle manufacturing site, it was approved a week ago. The construction equipment had already entered the construction site, and they began to repeatedly plow the land.
The construction company that won the bid was a local engineering company in Jinling. They were qualified for military construction projects, so there shouldn't be a problem for them to complete the assembly plant.
The construction progress was monitored by professionals, so Lu Zhou didn't worry too much about it. He continued to focus on the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap.
According to the results of his discussion with Luo Wenxuan, the most reliable way to find the particle mass m was to introduce the concept of a quantum Yang-Mills field.
This required that, in the classical sense, the field propagating at the speed of light had no mass, but quantum particles had positive mass. That was to say, there must be a positive number Δ, so that the energy of any excited state must not be less than Δ, thus ensuring that the nuclear force was a short-range force with strong interaction.
Lu Zhou communicated with Professor Fefferman and Professor Witten via email, and the suggestions he received were almost completely different.
From Witten's point of view, he believed that the method of solving the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem by using the quantum Yang-Mills field was not a reliable method. There was a more reliable method to explain the existence and mass gap using the M theory.
However, the problem was that, whether it was the M theory or string theory, even though the physics community had found some indirect evidence, there was no direct evidence to prove the nature of the universe. From a rigorous point of view, using a stronger conjecture to prove another conjecture was obviously unreliable.
Unlike Witten, Professor Fefferman was very optimistic about the quantum Yang-Mills field method proposed by Lu Zhou. He wrote this at the end of the email.
"When traditional methods cannot solve new problems, the best way is to create new methods to adapt to the ever-changing world and the ever-changing science. By creating a quantum field corresponding to the classical action, we can solve problems that can't be described by the scalar field on the space-time manifold. I think this method is very interesting, at least worth a try.
"If it weren't for the fact that I'm so busy with my own research project, I would've bought a plane ticket to study this problem with you."
Other than communicating with Professor Fefferman and Witten via email, Lu Zhou's only partner was Luo Wenxuan.
Even though the Institute for Advanced Study had been established for a long time, there weren't many big names there. The Institute of Computational Materials was fine. Whether it was the conversion rate of scientific research results or the academic level, they were world-class.
However, the Institute of Physics and Mathematics …
They were basically relying on Lu Zhou's own fame.
Whether it was the cultivation of talents or the cultivation of an academic environment, it all took time.
Institute of Physics.
Director's office.
When Lu Zhou couldn't find any inspiration to solve a problem, he would come here every day to exchange new research findings with Luo Wenxuan.
When Luo Wenxuan saw Lu Zhou walk into the office, he looked up from his computer and spoke.
"Do you have a clue about the quantum Yang-Mills field?"
"Almost, but I feel like I'm very close to the answer. Maybe there's only a thin layer of paper between us … Of course, it could also be a layer of frosted glass." Lu Zhou walked to the water dispenser and grabbed a cup of instant coffee. He then asked, "What about you?"
Luo Wenxuan shook his head with a depressed expression.
"I feel like there's a wall between us."
Lu Zhou said, "Just think about it … What are you doing?"
Luo Wenxuan: "I read the theses on arXiv to see if there are any interesting ideas. You don't know this, but ever since your last report, the number of theses on the Yang-Mills equations has increased exponentially, but the average quality of the theses has also declined exponentially. "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I can understand. After all, everyone has been holding it in for too long."
Luo Wenxuan sighed and said, "Yes, after all, this is the most difficult problem to solve in this century."
Lu Zhou took a sip of coffee and said, "Not necessarily. I think the Riemann conjecture is more difficult. At least in the past few decades, the academic community has made some progress on the Yang-Mills equations, but the research on the Riemann conjecture is like a headless chicken. "
"From the standpoint of a mathematician, right?" Luo Wenxuan shrugged and said helplessly, "But no matter who is more difficult, as long as it hasn't been solved, it doesn't make a difference to me."
As he spoke, his index finger tapped on the mouse.
However, at this moment, as he stared at the computer screen, he suddenly paused.
Lu Zhou noticed the expression on Luo Wenxuan's face, so he asked casually, "What?"
"What?"
Luo Wenxuan looked away from the computer screen and looked at Lu Zhou with a strange expression. He spoke with a complicated tone.
He spoke with a complicated tone, "The Yang-Mills existence and mass gap … seems to have been proven?"
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