"This guy is distorting the truth!"
Zhao Huan looked at Lu Zhou, who was reading the newspaper. She was still a little angry, and she spoke indignantly.
She knew how much time and sweat Lu Zhou had put into researching this problem.
However, this "out of nowhere" person said that Professor Lu stole his research results?
In her opinion, it was simply unreasonable!
However, unlike her, Lu Zhou, who was in the center of the vortex of public opinion, had a relatively calm expression on his face. He even looked at the report with a bit of interest.
Lu Zhou read the article from beginning to end and smiled. He folded the newspaper and handed it back to her.
"Okay, I got it."
Zhao Huan looked at how nonchalant Lu Zhou was. She paused for a second and couldn't help but ask, "You don't care at all?"
"I don't care at all."
"There's nothing to worry about." Lu Zhou picked up the pen again and arranged the draft paper on the table. He said nonchalantly, "There's no way the Chinese media will report on this. It's not going to bother me. As for the foreign media, I don't have to worry about it. "
It wasn't uncommon for an idea to have a conflict of interest in academia. However, it would be ridiculous to say that Lu Zhou used Jaffe's idea.
Half a century had passed since Jaffe's thesis was published in Annual Mathematics. Neither he nor Professor Brian were the first people to try this proof idea. However, Jaffe just happened to succeed.
As for Luo Wenxuan, who provided him with this proof idea, his name was on the thesis, and he couldn't have been happier.
As for why Professor Brian didn't understand this …
Maybe Luo Wenxuan understood, but who wanted to understand?
After all, this was an opportunity to be remembered in history. Forget about a scholar like Luo Wenxuan, even a Nobel Prize winner would be tempted.
Lu Zhou put the Daily Mail article aside and ignored Professor Brian's complaints. Instead, he continued to focus on the electrostrong interaction theory research.
No matter how close he was to the truth, solving this problem would require a lot of time. It was just like when the "symmetry breaking" method was first introduced into the field of theoretical physics in the 1960s, it still took Weinberg five or six years to complete the electroweak unification theory.
However, sometimes trouble was just like that.
Even if you don't take the initiative to look for it, it will automatically come to you.
These days, Lu Zhou would always receive some strange emails in his mailbox. Some of them were invitations from the media, while others were completely unrelated insults. Fortunately, Xiao Ai helped him delete the useless parts and "throw them away," so the spam didn't affect him much.
However, it didn't seem like a good idea to continue wasting time like this.
After some consideration, Lu Zhou finally asked Assistant Zhao to arrange a time for him to be interviewed by a few foreign media outlets.
Just as Lu Zhou expected, as soon as the interview began, the reporter with the recording pen asked a sharp question.
"Professor Brian insisted that you plagiarized his research in an interview with the BBC, Daily Mail, and other media outlets … What do you think about this matter?"
Lu Zhou smiled.
"There's nothing to see."
The reporter said, "You … don't have any opinions?"
"Yeah." Lu Zhou nodded and said in a relaxed tone, "If Mr. Brian can prove the existence of the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap by setting up a scalar field on a spacetime manifold, I can give him all of the credit for solving the Yang-Mills equations."
He said this casually, as if he didn't care at all.
However, when the reporters heard this, it was like a bomb had gone off in their ears.
All of the credit for solving the Yang-Mills equations!
Even though they had never heard of this kind of credit being transferable, if this was true, then Professor Brian would become one of the most outstanding mathematical physicists of the century …
Perhaps Lu Zhou felt that his words were not convincing enough. He looked at the stunned reporters around him, paused for a moment, and continued to add.
"Of course, including the US $1 million from the Clay Institute.
"I can even pay him in advance."
…
The interview was first broadcasted on CBS.
Then, it was reposted on major video websites.
Originally, public opinion was on Professor Brian's side, and the British media was more inclined to support his point of view. However, Lu Zhou's understatement made the people that were criticizing Lu Zhou lose their confidence.
A person who didn't care about fame and fortune had no motive to do something like this.
Maybe …
There was more to this than meets the eye.
Inside his office at the University of Oxford.
Professor Brian stared at the computer screen and watched the interview from beginning to end. When he heard Lu Zhou say "give it to him", his pupils almost burst into flames.
This blatant provocation caused him to be unable to swallow it no matter what.
"… You said it yourself."
Professor Brian gritted his teeth and closed his laptop. He then took out a piece of paper from his drawer.
"I will prove it to you …
"This line of thought is definitely feasible …"
"You will pay for your arrogance!"
Time always passed by quickly when immersed in the world of academia.
Although it had been a long time since he had experienced this feeling of wholeheartedly devoting himself to research, the power of hatred and anger made his spirit exceptionally focused, and also made his thinking abnormally active. Although being narrow-minded wasn't a good thing, when it became a driving force to move forward, it wasn't impossible for it to explode with extraordinary power.
Just like this, a month went by.
His originally finely trimmed beard had already covered his dry lips. His slovenly appearance made it hard for people to associate him with the gentlemanly Professor Brian.
A PhD student was sitting in the corner of the office. He looked at the professor and spoke in a quiet voice.
"The professor is crazy …"
Before he studied physics, he studied psychology.
Based on his experience, it was obvious that this was a sign of Qi deviation.
Another doctor sitting next to him quickly lowered his voice and reminded him.
"Shh, quiet, don't let Professor Brian hear you."
The office was only so big, it was impossible for the professor not to hear them.
However, to Brian Caro, it didn't matter even if he heard it at that moment …
"This is impossible …"
Professor Brian's turbid pupils stared at the crumpled manuscript paper. He muttered to himself, the same words he had repeated countless times since the middle of the month.
But this time, his voice carried a trace of dejection that was as still as dead ashes.
He put down the pen in his hand and looked up at the ceiling. He spoke in a calm voice.
"I proved it."
The moment the people in the office heard this, they were shocked.
The silence lasted for around five minutes.
The first to break the silence was his assistant, the only one who dared to talk to him at this time.
The young man in his twenties or thirties swallowed his saliva, restraining the trembling of excitement, and said in an incredulous tone.
"You … proved it?"
Proved it!
If Professor Lu's promise was valid, not only would he enjoy the US $1 million prize, but he would also enjoy the honor of solving the Yang-Mills equations. He would become the greatest mathematical physicist of the century.
"Yeah." Brian looked at the pile of draft paper and said in a self-deprecating tone, "I used a month to prove that the scalar field of the spacetime manifold cannot be used to study the strong interaction … In a mathematical sense."
Whether it was the defects in the torus Euclid spacetime or the unprovable limit of the lattice step size …
All of these defects were superficial.
The Chinese scholar named Luo didn't hit the nail on the head, or rather, he didn't see the problem clearly.
The fundamental problem in his thesis was that the scalar field of the spacetime manifold could not be used to study the strong interaction. It was like how 1 + 1 could never be equal to 3. No matter how many factorizations he did, he couldn't overturn Peano's axioms.
From the beginning, Lu Zhou saw through this, which was why he was so sure that Brian couldn't do it.
And now, Brian saw it too.
Even though he wasn't as talented as Lu Zhou, he was able to prove this point through mathematical methods.
Maybe he could name it "Brian's theorem" or "non-standard theorem"?
In that instant, Brian, who was mocking himself, had a flash of enlightenment in his eyes.
At this moment, he finally understood what Professor Lu was trying to say …
"If Mr. Brian can prove the existence of the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap by setting up a scalar field on the spacetime manifold … So that's what you meant?" Repeating this sentence over and over again, he logged into Youtube's website and rewatched the video that had faded from popularity.
With a completely different mood, he watched the video until the end, and a bitter taste gradually appeared on his lips.
"Is this the difference?"
Just by relying on mathematical intuition, Lu Zhou could "guess" the conclusion that he spent more than a decade to prove. He couldn't think of a better word to describe Lu Zhou than a monster.
I feel like …
He was even more unwilling.
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