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Chapter 494 Nobel Prize Candidate?



Chapter 494 Nobel Prize Candidate?
After lunch, Matheson, Coyle and the others also wisely stopped disturbing Chen Zhou.

After cleaning up, Chen Zhou seized the time and took a short rest.

Good for the Q&A session in the afternoon, so as to raise your spirits.

Chen Zhou can't believe that the hot scene in the morning will change in the afternoon?
Therefore, he had to prepare for a fierce battle.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Zhou left the lounge and went to the lecture hall.

Walking on the road to Stanford University, Chen Zhou felt very helpless.

A report meeting can be regarded as letting everyone in the school know themselves.

However, compared to the helplessness on Chen Zhou's face, the classmates who met Chen Zhou on the road all looked excited.

There is no other reason, this is a walking Nobel Prize candidate!

And there is a great possibility that he will win the Nobel Prize this year!

Wouldn't you be excited to have a close look at such a big shot?

Walking into the lecture hall in the morning, Chen Zhou looked at the three people in the lecture hall with some surprise.

He had come early enough because he wanted to avoid enthusiastic people.

Unexpectedly, there were people in the lecture hall who came earlier than him.

Among the three, Friedman noticed Chen Zhou as soon as Chen Zhou came in.

He waved at Chen Zhou: "Chen Zhou, come here."

Chen Zhou heard the sound, walked towards the three of them, and greeted them politely: "Professor Friedman, Professor Glashaw, and Professor Witten, why are you here so early?"

"I was dragged here by them..." Friedman smiled and pointed to Glashow and Witten, "These two discussed for a whole afternoon, from the standard model of particle physics to superstring theory. The content of physics research was exchanged one by one."

Chen Zhou looked at Glashow and Wei Teng in a little surprise.

As far as Chen Zhou knows, Glashow is a staunch skeptic of superstring theory.

He believes that superstring theory is a subject that has nothing to do with physics.

Because superstring theory cannot provide experimentally testable predictions.

He also tried to prevent superstring theory from entering the Harvard physics department, but Harvard accepted superstring theory.

For this reason, Glashow himself chose to leave.

Therefore, Chen Zhou was very puzzled, how did Glashow "communicate" with the string theory expert Wei Teng?And how to "communicate"?

Edward Witten, a historian who has won the Fields Medal and hopes to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chen Zhou has met before.

However, this is the first time Chen Zhou has met Sheldon Glashaw, the father of the "Standard Model of Particle Physics", known as the prototype of the protagonist "Sheldon" of "The Big Bang Theory".

This is the world of modern physics, a true genius in theoretical physics!

At the beginning of the study of elementary particles, Glashow discussed the unification of weak interaction and electromagnetic interaction on the basis of gauge field theory, and predicted the existence of neutral weak currents.

This is also known as the earliest standard model of particle physics.

Later, Glashow proposed the charm quark and the GIM mechanism, by introducing the charm quark to explain the depression of the FCNC process in the laboratory, and solved the problem of non-renormalization caused by the unequal number of quarks and leptons in theory.

This theoretical research result was also confirmed with the discovery of the charm quark in 1974.

Later, together with his collaborators, on the basis of the Weinberg-Salam model, electroweak unified theory, and quantum chromodynamics, he proposed a large-scale theory that unifies the weak interaction, electromagnetic interaction, and strong interaction. unified theory.

This is a useful first step toward a "grand unified theory" of the four fundamental forces.

For these research results, Glashow won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics!
It is no exaggeration to say that the Standard Model of particle physics is one of the most significant achievements in physics in the twentieth century.

The glueballs discovered by Chen Zhou and the others are also under the standard model, providing evidence to support the standard model.

In addition, Glashow's research results have also been widely used in super accelerators, space laboratories, space science, superconducting electromagnetics, cryogenic technology, medical imaging, biomedicine...

This is why Chen Zhou believes that Glashow is a real master of theoretical physics.

While Chen Zhou was observing the white-haired old man, Glashow was also observing Chen Zhou.

Glashow is also quite curious about today's protagonist.

Chen Zhou looked away and asked, "Professor, what are you talking about?"

Hearing Chen Zhou's words, Friedman glanced at Wei Teng first, and then said with a smile: "Wi Teng, didn't you just say that Chen Zhou would launch an attack on superstring theory sooner or later?"

Witten laughed softly: "Professor Friedman, did we bet $10?"

Before Friedman could reply, Glashow said, "It's $20, $10 per person."

Witten smiled and shook his head: "Okay, then 20 dollars."

Chen Zhou will also react now, dare these big shots bet on himself?
So how should I answer later?
Is it to help my tutor and Professor Glashow to bully Professor Witten?
Or, to help this multi-identity Professor Wei Teng bully the other two Nobel laureates?
Obviously, Chen Zhou's random thoughts are just random thoughts, and they have no other effect except superfluous.

Wei Teng has already continued: "However, the result of this bet cannot be known now, and the future is not certain right now."

Friedman and Glashow looked at each other, they both smiled and shook their heads in unison.

Seeing this, Wei Teng immediately said: "I'm not cheating. Although we may not see the moment when the bet will be fulfilled, our children and grandchildren can witness it."

After finishing speaking, Wei Teng smiled and winked at Chen Zhou.

Chen Zhou smiled helplessly.

Didn't he expect that the young Professor Wei Teng would be so playful?
But soon, Chen Zhou realized that he was wrong.

After Friedman and Glashow reluctantly accepted the $20 bet.

Wei Teng said slowly: "Although the future is determined by the present, none of us knows which decision is the real future. Therefore, we can only do well in the present and hand over the future to young people. "

Friedman and Glashow both put away their smiles and nodded.

All three fell into silence.

Chen Zhou looked at the three of them and finally understood.

Glashow and Witten may not be discussing which theory is correct, but simply the future of physics.

People at this age may feel more and more powerless.

I will also miss the past more and look forward to the future.

After a while, Glashow looked at Chen Zhou and said, "Did you come up with the CC model from a mathematical or physical perspective?"

Hearing this question, not only Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, but Friedman and Witten beside him also didn't react.

Although he didn't know the reason why Glashow asked this question, Chen Zhou still replied truthfully: "There must be both, just like gauge field theory, it is not only a difficult problem in physics, but also a difficult problem in mathematics. "

In fact, Chen Zhou himself couldn't tell whether the flash of inspiration was the dominance of mathematical thinking or the flash of physical thinking.

If you really want to calculate carefully, you can't tell the difference.

Starting from the "asymptotic freedom" of quantum chromodynamics, it is closely related to quantum chromodynamics and Yang-Mills gauge field theory.

And this already belongs to both mathematics and physics.

Glashow nodded slightly, he had the answer.

After a pause, Glashow said slowly: "I have read all five of your papers. From your undergraduate papers, I can already see that you have profound physical intuition and superb mathematics. ability."

Speaking of this, Glashow glanced at Witten at the side again: "In this point, you are actually very similar to Professor Witten, and he is also a mathematician."

Professor Witten also put away the feeling of emotion just now, and said with a soft smile: "Professor Glashaw, I am not a mathematician, I am a history student..."

Glashow ignored the old urchin and continued, "This is your advantage, and it's what you've always relied on, and it's also an important reason why you were able to discover the CC model."

"The CC model not only solves the problem of 'color confinement', but also perfects quantum chromodynamics and the standard model, opens the way for the glue ball experiment, and also takes the first step for your future research on gauge field theory."

"I believe that with such physical intuition and mathematical ability, you will be able to blaze a trail of physics!"

Chen Zhou was a little dazed, he didn't expect Glashow to give him such high praise.

It's not because of the gauge field theory that Glashow said, this is what he mentioned at the report meeting.

With Glashow's ingenuity, he can definitely guess the direction of his research.

However, in this last sentence, Glashow actually praised himself, and would walk out of a path that would make physics shine.

Instead, do something for physics yourself.

This is completely different!
"Professor Glashaw, you are absurd." Chen Zhou replied modestly.

Glashow reached out and patted Chen Zhou's shoulder, and said softly, "Just like Wei Teng said just now, the future of physics still depends on you young people, and you young people should also watch it."

Friedman also said: "Chen Zhou, let me tell you another piece of good news. We intend to write a letter to recommend you to the Nobel Prize in Physics Prize Committee."

"What?" Chen Zhou was really surprised at this moment.

Just discovered glue balls, and the papers have not been published yet, so you recommend yourself to participate in the selection of the Nobel Prize?
Do you really set up a Nobel Prize candidate all at once?

"Is...is this appropriate?" Chen Zhou asked uncertainly.

Although the news was good news, it also made Chen Zhou quite excited.

But it would be bad if you were happy in vain.

Chen Zhou also knew that since his thesis came out, many people began to discuss his winning the Nobel Prize.

Glashow pointed to Witten and explained: "For a physicist like him who studies superstring theory, no one knows when he will win the Nobel Prize in Physics. But for you, discovering glueballs and solving problems The problem of 'color confinement' is already a fact, and it is enough to win you the Nobel Prize in Physics."

Hearing Glashow's words, Witten opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

This is the shortcoming of studying superstring theory, because it cannot be verified by experiments, so no one can say that the theoretical content is 100% correct.

If the superstring theory is verified, more precisely, if the M theory is verified, then Witten will never lose a Nobel Prize in physics.

But now, we can only wait in silence.

Like many physicists, I waited all my life and didn't get the Nobel Prize.

From this point of view, it can only be said that Chen Zhou's ability has brought him great luck.

Chen Zhou naturally noticed Wei Teng's expression, and felt that this professor was indeed like an old urchin.

While having a sensual side, he also has the heart and playfulness of a child.

"Professor Friedman, Professor Glashaw, and Professor Witten, thank you..." Chen Zhou said sincerely.

Before the words were finished, Glashaw teased Wei Teng: "Chen Zhou, don't count on Wei Teng, he should still write a letter of recommendation for me..."

Friedman burst into laughter when he heard this.

Chen Zhou also laughed.

Only Wei Teng said with some depression: "Do you want to bet 20 dollars?"

……

The question session in the afternoon will start on time at 02:30.

Its lively level is not inferior to the morning.

Finally, the questioning session ended at [-]:[-] pm, and the whole report meeting came to a successful conclusion.

Like every previous conference, SLAC arranged a grand dinner to celebrate this moment and bid farewell to it.

In fact, the present timing is crucial for SLAC.

Although they shut down all the collider laboratories as planned.

But at the same time, they also lost many excellent researchers and lost the ability to return to the top in the high-energy physics community.

Therefore, SLAC also quietly held a meeting to discuss the next arrangements.

Here, Friedman and Chen Zhou are naturally mentioned.

They hope that Friedman will not retire from SLAC for the time being, and then help SLAC introduce some excellent researchers.

They prefer Chen Zhou to stay in SLAC, just like Friedman did before.

Even if they can't give Chen Zhou the collider laboratory, there are other laboratories for Chen Zhou to choose from.

It's just that this matter has not gone smoothly from Friedman.

SLAC did not retain Friedman, who had made up his mind to go.

Friedman was completely disappointed with SLAC's previous reluctance to stay even a little longer.

Therefore, he decisively rejected SLAC's solicitation at this moment.

Therefore, SLAC focused all on Chen Zhou.

They calculated that Chen Zhou, who was already familiar with SLAC and had experience in leading a large experimental team, would not refuse their invitation.

After all, as far as the current situation is concerned, there is still no comparison between Huaguo's laboratory and SLAC.

And other laboratories may not be suitable for Chen Zhou.

SLAC did not expect that while he was looking for Chen Zhou, there was a group of people also looking for Chen Zhou.

Although this group of people is not as confident as the people in SLAC in terms of ideas, they are also well prepared.

It's a pity because of the warm atmosphere of the dinner.

Both groups were blocked from immediately asking Chen Zhou what he thought.

Therefore, they could only wait impatiently until the dinner party was over.

But they didn't expect that after the dinner party, they couldn't find Chen Zhou's people again.

As for Chen Zhou, as soon as the dinner was over, he dragged Yang Yiyi and ran back to the room.

Having been busy for so long, don't you want some privacy and time?
Otherwise, isn't this love for nothing?

Can this feeling fade away?
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