From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 387: A Bridge Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
Time passed quietly.

Lin Xiao's research has not stopped, but the research progress is not as fast as a bamboo.

Although the seven problems of the millennium are all placed in the same position, if you want to use numerical values ​​to describe their difficulty, obviously, the difficulty of these seven problems is not the same.

1 Among them, the existence of the Yang-Mills gauge field and the mass gap problem can obviously be ranked in the forefront, because this requires not only a sufficient understanding of mathematics, but also a sufficient understanding of physics, such as particle physics and quantum mechanics. At the same time, its requirements for mathematics are also very high.

However, there is an obvious problem that physicists who can study the Yang-Mills gauge field often devote their minds to physics, and do not do much research on mathematics, so this leads to Most of the people who study this seven major mathematical problems of the millennium are physicists.

Therefore, this has become a restrictive threshold, and at the same time, there are not many research results on this issue.

Therefore, Lin Xiao's current research cannot even refer to too much content.

"The Yang-Mills equation field equation is nonlinear and is a generalization of the linear Maxwell equation."

"And Maxwell's equations contain all electromagnetism, so the electromagnetic interaction force is embedded in it like this."

"Including the original electroweak unified theory, it was also completed based on this premise."

"Heh... is it nonlinear and linear again?"

When thinking came here, Lin Xiao sighed softly.

Is the gap between linearity and nonlinearity really so difficult to bridge?

At this time, he didn't know, just like his claim of unifying linearity and nonlinearity that he put forward at the beginning, it had caused a lot of excitement in the mathematics world, but nearly a year has passed, and the statement about this Lin's program The boom, too, subsided.

Because for all the mathematicians who spent time on research, even if they achieved results, it was just a slight promotion of the special case given by Lin Xiao at the beginning, and no one found any valuable breakthrough direction.

However, like the original Langlands program, this is by no means the case. On the contrary, there are always important progress and results, full of vitality, which is completely different from the current Lin's program, which seems rather indifferent.

In the end, Lin Xiao shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Of course, this brief thought also gave him a hint, "To solve nonlinear problems, you can try to approximate them as linear problems."

"Then, let's go back to our own problem first. If we want to solve this problem, we need to introduce new content from both physics and mathematics..."

"New content in mathematics... let's not talk about it, new content in physics?"

Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up.

"In the current physics, the latest content is still my turn to multidimensional field theory."

"Although in my previous research, I didn't try to use multidimensional field theory to describe the major interaction forces, but it is not difficult to do so."

As soon as his heart moved, he picked up his pen and began to write. At this time, he already had some inspiration.

"First start with the electromagnetic interaction force."

【▽*H=J+D/t…▽*E=-B/t…】

In this way, after a few steps, Lin Xiao described the electric, weak, and strong forces using multidimensional field theory.

"There is still a gravitational force..."

Lin Xiao frowned. Gravity, as the thorn in these interactions, is not difficult to express using multidimensional field theory, but the most important thing is that the physics community does not have a generally accepted view on gravity yet. .

It's like an argument between quantum mechanics and relativity.

Although in his standard model of multidimensional field theory, a prediction has been made on the existence of gravitons, at least mathematically proved that there is a particle similar to gravitons, but on this point, physicists who study the theory of relativity temporarily But they are still unwilling to admit it, and show that unless it can be proved by experiments, they will still not admit the existence of gravitons.

However, for the graviton-like particles predicted in the standard model of multidimensional field theory, even Lin Xiao and other physicists who study this thing cannot jump to conclusions at this time, because they are just like, but not completely Yes, no one can make an assertion about this kind of academic rigor.

"Well... Let's take it out and have a look, anyway, it won't waste time."

So soon, Lin Xiao wrote a description of gravity based on multidimensional field theory.

However, looking at this result, Lin Xiao fell into hesitation for a moment.

Because, he found that this final description seems to correspond to the description of gravity in general relativity.

"What the hell is this?"

Lin Xiao felt that he was researching and found a little surprise.

General relativity and gravitons are incompatible, because in general relativity, once gravitons exist, general relativity will be overthrown.

But the result he gave is based on the existence of gravitons, just like the other three forces, all of which can exist only with particles.

"Could it be that?"

A ray of light flashed across Lin Xiao's eyes.

If his idea is correct, then this will realize a grand unified theory in another sense, and this will be of great help to what he is currently trying to accomplish.

And his idea is to unify quantum mechanics and relativity before unifying the four fundamental forces.

The unity between quantum mechanics and relativity is another kind of grand unified theory, which may also be called the theory of everything.

For the latter, there is a purpose to unify quantum mechanics and relativity.

Of course, both the grand unified theory and the theory of everything can be regarded as one thing, because their ultimate goal is the same, that is, to unify the four fundamental forces.

Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Lin Xiao decisively suspended his original plan, and started to try this step instead.

Once his attempt is successful, his original intention, which is to solve the mass gap problem, may even become as simple as a broken bamboo.

"So, first write out the description of gravity in the theory of relativity."

"That's the so-called distortion of time and space... Hey, in terms of imagination, Einstein's imagination is really very advanced, at least for that era."

Lin Xiao sighed with emotion in his heart, and at the same time quickly wrote out the expression of gravity in the theory of relativity.

For this point, he completed it as if it came at his fingertips.

Soon, relevant content appeared on his paper.

"Then next..."

Lin Xiao's gaze was fixed, and after comparing the two, he was slightly amazed for a moment, and the corners of his mouth curled up accordingly.

"Finally, let me find the most critical point."

"The bridge between quantum mechanics and relativity?"

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(End of this chapter)