From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 207 Edward Witten

The more Qi Zhenhai thought about it, the more worried he became. While urging the staff to ask Lin Mo to come over quickly, he also discussed with Tian Fangyi, who was in charge of dispatching at the scene.

"Old Tian, ​​should we cancel the final Q&A session and let Lin Mo finish his report?"

"Ok?"

Tian Fangyi gave Qi Zhenhai a strange look.

"This is against the rules, isn't it? Which report have you ever seen without a Q&A session?"

"But... just in case..."

"what are you worried about?"

Qi Zhenhai directly pushed the list over.

hiss!Tian Fang took a deep breath.

"How about asking Lin Mo for his opinion..."

"Lin Mo, where are the others?"

"Well, maybe you're still in class?"

"Class? What time is this? Is he still in the mood to go to class?"

Qi Zhenhai was speechless.

"I have asked Director Zhang Qihua to find Lin Mo. He should be here soon."

Finally, 5 minutes before the start of the report meeting, Lin Mo finally arrived in the auditorium with Qi Zhenhai sending people to urge him over and over again.

"Lin Mo, you..."

Tian Fang pulled Qi Zhenhai, who was about to get angry, and approached Lin Mo with the list.

"Lin Mo, this is the list of well-known experts and scholars who participated in today's report meeting in various venues. Here..."

Afraid that Lin Mo would not understand the importance of this list, Tian Fangyi introduced Lin Mo one by one to some of the academic leaders at the top of the list.

"This, you..."

Lin Mo glanced at Tian Fangyi and understood what Tian Fangyi was worried about. He waved his hand.

"Director Tian, ​​don't worry. Everything is in my head. I have a sense of proportion. Although these people are academic experts and many of the founders of string theory, the things I have argued cannot be achieved even after racking their brains. Arguably, I am the expert in this area.”

Lin Mo's words were plain, but the confidence in them was quite contagious, which made Tian Fang feel relieved.

"Okay, Lin Mo, come on!"

The time soon came to 10 o'clock, which was the time when the report meeting started.

Qi Zhenhai was the first to take the stage.

"I am very happy to have experts and scholars from all over the world come to participate in this conference hosted by Dongshan University and co-organized by eight of the world's top universities, including Shuimu, Donghai, Springton, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, and Jinniu. Report on the relevant mathematical demonstration of the AdS/CFT conjecture'."

Qi Zhenhai shamelessly added Dongshan University to the ranks of the top universities in the world.

Then Qi Zhenhai introduced some well-known top experts and scholars attending the meeting. "Next, I would like to invite Lin Mo, a researcher from Dongshan University's Mathematics Research Center and the speaker of this report, to come to the stage to give a report."

Originally, Qi Zhenhai wanted to say a few more words to introduce and promote Dongshan University. For this purpose, he asked the school office to prepare a manuscript of more than 1 words for him. Without daring to say a word, he directly gave the stage to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo walked onto the stage slowly, his expression calm and collected.

"Hi everyone, my name is Lin Mo. The topic of my report today is the relevant mathematical demonstration of the AdS/CFT conjecture."

"I believe many people have read my paper in the latest issue of "Acta Mathematica Sinica". Here today, I will elaborate and introduce some of the difficulties in the paper."

"When I first got this project, I was thinking about how I should start..."

"I have made a lot of attempts, but unfortunately many attempts have been fruitless..."

"Of course, I would like to thank Professor Marina here. She gave me a lot of help. She reminded me..."

"So I tried to deconstruct the sphere in five-dimensional space, and tried to decipher its relationship with the sphere in four-dimensional space..."

"And then I got..."

"Among them, Poincaré's conjecture gave me great inspiration..."

"In the end, I was lucky. This method worked sometimes..."

"The above is the entire content of my report. I also invite criticism and correction from experts and scholars."

Lin Mo talked eloquently on the stage, clearly and accurately expressing his argumentation ideas and process in front of the participating scholars, and led the participating scholars to review his argument, so that the participating scholars had a clear understanding of the entire argumentation process. Gained a very in-depth understanding and understanding.

"Oh, Lin, you really made an amazing argument. You provided the most solid theoretical argument for string theory, making string theory a solid step forward. Your theory is a milestone in the history of the development of string theory. It is The cornerstone of our string theory, you are also one of the founders of our metaphysical theory!"

Entering the question-and-answer session, Edward Witten took the lead in grabbing the right to speak.

Edward Witten expressed high praise and affirmation for Lin Mo's argument as soon as he came up, and looked at Lin Mo with eyes full of appreciation.

Especially the term "founder" is simply a compliment to Lin Mo. You must know that Edward Witten himself proposed M theory and laid the theoretical foundation for string theory, so he was known as the father of string theory. , the founder of string theory.

As for Edward Witten, the opportunity is to put Lin Mo at the same level as himself.

This is really an exaggeration!

It is not without reason that Edward Witten praised Lin Mo so much.

This is actually because, as one of the founders of string theory and known as the father of string theory, he has never been able to rectify the name of string theory and have failed to make string theory widely recognized by the academic community. There is still a lack of understanding of string theory in the academic community. There are many voices of doubt, and some even seek trouble from his identity as the father of string theory. String theory was once refuted by the academic community as a metatheory and a pseudoscience. It is just that string theorists like them created it for their own academic achievements. Conjecture.

Edward Witten felt miserable.

This has to be said about the growth experience of Edward Witten, the legendary father of string theory.

Edward Witten did not study physics at the beginning. He studied history as an undergraduate. You may have read it wrong. It is not physics or mathematics, but history, which is completely different from physics. He received the B.B.A. degree in history from Dyess University, he then worked in political news media for more than a year before switching to physics.

Therefore, some people will always unearth this experience of his, saying that the M theory he created is his imagination based on history, that it was fabricated out of thin air by a liberal arts student, and that he turned scientific research into literary creation.

How could Edward Witten endure this, so he was thinking about proving himself all the time. As he became more and more famous and won more and more awards, few people would say this about him now, but string theory Edward Witten felt uneasy every day that he did not get effective arguments to support him, feeling that someone was always mocking and ridiculing him behind his back.

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