Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 185 Zhang Shuo: It’s impossible for me to find the problem right away!

Soo Dong University.

Zhang Shuo was unaware of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ troubles. He focused on “theoretical research on strong splitting” to solve the mystery of the previous life’s experimental explosion.

At the same time, many things came to the door.

Including "Theoretical Correlation Model of Electromagnetic Force and Gravitation" and "NS Equation: Proof of Turbulent Singularities", both have been formally published in papers and have had an impact in their respective fields.

For the former, most people focus on the mathematical content and take a wait-and-see attitude towards the research itself.

The latter has a greater influence.

Zhang Shuo receives a lot of emails and calls from society members every day.

Many people called to congratulate him on completing a major proof of the NS equations, and also discussed related issues with him. The influence of the NS equations is too great, and there has always been controversy in the physics and mathematics communities on the proof of turbulence singularities.

Zhang Shuo used mathematical methods to prove that there are no singularities in the turbulent position, which can be said to have made very significant progress in the study of the NS equation.

At the same time, he also received many invitations, including various academic conferences and invitations to lectures.

Zhang Shuo has no interest in lectures. He teaches very few classes at Soochow University, mainly because lectures cannot bring any positive benefits. He is not a professional professor and does not think his lectures are better than others.

If you are dealing with difficult mathematical content, it is better to give an academic report than to give a lecture to students, because most people will not understand it.

Zhang Shuo is very interested in academic conferences, especially those involving partial differential equations or theoretical physics research.

In these two aspects of the conference, some reports will improve the progress of tasks, and comprehensive research can deepen the understanding of related fields, which is also an improvement for individuals.

Now Zhang Shuo has no interest at all.

"Theoretical research on strong splitting" is the most important thing, and he can't wait to solve the mystery of the experimental explosion.

This research is of level B difficulty, and each progress requires 4 scientific research coins.

At this stage, the difficulty is not high.

Zhang Shuo has enough scientific research coins, and can even directly purchase progress to complete the research, but he does not want to do so. The mystery of the "explosion" of research relationships can be understood to a certain extent as tracing the cause of his own death.

In this life, I want to find the cause of my death in my previous life...

His mood is very complicated.

Although he did not spend a large amount of krypton coins to purchase mission progress, he still did his research normally. If he got stuck, he would still purchase progress. In addition, he was very focused on his research, so the mission progress increased very quickly.

In half a month, the progress of the task has been improved to '78%'. He seemed to have seen the result. Just as the initial prediction, the strong splitting in a specific environment would trigger a chain reaction, similar to the explosion caused by nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.

However, the way energy is released in the process remains a mystery.

When a proton or neutron loses the strong force and breaks apart into quarks, theoretically, it is a process of absorbing a large amount of energy rather than exploding with energy.

The reason why energy explodes involves the existence of quarks.

Quarks cannot exist alone.

This phenomenon is called quark confinement. Due to the effect of strong interaction, charged quarks are confined with other quarks, making the total color charge zero. The interaction between quarks increases with the increase of distance, so there are no single quarks.

Quarks travel in groups.

Then after protons and neutrons lose their internal strong force and are split into quarks, the quarks will inevitably undergo a series of complex reactions.

The subsequent reaction is the main content of the study, and the subsequent reaction will inevitably be accompanied by an energy burst.

As for another case, there is no research on the separation of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus for the time being.

High-energy physics experiments target proton beams or neutron beams. Even if they are just theoretical research, there will be some research gaps because they are not perfect.

However, as long as the more difficult quark separation problem is overcome, the separation of atomic nuclei will be relatively simple.

As the research was nearing completion, Zhang Shuo's mood became more and more complicated. It might be that no one else would have the experience of investigating the cause of his own death.

He became the only one.

So in the eyes of others, Zhang Shuo seemed to be worried.

The same is true of Zhang Shuo's performance.

Some time ago, I was immersed in research and stayed in the office alone for a long time. Later, I seemed to have become fond of exercise and often wandered around the campus alone.

On the steps of the stadium, Zhang Shuo sat there quietly alone.

In the stadium, several classes were having classes, including football and gymnastics. The students were running around the playground in sparse lines.

This is very close to life and very interesting.

Someone suddenly came over and asked, "What are you doing?"

Zhang Shuo turned around and saw that it was Gao Xiaohong. He called out "Sister Xiaohong" and then said, "Just taking a casual walk."

"Did you encounter any problems in your research?" Gao Xiaohong asked with concern, and then sat down next to him.

Zhang Shuo shook his head and said, "I'm just walking around and taking a look."

He added, “There are always various problems in research, but they can be solved as long as you think hard.”

Gao Xiaohong was silent for a moment. She felt hit.

Do you think that problems in research can be solved by just thinking hard? This is kidding!
In the normal world, most problems encountered in research cannot be solved. Most people find other ways to bypass them, or simply change direction.

Ok!

This guy is Zhang Shuo, a Fields Medalist, and is recognized worldwide as the youngest and best mathematician.

Gao Xiaohong sat aside, sighing.

Zhang Shuo continued to stare at the students in class. He sat there quietly, his eyes seeming to flash with the vicissitudes of time.

Gao Xiaohong couldn't help but sigh, "Sometimes, I feel like you don't look like a person of this age, especially now that you are sitting here, like an old man looking back on his youth and enjoying a quiet time..."

“That’s because I have a lot of experience.”

"You? Have a lot of experience?" Gao Xiaohong covered her mouth exaggeratedly, with the word "funny" written all over her face.

That expression seemed to be mocking, and there were a few words written in his eyes -

Have you ever been in love?

Have you ever been married?

Besides going to school and doing scientific research, what other experiences do you have?
Zhang Shuo understood. He stared at Gao Xiaohong and pursed his lips tightly, then said, "Sister Xiaohong, come to think of it, you are six years older than me, right?"

He then sighed and shook his head.

Gao Xiaohong suddenly felt a surge of anger rushing up from the soles of her feet to her forehead.

She gritted her teeth and used her left hand to tightly control her clenched fist, as if without much force, her right fist would automatically be sucked into the white cheek in front of her.

……

Time passed, another week passed.

The task progress of "Theoretical Research on Strong Splitting" has exceeded 90%.

As Zhang Shuo continued to immerse himself in his research, a major event occurred in the mathematics community: a new issue of the journal Applied Mathematics Theory was released.

One of the papers was titled "Proof of the Singularity Problem of the NS Equation in the Cartesian Coordinate System", which sparked a crazy discussion in the international mathematics community.

The reason is that the research concluded that there are singularities in the square channel of the NS equation in the Cartesian coordinate system.

If the conclusion is that there is no singularity in the Cartesian coordinate system, that is, the smoothness of the solution set of the NS equation continues to be supported, the research will only be a continuation of the argument for the turbulence singularity problem of the NS equation and will not attract widespread attention in the mathematical community.

The existence of singularities is completely different. If the research content is correct, it means that the NS equations are not smooth.

This is a challenge to the general understanding of the NS equations.

After Zhang Shuo completed the proof of turbulence singularities, most mathematicians became more certain that the solution set of the NS equations is smooth, but now the original cognition has been denied.

After the paper was published, many people in the international community said, "This is impossible. The solution set of the NS equation must be smooth!"

"There are no singularities at the location of turbulence, so how can a square channel in a Cartesian coordinate system exist?"

“There must be something wrong with the research!”

"Bill McIver is preparing to deceive the whole world with his fake arguments!"

The mathematical community does not agree with this conclusion at all, but the problem is that no one has been able to find the problems in Bill McIver's paper.

Bill McIver is a professor at ETH Zurich, whose main research area is the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.

The theory of nonlinear partial differential equations can be understood as the study of what methods are used to solve the problems of nonlinear partial differential equations.

In this field, Bill McIver has achieved many results and has a certain prestige.

Now Bill McIver has come up with a brand new study, which uses Zhang Shuo's method of proving the turbulence singularity problem, that is, 'two-dimensional continuity versus three-dimensional', and also uses some special methods.

Many scholars have studied the argumentation process and have not found any problems.

Although they did not find the problem, they hoped that others would find it because they could not believe that the NS equations were not smooth.

Many people immediately thought of Zhang Shuo.

"Zhang Shuo will definitely be able to find the problem!"

“McQuay’s argument uses Zhang Shuo’s methods, and Zhang Shuo understands these methods better than anyone else.”

"Who can contact Zhang Shuo? I sent him an email but he didn't reply. Please let him check..."

"In the Cartesian coordinate system, the NS equation has a singularity? Nothing could be more absurd than this!"

"There must be something wrong!"

When many scholars collectively condemned Bill McIver's research and called on Zhang Shuo to stand up and point out the problems, Zhang Shuo, who was staying in his office, also learned the news.

He didn't even need to go out or pay attention to the public opinion in the international mathematics community, because soon someone came and told him what happened.

The first ones were Qi Zhixiang and Wang Hui.

Then there is Luo Yongjun.

Sun Xingli also came to the door soon. He said excitedly, "Someone has found the singularity of the NS equation, in the square channel in the Cartesian coordinate system!"

"Zhang Shuo, what do you think!?"

A group of people surrounded the desk, and they all stared at Zhang Shuo intently.

Zhang Shuo felt uncomfortable all over. He could only put aside his research for the time being and asked, "Do you have a paper?"

"here!"

Luo Yongjun immediately shouted and put the printed paper on the table, "I knew it would be useful, I just went to print it!"

Others gave Luo Yongjun a thumbs up.

Luo Yongjun said with determination, "We study partial differential equations, so we must maintain the smoothness of the NS equations!"

He seemed to be the embodiment of a warrior of justice.

Zhang Shuo felt that he was not that excited, because up to now, he could only judge based on his feeling that the NS equation was smooth.

The research was not completed, so he did not dare to say that the NS equations must be smooth.

So, it's possible that McIver's research is correct.

What if?
Zhang Shuo took the paper and roughly scanned it, frowning and saying, "There are some methods that I haven't come across before."

Luo Yongjun immediately said, "It may be McIver's own research. His research field is partial differential equation theory, and his research on methodology is very in-depth."

Zhang Shuo nodded and asked, "Teacher Luo, did you find any problems?"

"No."

Luo Yongjun said directly, "This paper was published the day before yesterday, and gradually more and more people knew about it. It was only reported in China yesterday."

"Applied Mathematical Theory has a greater influence in Europe, and few domestic subscriptions are available. I learned about the news after reading a report, and then I came here."

Zhang Shuo asked doubtfully, "Didn't you check it yourself?"

"If even I can easily find problems, it has been a few days now, and someone internationally must have come out to deny the research."

Luo Yongjun said calmly.

The others listened and nodded. Luo Yongjun's level was indeed good, but it was difficult to rank him internationally.

On this serious topic, even Sun Xingli did not joke around, they all just stared at Zhang Shuo seriously.

Zhang Shuo suddenly felt a huge pressure. He immediately said, "Don't worry, I'll take a closer look."

He looked around and added, "If the difficulty is very high, I won't be able to find the problem right away."

Others think so too.

It has been several days since the paper was published, and the problems would have been found long ago if they were easy to find.

"Then you have to take a closer look!"

"We must find the problem. I believe the solution set of the NS equations is smooth."

"Doesn't this conflict with our research?"

"come on……"

A group of people left.

The office fell silent. Zhang Shuo heaved a sigh of relief and began to read the paper carefully.

After a careful scan, he simply created a task -

【Task 2】

[Research project name: Singularity proof of the square channel NS equation in Cartesian coordinate system (difficulty: C). ]

【Progress: 17.322%.】

"C-rank..."

“Normal difficulty.”

This was expected.

When new research can use known methods, the difficulty of research is greatly reduced.

After the singularity proof of the turbulent position is completed, many similar positions where "singularities may exist" can be proved using the same method, and the difficulty of research will naturally be greatly reduced.

Grade C is still on the high side, which means that the research needs to be innovative.

"Then let me see if McIver's research is correct..."

(End of this chapter)