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Chapter 213: Martial Law, Holiday? Small Experiment, Big Show, Don't Explode!

Different academic opinions do not involve other factors or influences.

For example, two good friends.

One believes that the solution set of the NS equation is smooth, while the other believes that the NS equation is discontinuous and that there are unknown singularities that cause the solution set of the equation to be discontinuous.

Or one supports the Houston Rockets and the other supports the Chicago Bulls.

Or maybe one believes in Buddhism and the other has no faith.

In different places, there may be arguments, but as long as there is mutual respect, we can be good friends.

The same is true for academic views.

Every scholar has different views. In the field of theoretical physics, the understanding of the theory will be different because of the different research fields.

Yang Haifeng specializes in theoretical research in the field of the standard model of particles. Naturally, he thinks that Mike Yoel's research is very meaningful, even very important.

Zhang Shuo doesn't care about this, and he certainly won't change his opinion because of it. In his past and present lives, he has been pursuing the theory of source points, but he also respects other people's academic views.

Michael Joel does represent the opinions of the majority, because the influence of the standard model of particles is very large, and string theory also has a huge market. The combination of the two even makes many scholars believe that Michael Joel's research is comparable to the "supersymmetry theory."

That’s what Yan Ming thinks.

During dinner, Yan Ming specifically sought out Zhang Shuo and asked, "I heard that you don't agree with that research?"

"I think it doesn't make any sense. Of course, theoretical physics can also be analyzed in this way, but it cannot be proved anyway," Zhang Shuo said bluntly.

Yan Ming is the director of the Theoretical Physics Research Office at the Institute of High Energy Physics. He specializes in string theory research and naturally highly respects Michael Joel's research.

He already knew Zhang Shuo's point of view, so he was not surprised. Instead, he said, "This is normal."

"Most of the current research is from the perspective of energy field equations, based on the four major forces, and the same is true for the basic force relationship model."

"Michael Joel introduced string theory, which incorporated chaotic force fields into the standard model of particles, and to some extent denied the relationship between the fundamental forces."

He added, "But, I think it's amazing!"

Zhang Shuo nodded slightly and smiled, "That's normal. You are all doing research on string theory."

This is not unexpected.

Feng Ruhui disagreed. "Mike Yoel's research is very meaningful. What is the basis of Yu Fei's group's experiment? Is the discovery of the chaos field just a coincidence?"

Yan Ming pursed his lips.

"There's no need to argue about anything, we just have different opinions." Zhang Shuo shook his head indifferently.

Feng Ruhui is one of the few scholars who supports Zhang Shuo because his field is theoretical mathematical framework, that is, the mathematical analysis work required for theoretical physics research. Most of the work he does is mathematical work, rather than analyzing any phenomena.

Yan Ming did not go to Zhang Shuo to persuade him to approve of Mike Joel's research, but just to talk to him and express that the academic dispute did not involve other influences.

After putting aside the topic of Mike Yol's research, the conversation became smoother.

They talked about the experiments conducted by the CP group in recent times.

In terms of CP experiments, the cooperation between the Nuclear Organization and the Institute of High Energy has increased significantly, even to the point of sharing data, because the CP research of both sides is equal.

Yu Fei's CP group detection technology is more sophisticated, and he was the first to discover the chaotic force field phenomenon.

The advantage of the CP group of nuclear organization is that it can produce a large number of Cauchy hyperons, and the statistical data of each experiment is more accurate and clear.

Both CP groups are studying how to improve the experiments in order to make more discoveries about chaotic force fields.

The ultimate goal of the current meeting is to study the chaos force field, that is, to find out what the chaos force field is and what its generation mechanism is.

The former requires more time, while the latter is theoretical research based on experiments.

……

The International Conference on Chaos Field was held for three days.

During the three days, more than 100 reports were made, among which the experimental reports attracted much attention, and some theoretical research was also recognized.

Mike Joel's research was undoubtedly outstanding. After the meeting, it received praise from all parties and was even reported by the media.

Zhang Shuo's views on research have also reached more people.

The conference attracted international attention. Among the participants were several top scholars in the fields of high-energy physics and theoretical physics. They all knew Zhang Shuo's views on the research and would tell others the news.

When you think about it carefully, Zhang Shuo’s attitude is actually not surprising.

When the string theory wave swept the world, it was also rejected by many top scholars.

During the period when string theory was booming, Harvard University decided to introduce string theory, that is, to allow scholars of string theory to become professors at Harvard University. At the same time, it also recognized the research in the direction of string theory and would provide funding to support related projects.

This decision aroused public opposition from many physics and mathematics professors at Harvard University.

Harvard University professor and Nobel Prize winner Sheldon Glashow quipped, "The exploration of string theory should at least be confined to the mathematics department, if not to the philosophy department or even the religion department."

In public statements, Sheldon Glashow has consistently compared the wave of advanced theories to the Star Wars program (which consumed enormous resources but was never tested).

When asked what he thought of Edward Witten's claim that string theory might dominate physics in the next 50 years, he said sarcastically, "String theory will dominate physics in the same way that Kaluza-Klein theory (which he considers to be absurd) dominated physics in the past 50 years. That is to say, not at all."

Sheldon Glashow has long wanted to keep string theory out of Harvard University.

But as a new generation of physicists turned to string theory, this lone voice, even that of a Nobel laureate, was quickly drowned out.

"Zhang Shuo is now like Sheldon Glashow in the past."

"Mike Yoel's research is excellent, but he is totally not optimistic about it and even rejects it, thinking that the research is meaningless."

“But I think the research will soon be recognized by the world, just like string theory once was.”

……

Zhang Shuo did not expect that his rejection of the research would be compared with Sheldon Glashow's opposition to string theory.

He made no further comment.

After returning to Soochow University, he continued to focus on experimental verification of the correlation between electromagnetic force and gravity. There were many reports in the media, most of which were interviews with certain scholars, and then praised Michael Joel's research, believing that it was a new breakthrough in theoretical physics and made the standard model of particles more complete.

Mike Yoel's paper was quickly published in Science magazine, and the title of the paper was "Chaotic Field Theory".

The climax of this event was that the elderly Edward Witten stood up and affirmed the "Chaotic Field Theory", believing it to be a new extension of string theory.

It's like the army won a battle and got some military merit to show off.

Edward Witten's affirmation helped Mike Joel become a celebrity in the field of string theory and theoretical physics, and he was also praised a lot in media reports.

The same is true in China, and there are many related reports. It is believed that the research has boosted the standard model of particles and analyzed the chaotic force field phenomenon. Continuing research may guide the next experimental direction.

Some even claim that "under the guidance of the Chaos Field Theory, the study of chaos force fields will be more in-depth and will become a new 'cp project'."

When particle collision experiments were found to have stagnated, research on baryon cp violation became the mainstream in the field of high-energy physics. Nuclear organizations and high-energy institutes invested a lot of money in the hope of finding baryon cp signals.

Now that we have Chaotic Field Theory, the next experimental direction may be clarified, which may also trigger a new "carnival" in the high-energy physics community.

At the same time, a lot of people also left messages to Zhang Shuo, because they all knew that Zhang Shuo had a negative attitude towards research.

Zhang Shuo also saw the messages while busy with work. He didn't want to comment at first, but a professor from Capital University left more than a dozen messages.

He simply responded, "I think it doesn't make sense. Of course, everyone has different opinions."

Zhang Shuo simply replied, but he didn't expect that his influence would be so great. Just a simple sentence was put in the news by the media.

Many media outlets reported on this.

Domestic reports only stated Zhang Shuo's views, but after the news spread abroad, some scholars publicly expressed their criticism of Zhang Shuo and even analyzed his inner thoughts.

Pietro Plotini, a famous Italian physicist, put it this way, “Of course he would object.”

"The Chaotic Field Theory, to a certain extent, denies the existence of a common relationship between fundamental forces, which is equivalent to denying his model of the relationship between fundamental forces."

"That's the origin theory. Obviously, from Zhang Shuo's point of view, we can know that the origin theory is not inclusive."

"But it's also normal."

“The more top scholars are, the more confident they are in their knowledge, which is the reason for their success.”

"From another perspective, it can also be understood that the more knowledgeable a person is, the more disgusted he or she will be with research that denies the content of his or her knowledge..."

Domestic and international public opinion did not affect Zhang Shuo, and he continued to focus on the experimental project.

The difficulty of the experimental project lies in the construction of equipment. Some high-end testing equipment needs to be connected to the existing devices, and some control equipment needs to be tested continuously.

The project team has already selected the first element to be experimented with - lithium.

By utilizing the active characteristics of lithium in its ionic state, its energy can be easily controlled to the level required for the experiment. After a certain amount of spiral acceleration, it can enter the strong magnetic field of the vacuum tube, and then the data can be measured.

Under the control of the system task progress, the experiment has been involved in front-line work. The construction of the device was very smooth and any problems encountered in the middle were corrected.

Two months later, the experimental device finally reached 100% completion.

After internal testing, it was confirmed that the device could indeed complete the experiment, and the only next step was formal experimentation.

Zhang Shuo glanced at the system tasks and was very much looking forward to it.

【Task 1】

[Research project name: Experimental verification of the approximate solution corresponding to the electromagnetic force and gravitational relationship model (difficulty assessment: C). ]

【The experimental setup has been completed. 】

【Progress: 0.0003%.】

(The remaining progress requires research coins: 100.)
When the experimental device is completed, it is just a C-level task. As long as the experiment is completed and the data is analyzed, discoveries can usually be made.

Before the formal experiment began, Zhang Shuo called together the researchers to finalize the experimental plan, which detailed what each person would be responsible for and the data collection and reporting status of each part.

At the same time, the experiment time was set for a week later.

Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem with the experiment, but Zhang Shuo thought of the explosion in his previous life and the explosion when Professor Tong Zhiguo led the team to verify the "strong splitting", and he was still a little worried psychologically.

What if?
This is no small matter.

After some consideration, Zhang Shuo reported the experiment. The Sudong City and the surrounding military districts all got the news, and later the Science and Technology Industry Bureau also learned about it.

As a result, two days before the experiment, the area around Sudong University was under martial law. Students of Sudong University were given three days off and were told not to gather on campus, as if something major had happened.

The Science, Technology and Industry Bureau sent a special message to remind the project team not to conduct experiments in advance.

Then, Teacher Li came.

Chen Wei also followed Teacher Li, along with several other military district leaders.

This was a big enough event that caught Sudong University and the project team off guard. The management of Sudong University felt a little puzzled. Why did such a high-ranking leader need to be involved in an experiment?

Is experiment so important?
Even though experimental research is very important, it is only the first experiment, or even a test one. Can any real discoveries be made?
Teacher Li and his team came to Soochow University and went straight to Zhang Shuo. "Professor Zhang Shuo, are you sure the experiment is safe?"

He was obviously very worried.

This is mainly because the verification of the 'strong splitting' resulted in a big explosion, and now the 'electromagnetic force and gravity correlation experiment' is also being carried out to verify the theory. If anything goes wrong, it will be a huge event.

This is the downtown area of ​​Sudong City!
Zhang Shuo thought about it carefully and felt that he was still hasty. The main reason was that he did not expect to conduct the first experiment so soon. He should move the experimental base to another location.

For example, the more spacious suburbs.

However, he still nodded affirmatively, "Electromagnetic force and gravity do not involve nuclear influence, so the chaotic force field created is similar to the CP group of the Institute of High Energy Physics, or particle collision experiments. Other phenomena may also occur, but there will definitely not be a big explosion."

"As long as you are sure, it will be fine!"

Teacher Li patted Zhang Shuo's shoulder hard. He expressed his trust in Zhang Shuo, but in fact, he was still a little worried.

Big bang, this kind of thing is no joke.

Even if there is only a 0.01% chance, the experiment must not be carried out inside Soochow University.

(End of this chapter)