Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 47: The doctoral student angrily confronts the data expert and wins a great victory!

"You will find that no matter how many times you calculate, no matter which experimental data you input, the results will be the same..."

Zhang Shuo spoke slowly but with a heavy tone.

It was so heavy that everyone knew he was very sure of what he said, and so heavy that Boorman-Agostini's eyes turned red on the stage.

Agostini stared at Zhang Shuo like a mad lion. He asked in the same tone, "If you guessed right, what does it mean?"

"represents what?"

Zhang Shuo chuckled, looked around, and called out to the first row, "Can I go on stage?"

"Please!"

An old professor with a white beard stood up in the middle of the first row.

He looked at Zhang Shuo with a smile, with encouragement in his eyes.

De Bruyne-Hermans, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium, is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist and the organizer of the conference.

It is worth mentioning that he is also a student of François Englert, the Nobel Prize winner and proposer of the Higgs mechanism.

As soon as Hermans opened his mouth, the crowd in the aisle automatically parted ways.

"Go! Kill him!" Bearded Demant raised his hands and gave Zhang Shuo two thumbs up.

Gao Xiaohong made way and gently stroked his back, as if to pass on courage.

Zhang Shuo nodded to Demante, smiled at Gao Xiaohong, and then walked along the aisle to the stage.

The meeting place was silent at this time.

Everyone stared at Zhang Shuo as he walked toward the stage. Those who knew Zhang Shuo were a little worried, after all, the person he was questioning was the famous Agostini.

Those who didn't know Zhang Shuo whispered, "Who is this young man? He seems to be quite capable. He was able to guess that Boorman only did one calculation."

"People from the Chinese team? Too young..."

"Is he okay?"

"I hope he's right, the research that Boorman talks about is...outrageous!"

There were quite a few people standing at the entrance of the venue.

Xue Hongtao was shy and couldn't squeeze in through the door shamelessly.

He asked other people who knew what happened, then raised his phone high up to take a picture of the scene and immediately sent it to the chat group.

Here is a long text explanation:

"Brussels Conference Center, Hall 37, Zhang Shuo vs. Burman-Agostini!"

"You'd never guess!"

"Agostini actually said that he had found the CP signal of baryons. After he made his research report, no one spoke. Zhang Shuo immediately stood up and pointed out the problem!"

"Now Zhang Shuo is like a hero, on the road to conquering the evil demon king Agostini..."

Not only Xue Hongtao, a large group of people raised their mobile phones. Such a scene is rarely seen.

On the stage.

Agostini had no intention of giving up his seat. He just stared at Zhang Shuo fiercely.

Zhang Shuo asked the staff to help bring a whiteboard over, and said to Agostini seriously, "Mr. Agostini, let me emphasize that I am not targeting you, I am targeting rigorous science!"

Agostini's expression remained unchanged, and he did not move.

The staff placed the whiteboard on the side of the podium. Zhang Shuo walked over and compared it with the signal evaluation chart, writing more than 20 characters one by one.

Then, he put down his pen and looked at Agostini again. "Mr. Agostini, if you use this string of characters as a signal code, it will pass through your signal evaluation system and eventually cause the output function to fluctuate."

Everyone stared at the string of characters.

Most people were confused, but a few showed signs of sudden enlightenment.

Agostini walked to the whiteboard and looked at the string of characters carefully, then turned his head and looked at the signal evaluation framework diagram on the screen.

He compared them for a long time, and sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

Zhang Shuo explained to the audience, “Mr. Agostini’s signal evaluation system is already very rigorous, but it still has loopholes and can cause fatal problems.”

"He gave each possible 'weak force signal' an assessment value and then calculated the overall output."

"Generally speaking, as long as a definite zeroing signal is not found, the output function graph will almost appear as a straight line."

"However, the signal evaluation system has an overflow problem. There are some very special signals that can escape the evaluation and affect the output results."

"On average, such a signal appears every million calculations."

"This should be the fluctuation detected by the calculation, which is considered to be the detection of the baryon cp signal..."

It's like buying a lottery ticket at random. The chance of getting the winning number is very low, but because the number of calculations is very large, that is, if you randomly buy hundreds of millions, billions, or tens of billions of lottery tickets, there will definitely be a lot of winning numbers.

Some people have figured it out.

Agostini still didn't seem to understand. He continued to stare at the string of characters, breathing heavily. It was not until a long time later that he finally took action.

He slowly turned his head, gave Zhang Shuo a fierce look, then swung his arms vigorously and walked quickly out the door.

He bumped into someone on the way, but he didn't care and quickly disappeared out the door.

After Agostini disappeared, applause began to break out in the meeting hall. The applause grew louder and louder, until it became loud enough to be heard clearly even outside the venue, and it slowly stopped after a long while.

Some people applauded for Zhang Shuo.

Perhaps more people were mocking Agostini's failure rather than encouraging him, because the research results he mentioned were so incredibly great.

Now he was proven wrong.

Zhang Shuo was about to walk out of the aisle after he stepped off the stage, but was stopped by De Bruyne-Hermans, who shook his hand with a smile and said, "Just now I thought I was about to witness the greatest physics breakthrough of the 21st century."

"At CHEP? In the Brussels conference hall? It's unimaginable."

"you are right."

"Boorman was too confident and too extreme. He even presented an algorithm that had only been verified once as his achievement."

Hermans continued, "It's great that you can point out the problem."

"You are Zhang Shuo, the researcher of 'Central Anchor Connection', right? I am looking forward to your report."

"Thank you!"

Zhang Shuo didn't know De Bruyne-Hermans, so he just nodded, said thank you and walked out the door.

Many people have already left.

Agostini took up too much of our time; in a little while it would be time for dinner.

When I walked out the door, a large group of people looked over.

The bearded Demant squeezed next to Zhang Shuo and shouted excitedly, "Well done, you killed him!"

"That guy is too arrogant. He deserves to fail and suffer this kind of blow!"

"The whole world knows that he wants to win the Nobel Prize, but how is it possible?"

"It is undeniable that his team's experimental research has made great contributions, but it is a team study after all, and there are so many people involved in the discovery of the God particle, thousands or tens of thousands of people. Why should the award be given to him..."

……

In the restaurant.

Zhang Shuo, Gao Xiaohong, Cui Kaiwen, and another female professor named Du Juan sat together, and the topic revolved around Agostini's report in the afternoon.

"He delayed me for an entire afternoon, but it was very exciting..."

Gao Xiaohong was full of admiration, "Zhang Shuo, you are really courageous. To be honest, if I found something wrong, I might not dare to speak out directly, so I would talk to others first."

Du Juan nodded in agreement, "I might do the same. After all, he is an internationally renowned data expert and a heavyweight scholar of the Nuclear Organization."

"How did you find the problem?" Cui Kaiwen asked with interest.

Zhang Shuo explained, "His signal evaluation algorithm draws on the bias evaluation system in my research, which I am familiar with."

Cui Kevin suddenly realized, "Now that you put it that way, it seems to be true."

"No wonder they only calculated it once. It turns out that they came to the meeting right after the algorithm was completed, and there was no time to repeat the verification. However, he was too anxious..."

Du Juan said, "I heard that Agostini was a very proud person. After he completed the algorithm, he probably didn't think there would be any problems in it."

Thinking about Agostini's performance at the meeting, the others couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Many geniuses have this kind of self-confidence and pride.

It's like an exam. Excellent students can guarantee that they will get the answers right after doing the questions and don't need to check them. However, very few people can bring this kind of confidence into research. Only the top geniuses can do that.

Agostini is one of them.

Zhang Shuo chatted with a few people and checked the system tasks, and found that the progress was only '99.109%'.

He found the problem, but he couldn't come up with a solution, so the research progress wouldn't improve.

“How can this problem be solved?”

"Or, krypton coins?"

The mission progress has reached 99%, it would be a shame to just give up.

Zhang Shuo thought hesitantly.

not far away.

Xue Hongtao was sitting alone, but he didn't seem to feel lonely at all, his eyes were fixed on the screen of his mobile phone.

He shot the video for more than ten minutes.

After the video was posted to the group, it sparked a heated discussion. "Zhang Shuo is so awesome. He went on stage to fight against Agostini at an international conference!"

“It was a battle between a PhD student and a top scholar, and in the end the PhD student won and received huge applause.”

“What a legendary story!”

"No one in the audience could find any problem except him... What a level!"

“This video will definitely go viral if it’s posted online!”

The last sentence reminded Xue Hongtao. He glanced at Zhang Shuo in the distance with a guilty conscience, and then forwarded the video to Weibo, and also wrote a line of introduction--
"At the CHEP conference, a Chinese doctoral student angrily criticized the data expert of the Nuclear Organization——"

"A great victory!"

(End of this chapter)