Chapter 952: The most insignificant Nobel Prize achievement in history
For academics, proposing a novel theory is often not particularly difficult.
For example, in major academic forums, the Arxiv preprint website and other places, different theories are born almost every month or even every day of the week.
Sometimes these theories are so imaginative that they can make you dumbfounded and wonder if they were made up by some science fiction author.
For example, a few years ago, Professor Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics, proposed the ‘time crystal’ theory.
The idea is to construct a crystal with more than four dimensions and a periodic structure in space and time, which can spontaneously break the symmetry of time translation and perform non-translational motion in space.
To put it simply, it is like a kaleidoscope, the pieces of which are constantly rotating back and forth to form various beautiful patterns.
Or like an ancient clock whose hour hand completes a 360-degree rotation every 12 hours.
But unlike a clock or other ordinary objects with constantly moving parts, a time crystal achieves eternal motion with the support of its own perpetual motion mechanism.
This may sound outrageous, but it does not violate the laws of physics.
The so-called perpetual motion is nothing more than movement within the time crystal. It only conserves internal energy and does not transfer any energy.
If it is difficult to understand, a 'time crystal' can be regarded as a 'fully closed universe without entropy increase'.
For this universe, both energy and matter are only transformed internally, and it does not export energy outwards, so it can always exist, and energy and matter can perfectly evolve and flow internally.
In theory, this assumption seems to go against people's common sense, but in fact it is possible.
It's just that there are very few such ideas that can be theoretically logical and self-consistent.
Most of the theories themselves have major flaws or were proposed by civilians.
A small number of logically self-consistent theories are often not widely accepted by the academic community because they cannot be verified through experiments.
For example, the string theory perfected by his mentor Edward Witten.
Although the logic and self-consistent calculations are complete and there are no loopholes in mathematics and physics theory, the theoretical construction of string theory is extremely complex, involving high dimensions, superconductivity, superstrings, dark matter and other aspects.
Moreover, there are many important areas that are still not fully studied, which makes the academic community remain cautious about the development prospects of string theory.
Compared with these theories, the void field proposed by Xu Chuan and various theories extended from the void field theory are more convincing and more widely accepted by the academic community.
Because it is not only self-consistent in terms of theoretical logic and mathematical calculations, but also verifies some predictions in the theory through experiments.
What's more critical is that both the void breach effect in void field theory and theories related to dark matter can be verified in a relatively "short" time.
If dark matter is really like the theory completed by Professor Xu, then for the academic world, this will undoubtedly be a brand new world!
Physics, astronomy, cosmology and other disciplines will also usher in the most vigorous development in history, which will help mankind understand the formation of the universe and celestial bodies in a deeper and more detailed manner.
This will be a revolution in physics no less than that initiated by Newton and Einstein.
Of course, this is no small matter for governments.
Perhaps with the current technology of mankind, it is almost impossible to use dark matter and dark energy. However, in the current observable universe, the total mass of the first two together accounts for more than 9%.
fifteen.
The remaining five percent of observable particles make up the universe today.
If anyone can take the first step to control the use of dark matter and dark energy, this will be the most important transition channel for the future of the entire country and even the entire civilization.
Of course, judging from the current development of science and technology, the time required to go from observing dark matter to utilizing dark matter may be measured in centuries.
For most countries, instead of investing in this, it is better to hope that they can discover more oil fields or coal mines from underground tomorrow, or to find ways to cooperate with China and build a fusion power station domestically.
Be realistic.
But even if you don’t have much thought about dark matter and dark energy, it doesn’t mean that governments around the world aren’t looking forward to the next development.
It is no exaggeration to say that almost the entire world is waiting for the CRHPC agency to verify the results of massive dark matter particles.
However, at this time, Princeton University and the University of Texas released the latest research results.
Professor Greene Bancroft and Professor Amelia Aylwin were interviewed by reporters from the Washington Post.
Washington Post reporter: "I am honored to interview two great scholars today. I heard that the research team led by the two has made significant research discoveries in the latest astronomical exploration?"
Professor Green Bancroft: "To put it simply, we analyzed the observation data of three galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in December last year. In these data, we found some anomalies.
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"Judging from the current analysis results, these abnormal data are very large, very bright, and very cool. They may be a brand-new star. If confirmed, it may be an epic astronomical discovery."
A reporter from the Washington Post curiously asked: "A brand new star?"
Amelia Aylwin: "Yes, through in-depth analysis of the experimental data, combined with the void field and dark matter theory proposed by Professor Xu Chuan, we believe that the three numbers are named JADES-GS-z13-
0, the stars of JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0 are most likely 'dark matter stars'!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing this, the reporter asked with surprise: "Dark matter stars? Are you sure?"
Amelia: "We cannot give a definite answer yet, but based on the current experimental data, it is very likely that they are dark matter stars."
Washington Post reporter: “Can you briefly introduce it to the public?”
"certainly."
Amelia nodded, pondered and organized her words before saying: "First of all, based on the current analyzed masses of these three stars..."
"...No matter from every aspect, it is very consistent with Professor Xu Chuan's dark matter star prediction theory. We will contact Professor Xu from China in the future, hoping to get his support and help."
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For the physics community, which is currently in a heated situation, an interview is like adding fuel to the fire, and it explodes the entire situation in an instant.
Almost as soon as the Washington Post interview appeared, the physics community paid all its attention.
In the CRHPC institution, Edward Witten, who was waiting for the next round of 100 Tev energy level experiments, looked at the newspaper handed over by his friend Frank Wilczek in surprise.
"Dark matter stars?"
"Hmm." Wilzek smiled, pushed up his glasses, nodded and said, "I originally thought that even if his theory was correct, it might take several years, decades or even longer to verify it."
"I didn't expect that in just a few days, the first potentially confirmed data would appear."
"What's more, what I didn't expect is that this confirmation was not made by the CRHPC circular collider. Instead, it was astronomy that took the lead."
"Tsk tsk...that's really interesting."
Shaking his head, Wilzek took a sip of the coffee in his cup and sighed.
Across the coffee table, Witten's serious eyes fell on the newspaper in his hand and he said: "That's not the case."
"Um?"
Upon hearing this, Wilzek cast a curious and surprised look.
Witten did not even raise his head, and continued to explain while continuing to browse the news reports in the newspaper: "It is undeniable that the results of the analysis of the detection data of the Webb Telescope by Amelia and Professor Bancroft are quite surprising."
"But it may take a long time to confirm whether these three stars are really dark matter stars."
"After all, they are too far away from us, so far away that even the Webb telescope cannot identify whether it is a galaxy or something else."
"As for these mass, spectrum and other analysis data, although it is indeed consistent with the dark matter star theory, it is feasible to explain it from the perspective of early galaxies to a certain extent."
"To truly confirm whether these three stars are dark matter stars, I am afraid we have to wait for another systematic upgrade of our astronomical telescopes."
"With Weber now, even if we fully expose this area, it would be difficult to see more data."
"What you said does make sense. It seems that the verification of the dark matter theory will still fall to the CRHPC collider."
After nodding thoughtfully, Wilzek asked curiously: "Speaking of which, if I remember correctly, the female professor named Amelia in this interview seems to be a student of Xu Chuan, right?"
Witten: "Yes, she was one of the first students Xu Chuan recruited when he was still working at Princeton University. She is a mathematician."
"Mathematician?"
Hearing this, Wilzek looked over in surprise.
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Witten smiled and said: "Not only is she a mathematician, she also won the Fields Medal three years ago."
Wilzek asked curiously: "It's incredible. If she is a mathematician, how could she suddenly make achievements in the field of astrophysics? There is no way she is another level monster like Xu Chuan."
Witten shrugged and said, "That's not to say, compared with Xu Chuan, she is still far behind."
After a slight pause, he continued: "But have you forgotten what is the most eye-catching and even the greatest academic achievement in astronomy since the 21st century? That is also the achievement he made."
"And it was the result of him winning the Nobel Prize in Physics."
"It's not surprising that Amelia learned these things if he had the heart to teach."
Hearing this, Wilzek slapped his head and said angrily: "I almost forgot about this if you didn't tell me. It seems that I can talk to him more about this aspect if I have time in the future."
Witten smiled and shook his head, picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip.
In fact, this is not just the impression of Wilzek, but the impression of the entire academic community on his student.
Compared with the expanded application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics, his student's other research results are more famous.
For example, the seven millennium problems, such as controllable nuclear fusion technology, such as void field theory...
In comparison, the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem seems a bit insignificant.
Although this result is very likely to become an important tool in guiding human exploration of the universe in the future, at least for now, not many people except the astronomy community care about it.
Even if it won the Nobel Prize, even the person who made this achievement didn't take it seriously.
Even now, this achievement does not have its own separate name.
This is probably the most insignificant Nobel Prize achievement in history...
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At the same time, on the other side.
In the office of the chairman of CRHPC, Xu Chuan, who was busy analyzing the data from the sterile neutrino and dark matter verification collision experiment, also saw this news interview.
His eyes fell on the familiar name, and he couldn't help but feel a happy smile on his face as he watched her talk about the dark matter theory.
The student who had studied with him for several years has now begun to show her own brilliance.
Although winning the Fields Medal means surpassing more than 99.9999% of scholars, for the still young Amelia, this is just the beginning.
The current further breakthroughs in the field of astrophysics are a symbol that she is still moving forward on the academic road.
Judging from the news interview with the "Washington Post", Amelia can see a lot of growth in the data analysis work of these three stars and some of the methods used.
For him, as a mentor and an exponent of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, there is probably no greater sense of accomplishment than seeing the saplings he cultivated grow into a towering tree.
After all, this is not only the growth of a student, but also the further dissemination, application and development of the academic theories he created to the academic world.
For a Chinese, there is probably nothing more meaningful and proud than this.
With a smile on his face, Xu Chuan, who had read the entire news report, put the newspaper in the bookcase behind him with a smile, sat back at his desk, and looked at the analysis data of the previous collision experiments.
His students have all taken a big step forward in the theory of void field and dark matter, and his mentor may not be far behind.