Without physics, mathematics is indeed a subject without practical significance.
But precisely because of time, space, and physical concepts such as length, weight, speed, volume, etc., mathematics becomes important.
The essence of meaning is that the world is made of matter. If people want to explore the mysteries of this world, they cannot do without mathematics.
From pi, to calculus.
From Newton's first law to Einstein's general theory of relativity, all explanations of physics need to be expressed in mathematical formulas.
Taylor's formula is an important mathematical tool often used when studying the properties of complex functions. Engineers need to learn Taylor's expansion to design and optimize mechanical systems. Experienced engineers don't even need to memorize complicated formulas. They can deduce all the required expansions with a pen and paper.
Mathematical structures often have physical meanings.
The development of mathematics at this stage is slow, not only because the predecessors are too powerful, but also because the predecessors have almost summarized the easy-to-describe physical world.
Newton basically figured out the laws of motion of objects in the macroscopic world.
Einstein explored the laws of motion at the cosmic level.
Fourier figured out the laws of heat transfer, signal analysis, wave functions, etc.
Schrödinger's wave equation allows people to begin to understand the distribution of particles in the quantum world...
In the eyes of Peter Schulz and Edward Witten at this time, Joe Ze, who was standing on the shoulders of giants, wanted to go one step further and unify all the above complex physical laws. To put it more generally, they believe that Qiao Ze is trying to find a common mathematical structure between micro and macro scales to explain all interactions.
Because Qiao Ze has pioneered the simultaneous integration of gravity and a special field into high-dimensional geometric structures.
If it can be justified, there is no doubt that the academic community's understanding of the physical world will directly improve a lot.
After all, this has been the pursuit of entire generations of Western academic circles.
So the two people in the office became quiet again, each with their own thoughts.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that Peter Schulz put down Edward's manuscript, rubbed his face with both hands, and said, "Well, I think it was the last report meeting. Joe didn't include all of his current research. The results are all on display. It’s really hard to imagine how much more he has hidden.”
Are you still hiding the results?
Edward Witten didn't know what the real situation was.
But obviously Peter Schulz’s statement is easier to accept.
After all, it has only been a month since the first report. It is hard to imagine that a person can find a new direction of geometric research in such a short time.
It took Einstein more than ten years to go from the special theory of relativity to the general theory of relativity, and the general theory of relativity also received help from a large number of top mathematicians at the time, including but not limited to Grossman, Hilbert...
Qiao Ze is a lone ranger in theoretical circles.
The papers he has published so far not only have few authors, but also very few people to thank.
Not to mention that I have barely participated in mathematician activities.
Even if it was a report meeting held in front of his home, he only showed up on the day of the report meeting. Even if he arrived early and wanted to meet this guy, he failed.
Is this really a human being?
But then again, human civilization is driven forward by the one in a billion geniuses from generation to generation.
How can a normal person get a glimpse of the truth of the world from those complicated clues?
It even predicts phenomena that cannot be observed in the macro or micro world.
And really speaking, academic development in this century has almost stagnated. The so-called technological development of modern times is almost all supported by theories from decades ago, and it is indeed time to move forward further.
"No matter what, at least this is a good thing." Edward Witten nodded and said.
There's nothing debatable about this topic.
Whether Qiao Ze researched it this month or it was a theory that he had already had before, it actually doesn't matter.
What annoyed Edward was that Qiao Ze had no intention of promoting these theories.
At least not yet.
Because this guy just asked two questions in front of the entire network.
What do you want to do?
Does being able to solve the problem qualify you to join?
After so many years, Edward Witten has never hoped to get a scholar's manuscript as much as he does today, even if it is stolen... because currently it seems that this is the only way he can have enough information to study a new academic field. .
But before he could express his regrets, Peter Schulz first expressed his feelings at this time: "Okay, I admit that I have begun to regret it. Edward, maybe when Joe made a request to us that day, he should have agreed directly. his."
"Even if you have to stay in China?" Edward Witten asked.
"Oh...that shouldn't be necessary, right? We can contact you through email. By the way, has Joe replied to your emails these days?"
"If you mean automatic reply, then yes."
Peter Schulz is silent.
Because he knows the content of the automatic reply - I have other research tasks at this stage and will not conduct an in-depth discussion on superspiral space algebra for the time being.
"But he asked two questions online today. Do you think this means he changed his decision?" Peter Schultz said.
"No, actually about half an hour before you walked into my office, I received his reply. I just sent two questions because it is very simple, and it doesn't waste much time if you do it easily." Edward Wei Teng shook his head.
Peter Schulz couldn't help complaining: "Didn't you tell that young man that the value of this set of mathematical tools itself may be more important than solving the mass gap hypothesis?"
"I think he knows this better than us. But you don't know how far his research on this problem has reached. I sent him an invitation letter and wanted to invite him to come to the United States next month to participate in this year's physics competition. The spring meeting was also rejected outright.
Of course, I am not the only one who has been rejected. As far as I know, Qiao Ze has rejected almost all invitations sent to him in the past month and has not attended a communication meeting. He seemed uninterested in communication. Why……"
Edward Witten sighed heavily.
"I know... Lu Sen told me that he invited Joe to give a sixty-minute report at ICML, but he was rejected. Not only is he not interested in participating in mathematics and physics conferences, he is also not interested in top computer conferences. In other words, if you want to have effective communication with Joe, you have to wait until his next report meeting, which means..."
Peter Schulz did not finish his sentence because it made him despair.
"Yes, we probably have to wait until he completely solves the quality gap problem. I guess Robert's mood must be very complicated at this time. I don't know whether to expect him to solve this damn problem quickly, or to be stuck on this problem for a longer time. . Ha..." Edward Witten suddenly laughed.
He knew very well Robert Stephen's attitude towards Joe Ze.
Even in this building, many people have the same attitude as this professor who works at MSRI.
I don't like Qiao Ze's attitude very much.
In particular, many people really feel that Qiao Ze is too arrogant and is really not lovable.
"No matter what others think, I hope Qiao Ze can hold the next report meeting as soon as possible. If there is a chance, I want to talk to him face to face. I am now more and more interested in new algebra. If he can really succeed , maybe another real industrial revolution is coming.
If you want to seize this opportunity, more people need to understand this theory. At least you must be proficient in deducible formulas to calculate complex calculation problems in engineering and design. "Peter Schulz said seriously.
Although theoretical scholars generally do not consider specific technical applications.
But Peter Schulz knew very well that the research funding he received far exceeded that of others. In fact, it ultimately benefited from the support of large companies that control the flow of capital.
The vigorous industrial revolution often means the reshuffle of world capital. The profit-seeking nature of capital is also destined to flow crazily from areas of low productivity to areas of high productivity. Although the methods may be different, it can be strong plundering of high-productivity areas, or it can be the natural active investment behavior of capital.
Either way, no one wants the land they live on to become blood-sucked soil.
Most people, no matter how noble their morals are, hope to be able to show their kindness from a high place, rather than to stand in a low place and be the object of pity from those who stand high.
This sentence once again made the atmosphere in the office heavy.
After a while, Edward Witten decided to end the conversation: "Okay, Peter, I think you should go and have a good rest now. Maybe in the afternoon we can sit together and analyze the key points of the two questions Qiao asked. Maybe you can get a feel for his thinking. By the way, have you booked a hotel?"
"Yes, Professor Witten. See you in the afternoon."
"See you in the afternoon."
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In fact, it’s not just China and Princeton at this time.
When the two questions Qiao Ze asked the academic community were transmitted to the Western Hemisphere through submarine optical cables, a second, larger discussion began.
Edward Witten was not the only one who analyzed the solution formula hidden in the question through traditional methods and then got stuck at this step.
Because if you want to continue to solve it, you need to introduce some new concepts, or mathematical tools to solve it.
With the current mathematical tools, whether it is the segmentation method or the variation method, it will either cause the subsequent calculation to fall into an unsolvable loop, or the calculation process will become more and more complicated, and eventually it will be found that the function cannot converge at all.
Without convergence, it is impossible to truly find the minimum value of the curve.
In the end, we came to the conclusion that either Qiao Ze's question was made randomly, or the academic community's understanding of new algebra is too superficial. No more universal rule has been found.
The latter is more likely.
Because Qiao Ze used this method to obtain the general solution to the Yang-Mills equation. Before him, everyone was also at a loss to solve this nonlinear partial differential equation.
So this morning, the mathematics and physics communities started arguing again.
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The topic of this debate is whether the special field Qiao Ze is trying to construct is really possible.
Another, larger applied physics research group has begun to think about whether it is possible to design related experiments based on the conditions given by Qiao Ze.
Especially the physicists who are on rotation at CERN.
It must be said that this question given by Qiao Ze has stimulated the imagination of many people.
"Qiu, you know Qiao Ze, right?"
"Um...I'm actually not familiar with him."
"But he is Chinese like you. You must have seen the question he asked today. To be honest, I just talked with Professor Witten and he gave me some ideas. If we can create greater energy field, while more precisely controlling particle collisions in highly tortuous space-time paths, may be able to simulate the extreme conditions that particles may experience in high-dimensional space.
In this way, we may be able to observe new physical phenomena on shorter time scales and smaller spatial scales to prove Qiao's theory. You are from China. Maybe you can contact Joe. If he can give a more specific proof process, maybe we can really achieve all this. Qiu, you are the only professor from China that I know at Cern. You must be able to find a way to contact Qiao, right? "
Qiu Fan, the physics professor who was approached, felt quite embarrassed at this time.
"Ahem, Professor Colbert, I really want to help you. But I'm really not familiar with Joe Ze. I've been at Cern for half a year. I had never heard of Joe's name half a year ago. You Maybe you have no idea how big China is...
Let's put it this way, Qiao Ze is from Star City in China. Star City is just an ordinary second-tier city in China, but its permanent population has exceeded 10 million. In other words, even if Joe and I live in the same city, it is difficult for us to interact. Not to mention that the place where I live and work is thousands of kilometers away from Star City. "
"No, no, no, it's not Star City. You may have made a mistake, Qiao is in Xilin... Don't you have a friend in Xilin who can contact Qiao? I always think that a gentle person like you should have many friends!"
Looking at the other party's hopeful eyes, Qiu Fan wanted to smash the cup in his hand directly.
Does this have anything to do with having more or less friends?
"Ahem, that Xilin is where Qiao went to university... Although Xilin is indeed closer to the capital of China, it is still thousands of kilometers away by car. The most important thing is that although I know some professors, they are also I can’t contact Joe. In fact, I also hope to use the collider to verify some of Joe’s ideas, but maybe these are just ideas.”
"Oh, that's such a pity. Maybe it's a cultural problem. It's a pity that Joe didn't receive communication education since he was a child...you know? If he grew up in France, he would definitely not be so withdrawn."
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In fact, there are many such conversations.
Many Chinese professors and even academicians who came to work at Cern have become fragrant buns.
Unfortunately, the demands of these professors are somewhat outrageous.
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In China, at around eight o'clock in the evening, in a three-story building, Su Mucheng was chanting next to Qiao Ze who had just put down his pen.
"Brother Qiao, I suddenly had an idea. Do you think we can let Doudou control a drone or something? I think there are drones for sale now that are very light and have good safety measures. It would be very convenient to be able to customize a drone with more functions and if Doudou could control it."
"Theoretically, it's possible. But if Doudou controls it, the sensor interpretation needs to be reprogrammed, and there are some computer vision problems. Let's wait until I graduate with my PhD." Qiao Ze thought for a while and replied.
Letting artificial intelligence control machinery is a very cutting-edge technology, such as driverless driving. Youwei is using the crowd intelligence framework to combine with the Pangu large model to enrich intelligent driving assistance functions.
However, this is an engineering and technical issue that requires repeated testing of various safety performance. Qiao Ze really didn't have time to pay attention for the time being.
Of course, even now it is possible to let Doudou directly control the drone, which is nothing more than adding an interface.
But in a place with a dense population like a school, if the safety cannot reach 100%, it certainly cannot be used directly.
"Well, there's no rush actually. I saw a video of a drone performance just today, and suddenly I felt that Doudou would be very powerful if he could control a drone swarm."
"In fact, Doudou is not needed. Youwei has already begun to use the crowd intelligence framework to make attempts in this area, but this is an engineering problem. I can try it when I have time in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Ze's cell phone casually dropped on the table began to vibrate.
Glancing at it, um, it's Xu Dajiang.
When you are not too busy, you still have to give your dean the respect.
But Xu Dajiang was one of the few people who could call him.
Because he didn't want to be interrupted from his thoughts frequently, Qiao Ze set up the mobile phone whitelist function after the report meeting. Originally, only a dozen or so people who were saved in the address book could get through Qiao Ze's phone number.
If others want to find him, they can only contact him through email or Su Mucheng.
"Hello."
"Qiao Ze, are you busy now?"
"Resting."
"That's just right. I'll give you two minutes to tell you something. I just contacted the school in Beijing and said that the School of Mathematics and Physics of the Academy of Sciences held a meeting. Haven't you always wanted Professor Li to become an academician smoothly next year, so they discussed We came up with a plan..."
Xu Dajiang was used to Qiao Ze's chatting style.
Just be simple and direct.
But when he found out about this, he just felt it was too outrageous. After all, when could academician status be used for transactions?
So when I was paraphrasing, I even felt that I didn’t know how to reorganize the language.
"What plan?"
"It's... well, the Department of Mathematics and Science plans to set up a research team to research and popularize superspiral space algebra. They hope that you can serve as the deputy team leader and be responsible for guiding the work. If you agree, then you, Uncle Li... Well, your Uncle Li will be stable next year."
The words were a bit obscure, but Xu Dajiang knew that Qiao Ze could understand them.
"Will the promise be fulfilled?" Qiao Ze asked.
"This research team has very high standards, and the executive vice president is the leader. And I just inquired and found out that this proposal was put forward by a two-digit member of the Presidium of the Department of Science who was elected last year, so I personally think there will be no problem in fulfilling the promise."
"Unless these people are completely shameless..." Xu Dajiang muttered something in his mind, but of course he would never say it out loud.
Xu Dajiang couldn't figure out how such an outrageous resolution was passed at the meeting.
However, when people contacted him, they directly bypassed the school, and they repeatedly told him not to leak the matter. This showed that the superiors also felt that it would not be good for the news to be exposed.
Well, this is probably because Xu Dajiang has really been away from the front line of scientific research for too long, and can no longer consider this issue from a purely academic perspective.
Of course, it can also be said that this is related to Qiao Ze's character and cannot be controlled.
If there was any other way to make Qiao Ze obey, he wouldn't use such a frivolous operation.
Qiao Ze thought for a moment and said, "Okay. But I need to choose the team members."
Hearing Qiao Ze's words, Xu Dajiang relaxed a little and agreed. As for other minor issues, they can be discussed.
To be honest, Xu Dajiang is not as confident as Qiao Ze.
As the dean of a university, of course he still hopes to maintain a good relationship with the Academy of Sciences.
The development of universities has always been inseparable from the voice of academicians in scientific research decision-making.
"Well, can I ask first, what method do you plan to choose?"
"Publish a paper on superspiral space algebra and organize an offline exam, and those with high scores will be included in the list." Qiao Zeyan said concisely and comprehensively.
Xu Dajiang was really stunned by Qiao Ze's plan for a moment...
Good guy, really good guy.
Those who can join this scientific research group must at least start as associate professors from major universities and research institutes that are favored by academicians, right?
Maybe some academicians will sign up.
Gather all these people together for an exam?
I have to say that Qiao Ze is really courageous.
But before Xu Dajiang could finish sighing in his heart, Qiao Ze made a second request: "I'm busy with my doctoral project recently and don't have time to travel around. So whether it's the exam or the next project research, it's best to stay in Xilin. On the campus of Polytechnic University.”
Um……
Xu Dajiang really thinks this request is very acceptable!
Especially coming from Qiao Ze’s mouth, it’s so good!
Come, come, come and take the exam at the School of Mathematics, Xilin University of Technology. It's hard to say that someone would have to ask for help...
Really, at this moment, Xu Dajiang felt that Xilin University of Technology could no longer tolerate him.
It's hard to say that even if he went to the capital for a meeting this year, he would be able to walk sideways.
"Ahem, okay, now tell the other person your request. By the way, how difficult is the test question? Can you tell me first? I won't talk about the two questions you asked Doudou to publish on the Internet today. Almost right? I heard that no one has been able to solve the two questions you asked. There is almost a fight on the Internet. "
"No. The difficulty will be controlled to be similar to the twelve questions announced by Princeton. Five proof questions and five calculation questions. The last two questions will involve related geometry problems, similar to the second question on the Internet, which is more difficult. high."
Xu Dajiang, who has been engaged in education all his life, understood it instantly.
There are eight basic emotional questions and two advanced questions.
It can only be said that Qiao Ze knows how to come up with questions.
"Okay, I'll communicate with the other party as you said." After saying that, Xu Dajiang did not forget to sigh: "Hey, Li Jiangao can basically move his ancestors' graves with a student like you, really."
As usual, Qiao Ze didn't answer this kind of complaint. It was purely an invalid communication and a waste of time!
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