498 All-round competition
Wang Yufei's Weibo has always been the focus of many self-media.
Of course, not only Wang Yufei, in fact, many celebrities are the objects of these people's attention.
And this time the situation is more special, Wang Yufei's Weibo has been applied for nearly two years now, and there are only a few Weibo posts, but this time he posted seven Weibo posts in one go, which attracted the attention of countless people.
The only problem is probably that I can't read it.
This time, there is no plain language, not even numbers, all letters and various mathematical and physical symbols.
In the past, it was often said that they knew all these words when they were taken apart, but when they were put together, they didn't know what they were saying. Obviously, the situation is different this time, not to mention that I don't understand what it means when I put it together, even if I take it apart, there are still many symbols that I don't understand what it means.
It's actually a very embarrassing thing.
The good thing is that there is great internet.
I checked the symbols one by one, and finally opened them and could read them.
Intersection, collection, line integral, vector, partial derivative, differential operator, gravity, spring, Hamilton, seven microblogs have become a large-scale popular science scene for many self-media people, not to mention understanding these equations, but popularizing many scientific symbols that ordinary people probably can't use once in their lives.
But it doesn't really matter what these equations say.
I like these things that I can't understand, and everyone can have their own understanding.
"Surprise! The inventor has announced the super equation, which may contain the truth of the universe!"
"The evidence of the existence of the four-dimensional world has been found, and it is hidden in mathematical formulas!"
"Higher dimensional life has been proven to exist, and solving these equations is conclusive evidence!"
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Professor Pan saw Wang Yufei's Weibo for the first time.
In order to see these messages, he specifically asked the young assistant in the institute how to use Weibo, how to follow, and can receive the news as soon as the other party posts Weibo.
Then he immediately transferred all the content and accompanying pictures of these seven Weibo posts to professional software and began to study them, and then Professor Pan became obsessed with them.
If you really dig deeper, you will find that all seven equations have no solution because there is a lack of a constant.
In these equations, the speed of light, which is the only constant in Maxwell's equations, and Planck's constant, which came into being after the birth of quantum mechanics and the only constant in Schrödinger's equations.
But if you need a solution to these equations, you also need a constant, a constant that, along with the speed of light and Planck's constant, explains the entire universe.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether these equations can be solved or not, the important thing is that after several hours of thinking, Professor Pan finally understood the significance of Wang Yufei's list of these equations. It can be said that this is a new world puzzle.
The problem of this world can be expressed in pure natural language as whether there is a physical constant that we have not yet discovered, and when this physical constant is discovered, with the speed of light and Planck's constant, all natural constants, including but not limited to the mass of elementary particles, lifetime, mass of Chinese characters, gravitational constant, Rydberg's constant, Avogadro's constant, Heidelberg's constant, vacuum permeability, etc., in short, any constant you can think of can be calculated or expressed through these three constants.
In addition, when this constant appears, it can completely complete the current structure of physics, and even describe the four fundamental forces with a unified equation. The most significant significance is that from now on, mankind will be able to see clearly how this universe works, and human civilization will officially enter a new stage.
Excited hearts, trembling hands......
Lao Pan really wanted to solve these seven equations, and if he could solve them, he would show that the hypothesis was correct and find the mysterious physical constant. If it can't be solved at all, it can also show that this hypothesis is wrong, and prove that this universe is not perfect, and the four great forces can never be unified.
It's too strong!
Wang Yufei is too strong!
Lao Pan thought that Wang Yufei's strength still had limitations.
But now Lao Pan has found that he was wrong, and since this formula was proposed, Pan Wenyue feels that if this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is not awarded to Wang Yufei, it will definitely be a shame for the Nobel Prize!
Of course, whoever can solve this problem, a Nobel Prize has nothing to run.
And if you want to solve this problem, the literacy of scientists is also extremely high, to be proficient in mathematics and physics at the same time, Pan Wenyue found that he is really not good, and for the first time in his life, he feels that his knowledge reserve is still poor.
followed by regret, when Wang Yufei wanted to worship him as a teacher, how could he have a brain and turn away this student?
Well, now it's not a bad time to regret it.
Although his knowledge reserve is a little less, who stipulates that the world's problems can only be solved by one person?
Who doesn't have a few friends who study mathematics and physics?
Thinking of this, Pan Wenyue picked up the phone for the first time.
"Hey, Lao Li, do you know Weibo? Hey, you really understand, let me tell you, now hurry up on Weibo, pay attention to Wang Yufei's Weibo, there are seven equations on his Weibo, let's study them together? Don't ask so much, you can see it first." ”
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There is obviously more than one science master who has paid attention to Wang Yufei's Weibo
After all, Wang Yufei has just put forward a hypothesis in superficial language, which has caused controversy in the entire Western scientific community, and at this time, he suddenly inexplicably came up with a few equations, not to mention that there are a group of high-tech companies that always pay attention to Wang Yufei's Weibo.
Therefore, the first time these equations were proposed, they were already placed in front of many scientists in the West.
For a time, the academic debate was suspended.
After all, it is only a superficial language thing that countless three-dimensional worlds make up a four-dimensional world, but these equations thrown by Wang Yufei can be concluded through specific calculations.
The world of academia naturally needs to solve problems in the language of academics.
Soon, countless scholars began to study these equations, and then everyone came to a similar conclusion as Pan Wenyue.
This is indeed a difficult problem, and the problem now is to prove that all these equations have a solution, and maybe we can find a constant to solve most of the problems that physics is currently facing, and even have a more scientific explanation of the phenomena of quantum mechanics, making quantum mechanics easier to understand.
Of course, it can also be proved that at least one of the equations has no solution, which means that this constant does not exist, we live in a non-perfect universe, and there is no theory that can unify this explanation for all phenomena. Even many of the observations are not true.
After fission-like propagation, the entire world of mathematics and physics was shaken.
How long has it been since a scholar has come up with a worldwide problem that will shock the world?
Today finally appeared, and it was a problem posted on Weibo.
Soon, these seven equations were directly defined as the Yufei conjecture for ease of expression, the third constant conjecture, and some of them were called the human glory conjecture.
The reason is very simple, if anyone can really find this physical constant, and completely agree with the four basic forces of physics, it means that the entire human civilization has entered a highlight moment, and countless scientific problems will be answered.
For example, for quantum mechanics, people do not need to make observations, but only need to uncover the mystery of the microscopic world through calculations, understand the motion and spin of countless particles, understand the countless trajectories left by countless particles in the microscopic world, and even draw these trajectories directly.
Life is always so up and down.
One second everyone was arguing about whether there are multiple real worlds and constituting a real high-dimensional world, and the next moment they were all bad at being cleaned up by a bunch of equations, but it is undeniable that another topic worth studying has emerged.
Soon the world's academic community was buzzing.
But apparently this is not good news for Silicon Valley's high-tech companies.
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In the United States, an extraordinary meeting is underway.
However, this is not a meeting on a specific occasion, but a video conference.
Of course, it is not small to be able to participate in this meeting.
IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel, D-Wave and other research companies that are researching quantum computers are all listed, in addition to the secretary general of the American University Space Research Association, senior managers of NASA, as well as technical executives, mathematicians, physicists and other academic celebrities of various companies.
At this time, Carl Nazart, a member of the American Academy of Sciences, a professor at Columbia University, and the world's top physicist, had finished his speech and was answering questions raised by executives of various companies.
"Mr. Nazart, according to your explanation, if we can prove that these equations mean that the error correction problem of quantum computers can be solved perfectly?" asked Sundar Pichai, president of Google, again.
He had to get to the bottom of it.
Although everyone is working on the problem of quantum computers, there is no doubt that according to the report of Google X Labs, Sundar has always believed that Google has come to the forefront of the world in quantum computer research, including but not limited to the most advanced quantum computer chips.
Not to mention that Google just took on the challenge of enjoying technology just a few months ago.
At this time, no one really wants to see a Huaxia company really catch up with their research in the most cutting-edge technology such as quantum computers.
"It's more than that. According to my discussions with a few old friends, if the Huaxia people really solved these equations, they would be able to design a powerful general-purpose quantum computer in a very short time. And it can have an extremely rich algorithm that can beat classical computers. Since not all of the participants today are professionals, I will try to explain it in plain language. ”
"First of all, we have a clear concept, quantum mechanics follows the principle of uncertainty detection. Therefore, when doing quantum computing, it is not to assign a value to the qubit, but to prepare the quantum state of the qubit. But if we need to get the results, we need to observe the quantum state, and after the measurement, whether it is the state we want or not, this state has collapsed, and the collapsed state is the measurement base. ”
"But if you can calculate a quantum state from a constant, you don't actually need to measure the quantum state to know its state. Or the exact percentage of states that are known to be present. This is a leap forward for quantum computing. By greatly improving the self-error correction ability of quantum computers, in short, quantum computers are given certain conditions to distinguish how likely it is that the calculated results are correct or not. ”
"And through the calculation results, more conditions are collected in reverse direction, and then accurate results are obtained. In other words, if these equations can be proven, they can provide a more solid theoretical foundation for the manufacture of quantum computers. Therefore, to be able to solve this problem perfectly, not only can perfectly solve the error correction problem of quantum computers, but also can make our quantum computing capabilities advance a lot, and truly solve many problems such as maintaining multi-quantum entangled states for a long time, the transformation and extraction of quantum computing results, and general quantum computing in conventional environments. ”
The atmosphere in the conference room was dull because of these words.
Many of the bigwigs don't have a good complexion.
The crux of the problem is that no one knows whether the questions raised by the Chinese have been answered.
If this is not a conjecture, but a theorem, it means that Changxiang Technology's research on quantum computers may really be at the forefront of the world.
This is obviously not good news for Google.
Of course, it's not about the $500 million, it's about another technology related to the future, and Google is far behind.
Of course, this is not good news for Silicon Valley as a whole.
Google's advances in quantum computing will make many of the companies in attendance uncomfortable, let alone a Chinese company.
As previously announced by Google at the press conference, the emergence of quantum computers will mean the emergence of quantum supremacy. Whoever develops a quantum computer first can threaten all the encryption foundations of the entire Internet world, and as long as the owners of quantum computers are willing, they can even crack all the encryption algorithms in this world.
This also means that in the future, no one's data can be said to be 100% secure.
Even the underlying cryptographic algorithms that make up the blockchain technology that is now popular around the world will become a joke, and the ledger held by countless people will become a joke, as long as the holder of the quantum computer is willing, he can change all the ledger beyond recognition in minutes.
What public key signature algorithms, hashing algorithms, RSA ciphers, elliptic curve ciphers, etc., etc., that's all younger brothers.
But how embarrassing is it that these algorithms are all over the world on the Internet and in the financial system?
"The good news is that, according to our analysis, it is not believed that the Chinese have mastered the solutions to these equations, he just put forward this conjecture, which means that we are still on the same starting line. The key now is who can find the answer to this question first, who can seize the opportunity in the future competition, so the time has come for you to cooperate, on this issue, I hope everyone can be generous enough, this is an all-round competition, gentlemen!"