Although CERN is large, it is functionally no different from other collider centers in the world, and it provides evidence for various physical theories through experiments to test whether various physical hypotheses are in line with reality.

In a sense, this work is the same as Lu Qiujian's cracking of the Poincaré conjecture, the only difference is that the cost of testing a physical hypothesis is much higher than that of a mathematical conjecture;

Therefore, thousands of scientists, engineers and a larger number of assistants and interns in CERN are all in the service of physical theorists such as Higgs and Witten, and the physicists who have the ability to let CERN verify their theories are all standing at the top of the pyramid, and there can be about twenty people at most in all corners of the world, and the Higgs trio are all on this list.

Of course, Higgs is still luckier than Witten, although the Higgs boson is difficult to find, but it is nothing more than to find and not find two options, if the experiment succeeds in finding the Higgs boson, then the Higgs mechanism will be established, the three pillars of matter and motion will tend to be perfected, physics will usher in a new chapter, and the Higgs trio will quickly reach the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

If the Higgs boson is never found or other products that negate the Higgs mechanism are found experimentally, the Higgs mechanism will be proven wrong and theorists can start building new theories.

Edward Witten, on the other hand, was not so lucky, and his major contributions included the proof of the positive energy theorem of general relativity, supersymmetry and Morse theory, topological quantum field theory, the establishment of superstring theory, and the conjecture of the existence of M theory.

However, in 2003, his core work, superstring theory, had just encountered a major crisis - the idea of string landscape, the so-called string landscape, simply put, superstring theory, is now a collection of a large number of possible alternative theories (most of these alternative theories have not been really constructed and discussed in their entirety, and there are great difficulties in constructing them). It's just that we can expect them to exist), and those who did string theory in the early years believed that there was a method/principle that would eventually eliminate this situation, leaving the only theory to test their predictions experimentally, but many years had passed, and that in order to bring some harmony to superstring theory, it might be necessary to consider the number of alternative correct theories to reach 10^More than 500 (Calabi-Yau's method of compacting the curly high-dimensional space), which means that whatever phenomenon you find in your experiment, you can almost expect to find one out of 10^500 alternative theories to explain this experimental phenomenon. This results in string theory being almost unfalsifiable.

To put it simply, whatever results experimental physicists get from the laboratory will be included in the scope predicted by string theory, which in turn deprives superstring theory of the opportunity to be confirmed experimentally!

Higgs can still wait patiently for the next experiment of the LHC, and pray that God will forbid him to live until the day when the Higgs boson appears, while Witten has almost lost the chance to win the Nobel Prize by confronting his theory through experiments!

Edward Witten lost more than just a Nobel Prize in physics, if the blueprint of superstring theory is finally confirmed to be the truth of the universe, then it will be a physics revolution of the same height as Newton's classical mechanics revolution and Einstein's modern physics revolution, and Edward Witten, the founder and leader of string theory, will be one of the drafters of the physics paradigm at the height of Einstein and Dirac, Heisenberg and others in the long future.

It is a pity that the crisis caused by the string landscape thought has shattered the hopes of Witten and others, and the string theory does not seem to see a way out in a short period of time. It is not certain that it will slowly decline after a long period of lack of substantial progress.

Of course, to become one of the top scientists in the world, Edward Witten was not so easily defeated, and he still appears in CERN from time to time, and maybe Lu Qiujian will meet him next time he goes.

Putting aside Edward Witten's misfortunes, Lu Qiujian pondered the wording of his speech at the exchange meeting for a while, and the first thing that needed to be solved now was to get Higgs interested in his views.

"Welcome to the Hebrew University!" Furstenberg took them out of the bus at the school gate, and the Hebrew University has been built for nearly eighty years. Albert Einstein was a member of the university's first board of trustees, and it was perhaps for this reason that the Hebrew University placed great emphasis on mathematics and science and engineering over the years. The Hebrew University is ranked in the top 50 in the world for science.

"This is the place I have prepared for you to communicate, what are the shortcomings of you?" After walking far, everyone came to a small multi-purpose hall with a well-equipped whiteboard, projector, laptop, etc.

"No, it's already good!" Lu Qiujian shook his head and said, at this time Natalie also rushed over and was talking to the staff at the door, Lu Qiujian beckoned when he saw this, and the staff let her in.

Without waiting for the staff to deliver coffee, Higgs couldn't wait to look at Lu Qiujian, "Let's start now?"

"Okay!" Seeing that Professor Furstenberg, who was the master, had no objections, Lu Qiujian took out a USB flash drive from his arms and walked to the computer to open his paper, and then debugged the projector to project the article onto the screen.

"As we all know, mathematical methods such as subdistribution functions and large number statistics are used in the analysis of data generated by collision experiments, but in the previous stage of my work, I found that the current methods used in physics do not seem to be the most efficient choices"

As she explained, she clicked the mouse to present her paper line by line to the physicists and mathematicians in the room, as well as to Natalie, a graduate student in Middle Eastern culture and history at the Hebrew University.

The reactions of everyone present varied, and although Natalie didn't understand what Lu Qiujian was saying at all, his confident and free bearing was enough to intoxicate her.

The Higgs trio frowned and fell into deep thought, after all, their major was physics, and the mathematical knowledge expounded by Lu Qiujian was a bit profound for them.

Only Furstenberg listened with relish, nodding slightly from time to time, as if admiring the ideas expounded in Lu Qiujian's paper. (To be continued.) )