Chapter 119: Paroxysmal Chaos
Academic success does not mean success in life. Professor Hussen's experiment, although he defended the truth he insisted on, invisibly offended others, and he was later retaliated against and suffered.
It was Monday. Professor Hussen went to give a lecture to the students, and he taught particle physics. Professor Hussen stood on the podium, burly and pedantic. The students felt that his tall stature was not compatible with the world of extremely small particles, and it was really two extremes meeting.
Professor Hussen told the students: "All particles are objects at the microscopic scale, so they are quantum-related; When a particle moves, the velocity changes to an order comparable to the speed of light, and correspondingly, its kinetic energy changes to an order equal to or much greater than the particle's rest energy. In the process of movement, there is often a transformation between particles, that is, particles can disappear or arise, and the number of particles is also variable. ”
In this course, students learn about the properties of fields and particles, their motion, interactions, and the laws of mutual transformation. Some people think that particle physics is meaningless because it is too far away from real life and has little use for society. However, please do not despise the research of basic science, and pay tribute to the scientists who are engaged in basic scientific research. Once basic science is transformed into productivity, it will have a profound impact on society, and particle physics is entirely likely to be applied to society on a large scale.
In class, a student asked Professor Hussen: "Dear professor, what is the purpose of these things that do not eat the fireworks of the world?" This classmate is Sun Qiang, who has no interest in his major and is planning to change majors, so he dismisses Professor Hu's lectures.
"It's up to you to find out!" Professor Hussen's face was displeased. When a student asked such a question, it was obviously disrespectful to him, and it was a hint that his labor was meaningless, and he couldn't help but get angry.
The surrounding students looked at Professor Hussen, and he said to everyone seriously: "We should not despise physics at all, but should be full of love for it!" There are still many cutting-edge problems in physics waiting to be solved. If you have the ability, go and create the Copenhagen School and the Fermi School of our school! ”
Professor Hussen likes to discuss problems with his students the most. He doesn't care how many theorems and formulas students can memorize, because this knowledge is dead, what he cares about is whether his teaching can stimulate students' interest and spark of wisdom. During the class discussion, a studious student asked Professor Hussen: "Dear professor, I have been thinking about a question recently, can the four basic forces of nature really be unified?" ”
This question was a sign of respect for Professor Hussen's scholarship, and he was very happy and confidently replied: "Reunification is a long-term thought of the people. Although the current standard model has many shortcomings, it is a successful step in the direction of unification. While the negation of proton decay has frustrated our further efforts, it is generally accepted that unification is a fundamental direction. A variety of solutions are still being tried, but the question is, can the forces really be unified? To what scale can be unified? Are there only four types of force? These are all questions that I am still thinking about and experimenting with. ”
Hussen's lesson was not finished when something strange happened. Because he was branded as a reactionary academic authority, he was not qualified to lecture anymore. A group of people came to the classroom and dragged it away from the podium. Later, Hussen was criticized countless times. In fact, Professor Hussen's disaster this time is related to the two scientists who were defeated by Hussen. They are behind the scenes, and Hussen is branded as a reactionary academic authority, and they have their share.
Scientists, in general, have a neurotic temperament. Brilliant scientists are often even more neurotic. Usually, Professor Hussen has a strange personality, and many people call him a madman behind his back. Now, after the criticism, Professor Hussen's madness has become even more flared.
Professor Hussen's research interests are very broad, and in addition to particle physics, he is also working on other problems. Later, he became almost a math fanatic, working on chaos theory. He began to dislike the study of chaos, because the establishment of natural science in modern times was based on the concept of harmony in the universe, and the task of natural science was to study the order and laws of nature, so chaos theory was not in his field of study. By chance, he discovered the scaling and universal constants of chaotic phenomena in the research results of mathematician Feigenbaum, and introduced the renormalization group technique in this field, and since then, his research on chaos has been out of control. He finally discovered that the nature of chaos can be recognized, and the phenomenon of chaos, which is the highest level of complexity, can be characterized and grasped.
After being criticized, Professor Hu Sen could not give lectures to students, but some students secretly went to Professor Hu's house to ask him questions. Once, he was tutoring students at home, and suddenly his eyes were in a daze, and his clear thinking turned into chaos. He had the illusion in his mind that he was in the dock of a courtroom full of police, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison and who were about to come and arrest him. He thought of running away, so he got up and ran out of the house. The student followed, but Professor Hussen saw someone chasing him and ran forward even more desperately. Professor Hu couldn't outrun the young student and was finally caught up. Taking advantage of the student's inattention, he punched him hard, knocking him to the ground, and then continued to run away.
Doctors diagnosed Professor Hussen with intermittent schizophrenia. He can go crazy at any moment, and his brain can become a mess at any time. It's like the paroxysmal chaos theory he studied. Formation chaos is a way for the non-equilibrium nonlinear system to enter the chaos, which refers to the transformation of the system from order to chaos, under the condition of non-equilibrium nonlinearity, when the change of some parameters reaches a certain critical threshold, the system will sometimes be orderly, sometimes chaotic, oscillating between the two.
Professor Hussen has become a weirdo, and no one wants to associate with him. This is mainly the fear of his schizophrenia. His path to schizophrenia in his daily life is a bout of sobriety and a bout of onset. This is just like the paroxysmal chaos theory he studied: the path to chaos is a period of cycles, a period of chaos, and the periodic motion and chaotic motion alternate randomly, and the time occupied by chaos is getting larger and larger, and finally it becomes chaos completely. People are also afraid that Professor Hu will become completely chaotic and schizophrenic.
Since then, Professor Hussen has often spoken to himself at home. "Chaos science is bridging the gap between the two opposing systems of determinism and probability of the unified natural world, and the theory of complex systems is beginning to be based on 'finiteness,' which is more in line with objective reality."
"For a dissipative system that is externally excited, on the one hand, the internal dissipative factors consume energy and attenuate the motion; On the other hand, the external excitation effect feeds energy into the system, which strengthens the movement. If there is a proper match between the dissipative factor and the amplitude and frequency of the periodic excitation, then the system motion is limited as a whole and cannot be stabilized locally, and chaotic motion will occur. ”
"Chaotic motion is a solution to the contradiction found in the case of the internal dissipative effect and the external excitation effect of the system, which is not difficult to imagine intuitively."
It is said that Professor Hussen has become a madman.