Li Wenjing's brainless sentence confused Wang Yinan, "What news?" Wang Yinan asked puzzledly,

"You can read it on the Internet yourself, it's everywhere, about CERN", after speaking, Li Wenjing hung up the phone in a hurry.

CERN is the abbreviation of Europa Nuclear Research Center, if it is big news here, as long as there is no major accident, it is most likely that there is a major discovery, listening to Li Wenjing's tone, it should not be a major accident, Wang Yinan quickly picked up his mobile phone and began to search for science and technology news.

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A large number of frightening headlines immediately blinded Wang Yinan's eyes, you know, the study of neutrinos has always been able to catch people's eyes, because this kind of massless, extremely difficult to detect particles, has won physicists four Nobel Prizes.

Wang Yinan hurriedly clicked on one of them and read it carefully, everyone knows that the basis of quantum mechanics is Schrödinger's wave equation, according to the wave-particle duality theory, any elementary particle has its own wave, that is to say, it must conform to the Schrödinger equation.

However, the Schrödinger equation describes particles at rest and does not take into account the special relativity effect produced by high-speed motion, so Dirac combined the Lorentz transform of special relativity with the Schrödinger equation to create quantum electrodynamics and proposed the Dirac equation, which predicts the existence of antiparticles. Anderson discovered the antiparticle of the electron, the antielectron with a positive charge.

Later, the genius physicist Mayorana rewrote the Dirac equation again, and the rewritten Majorana equation revealed another form of elementary particles, elementary particles without antiparticles, or in other words, antiparticles are their own elementary particles.

Many people are highly suspicious that Majorana is a time-traveler, because this guy started studying physics at the age of 22, came up with the Majorana equation at the age of 31, and then mysteriously disappeared - probably back to the future.

Neutrinos are the most promising candidates for the Majorana particle, that is, it is likely that the antiparticle of neutrino is itself, it is generally believed that there are three kinds of neutrinos, each of which has won the Nobel Prize, of course, there may be a fourth kind of neutrino, inert neutrino, neutrino is generally thought to have no mass, but it is also possible that there is a weak mass to cause mysterious transformation.

Anyway, the physics of neutrinos is full of contradictions, speculations, and even errors.

The CERN experiment, judging from what they have announced so far, is likely to produce some signs of new particles at the time of the collision, which seems to be very consistent with the theory of inert neutrinos, and if we admit that these signs are inert neutrinos, it is likely that neutrinos are Majorana particles.

"It seems that Europa's peers have indeed made great discoveries," Wang Yinan thought, "but you still have to read their papers and data before you can draw conclusions, after all, high-energy particles involve too many links, and the probability of problems is very high, and you need to go through repeated confirmation by yourself and your peers before you can recognize the final conclusion."

Wang Yinan picked up the phone and dialed Li Wenjing back,

"I saw the news, if there is no problem, it should be a great discovery," Wang Yinan said.

"Yes, next year's Nobel Prize will be lively," Li Wenjing said.

"But my gut tells me that it's not that simple, and that according to Europa's usual style, they don't usually publish such news when there are only isolated cases," Wang Yinan said.

"What do you mean?" , Li Wenjing hesitated,

"I suspect they have other considerations, maybe they are fighting for the budget, or maybe someone is putting pressure on them, and I always feel that this news release is too hasty," Wang Yinan said.

"You can only comment if you see detailed paper and experimental data."

Not long after he finished talking to Li Wenjing, Principal Lin's call came, "Xiao Wang, have you seen the CERN news?"

"What do you think of their results, and is it worth it?" , of course, in the end I couldn't help but ask,

"How do you think of our high-temperature superconductivity, which one is more likely to win the Nobel Prize?" ，

How do you ask Wang Yinan to answer this kind of question, "I can't have a specific conclusion until I see the detailed paper", Wang Yinan can only say this in the end.

Even Zhang Qi called, "That CERN has released a big satellite this time, something as tall as a neutrino can come out, and Niu X coaxes it."

"Hey, you say, are they specifically here for our high-temperature superconductivity?" , Zhang Qi asked,

Don't say it, there is really such a possibility, but Wang Yinan can't manage so much, "He is strong and he is strong, and the bright moon shines on the hills", Wang Yinan comforted Zhang Qi,

"Don't worry, I have a hunch that this matter is not that simple."

Wang Yinan comforted Zhang Qi while looking into the distance, Jinling is already early autumn at the moment, the Purple Mountain is a piece of permeating green, several white domes of the observatory appear and disappear in the distance, a cool breeze blows, which makes people feel refreshed.

After seeing the news of CERN in the morning, Wang Yinan asked N to send a car to the foot of the Purple Mountain, which is the resting place of the father of the nation, and also the place where feng shui gathers and people are outstanding.

The two weeks of studying with Grothendieck in Europa are one of the few times Wang Yinan has been charging recently, of course, from Mr. Qiu and Professor Tao, Wang Yinan has also learned a lot, but with such a systematic study of an epoch-making master, perhaps no one can have such an opportunity except Wang Yinan.

Although the publication of Grothendieck's results also set off an unexpected storm on the blue star, Wang Yinan always felt that he had overlooked something, and in the past two weeks with Grothendieck, Wang Yinan has learned formal methods and mathematical tools that have been spinning around in Wang Yinan's heart.

Wang Yinan positions himself as a pragmatic physicist, or a pragmatic mathematician, in fact, the hottest G indescribable theorem in the outside world is not Wang Yinan's original intention, for him, raising the critical temperature of superconducting materials is much more important than this theorem.

When Wang Yinan was still in college, he came to Purple Mountain a few times, and every time he saw those big white domes, he always had all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, but he never had the opportunity to go in and take a look.

When he came to the door of the observatory again, Wang Yinan thought about it and called the president of N University, you must know that the president of N University had also served as the director of the observatory, and after a while, a staff member with square-framed glasses and a white coat walked out of the door and led Wang Yinan in.

The gate of the Purple Mountain Observatory is estimated to have a history of hundreds of years, the traditional Chinese eaves layout, plus the main platform, looks antique, the weather is calm, walk up the dozens of steps at the door, Wang Yinan turned around, just saw the scenery of the whole city of Jinling, sure enough, it is green trees, lakes and mountains, there are several big lakes in Jinling City, it looks much more vivid than the emperor.

In the old building after entering the door, you can see the traditional four ancient astronomical instruments, armillary image, armillary sphere, simple instrument and Gui watch, used to practice and measure the position of the sun, moon and stars, as well as the deduction of the twenty-four solar terms, it may be that no one has maintained it for a long time, and the antique instruments are sprinkled with dust, but it adds a historical charm.

Walking through these ancient instruments, Wang Yinan came to a modern solar observation room, which is also one of the few observation rooms in the headquarters of scientific research work, and the staff wearing white coats introduced to Wang Yinan, "This is the best sunspot observation equipment in China at present."

"Professor Wang can take a look at it casually, and of course, the better equipment is in our observation center in northern Jiangsu."

Through the LCD screen, Wang Yinan saw a huge orange sun, the corona on the side was clearly visible, and in the slightly lower position of the center of the sun, there were sunspots, "It's so spectacular", Wang Yinan muttered,

The white coat echoed on the side, "Yes, when I came here after graduation, I felt the same way when I saw it for the first time."

"What is the main focus of our research on the sun now?" , Wang Yinan unconsciously committed the common disease of scientists, and of course it is also a good habit, that is, omnipresent curiosity.

"The main focus is on the study of the solar corona and the periodicity of sunspots," said the staff of the observatory.

"For example, there is no way to explain the temperature of the solar corona, the density of the corona is very low, but the temperature is very high, and the source of heat is a big problem."

Wang Yinan nodded, "Is there a mature computer model that simulates the sun?" ”，

"No, because the whole mechanism of the sun includes so many things, nuclear fusion, fluid mechanics, ionization phenomena, etc., that there is not even a single theory that can come close to describing the mechanism of the sun."

"The natural world is really wonderful, this is another example of a complex system", Wang Yinan thought to himself.

"Maybe the behavior of every particle in the sun is based on quantum electrodynamics, but the overall behavior is unpredictable because it involves too many particles."

"In a sense, this is an illustration of the incompleteness theorem, a system as complex as the sun that cannot be described by simple axiomatic logic and formal systems",

"So, it's normal for the sun to pump a wind from time to time, a solar storm or something",

"Of course, that's not what I want", Wang Yinan began to meditate again, after studying in Europa for so long, it's not to explain the sun convulsions, not to mention, does the convulsions still need to be explained?

So, what are the thoughts entangled in Wang Yinan's heart?

Grothendieck said that its articles, as well as later thoughts, would certainly be helpful to Wang Yinan.

What kind of help is it?