Chapter 169: Superstring Meeting

Junxin naturally didn't know anything about the scramble of those unscrupulous professors, and at this time, he had just finished sending a group of Harvard professors such as Professor Qiu who remembered the recent one, and was intercepted by Professor Witten and taken to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. It turned out that Professor Schwartz had temporarily stayed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a visiting scholar, waiting for the end of Junxin's presentation.

After Professor Witten, who also attended the report meeting, said that the report meeting had ended, Professor Schwartz couldn't help it, and it was with Professor Witten's pick-up action.

When they arrived at the Institute for Advanced Study, not only Professor Schwartz, but also Professor Dyson and the other three who came to be known as the Princeton Superstring Theory Quartet. Candela, Horowitz, and Strominger were already sitting next to each other and discussing with each other.

"Professor Dyson, I brought it to you!" At this time, Witten was just emerging and had not yet reached the realm comparable to that of later generations, so he still respected Professor Dyson very much as an ordinary professor.

"Thank you, Professor Witten!" Professor Dyson discovered Professor Witten's talent very early, and naturally looked at him differently, so he greeted him very politely.

"Jun, let me introduce you, this is Professor Schwartz." Professor Dyson nodded to Junxin and said, "Professor Schwartz has been a guest with me for a long time, so I have been waiting until now in order not to delay your math report meeting." Also, congratulations on the success of your presentation. ”

"Thank you!" Junxin nodded politely, and then turned his gaze to Professor Schwartz, who was already a little depressed, "Hello, Professor Schwartz, I am very interested in the supersymmetric string theory that you collaborated with Professor Schwartz, and tried to use him to solve some problems, and only then did I publish some results." It's great to see you here! ”

"Oh my God, you're so young!" Professor Schwartz looked at Junxin in surprise and exclaimed, "Freeman said that you are very young, I was prepared, and your youth is too unexpected for me. ”

Junxin had expected this, but he was used to it, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said: "You have won the award, you know, being young also means more doubts." ”

"But your research is wonderful, and he solves a problem that has plagued me for more than a decade, and although it is not the final answer, it is a very huge improvement for me." Professor Schwartz said with a little bitterness, "You know, there are too few people in the world who study supersymmetric string theory. String theory first began to explain strong interactions, but since the rise of quantum chromodynamics, little attention has been paid to it. At the worst time, it was only me and my old friend Shekel, who had passed away, who unfortunately passed away a few years ago, so I had to look for a partner again, and Michael Green from Queen Mary College of London, England was the new partner I found. ”

Jun Xin listened to Professor Schwartz's bitter water talk about the most miserable days of string theory, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, but after all, he hadn't experienced this period of time, so he couldn't personally experience Professor Schwartz's experience, so he changed the topic and said: "That's the end of the gossip, professor, you asked Professor Witten to bring me here from the campus, it won't be just to pour bitter water, right?" ”

"Haha, of course not!" Professor Schwartz said, "I was just discussing with Professor Dyson, as well as Professor Candela, Mr. Horowitz and Professor Strominger, and Freeman said to me that you seem to have made further progress in the study of superstring theory some time ago? ”

Junxin glanced at Professor Dyson, saw him smile slightly and nodded, so he said in his heart: "Yes, Professor." About a week ago, I had a discussion in this office with Professors Dyson, Witten, and Horowitz about how to try to solve anomalies on the Young-Mills equation after solving the graviton problem. ”

"The result?" Professor Schwartz asked eagerly, "Freeman told me that you were working on this problem, but he didn't talk about it. ”

"Oh, I'm so sorry. You know, I've been giving a report for the past two days, so my throat is a little uncomfortable, but Professor Witten and Mr. Horowitz can answer your questions, I don't have any questions, do you think that's okay? ”

"I'll tell you!" Witten and Horowitz looked at each other, and Witten nodded to Horowitz, who said. Immediately after that, Junxin greeted Professor Candela and Professor Strominger and walked to the side and sat down, listening to Horowitz's explanation.

Obviously, Horowitz has studied a lot of Junxin's ideas last time, especially for the six-dimensional curl space using Calabi-Yau manifolds that Junxin explained, and the explanation is very good, and he has added his own understanding of these problems, which has also helped Junxin's thinking to a certain extent, and in some places Horowitz's understanding has also given Junxin a certain impetus to his thinking, allowing him to have a deeper view of the I-type model of superstring theory.

As Horowitz's explanation deepened, Strominger and Professor Candela, who were leaders in the study of superstring theory, joined in the discussion, asking for explanations of related problems related to superstring theory from time to time, and the exchange was very intense for a while.

When the discussion was almost over, Professor Witten suddenly said to Jun Xin: "Jun, I have also studied your theory in the past few days, and I have a question I want to ask you, you say, do you think your explanation of superstrings is the only one?" ”

Jun Xin was stunned for a moment, then even came to his senses and said: "I don't think my explanation is the only one, in fact, I think that our understanding of superstring theory is just like an ancient Chinese idiom says, which can be seen in the tube. This means that if you look at the leopard in the tube, you can only see one spot on the leopard's body at most. Maybe that's my theory! ”

"But Professor, my time to study physics is only about half a year, and many things are not very thoughtful. So I don't think my theory is a theory without flaws. In fact, I think maybe my superstring theory model is just one of the explanatory methods, maybe just a part of the whole theory. Professor, what do you seem to have in mind? ”