After arriving at the Hilton Hotel arranged by the organizers, Zhou Chen met his mentor Zhao Fengxue. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Zhao Fengxue was communicating with a bearded foreigner beside him, and after Zhao Fengxue's introduction, Zhou Chen learned that this bearded man was Professor Nicholas at the University of Washington who specializes in the study of space-time curved quantum field theory.

After a simple greeting, Zhou Chen knew him.

The symposium will be held for a total of two days, and ten well-known scholars in the industry will be invited to give speeches, Professor Nicholas is one of the ten speakers, which can be described as a heavyweight special guest, taking this opportunity, Zhou Chen learned in advance of Professor Nicholas's views and some flaws in his theory.

"Mr. Zhou, you see how perfect my theory is, if there are no flaws that are too small to ignore, it is definitely the most successful theory in this seminar!"

The bearded man's face was full of pride and regret, and Zhou Chen could only smile at this.

Professor Nicholas suddenly hugged Zhou Chen's shoulders enthusiastically: "Mr. Zhou, you have good results in black hole theory, relativity theory, and radiation propagation, do you want to turn to relativity quantum field theory and expand a new field?" Oh no, it's not a completely new field, just add a little bit of quantum theory to your original theory of relativity, and I'm sure you'll break through. ”

Zhou Chen's face was stunned, looking at the bearded man's sincere face, he didn't know what to say. This bearded man's thinking is too out-of-the-box, how can a new field of research be able to get started and achieve results so quickly, and others are not afraid of misleading people if they suggest it?

Zhao Fengxue smiled slightly and interrupted the conversation between the two: "It's not early, we should go and have dinner." ”

"Oh yes, I'm hungry too!" The bearded man touched his belly exaggeratedly and said with a smile.

So the group went to a nearby Chinese restaurant for a meal, and after the meal, Professor Nicholas retired first because he had to prepare tomorrow's speech, and Zhou Chen and his mentor Zhao Fengxue exchanged ideas about the seminar to be held tomorrow.

"This is the theme of the speech in the next two days, you can take a look at it first."

Zhao Fengxue handed over a thick blue bound book. This is the handout of the next two days of the seminar, and since the theoretical knowledge is usually more esoteric, the participants need to understand the theory in advance before the seminar starts.

Zhou Chen took it and looked at it slowly, it was the first time he had participated in a similar seminar, and he didn't know much about the relevant process, so he simply flipped through the blue revised version, only to find that these scholars who are committed to establishing the "Great Unification Theory" really have all kinds of ideas.

Since the theme of the symposium is to share and communicate, to clarify their new ideas on the research of the "Great Unification Theory" in the past year, and to expand the horizons of other researchers, no matter what kind of strange theories, the organizers will not specially select them, and the speakers will sign up voluntarily. So Zhou Chen saw several very interesting theories in the blue revision.

From the perspective of mechanics, the theory of unification is to unify the three aspects of "strong interaction", "weak interaction" and "gravitational force", in which the electroweak interaction refers to the "electromagnetic interaction" and "weak interaction" that have been unified.

In the current theoretical research, the strong interaction, weak interaction and electromagnetic interaction have been unified, and they correspond to the strong interaction force, weak interaction force and electromagnetic force among the four fundamental forces in nature, but the gravitation force cannot be introduced into the "grand unification theory".

From the macro and micro perspectives, since the strong interaction force, the weak interaction force, and the electromagnetic force have been quantized relatively perfectly, they can be explained in the way of quantum mechanics.

As a result, the "grand unification theory" has evolved into the theory of how to unify "general relativity" and "quantum mechanics", which is a question of how to unify macroscopic physics and microscopic physics.

In order to solve this problem, countless scientists have tried to quantize the general theory of relativity, hoping that the gravitational effect can be explained in the way of quantum theory, which is equivalent to using one theory to explain all four fundamental forces, but so far they have basically failed.

If according to the law of the past, there is no doubt that there will be several strange theories put forward in this seminar, the strange here is not necessarily wrong, but it will not be correct to think about it, the scholars attending the meeting know this truth, so whether it is a speaker or a listener, they are basically vain and vain, and the right is to broaden their horizons, expand their thinking, and make friends with the attitude.

For example, someone like Professor Nicholas, whose "perfect theory" may not be a maverick among the many speakers at the symposium, and may even receive a lot of applause.

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As Zhou Chen expected, experts from all over the world expressed their opinions and brought different physical models one after another.

A few of the models were even contradictory and contradictory, but it didn't matter, they all took the podium to explain their ideas to the hundreds of people in the room.

One of the very funny speakers, a researcher from a famous scientific institute in Europe, explained his theoretical model on stage, but in the middle of the lecture, he found the problem in the model himself, so he smiled and rejected himself.

In short, through these two days of auditing, Zhou Chen was completely desperate for these legendary "experts", in his impression that the so-called experts should maintain a meticulous attitude towards research, but in fact this is not the case, their attitude towards research is simply like a child's graffiti on the wall, today the weather is good, and then he patted his head, "Why don't you build a model and try?" "Tomorrow, when I see that the model is wrong, I turn around and discard it again.

As a result, Zhou Chen's "wall of faith" cracked, then slowly cracked, and finally collapsed at the end of the seminar, and his three views were also reshaped.

"What did you think of this seminar, and what were your special impressions?" On the day of the official end of the seminar, Zhao Fengxue asked with a smile.

"A group banquet for a bunch of madmen!" Zhou Chen thought about it and replied sincerely.

"Crazy, that's an apt description." Zhao Fengxue smiled, he was a group of very casual madmen.

On March 11, after taking a group photo with all the scientists attending the meeting, Zhou Chen and his mentor Zhao Fengxue ended their trip to New York and took a flight back to China together.

At Beijing Capital International Airport, reporters who learned in advance that Zhou Chen was going to return to China stood guard at the entrance and exit of the airport early in the morning, competing to obtain first-hand materials for interviewing Zhou Chen.

"Mom, look, why are there so many reporters over there?" A little girl suddenly grabbed the woman next to her and shouted.

"It may be a star who is coming, let's go, let's not join in the fun!"

"Don't, I want to watch the big star!"

"I don't know if it's an Oba from South Korea, you see a lot of beautiful women with mobile phones......"

"Let's go, look at what Oba! The virus has just dissipated, so it's better not to stay in crowded places. ”

"Cut, you coward, you don't even look at the Korean Oba, no wonder you can't find a boyfriend."

"......" Is there a connection between this? The girl who was taunted by her friend was speechless.

Passengers who don't know the details saw so many reporters and thought it was a celebrity passing by Beijing Capital International Airport, and they also stopped to watch.

But they didn't know that Beijing Airport had already opened a special channel for Zhou Chen after receiving the notice from their superiors, so these reporters and onlookers were doomed to work in vain.

Half an hour passed, and the crowd gradually dispersed in disappointment, while the reporters remained where they were.

"What, the plane has arrived a long time ago?" Xi Yan asked the airport staff, but she got a disappointing news.

This means that they have waited in vain today, and Zhou Chen must have left.

On a business bus bound for Beijing Normal University, Zhou Chen sighed a little to the reporters who were stationed at the airport in advance: "These reporters' sense of smell is really unusual, how can they calculate that I will come back on today's flight?" ”

"What is this, it has long been reported in the news, saying that Brother Zhou will go to the United States to attend an academic seminar after receiving the award, and he is expected to come back on today's flight! It's not normal to have no reporters at the airport to stand guard. Yang Xi, who came to pick up the airport, pouted disapprenorovingly.

"What's the matter, Xiao Zhou, you have achieved fame this time!"

Zhao Fengxue said with a faint smile on his face.

"Success?" Zhou Chen was stunned, and then a smile appeared on his face: "Maybe, it seems that I have to keep a low profile for a few days." ”

When Zhao Fengxue heard this, a smile appeared on his old face: "Yes, it's good to be low-key ......"

Low-key is the preparation before a blockbuster! He glanced at Zhou Chen and smiled meaningfully.

This time he participated in the seminar with Zhou Chen, and he intuitively sensed that this seminar would bring different changes to the young man in front of him, at least in his heart, a seed waiting to germinate.

He knows a truth very well, it is difficult for some people not to be low-key, because they can't swell at all, and some people can't be low-key.