Chapter 497: The First Loophole in Life
With Professor David Gross asking questions, the auditorium quickly became noisy.
It has to be said that the question raised by Professor Gross is indeed a fatal flaw for the whole paper, or for the dimensional space architecture at the two-dimensional level.
This is a flaw hidden in the extremely deep field under the surface of the paper, and there are hundreds of people present, although the question session is not over yet, I am afraid that there are no more than a handful of people who have really noticed this.
"It seems that today's report meeting may leave a little regret."
In the front seat, Professor David Pulitzer of the California Institute of Technology from the United States touched the bright head and stared at the figure standing on the stage with interest.
It is much easier for academics to find flaws and problems in a paper than it is to build a perfect paper with no loopholes.
If Gross didn't ask this question, he will do so in the next session.
It is undeniable that Professor Xu's paper on strongly correlated electron systems is of considerable importance to condensed matter physics.
However, the small polaron problem of strong electro-phonon interaction system is still a fatal flaw.
Unless he can immediately complete the report on today's report table, no matter how good the report is, it will eventually leave regrets.
He did not believe that the young reporter would be able to fill the flaw on the spot right away.
After all, this is something that involves the most cutting-edge of physics, the strong interaction system.
On the other side, Edward Witten stared at Xu Chuan on the stage tightly, a little worried about him.
Although today's loophole only threatens the theory of a unified framework in the state of two-dimensional space.
As long as this student can make up for this in the future, the framework of the strongly correlated electronic system will still be perfect.
But for today's report, it seems a little regrettable.
And more importantly, this flaw directly broke the myth that he can be said to be 'invincible' since his debut.
Everyone in the academic community knows that since he became famous, almost all the papers he has published have been verified, and finally confirmed that the papers are correct.
But today, this defect has directly cut off this almost 'mythical' miracle and directly pulled it back to the mortal realm.
It turns out that he can also make mistakes.
Although this is a good thing for a scholar, after all, he has not experienced setbacks and grinds, how can he develop a strong mindset to move forward?
But Witten was a little worried about whether the student would be able to accept such a blow.
I only hope that after completing today's report, he can continue to forge ahead and create greater brilliance after experiencing setbacks.
Otherwise, it will be the greatest loss of the twenty-first century for the academic community.
Even if this era is only a fifth of the way through, it can only begin.
On the report platform, Xu Chuan was stunned, ignoring the eyes of countless people in the audience and the sound of discussion.
After listening to Professor David Gross's questions, he suddenly realized that he had made a huge mistake.
It is not that the small polaron problem of the strong electro-phonon interaction system is a fatal flaw, but that he directly cites the results of his previous life into this paper.
In the future, after completing the existence and mass gap of the Yang-Mills theory, he studied the unified theory of strong electricity for a period of time, although it was not completed, but still made some results.
The small polaron problem of the strong electro-phonon interaction system is one of the core problems he solved.
At this point in time, this problem is still an unsolved problem. But he directly cited it in the paper on strongly correlated electronic systems, as a law.
It's like the results of mathematics that are based on the Riemann conjecture.
Although the Riemann conjecture has been tested by computers for tens of trillions of times, none of the data does not conform to the formula given by Riemann.
It is also praised by the mathematical community as 'a conjecture that cannot be established without evidence', and those mathematical research and achievements that rely on the establishment of the Riemann conjecture can also be regarded as theorems.
But the Riemann conjecture is a conjecture after all, not a theorem.
He's making this mistake now, just like those mathematicians.
Although he did produce this result, it may not seem like a matter to others, as long as it was enough to complete it at the briefing.
But it would be a huge mistake for him to cite papers of this era that have not yet been published and verified.
It was hard for him to forgive himself for making such a shallow mistake.
But the most important thing for now is to answer Professor Gross's questions first.
In any case, the report will still be completed.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Chuan raised his head, looked into David Gross's old and deep eyes, and said with a hint of apology:
"Sorry, here is my negligence. But I have an answer to that question. ”
The voice fell.
Suddenly there was a commotion in the auditorium.
Surprised, surprised, puzzled, confused.
All kinds of eyes fell on him at the same time, including Professor David Gross, who was still staring at him, and there was a deep confusion in his deep eyes.
Xu Chuan took a deep breath, nodded to Professor Gross, then looked at the staff standing in the corner of the podium, and said softly, "Please help me prepare two blackboards." ”
After speaking, he picked up the blackboard eraser from the report table and erased what he had written in the report on the unified framework of the strengthening of the associated electronic system.
Seeing this scene, if other people were still confused, there was a sense of surprise in the eyes of Witten who was in the audience.
Last year, he attended the International Symposium on the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education in the capital of the country, where he witnessed a miracle in person.
The great unified framework of the strongly correlated electronic system was made by this student in that miracle, is he going to do it again today?
On the report stage, Xu Chuan did not pay attention to the commotion in the audience.
After erasing the formulas from the blackboard, he picked up a piece of chalk and wrote a neat line of handwriting on the blackboard.
[Theory of Typical Behavior of Small Polarons in Strong Electro-Phonon Interaction System!] 】
At the same time that the title was written, the other scholars in the auditorium, like Witten, seemed to realize something.
The atmosphere also came to a climax in an instant.
PS: Finally caught up with the last few minutes, asking for a monthly pass