From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Lin Xiao's answer stunned everyone present.

Even if the ideas and methods are announced, in Lin Xiao's eyes, will they just come back to the same starting line?

And as long as we are on the same starting line, he is not worried that he will be surpassed by others?

No matter what, this is obviously a very confident answer. If it were said by others, they would not believe it and would just think that this person is talking nonsense. But now it is Lin Xiao who said this. In this regard, they had no choice but to believe it.

Although Lin Xiao answered in Chinese, Witten and the others had a person who was responsible for translating for them, so he also translated for them.

When the translator was translating, he looked at Lin Xiao with admiration in his eyes. After all, this translator was a graduate student from the School of Foreign Languages ​​at Peking University, and Lin Xiaoke was almost the idol of their entire school. At that time, the translator felt even more lucky in his heart. He could actually hear Lin Xiao say such handsome words. It was really a worthwhile trip.

As for Witten and the others, their expressions were even more varied after listening, but in short, their expressions all contained admiration for Lin Xiao, and there was also no disbelief in them.

Finally, Zhao Qi extended his thumb to Lin Xiao and said, "As expected of Professor Lin."

The others also nodded in agreement, and although Witten and the others could not understand what Zhao Qi meant, judging from the tone, what they should have said was what they wanted to say.

So they all nodded.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "It's okay. Anyway, even if this happens again in the future, there's no need to worry."

"Um."

Zhao Qi nodded. Based on Lin Xiao's words, he felt that there was nothing to worry about. From now on, he would trust Lin Xiao and everything would be over.

Next, they chatted for a while, until finally, Zhao Qi and the others had finished what they should talk about and what they wanted to say to Lin Xiao, and they left here one after another. However, Witten still stayed.

"Witten, is there anything else?"

Witten smiled and said, "Let me say goodbye to you. I will go back tomorrow."

An expression of regret appeared on Lin Xiao's face, "That's such a pity. I thought you could stay here for a while longer."

"Haha, no, no, I've stayed here long enough."

Witten waved his hand, "Of course, I will probably come here often in the future. To be honest, I have received many invitations and have been a visiting professor or researcher at many schools or research institutes, but in some of them, I even I can’t remember the name for a while, and I rarely go there.”

"The Dingguang Research Institute left a very deep impression on me, so I think I will never forget this place in the future, so I will definitely visit more in the future, so Lin doesn't have to be too sorry. Maybe when I I will also bring my family here to play. If they like it, can I stay here?"

"Haha! That's good. Then I'll wait for that day."

"Yes." Witten nodded and said with a smile: "Especially the sweet tofu in the cafeteria. Well~ I must try it again before I leave tomorrow. I just don't know if it is the same in Chinatown where we are. It tastes like this sweet tofu curd.”

Lin Xiao even laughed. Deligne and the others were obsessed with roujiamo, but they did not expect that Professor Witten was obsessed with tofu nao.

If he had known that another Professor Maldacena also liked to eat salted tofu, and even had a sweet-salty argument with Witten, he would probably have exclaimed that cultural export was happening again.

"Also, Lin, I have to express my gratitude to you."

Suddenly, Witten said again: "Thank you for the surprise, I have received it."

Lin Xiao smiled. Of course he knew what surprise Witten was talking about. It seemed that Witten had found the final way out from his proof yesterday.

"That's good, then I wish you success in advance. The discovery of strings seems to be another surprise for our physics community."

Witten laughed and said, "It seems that our physics community is in for a surprise this year."

But then, his face straightened up again, and he said, "Of course, you have given me such great help, and I will repay you in return."

"Huh? That's no need." Lin Xiao waved his hand: "It was only because of your reminder that I solved the mystery between gravitons and the theory of relativity. What I give you is the reward."

Witten shook his head helplessly, "I just said it unintentionally. How can it be regarded as a reminder to you?"

"Okay, let's not talk about anything else. It's time for me to leave. I have to go shopping in Beijing with a few other old guys today, and then I should leave tomorrow."

Hearing what Witten said, Lin Xiao also had a look of helplessness on his face, and finally he had no choice but to nod and said, "Okay, then goodbye."

"Yes." Witten smiled and nodded, then walked forward, put his hands on Lin Xiao's shoulders, and said seriously: "There are still many undiscovered truths in our world, and the truth cannot be heard by us. Its voice was eventually found by us, so things like this still require people like you who are good at finding its traces from clues to create this final miracle."

"So, Lin, keep looking for miracles. I believe that the future of physics belongs to you."

After speaking, he patted Lin Xiao's shoulders with both hands, and then left Lin Xiao's house.

Lin Xiao looked at Witten leaving with a strange expression on his face, and at the same time took out the truth recorder from his arms.

"It seems like I can really hear the truth?"

Finally, he shook his head with a smile and put the recorder back in.

Forget about this kind of thing that does not belong to one dimension.

No matter what, Witten's words still had the ability to excite him.

Then, let’s continue to create that miracle.

That is, the secret of the strong interaction.

They unveiled the mystery of the mass gap, and also solved the problem of the existence of the Yang-Mills gauge field against the Whiteman axiom. In front of them, the strong interaction force is no longer mysterious, but becomes understandable. .

"Then let me see how the legendary strong interaction can be related to the electromagnetic interaction and the weak interaction!"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly. Once this problem was solved, he thought, he would be able to determine whether the completion of a commercial reactor using a tokamak device to achieve controllable nuclear fusion would be far away or just around the corner.

…

Time passed quietly.

The shock caused by such a report is still widely circulated in society.

Unknown science is very mysterious and even terrifying. Just like we don’t know whether there is a top-level civilization on top of the earth that is monitoring humans at all times, or whether our entire universe is just a glance in the eyes of others. The ball is in full view and can even be destroyed at will.

However, known science can often shock people, such as the black holes that everyone knows, or the counter-intuitive things in quantum mechanics.

And Lin Xiao's lecture revealed the same thing that can make people sound awesome.

So for a while, it also triggered a baptism of traffic in the entire society.

Although Lin Xiao is often @ed by netizens, he doesn't pay much attention to it.

After all, it is impossible for him to explain to these netizens how he proved it, just like a national player playing Go in a live broadcast cannot explain to the audience the secret of his skill.

Life is back on track again, and as for Witten and the others, they have already boarded a plane, left China, and returned to their respective countries.

Just a week later, Witten published a paper on arxiv. The title of the paper was very short, but it contained a lot of information.

"The Existence of Strings"

This paper does not look like a normal paper title, but when everyone saw it, everyone's surprise could not be explained clearly in a few words, especially when they saw that the author of this paper included two weights. When the name of a super person.

One is Edward Witten and the other is Lin Xiao.

These two top guys in the physics world actually published a paper together, and the content of the paper was so heavyweight?

Isn't the existence of strings just to prove that strings exist?

Proving the existence of strings is the program of string theory physicists, just like the Langlands program, which mathematicians are committed to pursuing.

Now that Witten and Lin Xiao have published this paper, does it mean that these two big guys have found conclusive evidence of the existence of strings?

The world of physics was suddenly shaken again, just as Witten and Lin Xiao had said.

A few days ago, they just digested the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity, as well as the proof of the existence of the Yang-Mills gauge field and the mass gap, and now they are told that the existence of strings has also been found?

Physicists all feel that the world is closed!