From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"Have you heard that Lin is measuring the mass of the W boson recently? How is the situation now?"

Hearing this question, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "That's it, as you know, the measurement of the W boson's mass is not so easy, and our progress is not particularly great."

Lockyer waved his hand and said, "I don't think so. Didn't you say, Lin, that the measurement should be completed before this year's Solvay meeting? It's August now, and with a mathematician like you here, there must be no Too big of a problem, right?"

Lin Xiao spread his hands and said, "How can it be so easy, we are still collecting data."

"Collecting data? Isn't your data readily available?"

Lin Xiao smiled: "There are still some new data that need to be collected."

Lockyer was taken aback, "New data? Isn't the LHC still being upgraded and maintained? Where should the new data be collected?"

Lin Xiao picked up the tea next to him and took a sip. Although foreigners prefer to drink coffee, he has gradually developed the habit of drinking tea.

Then, he looked at Lockyer and said, "Mr. Lockyer, tell me, aren't those noisy wireless electromagnetic waves annoying in our experimental environment?"

Lockyer nodded approvingly: "Yes, it's really annoying. These noises are as annoying as mosquitoes when you sleep at night."

Without these wireless electromagnetic waves, the accuracy of their experiment would not know how much it could be improved, but unfortunately, this problem obviously cannot be completely solved, it can only be alleviated, but the efficiency of the mitigation is not high.

Lin Xiao put down his teacup and said, "So we reduce these noises and remove them from our measurement data as much as possible. Will it be convenient for us to measure the mass of the W boson?"

Lockyer was taken aback, and said, "Lin, you don't have such a plan, do you?"

"Why not?"

Lin Xiao spread his hands, "Eliminate these noises, and then we will find traces that may represent W bosons. Believe me, this will be the only way we can measure W bosons more accurately."

Before Lockyer could speak, another researcher from Fermilab next to him couldn't help saying, "This is impossible!"

"If the electromagnetic wave noise is really so easy to solve, I am afraid it will be solved long ago. It affects at least 15% of all our experiments! If this problem can be solved, it means that the accuracy of our experiments can be improved on average. 15%, we don't know how much research has been done on this before!"

"Lin, don't tell me that you want to solve this problem before the Solvay meeting officially starts on December 12, and then solve the problem of measuring the mass of the W boson?!"

Lin Xiao looked at the researcher. His name is Rhys Packett, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. Fermilab is affiliated with the University of Chicago, so this Professor Packett also works in Fermilab.

Of course, his reputation is not small, and he is quite prestigious in the physics community.

In the face of such a professor's questioning, probably no one will take it seriously.

However, Lin Xiao just smiled and said, "Professor Packett, sometimes life needs some surprises, doesn't it? Maybe one day before the Solvay meeting, you will be able to hear such a surprise." ?”

"Besides, I didn't say to completely eliminate the noise of wireless electromagnetic waves, but to minimize their impact."

"By reducing them to an approximate functional formula as much as possible, these problems will not be a problem."

Rhys Packett looked at Lin Xiao's confident face, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but in the end he leaned back on his seat and sighed, "Maybe I'm getting old."

He couldn't understand this young man anymore, just like the multidimensional field theory before.

Now it is actually said that it is necessary to solve the problem of interference of wireless electromagnetic waves on particle accelerators.

For him, this is unimaginable.

Not to mention that Lin Xiao actually has to complete this matter in less than five months, which is even more unimaginable.

Is this something that human beings can do at this stage?

Lockyer next to him patted Packett with a smile, and said, "Old Reese, we are not good at mathematics after all, so we should trust Lin."

Then he nodded to Lin Xiao and said, "Then I hope you will succeed. If you do, it will be a boon to all our particle physics researchers. Unfortunately, this matter We can't help you with things, and I can only wish God to bless you."

"Just don't worry, Mr. Lockyer." Lin Xiao smiled, "At least, I haven't failed yet."

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, everyone present couldn't help being stunned.

Yes, in their impression, Lin Xiaoke has never failed.

From mathematics to material chemistry, and then to physics, he can always make various amazing achievements.

Elizabeth, who was standing aside, also looked at Lin Xiao's side face, her eyes showed admiration, a confident man is always so attractive.

……

The conversation didn't end there. They then exchanged a lot of experience in the research, and it didn't end until more than an hour later.

After Nigel Lockyer and his group said goodbye to Lin Xiao, they did not leave. They had other exchanges and visits afterwards. After all, they did not come here just to meet Lin Xiao.

However, looking at the back of Lin Xiao leaving, someone couldn't help asking: "Can he succeed?"

"It doesn't matter if he succeeds or not, just do our job well."

Nigel Lockyer said.

"A few months... We have been working on it for more than a year! If he succeeds first, our efforts will be in vain."

Their Fermilab is also calculating the mass of the W boson, as Elizabeth said before, they do have the idea of ​​spying on the 'military situation'.

Originally, they thought that Lin Xiaocai had been researching for several months, and no matter what they thought, it was impossible for them to succeed one step ahead of them. But seeing Lin Xiao who is so confident today, they felt that maybe Lin Xiaozhen could succeed one step ahead of them.

"No experiment is in vain." Nigel Lockyer waved his hand and said, "If he succeeds, our experiment will help them carry out the 'checking' process, and if he fails, he will also help us Give us experience, help us, and we'll do for him what we both wanted."

He turned and walked away, "This is our science."

Chapter 198 I Succeeded

Scientific research is not accomplished overnight, even if Lin Xiao has such confidence in himself.

Of course, it is definitely not a lie that he can have such confidence.

Because, he already has a more essential way of dealing with these "noise" chaotic systems.

Whether it is wireless electromagnetic waves or environmental thermal radiation, these are all electromagnetic waves, and the earth's magnetic field is the influence of the magnetic field, and then there are impurity particles inside. The vacuum in the LHC is an ultra-high vacuum, and the pressure is only minus seven of 10. Sub-Pascal, this pressure is about 100 times lower than that of the moon, and it can be called the emptiest place in the solar system, but obviously there are still those impurities here, and according to this pressure, the density of the gas existing inside can be estimated, Then calculate the density of impurity molecules.

Everything else is the same.

And they have one thing in common, that is, what they ultimately affect is the space where the particles collide with each other.

With this relationship, Lin Xiao can put them all into one system, and finally use a mathematical method to analyze and process them.

"So, what mathematical method to choose to deal with them?"

Lin Xiao frowned slightly, and recalled in his mind those methods that belonged to the theory of chaotic systems, unimodal image iterative system?Duffin Vibrator?What about attractors?

Finally, he frowned slightly: "None of the current chaos theory methods can solve my problem."

But the question didn't bother him.

If there is no tool, then create a tool. As long as this tool is created, he will be able to catch all these kinds of "noise".

"Go on, it seems that there will be another period of struggle."

Sighing slightly, he then took out his pen and re-entered the state of immersion. Gradually, 'particles' representing inspiration began to collide and explode in his silent mind.

In the cat nest next to her, Mimi looked at the owner who lowered her head again, gave a 'meow', and lay down in the nest again, quietly looking at the owner's face.

Then it looked back again, stretched itself well, and finally fell asleep again.

The kitty doesn't have to go to work, so it doesn't care so much, it just needs to enjoy its own life.

As long as the owner doesn't run around with it.

……

Chaos theory is an equally difficult direction in mathematics, because its rise time is biased toward the late 20th century, so there are relatively few famous scholars who have achieved success in it compared with other theories.

Of course, there are quite a lot of people who choose this direction, because this theory is widely used in the field of application, so that to some extent, it, quantum mechanics and relativity are called the three major scientific revolutions of the 20th century.

The butterfly effect, which is so famous that even elementary school students know it, also comes from the theory of chaos.

Because the butterfly effect describes the sensitivity of the chaotic system to the initial conditions, how to reduce the sensitivity of the initial conditions is also a major direction of Lin Xiao's research.

In this way, two months passed quietly.

……

"How long has it been since we saw Mr. Lin?"

In a certain laboratory of CERN, nine members of the "Lin Group" stayed in the room chatting in every possible way, not knowing what to do.

They haven't seen Lin Xiao for a long time, especially since two months ago, Lin Xiao basically hasn't appeared in front of everyone, at most, he explained the next task more than a month ago, and then Once gone.

Of course, disappearing doesn't mean really disappearing, it just means that he has been staying in his room, not knowing what he is studying.

However, these are not the key points. The key point is the tasks he assigned more than a month ago, and the research team has already completed them a week ago.

That is to say, there has been no progress in the project of measuring the mass of the W boson for a week, and now hundreds of people seem to be on vacation, not knowing what to do.

Including nine of them.

"Elizabeth, aren't you in charge of delivering meals to Mr. Lin every day? Do you know what he is studying?"

At this time, Sterling looked at Elizabeth Marcia next to him and asked.

Elizabeth was propping her head on one hand at this time, looking down at some papers, and when she heard Sterling suddenly ask herself, she came back to her senses and said helplessly: "I don't know, it's all about mathematics. I looked at it a few times, but I didn't understand what it was at all."

"Ok."

Sterling shook his head helplessly.

Another girl walked up to Elizabeth again, winked at her, and asked, "Elizabeth, you've been delivering meals to Mr. Lin for so long, have you ever had anything to do with him?"

Elizabeth was taken aback for a moment, and blushed immediately and said, "Alisa! Don't talk nonsense! I'm just...bringing him food!"

"Hahaha, Miss Marcia, you don't even believe what you said, do you?"

Another boy laughed too.

"Exactly! Elizabeth, as long as you have the opportunity to get close to Mr. Lin, you never give up!"

"Elizabeth, don't be shy!"

……

In the room, a group of people made fun of Elizabeth.

Elizabeth's face became even more embarrassing. At first she thought that everyone hadn't noticed, but now, the clown is actually herself?

"I didn't!"

She defended loudly, then lay down on the table, and buried her hot face into her arms.

Everyone present laughed, and the room was filled with joy for a while.

Sterling also smiled, but as the oldest and most stable person present, he stopped quickly, and then asked: "Okay, Elizabeth, don't be shy, but you didn't ask Mr. Lin What are we going to do next? If he doesn't make arrangements, those professors may be angry."

Just as Elizabeth was about to reply, there was a sudden knock on their door.

"We're already angry."

A few people walked in from the door, all of them were researchers in the project team, and they basically all held professorships.

After walking in, the professor who spoke before continued: "Where's Lin Xiao? We've been free for a week! Didn't he say that he would finish it before the Solvay meeting?"

Another professor also asked: "We all expected him to lead us to success, but our own people disappeared first? If he doesn't hear back again, I will take my students back to Zurich." Already!"

Several other professors also expressed their opinions one after another, and there was a tendency to leave the project team if they could not see Lin Xiao.

Seeing these professors who belonged to Shenniu in CERN come to their door, especially one named Byron Winston, who is notoriously bad-tempered, Sterling and the others couldn't help feeling scalp tingling. Numb up.

"Professors, please be patient. Mr. Lin's work must be the core of our project. You also know that what Mr. Lin wants to solve is the problem of wireless electromagnetic wave noise..."

The notoriously bad-tempered Professor Winston interrupted him, and said impatiently: "Don't talk about it, I just know that we haven't seen Lin Lin for almost two months. , he is the general manager of our project, we want to meet him! At least we need to know how his progress is! Our time is precious!"

Faced with Professor Winston's appearance, Sterling had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll call Mr. Lin now, but I can't guarantee whether he will get through."

Then he took out his mobile phone and dialed Lin Xiao's number.

Sometimes when you call Lin Xiao, you will find that you can't get through. It is very likely that Lin Xiao has entered a learning state, and they basically know about it.

Based on the time, at this time in the past, Lin Xiao probably wouldn't answer the phone.

But Byron Winston didn't care, and snorted: "If you don't connect, go directly to his house to find him."

Sterling shrugged, but at this moment, the phone actually got through!

"Hello? Sterling, what's the matter?"

Sterling was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect the call to be connected, and then he quickly said, "Mr. Lin, it's like this..."

After he told Lin Xiao about Professor Winston's visit, he apologized and said, "Sorry, Mr. Lin, Professor Winston and the others are a little anxious, so I'm calling you as a last resort. I don't know if there is any interruption. to your research."

"Hehe, it turned out to be this matter, it's all right."

Lin Xiao was not angry, and said with a smile: "Well, let's hold a meeting tomorrow, and you can inform other people. If there is no problem, I think we are very close to the final goal."