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Chapter 546 Past and Present of String Theory and Superstring Theory

Whoa!

The emotions of hundreds of guests at the scene were ignited.

Whoo!

The audience in the live broadcast room became more and more active.

Amid the online and offline attention, Shen Qi continued his report: "According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, under the action of gravity, space and time expand and contract. Then, if the calculation method of quantum mechanics is applied to general relativity, Then there are infinities that the renormalization method can't handle."

"Look at this set of data, which comes from CERN's LHC. The LHC accelerated protons to 99.9999999% of the speed of light, thus enabling a resolution of one thousandth of a meter." (1 Beijing = 10 to the 16th power)

"If you experiment with the LHC's 1-Ke accelerator, it will form a black hole... Of course, they didn't do this, this is our speculation."

"The preparation of these few pages may be difficult for beginners in physics, but it is a necessary prerequisite. Next, we welcome the protagonists of this report, string theory, superstring theory and M theory."

Shen Qi explained patiently, which was different from his previous reports.

From the Riemann conjecture to the Hodge conjecture, and then to the N-S equation, Shen Qi’s reporting style is similar, he smashed out a bunch of formulas, it’s your problem whether you can’t understand them, and I’m only responsible for giving conclusions.

Today, Shen Qi changed his style. He is more like a patient physics teacher, explaining a physics lesson that cannot be found in textbooks to online and offline students.

Why did Shen Qi do this, and broadcast it live?

Of course it is to attract fans... Oh, no, on the one hand, there are considerations of popular science, and on the other hand, it is to explain in detail, which will help colleagues in the physics world to understand his ideas faster and better.

"The core idea of ​​string theory is that elementary particles are not points, but strings with a one-dimensional space-extended vibration structure. We can understand open strings as spaghetti and closed strings as macaroni."

"So, we have now answered the question on page 6 just now, that is, the string can eliminate infinity. In addition, the closed string transmits the gravitational force. The theoretical basis is shown in the figure. When the closed string vibrates in this way, it will become a graviton that transmits the gravitational force It is the graviton, which is the combination of the theory of gravity and the theory of quantum mechanics, thus predicting the gravitational wave. The gravitational wave has been confirmed, and more than a thousand top scientists spent four months analyzing it. This project It has spawned a Nobel Laureate in Physics. Here, we honor the historic contribution of Professor Nambu."

During his speech, Shen Qi expressed his respect for the predecessors in the physics world. He stood on the shoulders of the predecessors. The latecomers went further and further away, getting closer and closer to the ultimate goal of physics.

It is generally accepted in the physics community that string theory was first proposed by Yoichiro Nambu, a Japanese-American physicist at the University of Chicago, in 1970 as a self-contained set of theoretical basis.

Interestingly, Nambu Yoichiro's 1970 paper, which was the foundation of string theory, was actually presented to the public for the first time in 1995 when he published a collection of papers.

Later, the physics community confirmed what happened to Professor Nanfang. He finished his landmark paper on string theory in the spring of 1970, and then invited several big physics figures in the United States at that time to review his paper together in a secret cabin.

The bosses were shocked by Nambu Yoichiro's explosive theory, and they all praised, "Xiao Nannan, you write well and wonderfully, and your writing is amazing."

Then Nan went to San Francisco to hold a special report meeting. When he came to the lecture hall, Professor Nan opened his briefcase and suddenly realized, shit, where is my thesis?

There was no PPT at that time, because Microsoft had not yet been established, Nanfang originally planned to read it according to the paper, but the paper was lost.

So Professor Nanfang reported his research results on string theory from memory.

Although only a few people have read Nanfang's papers, all of them are physics experts and are very influential and authoritative. In addition, Nanbu's string theory ideas at the time were original, and he relied on his good eloquence. Even if he did not find a paper, Nanbu Yoichiro was widely regarded as the founder of string theory at that time.

The strange things in the physics world have emerged, and the little Nanfang has become the old Nannan. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008, but the reason for the award was not string theory, but the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism of subatomic physics.

Shen Qi continued his report: "Are you confused, why are you talking about gravitational waves? In fact, I didn't go too far. We believe that if string theory includes gravity, then this theory is the ultimate combination of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Unified theory. From the prediction of gravitational waves to its confirmation, it has been verified that our unified thinking is correct.”

Shen Qi paused to observe the situation at the scene, and he saw that all the guests at the scene were listening to his lecture with full attention.

Since no one has an opinion, let's move on.

"Superstring theory not only explains bosons with the vibration of strings, but also explains fermions. This is the difference between superstring theory and string theory."

"However, it is well known that there is a theoretical loophole in superstring theory including open strings." Shen Qi looked towards the audience, where his theoretical physics team was sitting.

The founders of superstring theory are Caltech physics professor Schwartz and his French student Nanfu, who perfected the theory of Raymond, a researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States.

Then Edward Witten strongly entered the field of superstring theory research. In order to study this thing, he specially invented a set of mathematical methods, which won the Fields Medal unbelievably. Therefore, the world of physics is full of wonders.

Although Witten is hailed as the first person in superstring theory, the reason for his achievement is not superstring theory.

It's not that the Nobel Prize jury has any deliberate prejudice against string theory and superstring theory, it's just that this kind of advanced pure theory is difficult to be verified by existing instruments and equipment.

And at the theoretical level, superstring theory does have some contradictions that are difficult to justify.

Wei Teng was at the lecture hall of Yanda University, and he was a member of Shen Qi's team.

For decades, Witten has been trying to perfect the difficult self-consistent parts of superstring theory and M theory.

Not long ago, Witten got some new inspirations. His inspirations were confirmed and processed by Shen Qi, and 17 physics Ph.Ds under Shen Qi made them into PPT format, which will be displayed in front of the world.

"What makes countless physicists who study superstring theory painful enough to want to commit suicide is that if superstring theory is not in nine-dimensional space, photons will have mass, which will contradict special relativity. That is to say, the result of quantum swing This caused the superstring theory to suffer from a "theoretical disease" that lost its coordination." Shen Qi expressed a regrettable and desolate tone, resignedly stating a persistent disease that the academic world is difficult to solve.

"This..." The physicists at the scene were nervous, we came all the way here, Professor Shen, you just tell us this?

Netizens in the live broadcast room were too frightened to post barrage, what's going on with this shit?

Suddenly, Shen Qi's mental outlook became excited, he raised his arms and shouted, and switched to the next PPT page: "Dear guests, science lovers, next I want to announce an exciting news. Not long ago, Our team has finally solved the "theoretical disease" in superstring theory through mathematical methods! Please look at the big screen, this brand new mathematical treatment method we temporarily call it, the Lie group expansion of the quantum effect calculation method based on hybrid string theory! "

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