Into Unscientific

In the waiting hall.

Perhaps he was aroused by Xu Yun's words.

Lu Chaoyang also followed him and glanced furtively around, with a hint of gossip on his face, and said in a low voice:

"It is said that there will be a lot of bigwigs coming this time, and the Nobel Prize winners are all in double digits—not a dozen or so. There are also many famous people who have not won the Nobel Prize."

"But because of this, all the departments are very lively."

"For example, many universities in China are looking for people through their connections, hoping to get a few qualifications to participate in the conference, and some even open their mouths and want to be in the top three rows."

"Even the host city was decided on after several days of tossing around in Rongcheng. If it wasn't for Rongcheng's strong strength to pass the test, this job would almost be taken away."

Xu Yun also nodded with emotion.

He is not very clear about the first point Lu Chaoyang said, after all, he is not even a deputy high school now.

It doesn't matter whether you go through the back door or ask for news, it's not his turn.

But it's not hard to understand.

Just like the Cannes red carpet, there are always people who want to show up for exposure.

As for the second point?

He heard Zhao Zhengguo vaguely mention it the day before yesterday.

Although this press conference is a matter for the scientific research circle, it is actually a political feast for the venue.

To put it more mysteriously, it is to enhance the image of the city and enhance the scientific research atmosphere.

To put it bluntly, it is a real achievement.

So in the past two days.

Yanjing, Modu, Pengcheng, and even Luzhou are running up and down, trying to change the venue to their own territory.

Fortunately, Rongcheng's hard power is not weak. At the same time, it also undertook the project of the World Science Fiction Convention this year, and the Hugo Awards will be awarded for the first time in China.

Therefore, Chengdu has been preparing for the World Science Fiction Convention since a long time ago.

It turned out that the Science Fiction Convention had not yet opened.

The preparatory work in advance has played a good role in the competition for the press conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It can be regarded as unintentional insertion of willows and willows.

It can only be said that under this feast, all kinds of monsters and monsters appeared, which really opened Xu Yun's eyes.

Of course.

Compared with those monsters, Xu Yun is more curious about

Who will be there this time?

To know.

Prior to this, the Academy of Sciences has issued invitation letters to almost all top institutions in the world, sincerely inviting people from all walks of life to come to Chengdu.

Almost on the day when the letter was sent, no less than ten Nobel laureates expressed that they would be there in person.

This is why Xu Yun is sure that this press conference is the feast with the highest gold content since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

But for reasons of confidentiality.

after the first day.

The Academy of Sciences kept the list of participants confidential.

What Xu Yun and others knew was that there were about six or seven hundred participants, and that the hotels they stayed in were Niccolo Rongcheng, St. Regis and Waldorf Astoria.

As for who the top bosses are, they don't know.

Although there are not as many big names in physics today as there were in Einstein Dirac's time, there are still a few top figures.

Among them, there are even some characters who can be ranked in the top 30 or 40 in the history of physics. Considering that the big names in the early days of physics all had the blessing of establishing a school, this ranking is already very high.

"I'm coming!"

And just when Xu Yun was dreaming.

Near the exit of the special passage, there was a sudden commotion.

Then soon.

Standing at the front, Hou Xingyuan and the senior official from Chuanshu straightened their collars one after another, and straightened the corners of their hems calmly.

At the same time Xu Yun noticed.

A young woman in business attire also moved to the left of Hou Xingyuan.

This is an interpreter from the Academy of Sciences. Since there are not many women present, Xu Yun also noted down her language direction:

Russian.

That is to say

The first boss to arrive should be a bear man.

Although furry bears are generally rejected in Europe nowadays, furry bears are not even allowed to participate in the World Cup and cat competitions.

But Huaxia doesn't have such a politically correct statement.

So it's normal for a big bear to appear here.

Physicists who are now furry bears

Who could this be?

To know.

Today's pick-up order seems to be messy, but in fact they are all pre-arranged 'ranks'.

Otherwise, Angus would not have told Lucas to go to Geneva Airport to board the plane at six o'clock in the morning.

Because their 'rank' is fixed, in a middle range, the corresponding shift must be on time.

Whoever takes the lead, who will appear in the middle, and who will be the finale, all have pre-ranked positions.

Of course.

This position is limited to the big bosses.

Ordinary professors or journalists are naturally not included, there are probably only a few dozen who meet the conditions.

After about a minute or so.

At the end of the special passage, an old man with gray hair and a burly figure appeared.

The old man was holding a bottle of vodka in his hand, which seemed to have come from the VIP lounge.

After seeing this person.

Hou Xingyuan, who had been waiting here for a long time, stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand enthusiastically, and greeted him.

Seeing this, the hairy old man shook hands with him very politely, and even gave him a hug.

Because the distance was too far, Xu Yun couldn't hear what the two said clearly for a while, but he could only see that both sides were very positive.

But after seeing the face of the old man and the first pick in the game.

A guess appeared in his mind.

It's just that he hasn't seen the real person of the other party very much, so he's not sure if it's true.

So he lightly touched Lu Chaoyang's arm, and asked in a low voice:

"Professor Lu, is this Mr. Polyakov from Mao Xiong?"

Lu Chaoyang nodded calmly, affirming:

"Well, I heard him lecture at Princeton."

Although Xu Yun had been prepared in his heart, he was still shocked after receiving Lu Chaoyang's affirmation.

It was him!

Polyakov.

If you search for this name in China, there is a high probability that the result from Baidu is a bear pilot with the same name.

But in fact.

In today's physics world, there is a more famous giant who also bears this name.

He is Alexander Polyakov.

Compared with this Chinese name, the name Alkexander Polyakov should be more widely known.

He has a pioneering contribution to two-dimensional conformal field theory, and won the Dirac Medal in 1986.

Whether it is the Plyakov action or the conformal bootstrap method, it is a foundational work.

He has not won a Nobel Prize, but not because he is not qualified, but because the Nobel Prize is more about results.

Not to mention his fame and status, he even exceeds 80% of the Nobel Prize winners.

The well-known physicist Landau once made a ranking table of physicists, from 0 to 5 according to the logarithmic calibration of creativity, or the Landau scale.

The Landau ranking is a logarithmic coordinate, and every other level differs by ten times.

0 stream is the highest and 5 stream is the lowest.

Landau believes that Mavericks is a first-rate physicist, unmatched, meaning "God"

Einstein is a 0.5-rate physicist, with one person under ten thousand.

Bohr Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac Feynman and others are top-notch physicists.

A score of 3 is "mediocre physicist".

A score of 4 is a "hard-working fool"-in fact, many physicists rated 4 have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

For example, Zhao Zhongyao, a well-known Chinese physicist in the early days, was the great god who explained the theory of hard gamma-ray scattering. He was the Chinese who discovered the positron. I took a very small step, you know, that was a Chinese in 1932. (Mr. Zhao Zhongyao's deeds are too short to say more here. I suggest you to Baidu. The real founder of Huaxia nuclear physics. Eight of the two bombs and one star exploits are his students. Unfortunately, he died a year earlier. , otherwise he must have a copy of the medal)

at last.

Ordinary physicists are set at stream 5.

Means "stupid fool".

Landau rated himself as a 2.5-rate physicist at the beginning, but changed himself to a 2-rate physicist after receiving the Nobel Prize.

Before he died, he changed himself to a 1.5-rate physicist.

It is a pity that Landau passed away in 1968 and cannot continue to rate for future generations. (The original can be searched for "New Einsteins Need Positive Environment, Independent Spirit" on Physics Today)

But if it is divided according to Landau's standards.

Objectively speaking, Polyakov can be ranked around 2.0.

extreme point can even reach

1.5 streams.

Also by the way.

Now many people use Landau's ranking as a weapon to smear that Mr. Yang did not enter the top 100 in Landau's ranking, so Mr. Yang has a false name.

What is the actual truth?

When Landau came up with the ranking for the first time, Mr. Yang was only 27 years old and had just graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D.

It's outrageous to be in the top 100, okay?

As for Mr. Yang, after winning the award, Lang Dao did not revise the ranking - because this ranking is equivalent to his own making and playing, and it is only spread in small circles.

Even someone as arrogant and stubborn as Lang Dao himself, probably never thought that his ranking would be so authoritative and be used as a weapon to attack Elder Yang.

This can be regarded as a typical two-sidedness of language.

There is nothing wrong with the statement itself, but the meaning expressed and the truth are completely different things - just like the so-called "stronger than Brazil, and only won the Huaxia team once in the World Cup".

The line of sight returns to the original place.

Except for some media, most of the people present today can be regarded as insiders.

Therefore, they knew Polyakov's status very well, and they all stepped forward to hug and shake hands with him.

Polyakov has received some unfair treatment due to the political situation in the past year. People in the industry still respect him, but the organizers of various conferences have refused to invite him to participate.

Facing such an enthusiastic Huaxia pick-up group now, his eyes were a little rosy with excitement, and even Davarish shouted out.

Polyakov looked nothing like an eighty-year-old man who had just got off the plane, and greeted them one by one with more enthusiasm than the pick-up group.

A few minutes later.

Polyakov came to Lu Chaoyang and Xu Yun.

"Hey, Lu!"

Polyakov didn't know Xu Yun, but he was very impressed with Lu Chaoyang. After meeting, he gave him a big bear hug:

"I haven't seen you for five years, is everything okay?"

Lu Chaoyang was a little out of breath by Polyakoff, so he could only pat him on the shoulder reluctantly, but the expression on his face was also very happy:

"Thanks to you, everything has been fine recently. Your class helped me a lot."

The lady translator at the side quickly translated this sentence to Polyakov.

then

Polyakovle added a little more strength to Lu Chaoyang's hand, which made Lu Chaoyang almost lose his face.

after awhile.

Polyakov let go of Lu Chaoyang, looked at Xu Yun beside him, and asked:

"Who is this"

Lu Chaoyang gritted his teeth and rubbed his shoulders, then patted Xu Yun's shoulder and introduced:

"This is my younger brother, Xu Yun, who is currently a Ph.D student at HKUST."

Facing the stranger Xu Yun, Polyakov's attitude was not so enthusiastic.

He simply shook hands with Xu Yun, and then left the scene accompanied by several staff members.

Watching Polyakov recede.

Lu Chaoyang showed a treacherous smile.

He was looking forward to what kind of expression Polyakov would have on his face when he realized that his little junior was the real root of all evil.

Um.

Just to surprise Polyakov, not revenge for his neck being strangled

After Polyakov left.

About ten minutes passed.

The second. Or the second group of bigwigs walked out of the passage.

There were four big bosses who appeared this time, all of whom seemed to be over fifty years old.

The leader was a little old man with gray spectacles and American lapels, with a bald forehead and prominent cheekbones.

Walking beside him was an old man in beige casual clothes with a hairless forehead and a neat gray-white beard at the corner of his mouth.

The remaining two followed behind the first two, with a gap of about half a body, and they seemed to be quite old.

Xu Yun stretched his neck to look at the four of them, and quickly identified the identities of the three of them:

Among them, the little old man with gray glasses is the most recognizable, and he can be seen as David Gross at a glance.

David Gross was born across the sea on February 19, 1941.

He is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is an important figure in the field of theoretical physics in the 20th century and the discoverer of the asymptotically free property of the strong interaction.

In 2004, he won the Nobel Prize for his contribution.

The successful establishment of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is due to David Gross.

He is one of the few people who bears the name of a foreign academician of China, but not only gives lectures, but also contributes to China in terms of scientific research.

At the beginning of the outbreak of a certain epidemic, he also donated 500,000 masks to support China.

But it's interesting.

After the shipment entered the customs, it disappeared strangely. David Gross even tweeted about it, expressing his confusion, but the result still disappeared.

all in all.

This is indeed a respectable scientist, at least he has done some practical things for Huaxia.

And the old man in beige casual clothes next to David Gross is also very recognizable in appearance.

He is Gerald ter Hooft.

This is also the ultimate boss who is well-known in the industry but little known outside the industry.

Yes, the ultimate big guy who is better than David Gross.

He is somewhat similar to Polyakov, and belongs to the situation where the popularity of English names is higher than that of Chinese names:

right.

He's the famous 't Hooft.

Te Hooft won the hard task of proving the renormalizability of gauge fields, which is one of the most difficult aspects of quantum field theory.

In fact, what many people don't know is that.

Yang Mills theory—that is, one of Yang Lao’s famous works, Hooft contributed the most to the precondition theory.

Other than that.

He is also the founder of the holographic principle, and multi-state thinking is equivalent to independently discovering the Higgs mechanism. These are all real Nobel Prize-level work-and they are also first-class work in the Nobel Prize.

The holographic principle of gravity can be said to be one of the most subversive discoveries or ideas at the end of the 20th century.

It directly draws an "equal sign" between the quantum theory and the gravitational theory, and creates a unique way of quantum gravity.

This also brought a series of famous works by many physicists such as Leonard Susskind and Maldacina.

It can be said like this.

This discovery can be regarded as the third time that people have had a revolutionary understanding of gravity - the first two were the introduction of Newton's law of universal gravitation and the establishment of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

but!

but!

but!

Say important words three times.

Same as Hawking's black hole radiation.

Up to now.

There is still no way to verify this principle with sufficient experimental means.

Now the scientific community can only analyze the holographic property of gravity theoretically in the D-brane system in the string theory.

So a more appropriate name for this approach should be "gauge-gravitational duality".

But ter Hooft was luckier than Hawking.

Although his holographic principle has not been confirmed, he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for his quantum structure of weak electric interaction-this is just one of his more partial works.

If according to Landau's division.

David Gross can probably be ranked 2.5.

Te Hooft.

At least 2 streams.

If the holographic principle is confirmed.

He can immediately rise to the first rank, standing shoulder to shoulder with Dirac and others.