Chapter 167 I Have Never Seen Such a Shameless Person

China, on the campus of P University.

"Zhou Xin, I remember your advisor is Mo Kun, right?"

In a dormitory, a young man poked his head out from under the bed and asked another roommate who was watching anime next to him.

Zhou Xin, who was watching anime, responded without raising his head: "Well, what's wrong?"

"Did Professor Mo prove a conjecture some time ago?" the young man asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Xin turned his head and glanced at his roommate, and replied with a smile: "Yes, I heard that after proving this conjecture, the advisor received a reward of 100,000 yuan from the school, and there is a chance to upgrade to a doctoral supervisor next year. Maybe I can get a degree."

"Why, are you envious?"

The roommate shook his head with a strange look on his face and said: "But there are news reports that Professor Mo's proof is suspected of plagiarism."

"Plagiarism? This is the Rankin-Selberg L-function non-zero hypothesis, one of the core problems of L-function in the Langlands program. Such a difficult problem, can you copy one for me to see?" Zhou Xin directly refuted.

"But the person who published this news is Professor Artur Avila, a Fields Medal winner. He can't possibly frame someone, right?"

The roommate continued, Zhou Xin was stunned for a moment, reached out and pressed the pause button of the animation, stood up and walked over: "Where did the news come from?"

"Here, here, take a look."

The roommate handed over the phone, Zhou Xin quickly took it, and watched it with bated breath.

After reading the news, Zhou Xin quickly forwarded the link to his WeChat account, and then returned the phone to his roommate.

"I'm going out for a while."

After saying that, he ran away with the phone.

On campus, Zhou Xin hurriedly ran into an office with his phone.

"Old, teacher, something happened."

He panted and held the door frame, shouting to a middle-aged professor inside.

Hearing the voice, the middle-aged professor with a horse face frowned and taught with some displeasure: "Whenever something important happens, you must calm down first. What's the point of being so flustered?"

"Teacher, you should take a look at this first."

Zhou Xin ignored the tutor's teachings and sent a link to the tutor's WeChat account in front of him.

"The link is sent to your WeChat account, teacher. It is related to the paper you published before on the proof of the non-zero hypothesis of the Rankin-Selberg L-function."

Hearing that it was related to the proof of the non-zero hypothesis of the L-function, Mo Kun frowned slightly, took the phone from the table, and opened WeChat.

[Fields Medal winner Professor Artur Avila publicly questioned that Professor Mo Kun of Peking University's proof of the non-zero hypothesis of the Rankin-Selberg L-function was suspected of plagiarism. 】

"Recently, we interviewed Professor Artur Ávila, a famous Brazilian mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 2014."

"In this interview, Professor Ávila raised serious questions and accusations against Professor Mo Kun, a mathematics professor at Peking University."

"Previously, Professor Mo Kun completed the proof of the non-zero hypothesis of the Rankin-Selberg L-function, which is an important core problem in the famous Langlands program in mathematics. According to Professor Ávila, the Langlands program leads to the ultimate proposition in mathematics - the grand unified theory. This is the goal pursued by generations of mathematicians."

"But in this interview, Professor Ávila said that the core theory and some calculation data of the proof paper published by Professor Mo Kun came from others, not Professor Mo's original theory."

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"The palm news will keep an eye on this matter and continue to report to you."

After reading the news, Mo Kun frowned and his breathing became heavier.

Aside, Zhou Xin suddenly became annoyed.

What was he rushing over for?

The news was not good news. Why did he become the first to speak out?

Let alone plagiarism, the accusation of a Fields Medal winner alone was enough to throw people into a whirlpool.

Before, I just wanted to tell my teacher about it quickly, but I didn't think about the consequences.

Damn!

I hope it won't affect my graduation.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xin shrank back again, trying to reduce his presence to avoid being angered.

But surprisingly, Mo Kun didn't get angry, but just said to him lightly: "Zhou Xin, help me contact the reporter of this news, I want to respond to this matter."

Zhou Xin was stunned for a moment before reacting, and hurriedly said: "I'll go now."

After that, he ran away, but a doubt rose in his heart.

"Is there something hidden in this? Or are plagiarism and other things all rumors? After all, choosing to take the initiative to respond to this matter must be a bit sure?"

No matter what Zhou Xin thought, Mo Kun snorted at the report on his mobile phone.

"This foreign devil is really nosy."

Shaking his head, Mo Kun put down his phone.

He had expected this incident, but he didn't expect the public opinion vortex to come so quickly, just a few days after the paper was published.

But fortunately, he was prepared.

The media reporter of "Palm News" came quickly. After receiving Zhou Xin's contact, they immediately arranged for a beautiful reporter and a photographer to interview him.

"Professor Mo, hello, I am Lin Qing, a reporter from "Palm News."

The beautiful reporter walked to Mo Kun's side with a microphone and a bright smile.

When they were accused by Professor Artur Avila, a Fields Medal winner from Brazil, they were keenly aware that this might be a hot news.

Fields Medal winner, mathematics professor from Peking University, plagiarism incident in the academic world, top scorer Xu Chuan in the college entrance examination, each of them has a huge popularity.

If these are put together, if they work well, it will be no problem to be on the hot search or even the first hot search.

Yesterday they were still thinking about how to contact Professor Mo Kun and Xu Chuan, the parties involved in this incident, to interview them. Unexpectedly, someone sent a pillow when they were dozing off today. Professor Mo Kun from Peking University actually took the initiative to contact them.

"Hello, reporter Lin." Mo Kun greeted.

"Um, Professor Mo, are you free now? If it's convenient, let's start the interview now?" After greeting, Lin Qing went straight to the point and asked.

Mo Kun nodded, indicating that it was okay.

"I heard that you proved the non-zero hypothesis problem of L-function in the Langlands Program in early September? Can you give us a detailed introduction?"

Mo Kun nodded and said seriously: "Of course."

"The Rankin-Selberg L-function non-zero hypothesis is one of the core issues related to L-function in the Langlands Program."

"If the Langlands Program is regarded as a building, the non-zero hypothesis problem of L-function is the cornerstone of this building."

Mo Kun talked fluently, and Lin Qing took a recorder to record the content completely.

"Professor Mo, what do you think about the recent questioning of your 'plagiarism' by Brazilian mathematician Professor Artur Ávila? Is it true that you used other people's theories and calculation data as Professor Ávila said?"

Mo Kun: "First of all, I want to solemnly declare that I did not plagiarize, and Professor Ávila's accusation against me is unreasonable."

"Regarding this matter, it originated from the Morning Star Mathematics Award in May this year. At that time, Professor Ávila and I had some exchanges at the party. This time, the inspiration for my proof of the non-zero hypothesis of the L-function came from this exchange."

"In other words, you did use other people's theories?" Lin Qing couldn't wait to interrupt and ask.

Mo Kun frowned and replied angrily: "It is true in this regard, but I also mentioned Professor Arthur Avila and others at the end of the paper and thanked them."

"I don't think there is any problem with using the inspiration of communication between myself and others. After all, I am the main person in this communication."

"So Professor Avila's accusation against me is unreasonable. There is no such rule in the academic world. A scholar cannot use his own communication ideas to prove mathematical conjectures."

Hearing this, the beautiful reporter Lin Qing of Palm Hot News brightened up and quickly asked: "So you didn't plagiarize? The inspiration for proving the non-zero hypothesis of L-function only came from your previous communication with Professor Avila?"

Mo Kun nodded and said: "Yes, I don't know how the accusation of plagiarism was arranged on my head, but it is obviously unreasonable."

CERN, Xu Chuan has completed the report on 'The most ideal search for decay channels of Yukawa coupling between Higgs and third-generation heavy quarks'.

As expected, this new result of calculating physical theory from mathematical methods surprised everyone as soon as it appeared.

The physicists participating in this report meeting talked a lot.

"It's really surprising that the Yukawa coupling energy level of the Higgs and the third-generation heavy quarks is actually closer to the energy level of the Higgs particle."

"I am more surprised by the method he used. Although I don't understand mathematics very well, this aspect really opened my eyes. Mathematics can actually be used in this way."

"Is this mathematical physics? Young people's thinking is really amazing, and the leaps are too strong."

"Maybe this is just a wrong method. According to previous theories, the Yukawa coupling energy level of the Higgs and the third-generation heavy quarks should appear above 150 GeV, not as low as 128 GeV. This is the experience summarized from countless Higgs particle decay experiments in the past."

"Calculations may not be completely correct, and experience may also be problematic. After all, we know too little about things at the microscopic level, don't we?"

"I heard that CERN has temporarily arranged an experiment, just a week later, and I don't know which unlucky guy was squeezed out."

In the venue, many physicists kept communicating.

This is not a completely new path. This idea has been around for a long time, but unfortunately, this path is very difficult, requiring the calculator to have both extremely high mathematical and physical abilities.

So no one has been able to achieve any results in this regard.

Today, a result in this regard suddenly emerged, which is surprising.

Many people agree with this method of using mathematical methods to calculate physical theories, because on the surface, there is nothing wrong with this report and paper.

Moreover, this has been certified by the CERN Council, and a collision experiment was specially arranged for it to temporarily jump in line.

So from all aspects, the Yukawa coupling energy level of the Higgs and the third-generation heavy quarks is very likely to be in the range of 128Gev~131Gev.

It is also worth arranging a collision experiment for verification.

Of course, there are those who agree, and there are naturally those who oppose.

There are also many people who oppose it. The main theory is that based on the experience of previous particle collision experiments, the Yukawa coupling energy level of Higgs and third-generation heavy quarks should be in the range of 150Gev or even higher, rather than close to the energy level region where Higgs particles appear.

The number of 128Gev completely violates previous practical experience.

In particular, the people from a certain atomic energy research institute in Korea are particularly fiercely opposed to this.

However, this is also related to the fact that their application for collision experiments this year was squeezed to next year.

That's right, a certain atomic energy research institute is the unlucky guy who was squeezed out by Xu Chuan's temporary queue-jumping, and their collision application was directly squeezed to next year.

Therefore, various questions were asked at the report meeting, trying to find trouble with Xu Chuan, trying to prove that there are huge flaws in this calculation paper, and it is not worth using collision experiments to verify it.

But unfortunately, there are not many people in the entire atomic energy research institute who understand mathematics. Even if they can understand the calculation process, they can't find any flaws or problems.

The few places that they barely found and thought they had problems were also easily resolved by Xu Chuan.

After the report meeting, Xu Chuan came down from the podium.

Overall, this report was quite successful. Although the last question session was asked by someone from Korea or a small island country, who asked a bunch of superficial and even wrong questions, this set of calculation papers was still accepted by many physicists.

And the support level exceeded half, which was enough to allow the subsequent collision verification experiment to continue.

At CERN, if many physicists jointly complained about a collision experiment, even if it was a collision experiment that had been decided long ago, CERN would consider whether to continue.

After all, CERN cannot do without the support of these physicists from all over the world. Without many physicists, the LHC would not be able to operate.

Leaving the venue, Xu Chuan returned to the hotel.

The report was completed, the collision experiment had been arranged, and the rest was to wait for a week.

When he turned on his mobile phone, someone sent a message on WeChat, including news about Professor Mo Kun of Peking University’s targeted response.

". I didn't plagiarize. Professor Avila's accusation against me is unreasonable."

". Inspiration does come from communication, but I am the main communicator."

". There is no such rule in the academic world that a scholar cannot use his own communication ideas to prove mathematical conjectures."

". I don't know how the false accusation of plagiarism was placed on my head."

The news on Palm Hot News detailed their interview with Mo Kun. The detailed report made Xu Chuan laugh.

Damn, he really has no shame!

I have never seen such a shameless person.