Chapter 495 The First Loophole in Life

With Professor David Gross's questions, the auditorium soon became noisy.

It must be said that the question raised by Professor Gross is indeed a fatal flaw for the entire paper, or the dimensional space structure at the two-dimensional level.

This is a flaw hidden in the deep field under the surface of the paper. Although the question-and-answer session has not yet ended, I am afraid that there are no more than a handful of people who really noticed this.

"It seems that today's report meeting may leave a little regret."

In the front row, Professor David Pulitzer from the California Institute of Technology in the United States touched his shiny forehead and stared at the figure standing on the stage with interest.

For the academic community, it is much easier to find flaws and problems in a paper than to construct a perfect paper without loopholes.

If Gross did not raise this question, he would also raise this doubt in the next session.

It is undeniable that Professor Xu's paper on strongly correlated electronic systems is of great importance to condensed matter physics.

But the problem of small polarons in the strong electron-phonon interaction system is still a fatal flaw.

Unless he can make it perfect immediately at the report stage today, no matter how excellent the report is, it will eventually leave regrets.

And he doesn't think that this young reporter can make up for this defect immediately on the spot.

After all, this involves the most cutting-edge things in the physics world, the strong interaction system.

On the other side, Edward Witten stared at Xu Chuan on the stage, a little worried about him.

Although today's loophole will only threaten the unified framework theory under the two-dimensional space state.

As long as this student can make up for this piece in the future, the framework of the strongly correlated electron system will still be perfect.

But for today's report meeting, it seems a little regrettable.

And more importantly, this defect directly broke the myth that he can be said to be "invincible" since his debut.

Everyone in the academic world knows that since he became famous, almost all of his published papers have been verified, and finally proved that the papers are correct.

But today's defect directly cut off this miracle that is almost "mythical" and directly pulled it back to the realm of mortals.

It turns out that he can make mistakes.

Although this is a good thing for a scholar, after all, without experiencing setbacks and hardships, how can one develop a strong mentality to move forward?

But Witten was a little worried about whether this student could accept such a blow.

I just hope that after completing today's report, he can continue to forge ahead and create greater glory after experiencing setbacks.

Otherwise, for the academic community, this will be the biggest loss of the 21st century.

Even if this century has just passed one-fifth and just begun.

On the report platform, Xu Chuan was stunned, ignoring the eyes and murmurs of discussions from countless people below the stage.

After listening to Professor David Gross's questions, he suddenly realized that he had made a huge mistake.

It is not that the small polaron problem of the strong electron-phonon interaction system is a fatal flaw, but that he directly quoted his previous life's achievements into this paper.

In the future time node, after completing the existence and mass gap of Yang-Mills theory, he studied the strong electric unified theory for a period of time. Although it was not completed, he still made some achievements.

The problem of small polarons in the strong electron-phonon interaction system is one of the core problems he solved.

At this point in time, this problem is still an unsolved problem. But he directly cited it in the paper on the strongly correlated electron system and regarded it as a law.

This is like the mathematical results that rely on the establishment of the Riemann hypothesis.

Although the Riemann hypothesis has been tested with computers for tens of trillions of data, no data does not conform to the formula given by Riemann.

It is also praised by the mathematical community as "a fact without evidence, a hypothesis that must be established". Those mathematical studies and results that rely on the establishment of the Riemann hypothesis can also be regarded as theorems.

But the Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture after all, not a theorem.

The mistake he made now is like those mathematicians.

Although he has indeed made this achievement, perhaps it is not a big deal for others, as long as it is enough to fill in this part at the report meeting.

But citing this paper that has not been made public and verified in this era is a huge mistake for him.

It is difficult for him to forgive himself for making such a superficial mistake.

But the most important thing at the moment is to answer Professor Gross's questions first.

No matter what, the report meeting must be completed.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Chuan raised his head and looked into David Gross's old and deep eyes, and said with a hint of apology:

"Sorry, this is my negligence. But I can answer this question."

As the voice fell.

A burst of commotion suddenly spread in the auditorium.

Surprise, astonishment, confusion, doubt.

Various eyes fell on him at the same time, including Professor David Gross who was still looking at him, and his deep eyes were also full of confusion.

Xu Chuan took a deep breath, nodded to Professor Gross, then looked at the staff standing in the corner beside the podium and said softly: "Please prepare two more blackboards for me."

After that, he picked up the blackboard eraser from the podium and erased what he had written when he was doing the report on the unified framework of strongly correlated electron systems.

Seeing this scene, if others were still confused, but Witten, who was in the audience, was surprised.

Last year, he participated in the "International Academic Seminar on the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education" in the capital of this country. At the seminar, he personally witnessed a proof that could be called a "miracle".

The grand unified framework of the strongly correlated electron system was made by this student in that miracle. Could it be that he would do it again today?

On the podium, Xu Chuan ignored the commotion in the audience.

After erasing the formula on the blackboard, he picked up a piece of chalk and wrote a neat line of handwriting on the blackboard.

【Theory of typical behavior of small polarons in strong electron-phonon interaction systems! 】

When this line of title was written, other scholars in the auditorium, like Witten, seemed to realize something.

The atmosphere instantly reached a climax.

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