657 Electrostrong Unification!
Oxford University.
Inside the same office room.
Professor Brian cleaned himself up and sat at his desk. He looked at a piece of paper in his hand and took a deep breath. He then looked at the cameraman and nodded.
“We can start.”
The cameraman didn’t say anything. He only made a gesture.
Professor Brian looked at the camera and went silent for a while.
“It was extremely irresponsible of me to make such an accusation against an academic scholar. Even though there were many misunderstandings and other nuances at play, I still take full responsibility for the incident.”
His eyebrows lowered as he paused for a second.
“I would like to apologize for what happened between me and Professor Lu.
“Even though I know an apology won’t fix anything, I still would like to ask for your forgiveness.”
Apologizing wasn’t an easy thing.
Especially for egoistic and arrogant people.
However, Brian had changed.
He spent a month researching the torus Euclidean s.p.a.cetime. Not only did he grow academically, but his personal character also grew.
Even though this was embarra.s.sing…
But the fact of the matter was that Professor Lu indirectly gave Brian a physics lesson, without Brian even knowing it.
This video wasn’t just an apology.
It was Brain saying goodbye to his past-self.
…
The video was very short; it was less than five minutes.
After it was uploaded on Youtube, it received a measly amount of views.
After all, it had been more than a month since Brian’s Daily Mail slander. This matter was no longer controversial. Even though Daily Mail heavily advertised the article, most people were only interested in the drama. They didn’t really care about the truth anyway…
Brian Caro was sitting at his desk. He had just finished uploading the video. He went silent for a while before he opened his computer and typed up an email. He sent the email to Lu Zhou’s mailbox.
Two days later, Lu Zhou watched this video in his office at the mathematics department of Jin Ling University.
“Amazing… Professor, how did you do it?”
Zhao Huan was sitting at her desk watching the video, and she had a look of wors.h.i.+p on her face. She was in disbelief.
She couldn’t imagine how Lu Zhou was able to make such a “shameless” person apologize so sincerely…
Calling Brian shameless was a bit over the top.
However, in her eyes, Professor Brian was a shameless sc.u.m.
“I didn’t do anything.” Lu Zhou turned off the video and casually said, “He just came to terms with it himself.”
If Brian couldn’t come to terms with this, then his academic career would have been over.
However, now that he accepted this situation, he was able to walk out of that dead end and continue onward with his academic career.
Lu Zhou didn’t explain anything to a.s.sistant Zhao. He continued to focus on his thesis.
It had been a month since the Yang-Mills existence and ma.s.s gap problem was solved. However, there wasn’t a conclusive evaluation for Lu Zhou’s thesis. Most of the top-tier international theoretical physics research inst.i.tutes were still carefully studying Lu Zhou’s thesis. Lu Zhou, on the other hand, hadn’t stopped working.
He said that by the end of the month, he would give everyone an answer.
He was progressing smoothly.
He was almost finished…
The entire day went by.
Lu Zhou was still sitting at his desk with a pen in his hand. He touched his stack of draft papers and felt satisfied.
His strong interaction theory…
Was finally completed!
Lu Zhou spent the whole day working, and now, he was feeling a bit hungry. He put his thesis ma.n.u.script aside and wanted to go outside to eat something.
Han Mengqi, on the other hand, was holding a stack of freshly printed computational materials thesis. She cheerfully walked to Lu Zhou’s desk and said, “Sir, I finished the task you gave me!”
Lu Zhou looked at her thesis and nodded. “Okay, just put it here.”
Han Mengqi put the thesis on the corner of the desk and noticed the ma.n.u.script. She asked curiously, “What are you writing?”
“Nothing.” Lu Zhou stood up and smiled. He casually said, “It’s just a simple summary of the work I did a while ago.”
…
2020 was an exciting year for the world of theoretical physics.
In less than a year, the general solution to the Yang-Mills equations and the ma.s.s gap problem was solved. The invention of the Quantum Yang-Mills Field began a new era for the gauge theory field.
And this wasn’t just it.
While everyone was thinking that ten years’ worth of physics research progress was made this year, another world-shocking research project emerged.
Three days after Professor Brian posted his apology video, Lu Zhou posted his second thesis on arXiv.
The t.i.tle only had three words.
[Electrostrong Interaction Theory!]
The second the thesis was published on arXiv, it was like the physics community experienced a magnitude eight earthquake.
Even though everyone had no doubt that Lu Zhou, the one who solved the Yang-Mills existence and ma.s.s gap, was the most promising person in the world to unify the strong interaction and electromagnetic force, physicists still didn’t expect to see Lu Zhou’s thesis on arXiv.
In just one and a half months, Lu Zhou had perfected his own theorems and unified the strong interaction and electromagnetic force!
Lu Zhou couldn’t even be described as merely being a genius…
After all, geniuses were people.
Lu Zhou was a G.o.d…
Apart from some Chinese research inst.i.tutes, there wasn’t a single well-known international research inst.i.tute that commented on this freshly published paper. Most people either avoided questions from the reporter or gave an irrelevant answer.
After all, this was too important, even the highest-tier physicists had to treat this matter with caution.
If this thesis was correct, then it would change the face of physics for the next century.
If it was incorrect, but the academic community had mistakenly accepted it, then it could setback theoretical physics research for decades…