<strong>Chapter 606: Unifying Nuclear Power</strong>


    Trantor: Henyee Trantions Editor: Henyee Trantions


    The f*ck?


    God Lu?


    He’s my idol!


    When Zhang Zhiongqing looked at the person standing up, his sses nearly dropped to the ground.


    When he remembered that this big name was listening to his lecture, he was shocked and happy; it was almost like he had won the lottery. He was shocked that he didn’t notice Lu Zhou was in the ssroom, and he was happy that he could brag to people that he gave a lecture to a Nobel Prize winner.


    However, even though Zhang Zhiongqing felt a mix of emotions, Lu Zhou was emotionless.


    ssrooms were one of the ces for academic exchange.


    Back when he was in Princeton, he often asked his students to lecture for him.


    In his opinion, academic exchanges shouldn’t be about honor or status.


    “Professor Lu, please go ahead.” Professor Zhang made a gesture and respectfully gave up the stage.


    “Don’t need to be so polite, I just have some ideas.”


    Lu Zhou looked at the professor move to the side and smiled.


    This formality was wasting too much time.


    He wasn’t a person who liked to waste time on formality.


    Lu Zhou walked next to the ckboard and picked up a piece of chalk.


    “This isn’t a question that undergraduate students can solve since it involves an understanding of quantum chromodynamics and also a deeper understanding of functional analysis.”


    Lu Zhou paused for two seconds and said, “But actually, it’s not as difficult as it seems.”


    Lu Zhou wrote on the ckboard with a piece of chalk and began to talk about his thought process.


    “Using field theory, make a Feynman diagram, then use the Feynman rule to calcte the scattering amplitude, we obtain...”


    [iM=(ig2/|p’-p|2+mφ2)2m^ss’·2mδ^rr’]


    [...]


    “The mφ denotes the mass of the corresponding boson, and ges from the coupling constant in the interaction Lagrangian. If webine this with Professor Zhang’s previous calction, V(q) can be obtained from the scattering section...”


    [V(q)=-g2/(|q|2+mφ2)]


    Lu Zhou put down the piece of chalk and looked at the students in the ssroom. Some students were muddled, some students were listening intently. He smiled and said, “This part is the simple part, but the next step we’ll have to use some tricks.”


    Everyone: “...”


    F*ck sake!


    How is this simple?


    Zhang Zhiongqing looked at the ckboard as well. He was also amazed.


    It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand the calctions, but he couldn’t believe that someone could actually calcte these things on the spot.


    Do these people not take time to do calctions in their brains?


    This is amazing...


    Lu Zhou didn’t stop. He turned to face the ckboard as he continued to speak while writing, “Then we do an inverse Fourier transform on it!”


    The chalk sliding on the ckboard was getting faster and faster, and Zhang Zhiongqing was more and more amazed. As for the students, they were looking at the ckboard with a nk look on their faces. Even the genius students who had finished the entire textbook were staring in disbelief at theplex calctions.


    Lu Zhou didn’t notice their expressions; he waspletely immersed in his own world.


    Admittedly, these were basic things, but they weren’t basic enough to appear on an undergraduate ss exam.


    However, the more Lu Zhou thought about this problem, the more steps he wrote on the ckboard. His train of thought became clearer and clearer.


    Why does the strong interaction force only work at short distances?


    To put it in other words, what makes nucleon form a nucleus only at short distances?


    The answer is obvious...


    [...]


    [V(r)=-g2/4πr·e^(-mφr)]


    Lu Zhou stopped writing and looked at the equation on the ckboard. He then said, “Electromaic interaction is the exchange of photons, and the mass of a photon is zero, so for electromaic interaction, V is proportional to 1/r.


    “The strong interaction force is the meson acting between the nucleus. The mass is about 200 MeV. With some calctions, we can estimate that only at a distance of 10 to the power of negative 14 meters, can the nucleus force offset the electromaic repulsion between protons and cause fusion reactions.”


    The first row began to apud.


    Like waves in the ocean, the apuse began to spread toward the back of the ssroom.


    Professor Zhang, who was standing next to him, began to subconsciously p.


    For most university students, this was just an exciting demonstration.


    But for a professor like him, he just witnessed a simple solution to exin the strong interaction distance... At least, it was a lot easier than the exnations he had learned before.


    He couldn’t believe that this was all done in less than ten minutes.


    He was probably the only one who could fully experience this moment.


    Lu Zhou was still on stage.


    Even though the ssroom was filled with apuse, Lu Zhou, who was standing in front of the ckboard, was immersed in his own mind. He didn’t even notice when the apuse stopped.


    He already finished all of the calctions for the simple problem.


    However, he wasn’t only thinking about this one problem.


    ording to quantum field theory and quantum chromodynamics, the four basic forces and the traditional particles could be unified into one.


    For example, during different positions of time and space, theponents of an electric field could be constructed as nomutative operators. When one constructed a Hilbert space in which these operators act, traditional particles, such as electrons, can be reinterpreted as a Dirac fermion, a quantization of the field.


    This way, the difference between a field and a particle would disappear.


    Was it possible for a simple mathematical equation, like the Weinberg Sm show weak electric unified theory, to describe the electromaic interaction, the weak interaction force, and the strong interaction in a unified way?


    The answer to this question couldn’t solve the miniaturization of controble fusion, and it wouldn’t be able to bring any innovation to the existing controble fusion technology. However, Lu Zhou’s intuition told him that if he could solve this theoretical problem, it might provide him with some clues or ideas...


    Of course, solving this problem was not easy.


    For example, there was the ssic strong interaction force and weak interaction force problem...


    After the ss bell rang, Lu Zhou was still standing still, as if he was thinking about something.


    Seeing how Lu Zhou didn’t react, Zhang Zhiongqing didn’t want to announce that the ss was over since he didn’t want to interrupt Lu Zhou’s thought process.


    Around two minutes passed by.


    Lu Zhou stared at the simple calctions on the ckboard and began to speak to himself, “How would one exin the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap in mathematical terms?”


    When Zhang Zhiongqing heard this problem, he was stunned. He blushed like a student and mumbled, “I don’t know.”


    “I didn’t ask you, of course you don’t know...”


    Lu Zhou spoke to himself and left the ssroom, leaving the muddled students and professor behind.


    No one could tell him the answer to this problem.


    After all, this was one of the most difficult propositions in the field of particle physics. It was about the unified field theory.


    This was also one of the internationally recognized Millennium Prize Problems...