Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 86 The genius’s train of thought, Zhang Shuo: You need to have more confidence!
End of report.

Under the watchful eyes of many, Zhang Shuo, Agostini and Kalvaher walked out of the lecture hall together.

A large group of people around kept saying, "Boothman, great! You really proved that the research is not valid..."

"I never thought you would succeed!"

"Francisco hates you so much. Didn't you see the look in his eyes just now? I think you should be careful when you go back. It's best to carry a gun with you."

"..."

"Zhang Shuo, your report is very interesting, especially the equation, the jumping equation, what a great name."

"With rigorous mathematical arguments and a system of equations covering all outputs, you will be the best speaker at this conference."

"This research should be centered around you, right? I don't think Boorman has that level..."

Agostini's face darkened when he heard this.

Those who came to congratulate him spoke only sarcastic words, and when they congratulated Zhang Shuo, they couldn't help but make a few sarcastic remarks about him.

Of course, this is normal, as these people are very familiar with him.

Kalvaher is the most depressed. Many people have ignored him and said that the research was done by Agostini and Zhang Shuo.

Fortunately, he is used to it.

That's what it's like working with a genius, the genius's halo overshadows everyone else.

They talked for a few words and then walked out.

At this time, Agostini found a gap and asked, "Zhang Shuo, when did you create the function group? I mean the jump equation."

Kalvaher also looked over.

Zhang Shuo said as he walked, "I thought of this on the spur of the moment. It was during the break. There will definitely be a lot of questions coming up, and there are no way to answer all these questions, so I came up with a mathematical method on the spur of the moment to include all the calculation outputs."

Agostini and Kalvaher looked at each other, both with incredible expressions on their faces.

They were silent together.

This result was expected.

If there already was such a function group, Zhang Shuo would not have waited until the report to mention it.

They are together.

It was expected, but it’s still very surprising to think about it.

Kalvaher always thought that Agostini was the most talented. He had an extraordinary genius brain and was very outstanding in both computer algorithms and mathematics.

Now he found that Agostini was completely crushed by Zhang Shuo.

Algorithms, no match.

Mathematics is no match.

Creating a set of functional equations specifically for calculating output can be considered a research achievement, but Zhang Shuo actually completed it just by thinking of it?

On the other side, Agostini felt the same way.

Zhang Shuo is still very young and not of the same generation as him. Perhaps the future belongs to young people like him!

The three of them walked out of the main entrance together and came to the small square in front of the conference center.

They planned to go back to the hotel together to rest.

A reporter in his thirties in the square waved over here. He ran over and shouted, "Professor Zhang Shuo! Professor Zhang!"

The reporter ran over and said, "Hello, Professor Zhang. I'm Zhou Kun, a reporter from Today's News. Can I have a brief interview with you?"

"can."

Zhang Shuo stopped.

Zhou Kun asked, "First of all, congratulations on completing your report. Before the report, many people in the academic community questioned your research results. Now that the conference has decided to include your paper, how do you feel? Please tell us about your feelings, thoughts, etc."

Zhang Shuo nodded and said, "It should be said that this is expected. We are very confident in our research."

"We have worked together for a long time. We have invested a lot of energy in the logic of the algorithm and the program logic. We are very confident in the algorithm and the results obtained by analyzing the data based on the algorithm."

“So, the successful completion of the report was also expected.”

Zhou Kun continued to ask, "This research has attracted international attention. Once the research is confirmed, will there be a chance to win an international award?"

This question made Zhang Shuo laugh. He shook his head and said, "Scientific awards are given to the expansion of theoretical or technological applications, or to continuous research contributions in a single field. Our research is only pointing out the direction, so it is unlikely to win an award."

Zhou Kun asked, "Then why do this research?"

"Combined with the previous question, your question is too utilitarian." Zhang Shuo shook his head, "We do research just out of interest, just pure interest, not for any results or achievements."

Agostini didn't understand Chinese. He saw Zhang Shuo suddenly smiled and asked curiously, "What did he ask just now?"

"Ask us why we are conducting such research." Zhang Shuo gave a simple explanation.

Agostini immediately became interested and said to Zhou Kun, "Can I answer this question?"

"of course can."

Zhou Kun immediately handed over the microphone. He was still full of expectations, because Agostini was a famous genius and was said to have a somewhat weird personality, but in this way, he might say some controversial content.

Agostini said seriously, "I did this research in the hope of proving that I am right."

"Our algorithm can't find the baryonic cp signal. I think there may be something wrong with the research itself. Don't you think this is interesting?"

Zhou Kun was a little confused after hearing this.

Agostini gave an example, "Think of it this way. For example, you go to take an exam and find that the teacher marked one of the questions wrong." He stared at Zhou Kun, pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and continued, "With your IQ, okay, the question is 'What is 1 plus 1?', and you wrote '2', but the teacher marked it wrong."

"You're angry, you think you're right, and then you prove it. Isn't that interesting?"

Zhou Kun didn't find anything interesting in what he heard. He just felt that he was being insulted, and he didn't know how to insult back.

He turned to Zhang Shuo with his teeth bared.

Zhang Shuo nodded at him and consoled him, "He's an idiot, ignore him. You can also imagine that he is complimenting you. 'One plus one equals two' refers to the Goldbach conjecture."

When Zhou Kun heard this, he immediately felt much better.

He felt that he had learned a lesson from this incident - don't interview geniuses with weird personalities, because geniuses are also crazy and normal people cannot understand their thought processes.

……

After an afternoon of reporting, I was exhausted.

Zhang Shuo went back to the hotel and took a nap. When he woke up, he went to the hotel restaurant and happened to meet Cui Kaiwen and Bao Hexing.

They sat together and talked a lot about the report.

"I was at the entrance of Hall 2. Did you shake hands with Anne Lillier in the end? She is a golden flower in optics. Some people even call her the 'light of humanity'."

Bao Hexing's face was full of envy. "It is said that when she was young, many people pursued her, but she was always focused on the research of atomic optics and had no time to think about emotional issues. She didn't get married until she was 40."

Zhang Shuo was a little confused, "Golden Flower? The Light of Humanity? She must be over sixty years old, right?"

"So I said, when she was young," Bao Hexing continued, "Now she is even more amazing. Of course, it's not her looks, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics."

They chatted for a while longer.

Cui Kaiwen turned the topic to the issue of the Computing Center publishing its results, "Two aspects."

“One is to give a report on ‘deviation value’, and the other is to publish deviation analysis images and data.”

"Originally it was planned that I would give the report, but after discussion we decided that you would be the best fit."

Bao Hexing also looked at Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo nodded and said, "Making a report is nothing, but are you just showing analytical images and data?"

"Have you ever considered that if other scholars analyze something based on the content you publish, for example, discover new unknown physical phenomena, the results will belong to others."

"In the future, no one will even remember that those images were analyzed and released by your computing center."

Cui Kaiwen and Bao Hexing looked at each other and both felt helpless.

That's the problem with computing centers.

They are just a computing center that makes algorithms, performs data analysis, and then publishes the results.

This is their job.

As for what basic principles are contained in the research images and data analysis results, that is the job of physicists.

Zhang Shuo shook his head and smiled, "Be more confident."

“You should have more confidence!”

"Professor Cui, Professor Bao, this is our discovery and our achievement. Over the past many years, we have been the catching up party in the field of particle physics."

"But now, at least in the field of experimental data bias analysis, we are at the forefront."

"You can see that nuclear organizations, including Fermilab, occasionally announce a so-called major physics discovery, saying how many scientists are involved and how likely it is to be a new discovery, but in the end it turns out to be nothing, and there is no follow-up information."

"What about us? It's rare, right?"

"In our research, whether it is experiments or theoretical inferences, we only publish results once they are confirmed, but science is not like that."

"Make bold assumptions and verify them carefully!"

"We are now in the hypothesis stage. When we release the information, we will directly announce it as a new physics discovery and put the name on it first."

"If it is later confirmed that it is not a new physical discovery, it is no big deal. Scientific research allows for mistakes. On the other hand, if it is proven to be a new physical discovery, we will have all the credit for this discovery..."

“So, you need to have more confidence!”

When Zhang Shuo first mentioned the word "confidence", Cui Kaiwen and Bao Hexing didn't quite understand.

How does this have to do with faith?

After Zhang Shuo finished explaining everything, they suddenly realized that scientific research is about making assumptions first and then verifying them.

This sentence says a lot, but to achieve it you still need confidence.

There is a serious lack of confidence in the research direction of particle physics in China. Every time, the results are made public only after the discovery is confirmed, rather than making bold assumptions first.

"Yes, it's a bold hypothesis, so we just announce the discovery of a new physical phenomenon!"

"Whether it's true or not, put the name on it first!"

"The three of us together, Zhang Shuo, Bao Hexing, and Cui Kaiwen, in this order? Without Director Cao?"

"Director Cao didn't come. Even if he came, he probably wouldn't agree with this plan. He is very conservative. After the research is released, it will definitely cause a lot of controversy, and he doesn't like that."

"Then we can only leave him alone..."

The three of them finished their discussion.

The next day, a piece of gossip spread among the scholars attending the conference:

The Computing Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics discovered a new and unknown physical phenomenon through deviation analysis of particle collision experiments.

(End of this chapter)