Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 405: Professor Friedman
Same situation as looking for Professor Artin's office.
Chen Zhou felt that there was no need for him to look through the freshman handbook just now.
Along the way, enthusiastic MIT students either gave directions or took Chen Zhou to Professor Friedman's office.
Of course, after getting the accurate directions, Chen Zhou politely declined.
But what he didn't expect was that Professor Friedman seemed to be more famous than any other professor.
When Chen Zhou walked into the chassis of the Department of Physics at MIT.
He heard a lot of people talking about Professor Friedman.
But the content of the discussion was about him.
"I heard that Professor Friedman has accepted a new graduate student?"
"It seems so. It is said that the man is also a student of mathematics."
"Don't be ridiculous. I'm just a mathematics student. Do you remember last year's mathematics conference?"
"Are you referring to the Chinese student who directly proved the Cramer conjecture in the auditorium?"
"That's him, Professor Friedman's new student, that Chinese student."
"Fuck, I was wondering why Professor Friedman suddenly started to supervise graduate students again. It turns out it's this great guy..."
"He later seemed to have proved the Gerbov conjecture, but that's not a big deal. Mathematics serves physics anyway. If students from other departments were here, they probably wouldn't dare to work under Professor Friedman."
"Yes, it's barely acceptable. Below the throne of physics, perhaps only mathematics can make us agree a little bit..."
Hearing these words, Chen Zhou couldn't help but have a lot of questions in his mind.
What does all this mean?
According to them, is it because they studied mathematics that they are qualified to study physics?
Is this the academic contempt chain?
Is physics at the top of the academic contempt chain?
But shouldn’t mathematics be at the top?
Chen Zhou knew that in universities, especially in such awesome universities, there was a chain of contempt for academic disciplines.
However, I didn't expect to be caught by myself.
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Zhou shook off the doubts in his mind.
He is now only worried about his mentor, Professor Friedman, who also has a sense of academic contempt.
When he arrived at the door of Professor Friedman's office, Chen Zhou looked at his watch. The time was just right, not exceeding the agreed time.
Then he knocked gently on the office door.
With a voice of "Come in", Chen Zhou pushed open the door and walked in.
What caught my eye were piles of thick papers, not neatly stacked together.
Behind those papers were two relatively young faces.
They were looking up at Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou greeted politely: "Hello, senior brothers. Is Professor Friedman here?"
After hearing Chen Zhou's voice, the two men realized the identity of the visitor.
One of the tall men smiled and stood up and said to Chen Zhou, "Professor Friedman is inside."
Chen Zhou subconsciously looked inside, but saw no one.
The view was completely blocked by the piles of papers.
Noticing Chen Zhou's actions, the man explained with a bit of embarrassment: "The professor likes to keep all the information, so it turned out like this."
Chen Zhou nodded to show his understanding.
Although he did not expect such a scene, he was not surprised.
Because when he was studying mathematical conjectures, his draft papers were piled all over the floor.
The man continued, "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Ennis Matheson, and I'm Professor Friedman's doctoral student."
Then Matheson pointed to another person and said, "His name is Gleb Coyle. He is also a doctoral student under Professor Friedman. However, he is one year younger than me."
Coyle also stood up at this time and said to Chen Zhou with a smile: "Welcome, our little junior brother, Professor Friedman is waiting for you."
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhou also said, "Thank you. It's nice to meet you, Brother Matheson and Brother Coyle."
Ma Xisen patted Chen Zhou on the shoulder: "You're welcome."
After saying that, he made way for Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou glanced at him and walked inside.
At the deepest part of the office, there is a desk.
There is only paper and pen on the desk.
There is not a single modern office supply.
Behind the desk is an old man with completely .
The old man was concentrating on doing calculations on a piece of draft paper with a pen in hand.
The old man's eyes were only on the paper and pen in front of him, so much so that he didn't even notice Chen Zhou walking up to him.
Chen Zhou looked at the old man's serious expression and felt a sense of respect in his heart.
In any case, whether it is mathematics or physics, it is a young person's job.
When you are young, you are quick-witted and energetic.
But as we age, our thinking becomes slower and our energy cannot keep up.
It is really admirable that an old man like Professor Friedman, who is almost 90 years old, can still concentrate so much on research.
Chen Zhou probably understood why the conversation with Matheson and Coyle just now did not disturb Professor Friedman.
Chen Zhou took a look at what Professor Friedman wrote, then quietly stepped aside and waited.
He did not intend to interrupt Friedman's train of thought.
Perhaps, this is a rare time of immersion .
Chen Zhou himself also hates others interrupting his train of thought, so he understands very well how rare this kind of immersion is.
The reason why Chen Zhou chose Professor Friedman is different from the reason why he chose Professor Artin.
Professor Friedman is a big name in the field of nuclear physics.
He studied under the father of atomic energy, Enrico Fermi.
Fermi is a well-known physicist.
Fermions, chemical element No. 100, fermium, the Fermilab in the United States, and the Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago are all named in his honor.
This is a physicist who has made first-class achievements in both theory and experiment.
Even among the many modern and contemporary physicists, he is one of only a handful.
As a student of such a big shot, Professor Friedman is naturally very awesome.
In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "research on deep inelastic scattering of nucleons."
This research began at Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center, or SLAC.
Then in 1967, a large electron linear accelerator was built and reached its design energy.
Friedman began a series of electron-proton scattering experiments.
These include the electron-proton elastic scattering experiment, the positron-proton elastic scattering experiment, and the electron-proton inelastic scattering experiment.
Of course, the results of these experiments only confirm the existing conclusions.
But when the energy of the incident electron is further increased, it enters the deep inelastic scattering region that has never been explored.
At first, after obtaining the experimental results, Friedman and his collaborators thought that the experimental results were incorrect, or that there were errors in the interpretation, or that there were systematic errors.
But with a large number of experimental results, as well as comparison and correction between experiments.
They found that when electrons penetrate deep into the interior of protons with enormous energy.
What it encounters is not a "soft" proton target, but a point-like "hard" nucleus similar to an electron.
At that time, experimental physicists could not understand or explain this.
What followed was a lot of work, even using abstract mathematical methods such as flow algebra.
Finally, important evidence for the partial sub-model was found from deep inelastic scattering experiments and scale independence.
It soon became clear that partons and quarks were the same thing.
Friedman has never stopped researching in this field.
Moreover, before the US super collider was discontinued, he was responsible for designing the corresponding detector.
In addition, Friedmann made two very simple assumptions about the universe.
Although Friedman found only one model, there are actually three models that satisfy his two basic assumptions.
The first model was found by Friedman himself.
It can be said that this is a physicist who, like his teacher Fermi, has made achievements in both theory and experiment.
