"Zhao Yi, why are you here in the class? This is clearly a class for mathematics departnt..."
"Why is he here!"
"Did he sit through the entire class? You’re right, I recall seeing a student entering from the back door earlier. Could it be him..."
Gao Yihua was ntally broken.
For the past few years, he has been teaching physics in the School of Life Sciences. He never thought he would encounter a ’superior student’ Zhao Yi, a top math talent, who managed to bring significant contributions to the European nuclear organization, even addressing and resolving the challenge of discovering new particles right at the test site.
With this achievent alone, he is recognized as a top physicist in the world, even those in the industry are aware that his thod heavily involves computational thods.
But does it matter? Results are what matter most.
Even if he employs knowledge from unrelated disciplines such as biology, as long as it solves important physics problems, his proficiency in physics will certainly be recognized.
This is why Gao Yihua felt he simply couldn’t teach anymore.
There was an internationally renowned physicist in the classroom. He did not know how to proceed with the lessons. He barely made it through the remaining classes, and Gao Yihua ended up in despair. He elected to apply to beco a teacher in the School of Sciences, far away from the School of Life Sciences, preferably without any connection at all.
This sester, Gao Yihua felt completely relaxed.
Everyti he was in class, he would reminisce about his experiences from the previous sester, and a quick glance around the classroom always lifted his spirits.
Now...
Is it happening all over again?
"That guy!"
"He’s back!"
Gao Yihua didn’t know how to react. He was rooted to the spot on the podium for a mont. Noticing the surprise in the students’ eyes, he snapped back to reality and knew that he couldn’t let Zhao Yi’s presence disrupt regular classes.
Not that he is particularly dedicated, but Zhao Yi sat silently in the back row, without causing any distraction to others.
As a teacher, he couldn’t let his personal feelings interfere with the flow of the lesson.
So, carry on!
Gao Yihua gritted his teeth and tried to ignore Zhao Yi’s presence, pretending he hadn’t seen anything. "He’s not here! He’s not here! He’s not here! He’s not here..."
Of course, it didn’t help.
Gao Yihua’s ntality was still affected. His relaxed deanor and carefree attitude was gone; his face grew more serious. He instinctively began to explain the content in a more detailed and deeper level.
"Whether other students understand or not doesn’t matter... I must not be looked down upon!"
That was what Gao Yihua was thinking. It felt as though he was going through a knowledge inspection.
...
Off-stage.
Zhao Yi supported his chin and listened attentively, following Gao Yihua’s explanations and delving into deep thought. Of course, he knew about parity non-conservation.
This was the research of the famous Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate, Yang Zhenning.
Parity non-conservation refers to the asymtrical motion of mirror-image materials under weak interactions.
This research was later verified by Wu Jianxiong using Cobalt-60.
Before 1956, the physics community always believed that everything in the natural world was mirror-symtric. Whether it was the strong interaction or weak interaction, all would comply with the principle of mirror symtry.
The understanding of ’parity’ is that the mirror image of a particle has the sa properties as itself.
In 1956, physicists discovered that theta and tau sons had identical spin, mass, lifeti, and charge. Most people thought they were the sa particle, but when a theta son decayed it produced two pi sons, whereas a tau son decayed into three, which indicated they were different particles.
A contradiction appeared.
That year, Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning, after ticulous study of various factors, boldly asserted that tau and theta were completely the sa particles (later nad K sons), but their motions under the circumstances of weak interaction were not necessarily the sa.
Simplistically, two sa particles, when mirrored against each other, had different decay patterns inside and outside the mirror.
In scientific terms, the "theta-tau" particle does not conserve parity under weak interaction.
When first discovered, the "theta-tau" particle was considered as a special exception. Still, people were reluctant to give up the belief that the micro-particle world as a whole conserved parity. Shortly thereafter, Wu Jianxiong, also of Chinese descent, cleverly confird "parity non-conservation" through an experint.
Ever since, "parity non-conservation" has been recognized as a fundantal scientific principle of universal significance.
"Parity non-conservation" is a significant discovery that subverted scientists’ comprehensive understanding at the ti.
On this basis, Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in physics.
But that was just the beginning.
As the research on quantum physics progressed, the physics community discovered many asymtries in the microscopic particle world.
"Parity non-conservation" ca to be universally accepted and popularized.
The symtrical laws of the physical world of particles began to shatter, and the world was proven to be fundantally imperfect and flawed.
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Gao Yihua’s explanation was detailed and profound. Even more so, he began to list formulas and explore so of the classical types of particle asymtry during the lecture.
This type of content was definitely advanced, even severely so.
At the undergraduate level, there was no need for them to understand this content. The substitution formulas used and so of the content relating to particle physics were beyond their comprehension. There were very few in the classroom who could understand...
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