If Xiao Yi's current research was like thunder erupting from silence, then to the physics world—and even the mathematical world—it was a rolling thunderclap.
As soon as the CERN conference ended, news about the X field immediately spread.
The scholars at CERN organized Xiao Yi's derivation from the conference and released it. In an instant, the physics world, already in turmoil over the confirmation of the W boson mass anomaly, exploded once again.
When CERN held this conference, it had already attracted widespread attention. The physics community wanted to know whether CERN would continue investing more resources into W boson research, as that would, to some extent, determine the major directions of physics research for some time to come.
Yet who could have expected that after the conference ended, the W boson issue would be gone, only for an X field to emerge?
An unknown physical field that could even interact with the Higgs field?
More than that, it could be connected to W bosons under the weak interaction, thereby affecting the mass-generation process and providing a medium for unifying the weak and strong interactions?
One explosive revelation after another left the entire physics community dumbfounded.
Naturally, the entire Scientific Community was equally stunned. After all, the whole world was interested in an important discovery involving the universe's microscopic composition.
Besides the X field, word also spread that Xiao Yi was researching the mass gap problem of the Yang-Mills equations and was already very close to a final proof.
This news caused an uproar in both physics and mathematics, because it was not merely a physics problem—it was also a mathematical problem.
If there was any problem most likely to earn a scholar both the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in Physics, the mass gap problem of the Yang-Mills