How Could the Nuclear Force Be Unified?

What the hell?

Lu Zhou?

My idol!

When Zhang Zhongqing saw who had stood up, he nearly dropped his glasses.

The thought that someone of Lu Zhou's stature had been sitting in his classroom all this time left him stunned and delighted, as if he had won the lottery. He was stunned that he hadn't noticed, and delighted that he could brag about it later. He had taught a Nobel Prize winner!

But while Zhang Zhongqing was overwhelmed, Lu Zhou didn't think much of it.

A classroom was a place for academic exchange, too.

Back at Princeton, he had often let his students take his place at the lectern.

As far as he was concerned, academic exchange had nothing to do with status or honors.

"Professor Lu, please." Professor Zhang immediately gestured for him to take the floor and respectfully stepped aside.

"No need to be so formal. I just happen to have an idea."

Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly at his deferential gesture.

More pleasantries would only waste time.

Besides, Lu Zhou had never been one for them.

He walked up to the blackboard and picked up a piece of chalk.

"This isn't a problem an undergraduate could solve. Besides a deep understanding of quantum chromodynamics, it requires a solid grasp of Functional Analysis."

After a two-second pause, Lu Zhou continued, "But it's not quite as complicated as everyone imagines."

He pressed the chalk to the blackboard and began working through the calculations as he spoke.

"Starting from field theory, we draw a Feynman Diagram and use the Feynman Rules to calculate the scattering amplitude. That gives us..."

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"Here, mφ represents the mass of the corresponding boson, and g comes from the coupling constant in the interaction Lagrangian. Combined with Professor Zhang's earlier calculations, we can obtain v(q) from