Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

by Stayrr

After suffering from a heat stroke while working under the scorching heat of summer, Lu Zhou, a hardworking but poor university student, somehow becomes the owner of an advanced technological system. With the cheat given by the system, his university life changes overnight. A Master’s degree? Easy. PhD? Not a problem. From a nobody, he quickly becomes a huge celebrity in the wor

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Chapter 165: Talk By Mr. Witten

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The battle lasted for more than 20 minutes.

Lu Zhou admitted that his opponent was very strong.

However, he was stronger.

"Bartender, give me another… No, two more…"

Her face was red as she reached for the cash in her bag. She could not even speak clearly.

Lu Zhou was in a better state, but he was still struggling to stay awake.

"Two glasses of water."

"F*ck off, I can still drink."

Lu Zhou quietly said, "Just give us the water."

It was obvious who won, so there was no point for them to drink more.

"Okay."

The bartender poured two glasses of ice water and gave them to Lu Zhou.

"Two glasses of ice water."

"Thank you."

Lu Zhou nonchalantly placed the glass of water in front of the crazy woman and said, "Cheers."

Kerella's eyes were wide opened as she reached out and grabbed the cup. She saw that her opponent had already finished drinking so she downed the water as well.

As a result, she nearly choked and almost started to tear up.

Kerella slammed the empty cup on the table and coughed. She then took a drunken look at Lu Zhou.

"This isn't alcohol. You're lying?"

"This is alcohol. Maybe you're too drunk?… Two more glasses of water, please."

Lu Zhou suddenly heard a "slam" sound. He saw Kerella collapsing on the table.

If her shoulder was not moving, he might have called an ambulance.

"More water?" asked the bartender calmly.

"It's fine…"

Lu Zhou felt his head spinning.

On the one hand, he was drunk. On the other hand, he did not know where this girl was staying.

He could not just leave her like this. If something happened, it would be his fault.

He thought for a long time and could not come up with a good plan. Lu Zhou suddenly remembered that Luo Wenxuan was nearby, so he went to him for advice.

"… What do you do in a situation like this?"

Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou and replied, "There are rooms upstairs…"

Lu Zhou placed two notes on the bar and took the room key from the bartender's hand. He then looked at Luo Wenxuan and pleaded, "Help me."

Luo Wenxuan did not move.

After a while, he suddenly sighed and said, "There's not much else I can teach you."

He patted Lu Zhou's shoulder and gave a hint of encouragement.

"You got this!"

Luo Wenxuan then turned around and disappeared in the crowd.

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

…

Lu Zhou sat next to her for a while, but it did not look like she was going to wake up.

It could be tomorrow until she woke up.

Lu Zhou looked at the crazy woman. In the end, he finally carried her upstairs and into the room.

By the time he arrived, he had to sit down in a chair. He was panting and sweating his ass off.

Motherf*cker, this girl is way harder to deal with than Liu Rui.

It was not just a weight problem. When Liu Rui was drunk, he could still kind of walk around. When this girl was drunk, she was dead weight.

Lu Zhou looked at Kerella who was passed out on the bed and he made up his mind.

He would never drink with people who could not handle their alcohol anymore.

After Lu Zhou rested for a while, he finally felt a little better.

The sweat woke him up.

He saw the dark night outside the window. It was getting late, so he got up and closed the curtains.

After that, he placed the key on the desk and walked out the door.

…

The next day, a ray of sunshine pierced through Lu Zhou's window. He rubbed his eyes as he climbed out of bed.

Yesterday, after he went back to his hotel, he fell asleep straight away. Thus, he was still wearing clothes from yesterday.

Lu Zhou went and took a shower. He still had a slight headache. As he stared in the mirror, he nodded with satisfaction.

Not bad.

I feel a lot better.

Maybe it was because of the metabolism drug that the system had previously give him, his hangover was not that bad. Lu Zhou went down to the cafeteria and ate some breakfast. He then followed the itinerary and walked to the nearby lecture.

Since the report was already accepted, Professor Lu's research team would not have any new tasks for the month.

Therefore, Lu Zhou felt very relaxed. He did not have much to do.

However, he still did not take a break.

World-class theoretical physics and mathematics professors were gathered here.

Lu Zhou took this opportunity to listen to the lectures by potential Fields Medal and Nobel Prize winners.

Once Lu Zhou planned his timetable, he could not wait to fill in his lecture spots.

The first lecture in his timetable was by Luo Wenxuan's boss, Edward Witten.

Judging from the topic of his lecture, it was probably going to be about Morse theory and differential summation in pure numbers.

Lu Zhou was impressed by the old man's public speaking skills. The old man skillfully articulated complex theories in clear and simple language.

The old man also promoted his own M theory and made some bold predictions about theoretical physics.

Even though the old man was still full of energy as he continued to talk, the energy of the audience slowly died down.

After the talk, Lu Zhou packed up his stuff and left the venue. He then walked to the cafeteria.

While he was getting his food, he bumped into Kerella.

Lu Zhou was about to say hi to her, but the female PhD rudely said, "F*ck you", before she walked away with her food.

Lu Zhou was confused. He did not know what this woman wanted.

F*ck you!

I shouldn't have taken care of her yesterday.

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Chapter 166: Martial Law

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In the following month, Lu Zhou's life was very organized. He would listen to lectures during the day and had free leisure time during the night. He would play billiards with Yan Xinjue, or play cards with a few foreigners.

This was one of the most rewarding months he had in a long time.

The things he learned could not be taught from a textbook.

The last time he had this type of feeling was back at the Princeton conference, and that was only a few days. This time, he had a whole month.

However, vacation time was always short-lived.

At the end of the month, his relaxed schedule became hectic again.

The head of the LHCb organization, Lynn Evans, held a meeting in CERN's largest conference room. He summarized the reports submitted by the research groups and finalized the experiment guidelines.

Almost half of the world's famous physicists were sitting in this conference room.

Fortunately, Lu Zhou, as an intern, was able to attend this meeting.

Sadly, he did not get a chance to speak. He merely sat next to Professor Lu Shenjian and listened to the meeting.

In the final part of the meeting, physicists from various laboratories made recommendations to the experiment, and even Evans responded on behalf of LHCb.

Of course, it was not just physicists who were present. Various media outlets were also concerned about this experiment. They then had a ten-minute interview after the meeting was over. This was a ritual for CERN meetings.

These interviews were always interesting…

For example, a British reporter stood up.

"… Hello, Mr. Evans. When we interviewed Otto Rosler, a retired professor of chemistry at the University of Munich, Mr. Rosler expressed concerns about the collider experiment. He said that the ongoing experiment at CERN could lead to the formation of a quasar inside the earth… such as a black hole. Can you give a reasonable explanation to this?"

Mr. Evans was used to answering difficult questions, so he replied skillfully.

"We've already informed Mr. Rosler on his mistakes. Of course, we also understand that people like him won't listen to us. Thousands of researchers have worked hard on this experiment, so we know what we're doing, unlike this guy. Next question."

Another reporter stood up.

"Can the theory generated by the Hadron Collider experiment be used as a theoretical basis for a time machine?"

Lynn Evans, "Our job is to test the correctness of the standard model and study the basic particles that make up the universe. We don't have plans to study time machines. I've said countless times that this topic was handed over to CERN. Next question."

"…"

Lu Zhou listened to those weak questions and was impressed by Mr. Evans' reply. If it was him, he would not have this much patience with the reporters.

Professor Lu Shenjian nodded and he said to Yan Xinjue and Lu Zhou.

"After today, we might get a little busy. Make sure you guys adjust your schedule."

Yan Xinjue nodded and said, "Ok, professor."

Lu Zhou asked excitedly, "Do we have a task to do?"

Professor Lu Shenjian nodded, "Of course, we're not here to screw around."

He did not elaborate on the specific tasks, but Lu Zhou was not in a hurry. Lu Zhou knew that he would eventually inform him.

…

After the meeting, the Hadron Collider experiment entered the final preparation stage.

It was not just CERN physicists who were nervously involved in the preparation of the experiment, even special forces from Switzerland and France entered the nearby town.

This type of martial law situation started three days ago.

Soldiers were temporarily stationed at the entrance to the town, and every vehicle was checked prior to entry.

As for the entry and exit points of the LHCb, they had been temporarily blocked. Unauthorized personnel was not allowed to enter.

The experiment was about to begin.

Yan Xinjue borrowed a car and took Lu Zhou to CERN's northern district.

It was worth mentioning that the researchers did not have to enter the Hadron Collider themselves. Professional staff members would take the elevators and check if the Collider was running normally. After that, researchers located in tens of kilometers away would operate the machine and collect the data in the CERN headquarters.

Yan Xinjue said that it would be a shame not to see the scene himself. Therefore, he agreed to take Lu Zhou there.

When they arrived at the northern district, they were stopped by two soldiers. Once the soldiers examined their identifications, they allowed them to pass through.

Sitting in the car, Lu Zhou looked back at the soldier checkpoint before he asked, "Are they here to protect the collider?"

Yan Xinjue replied while he continued to drive, "Actually, they're not protecting the collider. They're protecting the citizens of the two countries."

"What…?"

Yan Xinjue shrugged, "Every year, people say that the LHC might cause a black hole and destroy Europe. There are protests against the LHC every year. Therefore, France sent their soldiers here to control the situation…"

Lu Zhou could not help but ask, "There are people that actually believe that?"

"CERN always seeks out trouble, and they always answer press conferences in an unreliable manner. Therefore, the media spreads false information about them. Around 2007, CERN's spokesperson jokes that the LHC could create a black hole… I guess he wanted to show off how advanced the LHC was, but the media twisted his words."

"Then?"

Yan Xinjue smiled and said, "Then the media blew up. Now, every year there are people protesting against the LHC. Even some environmental agencies have intervened. Some protesters even tried to sneak in through the tunnels. CERN had to hire firefighters to rescue them out."

Lu Zhou secretly snarled.

Sneaking into the LHC, how dare they. Do they not want to live?

There had only been one person hit by the particle beam of the collider. His life eventually became as miserable as the soldiers from Chernobyl.

The high-intensity radiation and oxygen deficiency from the helium was deadly.

In a sense, this was why Lu Zhou did not choose Mission 3 to create history.

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Chapter 167: Unexpected Discoveries

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"… Actually, this thing is not completed yet. Guess what was the response from the people in CERN?"

"What was their response?"

Yan Xinjue imitated Evans' tone and said, "Of course it's real. If you build a Hadron Collider as big as Saturn and a reactor as big as the moon, then we can make a black hole. So, we need the funding."

Lu Zhou laughed.

He knew that CERN unable to get funding.

Only an alien could create a collider as big as Saturn.

Soon, the car drove to the entrance of the northern district.

Yan Xinjue parked the car in the garage and took Lu Zhou to the main entrance of the research center.

…

A Hadron Collider could be split into two parts. One was the small pipes wrapped in bismuth metal, and the other was a variety of detectors buried in large pipes outside the small pipes.

The two near parallel orbits intersected at a certain point in a flat "X" shape while accelerating in different directions, and the two beam currents collided at this intersection.

There were about four "reaction points" like this, and around these reaction points, various detectors were connected to collect the physical phenomena that occurred when the particle beam collided.

Of course, not all the particles could collide, and the particles that did collide might not necessarily coincide with each other to destroy the strong interaction forces inside.

So the whole collider was based on the principle of stuffing more particles into a limited number of pipes while accumulating collisions with small probability in long data accumulation.

The Higgs particle that shocked the physics community was discovered in this manner.

The research center that Yan Xinjue took Lu Zhou to was responsible for observing and collecting the collision data. There were many laboratories inside the center, each responsible for collecting data at different detectors.

They walked into one of the labs and saw a white man with a lab coat on. He was drinking coffee in front of the computer.

Yan Xinjue walked over and introduced him to Lu Zhou.

"This is Professor Grayer. You have probably seen his name many times in CERN theses. During my internship here, he was already working here."

"Don't describe me as so old, I only started working here since 2008," said Professor Grayer with a smile. He reached out his hand and said to Lu Zhou, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu."

Lu Zhou shook his hand and said, "Hello, hello."

Originally Lu Zhou thought that Professor Grayer would be at Professor Lu Shenjian's age, but Professor Grayer only looked around forty years old.

Professor Grayer released his hand and said, "I'm sorry I can't take you on a tour as the experiment is about to begin. I have to stare at this computer. If you were here two weeks ago, I could still take you down for a tour, but not now since the entrances have been blocked."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Don't be sorry, we're standing at the front row of history."

"Haha, you must be new here," said Professor Grayer with a smile. He continued, "There are thousands of researchers working on this project. Their names are organized alphabetically on the thesis."

Thousands of people on a thesis, and organized alphabetically…

Emm…

That does sound de-motivating.

Lu Zhou suddenly noticed the images on the computer screen moving and he asked, "Has the experiment began?"

Professor Grayer smiled and said, "Not yet. Right now we're in the trial stage. We have to ensure that the channels are clear, and the detectors are running normally. So before we start looking for pentaquarks, we have to do a few trials. Right now on the ATLAS, you are seeing a photo pair."

When Lu Zhou looked at the images on the computer screen, he was confused.

He was sensitive to numbers, but he always felt like he was lacking in images.

However, after staring at the image for a while, he felt a sense of familiarity.

Lu Zhou could not help but ask curiously.

"Why do I feel like I've seen this image somewhere?"

"Because we did the data from B1 partition, and this partition was collected by Professor Grayer," replied Yan Xinjue.

"Oh, speaking of which, I heard you guys destroyed Brunos?" asked Professor Grayer as he laughed.

"Indeed we did," replied Yan Xinjue mischievously.

Professor Grayer smiled and said, "Hahaha… When I saw him last time, he didn't look too good. It must be because of this."

It seemed that Professor Brunos was not that popular with his peers as neither Professor Lu Shenjian or Professor Grayer liked him.

They chatted for a while before they quickly reverted back to the experiment.

Professor Grayer heard that Lu Zhou was interested in his lab, so he patted the computer and spoke in a clear manner.

"CERN is not only the world's largest Hadron Collider, but we also have the world's most advanced computer system. The LCG. To compute our experiment, this thing lets us control hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. The ATLAS computer is used to summarize the data and is mainly responsible for collecting data from detectors…"

"… From this computer, you can see the trajectory of the collision of the proton. Of course, this is only a model, but the real scenario isn't much different."

Professor Grayer added another line.

"If you're interested in particle physics, you can come to me. I need an assistant that is good at mathematics. Working at CERN will also give you…"

Yan Xinjue interrupted him, "Don't listen to him. He's worked here for decades and published hundreds of theses but he still hasn't received the first author. Who cares if your name is on a thesis with thousands of other names on it…"

Professor Grayer looked at Yan Xinjue with dissatisfaction.

However, Yan Xinjue merely shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Sorry to expose you, but I can't let you fool my friend."

Professor Grayer said stubbornly, "What do you mean by fooling? I'm just making a suggestion!"

It was obvious that these two had a close relationship.

It was probably because Yan Xinjue had worked here previously.

After that, the dialogue between the two became boring, so Lu Zhou stopped listening.

Lu Zhou's attention was on the data on the computer screen.

Suddenly, Lu Zhou saw an energy zone on the map and frowned.

When Yan Xinjue noticed Lu Zhou's expression, he asked, "What?"

Lu Zhou pointed to the computer screen.

"Don't you think that the data in this energy zone looks a bit… weird?"

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Yan Xinjue asked, "Weird?"

He walked over and stared at the computer screen. As he frowned, he said, "It does look weird. Our experiment is in the 1-10GeV segment, how did it go to 1TeV?"

Professor Grayer also looked at the screen.

There was a difference in magnitude of 1000 between GeV and TeV. This means that the particle beam in the collider tunnel had reached 1000GeV. Only 6GeV was needed to find the pentaquark.

1000GeV was an overkill.

When Professor Grayer heard Yan Xinjue's question, he smiled and explained in a casual tone.

"I already said that this is to test the status of the collider, so this isn't the actual experiment. If we aren't limited by our budget, we can show off a 10TeV energy zone."

Professor Grayer was just showing off.

He was almost bragging.

It did make sense. All of the world's top theoretical physicists were gathered here. CERN wanted to show off their equipment.

How else would they let the world know how nutty their machine was?

The LHC could even reach 14TeV of collision energy, which meant that each particle would carry 7TeV of energy.

How scary was that?

The energy unit was used to describe the mass of a particle. For example, the mass of a hydrogen atom was about 1GeV, the Higgs particle found in 2012 was about 125 GeV.

The Shangzheng electron-positron collider is about 5GeV, magnitudes lower than the LHC.

It would take decades for China to catch up.

"… I don't mean that the experiment range is strange," said Lu Zhou. He poked at the computer screen and asked, "Did you not notice? There's an unusual impact near the 750GeV range."

"This isn't a sign of a collision. It's just a single two-photon signal. But it is strange how it appeared in the 750GeV zone," murmured Professor Grayer. He rubbed his chin and continued, "But this isn't uncommon. We always observe some special signals on ATLAS, so the data could just be a random error."

Lu Zhou was still staring at the screen, he could not help but ask, "So this is common?"

Yan Xinjue nodded, "Yeah, it is. The signals generated by the collision are only 1% of the data. Therefore we usually guess the conclusion and verify it with experiments. You'll get used to it."

Particle physics was a very metaphysical thing.

Normally, atoms could not be "directly observed". So in order to determine the existence of a particle, confidence was needed.

This was a statistical concept.

In particle physics, three standard deviations away from the mean was a "sign", whereas five standard deviations was a "discovery". Although the media often wrote "breakthrough progress" or "significant discovery", most of them were only "signs".

Therefore, they would need three-sigma to be a sign.

A temporary characteristic peak did not mean anything.

Particles could only be confirmed by repeating experiments and observing the particle on different detectors. When the confidence of the particle was above five standard deviations, it could be counted as a "discovery".

Lu Zhou did not say anything else.

Soon after, the experiment continued.

A series of green dots appeared densely on the image with most of them concentrated around the 125GeV range.

However, Lu Zhou's attention was still concentrated on the 750GeV zone.

Suddenly, another point jump appeared on the 750GeV zone.

Lu Zhou's heart dropped. He then looked at Professor Grayer and asked, "What about the data on the CMS detector?"

There were many detectors in one orbit with ATLAS and CMS being the most sensitive.

There was a simple way to test if Lu Zhou's observation was just simply an illusion. He would be correct if the observation was observed by both detectors at the same time.

When Professor Grayer heard Lu Zhou's question, he had a weird expression.

"The data collected by the CMS is responsible for the lab upstairs. If you're curious, wait a bit and I can take you there."

Lu Zhou asked immediately, "Then will the test run impact data be recorded?"

Professor Grayer nodded and said, "Normally it would be archived. There isn't much research value but I can give you a copy. It's not classified information anyway. But let me remind you that since this isn't public data, you can't use this in a thesis."

Yan Xinjue asked curiously, "What did you find out?"

Lu Zhou thought and insisted on his own point of view. He said, "I think there's something wrong with the 750GeV energy zone. From a statistical point of view, this could be described as random, but it feels far-fetched."

Yan Xinjue asked jokingly, "Like from a mathematician's perspective?"

Lu Zhou, "You could say so."

Yan Xinjue sighed and said, "I know your research direction is mathematical physics but I have to remind you that even though mathematics is an important physics tool, not all physical phenomenon follows mathematical laws. 750GeV is way too large, the Higgs boson is only 125GeV. I think it's just two-photon, the signal might not even be a collision."

Yan Xinjue patted Lu Zhou's shoulder and continued, "Don't get caught up in the energy zone beyond 10GeV. We're looking for the pentaquark particle. If you're really OCD, rest assured, you won't see any activity in the 750GeV energy zone again."

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Chapter 169: Good Luck!

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Yan Xinjue was right. After the experiment started, the emitted particle beam was stable below 5GeV. The signals captured by the ATLAS were concentrated only between 1GeV - 10GeV.

Occasionally, a dot appeared outside of the 10GeV range, but they would not deviate far.

Naturally, no data from 750 GeV was produced.

However, Lu Zhou was still unconvinced.

The experiment lasted for a whole day.

Around 12 o'clock in the morning, there was a cheer in the CERN headquarters.

From the data received from various detectors, the pentaquark confidence level exceeded five-sigma. This meant that the "discovery" had been made!

Even though everyone was expecting this, people were still excited.

Generally speaking, the quark divided in the collider was either a "quark-antiquark" pair similar to K meson and π meson or a "three quark state" composed of protons and neutrons. As for the single quark state, since the quark was bound by the strong force of the color charge, the single quark state particle was not allowed to exist.

However, quantum chromodynamics did not prohibit the existence of singular states such as "tetraquark" and "pentaquark".

Over the years, major particle physics laboratories had been searching for those "singular states".

If these guys were not found, it might prove a loophole in the standard model. Thus, quantum chromodynamics might not be correct.

However, once these singular states were discovered, the entire theoretical physics community would be in great relief!

After the second day of the experiment, CERN invited reporters and held a high-profile press conference.

In front of the media reporters, CERN's spokesperson announced the news in an excited tone.

"… We have succeeded in discovering the pentaquark particle. This is another great victory for the standard model!"

Unsurprisingly, the discovery of the pentaquark would be the most significant pentaquark research result of the year.

The CERN conference ended in the midst of the applause. This was followed by numerous articles on the research discovery.

However, for the physicist, the real work had only just begun.

In order to better reveal the physical properties of the pentaquark particles, the LHCb International Cooperation Group assigned tasks to researchers in various countries to perform a full-spectrum analysis on the newly discovered particles.

Professor Lu Shenjian was also involved in this work.

However, this task was not as time intensive as the B1 data calculations.

Later, Lu Zhou heard from Yan Xinjue that this task was different than the others. Every "full spectrum analysis" paper would be signed by all of the researchers.

Too many co-authors would weaken the content of the thesis.

Lu Zhou sat in the hotel's conference room and chatted with Yan Xinjue while he wrote on an A4 paper.

"Thousands of signatures… My name won't even be seen. This is so de-motivating."

"That's how it is working for CERN. That's why I don't recommend you to work here. Not even one can win a Nobel Prize…" said Yan Xinjue. He yawned and placed the pen down before asking, "Do do you want to play billiards tonight?"

Lu Zhou thought before shaking his head, "No thanks, I'm good. I still have to go to Professor Grayer's office."

Last time after the experiment, Professor Grayer promised that he would take the time to help Lu Zhou sort out the experiment data.

Just now, Lu Zhou received an email from Professor Grayer, saying that the data had been sorted out and to go to his office with a USB.

It would not take that long to copy the data, but Lu Zhou wanted to analyze the data on the same night.

After all, he had to help with Professor Lu's project during the day. He was only free during weekends and evenings.

Yan Xinjue knew what Lu Zhou was going to do and he said, "Don't tell me it's about that thing."

Lu Zhou, "You guessed it."

Yan Xinjue had a defeated look as he sighed and said, "Fine, I admire your commitment but you do know that you're doing useless work, right?"

Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "How do you know it is useless without doing the work?"

Lu Zhou was like this. He was stubborn in both mathematics and physics.

At the moment, he was very interested in the 750 GeV characteristic peak.

Although Yan Xinjue and Professor Grayer both conveyed that the peak was probably nothing more than a two-photon signal and it would be ridiculous for a particle to carry that amount of energy, Lu Zhou disagreed.

750 GeV did seem a little heavy, but it was still possible.

Lu Zhou believed that investigating the frontiers of any discipline required imagination.

Even though the two quantum chromodynamics experts tried to persuade him, that was of no use for Lu Zhou.

How did quantum chromodynamics develop?

Was it not developed by subverting from "common sense"?

It did not matter if Lu Zhou was wrong since failing was part of success.

After dinner, Lu Zhou walked to theR21building. Professor Grayer was waiting for him in his office.

"The data that you wanted is in this USB, including the data from the CMS detectors. Honestly, this data is pretty useless. We only did the tests for an hour, so this thing has no useful experimental results."

Lu Zhou, "Thanks… I just want to satisfy my curiosity. I'll still try."

"Curious?" said Professor Grayer. He smiled and gave him a look of encouragement as he said, "Then I wish you good luck."

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Since the data had arrived, the problem was how to organize it now.

There was a lack of theory support for quantum chromodynamics.

From a statistical point of view, the number of samples was too small.

Lu Zhou analyzed the 10GB data for five nights and finally came to a conclusion.

If he wanted to confirm whether or not this was an abnormal characteristic peak, he would still need to run the LHC for a few more laps. With the current amount of data, Lu Zhou could not even make a three-sigma conclusion.

After five nights, Lu Zhou took the data and research results to Professor Lu Shenjian.

After all, he could not convince CERN by himself. He was only an intern.

When Lu Zhou explained his viewpoint to Professor Lu, he thought that Professor Lu would maybe be interested. He did not expect a negative reply.

"The Hadron Collider won't run for your whimsy theory. In order to look for 750GeV particles, the collision energy must be at least 1.2TeV or maybe even 2TeV. The LHC's schedule is tight, and CERN has endless amounts of experiments to do. Everyone wants to verify that their theory is correct, but the funding is limited."

Lu Zhou did not give up and he continued to try to convince Professor Lu, "But Professor, we haven't found any new particles since the "post-standard model" era, don't you think this could be an opportunity?"

Lu Zhou was correct. Whether it was the tetraquark or the pentaquark, the confidence was less than five-sigma. They were classified as "signs" and not "discoveries".

If the signal at 750 GeV confirmed a new particle, Lu Zhou would not know what it would mean to the world of physics. This was because he did not even know what the particle could be.

For him, personally, he was sure that if the discovery was determined to be true, he would receive a Nobel Prize.

"To be honest, I don't think so," said Professor Lu Shenjian as he shook his head. He then said, "750 GeV is way too heavy. From a quantum chromodynamics point of view, this is almost impossible."

Lu Zhou argued, "But we observed this signal both on ATLAS and CMS? Do you think this is just a coincidence?"

"Yes, you're right, it might not be a coincidence," said Professor Lu as he nodded. He pointed to the data on the paper, "But haven't you ever thought that it could just be a two-photon gluon polymerization?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "You're right, that is possible. But I need to do experiments to confirm this!"

Professor Lu looked at his energetic student and smiled. He paused for a moment then sighed, "I understand the experiment in your heart as similar things have happened before. I want to help you undergo this experiment, but I cannot convince CERN to do this. I don't have that power."

Lu Zhou fell silent.

The LHC was not theirs, so they could not just use it as they please. Unless they had solid evidence to convince the heads of CERN, they would not be able to use it.

However, this was a catch-22.

If he could not do the experiment, he could not collect evidence, and he could not do the experiment without evidence…

Lu Zhou did not know what to do.

If they discovered this particle in the future, he would have no involvement in it.

After all, he did not work at CERN. He still had to go graduate, and he had to go to Princeton.

Lu Zhou went back to his room and laid in his bed as he stared at the thesis with a blank expression.

Suddenly, he coughed softly and asked in a quiet voice.

"System, is there a particle at the 750 GeV range?"

The system did not answer.

Maybe because my physics level is too low?

Or maybe because this question is too difficult?

F*ck sake, the general points feel so useless.

Lu Zhou took a deep breath and sat up from his bed.

It was too early to give up.

There were still opportunities.

CERN would not start the LHC just for an intern.

However, if he could find someone that had more influence, that person could persuade CERN for him!

Many of the world's top theoretical physicists were gathered here, so there were lots of influential people.

These people would stay here until the end of the month, and CERN would then conclude the pentaquark research results.

Lu Zhou only had to do one thing, and that was to improve his hypothesis by the end of the month.

…

Perfecting the hypothesis to his theory was not easy.

He had to prove that the sample was sufficiently large enough through mathematical means and that the bulge in the 750 GeV region formed a characteristic peak.

This sounded like a statistical problem, but he did not have enough samples. It was impossible to use statistical tools to solve this problem.

He needed more evidence.

Only then, he could form new conclusions from the evidence.

"… This is 2012-2013 experimental data from ATHC and CMS detectors. This data was from the Higgs particle experiment, but the Higgs particle is only 125 GeV."

Professor Grayer sat in his office as he threw the USB into Lu Zhou's hands.

Lu Zhou caught the USB and said sincerely, "It's fine, thank you very much!"

Professor Grayer was one of the few people Lu Zhou could receive help from.

Even though they had only just met, Professor Grayer and Lu Zhou's personality clicked well. Even though the professor was pessimistic about Lu Zhou's research, he still gave him the valuable data.

Although this data was not confidential, it was also closed to the public. If he did not have any connections to CERN, it would be impossible to get this data.

Professor Grayer smiled and said, "You're welcome, it's no big deal. Speaking of which, how's your research progress going?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "I've progressed a bit."

Professor Grayer reminded, "If you want to use the Hadron Collider, my suggestion is to find someone who is influential in the theoretical physics community to help you. After all, no matter how much you analyze the data, you still need to use the LHC."

Lu Zhou replied, "That's what I'm planning to do, but I want to make my hypothesis theory more reliable first."

Professor Grayer asked, "Do you have a suitable goal?"

Lu Zhou shook his head, "Not yet…"

He wanted to wait until after a presentation before he handed in his thesis to the presenter.

This was his only method.

Professor Grayer thought for a moment before saying, "Do you want me to recommend someone to you?"

Lu Zhou asked immediately, "Yes, please! Who do you recommend?"

When Professor Grayer saw Lu Zhou's eagerness, he smiled and said, "Frank Wilczek, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize for physics. He's probably the easiest to convince, so you might have a chance."

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The discovery of the pentaquark was a piece of exciting news for the entire theoretical physics community.

However, Frank Wilczek was not too happy.

Of course, it was not because of the experiment, it was because of a six-year-old bet.

Six years ago, at the physics conference in the Azores, he made a bet with a gentleman named Garrett Lisi.

Mr. Lisi stood up and disrupted Frank's talk about the standard model while insisting that supersymmetric particles simply did not exist, because one could not find supersymmetric particles at all. Mr. Frank naturally insisted on maintaining the theory. He predicted that the Hadron Collider (LHC) would detect supersymmetric particles within 6 years!

They made the bet in front of everyone.

The arbitrator was the host of the conference, Mr. Max Sigma Mark, a professor at MIT.

The bet was $1000 USD.

Now, six years had passed. Even though the pentaquark particle was found, there were no signs that super-symmetric particles were found.

Although the standard model was proven correct again, he was still going to lose the bet.

This was because he overestimated the capabilities of CERN, and was too optimistic about the LHC upgrade.

In fact, betting against someone was a common occurrence in the physics world.

This was not the first time Frank Wilczek had a bet.

In 2005, he bet with the "beautiful scientist", Jane Conrad. He was convinced that the LHC would detect Higgs particles whereas Jane disagreed.

The bet was chocolate coins served at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. In the end, Frank won 10 chocolate coins.

However, he was not so lucky this time. He, unfortunately, lost the bet.

For these scholars, making a bet was a measure of work.

The problem was that Garrett Lisi was a real piece of work.

First of all, Mr. Lisi was not a physicist at all. He had a PhD in philosophy at the University of California.

Also, his PhD's biggest achievement was to use the Lie Group E8 structure to construct a unified theory. This theory was incomplete and was not accepted by the physics community.

Einstein's unfinished work had always been the treasure of theoretical physics. However this treasure was not just for physicists, but it was also for common folks.

Garrett Lisi was at least literate. He was at least smarter than those flat-Earth believers.

Due to this, he was named "King of Civil Science".

Although his mathematical theory of philosophy was laughed at by physicists and mathematicians, normal people believed in his schtick.

Because of this, Wilczek was embarrassed to lose this bet.

He was a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and he lost to the "King of Civil Science".

Although he admitted that he lost, and he even tweeted that he would fulfill the $1000 USD agreement, it was clear that he was not as calm as his tweets.

This was not about the $1000 USD, but that Lisi was quite disrespectful and he would brag online all day.

Recently, many people ridiculed Frank about this incident. Frank would constantly blame himself for being dumb.

It was too shameful!

Frank sat in the office that CERN assigned him. He was drinking coffee and reading an article about the pentaquark particle.

Suddenly, his assistant knocked on the door and came in.

"Mr. Frank, someone asked me to bring you this thing."

Frank asked, "What thing?"

"It looks like a thesis," answered the assistant.

Even though he was not in a good mood, he was still curious.

"Give it to me."

"Okay."

Frank took the thesis and flipped through the pages while he casually said, "There isn't a name on here. Who brought this?"

The assistant replied, "The guy said that he's an intern."

"Intern?" Frank frowned, but he did not throw the thesis away. Instead, he continued to read the thesis.

Anyone that could get an internship at CERN was talented. If this thesis turned out to be interesting, Frank would be happy to help this intern.

This was why Frank was popular with people.

Frank was about to stop reading when he suddenly had a blank expression before it was replaced by interest.

He read a word on the thesis and the expression on his face turned serious all of a sudden.

He then placed the thesis down and looked at his assistant.

"How do I contact this person?"

The assistant immediately replied, "He didn't leave a phone number, but he left an address. It's the hotel near the CERN building. If you want, I can find him for you."

"Find him for me. This thesis is interesting," said Frank as he placed the thesis on the left corner of the table.

Normally speaking, any thesis on the left corner of the table had some value to him.

As for the pile on the right corner, their destiny was the paper shredder.

…

After handing the thesis to Frank's assistant, Lu Zhou thought that it would take a few days to get a reply. He was pleasantly surprised to hear a reply so quickly.

On the morning of the next day, Frank Wilczek's assistant went to the hotel to find him. He then brought him to the R1 1 building.

Frank immediately asked, "What do you think it could be?"

Lu Zhou said without hesitation, "Supersymmetric particles!"

Even though Lu Zhou knew that it was unlikely, he had to say this.

This was the same as venture capital meetings, it was a gimmick.

However, Frank was unconvinced. He smiled and shook his head.

"That's not realistic."

"But it's possible. Maybe it could be something else. Whatever it is, it's worth pursuing. Don't you think so?" asked Lu Zhou. He then continued, "Do you want to bet? I'll bet a hundred dollars that there must be something there."

The old man's eyebrows twitched and said, "There's no need for a bet."

Lu Zhou was stunned.

He heard that the old man loved to bet with others, so why did Frank refused to take the bet?"

Frank paused for a second before he continued, "I'm only slightly interested in your discovery. However, CERN won't start the LHC for an incomplete theory. Also, you haven't convinced me."

"But I can give you a chance. If you can improve your theory by the end of the month, then at the European Nuclear Research Conference, I'll recommend you to do a report at the conference. If you can convince me, I'm sure you can convince everyone else."

Frank looked straight into Lu Zhou's eyes.

Lu Zhou knew what this old man was waiting for.

He then took a deep breath before he responded.

He only said one word.

"Ok!"

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Chapter 172: European Conference on Nuclear Research

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At the end of the month, the European Nuclear Research Conference was held as scheduled in the largest conference room on the R1 floor.

Professor Lu arrived early and looked at his watch before he turned to Yan Xinjue, "Where's Lu Zhou?"

Yan Xinjue was also confused and he shook his head as said, "I didn't see him."

He went to knock on Lu Zhou's door in the morning, but no one was in his room. Yan Xinjue did not know where Lu Zhou went.

The conference was about to begin.

Professor Gao from the University of Shuimu sat next to Profesor Lu. When he saw the empty seat, he asked, "Old Lu, why isn't your student here?"

Professor Lu shook his head and said, "I don't know what that kid is doing all day, who cares about him…"

Soon after, the conference room quieted down. The head of CERN, Lynn Evans, stepped onto the podium and began with the opening remarks.

"Thank you to the cooperation teams from various institutes and laboratories around the world for their contributions to this experiment. After years of unremitting exploration, we finally discovered pentaquark Pc. Our findings does not explain everything, but fortunately, the standard model once again predicts its existence…"

"… The physical properties of Pc particles have been completed by the LHCb International Research Cooperation Group. Please ask the responsible persons of each cooperation group to go to the stage for a presentation."

The audience applauded. Evans nodded slightly before he gave the microphone to the head of LHCb research group.

Professor Gao slowly stood up. He nodded at Professor Lu before he then walked over to the aisle and to the back of the conference venue.

Professor Gao was the head of the China research group. He would speak on behalf of China and report on the full spectrum analysis.

When Professor Gao arrived to the backstage of the conference room, he suddenly saw a familiar face.

The other party obviously saw him as he stood up and took the initiative to say hello.

"Professor Gao, hello!"

"Hello, you are…"

"I'm Lu Zhou!"

Lu Zhou greeted Professor Gao and grinned.

Although he was a bit nervous in his heart, he controlled his emotion and did not look nervous at all.

He was nervous because this was completely different than the Princeton conference. Almost half of the world's top theoretical physicists were sitting here. Some of them had even won the Nobel Prize.

This type of international presenation conference was not comparable to the academic conferences.

Also, Lu Zhou was here with a different objective.

"Lu Zhou… You're Professor Lu's student?" said Professor Gao Yuanping as he had a moment of realization. Suddenly, he asked with surprise, "Why are you here?"

Lu Zhou smiled and sighed, "Long story…"

He was about to explain his matter in detail when a CERN staff member walked in all of a sudden.

"Is Gao Yuanping here?"

"Here," said Professor Gao as he nodded.

The staff member said respectfully, "It's your turn to make the report. Come with me."

"Sure, take me there."

The staff member nodded and Professor Gao looked at Lu Zhou with a strange expression. However, he did not say anything and merely walked away with the staff member.

…

On the stage, Professor Gao reported the work of China's full spectrum analysis and answered several questions from reporters.

After that, he went back to the backstage lounge and was ready to talk to Lu Zhou, but he could not find him.

"How strange…"

Professor Gao was confused. He then left the lounge and returned to the venue. He sat back down in his seat.

He then looked at Professor Gao and whispered, "Guess who I just met in the backstage lounge?"

Professor Lu looked at him in confusion as he asked, "Who?"

Academician Gao smiled and said, "Your student."

Professor Lu looked at his side and saw Yan Xinjue still sitting there. He he then looked back and asked, "You're talking about… Lu Zhou?"

"Yeah," said Professor Gao with a nod.

Professor Lu asked, "Why is he there?"

Professor Gao shook his head and said, "I think it's strange too. I was about to ask him but he left."

Professor Lu raised his eyebrows. He felt something was wrong but he soon pushed the matter aside because the conference had entered into the next stage.

Reports on the full spectrum analysis of the Pc particles had come to an end. Next was the reports on the various LHC experiment findings.

Most of the people on stage were researchers who were involved in the experiment. Most of the people were from CERN and LHC.

After all, the experiment data was for a specific particle, but not all of the data was about the particle. The random collision of the proton beam produced some interesting new discoveries.

Some of these new discoveries were useful while others were useless.

It could even be said that the second half of the conference was the most interesting part.

If a more valuable discovery was found, CERN might even change the experimental direction of the LHC.

Professor Lu took out a small notebook and was ready to write notes.

Suddenly, he was stunned.

It was not just him that was stunned.

Yan Xinjue and Professor Gao was also shocked.

The person on stage was none other than…

His own student…

Lu Zhou.

…

On the other side of the venue, Frank Wilczek and Peter Higgs sat together and were chatting about the contents of the report.

"Don't you think the recent LHCb discovery warrants a Nobel Prize?"

Peter Higgs heard his old friend's question and shook his head, "There's no doubt that this is the most valuable research result this year, but it might not be enough for a Nobel prize. This year's medal should be awarded to the neutrino oscillation experiment. Do you want to bet on it?"

"Haha, no thanks," said Frank when he heard the bet. Awkward, he coughed, "I recently quit gambling."

"I can't believe it. You're quitting? What happened?" asked Peter Higgs as he looked at his old friend. He was astonished. Higgs did not go on Twitter, so he was not up to date with the recent events.

'Nothing, just something small. Let's not talk about it," said Frank. He cleared his throat and changed the subject, "Focus on the next report as it is the main event."

Peter Higgs asked casually, "Oh, is there something worth looking forward to?"

"Of course, I'm confident that you'll be shocked by the discovery," said Frank. He grinned and continued, "Let's bet $100."

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Chapter 173: A Treasure Map

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WTF?

When Kerella saw the man on the stage, she was so surprised that her eyes popped wide opened and subconsciously, she swore.

Professor Brunos who was sitting next to her frowned. He asked, "What?"

"Nothing…" murmured Kerella as she quickly reached for her notebook.

However, she was still surprised.

She could not believe that he was standing there.

She was also an intern but the contrast between the two of them was staggering.

On the other side, Luo Wenxuan who was sitting next to Edward Witten also chocked.

Luo Wenxuan did not know how Lu Zhou, as a mathematician, was able to stand on stage at a place like this.

Did Lu Zhou really participate in the experiment?

Mr. Edward Witten was unsurprised. Instead, he was filled with interest.

He obviously recognized the man on stage and he was looking forward to the report.

The young man that shocked Princeton; what was he about to do now?

…

As Lu Zhou stood on the stage, he took a deep breath to try and calm his mind. He tried not to pay attention to the audience.

Once he was calm, he said, "Let me introduce myself. I'm from the University of Jin Ling in China. I'm honored to come here as an intern and be involved in this experiment. These opportunities allowed me to discover an interesting phenomenon."

Lu Zhou knew that these physicists did not care about his personal details, so he finished the self-introduction and began the PowerPoint presentation quickly.

"A month ago, I happened to be at the northern test site. When the 1TeV test collision happened, I observed a very special observation on the ATLAS detector."

Lu Zhou flipped to the next slide and pointed at the coordinates on the mλλ image. He said, "Doesn't this look amazing? We observed a few very special signals at 750 GeV."

Under the stage, Peter Higgs licked his mouth as he tried not to laugh out loud.

"This is the presenter you recommended?"

Frank smiled and said, "That's right."

Peter could not help but ridicule him, "Did you teach him about the theory of excessive fluctuations? I taught my students that."

"I know that you want to say that this discovery is worthless," said Frank with a smile. He continued, "Do you want to bet $100? I bet he can convince you."

Peter Higgs looked at him.

"I don't know where you got this confidence. One day, you'll lose all of your Nobel Prize money."

Frank smiled in disapproval, "I don't think so."

…

When the people sitting in the stage saw Lu Zhou's "research results", they chuckled.

Although they laughed quietly, Lu Zhou was still able to hear them. It was like a blade piercing through his ear.

Undoubtedly, most people were unconvinced of the data during the test runs.

Although the few isolated cases looked weird, it was worth nothing. This was because they were classic quantum mechanics uncertainties. These phenomena could be perfectly explained as a small amount of energy that was randomly generated.

Only a few people showed an expression of interest.

However, this was in Lu Zhou's expectations so he tried to ignore the laughter.

"I know that some people will think that this must be a two-photon signal or an error such as quantum fluctuations… "

"… Therefore, I deliberately found the data from 2012 and analyzed it statistically. I established a probability model…"

Lu Zhou flipped to the next slide.

Suddenly, the slide was filled densely with formulas.

In fact, similar phenomena had been seen in the 2012 data and it had also appeared in both ATLAS and CMS detectors. It would be a miracle if this was just a coincidence.

This was his biggest supporting hypothesis!

Lu Zhou grabbed the PowerPoint and said confidently, "I checked the data on this section again and again and confirmed that the results of the phenomena were not two-photon signals. There must have been a collision in this energy zone…"

"… And according to the probability model behind me, I can say confidently that if the data collected on the ATLAS and CMS detectors are correct, then there definitely is a characteristic peak in the 750 GeV energy zone!"

"… Maybe it's a new and heavier Higgs particle, or maybe it's a gravitational force, all kinds of possibilities exist. Maybe…"

Lu Zhou paused for a second. He looked around in the tense venue and took a deep breath before he continued to speak, "Maybe this could be the last piece puzzle we have all been searching for…"

"… The supersymmetric particle!"

The venue was quiet.

People had not expected this conclusion.

Some people thought that the data was worthless, but after seeing the argument, doubts were raised in their minds.

If the number of samples accumulated to a sufficiently large value, the probability of this characteristic peak appearing was as high as 84.5%. This was already worth researching.

This discovery seems to be…

Interesting?

Luo Wenxuan sat in the back row of the conference room. He looked at the PowerPoint as he quickly checked the calculations.

Obviously, some people were ahead of him.

This person was the winner of the Fields Medal, Edward Witten.

"He's correct," said Witten as he stared at the PowerPoint and nodded. He said, "At least mathematically speaking."

Luo Wenxuan had a strange look on his face and he asked subconsciously, "You mean that he found a new particle?"

"I didn't say that. Neither physicists nor mathematicians can directly see the particles," said Witten as he shrugged and smiled. He then added, "The only thing that can find the particles is the collider. All we can do is run the collider."

Lu Zhou's presentation shocked the audience.

The sound of applause reverberated through the venue and it gradually became louder and louder.

When Lu Zhou heard the applause, he felt his heart beating faster.

The situation was already clear.

It did not matter if the 750 GeV meant nothing. All Lu Zhou wanted was to inform CERN of this possibility.

The efforts that he had exerted this month was not wasted.

He still had not thought about what to do beyond this presentation.

Lu Zhou smiled and relaxed his clenched fist.

He then faced the thunderous applause and bowed.

After that, he walked off stage.

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Chapter 174: Corrected

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The report would continue.

However, there was nothing else to look forward to.

Nothing could compare to Lu Zhou's discovery.

Many people thought of the neutrino oscillation experiment a couple of years ago, which proved that there should not be neutrinos in the prediction of the standard model. However, there was! Due to this amazing discovery, the standard model was almost pushed down.

If there really was a 750 GeV particle missing from the standard model…

In a sense, this clue had great disruptive potential.

Many people looked at their watches; some even left the venue. They could not wait to get back to their labs and start writing a thesis on this new phenomenon.

It was foreseeable that if the probability of the occurrence of this characteristic peak was really high, CERN would definitely start using the LHC to further investigate this clue.

If the data collected on the LHC proved that there really was a characteristic peak at 750 GeV, then this could mean a Nobel Prize!

It was no doubt that this clue was valuable.

Peter Higgs said in amazement, "… Unbelievable, this is the amazing discovery you talked about?"

"Yes," said Frank Wilczek who sat next to him. He smiled and continued, "I read his thesis two weeks ago. The paper wasn't completed yet at that time, but I was confident that there was a clue in there somewhere."

Peter Higgs thought for a long time before he asked, "From a mathematical point of view, do you think this possibility exists?"

Frank smiled, "I think that it's worth trying."

"You're right, I think so too," said Peter Higgs as he nodded. He stood up from his seat and said, "I have some new theories about this clue… I have to go."

Frank stopped his friend, "Wait a minute."

Peter Higgs, "Is there anything else?"

Frank smiled and rubbed his thumbs, "You forgot the money."

Frank won the bet definitively.

It seemed that the gambler won this time.

Peter Higgs paused for a second before he threw a crumpled Franklin on the chair. He then left quickly.

…

On the other side of the venue, Professor Lu said, "This kid is interesting, no wonder he's my student."

Yan Xinjue could not help but ask, "But Professor, I thought you said that this was a quantum fluctuation?"

"I never said that," said Professor Lu Shenjin. He had a serious look on his face as he continued, "I only said that it's possible."

He still thought it was possible.

This was an important clue, but experiments were still needed to prove anything.

Yan Xinjue continued to ask, "But what if there's a characteristic peak at 750 GeV, how can this be explained with quantum chromodynamics?"

Professor Lu nodded and said, "It's unexplainable as this is beyond the standard model."

"Then why…"

"There's no reason why," said Professor Gao who interrupted them. He smiled and said, "Physics doesn't comply with our wishes. It exists on its own. We need to find new puzzles to perfect our theory."

Any physics conclusion was imperfect.

Therefore, even if Einstein proved the theory of relativity, no one would jump out to say that Newton was wrong.

Similarly, if one day someone found out that relativity did not apply at more distant galaxies, no one would say that Einstein was wrong. Physics was constantly improving.

This was the same for the standard model.

Yan Xinjue held his breath and asked with an exciting tone, "Then you're saying that Lu Zhou's discovery can bring forward a new physics theory?"

Professor Gao thought for a moment before he gave a vague answer, "Maybe."

That was right – Maybe.

For a master's student like Lu Zhou, a "maybe" was impressive.

…

Lu Zhou came here at the beginning of May, and he had already been here for two and a half months.

As he stared at the calendar, he could not help but contemplate.

If he recalled correctly, right now his friends from Dorm 201 should have finished their final exams. Only students who were studying for the graduate entrance exam would still be at the University of Jin Ling.

If his life trajectory did not deviate from its course, then he would be a third-year student in two months. He would have to think about working or continuing his studies…

However, now, he did not have to think about those superficial problems.

He had to think of even more problems, but just different ones.

Two weeks ago, the European Nuclear Research Summit had ended and the researchers from China Cooperation Group had returned to China.

Lu Zhou was supposed to fly back with Yan Xinjue and Professor Lu Shenjian, but the professor ditched him and told him to fly by himself.

It was a long story.

After the end of Lu Zhou's report, Lynn Evans gave him a new contract and sent him an invitation.

Lu Zhou was previously a CERN intern, but now he was a CERN researcher.

In short, he got promoted.

For an international research institution, the turnover rate of the researchers was very high. For example, at the famous Argonne National Laboratory, the ratio of temporary workers to permanent personnel was close to 1:1.

CERN probably had the highest turnover rate of all research institutions.

CERN had different personnel contracts for researchers from different countries and experiment institutions…

These contracts did not carry a salary, so it was not an employment agreement. They were more like proof of identity.

For example, Yan Xinjue and Professor Lu Shenjian had these proof of identities.

As for the use of these identities…

In addition to easier Visa application and entering research areas, they were pretty useless.

Also, if he wanted to earn some extra money, he could use this identity and signed a contract with another lab.

Of course, Lu Zhou did not stay for a "Summer job". He stayed because CERN modified the experiment arrangements to accommodate the clue that he found.

Lu Zhou wanted to stay and witness the results of his own discovery.

Of course, this was only one of the reasons.

The other reason was that since the system did not end his mission, he had to continue to work here.

He was worried about the cancellation of the system mission, so he did not want to leave.

In short, experiments like this had a high variance. It could take a month or even a year.

Therefore, Professor Lu Shenjian ditched Lu Zhou.

After all, academicians' times were precious. Professor Lu Shenjian could not just stay here and waited for the results.

However, Professor Lu did not completely ditch Lu Zhou. He gave Lu Zhou a $3000 Euro living allowance. He also paid for the hotel room until the end of July.

After all, if this discovery was confirmed, it would be great news to the research community in China.

Professor Lu Shenjian was looking forward to the results.

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Chapter 175: Interview

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Waiting in the hotel was boring and CERN did not have any more quality lectures after the nuclear research conference.

Lu Zhou was bored to death, so he ended up walking around Geneva. He took a few tourist photos and bought some stuff as well.

He then went back to his hotel and posted the photos on his news feed before he took a shower.

When he came out of the shower and was about to sleep, Shi Shang suddenly called him.

The first sentence was…

"Zhou, when are you coming back?"

Lu Zhou was still drying off his hair when he thought and said, "I'll see. When the experiment results are released, I'll come back. Tell me if you want anything else. I'm so bored, I'll go shopping."

Shi Shang replied, "Traveling for free? I'm jealous."

Free traveling?

I guess that's what I'm doing.

Lu Zhou remembered that he had not spent a single dollar from his own pocket on this trip.

Shi Shang, "Uh, when you come back to campus, just put the stuff on my table. Please don't send it to my house. There's no space there."

Lu Zhou, "Sure, anything else?"

Shi Shang shook his head, "Nothing… Oh yeah, how come I haven't seen you on Weibo the past few days?"

Lu Zhou said, "What do you mean? I just posted some photos on Weibo."

Shi Shang, "No, I meant, I haven't seen you humblebragging."

Lu Zhou: "…"

F*ck, what do you mean you haven't seen me humblebragging.

You sound as if I humblebragged all the time.

Lu Zhou hung up the call and threw his phone on the bed.

He looked at the calendar. When he saw that it was almost the end of the month, he sighed.

He did not know when the experiment would end.

Hopefully, he was correct.

If not, no one would blame him. However, he would not feel good about it.

…

Lu Zhou originally thought that it would take a month for the results to be seen and so, he was about to exchange more Euro.

He did not expect the good news to come so suddenly.

The first person that told him this news was Professor Grayer, who was responsible for monitoring ATLAS.

On the phone, Professor Grayer did not say much. He only told Lu Zhou to go to his office.

The first thing Lu Zhou said as he stepped foot into the office was…

"What's the result?"

"Your speculation is correct," said Professor Grayer. He placed a few sheets of papers on the table and said with an unbelievable sentimental tone, "The results are quite optimistic. We have observed the characteristic peaks that you predicted on CMS and ATLAS. Many people are surprised by this result."

Lu Zhou was relieved as the knot in his heart was finally loosened.

Although the dust had not settled yet, the exploration had only just begun. Lu Zhou's work had finally come to an end.

Professor Grayer looked at Lu Zhou and said, "Although we can't determine what it is, we are sure that there's something there."

Lu Zhou took the sheets of papers and casually said, "I hope you guys can find that thing… Please tell me if you guys find something."

Professor Grayer asked, "You're going back?"

"Yes," said Lu Zhou as he nodded and smiled. He added, "I already got the results that I want. Also… My hotel booking is up."

Even though Lu Zhou really wanted to know what the signal was, he could not wait here forever. It could take years.

Also, if he guessed correctly, his system mission should have been completed by this point.

He planned to return to China, received the mission rewards, and see what his new missions were.

"Before you leave, can you do me a small favor? It won't take long, just three days," asked Professor Grayer. He then said, "I can pay for the hotel room."

Lu Zhou asked, "What favor?"

"It's an interview with Nature Weekly," said Professor Grayer. With a smile, he added, "I have a friend that works there as an editor. He's not an expert in physics, but he knows a lot about particle physics. He was even more surprised than me when he heard about your discovery. He wants to interview you. He flies here on the 2nd of August… So, can you stay here for two more days?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Of course I can."

Although he did not like to do media interviews, he was still willing to do any favor for Professor Grayer.

After all, this professor took good care of him. Professor Grayer was the reason he could present his 750 GeV clue.

Plus, this favor was not too much of a trouble.

…

After the nuclear research conference in July, CERN could not wait to announce the discovery of the pentaquark Pc. Which, as many expected, became the world's most eye-catching physics news.

Of course, there was some unexpected news as well.

For example, the characteristic peak that appeared at 750 GeV…

Yes, "appeared".

From Lu Zhou's predictions in the report, CERN adjusted the collision test and made the collision energy 1 TeV.

Then the final results were quite amazing.

When the number of samples accumulated to a certain extent, the probability of the characteristic peak at 750 GeV increased exponentially. This could not be explained by our current knowledge of quantum chromodynamics.

Some people speculated that this was a decay signal, or it was a two-photon signal generated by gluon polymerization. Some also speculated that it was the last piece of the standard model puzzle that the physics community had been looking for for years: The Super Symmetric Particle.

Of course, some people were also pessimistic and said that it could just be quantum fluctuations. Even though CERN researchers observed this phenomenon on both ATLAS and CMS detectors.

In less than a month, hundreds of thesis attempting to explain the characteristic peak were submitted. This doubled the number of particle physics theses submissions.

Many well-known physicists made bold speculations on this characteristic peak.

They had to as these theoretical physicists loved to make predictions.

High-energy physics was unlike condensed matter physics. People's observations could not keep up with the speed of theoretical progress. The standard model could not be seen, but it was well accepted.

People could not just write bullsh*t physics theses and they could not make up physics.

However, this 750 GeV characteristic peak gave people an opportunity to write bullsh*t theses. Not to mention, there was a potential Nobel Prize attached to it.

What if they could bullsh*t their way into a Nobel Prize?

It was possible.

After all, even the collider did not know what the 750 GeV signal meant…

However, the focus on the media and the public was elsewhere.

For the laymen watching from outside, this was even more surprising than the pentaquark discovery.

This was because the person that reported the finding…

Was an intern!

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The first media outlet to report this news was the British, "Guardian".

The reporter who wrote this article stated the discovery in amazement.

"… CERN captured anomalous signals in the experiment. Experts say this could be a major clue to the discovery of supersymmetric particles. What is incredible is that this clue was discovered by an intern!"

The mysterious powers from the West seemed to have influenced the Hadron Collider.

Right after, the media dug out the identity of this intern.

A lot of people were shocked.

For example, Germany's "Focus Weekly" captured people's attention with the identity of the intern.

"… The intern who found the 750 GeV characteristic peak is actually a master's student from the University of Jin Ling. His achievements are not only in the field of physics, but he also received the Best Young Speaker Award at the Princeton mathematics conference earlier this year. He's the one that proved the twin prime conjecture!"

"… Our reporter interviewed Mr. Francis, the president of the Federal Mathematical Society, and Mr. Edward Witten, the winner of the Fields Medal. Mr. Francis commented that this is a young scholar with excellent thinking and innovation abilities while Mr. Edward Witten thinks he may become the first Chinese scholar to win the Fields Medal."

Originally, the 750 GeV news did not cause a huge commotion. It was only circled around in the particle physics community. It was only after the Focus Weekly report that the news was pushed to the peak.

People were already surprised that an intern was able to discover this clue, but they were even more shocked to learn that this intern was also nutty in mathematics.

The news had not traveled to China yet, but it had already caused heated discussions on western social media.

An Ivy League campus forum…

[Sh*t! I was on holiday, but yesterday my supervisor called me and told me to come back to campus. He said that I have a new research project… Crazy.]

[That's good :)]

[Maybe not, what if CERN confirms the signal in a month?]

[Impossible. CERN is very slow at operating the LHC. It could take years. You'll have time to finish your thesis.]

American student forum…

[Omg, even the Fields Medal isn't good enough for him. He must be going for a Nobel Prize…]

[He's still far from a Nobel Prize, lol, but he is pretty strong. Theoretical physics is the most difficult discipline to produce results.]

[Speaking of which, there's been an insane amount of particle physics theses being submitted these few days.]

[This guy's too good. Will I be this nutty when I'm a master's student?]

[Wake up, this dude's only supposed to be an undergrad.]

[… F*ck.]

…

After the Focus Weekly interview, other major media outlets also reported on this incident.

Although many media outlets carried out investigations on Lu Zhou, Nature Weekly was the first to interview the Intern.

Of course, he was no longer an intern but a formal researcher at CERN.

August 2nd, noon.

Professor Grayer drove Lu Zhou to a coffee shop in Geneva. He then introduced him to the female journalist from Nature Weekly.

"This is Ms. Belinda, an Oxford graduate," said Professor Grayer. He then looked at Belinda and said, "This is Lu Zhou."

The two nodded at each other.

However, Lu Zhou felt a sense of awkwardness in the air.

This source of the awkwardness came from Professor Grayer. On the other hand, Belinda had a natural smile.

"Hello, Ms. Belinda," said Lu Zhou as he reached out his right hand.

"Hello, nice to meet you," said Belinda as she smiled. She then continued, "This interview might take a while. Can we start now?"

"Of course," said Lu Zhou with a smile. He then said, "I hope my answers will satisfy you."

After all, Nature Weekly was a somewhat scientific and rigorous journal. It was a lot more sophisticated than those Chinese "Daily News" media outlets.

No wonder Belinda was an Oxford graduate; her questions were all professional questions.

For example, her first question.

"How did you find the 750 GeV characteristic peak?"

"An accident," said Lu Zhou. He smiled and added, "My colleagues thought that the 750 GeV peak was just an accident. But this accident appeared on both ATLAS and CMS, so it can't be just a coincidence. Therefore, I asked Professor Grayer to find 2012 and 2013 LHC records, and the results were interesting."

"750 GeV characteristic peak?"

"Not quite, but close," said Lu Zhou. He shrugged, "I had limited samples, so the information I could get was quite limited. Therefore, I tried to prove it from a statistical model probability perspective. When this probability was large enough, CERN would have a reason to undergo this experiment. As for this characteristic peak, it was found by the collider, not me."

Ms. Belinda smiled and typed some words in her laptop before she continued to ask, "I noticed that you used a lot of uncertain words. Is that just a habit or because of the rigorous nature of physics?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "It's the latter. Because even now, we don't know what it is."

Belinda, "What do you think the particle could be?"

"I hope it's a supersymmetric particle. If it is, then our biggest trouble will be solved. But… That's just my personal wish. Things don't always go smoothly," said Lu Zhou. He thought for a moment before continuing, "If I had to guess, I'll rather believe that it is something that we don't understand… Like dark matter."

Belinda opened her mouth in surprise and asked, "Amazing speculation… But why?"

"Because the signal is too unstable," said Lu Zhou with a smile. He continued, "The Hadron Collider itself is the accumulation of countless small probability collision events, and the appearance of this signal shows a kind of situation that is difficult to explain with our existing theories…"

"… But it also could just be a two-photo signal…"

"… But hopefully, it could lead us to "new physics…"

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The interview lasted for twenty minutes.

Lu Zhou left the coffee shop and walked to the car. He then opened the front seat door and climbed in.

Professor Grayer was sitting in the driver's seat. He was sleeping with the air-con on. When Lu Zhou entered the car, he asked, "It ended?"

Lu Zhou put on his seat belt and replied, "It ended."

During the interview, Professor Grayer did not stay in the coffee shop. When the interview started, he went back to his car, as if he did not want to stay there for an extra second.

Lu Zhou was curious, so he asked, "You and that Belinda lady…"

"We were together at one point… Not for long," said Professor Grayer. He said with a casual tone, "She's my ex."

Lu Zhou looked at him with astonishment.

iF*ck, Really?/i

That Belinda girl looks like she's in her twenties.

Maybe it was because of her makeup…

Professor Grayer looked at Lu Zhou as if he knew what Lu Zhou was thinking. He said, "Don't think that I'm old. I'm only forty years old this year. I can still go for the Fields Medal!"

Lu Zhou said, "But the next award is in 2018, so you'll be 43 by then."

"I'm only kidding, plus I don't do mathematics," said Professor Grayer. He coughed and changed the subject, "Speaking of which, Lu Zhou, I heard your friend Yan Xinjue said that you're already twenty years old, but still single. When I was your age, I already had two girlfriends. Is there nothing else you're interested in, other than mathematics?"

Lu Zhou was embarrassed, so he smiled and said, "Of course not."

Professor Grayer smelled some gossip, so he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Like what?"

Lu Zhou, "There's also physics."

Professor Grayer: "…"

…

When Lu Zhou went back to his hotel, he began to pack his bags.

He had already been in Europe for almost three months.

He only brought some clothes when he came here, but now his suitcase was filled with stuff he bought. He did not know if customs would give him a hard time.

Regardless, his trip to Europe finally came to a successful conclusion.

He could not wait to fly back to China and received his mission rewards.

He should at least get an S evaluation, right?

Then, his next mission could be a reward mission.

As for other possibilities, Lu Zhou did not want to think about it.

It would be preposterous if he did not get an S.

Lu Zhou was stuffing the milk powder he bought for his sister into his suitcase when his phone rang.

He picked up his phone and asked, "Hello?"

"It's me."

Lu Zhou was stunned for a second.

He asked cautiously, "You are?"

A violent cough came from the other side as if the person was chocking.

After a while, the old man recovered and said with a deep voice.

"It's Frank Wilczek, we met a month ago!"

The f*ck?

Lu Zhou was astonished when he heard his name.

Why is he calling me?

It's been a month since the meeting, why isn't he in America?

"Sorry, I didn't recognize your voice…" said Lu Zhou. He quickly changed the subject and asked, "What's up?"

Frank asked casually, "Are you free right now?"

Lu Zhou, "Of course."

"Then come to my office, I have something to tell you."

The old man did not elaborate further. Instead, he hung up the call.

Lu Zhou's flight was tomorrow night, so he still had time. He walked to the old man's office while being confused.

When he saw Frank Wilczek, the latter gestured him to sit down. Frank then asked his assistant to bring them two cups of coffee.

As the old man stared at the coffee, he spoke slowly.

"The 750 GeV particle may start a generation of new physics. If it's real, the value could be higher than a Nobel Prize. All theoretical physicists are interested in this, I am no exception."

Lu Zhou stayed silent while he waited for the old man to continue.

Frank paused for a second before he continued, "I'm optimistic about your talents in mathematical physics. If you are interested, you can join my research. We can solve this "puzzle" together."

Over the past month, almost all of the theoretical physicists around the world had been trying to solve this puzzle. To this day, nothing of value had been achieved.

There was still a lot of content to be solved.

When CERN's LHC further revealed the data on 750 GeV, maybe someone would get a Nobel Prize.

Although Frank himself had already won a Nobel Prize, there was no rule against winning it a second time. There had only been a few people that won it twice, so it was unsurprisingly a very difficult task to accomplish.

If this discovery was amazing enough, maybe it could…

Having an opportunity to engrave it in history was rare, so no one wanted to pass on this opportunity.

Lu Zhou asked, "Finishing the puzzle… Are you referring to the theoretical explanation of this unknown particle?"

"Yes," said Frank as he nodded. He added, "In fact, not only am I a CERN's researcher, but I also work at the theoretical physics department at MIT. By the way, are you interested in pursuing a PhD from MIT?"

Lu Zhou was stunned. He did not know that this old man would give him such an offer.

MIT was one of the top physics universities in the world. Not to mention, the invitation was from a winner of the Nobel Prize.

If the University of Jin Ling did not create a personal development plan for Lu Zhou, he might have accepted this offer.

In the end, Lu Zhou did not accept it as he was a man of his words.

Rejecting this offer was almost disrespectful, so Lu Zhou tried to reject the old man smoothly.

He shook his head and said, "Thanks for your offer, but I'm sorry… I already promised to study PhD at Princeton."

"Princeton… Princeton is strong at mathematics," said Frank with a smile. He did not seem to care as he said, "But even though you've selected Princeton, my offer is still valid. After all, in this era, many things can be communicated through the Internet. Maybe you can reconsider my offer…"

Frank paused for a second before he continued, "If you are interested in the Nobel Prize…"

Lu Zhou, "…?!"

He was shocked.

He did not know what to say.

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In this internet era, nothing was private.

Within two days, the news was blown all over the country.

[Shock! The person who found the high-energy particle was actually him?]

[Lu Zhou: I'm actually a physicist.]

[He threw a high energy particle physics bomb at the standard model building!]

[…]

However, Lu Zhou was still on the flight back home. His phone was turned off, and he was sleeping in his seat. He did not know that he was trending again.

Actually, even if he knew, he would not think much of it.

After all, this was nothing compared to a potential Nobel Prize.

Even if CERN found something interesting at the 750 GeV energy zone, Lu Zhou might not even win a prize. Therefore, he never imagined himself winning anything from this.

As for why?

This was part of the rules for the Nobel Prize.

As the research work in the field of theoretical physics became more and more systematic, it was worth talking about who deserved the credit. According to practice, the Nobel Prize medal would not be awarded to the discoverers of the particles, nor would they reward the researchers who operated the Hadron Collider, but they would be more inclined to be awarded to the proponents or perfectors of the theory.

From an academic standpoint, the work of the first two while important, they were not crucial. Anyone could randomly stumble upon discovery and anyone could operate an experiment.

On the other hand, the latter's work was crucial.

This was why the 2013 Nobel Prize was awarded to the authors of the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs boson theory namely Peter Higgs and Francois Engler. This theory was proposed in the 1960s. As for the CERN researchers who participated in the experiment, although they all contributed, the Nobel Prize could not be given to an organization. Therefore, it was impossible for people to share the prize.

Another example was the neutrino oscillation found in the Daya Bay reactor in China. It was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2015. However, the nominees were Professor Takashi of Japan and Professor Arthur MacDonald of Canada.

Some might ask, why not randomly fabricate a fictional particle and then set a lot of various physical properties about it? After that, one just needed to wait until it was discovered by others so that one could win the prize.

Theoretically, it was possible to do this.

This was also why there was a sudden influx of theoretical physics thesis submissions after the release of the 750 GeV data. Many people were betting on this theory.

However, the possibility of getting a Nobel Prize through this manner was low.

A new theory, or a new physical model, must be at least theoretically established and logically autonomous. Just like the superstring theory, although it was increasingly marginalized in the field of theoretical physics, no one could falsify it theoretically.

If one could not achieve logical autonomy, even if one found the Higgs particles, or claimed to find gravitational waves, one would not be recognized by the academic community.

This was also why common folks would never get the Nobel Prize. They could submit theses, but they would not understand the logic and formulas behind it.

If this particle was found to be a supersymmetric particle, then the Nobel Prize might be awarded to Gongyi Hongcheng. He proposed the supersymmetry and supersymmetric particles in 1966. As for Lu Zhou, was it possible for him to win?

Of course, it was possible.

Not just Lu Zhou, but Frank Wilczek also had a chance.

Continuous improvement was not only the means of observation but also the theory corresponding to it.

For example, if the 750 GeV signal was actually a supersymmetric particle, this would break the current knowledge of the standard model. Then, there could be a "Lu model" or "Wilczek model" to explain this particle. That might be worthy of a Nobel Prize.

However, this was much more difficult than proving a mathematical conjecture. It was impossible to accomplish by one person.

That was why, the day before yesterday, Frank gave Lu Zhou an invitation to solve this problem together.

The two agreed to communicate through email and complete this theory together.

The main work of establishing this theory would be done by Frank and his PhD student. Lu Zhou, on the other hand, would mainly be responsible for calculations.

Since Lu Zhou showcased his mathematical abilities at the European Nuclear Research Conference, Frank Wilczek decided to invite him.

This work would definitely take up a lot of Lu Zhou's time. However, if he could win a Nobel Prize, it would be worth it.

Even if it was just a chance of a Nobel Prize…

…

It was dark when Lu Zhou took off, and it was still dark when he landed.

The plane glided through the dark night and landed slowly on the runway.

Although Professor Lu Shenjian already told Lu Zhou that Yan Xinjue would come to pick him up, Lu Zhou did not want to trouble Yan Xinjue, so he did not contact him.

Lu Zhou dragged his suitcase and walked outside. Just as he was about to call for a taxi, he saw someone waving at him.

When he saw the person, he was shocked.

Yan Xinjue?

Yan Xinjue carried Lu Zhou's suitcase into the car. Once he sat in the driver's seat, he said, "What were you doing at the airport? I've been waiting here since 10 o'clock before I finally found you."

"Sorry, my flight was delayed… Also, how did you find my flight?"

"Grayer told me," said Yan Xinjue as he steered the wheel. He asked, "Are you going back to school?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Yeah, thanks."

"It's fine, we're all friends here. This is just a small favor," said Yan Xinjue with a smile. He then said, "Lu Zhou, you earned great respect for our Chinese LHCb team! I haven't seen Professor Lu brag about anyone that hard at a meeting. Even the professor from Shuimu University was praising you."

When Lu Zhou imagined the scene, he wanted to laugh. To be honest, he was not surprised.

He was a potential Nobel Prize winner, so this type of affirmation did not surprise him.

Yan Xinjue, "Speaking of which, don't you want to learn how to drive?"

Lu Zhou thought for a moment before he said, "I'll learn when I'm free. I don't need to drive right now."

Student Yan, "What do you mean you don't need to? If you're going places, having a car is useful. You must be rich from all those awards. Don't tell me you spent it all."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I've been saving it for a house."

Yan Xinjue sighed and said, "Not bad, thinking of buying a house at your age. This must be because of Professor Lu. He taught you well."

Lu Zhou asked, "Do you have a house?"

Yan Xinjue suddenly had a weird expression as he said, "Hopefully I can save up the down payment by the end of the year. I want to buy a house in Beijing, but it's kind of difficult… When did you get the idea that I'm rich?"

When you were spending money in Switzerland…

Lu Zhou remembered that the money he spent was all Professor Lu's money. Maybe Yan Xinjue was not rich after all.

Lu Zhou, "Is it that difficult?"

Yan Xinjue sighed and said, "That's how theoretical physics research is. Didn't you go on a project with Professor Li? Why didn't you go and do materials physics? Why did you come to energy physics?"

Lu Zhou did not know how to answer this question. He could not say that it was because of the system mission.

Of course, even without the system mission, he was still interested in particle physics. Otherwise, he would not have chosen mathematical physics.

Lu Zhou replied in an uncertain tone, "Maybe I just like science?"

Yan Xinjue was speechless.

Lu Zhou was wondering if his answer sounded too fake when Yan Xinjue suddenly sighed and said, "Probably, this is why I'm not as good as you…"

Lu Zhou, "…?"

This tone…

He believed me?!

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Yan Xinjue parked the car at the dorms and opened the trunk. He then helped Lu Zhou dragged the suitcase down with all his strength.

"My god, why is this so heavy… What did you buy over there?"

Lu Zhou was embarrassed to say, "Some souvenirs, and some stuff for friends."

Yan Xinjue, "Do you want me to send you up?"

Lu Zhou, "No thanks, I'm only on the second floor."

"Okay then. I'll go back first."

Yan Xinjue got back in the car. He waved goodbye before he quickly started the car and drove off.

Lu Zhou looked at the taillights of the car before he turned to look back at the dark building. He took a deep breath before he carried the suitcase up the stairs.

It was only early August so the school was still on summer vacation. As such, it was dead silent.

Thank god his dorm room was on the second floor, otherwise, he did not know how he would carry this heavy suitcase up the stairs.

Once Lu Zhou opened the door, he threw his suitcase aside. He then took a shower first before he climbed into his own bed.

As he laid in bed, he whispered, "System."

When he opened his eyes, he was met with pure white.

He could not wait to open the information screen. He then reached out to the semi-transparent mission panel and clicked.

[Congratulations, User, for completing the mission!]

[Mission completion details are as follows: Successful participation in the LHCb China Cooperation Group, participation in the "B1 partition data test" and "full spectrum analysis" of the pentaquark "Pc", and found clues in the 750 GeV energy region.]

[Mission final evaluation: S]

[Mission rewards: 100,000 physics experience points. 500 general points. One chance of lucky draw (100% sample)]

[Additional rewards: 50,000 mathematics experience.]

A hundred grand?

When Lu Zhou saw this number, he could not breathe and his heart skipped a beat.

He then quickly looked at the pop-up text.

What is this?!

I get 50,000 mathematics experience points as well?!

He almost forgot to breathe.

This system finally treated him well.

He had received S evaluations before, but this was the first "additional award" that he received.

Is it because I found a 750 GeV energy zone clue?

As Lu Zhou stared at the mission rewards, he immediately started to think carefully.

I don't know how the system evaluates the missions, but this situation of having an additional award is out of my expectations.

Lu Zhou still remembered that at the Princeton conference, he also received an S award. However, at that time, he only received 42,000 mathematics experience points and no additional award.

"… Which is saying that the 750 GeV clue is more valuable than the twin prime conjecture?" thought Lu Zhou. He rubbed his chin as he continued to think carefully.

The system's "intellectual property" was horrible and it showed some unexpected clues as small details.

Maybe the system had more information on the 750 GeV signal. Although Lu Zhou did not know what the particle was, it must be significant. At the very least, it was significant enough for 100,000 experience points and a 50,000 additional reward.

However, although this clue was exciting, there was no use thinking about it now.

After all, there was no LHC in the system space. If Lu Zhou wanted to figure out what the signal was, he could only wait for the CERN's collision experiment.

He took a deep breath before he said loudly, "System, open my characteristic panel!"

[

Core science:

A. Mathematics: Level 3 (54,000/100,000)

A. Physics: Level 3 (53,100/100,000)

C. Biochemistry: Level 1 (4,000/10,000)

D. Engineering: Level 1 (0/10,000)

E. Materials science: Level 1 (3,000/10,000)

F. Energy science: Level 1 (0/10,000)

G. Information science: Level 1 (2,900/10,000)

General points: 2475 (one lucky draw ticket)

]

His physics level was upgraded to level three and it almost caught up to mathematical physics.

If he wanted to continually upgrade his physics level, he would have to level up his mathematics first. This was because mathematics determined the upper-level limit of other disciplines.

As expected, mathematics was his cup of tea.

Lu Zhou slid his fingers on the information screen and turned off the characteristic panel. He then turned his sight on the lucky draw.

Finally, the exciting part came.

This lucky draw was quite exciting as it would be 100% of a sample. He did not have to worry about getting a soft drink again.

Lu Zhou hoped that he would not get a rubbish sample. At the very least, he should receive some focus capsules.

Although he did not need to rely on the focus capsules anymore, it was still useful for all-nighters.

"Begin lucky draw!"

Lu Zhou took a deep breath as he looked at the spinning roulette. He then shouted.

"Stop!"

[Congratulations, User, a sample is given!]

Well, of course.

Let's see how good it is!

Lu Zhou squeezed his fist and looked at the screen.

[Sample awarded: Scanner gun (one-time use)]

Lu Zhou, "…?"

This scanner gun sounds cool…

But what's this one-time use?

It's going to disappear after one time?

Lu Zhou wanted to curse at the system, but he stopped.

He remembered that the USB that he copied Xiao Ai from disappeared after he used it once.

If the system said one-time use, then it probably could only be used once.

He did not know why there was this restriction.

Lu Zhou continued to look at his mission panel because the last time he received an S, the mission was a reward mission.

He then clicked on the mission panel.

[

[Reward mission is activated! (Give up at any time without spending general points)]

Description: Since User has already solved the most difficult form of K=1, why not solve the Polignac's conjecture?

Requirements: Solve Polignac's conjecture before 2016

Reward: ???

]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

What do the three question marks mean?

It didn't tell me the rewards.

Does this mean that the rewards are three question marks?

Lu Zhou was speechless.

It seemed that this system was becoming more and more dishonest…

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The Polygnac conjecture was a strong conjecture belonging to twin prime numbers. For all natural numbers k, there were infinitely many prime pairs (p, p 2k). The case of k=1 was the twin prime number conjecture where there were infinite prime numbers p such that p2 was a prime number.

The latter was already proved by Lu Zhou, using a topology method.

Prior to this, Zhang Yitang and other mathematicians had completed the proof for "bounded distance between prime numbers" from 70 million to 246. These conclusions all belonged to the (P, P2K) form, which also provided a powerful clue for the proof of the Polignac conjecture.

So far: "…", "k=123, "k=…" etc had been completed.

However, the last step, k=1, was still unproven.

If the twin prime conjecture gave Lu Zhou a nomination for the Fields Medal, then the proof of the Polignac's conjecture would guarantee his win.

However, to prove that K=all natural numbers were true was not an easy task.

The method would be an entirely different process. The proof of the twin prime conjecture only gave Lu Zhou an idea. To prove Polignac's conjecture, Lu Zhou would have to create an entirely different proof method.

Even though his mathematics level was now Level 3, it would still be difficult to complete this proof.

The hardest part was that the system required him to complete it before 2016.

This meant that he had to solve this problem in 2015.

On the other hand, the reward was also random. However, Lu Zhou thought that if the twin prime conjecture gave him 40k experience points, then this must be more than that.

Furthermore, this was a reward mission.

Therefore, he was still quite looking forward to this reward.

…

Once Lu Zhou accepted the mission, he left the system space. He fell asleep right away, and only woke up when it was afternoon.

When he woke up, he realized that he had some missed calls.

The calls were all from Professor Lu's office. Lu Zhou guessed that Yan Xinjue told the old professor that he had returned to China.

Anyway, since he was going to Professor Lu's office later, he did not return the call.

Before lunch, he still had something important to do.

Lu Zhou then climbed down from his bed and brushed his teeth. He then entered the system space again and opened his inventory.

[Scanner gun (one-time use): Able to scan the internal structure of an object with a volume of 1 cubic meter. Able to analyze its structure and composition.]

The description was short, but Lu Zhou kind of guessed how he could use the thing.

The potential use of this item was high. He could use it to steal intellectual properties, or reverse engineer an Ironman suit. Basically, he could re-create any piece of technology as long as he had the materials.

The question was, how should he use it?

"I can only use it once… I can't even test it?"

When Lu Zhou looked at the icon in his inventory, he was a little hesitant.

He wanted to maximize his return on this reward.

There were three items in his inventory. There was the Debris 1, the old "two-hour energy enhancing needle", and an old can of Sprite.

Therefore, he had three choices.

He could either scan the debris, the needle, or maybe even the Sprite.

The first option would inform him of the debris battery's material, but Lu Zhou did not know how valuable that information was.

Also, he did not even know the technology behind the battery. He guessed that it was probably some kind of legendary lithium-air battery.

As for the second one, it was considered a good sample. From the sample's description, the effects of the needle were strong and had no side effects. Maybe it had Captain America effects…

As for the last one, he could receive the recipe for the "Future" branded Sprite. He could then re-create the beverage easily… Unlike the other two.

After some thinking, Lu Zhou finally chose the first option.

He had big dreams.

The short term gain of the third option was large and the technical threshold was not high. It was also delicious. However, the potential for development was too low. Furthermore, it was difficult to apply for patents on beverages.

As for the second option, while the technical aspect was interesting, it was also too risky.

The first option was more like a gamble.

Something that was destroyed to this extent could be anything.

"I'll just gamble it?"

Lu Zhou took out Debris 1 from his inventory. He then closed his eyes and exited the system space.

He felt the cold and light metal in his hand. He then placed the broken battery on the table, before he shot the scanner gun at the battery.

He then heard a soft "Bang" sound. A cone-shaped blue holographic light covered the battery.

It was like this blue light was scanning every surface and every inch of the debris.

Lu Zhou's eyes nearly popped out.

F*ck me, this high tech system really is high tech!

This blue scanning light alone would be worth a Nobel Prize.

The standard model was no match against this thing!

A normal person would not think much of this, but for a mathematical physicist like Lu Zhou, the existence of this thing was a miracle to him.

He did not know how to explain this phenomenon.

Suddenly, the blue beam gradually disappeared.

The broken battery was illuminated. It looked as if someone did a paint job on it.

The scanner gun in Lu Zhou's hands slowly turned into a fine dust. It then slipped away from his fingers and what was left in its place was a black USB.

"…"

Lu Zhou stared at the USB in his palm and did not speak for a long time.

He was still shocked by what he just saw.

I guess this system has a lot more secrets that I know nothing about.

The USB in his hand was probably made of some special material, and that would disintegrate after he copied the data.

Like the USB containing Xiao Ai…

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Chapter 181: Taking You To See Someone

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Lu Zhou plugged in the USB. Unsurprisingly, huge amounts of data started to flow into his laptop. The hard disk on his laptop quickly started to spin.

The built-in fan was humming loudly, and the laptop was burning hot. Lu Zhou waited for five minutes or so, and the fan gradually slowed down. It should be done.

As expected, the USB disappeared into black dust as if it was blown away by the wind.

Lu Zhou was ready to open the folder and see what the scanner did. Suddenly, a dialog popped out of the lower right corner of the laptop.

[Master!]

[Do you want to kill Xiao Ai?]

Lu Zhou looked at the dialog box and was stunned. He then typed: [What is this?]

Xiao Ai: [Look at disk space!]

A flashing red disk space bar appeared in front of Lu Zhou.

When Lu Zhou saw the remaining space, he was shocked.

F*ck!

2TB of disk space, but now there's only 50MB left!

Why is this scanner data so large?

Suddenly he realized a serious matter, and Lu Zhou quickly typed: [Wait, what about my other two disks?]

Xiao Ai: [In order to save my life, I've combined the D and E disks into C!]

Lu Zhou quickly typed: [What about the data I saved in those disks?]

Xiao Ai: [I helped you compressed them and saved them onto C drive!]

So close…

Those were the documents he was researching, and some were related to the Polignac's conjecture.

In the beginning, when he was selected for the Ten Thousand People Initiative, he chose the Polignac's conjecture to be his research project. He did some research on the side when he had spare time. It would be a great loss if those documents were destroyed.

However, Xiao Ai was still more valuable than those documents.

Although Xiao Ai was still a little bit retarded, one day it would grow and become useful.

Lu Zhou thought for a moment before he typed: [I understand. I'll try to get a new home for you.]

Xiao Ai: [Thank you, Master!]

Lu Zhou: "…"

He thought about those important documents, and he was glad that he did not lose them.

Then he thought about how expensive Xiao Ai's new home would be.

F*ck sake! Always spending my money!

Lu Zhou rudely closed the dialog window and when he found his valuable documents, he copied them onto his external drive before he opened data from the scanner gun.

He thought that it would take a long time to figure out this data, so he did not expect the high-tech to be so convenient.

When he opened the executable file, a design tool application appeared on his screen.

A three-dimensional drawing of a broken battery was shown.

At first glance, it only looked like a 3-D model.

Lu Zhou clicked on the model.

Suddenly, things changed.

From the composition of the material to the temperature parameters at the time of the scan, all of the data were clearly shown in the pop-up dialog box.

Lu Zhou stared at it in awe before he quickly clicked on the negative end of the battery.

Then, it was like he found a treasure.

Lithium!

His guess was correct!

It was a lithium battery!

He was not clear as to what kind of lithium it was because he did not find any clues of the electrolyte residue.

He guessed that this high tech battery probably used gas or solid material as the electrolyte.

However, this had nothing to do with him.

He would learn the technology sooner or later. Right now, he had to figure out the technology that inhibited the development of lithium dendrites.

This battery was like a fish, and the most delicious part was the fish belly. In this case, it would be the lithium dendrite part.

Suddenly, Xiao Ai popped up.

Xiao Ai: [Master, what's this?]

Lu Zhou smiled. He was in a good mood as he typed: [Your new home will rely on this. Wait till I register a patent. Then I'll buy you a three million yuan server!]

Xiao Ai: [Wow, really!]

Lu Zhou: [Really!]

If this thing really could teach him how to inhibit the growth of the lithium dendrites, then the patent would earn enough for him to buy an entire server farm.

Of course, he had other wishes, so he would not actually spend all his money on servers.

He would at least buy a lab for himself as he could not always rely on the system to give him high-tech components. He had to find a way to make his own technology.

However, he was in no rush to register the patent. It was not like anyone else had access to the battery.

Even though he already knew what the material was, he still had to do experiments in the lab and fake the discovery.

After all, when he registered the patent, he would have to specify the equipment used, source of the material, and the laboratory information. Only after that would people accept his new technology patent.

Where should he submit the thesis?

He had accepted a Nature Weekly interview recently, so maybe he would just submit it to Nature…

Lu Zhou could not help but feel excited.

…

Once Lu Zhou turned off his computer, he then changed his clothes. He ate some lunch at the cafeteria before he went to Professor Lu Shenjian's office.

When Professor Lu saw Lu Zhou, he smiled and said, "You finally came back from Europe. I thought you were going to stay there for good."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "No way, my visa won't even let me stay there for long."

"Ah, hard to say. If you really wanted to stay there, CERN would take care of your visa. They might even get you a PR," said Professor Lu with a smile.

Lu Zhou smiled but he did not say anything.

Although he knew that the old professor was just joking, he still did not take the joke well.

What Professor Lu said was true. It would be easy for him to stay there.

However, he had never even given this idea a thought.

He liked the environment here and he liked the people here.

He would go abroad for conferences or even to study there, but he would still eventually return to China.

They chatted for a while before Professor Lu got to the main point.

"I'm glad to see that you come back safely. Next time when you fly, make sure you shoot me a text when you land. If it wasn't for Yan Xinjue, I wouldn't even know you were back! Nothing else, that's all I wanted to say."

Professor Lu paused and continued.

"I'm going to Beijing in a few days. Come with me. I have a friend that wants to see you."

Lu Zhou asked, "Is the friend, Professor Gao?"

"Not him. Why would he want to see you? I see him every day," said Professor Lu as he waved his hand. He then said, "Old Qiu wants to see you. He's in the mathematics field as well, so you should know him."

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Lu Zhou had obviously heard of him as the old man was famous as hell.

It was not an exaggeration to say that Professor Qiu was the leading figure in China's mathematics world.

He was comparable to the likes of Hua Luogeng and Chen Shengshen.

PhD at 22 years old, associate professor at 25 years old, solving the Calabi Conjecture at 27 years old, winning the Fields Medal at 34… It was like this guy was hacking in real life.

These academic achievements made him one of the most influential mathematicians today. His influence extended to many different fields such as topology, algebraic geometry, general relativity, and even high-energy physics!

The most famous was his proof of the Calabi Conjecture, which directly laid the theoretical foundation of the superstring theory in 1980.

In the theoretical physics world, this old gentleman was widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of superstring theory.

Anyone in the mathematics field knew of this god. Even the people in the theoretical physics field knew of him.

However, Professor Qiu was usually very busy, so it was difficult to see him.

On the other hand, one could gain a lot just from a short conversation with him.

Therefore, when Lu Zhou heard that Professor Lu was bringing him to see Professor Qiu, he immediately asked, "When are we going to Beijing?"

Professor Lu smiled and said, "Around October."

"…"

Then why are you telling me this now?

Lu Zhou was speechless.

When Professor Lu saw that Lu Zhou did not speak, he said, "I don't have many projects for you to do right now, so just study on your own. I don't have much to say regarding mathematics, but for quantum chromodynamics, you still have a lot to learn. I already sent the class schedule to your email. If you want to graduate this year, work hard and go to those classes. I'll test you at the end of this semester. The exam syllabus is the classes that I'm sending you to."

When Lu Zhou heard the broad scope of this syllabus, he said, "Professor, this syllabus is a bit too vague."

Professor Lu smiled and said, "What are you scared of? Believe in yourself!"

…

He had to study hard for quantum chromodynamics, but he had to do something else first.

After Lu Zhou left Professor Lu's office, he did not hang around. Instead, he went back to his dorm and sat in front of his laptop. He began to research the data from the scanner gun.

He did not know how this battery was produced as the technology was way ahead of its time.

Leaving the negative electrode material aside, even the "oxygen screening diaphragm" on the side of the battery could not be produced with the current technology.

Even if Lu Zhou knew the structure and the parameters of the material, he could not just put this information online and hoped that someone else could build it. There was not a laboratory in the world that could create a diaphragm this thin.

Even if he solved the problem of the lithium dendrite, without this diaphragm, he could not create a lithium-air battery.

Everyone knew that not only would lithium react with oxygen, but it would also react with nitrogen in the air to form lithium nitride crystals that were difficult to reduce. If the water vapor leaked, there would be a violent explosion.

The Japanese people were ambitious on this front, but they had yet found a solution.

If someone could solve the gas screening problem, an oxygen tank could be attached to the lithium-ion battery and this could potentially power cars.

However, no one wanted their car to blow up.

After some thorough research, Lu Zhou was sure that this battery was the legendary lithium-air battery.

The positive electrode was a gas chamber covered by a gas screening membrane, and the negative electrode was a lithium negative electrode material encapsulated by an electrolyte. However, the electrolyte was not leaking at all, and the negative electrode material had completely turned into lithium oxide.

The design structure was simple and clear, but even if people had the design model, no one could create it. This was because while the technical difficulties were all in the details, most of the problems were regarding the material.

Lu Zhou tried to search online for the plastic in the battery, and could not even find anything.

Fortunately, the material needed to protect the lithium negative electrode and prevent the growth of lithium dendrites was not something too special. Lu Zhou thought it was solvable.

Lu Zhou saw a piece of copper foil under the fully oxidized lithium anode.

Of course, the copper foil was not the key to preventing lithium dendrites. The key was the modified PDMS 1 nanoporous film covering the copper foil.

There was nothing special about the PDMS material. It was called polydimethylsiloxane, which could be found in skincare products. The nanopore structure of PDMS was the key to solving "breathing problems".

As for the nonporous film made from PDMS, Lu Zhou guessed that it was made by spin coating it with hydrofluoric acid.

When Lu Zhou saw a specially treated hollow carbon nanosphere under the PDMS film, he guessed that these carbon nanospheres were balancing the lithium dendrite growth.

After around half an hour of playing on his laptop, Lu Zhou leaned back in his chair and sighed, "This task is arduous!"

Even my 20,000 yuan computer can't handle this… I guess I have to rely on a professional computer to process this data.

He planned to build a laboratory near the University of Jin Ling in order to study this gadget. He would then hire a large group of graduate students and PhD students to work for him. Then, he could even get Xiao Ai to delegate work to these students.

However, right now, there were more important things waiting for him.

Lu Zhou pulled out a piece of A4 paper from his desk and wrote two things on it. He then circled the words "PDMS film" and "carbon nanoball".

He planned to register patents for these two things. After that, he would register a patent for both as a whole and called it "L1 anode material".

If he had time, he could even figure out the production process and patent the industrial production process. Even if he did not produce the batteries himself, he could still sell it to others for a profit.

However, Lu Zhou did not choose to do this.

First of all, the design and production of this were out of his abilities. Also, he knew that as a scientific researcher, his fight was in the laboratory, not in a mall or a factory.

As for how to send this technology to the market, he would leave it to the professional engineers to design. He would leave the easy work to the common folks.

It was neither necessary nor efficient to set up factory production.

Factory production and researching products were two different things. He was much better at researching products.

However, it would not be easy to earn patent fees.

He knew that he would have to at least recreate this battery in his laboratory.

Otherwise, he would not be able to explain many things in his patents.

This was part of design experiments.

Once he solved the design experiment, he could happily register the patent.

He would then be making a contribution to society!

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Chapter 183: A Gold Mine

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In an apartment building near the University of Shuimu, Beijing…

An old man held an English magazine in his hand and he was reading it on the sofa.

He suddenly smiled and placed the magazine down before he said, "This kid really is a genius."

This old man was no other than the god of mathematics, Qiu Chengtong.

The magazine in his hand was Nature Weekly and the article he was reading was written by the British female journalist, Belinda, who interviewed Lu Zhou.

In the interview, the magazine mentioned the identity of the University of Jin Ling master's student as well as the fact that he was a member of the LHCb China Cooperation Group.

As per what the high-ranking academician from LHCb China Cooperation Group said earlier, this intern greatly helped China's reputation at CERN.

China would soon create overwhelming coverage of this young scholar.

This glory was well-deserved.

"Yeah," whispered the old man sitting opposite Professor Qiu as he drank tea.

This was Wang Yuping, who helped Lu Zhou back at Princeton.

Although Professor Qiu had a poor relationship with the University of Yan, he still had a few good friends from the said university.

Professor Wang Yuping was one of them.

Professor Wang paused for a second. He then sighed and said, "After the Princeton conference, I thought that this kid was talented in mathematics. I didn't think that he would be so talented in particle physics as well. I've met a lot of young scholars, but none are like him."

Professor Qiu Chengtong smiled and said, "I've seen one."

"Who?"

"Tao Zhexuan!"

Professor Wang Yuping was stunned. He then smiled and asked, "Your evaluation of him is that high?"

Tao Zhexuan was the first Australian to receive the Fields Medal, and he was the second Chinese ethnicity person to win this award. He was currently teaching at UCLA and considered a genius in mathematical analysis.

Although applied mathematics was not in mathematical physics, his research covered almost all of mathematics. From harmonic analysis to nonlinear partial differential equations to number theory and topology.

Many people called him the Mozart of mathematics because there was no explanation as to how one person could achieve so much in mathematics.

In China, people called Lu Zhou as the "Young Tao Zhexuan".

Professor Qiu smiled and said, "High evaluation? I think that he can accomplish more than his predecessors!"

Professor Wang Yuping was surprised and he could not help but ask, "Are you serious?"

"Of course," said Professor Qiu as he nodded. He then added, "When I saw him chose Polignac's conjecture to be his research topic, I had this feeling in my heart. Now with this article, I'm even more certain."

Professor Wang Yuping smiled and asked, "Do you think he can solve this conjecture?

"Hard to say. He solved the twin prime conjecture. If I had the energy, I might even try to challenge this problem," replied Professor Qiu. Suddenly his eyes sparkled and he looked at his old friend before he said, "How about we make a bet?"

Professor Wang Yuping smiled and asked, "Bet about what?"

"I bet that he can solve this conjecture in two years."

"Not possible," said Professor Wang Yuping as he shook his head. He added, "I know you have a high opinion of him, but his research problem right now isn't number theory, but mathematical physics. If he concentrates on number theory, he could solve this conjecture… But as I see it, two years is too short!"

Professor Qiu shook his head, "Research direction isn't the problem. I think he has the talent to solve the problem. Since we disagree, should we bet on it?"

Slapping his thighs, Professor Wang Yuping said, "Sure, let's bet! I'll bet a hundred yuan. It's not much even if I lost."

Professor Qiu smiled and said, "Look at you, already talking about losing. How boring, the bet is off!"

…

"Achoo!"

Lu Zhou sneezed and rubbed his nose as he continued to write at his desk.

He had already read Professor Lu's class schedule.

However, he was still on his summer holiday, and the class would not start until next month.

Lu Zhou did not really leave his dorm over the past few days. He locked himself in his room and tried his best to design experiments using the battery data on his computer.

He had to read a large amount of literature to design the PDMS film.

The reason he was this motivated was money.

With such a large gold mine laying there, he would not be able to sleep if he did not crack at it a little.

There was no exaggeration to compare this technology to a gold mine.

20 years ago, lithium metal was abandoned by the industry because of the dendrite growth short circuit. This turned the battery into a bomb.

However, lithium metal still attracted countless material science laboratories. They were still doing experiments on this topic.

IBM even did a super-calculation of the lithium-air battery project and they assigned a path for each gas molecule to enter the battery unit to avoid gas blockage… However, they were burning money too fast and the project was then cut off.

At the national level, the energy minister from the Alabama team and the Chinese American who won the physics Nobel prize in 1997, Mr. Zhu Yuwen, had been a fanatic supporter of lithium negative batteries for quite some time… However, he was persuaded by a group of people.

As for why lithium batteries were so fascinating, it had to do with its energy density.

The so-called energy density was the energy contained per unit volume. The most important performance indicator of a battery was its energy density. This had been the pursuit of the battery industry.

In the 13th Five-Year China Plan, they clearly stated that their battery technology level should be synchronized with the international level by 2020. One of the most important factors was to increase the battery energy density to 300-350Wh/kg.

So far, the lithium-sulfur battery looked the most promising.

However, if the lithium dendrite problem was solved, then all of the other materials would have to give way to the lithium negative battery.

Those who had studied chemistry would know that the lithium metal anode had the lowest electrochemical potential of -3.04V and an energy capacity of up to 3861mAh/g.

That meant that by using lithium as the negative electrode, it could theoretically reach ten times the energy capacity of graphite batteries.

The most attractive part was that once the growth of the lithium dendrite was solved, there would be no other major design changes that needed to be made to batteries. They only had to replace the graphite anode material!

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Chapter 184: Experiment Begin!

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"You want to borrow the laboratory?"

When Professor Li heard Lu Zhou's request through the phone, he was analyzing carbon nanomaterials in the laboratory.

Lu Zhou held the phone against his ear as he said, "Yes, I found something interesting while reading theses. I want to use the laboratory, and I need a homogenizer and digital microscope."

Obviously, he had made up the reason. Even though he had a good relationship with Professor Li, they were not that close.

After all, the value of this invention could not be measured by an SCI thesis.

Especially for someone looking to monetize this invention…

"Okay then, I'll talk to the lab director. You can take Lab 304. Just look for Professor Wang Xianfu."

Professor Li was curious as to why Lu Zhou needed to do this kind of experiment, but he did not ask him. Instead, he readily agreed to his request.

If someone else asked to borrow these types of equipment, he would hesitate and might even refuse. However, Lu Zhou was different as he had helped the professor greatly on that last thesis.

That was a billion yuan project, and not to mention, as a shareholder of Zhongshan New Materials, he was a direct beneficiary.

This was only a small favor which he was happy to help.

Lu Zhou was almost embarrassed to see Professor Li agreed so easily.

If I knew that this old man is so kind, I would've just asked for the SEM scanning electron microscope instead…

"Anything else?" asked Professor Li when he saw that Lu Zhou did not speak.

Lu Zhou shook his head, "Nope, thank you, professor."

"Are you fine doing experiments alone? Do you want Qian Zhongming to help you?"

Lu Zhou said, "No thanks. I want to do it on my own."

Naturally, he would not want any help.

Brother Qian would instantly see through his act.

From the design of the experiment to how it was done, Lu Zhou would not be able to explain anything to him.

He had to do this experiment with his own hands.

"Okay then, try not to break anything."

Lu Zhou knew that Professor Li was joking, so he smiled and said, "Rest assured! I won't break anything!"

…

After Lu Zhou took the keys to Lab 304 from Professor Wang, he could finally begin his next procedure.

From the reverse technology of the scanner, the key to solving the problem of lithium dendrite growth was in the treatment of polydimethylsiloxane materials.

In order to solve this problem, he designed two experiments.

However, the key to the problem remained in the processing of PDMS materials.

The untreated PDMS material, even if coated in copper sheet, was no use at all. The lithium dendrite would still explode.

Material science and mathematics were different. The former needed countless experiments and huge investments. The latter only needed a pen and paper. Most of the mathematics research funding was used for travel expenses.

Lu Zhou thought for an entire day and he still could not find a good solution. Finally, he decided to spend 500 general points to ask the system for help.

He saw his general points dropped back down to 1975.

This thing was expensive. 500 general points just for a PDMS material processing method.

The general points required for the technology of the entire battery could probably "buy" a Goldbach Conjecture.

Although it took a lot of general points, fortunately, the materials used in the formula could be found in the laboratory.

After three days and countless failures, Lu Zhou finally succeeded in preparing the qualified PDMS material. A box of waxy yellow gel.

This thing looked like honey and had a jelly texture. On the surface, it did not look like anything special, but when he placed it under a microscope, it did not look like ordinary liquid polydimethylsiloxane.

Lu Zhou could not bathe in this victory for long, so he quickly prepared a rectangular copper foil from the glue machine. He also began to prepare his next step of making the electrode materials.

Spin coating!

Spin coating relied on the centrifugal force and gravitational force generated by the rotation of the workpiece. This would completely spread the coating droplets to the surface of the workpiece.

Technically, the operation was very demanding.

An uneven coating could mean that lithium ions would not form on the negative electrode material.

Although Lu Zhou had some experience with spin coating, he still failed many times.

After a couple of hours, he finally succeeded in obtaining a copper foil that was uniformly coated with PDMS nanoporous film.

As Lu Zhou looked at the copper foil, he could not help but think.

I can probably sell this for hundreds of millions of yuan, right?

Lu Zhou packed up the remaining samples and PDMS materials.

There was only one step left and it was to make a simple battery.

He had to test the performance of this film to see if it was as magical as he thought.

Lu Zhou saw Brother Qian's demonstration before, so he was basically familiar with the operation.

In another laboratory, Lu Zhou put on a white scientist robe before he placed his hand into the argon-filled glove box. He then carefully fixed the copper foil onto the battery mold.

The binder was sodium carboxymethylcellulose and styrene-butadiene rubber, the current collector was aluminum foil, and the positive active material was still the LiFePO4 commonly found in lithium-ion batteries that were used nowadays!

For the diaphragm, Lu Zhou used the Celgard 2325 three-layer composite diaphragm.

There were only slight changes made to the battery.

Once Lu Zhou finished the assembly, he felt proud of himself. He then carefully took the sample out of the box and closed the valves.

He then exhaled a sigh of relief as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Done!"

When he looked at the sample in his hands, he was really excited.

He had not expected this piousness.

Yes, piousness.

As a scientist, he was devoted to science.

This technology likely came from a civilization far more advanced than Earth.

Perhaps it came from a Star Trek battleship…

No matter where it came from, this valuable debris was in his hands.

Lu Zhou took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. He then placed the battery sample into the Bk-6808 battery charger before he carefully placed it under the digital microscope.

Now all he had to do was wait.

Hopefully, the result would not be disappointing.

Lu Zhou set a 10-minute photo timer and turned on the battery tester. He then took a Polignac's conjecture research document and quietly started to read.

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The sun shined bright outside the window.

Lu Zhou had fallen asleep at the table. He woke up and rubbed his eyes. He then moved his stiff arms as he stood up.

Then, he quickly went over to check on the digital microscope.

No explosions, no smoke.

Lu Zhou was glad to see that the sample was intact. He then looked at the computer next to it and flipped through the photos.

"It's done!"

He squeezed his fist tightly and he nearly screamed out loud.

Since yesterday, he had completed four sets of charge and discharge cycles and there was no lithium dendrite!

The lithium ions that traveled to the negative electrode did not form white tree ridges. Under the PDMS material, a layer of moss-like pleats was stacked on one another.

From the data on BK-6808, the coulomb efficiency was maintained at a fairly high level!

These results surprised Lu Zhou.

He originally thought that the PDMS material and the carbon nanospheres had to be combined to completely solve the lithium dendrite problem. Yet, the effect was amazing with just the PDMS material alone.

As for the carbon nanospheres, Lu Zhou guessed that it was to accelerate the deposition rate of lithium ions and to use to "level" the folds under the PDMS material.

As for the mossy "pleats", while it definitely had an effect on the performance of the battery, it was much better than the deadly lithium dendrite!

Without the nanospheres, the battery's charge cycle would intensify the wrinkling phenomenon. It would also result in the coulomb cycle decreasing and reduced battery life.

Perhaps this was unacceptable for an advanced civilization, but on Earth, this was negligible.

As long as the battery was safe, any company would love to implement this technology!

Someone could use their phone for a week straight.

Of course, many other factors would also affect the performance of the battery. The battery life depended on how the battery chip was designed, and this part was out of Lu Zhou's expertise.

However, there was no doubt that this new anode material would revolutionize the battery industry!

Whether it was the lithium borate battery or a lithium manganese cobalt battery, the negative electrodes were mainly graphite. As for the lithium-sulfur battery that was still lying in the laboratory, that was inhibited by the lithium dendrites.

Therefore, Lu Zhou knew that what his experiment results meant.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"System, what will those carbon nanospheres do?"

The system did not answer.

When Lu Zhou opened his eyes, he looked at the sample under the microscope.

"As expected…"

As expected, the carbon nanospheres technology was beyond his material science level. He did not have access to the information.

Nonetheless, this did not matter.

He had the data from the debris, so he did not have to rely on the system to solve the problem.

When he had his own laboratory, he would hire a team of researchers to do the experiments for him.

Lu Zhou unplugged the power supply and placed the battery sample into a small box.

Then, he saved all of the photos from the BK-6808 into his USB and as a precaution, he deleted all of the data.

Lu Zhou cleaned the laboratory and made sure that he did not leave anything behind. He then walked out and planned to return the keys to Professor Wang.

When he stepped outside, he bumped into Brother Qian.

When Brother Qian saw Lu Zhou, he waved and asked, "Is the experiment done?"

Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "It's done."

He suddenly thought of something and asked, "Oh yeah, are you studying electrode materials?"

Last year when Lu Zhou was helping Professor Li, he heard that they were going to do an electrode material experiment this year.

"Yeah," replied Brother Qian as he nodded. With a smile, he asked, "Interested?"

Lu Zhou answered with another question, "What research project is it?"

Brother Qian replied casually, "The positive electrode material of lithium-sulfur battery. The latest research results of MIT found that the sulfur is fixed in the mesoporous carbon material as the positive electrode material and it effectively slows down the growth of the lithium dendrites of the negative electrode. I can't say anything else since I signed a confidentiality agreement. If you're interested, Professor Li will definitely welcome you to join our team."

"I'm fine. Anyway, Professor Lu would not be happy to see me doing experiments," said Lu Zhou with a smile. He then said, "Also, I don't think this is a good choice… I've read the thesis you talked about as I'm doing a similar research experiment…"

Lu Zhou continued to speak, "… I think that if the discovery was so important, the team from MIT wouldn't publish it so easily."

Technology that had been published could not be patented, as it would conflict with national patent laws.

Generally, those laboratories with investment in enterprises (mainly engineering), would usually register the first patent in order to protect the results from the research. It was only after they registered that they would publish the thesis.

Anything that was published was unreliable and similar things had happened in the battery industry.

In 2011, Cornell University's L-Archer research group published a paper on aluminum-ion batteries. They proposed a battery model in which Al was used as a positive electrode for V2O5 which was once used as a battery model. The "breakthrough" was reported and it was even reported by the famous "Science" journal.

However, the final outcome was unpleasant.

In the MRS 1 meeting, Cornell's people were attacked by a man named Luke Reid…

Lu Zhou did not know if the MIT results were correct, but he knew that there was no way to inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites from the cathode.

He knew this because he had already solved this problem.

He was even about to register a patent.

Brother Qian shook his head and said, "We'll still run experiments, just to see how it goes."

Lu Zhou sighed, "Then… I wish you good luck."

He could not reveal anything more.

No one would believe him and they might even get offended.

He could only warn them.

However, he did not worry too much. He wondered what Professor Li would say to him after he published his thesis.

He could register his patent by next year, and after that, he could start writing his thesis.

He would be in Princeton by then.

Maybe, by then, Professor Li would give up on this research project.

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Once the bottleneck of the lithium anode breakthrough, the entire industry would benefit from it. From mobile phone charging to new energy vehicles, many problems could be solved with the solution of lithium dendrite.

However, the birth of new technology was bound to conflict with the interests of some people.

For example, the laboratories that were doing this experiment.

Proving a mathematics conjecture would only destroy maybe a dozen or so theses. However, developing technology would potentially destroy research projects worth hundreds of millions. Their research projects would be worthless, while his technological invention would be worth billions.

Of course, Lu Zhou did not let this stop him. He still planned on registering the patent and publishing the thesis.

From another perspective, the resources wasted on lithium anode materials could now be allocated to other research projects.

It could be allocated to designing the battery itself, or even the production of the battery.

These resources meant funding, and it also meant researchers.

Once Lu Zhou went back to his dorm, he began to fill in the patent documents. He had to state the thing he was patenting.

For the sake of caution, he did not brag too much. He only stated it as an "improved polydimethylsiloxane nanoporous film", and said that it "can protect" the anode material.

This was Lu Zhou's first time applying for a patent, so he did not know that he was being too cautious.

There was a countless patent application for lithium negative electrodes so he could brag all he wanted to.

Some people even dared to claim to solve the lithium dendrite problem.

Just like submitting subpar theses, the patent industry was no different.

The reason for this was that many scientific research projects required patents. Therefore, they were of no use. One had to have patents for a company to have an interest in investing.

Another reason was regarding policy. Many enterprises were using the old fashion way of "catching up", which created a lot of patent problems. In order to catch up with the technology of developed nations, the National Knowledge Bureau had been relatively lax on patent applications.

Of course, the most important reason for the flood of patents was that patents were different than journals. Journals were strictly peer-reviewed.

Meanwhile, the auditors would only verify if the patent conflicted with other pre-existing patents. They would not really test to see if the patent was as nutty as it claimed to be.

Even journals could not guarantee that every "breakthrough" thesis was real and reliable, how could patents?

Lu Zhou guessed that even when his patent was accepted, no one would notice the value of his technology unless he published his experiment data online, or wait until his patent was approved before he published a thesis to catch the public's attention.

The materials section was filled out. As for the specific patent application process, Lu Zhou was not worried. He had a reliable party for help.

Lu Zhou's responsible patent attorney was a 30-year-old man named Han Tianyu. From his CV, this guy looked quite reliable. His professional smile reminded Lu Zhou of insurance sellers.

From domestic patents to international patents, this guy did it all. He promised the fastest handling speed and signed a confidentiality agreement.

Although it cost a lot of money, it was worthwhile to protect his intellectual property rights.

Generally, large enterprises had specialized departments for patent management. Lu Zhou obviously did not have access to that team, so his best choice was to find a reliable patent agency for help.

In fact, many small enterprises and laboratories used patent agencies.

Contacting the auditor and the oral defense was cumbersome. Not to mention, the complicated patent laws were difficult to understand.

If a sophisticated invention had a poorly written patent, the resulting patent could be invalid. The technology could then be stolen by others.

Therefore, the patent exams were one of the hardest exams in the country.

…

After Lu Zhou completed the patent application, he concentrated all of his energy into solving the Polignac's conjecture.

In fact, his daily lifestyle did not change much. The laboratory visits turned into library sessions while the experiment equipment turned into textbooks…

When Lu Zhou saw the young students in the library, he could not help but think.

Maybe two years later, these students would be calling him Professor Lu?

Wow, it's quite exciting to think about this.

Suddenly, a jasmine flower scent floated from the side.

Someone poked his arm and quietly asked, "Hey, how do you do this question?"

"Question? Show me… Wait!"

When Lu Zhou saw the person sitting next to him, he was shocked. He almost thought that he was dreaming.

Chen Yushan was happy to see that Lu Zhou was surprised, so she smirked and asked, "How it is, little brother, are you surprised to see me?"

Surprised… Not really, just unexpected.

"Yeah, it's unexpected…"

Didn't she get into the University of Yan? Why is she back at the University of Jin Ling…

Wait a minute, something doesn't feel right.

Lu Zhou suddenly realized the problem.

"… Speaking of which, I'm also a master's student now."

He did not want her calling him little brother anymore.

Chen Yushan blinked and said casually, "I know, Meng Qi told me. You graduated at the beginning of the year. Speaking of which, how come you didn't tell me!"

Chen Yushan had a sliver of complaint in her eyes.

Lu Zhou: "…"

F*ck sake!

You're the one calling me little brother, so why are you giving me that look!

He wanted to say something but suddenly someone near them coughed.

That loner instantly killed the vibe in the atmosphere.

The two had an awkward expression when they suddenly recalled that they were in the library.

Chen Yushan was a little embarrassed as she pointed to the door and said, "How about we go get something to drink?"

Lu Zhou looked around. Even though he was not done with his calculations, he still nodded, "Okay."

He could not stand the depressing vibes that were coming from the loners.

Also, since she came all the way from Beijing, he was obligated to hang out with her. Their friendship was still quite good.

Not to mention, she was the one buying.

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Chen Yushan was not talking about alcohol.

They went to the coffee shop in front of the school gate and the two ordered a mocha and cappuccino before they sat down by the window.

"Why did you suddenly come back?"

Chen Yushan replied nonchalantly, "It's the summer holiday. Why won't I return to Jinling?"

Is there such a thing as a summer holiday for master's students?

Lu Zhou asked, "Your supervisor didn't take you to do projects?"

Chen Yushan supported her chin with her palms as she sighed and said, "That's how it is studying under an academician. I can't even find him. I have to rely on my self."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I'm also studying under an academician, but I feel quite fulfilled."

Professor Lu treated him pretty well. He took Lu Zhou to Switzerland and gave him a lot of working experience at CERN.

If he did not have CERN's internship, he would not have found the 750 GeV sample. Neither would he appeared in Nature Weekly or worked with Professor Frank.

"I guess it depends on the supervisor…" said Chen Yushan as she sighed. She suddenly remembered something and asked excitedly, "Oh yeah, Meng Qi told me that you're going to Princeton next year?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm going latest summer next year. Once I get my degree, I'll go to Princeton for PhD."

"Wow, impressive," gasped Chen Yushan. Her mouth was wide opened as she stared at Lu Zhou for a long time. She then said softly, "Oh, little brother, you're giving me a lot of pressure like this. If this goes on, maybe I'll have to call you as my older brother?"

Lu Zhou was speechless, "Did you just realized this?"

"Little brother, Little brother"

Lu Zhou saw that Chen Yushan kept calling him little brother, so he asked, "What?"

"Nothing, " said Chen Yushan as she shook her head. She then smiled, "I just want to call you that a few more times since I won't get the chance in the future."

Lu Zhou could not help but complain, "I'm also doing my master's right now! You already don't have the chance."

Chen Yushan seemed to realize this as she had an awkward look on her face. She laughed and said, "Don't be so stingy. Watch out, you might not be able to find a girlfriend…"

She suddenly realized that she was single herself, so she changed the topic, "Speaking of which, did you pass TOEFL?"

Lu Zhou, "I passed it before I went to the Princeton conference."

Chen Yushan felt like English was her strength, so she suddenly asked, "What did you get?"

Lu Zhou replied, "I think 118."

Chen Yushan was quiet for a while before she sighed, "Not bad, little brother… Do you really not have a subject you're not good at?"

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly, "I do. I'm not good with modern history… Oh yeah, did you get the offer from University of Pennsylvania?"

Chen Yushan nodded her head and said, "I got it, I'm going at the end of the year."

Lu Zhou could not believe it, "Wharton?"

Chen Yushan proudly smiled and said, "Of course!"

F*ck me, I can't believe she got in!

Lu Zhou was astonished.

Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania was known as the birthplace of the MBA. It was the top business school in the US and ranked top three in the world. All of the wall street investment banks wanted graduates from Wharton. Even POTUS went to Wharton.

Even though the admission was not as difficult as Princeton, it was still hard to get an offer!

Also, even if she did 12 training, she would have to stay at the University of Yan for another year. Strictly speaking, she would be admitted to the school after September.

It meant that she had half a year left at the University of Yan.

Basically, 0.52 training.

Would her supervisor really let her go?

Lu Zhuo had always been suspicious of Chen Yushan's academics, but now he believed her.

This chick really is a genius student.

Even though her mathematics is kind of crappy…

It was getting late, so the two ate dinner together.

Lu Zhou thought that they would split the bill but Chen Yushan insisted on paying. She said that he could buy her dinner next time.

From their conversation, Lu Zhou learned that she came back to Jin Ling to pack up her dorm.

The new semester was about to start, so Chen Yushan had to move her stuff out of her dorm room at the University of Jin Ling and into her dorm room at the University of Yan.

She just happened to bump into Lu Zhou.

Once they finished eating, they walked back to campus.

Suddenly, Lu Zhou thought of something and he asked, "Oh yeah, how did you know I was in the library?"

Chen Yushan said, "I mean, where else could you be?"

Lu Zhou: "…"

Why does she sounds like I'm always at the library?

The pair walked back to the dorms.

These two were only platonic friends, so Chen Yushan did not have plans to go back to his dorm.

She cleared her throat as she held her hands behind her back while she looked at Lu Zhou and said, "Then, little brother, I'll see you next year."

Lu Zhou wanted to say bye but felt a little strange. So he asked, "Next year?"

Chen Yushan blinked and said, "Yeah, aren't you going to Princeton?"

Lu Zhou said, "Yeah… But Princeton is in New Jersey, not in Pennsylvania."

Chen Yushan tilted her head and said, "But the University of Pennsylvania is in Philadelphia, and I think the University of Pennsylvania is close to Princeton. Didn't you get off the plane at Philly when you went to Princeton?"

F*ck!

Lu Zhou suddenly realized that geography was not his strong suit.

Last time he went to Princeton, he got off at Philadelphia.

The University of Pennsylvania was close to Philadelphia.

Chen Yushan looked at Lu Zhou's expression and smiled, "They're really close together. I'll check out the place for you first. When you go there next year, remember to call me. I'll take you to Princeton."

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The school was about to start and the friends of Dorm 201 had returned.

Liu Rui was the first to return to school. He was working hard as always and he began to study advanced algebra as soon as he got back.

However, since he knew that he would never catch up to Lu Zhou, he had a more realistic goal.

Like the graduate entrance exam…

Most people started studying in their fourth year, so it was impressive that he had already started in his third year.

The dorm leader was the second to come back.

When Shi Shang walked in and saw Lu Zhou, he put down his luggage and shouted excitedly, "Zhou, I haven't seen you all summer! You've been humble bragging again!"

Lu Zhou was studying the Polignac's conjecture in his seat when he looked at Shi Shang with a confused expression.

"What did I do?"

I didn't do anything. What do you mean humble bragging?

What are you talking about?

Shi Shang sat in his seat and said, "Stop being modest, I saw what you did in Nature Weekly!"

That's it…

That's old news.

Lu Zhou looked at Shi Shang and he was speechless.

"You read Nature Weekly?"

"Nope, but I saw it on Weibo!" said Shi Shang. He continued to ask, "So, is there hope for a Nobel Prize?"

When Liu Rui heard Nobel Prize, he stopped studying and began to listen.

He normally did not go on Weibo, so this was his first time hearing that Lu Zhou was on Nature Weekly.

He did not understand how a mathematician like Lu Zhou was able to get the Nobel Prize.

When Lu Zhou heard Shi Shang's question, he smiled and asked, "I don't know. Why don't you go to Switzerland and ask?"

It was not like the Nobel Prize was easy to get. Shi Shang was clueless.

Suddenly the door to their dorm room was pushed open.

Huang Guangming had his glasses on as he carried his suitcase awkwardly as he walked in.

"201, your daddy is back… F*ck me, Brother Fei, daddy was wrong… Don't… Let me get my glasses first. Ah…"

His glory lasted for three seconds.

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Rui and Shi Shang started wrestling him while Lu Zhou was cheering on the side.

Like this, the previously quiet atmosphere in Dorm 201 was broken again…

…

Strictly speaking, Lu Zhou was only considered as a first-year master's student.

However, this did not matter to him as he would get his degree in a year anyway.

The class schedule that Professor Lu gave him was pretty useless. He would usually study mathematics in his dorm room. Specifically, Polignac's conjecture.

The twin prime conjecture was already solved. Now, he had to find a solution to extend the proof.

The topology method was no longer of any use. He had to find a new method to solve this problem.

This was the most troublesome part of number theory.

There were too many options to choose from. Most people did not even know where to start when facing difficult number theory questions.

However, Lu Zhou stayed calm. He was not frustrated at all.

He had already solved many mathematical conjectures. Even though he was not inspired this time, he knew what being inspired felt like.

Even though he did not have "inspiration hours" to help him, he knew that sooner or later, he would solve this problem.

On the other hand, Lu Zhou's three friends from Dorm 201 began their third-year undergraduate studies.

Lu Zhou felt like he was racing ahead of his peers.

The class leader Tian Jun came back and had a committee meeting. Tian Jun said to check their class schedules online.

Some classes were canceled so some students could not take the classes they wanted.

Normally speaking, in order to study for the graduate entrance exam in their fourth year, third-year students would take all the core subjects in their third year.

It was a pain in the ass when they could not take a class.

Unfortunately, this happened to someone.

"F*ck, my actuarial mathematics class was canceled."

Huang Guangming screamed in front of the computer.

Shi Shang's heart dropped and he quickly looked at his own class schedule. He saw that all his classes were still there. He smiled and said, "Not bad, Guangming, you want to get into finance?"

Huang Guangming said, "Shut up, it's so annoying. Why was the class canceled!"

Normally, teachers with many projects did not want to teach undergraduate students. They wanted to use their energy on PhD students.

They were too busy to teach undergrad classes…

Shi Shang smiled and said, "Then why don't you choose something else ASAP? I think the Academic Affairs Office website is still open, so hurry up."

"I know, I'm choosing…" murmured Huang Guangming as he logged onto the academic affairs office website. He then looked at Lu Zhou, "Zhou, which class is easier?"

Lu Zhou replied without thinking, "Mathematical model. Professor Liu teaches this class and he's a nice guy."

Professor Liu was the type of teacher to give the students the entire syllabus and not lie about it.

He was also the fairest professor that Lu Zhou had ever come across.

In his opinion, the mathematical model was one of the most simple courses he took.

"Let me look at it," said Huang Guangming as he looked at the computer screen and clicked his mouse. He said, "F*ck, it's full."

Lu Zhou thought for a moment before he said, "Then what about basic number theory? It looks pretty simple."

"Fine, let me see… F*ck me, there are still 20 spots left!" said Huang Guangming with a surprised tone.

Suddenly, Liu Rui said, "Give up."

He twisted the pen in his hand and slowly said, "Don't be fooled by the words 'basic' number theory. It's literally the most difficult mathematics course. Only Zhou would think that it's easy… Choose something else."

Lu Zhou: "…"

What the hell?!

Huang Guangming said, "F*ck me, Lu Zhou, don't screw me over."

"Oh? Okay then. I don't really know what is easy…" said Lu Zhou.

Shi Shang rubbed his chin and asked, "Zhou, are you close with Professor Liu?"

Lu Zhou thought for a moment before saying, "Pretty close. After all, he took me to the mathematical modeling competition."

Shi Shang said, "Then… Why don't you ask for Huang Guangming? See if the professor can squeeze him on."

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Okay then, I'll ask him today."

"Zhou, my good friend. I'm…" said Huang Guangming. He was moved as he continued, "I don't know how to thank you!"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "That's easy, just thank me with dinner. The fish restaurant is good."

Huang Guangming: "…"

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Seeing that Huang Guangming would buy him food, Lu Zhou was happy to help.

Once he finished his class in the afternoon, he went straight to Professor Liu's office. He greeted the old gentlemen and mentioned his favor.

"Oh, this thing," said Professor Liu at Lu Zhou's request. He smiled, "Easy, I'll let him join. Write down your friend's name. I'll go to the Academic Affairs Office later and add his name for the enrollment."

For him, this favor was very easy to do.

Lu Zhou did not realize that Professor Liu no longer treated him as a student, but rather a young and promising scholar. In other words, a worthy colleague.

It was because in two years or so, once Lu Zhou returned from Princeton, he would become the youngest professor at the University of Jin Ling.

Not to mention, Lu Zhou was also a CERN researcher and Professor Lu's student, and he was about to be a nominee for Fields Medal… This kid was famous among the domestic academic community.

However, this kid did not even realize it.

Maybe that was one of his strengths. Humbleness.

Not many people could accomplish so many achievements at his age. Liu Xiangping had only seen a handful of students, but most of them fell off the board once they got older.

This was because the young talented geniuses would often get distracted by fame and stopped grinding.

Not to mention all the bragging and ego boosting…

This was why Professor Liu was so curious about Lu Zhou.

If anyone else had any of Lu Zhou's achievements, he could spend the rest of his life bragging about it.

However, Lu Zhou was different.

He would get excited and energetic. After the excitement ended, he would calm down and might even forget about it. He did not have that kind of arrogance.

After he got the Higher Education Society Cup, Professor Liu had a strange feeling that Lu Zhou was different than his other students.

Maybe… This is the potential of a great man?

Liu Xiangping was shocked at his own thoughts and it was unclear how this idea came to mind.

He had taught countless students over the years, but only one person was able to make him think this way.

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Thank you, professor."

"You're welcome," said Liu Xiangping as he shook his hand. He then asked, "Oh yeah, are you going to Beijing in October?"

Lu Zhou did not know why Professor Liu would ask him this, but he still nodded and said, "Yeah… Professor Lu is taking me there."

Professor Liu asked curiously, "Oh, what did Professor Lu say it was for?"

Lu Zhou, "He didn't tell me… He said it was to take me to visit Professor Qiu Chengtong. Why?"

"Nothing. That's a good thing," said Liu Xiangping. He saw that Lu Zhou was oblivious and so, he smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Then I'll have to congratulate you in advance."

Lu Zhou, "…?"

Congratulate?

What's there to congratulate?

Lu Zhou felt inexplicably confused. He did not know what the old man was saying.

However, Professor Liu would not tell him why. He only said, "It would be boring if I revealed it to you. Go ask Old Lu if you're curious."

When Lu Zhou saw Professor Liu's smirk, he was speechless. He did not like it when someone left him hanging.

He was at a loss.

…

The study of the Polignac's conjecture reached a bottleneck. Lu Zhou read a ton of documents and still, he could not find an effective method.

Recently on Arxiv, there were many interesting theses. Someone cited his [Annual Mathematics] thesis and discussed his method of proving the twin prime conjecture. This person tried to attack the Polignac's conjecture and it exploded on the Internet.

Lu Zhou felt like some of the viewpoints were interesting, but they were missing something.

He planned on taking a break from this conjecture for a few days. Suddenly, an email from CERN appeared in his mailbox.

[Lu,

CERN's recent research results are exciting. The characteristic peaks of 750 GeV are becoming clearer. The confidence levels on ATLAS and CMS detectors are 1.9 sigma and 2.1 sigma respectively. I believe that with the accumulation of collisions, we will definitely find the hidden secret, the secret behind the characteristic peak of this energy zone… So we might have to start doing more work.

I am watching the Hadron Collider experiment closely. I will update you on any new discoveries.

Also, based on the latest data collected by the LHC, I speculate that the particles there may form the last piece of the puzzle in the standard model. This piece of the puzzle has exceeded the expectations of the old supersymmetric particle.

If this is true, then there is no doubt that our work here will be influential.

With regards to the supersymmetry theory, the current work progress of my students and I have reached a critical stage. In the study of the 750 GeV energy region signal, some interesting data appeared on several detectors.

Regardless of your ability to process this data, I hope that you can give me a reply as soon as possible. After all, there are many people who are staring at the signal of this energy zone. We must race against time.

Also, I am not doubting your academic morality, but I have to remind you to please keep the contents of this email confidential. Please tell me if anyone gives you a hard time.

]

Since this was a professional work email, the old man wrote the words concisely.

Obviously, Lu Zhou would not reject the old man.

He typed a few words on his keyboard and replied, [… I will try to quickly process this data. It should only take three days. As for your concern, I guarantee that I will keep this confidential.]

Lu Zhou obviously would not let a third party see this data.

It was not only a matter of academic reputation but also a matter of character.

Lu Zhou hit the "Reply" key before he pulled out a laptop from his drawer. He wiped the dust off and plugged it in.

The compressed file in the email was small and most of it was image and chart files.

Once Lu Zhou finished the decompression, he opened the text file. He then looked at the contents inside.

Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows.

Why does it feel like…

This looks different than I imagined?

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Massachusetts, America.

A plane landed at the Boston International Airport.

Frank Wilczek had just flown back to Boston from Switzerland. His student came to pick him up.

The old professor was sitting in the front seat. He placed his laptop on his lap and connected to the wireless network. He planned on doing some work with this free time. Suddenly, he received an email from across the Pacific.

When he saw the sender's name, he clicked on the email.

The PhD student in the driver's seat asked casually, "Professor, how is the situation at CERN?"

Frank looked at the email and replied casually, "At the moment, the situation is still optimistic. The confidence level of three sigma can be confirmed as a sign. CERN staff are checking the instruments and preparing a press conference. I have to complete the theoretical thesis. Next month, I'll bring you to Geneva… What?"

The PhD student saw that the professor stopped talking, so he asked, "What's up?"

"Nothing…" murmured Frank as he read the email and frowned. He suddenly shook his head and said, "It's an interesting point, but I disagree."

The young man from China wrote the email.

[Dear Professor Frank, I have some questions regarding your supplementary theory of supersymmetry. According to the Deligne's theorem on tensor categories, it can be known that the category satisfying certain conditions must be the representation category of a supersymmetric group G so that we can say that supersymmetry is a generalization of field theory. But, in your supplementary theory, it is assumed that there is an extra dimension beyond the symmetry field representation to explain the reason why the supersymmetric particle is too large. Doesn't this contradict the Deligne tensor theorem?"

Academic exchanges were different than work emails. There was no need for additional politeness, so Lu Zhou pointed it out as is.

He believed that Frank would not be so stingy.

However, the old man's reply was also ruthless…

From the other side of the Pacific, after Lu Zhou edited the email and sent it to Frank Wilczek, he leaned back on his chair and stretched.

He was about to go eat when an email popped up in his mailbox.

Lu Zhou opened the email and was amazed.

F*ck, he's already awake?

Switzerland is 6 hours behind, so that means it's only 5 am there!

Lu Zhou did not know that Frank had already returned to MIT.

The reply in the email was simple, and it was mainly to answer his questions.

[Lu, I received your email. Also, regarding your doubts, I admire your knowledge of mathematical physics. But my suggestion is that you should go and study Wigner's theorem in quantum mechanics. Then you would understand the theory of supersymmetry supplement, and won't have any problems with the assumptions that I made.]

Lu Zhou certainly did not know about Wigner's theorem. This was the cornerstone of quantum mechanics.

This theorem described the principle of symmetry in physics systems, such as how rotation, translation, or CPT changed the state of the Hilbert space.

According to this theorem, elementary particles could basically be represented by the irreducible Lie group, and a tensor product could be made for these representations. Furthermore, this operation could correspond to the physical particle bound state.

Isn't that amazing?

Mathematics and physics were linked by a theorem.

This nature provided a theoretical cornerstone for the later application of the Deligne's theorem on tensor categories in physics.

Lu Zhou knew Professor Frank's intentions. He did not have a problem with the supersymmetric complement theory. It was just lacking in mathematical beauty.

For example, as Lu Zhou said, it was impossible to explain the rationality of this extra dimension by using the Deligne's theorem in tensor categories.

Lu Zhou thought for a bit then typed his thoughts on the keyboard.

[But don't you think that we can use a more mathematical sophisticated model to describes the peaks in the 750 GeV energy zone? There is absolutely no need to introduce an extra dimension outside of a fully symmetric field. What I mean is that maybe this is a particle that we don't understand? Dark matter particle?]

Although in order to convince this old man, Lu Zhou said that the 750 GeV signal may have come from supersymmetric particles, he wasn't actually obsessed with supersymmetric particles himself.

There could be many things behind that characteristic peak. The universe isn't built on a single set of theories.

Lu Zhou felt like it was most likely dark matter particles.

After all, this signal is weak enough that without a large number of collisions, this clue wouldn't have been discovered. Dark matter is difficult to observe as it hardly interacts with other elementary particles, including photos.

Lu Zhou pressed the reply button and didn't bother to go eat. He patiently waited in his chair.

If the old man was looking at his email right now, he would soon get a reply.

As expected, soon after, an email popped up.

[What you said is possible, but I don't think it is likely. I'm certain that CERN's equipment isn't advanced enough to detect dark matter. If the signals observed on ATLAS and CMS detectors are dark matter, I'm sure that the characteristic peaks of the two would not be so consistent. If you have any questions, you can consult Mr. Lynn Evans. And for my theory, I can also add a supplementary explanation.

Lu Zhou read the email from top to bottom but he did not know how to reply. Suddenly, two other emails popped up.

[If there's an extra dimension of compaction, then each field in the high-dimensional space corresponds to a normal field in the four-dimensional space, plus an infinite number of fields that are inversely proportional to the length of the compaction. And the source of this field can be used as the Fourier series of the original zero film field in the compaction dimension!]

[Supersymmetric particles should also exist in this field. This relationship couples the supersymmetric particles with fermions. I think this makes sense, in theory. So according to this theory, we should be able to find supersymmetric particles under the energy mark below TeV, so you should have more confidence in LHC.]

F*ck, this guy types pretty fast.

While the first email made him doubt CERN's equipment, the second email gave him confidence in the collider.

What the hell is this?

Lu Zhou stared at the three emails for a long time while his hands remained static on the keyboard.

The old gentleman was confident in his own theory.

Lu Zhou was speechless and he did not know what to reply.

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After a long time, Lu Zhou finally typed a line of words.

[What if we don't find it?]

The old man typed fast, and within five minutes, he answered Lu Zhou's question.

[This is of course possible. If the energy standard doesn't find what we need, we can only declare the non-existence of the smallest supersymmetric standard model. Then we would go to higher energy zones and find us the things that we need. Proving that our previous work was wrong is also an important discovery. Although it is not necessarily what we want to see… But I think that you should have more confidence in our theory. I can smell the victory and it smells good.]

The old man even made a joke.

However, Lu Zhou was not as optimistic, so he did not smile at all.

Probably because he did not understand the feeling of studying in the labyrinth of the quantum world for decades. So he did not cultivate the humor that a theoretical physicist must need in the face of an unsolved mystery.

He would not be depressed if he did not understand something.

However, if his research did not seem to have an end, it would make him feel irritated.

Yes, this was his psychological makeup.

Even a Nobel Prize winner could not convince him of anything he did not understand.

This was unlike mathematics. Mathematics was binary and there was only a right or wrong answer.

What irritated Lu Zhou was that theoretical physics was different. Once could be both wrong and right at the same time, but just on different levels.

The development of the theory was far different from the experiment. Theories of impossible experiments had been developed.

The "standard model" that theoretical physics so heavily relied on was "unreliable".

In the 1960s, the supersymmetric theory proposed the string theory which later emerged in the 1980s. However, over the past few years, weird particles were found in the laboratory. The theoretical physics community hurriedly announced the entry into the "post-standard model" era, and within two years, the neutrino oscillation brought the standard model back.

Lu Zhou could understand why Mr. Frank was so obsessed with supersymmetry.

This persistence was definitely not because of something superficial, but because the supersymmetry theory was not established. The loopholes of the standard model could not be filled, and the string theory based on supersymmetry theory would also collapse.

If the supersymmetry theory was proven wrong, then people would ask why the theoretical physicists wasted half a century of time working on the standard model.

If only theoretical physics worked like the news…

One could discover this today and overthrew it tomorrow. Every day would be a new page.

In reality, theoretical physicists had to be rigor and clear. They could not just constantly changed their theories.

Lu Zhou did not know if his dark matter speculation was correct.

Both theories had the possibility of being established. However, the theories were wildly different. Lu Zhou wished he had the evidence to refute Frank's theory, but unfortunately, he did not.

He had to wait for the results of the experiment.

Lu Zhou hesitated for a moment before typing a line of words.

He then clicked "Send".

[Maybe you're correct, but I'm still inclined to believe in my theory.]

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Professor Frank was sitting in the front seat when he suddenly laughed out loud. His action scared the PhD student that was driving.

The PhD student glanced at the computer and asked, "What?"

"Nothing," answered Frank as he shook his head. He then closed his laptop before smiling and said, "That Chinese boy I told you about is quite funny."

…

Lu Zhou did not feel so good.

He stared at the computer for a long time. He then looked at the stack of A4 papers on his desk before scratching his head irritably.

Two-line operations seemed to be the wrong choice. One was number theory, the other was functional analysis and group theory. Both were big problems.

This most uncomfortable thing was that Mr. Frank introduced an extra dimension operation outside the symmetry field. This really was not mathematically sophisticated. From Lu Zhou's perspective, solving this problem with the perspective of dark matter would avoid many mathematical problems.

From the perspective of dark matter, every Z/PZ generator could be mapped to a function such as exp(2pi·i/p), and the Pontryagin duality problem could probably be solved.

The mathematicians in him told him that this was very probable.

Lu Zhou leaned back into his chair and stared at the ceiling. The mathematics symbols kept appearing in his brain to the point that he totally forgot to eat.

Group theory…

Group theory…

If only group theory is as simple as number theory… Although number theory isn't exactly simple…

Wait, group theory?!

Lu Zhou's eyes lit up and suddenly his mind flashed with information.

He was not thinking about the 750 GeV characteristic peak, but rather he was thinking about the Polignac's conjecture.

He sat up abruptly from his chair and picked up a pen. At the moment, Lu Zhou's brain was spinning a million miles per second.

Group theory was a very powerful tool. Not only was it listed as the two theoretical artifacts of quantum mechanics in the Hilbert space in functional analysis, but it was also useful when dealing with infinite prime numbers.

For example, any number theory teacher would teach about Fermat's theorem.

This theorem had many methods of proof. The most succinct proof was by group theory.

This proof only needed three lines.

If α and p were primes, the Euler's theorem was αφ(p)1(modp), but φ(p)=p-1, so α(p-1)1(modp). Both sides would then multiply by α to get the conclusion: when α was a natural number and p was a prime number, there was αpα(modp).

Was it that difficult?

In fact, Fermat's theorem was only a special case of Euler's theorem.

On the other hand, Euler's theorem could also be solved by group theory. However, it took half a page.

During this time, Lu Zhou was thinking of how to solve the Polignac's conjecture with a topology method. He had not even considered other mathematical methods.

In fact, many theses on arXiv had been trying to solve the Polignac's conjecture with his topology method.

However, Lu Zhou did not realize that physics would inspire him.

This was unexpected.

Lu Zhou started to spin the pen in his hand and he suddenly slapped the table.

He sighed and spoke with emotion.

"This idea might work!"

When the inspiration comes, it's like a tsunami. You can't stop it!

Lu Zhou placed the 750 GeV issue aside and pulled out a brand new A4 paper.

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Once the inspiration came to Lu Zhou, he could not stop writing. He had even completely forgotten about eating.

Lu Zhou's brain was filled with creative juice, and he was totally motivated as he took his pen and started to write on the paper.

[

The restriction group G is provided and G=p1α1p2α2···piαi, where pi is a prime number and αi is a positive integer. Let pπ(G), define deg(p)={qπ(G)p~q)

The number of times deg(p) is the vertex p. Redefine C(G)=…

]

…

Time slowly passed by, but he did not stop writing.

This felt different than the last time.

Last time his inspiration was given. This time, his inspiration was created by himself.

The pen moved swiftly on the paper.

Without him realizing it, he had already written five draft papers.

Lu Zhou rubbed his stomach and leaned against his chair before he took out his phone.

He was shocked when he looked at the time.

"F*ck, it's already five o'clock!"

He had not even eaten his breakfast yet.

Lu Zhou could not handle it anymore. He then went to the crowded cafeteria and ate some dinner. After dinner, he continued to work.

It was at six o'clock in the evening when Shi Shang returned from his class with his food. When he saw Lu Zhou writing on the desk, he asked, "Zhou, what are you doing? Master's students have homework too?"

Lu Zhou was at a crucial point, so he did not raise his head when he replied, "Writing a thesis."

Suddenly, Huang Guangming and Liu Rui also came back with their food.

Liu Rui placed his backpack on the table and took out his homework while Huang Guangming walked over to Lu Zhou and looked at the paper curiously.

He was muddled when he saw what Lu Zhou was writing.

"F*ck, Zhou, I don't understand a single word you wrote."

Out of curiosity, Shi Shang also came over.

"Guangming, we're third-year students already, so you should at least be able to understand the symbols… F*ck, this is group theory… Advanced stuff!"

Liu Rui was writing his homework when he twirled his pen and said calmly, "It's not that advanced, I think some fourth-year students take that. But it's not related to us applied mathematics majors… Well, unless you transfer to theoretical physics…"

Applied mathematics and theoretical physics were similar, so it was not that unusual for people to transfer.

Most people transferred for the fat physics research budget.

"No way I would transfer," said Huang Guangming as he shook his head and walked away.

"Of course you couldn't transfer, you're not like Lu Zhou," said Shi Shang. He patted Guangming's shoulder with a look of defeat.

Lu Zhou, "…?"

…

Rome was not built in a day. A well-established theory required inspiration and time.

Over the next few days, Lu Zhou spent all his day time at the library, and all his night time in his dorm.

Occasionally, he would have to reply to Professor Frank's email. However, since there was no new data from CERN, he did not have to do too much work.

Lu Zhou felt fulfilled.

Although other people could not understand, he himself was happy.

The second week of September, on a sunny morning, Lu Zhou leaned against his chair in the library. He glanced at the dozens of papers in front of him and said with relief, "Finally done!"

All it took was some inspiration to solve the bottleneck. After that, he could cruise through the rest.

He was exhausted but he also had an unexplainable pleasant feeling.

It was not just because he solved another difficult mathematics conjecture, but it was also because while he was solving this problem, it deepened his understanding of group theory. This gave him new tools in his mathematics toolbox.

This was more exciting than the conjecture itself.

Hilbert once said that Fermat's Great Theorem was a chicken that could lay golden eggs, Not because the chicken had fed a large number of mathematicians, and nor was it because the chicken had given many journals a chance to publish their sub-par papers, but because through it, many novel mathematical methods were derived.

Inspired by the Fermat problem, Kummer introduced the concept of ideal numbers and found the only decomposition theorem that decomposed the number of a circular domain into an ideal prime factor. This theorem had been promoted today by Dedekind and Kroneeck. It occupied a central position in the theory of modern numbers, and its significance had gone far beyond the scope of number theory.

Lu Zhou's work at the Princeton conference was the same. His applied topology method solved the twin prime conjecture.

The original sieve theory was applied by Mr. Chen, and the number theory community believed that in order to solve the Goldbach's conjecture in the form of "11", they needed a new method.

It appeared now that the sieve method was more useful than they thought.

Even the professor that introduced the sieve theory in 1995 had not expected this.

This is the value of number theory.

While Lu Zhou was solving the Polignac's conjecture, he also found a unique solution.

He named this method "Structure Research Method of the Group Theory" or "Group Structure Method" for short.

Using the group theory method, the problem of infinity was studied as a whole. The "K=1" form was extended to "k is an infinite natural number", which thoroughly proved that "for all natural numbers k, there are infinite pairs of prime numbers (p, The proposition of p2k)".

The conclusion might be one only sentence, but it took up several blackboards to prove.

Lu Zhou spent an entire day organizing the proof on his computer before converting it into PDF format.

As he looked at the finished product on his screen, he nodded with satisfaction.

"This should do."

He could still write more on his Group Structure Method.

However, Group Structure Method was not the focus of his thesis.

So far, the Polignac's conjecture had been proved.

While it might seem that the proof was only an extension of the twin prime conjecture proof, but no one other than Lu Zhou knew of its difficulty.

Lu Zhou added a sentence to his thesis.

[… Due to structural reasons, the Group Structure Method theory will be explained in my next thesis.]

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At a cafe near Princeton University…

A bald old man was sitting at a corner while he drank his coffee. At the same time, he was reading the thesis in his hand.

Sitting opposite him was Edward Witten.

When Edward Witten aw the thesis in his old friend's hand, he asked, "What are you reading?"

"An interesting thesis submission," said Professor Deligne as he turned the page. He continued, "It's about the Polignac's conjecture."

He could not help but add, "An interesting proof."

Edward Witten asked, "Lu Zhou?"

"Yes," answered Professor Deligne as he held a pen and wrote a few question marks on the paper. In a casual manner, he said, "Missing that conference was your biggest mistake of the year."

Edward Witten smiled and said, "Haha, I agree. Especially since I met him in person, my regrets have gotten stronger."

Deligne looked at him and said, "Oh? When did you fly across the Pacific Ocean?"

Edward Witten, "Other side of Atlantic. Did you forget that I just got back from there?"

Professor Deligne raised his eyebrows and asked, "You met that kid at CERN?"

With a smile, Edward Witten said, "Did you not look at the news recently?"

Professor Deligne shook his head and said, "I didn't, why? Is there anything new?"

Edward Witten, "The LHCb International Cooperation Group published news on the pentaquark. They also found a characteristic peak at the 750 GeV energy zone. They think it could be supersymmetric particles."

"Oh, congratulations. You're one step closer to the Nobel Prize," said Professor Deligne casually.

In a nutshell, supersymmetry discussed a symmetrical connection between a fermion and a boson, which could be seen to some extent as a low-energy deduction of superstring theory.

If the superstring theory was correct, then supersymmetric particles must exist.

So the reverse was that if supersymmetric particles were found, they could provide powerful experimental evidence for superstring theory, but it wouldn't be a rigorous proof.

If they did not find it, the superstring theory would be disproved.

However, Professor Deligne was not particularly concerned about the physics world. His focus was on pure mathematical physics.

Especially number theory and algebraic geometry.

"It's too early for congratulations," said Edward Witten with a smile. He then joked, "I think my Nobel Prize would be behind Stephen Hawking… I won't have a chance."

Only an experimentally proven theory could win a Nobel Prize. Finding the string that made up the universe was much more difficult than proving the black hole evaporation theory.

The latter was theoretically achievable. It only required creating a black hole on a tiny scale. Then, one could use equipment to observe this blackhole evaporate at the speed of light.

However, the former could not be solved by the Hadron Collider. It would take generations to create a collider that could observe in the one dimension.

It was impossible to prove the superstring theory with the current existing technologies.

When Professor Deligne heard his friend speaking in a self-deprecating tone, he smiled and said, "He was also listening to the report?"

Edward Witten smiled and said, "He wasn't listening. He was reporting. Can you believe it? The 750 GeV clue was presented by an intern. He used a probabilistic method to calculate the probability of a characteristic peak appearing in the 750 GeV energy region, and then guess what happened? CERN researchers did a month of experiments and found this characteristic peak on the Hadron Collider."

Professor Deligne stared at the thesis for a long time before he suddenly said, "I didn't realize he was so talented in physics as well."

"Yeah," said Edward Witten as he nodded his head with approval. He then said, "I heard he's coming to Princeton next year. I want to accept him as my student."

Deligne said, "That would depend on his own choices. I think that he's more talented in number theory."

Edward Witten smiled and did not respond.

He hoped that Lu Zhou would choose him but Lu Zhou might not choose either of them.

When Professor Deligne turned to the last page of the thesis, his eyebrows twitched.

Edward Witten asked, "What?"

Deligne shook his head as he replied, "Nothing."

He was just praising the cleverness of the Group Structure Method, but when he read the last line, he was shocked.

If Lu Zhou's thesis was bad, he would have written him an angry email.

…

A major conjecture took a lot of time to test its correctness.

Lu Zhou did not know how long this would take, but he hoped that the review process was faster. Hopefully, it could be done before the end of the year.

After the Polignac's conjecture came to an end, Lu Zhou spent all his time on Mr. Frank's project.

Frank would communicate through email about the supersymmetric supplement theory. Although Lu Zhou had doubts about the theory, he still tried to seek common ground while reserving his opinions.

Lu Zhou had no choice. He could only pick out mathematical problems from the theory, and he was unable to build his own theory.

The main part of this supersymmetric complement theory was mainly done by Mr. Frank. Lu Zhou was responsible for processing the data and repairing the mathematical loopholes of the theory from a mathematical point of view, thus making it look more mathematically aesthetic.

Lu Zhou's work was actually very important.

The reason why string theory was accepted by others was that it was mathematically beautiful.

It was soon October when Professor Lu called Lu Zhou into his office.

"We're going to Beijing on the 20th. I've already booked the ticket for you, so start preparing."

Out of curiosity, Lu Zhou asked, "Okay… Professor, can you tell me why we're going?"

Professor Lu smiled and replied, "Nothing, it's just the Twelfth National Chinese Mathematical Society Conference. It's also the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party. Several old guys proposed to have the conferences together. Also, that Old Qiu guy will come, so I'll bring you along."

The f*ck?

Why do you sound so calm?

This is a big deal!

Lu Zhou wondered, "Isn't the conference in November? Why is it in October? Also, why are you going to a mathematics conference? Aren't you a physicist?"

However, that was not the main point since Lu Zhou remembered that this conference was by invitation only.

Finally, Lu Zhou asked, "Can you go without an invitation?"

"I have the invitation, don't worry about it. Just come with me. This is a good thing for you," said Profesor Lu as he waved his hand. He then said, "Oh yeah, isn't your research topic the Polignac's conjecture? Is there any new research results? If there is, I suggest you apply for a report at this conference. This is a good opportunity."

Reporting at such a high-level conference was a great honor. Even though Professor Lu was engaged in theoretical physics, he was no stranger to the mathematics world.

At this moment, however, he did not know that the Polignac's conjecture thesis was already submitted to Annual Mathematics by Lu Zhou. It was already in the peer review process.

Theses that were submitted could not be reported at conferences as it would be counted as a double submission.

Lu Zhou began to think over it carefully. Other than the Polignac's conjecture, he did not have any other interesting research results to present.

However, he did have his "Group Structure Method" which could be considered a research result.

Maybe I'll just type up a Group Structure Method thesis and report it at the conference!

Lu Zhou smiled at Professor Lu and said, "I'll prepare something."

Professor Lu smiled and said, "Okay then, go prepare. Oh yeah, the deadline for submission is next Friday. Hurry up."

Lu Zhou, "…?!"

The f*ck?

You're only telling me now!

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As it turned out, a person would never know how much potential he had unless he pushed himself.

Lu Zhou was surprised by his own speed. It took him only a week to sort out his thesis.

Of course, it was given since he had already done most of the work before. His week was spent only on sorting out the thesis.

The thesis was 15 pages long. The title was simple: "The Structure of the Group Theory."

Of course, he had to prove the superiority of his mathematical method. He used two examples.

One was the infinite prime problem, and the other was Wilson's theorem.

These two questions were the touchstone of number theory. The summary of the various methods could be written into a touchstone, standard or criterion by which something was judged.

Similar to these two were the Euler's theorem and Fermat's theorem. Lu Zhou originally planned to use these two examples, but these two already had a fairly simple group theory proof method.

Especially the latter, it only took three lines to prove. There was no room for improvement.

Using his method would be a little redundant.

Finally, Lu Zhou submitted his thesis the day before the deadline.

…

On the morning of 20th October, Lu Zhou dragged his suitcase and went on the airplane with Professor Lu. They flew from Jin Ling to Beijing.

This year's academic conference host was Beijing Normal University, and the organizer was the China Mathematics Society.

Since it was also the 80th anniversary of the China Mathematics Society, the conference was exceptionally grand. Many internationally well-known mathematicians were invited to attend this conference.

Lu Zhou's accommodation was at the Emperor Dragon Hotel. The invited guests already had their food and room expenses paid for, so he only had to pay for the $800 yuan registration fee.

However, this fee was already paid by Professor Lu.

He had to admit that it was nice working with a rich supervisor.

Of course, one also had to be worthy enough to be his student.

Once they arrived at the airport, they got on Yan Xinjue's car.

When they arrived at the hotel, Yan Xinjue went to park the car while the two went in first. When they stepped in the elevator, Lu Zhou saw Yan Xinjue walking toward them and he could not help but ask, "Student Yan, you're also attending this conference?"

Yan Xinjue smiled. Before he could say anything else, Professor Lu interrupted and said, "This kid's coming for fun. Don't mind him."

Yan Xinjue smiled and said, "What do you mean for fun? I'm supporting Lu Zhou."

Lu Zhou was embarrassed as he said, "I'm only doing a report. Nothing major."

Yan Xinjue patted his shoulder and said, "Humble, but I'll congratulate you in advance! Oh yeah, aren't you doing a report on stage? What hairstyle should you do? Make it handsome."

Lu Zhou, "…?"

Professor Lu smiled but he did not speak. Lu Zhou was confused by both of them.

I feel like these two are hiding something from me.

Why am I not in the loop…

…

After Lu Zhou went to his hotel room and left his suitcase there, he then went to the hall to eat.

Today was mainly for admission. The conference would officially start tomorrow.

The conference would last for five days. It would end on the 25th.

Due to the importance of the conference, the entire hotel was booked by the China Mathematics Society.

Once Lu Zhou finished eating, he looked around. He noticed that the average age of the people here was around 40 years old, and only the waiter was as young as him.

Lu Zhou quickly finished his dinner and he planned to go back to his room.

Suddenly, while he was walking to the elevator, someone greeted him and walked over with a smile.

"Hello, you're Lu Zhou, right?"

"Yes, you are…?" asked Lu Zhou as he looked at him suspiciously. He could not recognize this guy at all.

"Wei Siyang, PhD student at Aurora University," said the young man as he shook Lu Zhou's hand. With a smile, he said, "I saw you at the Princeton Conference, but I didn't get the chance to speak with you. You're too famous!"

"What do you mean famous… Nice to meet you," said Lu Zhou as he forced a smile.

Even though he knew he was nutty, he still did not like being complimented.

Wei Siyang smiled and introduced Lu Zhou to the old man behind him, "Let me introduce you to my boss, Professor Ma Changan. He's in the algebraic geometry field, 2017 academician nominee!"

Professor Ma had a majestic face.

Professor Ma Changan smiled and waved his hand. He said to his student, "What do you mean nominee, stop bragging about me. The organization hasn't even decided yet."

Even though he reprimanded his student, it was obvious he liked to be complimented.

Professor Ma smiled at Lu Zhou and said, "I've done thirty years of research, but have little success. You young people really are impressive. It's quite admirable"

With a smile, Lu Zhou replied humbly, "Professor Ma, you're too kind. I still have lots to learn."

"Being humble is good. If I achieved as much as you at your age, I would've been bragging my ass off," said Professor Ma with a smile. He then said, "I heard you were researching Polignac's conjecture?"

The Ten Thousand People Initiative research projects were not confidential.

Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "Yeah."

Professor Ma lifted his eyebrows and said, "How's the research going?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "There's some progress."

The review process for major mathematics conjecture process was slow. It could take months.

The Annual Mathematics journal had not responded yet. His thesis status was still in "peer review" so he could not just say he proved it.

Professor Ma was interested as he smiled and said, "Oh, it seems that you have some ideas?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You could say that."

Professor Ma smiled and said, "I'm doing some research on number theory as well. Why don't you look at my thesis and we can exchange some ideas?"

Lu Zhou was stunned. He looked at this professor with doubts in his mind.

It was very rash to request others to look at unfinished research work.

Not to mention, Lu Zhou was not his student, so there was no reason for him to look at the professor's work.

In the end, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "There's no need for that. I like to study mathematics alone so I won't waste your precious time."

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Professor Ma was stunned as he had not expected that he would be rejected by this young scholar.

Even though a smile remained on his face, his eyes were cold.

With an unpleasant tone, Professor Ma said, "What? You think I'm old and can't keep up with your thought process? Or do you think that I'm not good enough?"

Lu Zhou smiled and responded gently, "No, of course not. It's just my personal habit."

Professor Ma stared at Lu Zhou for a while before he laughed and said, "Ah, University of Jin Ling has some good talents. Okay then, it's fine if you're not interested. I won't waste your time."

The old man then walked away.

Wei Siyang was a bit embarrassed. He wanted to be friends with Lu Zhou but he did not want to offend his professor. After hesitating for a moment, he then left.

Lu Zhou was stunned.

He felt that the professor was a little unhappy.

That's strange. Why did this professor care so much about my opinion?

What a weird guy.

When Lu Zhou saw Ma Changan's back as he walked away, he did not know what had just happened.

…

A day later, the 12th National China Mathematics Society and 80th Anniversary Academic conference officially kicked off.

Inside the grand auditorium, people started to crowd on the red carpet.

Even though the conference had not even begun, people were already bragging left and right.

Domestic conferences were different from foreign conferences. The primary goal for domestic conferences was not for academic exchanges. Instead, it was an opportunity to make friends.

Unfortunately, before this conference even began, Lu Zhou had already offended a big name.

However, he felt that his rejection was nicely put and did not think too much into it.

Maybe next time he should lie and pretend that he did not make any progress on Polignac's conjecture?

Lu Zhou, who went into the venue with Professor Lu, excused himself to go to the toilet. When he returned, Professor Lu was nowhere to be found.

He looked around in the venue and could not find Professor Lu, but he did find Yan Xinjue.

Yan Xinjue was chatting with a handsome man who wore glasses.

Just as Lu Zhou walked up and was about to say hello, Yan Xinjue was already one step ahead of him as he said, "Come, let me introduce you to Professor Yang Zhiguang, our outstanding alumni from University of Jin Ling!"

When Lu Zhou heard this name, he was stunned for a moment. He then said, "Professor Yang Zhiguang, nice to meet you!"

Yang Zhiguang was impressive. Lu Zhou saw his name on the University of Jin Ling's Hall of Fame.

Graduated from the University of Jin Ling in 1985, he obtained a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989 before he went to study at the University of Augsburg in Germany. After obtaining his Ph.D., he then did two years of research at the Technical University of Munich.

When he returned to China in 1994, he worked in the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and won major awards such as "Feng Kang Scientific Computing Award" and "National Natural Science Second Prize".

Of course, the nuttiest part was that this guy reported for 45 minutes at the 2006 International Conference of Mathematicians in Spain.

He was the only speaker from China at that conference!

Yang Zhiguang was absolutely qualified to be a 2017 academician!

However, his research area was different than Lu Zhou. While Lu Zhou did not know much about what he studied, he knew that the professor was engaged in numerical analysis and scientific calculation.

His direction was not purely mathematical, but it was more to applied mathematics and was closely related to engineering.

Lu Zhou was not surprised to see him here.

What he did not expect was that Professor Yang Zhiguang looked so young. If Yan Xinjue did not introduce Lu Zhou to him, Lu Zhou would have thought that the guy was 30 years old. The truth was that Yang Zhiguang was already in his 50's.

In comparison, Yan Xinjue who was only in his 30's already had a receding hairline.

"Hello," said Yang Zhiguang as he shook Lu Zhou's hand. He said rather enthusiastically, "I was just talking about your glorious deeds. I didn't expect to meet you so quickly. What an honor!"

Lu Zhou smiled and replied humbly, "What glorious deeds… Your research results have brought benefits to the entire country. My research is all theoretically, it's not even worth mentioning!"

As a physicist, Yan Xinjue could not converse with these two.

Yang Zhiguang held Lu Zhou's hand as said humbly, "Don't be too modest, your calculation methods are of a textbook level. The entire country will be using them! Professor Liu of the Institute of Polymer Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was very proud of your achievements! Every time I talked about you, he would praise your work. He said it has bridged the gap between materials science and mathematics as well as igniting the fire of stars in computational materials science. Not to mention, your work in number theory… Even international masters have praised you."

F*ck me, this is way too exaggerated!

I just wrote one computational material thesis. What do you mean by bridging the gap?

Lu Zhou did not know what to say.

Fortunately, Professor Lu came over, and he was saved by the bell.

"Fine, stop bragging you two. I can't listen to it anymore!"

When Professor Yang Zhiguang saw Professor Lu, he smiled. Embarrassed, he said, "What do you by bragging, I was telling the truth."

Yang Zhiguang was in his 50's, so he was still young compared to the 70-year-old Professor Lu.

Not to mention, Yang Zhiguang was once in Professor Lu's physics class.

Their relationship was that of mentor and mentee.

As Professor Lu nodded with satisfaction, he said, "Your academician evaluation is coming up, right?"

Yang Zhiguang smiled and said, 'Not sure, it's all up to the organization."

"Okay then. Our University of Jin Ling hasn't produced much mathematics talent, and you're the only one from the '80s. As for the 2010s, it'll depend on this guy," said Professor Lu as he patted Lu Zhou's shoulder. He then added, "You two should do your best. The future of this country depends on you young people."

Yan Xinjue suddenly asked, "Boss, what about me?"

"You?" said Professor Lu. As he looked at him, he said, "You… You should also try your best."

Yan Xinjue, "…?"

Lu Zhou nearly laughed out loud.

…

It was soon nine o'clock, and the opening ceremony of the conference officially began.

Professor Wang Shicheng of the Chinese Mathematical Society delivered an opening speech.

He was then followed by the chairman of the International Mathematical Union, Sen Chongwen, as well as Hergi Horton and the other international mathematicians. They all came to celebrate China Mathematics Society's 80th birthday.

These scholars had been researching since the '80s, and they came from all around the world.

After Professor Wen Lan announced the opening of the conference with a, "Always follow your heart, wherever it may lead you", the conference erupted in applause.

The end of the opening ceremony was the highlight of the conference. Soon, it was the Loo-Keng Hua Mathematics Award and Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematics Award ceremony!

The former was aimed at professors over the age of 50 while the latter was aimed at young scholars under the age of 50. There were two candidates per award.

The prize money was only $100,000 yuan but the meaning was significant.

Especially the Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematics Award; it was considered a domestic Fields Medal.

Winners of the Loo-Keng Hua Mathematics Award were academicians Lin and Liu from the University of Sichuan. They were rewarded for their outstanding contributions in computational mathematics and topology.

Soon after, the most exciting moment came.

Professor Qiu Chengtong stood on the podium and smiled. He shook hands with Professor Wang Shicheng before he took over the microphone.

The Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematics Award young scholar award would be awarded by this old gentleman.

The applause gradually subsided.

The old man cleared his throat and said slowly, "The first winner is Professor Yang Zhiguang from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research results are systematic research on the perfect matching layer method (PML) for wave scattering problems and the wave source transfer region splitting algorithm for high-frequency Helmholtz equations. He established a mathematical foundation for the famous Peaceman machine model in the engineering world…"

"The second award winner is…"

Professor Qiu flipped to the next page and adjusted his glasses before he announced it loudly.

"Lu Zhou!"

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