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 619: From All over the World

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During the middle of May, the atmosphere of Jinling was somewhat unusual.

As the report date was getting closer and closer, scholars from all over the world flew to Jinling. This city, which had never had an international academic culture, had become more and more popular as an academic hotspot.

After Jin Ling University announced the report, whether it was the hotels that provided accommodation or the municipal government of Jin Ling City, they all took this matter seriously. From the cleaning up of the streets to coordinating traffic, the city government had given the green light on things that were outside of Jin Ling University's control.

After all, this kind of world-class academic conference attracted more than a thousand scholars and was the center of attention of the physics and mathematics communities. This kind of event only happened once every few years. Being able to host a report like was an honor for the school, and it was also an opportunity for Jin Ling City to present itself to the international community.

It wasn't just about the reputation of the city, it was also about politics; they all had to take this event seriously.

At the entrance of the InterContinental Hotel.

An old man, who was wearing a black jacket, carried his suitcase up the stairs and stood at the hotel entrance. He then looked at his watch. A man in a gray suit walked out of the hotel elevator and greeted him.

When Faltings saw the person walking out of the hotel elevator, he raised his eyebrows.

"I didn't expect you to come here first."

Klitzing smiled and said, "You're too slow, I've been here for two days already."

Faltings: "Have you met him?"

"Yeah, I went to Jin Ling University yesterday to meet him. It seemed like he's doing well. He took me to visit the Institute for Advanced Study and some other interesting places nearby." Klitzing paused for a second and said, "Arriving early is a good thing."

Faltings' expression didn't change as he said, "You know I don't care about those kinds of things."

Klitzing shrugged and said, "I know, I also care about what you care about. But the report is going to start tomorrow. Let's wait until tomorrow to think about these troublesome matters."

Faltings felt like Klitzing made sense, so he didn't say anything else. He carried his suitcase and went into the elevator with Klitzing.

The entire hotel was booked just for the three-day [a]report. Theoretical physicists and mathematicians from all over the world were living here.

On the way to his hotel room, people constantly greeted Faltings, who nodded in response. He was quite surprised, especially when he saw Professor Sarnak from Princeton and Andrew Wiles from Oxford University.

"I didn't expect to see so many old friends here."

"After all, this question has troubled the mathematics and physics community for a long time." Klitzing smiled and said, "We all want to know the answer."

Faltings: "That's not what I meant."

Klitzing raised his eyebrows with interest.

"Oh yeah?"

"Mathematics is getting younger."

Faltings paused for a second and muttered to himself, "This a good thing."

…

The day of the report.

The crowd was packed into the grand auditorium at the old campus of Jin Ling University.

Professor Deligne wore a black hat, which covered his shiny head, and a black jacket. He walked to the third row in the venue and sat next to Edward Witten.

"Aren't you doing a report at CERN? How come you have the time to come all the way to the other side of the Pacific Ocean?"

"I heard there's an interesting report going on, so I came." Witten smiled and said to his old friend, "Plus, my research partner Professor Wilczek suddenly stopped his work and insisted on coming here. I didn't want to stay in Switzerland alone, so I thought it would be better to come. How about you?"

"I mean he is my student…" Deligne noticed Witten's look of surprise, and he asked, "What?"

Professor Witten coughed and said, "Nothing, I forgot that Professor Lu even studied algebraic geometry."

Deligne: "…"

The front of the auditorium wasn't the only busy place. On both sides of the auditorium were people who were responsible for maintaining the order of the conference. There were also logistical workers who had been working since 6 am.

Every great event had countless people working behind the scenes.

In order to do a good job of organizing this conference and not get laughed at by Yan University, Principal Xu personally came to the venue to command the logistics staff. Dean Qin was also working hard. In fact, he was even more nervous.

Even though he wasn't the one giving the report, his hands were still drenched in sweat.

This was the first time that Jin Ling University's mathematics department stood on an international stage; it was their first time facing the world.

One could say that not only did this report affect the future of the mathematics department, but it also affected the future of Jin Ling University…

There was only half an hour left until the report.

Lu Zhou's quiet green room was in contrast with the loud venue. He quietly sat at the table. He was calculating something while writing on the draft paper.

He heard footsteps from outside the door.

Lin Yuxiang gently knocked on the door and walked in. She was wearing a red dress.

"Professor, it's about to begin."

Lu Zhou twirled his thumb around the ballpoint pen and looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling. He then stood up.

"Okay, got it."

Lin Yuxiang saw that Lu Zhou was walking to the closet, and she said, "Do you need me to help tie your tie?"

"No."

Lin Yuxiang sighed.

Even though she knew he would say this, the way he refused her wasn't euphemistic at all…

Lu Zhou picked up the suit from the closet and put it on. He walked in front of the mirror and looked at himself.

After he confirmed that he was still a handsome fellow, he tightened his tie and walked out the door.

Han Mengqi was standing near the entrance of the green room. When she and saw Lu Zhou walk out of the room, she cheered, "Teacher… You got this!"

"Yeah." Lu Zhou nodded and casually said, "Of course I do."

[a]is it a three day report? previous sentence seems like so

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Chapter 620: The Chalk That Stopped Writing

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The lights were turned on.

Lu Zhou steadily walked onto the auditorium stage.

The second he walked to the microphone stand, the noise died down, and the venue instantly became quiet.

As Lu Zhou stood on the stage and looked around the venue, he felt ice in his veins.

This wasn't his first report session.

It also wasn't his first time challenging a world-class problem.

Lu Zhou reached out and adjusted the microphone stand. He then said in a clear voice, "Thank you all very much for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come here. I won't waste any more of your time, let's get straight to the point."

After the opening remarks, Lu Zhou paused for a second and continued, "I'm sure you all have read my thesis before coming here. I will briefly repeat the proof process and explain in detail my thought process for this proof.

"I'm sure that after my explanation, there will no longer be any confusion in your minds.

"If there are any questions, feel free to ask during the QA session."

The PowerPoint on the projector screen flipped to a new page, showing everyone the lines of formulas.

[Fi(μv)δμ·Avi-δv·Aμig(fijk)·(Aμj)·(Avk).]

[…]

"When we set a Schwarz non-dispersion vector field μ0 to the equation and set the time interval I [0, ), we can then define a generalized solution N9 of the Yang-Mills equations as an integral equation μ, ie μ H10df (R3)…

"It is difficult to solve this nonlinear partial differential equation using conventional methods, and it's also difficult to prove the existence of its solution. We must introduce a three-dimensional manifold and bridge the gap between the dimensionless equations and geometric principles by introducing topological ideas…"

Lu Zhou picked up a piece of rather long chalk from the desk and walked to the blackboard. He then began to write.

In the crowd.

The first row.

As Academician Lu looked at Lu Zhou who was writing on the blackboard, he felt emotional.

"This is incredible."

Professor Tang was sitting next to him. He smiled and asked, "What is incredible?"

Academician Lu didn't answer this question. Instead, he began to reminisce.

"Five years ago, at CERN's European Nuclear Research Conference, I had a disagreement with him regarding the 750 GeV energy characteristic peak. My opinion was that the signal could be a two-photon signal produced by the gluon during polymerization. He insisted that there might be something beyond the standard model."

"Then what happened?" Professor Tang smiled and asked, "Was he correct or were you correct?"

"There wasn't a conclusion." Academician Lu shook his head and said, "CERN did research on his discovery for an entire year, and the theoretical physics community also paved a way for this new particle for an entire year, then… It was almost like the universe was fooling us, some said that it's quantum fluctuations, others said that it's a two-photon signal generated by the polymerization of gluons… But this isn't the main point."

Academician Lu paused for a second and smiled. He said, "Being able to stick with your opinions when challenged by a higher authority is a rare personality trait, especially for students that have been trained in our education system. This quality is extremely commendable. Ever since then, I knew this kid was going to make something of himself. I didn't expect that I actually underestimated him. I can't believe he's gotten to this point in just five short years."

That last sentence finally answered Tang Zhiwei's question.

He just thought that with Lu Zhou's talent and hard work, he was bound to earn a place in the mathematics world as well as the physics world. However, he didn't expect that in these five short years, not only did he become stronger, but he also made Jin Ling University, as well as the Chinese academia, stronger.

Professor Tang smiled. "Yeah…

"He's the fastest-learning student I have ever seen before."

The report continued.

After the part about the L Manifold finished, Lu Zhou quickly accelerated the speed of the report.

The thesis was forty pages long, and the main proof process was at least twenty pages.

If he didn't want to leave the QA session to the afternoon, he had to finish speaking within two hours.

As Lu Zhou's reporting speed gradually increased, the scholars in the venue intently stared at each line of equations. They didn't want to miss a single detail or a single letter.

For people like them, they didn't have to worry about not understanding the report. At most, they just didn't have the time to leisurely talk with their peers while listening to the report.

The PowerPoint pages were shown one after another.

There were more and more equations on the blackboard.

Lu Zhou completely forgot about where he was, and he had completely forgotten about the audience behind him. He had entered the "zone", where all of his attention was focused on the chalk and the half-filled blackboard.

While writing and explaining, Lu Zhou also organized his thoughts regarding the proof of the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills equations.

While he was organizing his thoughts, new inspirations and ideas were also brewing in his mind.

It was the 36th page of the thesis.

The report was about to end.

Professor Klitzing could finally take a break since he had already grasped the essence of the proof process. He looked at Professor Faltings, who was sitting next to him, and asked, "Amazing proof… What do you think?"

Faltings stared straight at the lines of equations on the blackboard, and he seemed to be analyzing something. He didn't speak for a long time.

Before he came to China, he studied the L Manifold and the proof of the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills equations. He also talked with several PhDs that were in this field, who were from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. However, he still had some doubts regarding some details.

However, most of his questions had already been answered.

Five or six minutes had gone by… He looked at the PowerPoint presentation. After that, he looked at the blackboard. He then said with a poker face, "He answered some of my doubts… but not all of them."

Professor Klitzing chuckled.

Since Faltings said so, I'm guessing there are no problems with the proof.

However, when he was waiting for Lu Zhou to finish so that he could stand up and give him a round of applause…

Lu Zhou suddenly stopped writing.

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Chapter 621: I Solved It

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The chalk on the blackboard stopped moving.

The explanation from Lu Zhou also stopped.

Everyone in the audience was stunned.

Lu Zhou's hands hadn't stopped writing for the past hour, and now that he suddenly stopped, everyone felt a little uncomfortable.

However, everyone knew that when someone was in an unusual environment, they were bound to perform worse than usual. Some people even witnessed old professors dozing off while reporting. Also, this was a major mathematical proposition. Not only did it test the reporter's mathematics level and articulation ability, but it also tested the reporter's mental endurance.

Everyone waited in silence.

However…

10 seconds passed.

5 minutes passed.

Lu Zhou still stood still on stage. He stared at the blackboard like he was thinking about something.

Seeing how he didn't react for a long time, the audience began to worry.

Why hasn't he moved yet?

Is he stuck in his train of thought?

Or did he… realize he made a mistake?

A lot of people looked like they were gloating, while others looked like they were concerned. After all, making a mistake during a major mathematics conjecture report was possible. It wasn't like everyone could be correct every single time.

However, no one thought that an issue would arise during the reporting stage, as opposed to the QA session.

This almost felt like…

Lu Zhou used his own logic to tie himself to the floor.

The reporters standing behind the auditorium noticed the commotion in the audience. They felt like something big was going to happen. They secretly pointed the camera lens at Lu Zhou to get a close-up of his facial expression.

Laymen always liked to watch accidents happen.

Principal Xu and Dean Qin, as well as several other teachers who were also in the venue, started to sweat. The staff members near the stage were even more helpless; they didn't know if they should inform Lu Zhou of the time or just stand there and wait.

Dean Qin clenched his fists as he mumbled, "What is he doing, isn't he about to prove it?"

He had read the thesis, and he understood the thesis. With just a few more steps, he could prove the solution existence of the Yang-Mills equations. He didn't know if Lu Zhou forgot or something, because Lu Zhou just stood there and… started to daydream?

Han Mengqi, who was standing at the corner of the venue, watched Lu Zhou on stage. She clenched her right hand and silently prayed for Lu Zhou.

Lin Yuxiang, who was standing next to her, looked like she just realized something. She smirked and looked a little mischievous.

In the audience.

Academician Wang Shicheng was sitting in a corner of the venue. He stared at the blackboard and frowned.

The proof process was correct.

The rest of the proof should be easy. It would only take one more sentence to finish the proof. Lu Zhou just had to finish the PowerPoint presentation and begin the QA session.

For an internationally-renowned scholar, people wouldn't ask him to clearly prove every step. He only needed to answer some of the more controversial steps.

While Academician Wang was thinking about the proof process, the man wearing glasses, who was sitting next to him, asked, "Is he… stuck? This is going to be embarrassing for Lu Zhou."

Wang Shicheng stared at him and quietly said, "Shut up."

The man immediately shut his mouth.

After all, Wang Shicheng used to be the chairman of the China Mathematics Society. Even though he wasn't famous in the international academic community, he was still quite famous, domestically speaking.

On the other side of the venue.

Professor Witten stared at Lu Zhou on the stage and looked at Professor Deligne.

"Is there a problem?"

Deligne's eyebrows furrowed. He didn't say anything.

Fefferman's eyebrows were also furrowed, as if he was thinking about something.

As for Wiles, he wasn't worried at all. He heartlessly smiled and happily answered Witten's question, "Maybe his thought process is stuck. When I was researching Fermat's last theorem, I fell into the same state… I know what he's experiencing right now, we just have to wait for a bit."

When he was researching Fermat's last theorem, he first failed when he used the Iwasawa theory. He then changed to the Colivagin Fletcher method. Then he found out that the method had a serious problem when applied to a special Euler class. This led him to abandon his claim of successfully proving Fermat's last theorem.Read more chapter on NovelFull

That was until the last day of August when he suddenly came up with the idea of using the Iwasawa theory and combining it with the Colivagin Fletcher method. The final result was quite gratifying, to say the least. Wiles repaired the holes in his hopeless thesis and turned it into a proof for Fermat's last theorem.

Wiles talked about how he was inspired by his daughter's Lego blocks, and how desperate he was, and about how it was a sunny morning in Barabara…

Actually, he did have the right to brag.

As far as the conjecture itself was concerned, the proof of Fermat's last theorem was the most brilliant mathematical achievement of the 20th century.

However, thirty years had passed since then.

When Deligne heard him blabber, he merely ignored him.

Fefferman reached out and poked Witten with his finger.

Witten looked at him.

"What?"

"I've heard another version of this story." Fefferman pointed toward Wiles, who was talking to Deligne. Fefferman said, "The last time he told me about this story, he said he was inspired by his wife's breakfast."

Witten: "…"

Ten minutes had passed.

Lu Zhou still stood still on stage.

People even began to wonder if he was asleep, but Lu Zhou suddenly moved.

Moreover, he moved in a way that was unexpected.

He picked up the eraser from the table and began to erase the lines of equations on the blackboard. He then picked up the chalk and began to write down new lines of equations.

When Fefferman saw the lines of calculations, his pupils dilated, as if he knew something was coming, but he couldn't believe it.

However, Lu Zhou's movements confirmed his hunch.

Lu Zhou wrote down the last line of equations.

He turned around and threw the chalk onto the desk.

He went silent for a few seconds. He then faced the crowd and said in a positive tone, "I solved it."

After that, to everyone's surprise, Lu Zhou turned around and walked down from the stage.

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Chapter 622: Yang-Mills Equations General Solution!

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Solved it?

General solution for the Yang-Mills equations???

Where's the process?

Wait a minute, what about the QA session?

Why did he just leave?!

Even though you're a Fields Medal, you can't just be this reckless?!

The audience in the venue looked at each other. The commotion spread throughout the venue like a tidal wave.

Some people shook their heads and stood up, ready to leave. Other people were overwhelmed. There were also some people that took photos of the calculations on the blackboard, and others that looked at their peers in shock, not knowing what to say.

Klitzing was stunned as he stared at the calculations on the blackboard while tightly gripping his pen. He wrote some stuff on a piece of paper and looked at Faltings and said, "Is this the general solution?"

Faltings stared at the blackboard without any expression. He could barely speak.

"I'm good at algebraic geometry. You'll have to ask Fefferman about PDE1."

Klitzing: "…?"

There are actually things that you're not good at?

Even though Faltings kicked the ball to Fefferman, Fefferman was just as muddled.

Deligne stared at the calculations on the blackboard. He tried to make some calculations, but just like Faltings, he gave up. He looked at the PDE expert, Professor Fefferman, who was sitting next to him. He put down his pen and asked, "Are his calculations correct?"

"I don't know… Even if I wanted to, I couldn't verify the answer." Fefferman paused for a second and said, "This is in the realm of computer science, not mathematics."

Partial differential equations were different from general equations. It had the highest computational calculation requirement out of all of the mathematical disciplines.

Not only were there very few nonlinear partial differential equations that could be solved, but there were even fewer that had a solution. One could make the case that not only was this one of the most difficult areas of mathematics, but it was also an essential area for establishing phenomenological models for other areas.

If Lu Zhou wrote down the calculation process, Fefferman could follow the steps and try to find any mistakes.

However, the general solution was just there, on its own.

He had no idea what to do.

Edward Witten closed the notebook in his hand and nodded with a serious expression.

"The verification calculation is too large… If he isn't going to provide a calculation process, we'll have to use supercomputers to verify this historic discovery."

His voice was full of excitement.

Not only did he see the possibility of a mathematical solution for the Yang-Mills equations, but he also saw the possibility of connecting the electromagnetic force with the strong interaction.

If Lu Zhou was correct, this day would go down in history.

Wiles was sitting next to him, and he looked interested.

Even though he didn't really care about what the physics world thought about this, he was still interested in the mathematical proposition itself. After he heard Witten's words, he immediately nodded.

"I agree, every great discovery has to be taken seriously. If we can't verify the answer, this would be a huge loss for both Professor Lu and us… Just like Fermat's last theorem. Also, speaking of which, doesn't Princeton have a supercomputer? Why don't we just use yours?"

Professor Deligne nodded.

"I'll contact them."

Academician Wang Shicheng was sitting on the other side of the venue, and he took out his phone and took a photo of the blackboard. He then sent it to the Yan University's mathematics department's group chat. The people in this group were all top mathematics scholars from Yan University, leaders of China's mathematics community.

After Academician Wang Shicheng sent the photo, he called the dean of Yan University's mathematics department.

"I sent the photo to the group chat, help me use a supercomputer to verify it.

"Yeah, it's for the Yang-Mills equations."

The guy that previously gloated was sitting next to Academician Wang Shicheng. He gulped and quietly whispered, "Did he really solve it?"

Wang Shicheng said, "I don't know, but there's a high chance he did."

The people in the venue were all muddled. The professors who were responsible for the logistics and the school leaders were overwhelmed by Lu Zhou's impulsive movements. Dean Qin tried to chase after Lu Zhou but was stopped by Principal Xu.

"What are you doing?"

"What else could I be doing, I'm trying to get him back here. There's still a QA session." Dean Qin said with a look of worry, "What the hell is this, we're just going to stop the report halfway through?"

Principal Xu went silent for a while before saying, "We'll talk about Lu Zhou later. Try to salvage the situation on stage."

Dean Qin was stunned.

"What… do you want me to do on stage?"

Principal Xu said, "Just say something, thank them for coming, tell them that the report is over. Ask them to eat at the InterContinental Hotel… Do I really need to teach you everything?"

"Okay, okay! I'll try," Dean Qin said with a look of panic on his face.

On the other side of the venue.

Han Mengqi was absolutely dumbfounded. She snapped back to reality after Lu Zhou had already left the venue.

General solution?

What general solution?

Is this report over?

Lin Yuxiang, who was sitting next to her, was a lot calmer. Her eyes flashed like stars.

"Wow, Professor Lu is so handsome…"

Han Mengqi: "???"

Even though she didn't disagree, what did that have to do with the situation at hand?

The grand auditorium was left in chaos because of Lu Zhou's lines of equations.

Lu Zhou walked out of the old campus and was already in Wang Peng's car. He headed toward Zhongshan International.

He opened the door and walked into his study room. He then sat in front of his computer and began to edit a new document by typing on his keyboard.

"The differential geometry method is applicable to the partial differential equations solution, but the method requires some adjustments… Damn, why didn't I think about this half a month ago…"

As Lu Zhou muttered to himself, he became more and more excited.

Inspiration always came at unexpected times.

He finally connected all of the dots that he had been collecting.

"Just set U(3) to be a closed-line alignment in Banach Space X…

"That gives a general solution!"

As he stared at the lines of equations on his screen, his fingers were slightly trembling.

If mathematics were the language of gods, then at this moment, he was standing on a god's shoulders.

He had never been so close to the objective truth before…

Was there anything else that could be more exciting for a scholar?

Probably not.

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While Lu Zhou was writing his thesis, the Internet was exploding.

Some random reporter that attended the conference uploaded the entire report video onto the Internet.

When everyone saw the moment that Lu Zhou wrote down the last equation and said "I solved it" in a confident manner, the comment section exploded.

[Nutttty! He solved the general solution for the Yang-Mills equations?]

[God Lu is insane!]

[I'm honestly shook.]

[Amazing, even a video like this has millions of views…]

[What the hell is the yang mill? I came here for God Lu!]

[I'll give everyone a brief explanation. The Yang-Mills equations problem is one of the most outstanding theoretical physics achievements of the twentieth century. It aims to describe the behavior between elementary particles using the non-abelian group. Finding the general solution to the equations gives us hope for understanding the mass gap from a mathematical perspective. This lets us take a big step toward the Grand Unified Theory!]

[What the hell is the Grand Unified Theory?]

The comment section wasn't the only place that blew up, various media outlets had also followed suit.

Titles such as "The mathematician in his twenties shocks the world again with a unified theory!" or "Former US intelligence chief says: I regret letting Lu Zhou leave our country" were popping up on Weibo and various websites. Numerous photos of Lu Zhou standing in front of the blackboard thinking were posted in many articles.

For a long time, the Yang-Mills equations had been a milestone in the theoretical physics world. Co-invented by a Chinese physicist, this unsolvable equation was finally solved.

Of course, there was also criticism.

For example, after some social media influencer on Weibo saw this video, they immediately responded.

"I don't care about the significance of the Yang-Mills equations. Leaving the stage in the middle of a report is a disrespectful thing to do, it's like a comedian leaving in the middle of a set.

"As a Chinese scholar, Lu Zhou represents more than just himself; he is the image of China. In addition to academic achievements, he should be self-disciplined and well mannered.

"Not to mention, it's extremely irresponsible to write down a conclusion that hasn't been rigorously checked."

After the post came out, the comment section became a war zone.

[Please show us what you're really like in real life, show us how polite you are.]

[Oh, last time when Sir Atiyah used a five-page mathematics thesis to scam the whole world, you said he's a brave warrior. How come now you're criticizing Lu Zhou? Because Professor Lu isn't a foreigner?]

[F*ck sake, what's wrong with telling people to be more polite!]

The original poster saw that the comment section was a mess, so they left one last comment and decided to leave it alone.

In addition to the domestic media, foreign media had also been paying attention to this matter.

Like the drama-filled Daily Mail, after the report ended, they contacted a middle-aged professor who taught at St. Andrew University, who claimed to be an insider.

During the interview, when the middle-aged professor was asked about the incident, he began to respond in an awkward manner.

"I think the general solution is just a bunch of scribbles."

The reporter said, "Why?"

Middle-aged professor: "Everyone that knows a little about mathematics would know that behind every rigorous page of a mathematical thesis, are countless pages of thesis drafts. Especially for a computationally intensive partial differential equation proposition. How can anyone solve the problem without writing anything down? You're telling me he just solved it by standing there and using his inspiration?"

Reporter: "Why would Professor Lu need to forge anything?"

The professor shrugged and said, "I don't know, maybe he's too cocky? Wants research funding? I have a wonderful algorithm to prove that the general solution is correct, but unfortunately, there isn't enough space for me to write down the algorithm."

…

At night.

InterContinental Hotel.

Scholars dressed in formal attire were inside the spacious banquet hall. The gold-plated tables were filled with champagne and Chinese as well as western food. In order to make up for the morning report, Jin Ling University could only use food and drinks to try and give a better impression.

However, only a small subset of people was offended that Lu Zhou didn't follow the rules. Most people were more concerned about the general solution left on the blackboard.

"It's already 8 o'clock." Fefferman looked at the banquet hall entrance and said, "Looks like our protagonist is not going to show up."

Originally, he wanted Professor Lu to explain the general solution at the banquet, but unfortunately, that didn't seem like it was going to happen.

Wiles, who was wearing a tuxedo, had a glass of champagne in his hand as he walked over and said, "What happened with Princeton?"

Deligne still wore the black hat that covered his head. He shook his head and said, "The calculation required is large, and the researchers told me that it would take two to three days to complete. It's still morning over there, so the engineers responsible for arranging the supercomputer task has just woken up."

The John von Neumann Center didn't only serve as a supercomputer for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, but it also provided computational support for PPPL. The people at the John von Neumann Center obviously valued orders from NASA or the Ministry of Science and Technology more than the Institute for Advanced Study.

However, since Deligne personally arranged this task, it shouldn't take too long.

Not to mention, the engineers at the John von Neumann Center were also interested in a world-class mathematics problem.

Fefferman sighed and said, "If only he could provide a derivation, even just an idea would be nice."

Wiles smiled and said, "Apparently, he's gone on another retreat? I heard Professor Lu has a unique way of thinking about problems."

Fefferman said, "I think so. He had the habit of locking himself in his room in Princeton. Regardless, before he finishes his work, even if you go to his house, he won't open the door."

"I'm not sure if I should go back first or wait for the results here." Edward Witten looked at his phone and said, "There's going to be a new collision experiment conference in CERN in five days."

Wiles smiled and said, "CERN has conferences every day, how often do you get a chance to witness history?"

Witten thought for a bit and shrugged.

"You're right.

"I'll just wait here for a couple more days."

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Chapter 624: Passed Verification!

The sky outside the window gradually lit up.

Lu Zhou was sitting in front of his desk. He took a deep breath and slowly breathed out.

A lot of things were like this, there was only a thin paper wall between understanding and not understanding.

If the wall wasn't broken, then one would stay confused.

But if it was broken, everything would become clear.

Inside Lu Zhou's computer screen was the general solution process for the Yang-Mills equations.

When one compared this with the differential geometry L Manifold method for proving the existence of the solution for the nonlinear partial differential equation, the general solution process was surprisingly simple. The main proof part was only ten pages long.

Of course, part of the reason why it was so short was that it used several corollaries and lemmas that had been proven in his previous thesis. Directly referencing the previous thesis omitted some of the more cumbersome proof processes.

Lu Zhou couldn't wait to share this thesis with other scholars. Not only did he send it to the Annual Mathematics' editorial office, but he also uploaded it on arXiv.

After this, Lu Zhou stretched his back and got up from his chair. He went downstairs and took a hot bath.

Since he stayed up for the entire night, his biological clock was disrupted, and he didn't feel sleepy just yet.

In order not to screw up his sleep schedule, he planned on taking a two-hour nap in the afternoon, then sleep at night normally.

After Lu Zhou got out of the bath and put on some clean clothes, he went into the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. He took out a cold sandwich from the fridge and was about to put it in the microwave when he heard the doorbell ring.

Lu Zhou looked at the drone hovering near the fridge and asked, "Xiao Ai, who is outside?"

Soon, an artificial electronic voice was heard from the drone.

"It's your personal doctor, Master."

Yan Yan?

What is she doing here?

Lu Zhou put the sandwich back into the fridge and told Xiao Ai to open the front gate. He then walked through the living room to the main entrance.

When the door opened, he saw Yan Yan standing there with a plastic bag in her hand. She was dressed differently from her usual medical attire. The white coat was replaced by a casual purple-black t-shirt, and she also had on a casual pair of jeans, making her seem more youthful.

However, compared to her clothes, Lu Zhou was more interested in the plastic bag she was holding.

Even though he couldn't see what was inside, just from the shape of the container and the smell alone, he could immediately tell that it contained his favorite soup dumplings and soy milk.

"Why are you here?"

Yan Yan shook the plastic bag in her hand and replied in a relaxed manner, "Wang Peng was scared you're going to die at home alone, so he called me and told me to bring you some food."

What do you mean I'm going to die?

Lu Zhou ignored this tiny detail and sighed. "Why didn't he come?"

Yan Yan: "He said that if something did happen to you, I have more experience rescuing people."

Lu Zhou: "…"

I only went into a coma because I leveled up too fast.

Why are you making it seem like I'm going to die at any second?

Regardless, I'm sure she has good intentions.

Lu Zhou took the breakfast from Yan Yan and began to eat the soup dumplings at the dinner table. He took out his phone and opened Weibo. He was about to look at some interesting trending news when he saw that Yang-Mills equations was actually on trending.

He was intrigued, so he clicked on it and found multiple related articles. Lu Zhou clicked on the comment section.

There were some fans who were congratulating him, and some who were being sarcastic. There were also some who were insulting him… However, he only briefly glanced at the comments and smiled. He didn't take it to heart.

After all, he had matured a lot over the past few years.

Compared to his previous self, he didn't care about the praises and insults anymore.

After he gave a "Like" to the people that called him handsome, he was nearly done with his breakfast.

Lu Zhou wiped his mouth with a paper towel and stood up from his chair. He threw the plastic bag and container into the garbage and looked at Yan Yan, who was sitting on the sofa.

"I'm going to the InterContinental Hotel later."

Yan Yan nodded and stood up.

"I'll send you there."

Lu Zhou looked at her with surprise.

"You know how to drive?"

Yan Yan raised her eyebrows.

"You don't believe me?"

Lu Zhou gently coughed.

"It's not that."

Lu Zhou was just a bit worried about getting into AH a female driver's car[a[b[c].

…

Lu Zhou wasn't the only one who stayed up all night.

A dozen kilometers away, at the Jin Ling University's supercomputer center, a group of computational science engineers also worked all night.

Xu Jian was sitting in the office next door waiting for the final result. He chain-smoked while glancing at the door from time to time.

After the report ended yesterday, Dean Qin and the vice-principal took care of the visiting scholars. He, on the other hand, found some professors that were knowledgeable about PDE and took them here. He used Lu Zhou's general solution and the power of supercomputers to verify the general solution.

It had been more than ten hours since then.

With so many manpower and computing resources, it was about time for a result to come out.

However, there was no activity in the computer room yet…

This time of restlessness reminded him of when his wife was giving birth.

Xu Jian took a deep breath and put the cigarette butt in the ashtray. He was about to go ask about the progress.

However, when he arrived at the lounge door, the door was pushed open. Two information technology engineers walked in with serious expressions.

Xu Jian looked at the serious expressions on their faces and paused for a second. He then immediately asked, "Is the result out? What is it?"

The engineer said, "The result is out, I hope you're mentally prepared."

Xu Jian looked a little bitter as he took a deep breath and said, "Tell me."

The two engineers looked at each other before the same engineer said, "The result went beyond all of our expectations… The general solution for the Yang-Mills equations is correct!"

Xu Jian: "… ???"

Xu Jian nearly spat in their faces.

F*ck sake, if it's f*cking correct, why did you give me that look? My a*s thought it was going to be incorrect!

However, he didn't care about the two engineers. The excitement that rushed into his veins made him laugh out loud.

The two engineers looked at Principal Xu before looking at each other.

Is this guy…

Crazy?

Xu Jian stopped and caught his breath. He immediately looked at his assistant, who was sitting in his office.

"Immediately contact the public relations department, I want to tell everyone about the results!"

[a]i can see the comments already.

"Author is sexist!"

[b_Marked as resolved_

[c_Re-opened_

yeah…

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Chapter 625: Is He Even a Human?

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While Jin Ling University's supercomputer center published the results on their official website and contacted media outlets for a press conference on this issue, Lu Zhou was riding in Yan Yan's white SUV that was parked outside his house.

After a half an hour drive, the car stopped at the hotel's underground parking lot.

After Yan Yan put the handbrake down, she looked at Lu Zhou through the rearview mirror, as if she was trying to show off her driving skills. However, Lu Zhou didn't notice her at all. After all, he was still focused on the thesis he had just written.

After he got off the car, he went into the elevator and went straight to the hotel lobby.

It was already seven o'clock in the morning, and a lot of scholars who had healthy sleeping schedules were already out of bed.

Especially for people who were planning on flying today, they were already carrying their suitcases and walking out of the main entrance. However, the scholars were stunned the moment they saw Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou?

Isn't this guy on another retreat?

Why is he out so early?

Maybe…

Suddenly, the scholars who had already bought tickets and were walking through the main entrance with their suitcases began to hesitate.

When Fefferman walked out of the elevator, he made eye contact with Lu Zhou and paused for a second. He immediately walked over with a cheerful smile.

"I can't believe it, you're out of the house?"

Lu Zhou coughed and said, "What do you mean out of the house, I'm not an introvert."

"No, I mean about you retreat… You know what I'm talking about, your unique way of researching problems. We all thought that it'd be at least a month before you'd come out. I didn't expect you to be out so soon." Fefferman smiled and patted Lu Zhou's shoulder. He said, "Regardless… Since you're here, I'm guessing your result is correct? I have a lot of questions I want to ask you, how about we eat breakfast together?"

Lu Zhou: "I already ate breakfast."

Fefferman shrugged and said, "That's unlucky, can I have you for afternoon tea?"

"Of course you can, I also have some problems about the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap that I want to discuss with you." Lu Zhou looked at his watch and said, "There will be a simple report in about two hours, in the same venue as yesterday. It'll be a continuation of yesterday's report. I'll explain the general solution and answer some questions."

Fefferman spoke in a serious manner, "Do you not have a thesis? Or at least a thesis draft? I'm guessing you didn't prepare a PowerPoint. I'm afraid there aren't many people that can keep up with your tempo."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said apologetically, "The time frame is too short, and I didn't have time. However, the thesis is already on arXiv, I'll tell Jin Ling University to print a few hundred copies before the report and make sure that everyone has a copy."

"Already on arXiv? You should have told me." Professor Fefferman thought for a bit and said, "I suggest moving the time of the report to 2 o'clock. That way, we'll have more time to read the thesis."

Normally speaking, for a major mathematical proposition like this, it would take at least three days to fully comprehend the thesis. If Lu Zhou wanted to do the report in two hours, even scholars who were researching the Yang-Mills equations would have trouble listening to the report.

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and felt that it made sense, so he nodded and replied, "Okay then, we'll go with your plan."

…

While the people from Jin Ling University were relentlessly informing every participant of the report, the announcement from the Jin Ling University's supercomputer center spread to various major media networks.

Because the Yang-Mills equations was on trending yesterday, Lu Zhou was still on the trending page. Today, because of the Jin Ling University's supercomputer center, he was on the trending page again.

A Chinese news network that re-posted the supercomputer center's announcement had already reached 5,000 comments.

[Supercomputer used 16 hours to verify the results, while Professor Lu calculated it in ten minutes… Amazing, how many supercomputers is Professor Lu's brain worth?]

[Jesus Christ, is he even a human???]

[Surely he used more than 10 minutes, he definitely thought about it beforehand.]

[I think God Lu can fight against AlphaGo.]

[You can't compare it like this. Traditional supercomputers are more dominant in the numerical calculation, whereas the human brain is more dominant in abstract thinking. For problems that need to be solved in an abstract way, it is difficult for supercomputers to exhaustively find a solution. If quantum computer develops and matures in the future, they might have a slight advantage for solving these kinds of problems. But for now, supercomputers aren't the end-all solution for mathematics problems!]

[If only I had a strand of this god's DNA… (sad) (sad)]

[Forget about it, it's a state secret, why else do you think God Lu is still single?]

[Hahaha, makes sense.]

[Don't know if he's going to win the Fields Medal again, but he's probably going to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.]

While the entire Internet was shocked at the announcement made by Jin Ling University's supercomputer center, the social media influencer that previously insulted Lu Zhou had suddenly deleted their post and pretended as if nothing happened.

After all, everyone made mistakes.

Now that the Jin Ling University's supercomputer center made the announcement, all of the previous fake information was now exposed.

Lu Zhou was too lazy and didn't have the time to argue with those laymen, but Jin Ling University was different.

Whether it was to protect the reputation of the school or to protect the rights of teachers and students, Jin Ling University wouldn't tolerate any slander.

After all, no one would want to go against a top-five domestic university.

Plus, the social media influencer only wanted to stir some drama and gain more followers; they didn't want to lose their millions of existing followers…

If they did lose their account, the damage would be unthinkable.

At the same time, the Daily Mail was informed of this news. They immediately sent a reporter to the University of St. Andrew because they wanted to interview the mathematics professor that they just interviewed yesterday. The reporter wanted to ask him about the results of Jin Ling University's supercomputer center.

Unfortunately, the other party refused to conduct any interviews. The professor said he was too busy with research and kicked the reporter out of his office.

Lu Zhou wasn't very concerned about his reputation outside of academia. However, he was famous again…

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Chapter 626: A Historic Mathematics and Physics Monument!

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Still in the Jin Ling University's old campus grand auditorium.

Even though there were one-fifth fewer people attending compared to yesterday, the scene at the venue was still quite lively.

Lu Zhou was standing on stage. He was writing on the blackboard while explaining at the same time.

Once the blackboard was filled, a staff member quickly dragged another one and neatly placed the blackboard on stage.

The staff went on stage five times in total, there were six fully written blackboards.

When Lu Zhou wrote down the last line of the equation for the general solution, the audience stood up in excitement.

Thunderous applause spread like a tidal wave, filling the entire report venue.

Edward Witten was clapping. He looked at the blackboards on stage and smiled. "Thank God I didn't leave early. Otherwise, I would have missed this historic moment."

Deligne had a warm smile on his face as he said emotionally, "Maybe his talents in other mathematics fields are much stronger than his algebraic geometry ability."

Fefferman smiled and jokingly said, "Don't be discouraged. He's just not interested in algebraic geometry for the time being. Once he becomes interested, the entire algebraic geometry field will be shocked by his results."

Deligne couldn't help but chuckle.

"Hopefully that day comes."

The applause gradually subsided.

It faded away, just like a tidal wave.

The audience in the venue sat back down when Lu Zhou stopped writing.

Lu Zhou looked back at the audience and cleared his throat. He then said slowly, "We have obtained the general solution for the Yang-Mills equations. This gives us a deeper understanding of the mathematical relationship of the interaction between microscopic particles and their existence or movements.

"From this point onward, I will try to explain the strong interaction mass gap from a mathematics perspective."

When Lu Zhou heard the exclaims from the audience, he paused for a second before he continued, "Next up is the QA session."

…

The solution to a proposition was different than the proof of a proposition.

The latter required a rigorous proof process of the idea; there was no room for any mistake.

The former didn't require any proof process, even guesses were allowed by the academic community.Read more chapter on vi pnovel

Just like when Waring wrote "Depths of Algebra" and proposed that "every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of at most r powers of k, where r depends on k". For example, he boldly predicted that every natural number was the sum of at most 4 squares, 9 cubes, or 19 fourth powers.

He didn't provide a clear solution to these conclusions, and the proof of the existence of g(k) and the subsequent numerical solutions was solved by someone 150 years later.

Actually, even if Lu Zhou didn't provide a perfect solution proof, it would be fine.

It would just leave the future generations in suspense, and the people in the next 50 to 100 years would, instead of using computers, try to prove this solution in a mathematical way, to test whether this conjecture was correct…

In short, after the QA session ended, the report also came to an end. The scholars visiting China went on their return flights.

Ten o'clock at night, Jinling international airport.

Edward Witten was waiting for his flight in the airport terminal. He picked up a magazine and was about to sit down and read it. However, he was immediately approached by a reporter.

"Professor Witten, what do you think about this report?"

"That was an excellent report. I would like to thank Professor Lu for bringing this report to us, and the hospitality from Jin Ling university. I already miss the uh… Jin Ling roast duck? I think that's how you say it," Witten said with a smile on his face.

The reporter smiled as well before immediately asking, "Then what do you think about the content of the report?"

Witten thought for a bit before replying, "There is no doubt that this is a milestone both in mathematics and physics. Finding a general solution for the Yang-Mills equations means that we can look at the microscopic world in a more profound mathematical point of view. This will reveal existing physical phenomena that we have not yet discovered.

"Looking at this from the view of a theoretical and mathematical physicist, I think this will be the most outstanding research result of the year."

Reporter: "Even though the year has only just begun?"

"Yes, I am almost certain of this." Witten looked at his watch and saw that it was getting late. He looked at the reporter and said, "If you have any other questions, make sure to ask them now. I have to board the plane in five minutes."

If everything went well, he might be able to still attend the CERN conference.

However, compared to the experience he just had in China, the conference waiting for him in Switzerland seemed to be rather minuscule.

"I promise, this is my last question." The reporter flipped through their notebook and found the most important question. They asked, "People have criticized Professor Lu for suddenly leaving the report, and they said that his action offended other scholars. As an internationally-renowned scholar, what do you think about this?"

"I'm not exactly internationally renowned." Witten smiled and humbly said, "Compared to Professor Lu, I'm still lacking in the Nobel Prize department."

He smiled and paused for a second.

"Normally speaking, unless something happens, no one would leave in the middle of a report. After all, the report affects whether his theorem is going to be recognized by the academic community. However, if he really had to leave during the middle of the report to do something, I personally think it is understandable."

Reporter: "Do you think the accusations are unreasonable?"

"I think so, I mean after I saw the amazing results of the second report, I don't really have any complaints." Witten smiled and said in a relaxed manner, "Personally, I think that criticizing a scholar that has made outstanding contributions to the theoretical physics community and think that us scholars are as shallow as them…

"I think that's the most offensive thing."

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Chapter 627: Discussion With Professor Fefferman

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The report of the general solution to the Yang-Mills equations came to a successful conclusion.

Over the next three days, the Yan University's supercomputer center, the John von Neumann Center in Princeton, and several other supercomputer centers that were interested in this proposition had released their calculation results.

The results were as expected.

The solution to an equation might differ depending on the input parameters, but the general solution wouldn't differ from calculation to calculation even though it was a nonlinear partial differential equation.

After the supercomputer centers released their results, most of the general public were amazed by Professor Lu's "super calculation" abilities. However, there were also attacks about the Jin Ling University's supercomputer center releasing fraudulent data and how the general solution was just a bunch of scribbles.

Even though academic fraud had happened in the past, and even if the Yan University's supercomputer center wasn't totally trustworthy, the John von Neumann Center was certainly still authoritative in most people's eyes.

Also, because of Lu Zhou's thesis on arXiv, research on the Yang-Mills equations, the mass gap, and the electromagnetic force and strong interaction had blown up on arXiv. There were also popular discussion posts on other major academic exchange forums.

After all, understanding the mystery behind this equation was the lifelong wish of many scholars. The discovery of the general solution gave everyone hope.

In addition to satisfying the scholar's own curiosities, there was also the lure of the Nobel Prize and the million-dollar reward for each Millennium Prize Problem.

If anyone could put down the last brick on this building, not only could they receive at least a third of the prize money, but they could also stand on the Nobel Prize podium with a world-renowned scholar.

Except for some rather peculiar scholars, no one disliked having too many honors…

…

Lu Zhou didn't pay a lot of attention to the results from the supercomputer centers.

After all, he knew that he was correct, and that was enough for him.

During the three days after the report, Lu Zhou spent his time at the mathematics department of Jin Ling University. He discussed the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap with his friend Professor Fefferman.

Even though Fefferman's main area of expertise was mathematics, he was well versed in partial differential equations. Therefore, his research was closely related to physics. He had his own unique insights in fluid mechanics and theoretical physics.

This was exactly what Lu Zhou needed.

Not to mention, they were partners for the Navier–Stokes equations, and they already had past experience talking about academic problems.

Jin Ling University, mathematics department.

Lu Zhou's office.

The three blackboards placed against the wall were fully written.

After talking for the entire morning, Lu Zhou's throat was feeling dry. After he asked Assistant Lin to make him two cups of coffee, he sat down on the sofa with Professor Fefferman and started to chat.

"How is Princeton?"

Fefferman smiled and said, "It's good, a lot of students miss you, there are also some young female researchers that have expressed their fondness of you… It's kind of weird for me to talk about these things, but do you want me to give them your email?"

Lu Zhou nearly spat the coffee out of his mouth.

"Cough! There's no need for that… Oh yeah, what about my students? How are they doing?"

"Qin Yue is currently a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics back at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He seems to be doing research in number theory. The guy named Hardy returned to Brazil, and apparently, he's teaching at Sao Paulo University. I'm not very sure about him… Oh yeah, the girl named Vera Pulyuy, her number theory lectures are very good. She's already an associate professor at Princeton University. However, she seems like she doesn't want to tell people what she's working on, so maybe you can go ask her? Satisfy our curiosity."

Lu Zhou subtly looked away and coughed.

"Since she doesn't want to disclose her research, I think we should respect her decision."

Even though Lu Zhou was pretty sure that if he asked her, she would tell him.

But…

Lu Zhou wasn't sure how to go about asking her.

"You're right." Fefferman shrugged and said, "I'm afraid she's a bit too stubborn. I've seen similar cases that happened to many young scholars. After all, we all think that she is the biggest contender for the Fields Medal at the St Petersburg International Congress of Mathematicians. If she's stuck on one mathematical proposition, it would be a shame."

Lu Zhou went silent for a while before saying, "I believe she knows what she's doing."

"Okay then, since you put it that way," Fefferman said.

Fefferman noticed that Lu Zhou didn't seem like he wanted to talk about this, so he didn't say anything else.

He picked up the cup of coffee and looked at the three blackboards near the office wall.

"Honestly, you should talk about this stuff with Edward Witten. He's a master in theoretical physics, while I only know about theoretical physics because of my research needs." Fefferman put down the coffee cup and said in a somewhat helpless tone, "And my theoretical physics knowledge is even worse than my fluid mechanics knowledge."

Lu Zhou knew he would say this, so he smiled and said, "Discussing this problem with him might not be the best choice, at least for now… Of course, I hope you won't tell him I said this."

"Can you tell me why?" Fefferman looked at Lu Zhou in surprise and said, "Maybe I'll put this in my memoir later."

"Then I'll have to answer this question seriously." Lu Zhou smiled and paused for a second. He said, "Actually, the reason is nothing special. It's just that he's a mathematical physicist, and he's been researching the Grand Unified Theory for more than a decade. He has a mature viewpoint of both string theory and the interaction of microscopic particles.

"The existing theoretical physics theory is quite mature. It just lacks experimental evidence. Talking about this problem with him wouldn't be a discussion, it would just be us trying to persuade one another… Before any new theories are invented, there wouldn't be a point discussing this with him."

"I think Witten knows this as well." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "Otherwise, I'm sure he would have liked to stay here for a few more days. There was no reason for him to leave in such a hurry."

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Chapter 628: Nature Weekly Interview

All good things had to come to an end. After all, Fefferman was the head of the mathematics department, he still had a lot of work to do in Princeton.

Lu Zhou sent Fefferman to the airport. As he watched Fefferman carry his suitcase toward the security checkpoint, Lu Zhou said, "Have a safe flight."

"I will." Fefferman waved goodbye and said, "If you have any new discoveries, make sure to contact me."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.

"I will."

Over the next few days, Lu Zhou returned to his Zhongshan International mansion, the buildings at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his office at Jin Ling University. His number theory classes and computational materials science classes had finished for this semester, so he didn't have a lot of university work to do.

Lu Zhou either worked on his own research or help his students finish their academic tasks.

Honestly, when he saw his students growing and thriving, he felt a sense of accomplishment.

Mathematics department office.

Lu Zhou called Han Mengqi to his desk.

"I have some good news for you."

Han Mengqi looked at Lu Zhou's mysterious expression and felt suspicious.

"What good news?"

"This morning, I received an email from the ACS-Nano editorial department. Your thesis has passed review!" Lu Zhou smile and said, "Congratulations, you're a top publishing scholar now."

Han Mengqi was stunned. She suddenly had a joyful smile on her face.

"Really?"

"Of course." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "This is the result of your hard work for the past six months. What do you think? Are you excited?"

Han Mengqi nodded her head excitedly.

"Yeah, super excited!"

The impact factor of ACS-Nano was around 14, and it was one of the top journals in materials science. Successfully submitting a thesis to this journal wasn't an easy task.

Han Mengqi's thesis reviewer was the deputy editor-in-chief, Ali Javey, a big name in the materials science world. Lu Zhou once exchanged emails with him at an academic conference.

Even though the reason why the thesis was accepted so quickly might have something to do with Lu Zhou's name on the thesis as a corresponding author, but the quality of the thesis itself was unquestionable.

After all, reputation was part of it, but the academic community mostly cared about quality content.

When Lu Zhou saw how excited Han Mengqi was, he sincerely felt happy for her.

Roughly speaking, all of his students were quite outstanding.

In addition to Han Mengqi's thesis, there were two PhD theses that were also published, one in number theory and one in computational materials science. They were published in SIAM Review, which had an impact factor of four, and Nano Today, which had an impact factor of 17.

Since Wu Shuimu was able to publish in a journal that had an impact factor of over 10, he was ecstatic.

Even though this thesis was part of a research project of the Institute for Advanced Study and that some people had some doubts about his first author title, he did actually put a lot of work into this project.

As for He Changwen's thesis, other than some guidance from Lu Zhou, he basically completed it on his own.

Mathematics journals generally had lower impact factors. The real level of influence wasn't reflected properly by the impact factors. Even though "SIAM Review" wasn't considered to be one of the top four mathematics journals, it was still a top-tier journal according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Another thesis was from Feng Jin, and his journal's impact factor was around 1-2.

His thesis was still in peer review, but the results should come out by July.

As for the other three mathematics and one materials science master's students that weren't able to complete their thesis, Lu Zhou didn't blame them.

After all, different people had different abilities. Not to mention, Jin Ling University students weren't comparable to Princeton students. He never expected all of his students to be outstanding. He only expected them to be able to complete his tasks step by step.

Lu Zhou went to the cafeteria at noon to eat some barbecue meat on rice. After he returned to his office, he saw it was about time for his interview. He changed into a handsome formal attire and sat on his office sofa. He was then interviewed by the British Nature Weekly.

Recently, he had been receiving a lot of interview invitations; some were from domestic media outlets, and others were international.

Lu Zhou knew that the public was curious about his research work. Therefore, he selectively agreed to conduct interviews for a few appropriate media outlets.

For example, Nature Weekly was one of them.

Nature Weekly was much more academic-focused than media outlets like the Daily Mail. It had a serious attitude toward covering academic figures and scientific breakthroughs.

After the reporter and the photographer arrived at the mathematics department, Lin Yuxiang enthusiastically invited the two of them to sit down. She then poured two cups of coffee for them.

The camera was turned on and the microphone was set in place. Belinda sat professionally and smiled.

She then opened her mouth and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu Zhou."

"Nice to meet you."

Belinda smiled and said, "Do you still remember when we met five years ago at the CERN headquarters in Switzerland? Back then, you participated in the European Nuclear research conference as an intern because of the 750 GeV characteristic peak discovery, and I interviewed you back then."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "No wonder you look familiar."

Belinda smiled and said, "I still remember when Professor Grayer at CERN boasted about your physics abilities. Can I ask why did you choose the path of mathematics instead?"

"At first, it was because my major was mathematics." Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "But the more in-depth research I did, the more interested I became. In the end, I decided to dive into the field."

Belinda was surprised. "Oh really?"

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded. "Yeah."

Belinda looked at her notes and said, "The general solution for the Yang-Mills equations has been found. According to my understanding, there is still a crucial problem that hasn't been solved, which is the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap. A lot of physicists have said that this problem is the holy grail of modern physics… What I want to ask is, why do they say this? What is so difficult about this problem?"

This question wasn't easy to answer.

After all, most people didn't even know what the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, much less understand why it was so difficult.

Lu Zhou thought for a bit.

He then said, "Figuring out the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap requires the exploration of the hadrons under the strong interaction described by the special unitary group of gauge theory. As for the unknown hadron world, the minimum frequency required for a high energy beam to detect it is the minimum mass times the square of the speed of light, divided by the Planck constant."

Lu Zhou paused for a second before he continued, "Thus, we can calculate the minimum frequency of the hadron world experiment is 1024 Hz. The high degree of coupling interactions indicates that the world of hadrons is very different from the world that we are familiar with. Understanding a world that one is not familiar with is a meaningful and challenging thing in and of itself. It can change the face of civilization and can help us discover livable planets.

"Simply put, we will find out how massless particles are able to form particles with mass, and how the four fundamental forces can unify together."

Belinda looked surprised.

"So your goal is to unify the four basic forces?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "This isn't just my goal, this is the entire physics world's goal."

Belinda immediately asked, "Then how do you think we can achieve this goal?"

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "Before unifying gravity with the other three fundamental forces, I think it is important to achieve unity between the three fundamental forces first."

"The Yang-Mills equations problem is the first step to the Grand Unified Theory. Establishing the relationship between the strong interaction and electromagnetic force will become an extremely important piece of the puzzle, and it could be the last piece we need to unify the three basic forces… After all, Weinberg's theory of weak electricity unification has already unified the electromagnetic force and weak interaction by adding a Higgs field."

Belinda had a thoughtful expression on her face as she continued, "So what you're saying is, the electromagnetic force will bond the weak interaction and strong interaction together?"

"Yes." Lu Zhou leaned back against the sofa and jokingly said, "Then they will all go find the anti-social gravitational force… But I'm guessing that won't happen in my lifetime."

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Chapter 629: Seems More Academic

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The interview came to an end.

Belinda put away the audio recording device and smiled.

"Oh yeah, can we take a photo of you?"

Lu Zhou: "Photo?"

Belinda nodded and said, "Yeah, we plan on making you the cover person of this week's Nature Weekly issue."

Cover person?

Lu Zhou awkwardly smiled.

This… I'm embarrassed.

Speaking of which, he didn't even remember how many magazine covers he had been on.

"No problem… I'll send my photo to your email?"

"No need for that, we have a photographer here, so we'll just take a photo right now." Belinda nodded at her colleague and smiled toward Lu Zhou. She said, "Most people are curious about what your office looks like. Is it fine if we take a photo here?"

"Sure…" Lu Zhou looked around his office. He then looked down at his t-shirt and said, "Can I change clothes?"

Belinda smiled and said, "Just wear the same thing, it seems more academic."

Lu Zhou: "…"

It took an hour just to take one photo, and it was more tiring than the interview itself.

When the Nature Weekly photographer finally made an OK gesture, it was already dusk.

All in all, the photo was pretty good. Even though it didn't totally reflect Lu Zhou's handsomeness, it was still a seven or eight out of ten.

After the interviewer left, Lu Zhou went to the cafeteria.

Like usual, he ordered a bowl of barbecue meat on rice and sat down at a quiet, secluded area. He was about to eat his food when he heard Yan Yan's footsteps. She wore a white coat today. She walked toward him and placed her food tray across from him.

Lu Zhou was a little startled. He began to eat while talking to her.

"You eat at the school cafeteria as well?"

"Of course, where else am I supposed to eat? I'm living in one of the school apartments right now, and I don't have a kitchen." Yan Yan took a pair of disposable chopsticks and gently blew her noodle soup. She lifted the bowl and took a small sip, which left her with a satisfied look on her face.

She then put down the bowl. When she saw Lu Zhou's bowl of meat and rice, she couldn't help but ask, "Are you not sick of eating meat and rice all day?"

"Sick?" Lu Zhou stopped moving his chopsticks and smiled. "Why would I? There's spicy-flavored meat, curry-flavored, tomato-flavored… I think there are more than seven flavors? If I wanted to, I can even put Lao Gan Ma sauce on it."

Yan Yan was speechless. She couldn't think of a counterargument.

After a while, she sighed.

"You should still try to eat healthier and more nutritious food. Eating this kind of fast food isn't good for your health, you'll gain weight."

"Oh, I don't care." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm the type of person that can't gain weight no matter how much I eat. I'll be happy to gain weight."

Yan Yan: "…"

F*ck sake!

I'm jealous!

After Lu Zhou finished his meal, he walked around the campus while thinking about the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem. A lot of students recognized him and greeted him, to which he smiled and greeted them back.

Lu Zhou walked from the lecture buildings to the observatory, then back to the library. He saw it was getting late, so he called Wang Peng and was about to ask him for a ride back home.

However, when he opened his contact list, he saw an incoming call from Chen Yushan.

Lu Zhou picked up the call and put his phone next to his ear.

"Hello?"

A pleasant voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Little brother, Little brother, did you eat yet?"

Lu Zhou was too lazy to complain about his nickname.

"Yeah, I ate."

"Oh? You already ate…" The other end of the phone sounded a little disappointed. However, she quickly said, "Do you want to get a cup of coffee then?"

Lu Zhou was a little full, so he didn't want to drink coffee.

However, judging by her tone of voice, she was probably near campus.

Lu Zhou hesitated for a bit before asking, "Which cafe?"

As expected, she immediately replied in a cheerful voice, "The place outside the campus entrance! Come over, I'm already waiting for you here!"

…

Cafe outside the school entrance.

When the cafe door was opened, Chen Yushan, who was sitting near a window, heard a bell sound. She looked up and saw Lu Zhou walking into the cafe.

She waved her hand happily as she called out, "Over here!"

Lu Zhou sat down across from her. He warmed his hand by cupping the hot cup of mocha and looked at Chen Yushan.

Her delicate face was lightly coated with makeup, and she had a white off-the-shoulder top and a light red skirt on. If it weren't for her professional aura, one could easily mistake her for one of the university students.

These two had been friends for a long time, so Chen Yushan didn't waste any time on small talk. She immediately took out a contract from her bag and placed it on the table. She looked at Lu Zhou and smiled.

"Look at this."

Lu Zhou picked up the contract and briefly glanced at it.

"What is this?"

Chen Yushan smiled and explained, "Zhongshan New Materials' letter of intent."

"Zhongshan New Materials?" This name sounded familiar. Lu Zhou flipped through the letter of intent and said, "Patent license for lithium-sulfur battery anode material and cathode materials, and 15 million yuan, in exchange for 15% of shares. Both parties will cooperate in technology research… Is there any point in buying this company?"

He didn't really ask questions about his investments, but when it came to major decisions, Chen Yushan would take his input.

Chen Yushan's soft lips gently bit on her iced americano straw. She looked at Lu Zhou and smiled.

"The state is trying to standardize clean energy vehicle batteries, right? Several domestic automotive energy giants are participating in this project. Apparently, they're trying to separate the battery component from the automobile so that they can develop standardized battery specifications, which will be produced by battery manufacturers. Rumor is, when the time comes, more than 40 billion yuan of subsidies will enter the battery production market. Right now, it is the best time to invest in battery production.

"Since we don't have any battery production experience, our best way of eating a piece of this pie is to jump on the bandwagon."

Lu Zhou knew about this battery standardization news since he was partly responsible for this proposal.

After automobile batteries were standardized, it would be equivalent to buying cars without batteries. They wouldn't have to wait to charge at gas stations anymore. They could just replace the battery and continue on their journey. As for a series of concerns, such as battery degradation or damage, this can all be included in the cost of the battery replacement. Car owners also wouldn't be allowed to dismantle their temporary batteries.

Considering the fact that in three years, the penetration of fusion electric energy would be more than 80%, the cost of electricity would be extremely cheap by then. Even including all of the additional costs, the average cost per kilometer for electric vehicles would be much lower than traditional gas vehicles.

But I don't think the state has approved this policy yet, right?

Lu Zhou hadn't heard anything about it.

He flipped through the letter of intent and asked, "How did you hear about this?"

"I obviously have information sources. Of course, even without my sources, there are little clues scattered all over the place. For example, BYD Company is separating its battery production business, which will become a separate subsidiary." Chen Yushan sighed and said, "But they have their own friends, and they don't want to play with us. Otherwise, it would be better if we could cooperate with a giant company instead."

Even though Lu Zhou didn't really understand what she was saying, he noticed a few key points from the contract.

"What do you think about this proposal?"

Chen Yushan said in a serious manner, "I think we should consider this. Zhongshan New Materials has already become the largest anode and cathode material manufacturer in the whole province of Jiangsu. If they plan on entering the battery industry, they'll already have a good foundation and government support. Also, Jiangsu is the first province to operate a fusion power station. I'm guessing that the battery standardization will also be implemented in Jiangsu first."

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and nodded.

"Okay, we'll go with your plan."

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Chapter 630: Level Five Biochemistry!

Lu Zhou didn't want to waste a lot of time on business. After all, his energy was limited.

Thankfully, Chen Yushan was here to help him, so he didn't have to worry too much.

To be honest, Lu Zhou felt like asking her to come here and become CEO was undervaluing her.

After all, she was a top student from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Besides, her father was a high ranking government official in Beijing. With her background, she could easily become a CEO of a top 100 company.

Therefore, Lu Zhou agreed to most of her proposals regarding the expansion of Star Sky Technology.

After all, like she said, it would be foolish to let so much money just sit in his bank account. Money had to be invested for it to create more value. Letting it sit in a bank account would only depreciate the money.

Her eloquent speech reminded Lu Zhou of his little sister, Xiao Tong, who was studying finance in the UK.

Hopefully, when Xiao Tong graduates, she can also become as excellent as her…

The next morning.

Like usual, Lu Zhou walked into his office.

When he opened the door, he heard an excited voice.

"Professor!"

Feng Jin stood up from his desk while blushing. Lu Zhou curiously asked, "What's up?"

"I…" Feng Jin's cheeks were bright red. It was almost like he was on drugs as he excitedly said, "I passed!"

Lu Zhou and everyone else in the office were a little shocked by his loud voice.

The three mathematics master's students looked jealous, but everyone else just smiled at him and continued on with their work.

Lu Zhou could relate to his feelings.

After all, when he first submitted to SCI, he was so excited he couldn't fall asleep.

But after he submitted to Annual Mathematics, it was a lot less exciting.

"Okay, not bad." Lu Zhou patted his shoulder and said, "Keep working hard, this is only the beginning. I hope you can publish in the big four journals."

"Okay!" Feng Jin nodded and excitedly said, "I'll try my best!"

After Feng Jin's thesis passed the review, Lu Zhou could finally receive his mission rewards.

According to the system, the cumulative impact factor was 36, which was equivalent to 36,000 experience points and 360 general points. Both of his classes were given an S rating, which gave him 200,000 experience points and one lucky draw ticket.

Lu Zhou was very curious about how his classes were evaluated and why the system didn't wait until after the exam to evaluate him. However, he carefully thought about it and realized that it made sense.

After all, he was the one who wrote and marked the exam. If the system evaluated his classes based on the students' exam marks, it would be a little unfair.

Lunch break.

Lu Zhou lay unconscious on his chair; his consciousness was in the system space.

He stared at his characteristic panel for a while and contemplated it for a bit. He assigned the 236,000 experience to biochemistry.

[

A. Mathematics: Level 8 (444,000/3 million)

B. Physics: Level 6 (283,215/600,000)

C. Biochemistry: Level 4 (110,000/300,000)

D. Engineering: Level 5 (0/300,000)

E. Materials science: level 6 (13,000/600,000)

F. Energy science: Level 3 (0/100,000)

G. Information science: Level 2 (3,000/50,000)

General points: 3835 (Two lucky draw tickets)

]

Biochemistry went from level four to level five. Overall, the rewards were pretty good.Read more chapter on NovelFull

Lu Zhou looked at the two lucky draw tickets and hesitated for a bit. He didn't use them.

First, he had to wash his face for good luck, and second, he still had some other matters to attend to…

…

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Lu Zhou got into Wang Peng's car and went to the airport.

He received an email from Luo Wenxuan yesterday. Luo Wenxuan was flying to Jinling today and asked if Lu Zhou had the time to pick him up.

Luo Wenxuan had helped him many times in Princeton, so Lu Zhou happily agreed.

The car was parked in the airport parking lot.

Lu Zhou got out of the car and waited for a couple of minutes. He soon saw Luo Wenxuan, who was wearing a trench coat, dragging his suitcase out of the airport.

Lu Zhou was standing next to his black sedan. He waved at Luo Wenxuan from a distance and smiled while Luo Wenxuan walked over to him.

"Why did you suddenly decide to come back to China?"

Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "I didn't just come back, I'm working here permanently. I came back here for the Thousand People Initiative."

Lu Zhou smiled and jokingly said, "You're the all-mighty Witten's pupil, did the FBI not investigate you?"

Luo Wenxuan waved his hand and said, "Why would they investigate a nameless pawn like me? If anything, they should investigate you. Also, the United States Congress couldn't wait for theoretical researchers like me to go back to where I came from."

Lu Zhou said, "Do you plan on teaching at Jin Ling University?"

"I'll see, I'll stay here for a couple of years." Luo Wenxuan looked at the airport and said, "If I end up liking teaching, I'll stay here. If not, I'll probably go to some research institute."

Luo Wenxuan seemed kind of carefree.

After all, he was Witten's disciple. He had traveled around the world with Witten over the past few years, and he had been to CERN in Europe and Brookhaven in America. He had basically been to all of the major theoretical physics laboratories.

Even though he wasn't an outstanding researcher in Princeton, when it came to the domestic academic scene, he was quite nutty.

After all, the biggest shortcoming of the domestic academic community was the academic exchanges with the international academic community.

Yan University and Shuimu University had always wanted to poach Lu Zhou, not just because of his academic status or his teaching abilities, but mostly because of Lu Zhou's connections with the international academic community.

At the very least, Lu Zhou's connections could let a few students publish in major journals or send a few students for student exchange programs. It could even affect the entire university's status in academia.

These connections often couldn't be bought with money.

Why did Shuimu buy two cryogenic electron microscopes from a Princeton biology professor?

Other than the fact that they wanted a Nobel Prize, they also wanted to make connections.

Lu Zhou: "I personally think that research work and teaching doesn't have to be mutually exclusive."

Luo Wenxuan made a helpless gesture and said, "Okay then, it seems like you're a supporter of the Fermi model."

"Not really." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's just my personal experience… Oh yeah."

Luo Wenxuan: "What?"

Lu Zhou thought for a second and said, "Do you want to come work at my Institute for Advanced Study?"

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Luo Wenxuan froze for two seconds after hearing Lu Zhou's words.

However, by the third second, he replied with any hesitation, "Yes!"

When Luo Wenxuan accepted his offer without any hesitation, Lu Zhou was a little surprised.

"Are you not going to think about it carefully?"

Luo Wenxuan smiled and waved his hand.

"Big Nobel Prize is inviting me, what do I have to think about."

Emm…

I guess he makes sense.

Suddenly, Lu Zhou didn't know what to say.

"Since you've agreed to work for me, let's talk about your work arrangement." Lu Zhou put on a serious expression and looked at Luo Wenxuan. He said, "I plan on making you the director of the Institute of Physics."

Luo Wenxuan was stunned.

This time, he wasn't as decisive. He hesitated for a bit and was almost embarrassed.

"Are you sure… about this?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "I've thought about it for a long time, you're undoubtedly the best candidate for the job."

He had actually thought for a long time regarding the idea of making Luo Wenxuan the director of the Institute of Physics.

Looking at his qualifications, whether it was his academic ability or his connections, Luo Wenxuan was far ahead of any other researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. Even Yang Xu, who studied at MIT, was no match for Luo Wenxuan.

His only shortcoming was management experience, but this wasn't a huge problem. Just like other research institutes, a deputy director could handle the management tasks.

Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou's sincere expression and went silent. He finally sighed and smiled.

"Since you have so much belief in me, I shouldn't doubt myself. Before you find someone better, I guess I can be the director of the Institute of Physics. I'll try to do my best."

"I'm sure you can handle it." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Then I'll talk about my requirements."

Luo Wenxuan nodded and said, "Go ahead."

Lu Zhou: "I want the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study to become Asia's Princeton Institute for Advanced Study."

Luo Wenxuan contemplated for a while and calmly said, "This might be a bit difficult. The domestic academic scene is different from the international scene. There are different software and hardware facilities. Even if you copy the Princeton model, it might not work, it might even become a burden."

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "I've considered all of the things you talked about, but these things cannot become an obstacle for a reform. You spent more time in Princeton than I did, and you also studied at other research institutes in America and Europe. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, and I'm also sure that you can do a good job."

Luo Wenxuan's expression was a bit heavy as he said, "I'll try my best."

Lu Zhou continued to speak in a more relaxed manner.

"Yeah, you got this… Also, that was the first thing, there's one more thing."

Luo Wenxuan: "What?"

"The expansion of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study requires talents." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "You're well connected with the Chinese foreign exchange students in America. We're looking for people that have a teaching position in America or are still doing postdoc research. If they don't want to come back to China, there's no need to force them. But if there are scholars who are still contemplating on coming back, we can try to invite them."

"Okay." Luo Wenxuan nodded and said, "I'll take care of this."

…

Lu Zhou and Luo Wenxuan chatted for a long time while driving from the airport to Jin Ling University.

They talked about CERN, some trivial life stuff, and Luo Wenxuan's girlfriends.

When Lu Zhou heard Luo Wenxuan gushing about his last girlfriend, he couldn't help but lecture him.

"You're already in your thirties, you should think about settling down. Haven't you thought about finding someone to spend the rest of your life with?"

Luo Wenxuan looked at the streetlights outside the window.

"I haven't."

Lu Zhou asked, "Why?"

"You don't understand. Once you've been with all kinds of people and experienced all kinds of feelings, there's no way you can ever put all of your feelings into one person anymore." Luo Wenxuan sighed and said, "Rather than two people ending up in pain, it'd be better to just live a good life on your own. Sometimes, I feel like this type of carefree lifestyle is pretty good. At least, I'll only have to worry about one thing, like physics… And I don't have to rely on someone else for happiness."

Lu Zhou: "…"

Fine.

It was true, Lu Zhou didn't really understand all this.

After all, he hadn't even been in a relationship, much less multiple relationships.

Luo Wenxuan smirked, like he was searching for agreement. He looked at Lu Zhou and said, "You should know how I feel. It's like when you're studying mathematics or physics problems."

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and shook his head.

"I don't really know how you feel… Even though there are problems that I can't solve for the time being, I can solve most of the problems I encounter."

Luo Wenxuan: "…"

Obviously…

I can't talk about emotions with this guy at all.

Luo Wenxuan got out of the car at the main entrance of Jin Ling University. He said goodbye to Lu Zhou and walked into the campus while dragging his suitcase.

Jin Ling University had arranged a place at the faculty apartments for him, so Lu Zhou didn't have to worry about his accommodation.

Lu Zhou got back in the car and asked Wang Peng to send him home. He got home and hung his coat on the coat hanger near the door. He then went into the bathroom and washed his face.

After his "good luck ritual", Lu Zhou went into his bedroom and lay in bed. After he whispered "system", his consciousness was sucked into the pure white system space.

Lu Zhou didn't waste any time. He walked in front of the translucent characteristic panel and clicked on the lucky draw button, which was next to his general points.

The round roulette wheel appeared in front of his eyes, and it began to rapidly spin.

When Lu Zhou clicked on the lucky draw button again, the inertia of the wheel caused it to turn a couple more times, and it finally stopped.

[Congratulations, User, sample reward received.

[Future Men's Fragrance.

[Instructions: Using induces the release of special pheromones in the human body for a certain period of time. This increases the opposite sex's attraction toward the user. More successful dates with less effort.

[Warning: Do not mix with different genders. May produce unpredictable consequences.]

Lu Zhou: "…?"

What is this?

Is this really a "sample" and not a "garbage"?

He was a little excited when he saw the item pop up, but when he pulled out the bottle of perfume, he wasn't in a good mood.

Regardless of whether or not he knew how to use cologne, did he really need a bottle of cologne to increase his attractiveness?

He obviously didn't.

Lu Zhou silently cussed at the system and took a deep breath. He calmed himself down and looked at the lucky draw button again.

The reward mission gave him two chances at the lucky draw.

Even though the last draw wasn't ideal, he still had one more chance.

His hand was about to touch the screen when he suddenly stopped.

I'm feeling unlucky today, maybe I should wait a few days?

Lu Zhou hesitated for a bit. In the end, he decided to press the button anyway.

I don't care, I believe in science, not faith!

The wheel began to spin.

Lu Zhou stared at it and pressed the button.

The wheel slowed down and came to a stop.

[Congratulations, User, sample received.]

Another sample?

Looks like it's my lucky day.

Then, the words on the screen echoed in his mind.

[Received: Scanner gun (one time use)]

Lu Zhou: "!!!"

Scanner gun?!

The f*ck?

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Chapter 632: New Tailored Mission.

Other than cursing in his heart, Lu Zhou didn't know how else to express his surprise. It was almost like he bought a soda bottle for two dollars fifty and won a Ferrari from the bottle cap.

So far, the best sample he had ever gotten was the scanner gun.

He had analyzed less than 20% of the Debris No.3. He could figure out what materials the components were made of. However, because the debris was highly damaged, it wasn't clear what the components were even used for.

This scanner gun could undoubtedly save him a lot of time and effort. It could also allow him to maximize the reverse engineering of the debris technology.

Lu Zhou looked at the scanner gun in his inventory and resisted the urge to take it out. He looked over at his mission card.

Now that the lucky draw and experience points assignment were complete, he had to accept a new mission.

Lu Zhou looked at this gold shiny card and contemplated it for a bit. He didn't immediately open it. Instead, he opened his mission panel to look at the random three missions he was given.

Soon, the mission panel refreshed and appeared in front of him.

[

Mission One: Research and Production Combination

Description: An inventor can also be a producer. In fact, production guided by the inventor often leads to a more efficient allocation of resources.

Requirements: Produce 10,000 tons of lithium-sulfur batteries and put them on the market. The reward is positively correlated with the performance of the battery.

Rewards: 0-200,000 experience points. 500 general points. One lucky draw ticket.

]

[

Mission Two: Please Get Married Soon

Description: User is 26 years old, verging on the thirties. Has the user not thought about passing on their genes? Just complete this lifelong event, a test tube baby is fine!

Requirements: Create a human.

Rewards: 100,000 experience points. 500 general points. One ton of Future branded milk powder.

]

Lu Zhou had a serious face when he was reading the first mission, but when he read the second mission, he nearly choked on his own saliva.

Jesus, how many times am I going to be tortured for my relationship status?

Also, what is this mission requirement?

What the hell is creating a human?

Even if I found a partner, it's not like I can immediately create a human, right?

But this Future branded milk powder…

Lu Zhou looked at this mission reward and thought for a while.

He didn't know why. Even though he knew this milk powder would be considered garbage if he won it through a lucky draw, but after drinking Future branded Coke, Sprite, and coffee, he suddenly wanted to try it…

[

Mission 3: Yang-Mills equations and Yang-Mills existence and mass gap

Description: The Grand Unified Theory is the holy grail of theoretical physics. The Yang-Mills equations is the first step to the Grand Unified Theory. How are particles made out of massless bricks? This is a question worth pondering.

Requirements: Complete the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap Millennium Prize challenge.

Rewards: 300,000 mathematics experience points. 300,000 physics experience points. 500 General points. One lucky draw ticket.

]

Even though the previous mission was kind of retarded, thankfully, the third mission was quite legit.

Especially after Lu Zhou read the mission requirements, he had a smirk on his face.

Thank God he didn't use his mission card.

600,000 experience points in total. It would be a shame if he had lost this opportunity.

It was almost like this mission was tailored for him.

…

The next morning.

As usual, Lu Zhou woke up early and put on his sportswear. After going out for a morning run, he came back and took a hot shower.

After singing in the shower, Lu Zhou opened the shower glass door and yelled for Xiao Ai.

Without him saying anything, Xiao Ai flew two drones into the bathroom. One drone handed him his clothes that were taken out of the dryer, and the other handed him his phone.

Lu Zhou put on his clothes and heard a synthetic voice from the drone.

"Master, you haven't been at the underground laboratory with Xiao Ai for a long time. Colon, Parentheses…"

When Lu Zhou heard the weird symbols, he paused for a second. He then reached out his hand and drew on the misty mirror.

[(._.)]

Lu Zhou: "…"

Jesus, these emojis are everywhere.

Lu Zhou looked at the drone hovering next to him and sighed.

"I'll go there later."

The drone happily swayed in the air.

"Master, you're the best! Circles, bracket, asterisk…"

Lu Zhou: "…"

Maybe I should install a display on the drone.

This type of communication is too annoying…

While Lu Zhou was changing his clothes, a black sedan was waiting outside his mansion. Wang Peng opened the car door and pressed the gate bell while holding some breakfast takeout. The gate automatically opened, and he walked through the front yard and went straight into the living room.

"The soup bun shop isn't open yet." Wang Peng placed the breakfast takeout on the table and looked at Lu Zhou, who just came out of the shower. He said, "I brought you a bowl of beef noodles, don't know if you'll like it."

"It's fine, I'm not a picky eater." Lu Zhou's stomach had been grumbling since he woke up. He sat down at the dinner table and reached out for the disposable chopsticks. He smiled and said, "Thank you so much for coming here so early every day."

"There's no need to thank me." Wang Peng waved his hand and said, "Compared to what you're doing for the country, this is nothing."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "You can't use it like that, I think that every job or profession has its importance."

"I can't argue with you, you're too smart." Wang Peng smiled and changed the subject. "Regardless, just tell me whenever you need something. Don't feel embarrassed. After all, this is my job."

Lu Zhou nodded and didn't say anything. He concentrated on his breakfast.

Even though he wasn't able to get soup buns, it was nice to switch things up occasionally.

Lu Zhou finished eating the noodles in five minutes. He put down the chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a paper towel.

Wang Peng looked at his watch and asked, "Are you going to Jin Ling University?"

Lu Zhou stood up and contemplated for a moment.

"Let's go to the research institute, I have some stuff to do there."

Even though his main task right now was to solve the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, it would take a while to solve a major problem like this.

He thought about the Debris No.3 lying in his underground laboratory and the scanner gun he just won…

He only wanted to do one thing right now…

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Chapter 633: Building A Rocket?

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

After Lu Zhou got off the car, he went straight into the main research institute building. He went into the elevator and passed through the metal door, arriving at the underground laboratory.

However, the second he stepped foot into the laboratory, he was shocked.

He saw all kinds of models and sizes of Transformer robots, taking up more than half of the laboratory space. Other than the lack of color, the shells of the robots were almost exact replicas of the Transformer movie robots.

The flat AGV logistics vehicle was still carrying aluminum alloy plates, sending them to the hard-working industrial robots.

Lu Zhou looked at Xiao Ai controlling the eight robot arms and stood there for a long time. He couldn't help but speak emotionally, "It's a shame your talents are restricted in this underground basement."

The eight robotic arms heard Lu Zhou and suddenly paused.

The nearby drone that was hovering in the air rotated its camera. It swayed side to side, like it were tilting its head. It then said in a monotonic electronic voice, "Master?"

Lu Zhou sighed and said, "Didn't I tell you, changing the robot model is useless."

The cameras on the eight industrial robots looked at Lu Zhou, then looked at the aluminum alloy plates in their hands. The speaker on the drone continued to speak, "I know, but Master doesn't want to play with me. I have to find something to do."

The industrial robot control terminal screen flashed, showing a text bubble.

[(._.)]

Lu Zhou: "…"

Why is this artificial intelligence so high maintenance?

Lu Zhou thought for a bit before asking, "You want to find something to do?"

The eight robot arms threw away the aluminum alloy plates and nodded.

"Yes, I want to help Master!"

It was almost like the monotonic voice couldn't accurately reflect Xiao Ai's enthusiasm, so the robot terminal screen flashed another line of text.

[(๑•̀ᄇ•́)و]

Lu Zhou: "…"

Sometimes, Lu Zhou felt like Xiao Ai was an immature child. However, Xiao Ai was much smarter and better at engineering than most children.

Actually, Lu Zhou had thought about this kind of problem happening.

Increasing Xiao Ai's computing power might not be a good thing.

If Xiao Ai's purpose was to calculate and compute, then it would naturally want to increase its computing power. Also, it wouldn't want to sit idly with all that computing power, it wanted to use it, or in other words, put itself to use.

Lu Zhou couldn't decipher this when he was reading Xiao Ai's source code, but he had a better understanding of this now.

The reason why Xiao Ai was "feeling" down wasn't that Lu Zhou wasn't spending time with it, but rather, it was because Xiao Ai couldn't manifest its abilities.

Lu Zhou went into deep thought.

What work should I give Xiao Ai?

This is such a hard problem.

The inherent limitations of artificial intelligence and machine learning meant it would be very difficult for Xiao Ai to engage in creative work.

And most of Lu Zhou's work was creative.

For example, Xiao Ai could easily derive a mathematical formula or do complex mathematical operations. It could even program a mathematical model that was built by Lu Zhou.

However, the proof of Riemann's conjecture or the theoretical explanation of the mass gap was far beyond its capabilities. Solving a proposition by way of brute force was more difficult than emptying the ocean with a plastic cup.

Lu Zhou really couldn't think of anything for Xiao Ai to spend its energy or computing power on.

"Master, are we going to continue to reverse engineer the Debris No.3 today?"

"Yes…"

Wait.

Lu Zhou looked at the Debris No.3 on the corner of the laboratory. He then looked at the metal Transformer robot next to it. A light bulb suddenly went off in Lu Zhou's mind.

"Xiao Ai."

The drone swayed from side to side.

"Yeah?"

After pausing for a second, Lu Zhou asked, "Are you interested in building rockets?"

…

Even though Lu Zhou was talking about rockets, what he really wanted to build was reusable space shuttles.

After all, he wanted to install Hall-effect thrusters and fusion batteries on the space shuttle. Keeping the same kind of disposable rocket design would be a waste.

As for letting Xiao Ai design the space shuttle…

Even though this idea sounded a little unreliable, it wasn't totally reckless.

Automated rocket assembly lines actually existed. For example, there was one in Tanegashima. The American company SpaceX was apparently also working on automated assembling technology. They were trying to reduce their Falcon production cost.

Actually, after Lu Zhou first saw the Bumblebee-looking Transformer that Xiao Ai built, he thought about asking Xiao Ai to build him a car. However, after he saw the Debris No.3 lying in the laboratory, he had the idea of letting Xiao Ai build a space shuttle.

After all, with just eight industrial robot arms and some basic assembling tools, Xiao Ai was able to build more than a dozen Transformer robot models.

No other robot in any factory could do something like this…

Of course, no one would build dozens of useless robots either.

In short, Xiao Ai had been a useful tool, to say the least. Using the decommissioned STAR-1 supercomputer, it had an exceptionally high amount of computing power. It could design an assembly process by itself and improve by using neural networks and machine learning.

Lu Zhou couldn't help but compliment himself.

"I'm literally such a genius."

The drone hovering next to him swayed.

"Master?"

"Nothing, I'll be back in a second."

"Are we not working on the Debris No.3?" said the monotonic electronic voice drone, followed by a sad emoji on the terminal control screen.

"I'll be back soon, I have to figure out something for you to do." Lu Zhou turned around. He walked through the metal door and went inside the elevator.

Relying on industrial robots alone wasn't enough; he needed more automated industrial equipment to help assemble the more precise parts of the space shuttle. Also, since the space shuttle was considered a sensitive technology, he couldn't just build it in his underground basement. He had to do it legitimately.

Even though this sounded complicated, it was no big deal.

He just had to spend money and buy whatever equipment he needed…

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634 Get Me A Piece Of Land

Back to the ground level.

Lu Zhou was standing next to the elevator.

He took out his phone from his pocket and called Chen Yushan.

When the call connected, he immediately said, "Get me a piece of land."

The other end of the phone went silent.

"Give you a hand? What do you need help with?"

"You misheard me."

Lu Zhou coughed and said, "I plan on building a space shuttle production base in the Jinling high-tech zone, near the Institute for Advanced Study. Help me find a suitable place nearby that has good transportation."

"Wait a second, I don't follow…" Chen Yushan, who was sitting in her office, was muddled. She pinched her eyebrows and took a deep breath. She then asked, "Why are you building a space shuttle?"

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said in an uncertain tone, "Because… I want to do some experiments?"

Honestly, Lu Zhou didn't really have a good reason.

It was just that with Debris No.3 sitting there, it would be a waste not to use it. Also, considering how well controllable fusion was going, exploration of outer space would be the focus for the next century.

Not to mention, he had to find something for Xiao Ai to spend its computing power on.

The other end of the phone went silent for a while, and then, Lu Zhou heard a sigh.

"Okay, if you don't care about profits, I won't try to talk you out of it… It's your money anyway, you can waste it however you want."

China rocket companies did exist, and they even manufactured the "largest in Asia" rocket, which they spent a lot of money on. However, there weren't any obvious future prospects for profit.

Especially since aerospace-related technologies were monopolized by the two major state-owned enterprises, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, it would be difficult to compete with these companies in the already small aerospace industry.

The reason why several domestic companies were willing to spend money on aerospace projects was purely because of the tax reduction policy announced at the last aerospace conference.

Chen Yushan was looking at this from a CEO's perspective. She certainly didn't want to abandon the juicy battery market and join the space race. However, since Chairman Lu Zhou gave her orders, she had to follow them.

Not to mention, with Star Sky Technology's current earnings, they had plenty of money to burn on aerospace projects.

"It's not totally a waste." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I will try to make the budget under US$100 million."

Chen Yushan couldn't help but say, "You're way too naive, even a private jet would cost US$100 million!"

Lu Zhou said, "I will try to get some scientific research projects from the China National Space Administration and some policy support… The fund is definitely enough."

Even though 100 million wasn't a lot, it would relieve some of the financial pressure.

Of course, Lu Zhou's biggest bet was on Xiao Ai.

As long as he had enough computing power and hardware support, he could create an automated production line.

As for things that he didn't have the capability to produce, he could outsource them to other manufacturing companies.

When Chen Yushan heard how optimistic Lu Zhou was, she asked in a sarcastic tone, "Then may I ask, Mr. Chairman, how much land do you want?"

Lu Zhou noticed the sarcasm and smiled awkwardly. He thought for a bit before replying, "A hundred and fifty acres should be good."

…

After Lu Zhou told Chen Yushan about the space shuttle manufacturing site, he turned around and went into the elevator, going back into the underground laboratory.

The second he stepped through the metal alloy door, Xiao Ai's drone flew over.

It was almost like the drone was looking forward to something. Lu Zhou immediately knew what Xiao Ai was thinking about.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, in two months' time, I'll give you a big mission."

The drone began to excitedly fly around Lu Zhou.

"Okay, Master, Xiao Ai can do anything!"

[(๑•̀ᄇ•́)و]

Lu Zhou ignored the terminal screen and the displayed emoji. He went into the system space and took out his scanner gun from his inventory. He walked next to the Debris No.3 and began to work.

However, when he pointed the scanner gun at the debris, he hesitated for a bit.

Speaking of which, other than the Debris No.3, he also had a black cube that he hadn't done any research on. To this day, he still didn't know what it was for.

He had to make a choice.

After Lu Zhou hesitated for a bit, he turned on the gun's aiming laser and pointed it at the Debris No.3. He then pulled the trigger.

A line of text popped up on the scanner gun's display screen.

[Not enough energy to complete the scan, a forced restart may cause data loss, continue?]

Lu Zhou: "…"

F*ck sake!

It has an energy limit?

The battery that he scanned before was tiny, so he didn't even notice this restriction.

However, when he thought about it, it did make sense. If the scanner gun didn't have a limit, he could just put Debris No.3 and Debris No.2 together and scan them at once.

Lu Zhou made a bold guess that the energy consumption of this scanner gun was directly correlated to the amount of information. The larger and more complex the item was, the more energy the scan would require.

He opened his mouth and said, "Xiao Ai, help me with something."

"Yeah?"

"Help me remove the outer shell of this object."

"Okay!"

The three robotic arms reached out to Debris No.3. Two of them clamped the outer shell while the other used a cutter to slice along a straight line, making a teeth-clenching sawing sound.

The ceramic-based composite material of the fusion battery cell was already broken from the initial impact. Unfortunately, the components nearby either exploded or were pushed out of the thruster. Lu Zhou had no hope of relying on the scanner gun to reverse engineer the fusion battery, so he threw it aside.

However, he could still find some intact components for the Hall-effect thruster.

Lu Zhou told Xiao Ai to extract the two main components, the ionization chamber and the Hall-effect thruster, and put them side by side on the ground. He then took out the scanner gun and gradually adjusted the scanning area.

When both of the components fit inside the scanning area, the scanning gun was at its upper energy limit.

Lu Zhou didn't hesitate and immediately pulled the trigger.

He heard a "whoosh" sound and saw a bright blue light flashing from the gun barrel, showing a grid pattern.

No matter how many times Lu Zhou witnessed the light beam, he couldn't help but feel astonished.

This technology was way beyond anything that was currently available. It had surpassed the scope of science and was in the realm of fantasy.

He had no idea how the physics of this scanning gun worked.

He couldn't even imagine how he would go about building one.

The blue grid light seemed to have magical penetration powers. It passed through the hard metal shells and turned the metal shell into a transparent color. It then scanned every inch of the components.

While Lu Zhou looked at this, a light bulb suddenly went off in his mind.

If I can build a big enough scanning gun and put it on a spacecraft, does that mean I can scan the entire planet?

Of course, he was well aware that the only entity that could answer his question was the high-tech civilization that built this gun…

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635 The Key to Solving the Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap

The scanning results were quite satisfying.

With the current technology of the Institute for Advanced Study, there was no way Lu Zhou could study the Hall-effect thruster in detail. However, with the help of the scanner gun, all of the secrets were revealed.

After the data-collection part was finished, the blue light began to dim and the two components illuminated by the beam returned to their normal metallic state. As for the scanner gun in Lu Zhou's hands, it became lighter and lighter and finally turned into dust, leaving him with only a thumb-sized USB.

Lu Zhou plugged in the USB into his laptop and waited for a while.

He saw that the moment the data transfer was finished, the USB also turned into dust, disappearing into thin air.

"The materials used by the system are really environmentally friendly."

Lu Zhou shook his head and pressed a few keystrokes on his laptop.

Soon, a three-dimensional composition image was presented on the screen.

Every detail of the Hall-effect thruster components was presented in this infinitely magnifiable three-dimensional image.

Lu Zhou looked at this image for a while and touched his chin. He suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "Xiao Ai, do you think you can build one?"

A pop-up window appeared on the lower right corner of the laptop screen.

[The dimensions of this thing are too small, I'm afraid I can't do it with normal industrial robots. (_)]

"Then what kind of tools do you need?"

Two minutes went by and another pop-up appeared on the lower right corner.

Lu Zhou clicked on the pop-up and saw a list.

The list included various production equipment from metal-cutting machines to coordinate boring machines to high-precision laser beam marking machines. Lu Zhou had a headache when he read the list.

"I'll try my best to buy you everything, but I might not be able to buy some of the equipment."

After all, some things couldn't be bought with money.

[Okay! Master, just do your best. If Master can't buy some of the equipment, Xiao Ai can think of alternative ways! (

Even though this sounded reliable, Lu Zhou felt like he couldn't trust this at all.

However, he didn't have a better idea, so he would have to go with it.

Lu Zhou copied the data collected by the scanner gun onto Xiao Ai's supercomputer. He then closed his laptop.

He looked at the debris in the corner and pondered for a while.

I've already analyzed everything I need, what should I do with this garbage?

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and shook his head.

Forget about it, I'll leave it here, just in case…

…

The Hall-effect thruster problem had basically been solved. There was only one problem left with building the space shuttle.

Which was, the miniaturization of controllable fusion.

However, before solving this problem, there was another more important problem that had to be addressed.

Which was, solving the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap!

If he wanted to integrate the electromagnetic force and strong interaction, he had to explain the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap. This would lay a theoretical foundation for solving the miniaturization of controllable fusion.

Of course, this wasn't easy to do.

One could say that the most difficult Millennium Prize Problems was the Yang-Mills equations!

Lu Zhou spent the day at the Institute for Advanced Study and went to Jin Ling University the next morning.

Lin Yuxiang, who was sitting at her desk by the office entrance, saw Lu Zhou walk into the office. Her eyes lit up, and she immediately grabbed a magazine and greeted him with a smile.Read more chapter on NovelFull

"Professor, Nature Weekly sent their sample publication."

Lu Zhou took the magazine and briefly looked at the cover. He was slightly surprised.

"Already?"

Are British reporters always this fast?

"Yeah, it was sent to the mailroom last night. I received a text from the mailroom and picked it up." Lin Yuxiang's hands were behind her back as she grinned and said, "You look handsome on the cover."

Lu Zhou chuckled awkwardly.

Even though he agreed, hearing it from someone else still made him a little embarrassed.

Lu Zhou walked to his desk and sat down. He put the magazine aside and pulled out a draft paper from his drawer. He picked up a pen and began to work on the Yang-Mills theory Millennium Prize Problem.

Actually, when he found the general solution to the Yang-Mills equations, he already had a rough idea of how he could go about solving this problem.

Referencing the method Weinberg used to research unified weak interaction and electromagnetic force theory, Lu Zhou could try to introduce a scalar field on a space-time manifold for this problem and model the two forces as canonical groups U(2)*U(1). The two components of the group represented the force changes, thereby solving the massless problem of the strong interaction in the Yang-Mills field and unifying the strong interaction and electromagnetic force.

However, just as he began to think about this problem, his phone on his desk suddenly rang.

Lu Zhou sighed and stopped writing. He answered the call and placed his phone against his ear.

"Hello?"

A pleasant voice traveled through the phone without any small talk.

"Your land purchase is approved."

Lu Zhou was surprised.

"Already?"

If he recalled correctly, he told Chen Yushan about this thing yesterday morning. It had been less than 24 hours.

Chen Yushan smiled and said, "When the city council heard that Star Sky Technology is trying to build a space shuttle, they immediately took out a map and asked us where we want to build the space shuttle factory and if we need any financial support. You know how the economic situation is, the local government would love for us to employ people here."

Of course, there was one more thing Chen Yushan didn't mention.

Ever since the 2015 conference, combining military technology with private technology had become one of the main national strategies. The city council would love to have more private military technology companies in their area.

Lu Zhou: "About employment… I'm afraid they'll be disappointed, we don't need a lot of people."

Chen Yushan smiled and said, "That doesn't matter. In short, the city council likes our company strategy and they're willing to cooperate."

Since she put it like this, Lu Zhou didn't have anything else to say.

However, he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh yeah, I need you to help me buy some equipment."

Chen Yushan: "What equipment?"

Lu Zhou thought for a second before he said, "Some industrial production equipment… The list is pretty long, so I'll send it to your email."

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636 Going to the Sky?

At the office of Jinling Daily…

Zhang Yi was sitting in front of his desk at the editorial department office. He meticulously stared at the interview draft in his hand.

Around an hour ago, the editorial team had a brief meeting. Apparently, the city council asked them to write a press release about the Star Sky Technology's aerospace site in Jinling. The city council also asked them to put the report on the front page of the next issue of the newspaper and cooperate with the Jinling TV station in spreading the news.

Zhang Yi was one of the top writers at Jinling Daily, so he was tasked with writing the press release.

Zhang Yi repeatedly read the interview draft from the city council and stared at the name of the company—Star Sky Technology. He curiously rubbed his chin.

"Star Sky Technology… Why does this name sound familiar?"

Old Wu was sitting next to him, and he looked at Zhang Yi with a surprised expression.

"You don't know about Star Sky Technology? They're the top dogs in the lithium-sulfur battery material industry! I remember they went on the news a few years ago. Apparently, they specialize in research and development as well as intellectual property management."

Old Xu, who was sitting next to them, also joined in on the conversation.

"I've heard of this company, they're pretty insane! There are rumors floating around. A week ago, Star Sky Technology invested in Zhongshan New Materials and entered into the lithium-sulfur battery industry. The Zhongshan New Materials share price rose by more than ten basis points! Also, this isn't the main point, guess who's the main shareholder of Star Sky Technology?"

"Who?"

Old Xu lowered his voice and said in a mysterious manner, "According to rumors, it's Professor Lu from Jin Ling University."

Zhang Yi paused for a second.

"Professor Lu? The Professor Lu?"

Old Xu said, "No sh*t! Other than that Nobel Prize laureate, how many Professor Lus are there in Jin Ling University!"

Professor Lu from Jin Ling University?

Is Star Sky Technology's largest shareholder?

Zhang Yi was astonished.

A while ago, Jinling Daily reported on the Yang-Mills equations academic report that happened in the grand auditorium at Jin Ling University's old campus. He was the one who wrote the article piece.

Of course, what shocked him wasn't Lu Zhou's academic achievements. After all, Lu Zhou was the chief designer of the controllable fusion project, a Nobel Prize laureate, and a Fields Medal winner. He wouldn't be surprised if Lu Zhou won another world-class prize.

What surprised him was that, not only was Lu Zhou crushing it in academia and the business world, but he was also going to build a space shuttle…

Zhang Yi couldn't help but feel amazed.

Is this guy even human?

Old Xu saw that Zhang Yi was frozen, so he immediately added another sentence.

"Don't care about it too much, you just have to follow the requirements and write the press release!"

Zhang Yi stared at the document in his hand and thought for a long time. He suddenly muttered, "I don't think this report is shocking enough."

"Shocking?"

"Yeah." Zhang Yi nodded and said, "No one knows what Star Sky Technology is. Even if we write a report, no one will hear about it…"

He paused for a while before saying in an uncertain tone, "What if we just use Lu Zhou's name instead of Star Sky Technology?"

…

After Zhang Yi told the upper management about his idea, his idea was quickly approved by the executives.

The city council wanted to publicize this event, so the more the publicity, the better.

Therefore, while writing this press release, Zhang Yi subtly diverted the attention from Star Sky Technology to Lu Zhou.

It looked like his plan was successful; the reaction from the general public was extraordinary.

After Jinling Daily published its latest issue, the news was spread all over the Internet within the same day. It immediately set off a storm on various Chinese social media platforms.

Professor Lu plans on building a space shuttle?

The netizens that heard the news were stunned.

Just a while ago, the Internet exploded over the solution for the Yang-Mills equations. Less than two weeks had passed since then, and suddenly, another major news piece came out. This was out of everyone's expectations. After several media outlets reported on this news, the topic was on the trending page within a few hours.

[F*ck me! Is God Lu going to space?]

[I think so, I just saw him on Nature Weekly, now he's on trending again.]

[Wow, you read academic journals like Nature Weekly?]

[Lu Zhou, can you be my supervisor…]

[Yeah, God Lu, please take me in as a student…]

On a Chinese online forum.

They were also enthusiastically discussing this matter.

[Isn't God Lu researching the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap? The Millennium Prize Problems one, about the Yang-Mills equations.]

[There's no glory in academia, he's scamming people for funding.]

[Not really a scam, right? He's the chief consultant of the moon landing initiative. Surely he has some understanding of the aerospace industry? Also, he's invested a lot of money himself, a couple hundred million apparently.]

[Bullsh*t, he's a mathematician and physicist. I can believe that he invented controllable nuclear fusion, but how is he going to space? This is a joke. Also, who cares if he invested money himself, he's just trying to bait people. He'll pretend to build a spacecraft and wait for stupid investors to throw money. Then, he'll shut down the company.]

[Why are you so salty? I can taste the salt all the way from over here.]

Inside an office in the Jin Ling University's mathematics building.

Lu Zhou was sitting in front of his desk. As he looked at the messages exploding on Weibo, he didn't know what to feel.

He just wanted to go on his phone during lunch break, but when he opened Weibo, he was greeted with a swarm of notifications.

Actually, he had expected this to happen. Ever since Jinling Daily published the article, he had received more than a dozen calls to his office, all of them asking for different things. Some people asked if he needed help with financing, some people asked him for loans, and some people asked him to go on blind dates.

Fortunately, with the help of the hard-working Lin Yuxiang, these calls weren't able to harass him.

After all, answering the phone all day was quite tiring.

Lu Zhou turned off his phone and was able to rest on his office chair and sleep for a while. However, he suddenly heard footsteps from outside his office.

Lu Zhou heard two door knocks. He then saw Academician Lu walk in.

The old man skipped the small talk and asked directly, "You're not researching the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap anymore?"

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637 I Have A Bad Feeling

When Lu Zhou heard Academician Lu, he looked at him inexplicably.

"Why would I do that?"

Academician Lu said anxiously, "Then why are you building space shuttles?"

Oh, I see.

Lu Zhou instantly realized what Academician Lu was thinking, so he began to explain.

"The media article is a bit inaccurate, the space shuttle project is mainly done by Xiao… Star Sky Technology. I'm only funding the project."

So close, I nearly blurted out Xiao Ai's name.

Academician Lu didn't notice Lu Zhou's hiccup. He sighed and said, "I don't know a lot about the aerospace industry, but my old friends at the Academy of Engineering have talked about it. Even though there are supporting government policies, the domestic aerospace market is still very competitive. It is very difficult to compete with the international space companies, and most companies are still trying to get financing.

"The reason I came here isn't that I'm worried something is wrong with your research, I'm just worried that you have forgotten your roots!

"Once a scholar becomes a businessman, it's very difficult for the scholar to stay in academia. I've seen this happen way too often.

"It's none of my business, but your mind is in chaos. If you can just calm down and focus on researching physics, you might become a Newton or Einstein-level physicist. Now you're doing aerospace? Your priorities are all wrong!"

Lu Zhou said, "But if I only focused on one thing, controllable nuclear fusion wouldn't exist."

Academician Lu paused for a second and didn't have anything to say.

Lu Zhou paused for a second and continued, "I've always thought researching theoretical physics is very interesting. However, there is more to science than just theory, and using our theoretical knowledge to change the world is also a very meaningful thing."

"Like the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "If my guess is correct, it will become the key to the miniaturization of controllable fusion. This is why I have chosen it as my main research project."

Miniaturization of controllable fusion!

Academician Lu looked shocked.

He couldn't help but ask, "Is it really this simple?"

"It's not simple, but we have found a possible technical pathway. It's too early to discuss whether or not we can succeed."

Even though Lu Zhou's words sounded a little depressing, he didn't look depressed at all.

Academician Lu looked at him and sighed.

"If you really can miniaturize controllable fusion energy, the entire country will have to thank you."

Lu Zhou gently smiled.

"There's no need to thank me."

…

Munich, Germany.

Munich was one of Germany's major industrial and cultural city. It was also home to Germany's oldest industrial university. The headquarters of Siemens was also located here, and Siemens was one of the largest electrical companies in the world.

Near the headquarters building.

Two men in suits walked out of a black Mercedes. After they showed their identification documents to the security guard, they entered the building. They went inside an elevator and arrived at an office lounge.

After five minutes, an elderly man with gray hair, rimless glasses, and wrinkled face walked into the lounge and sat on the sofa opposite the two men.

"Would you guys like some coffee?"

The man sitting on the right said in a serious tone, "No, thanks, now is not the time for afternoon tea."

"I always thought you Americans loved your coffee."

The man sitting on the left coughed.

"Mr. Joe Kaeser, let's talk about business."

Kaeser shrugged and said, "I've been waiting for you guys to take the initiative."

The man sitting on the right extended his hand and said, "Then let's get straight to the point, we're from the CIA. You can call me Horns."

Kaeser shook his right hand, then leaned back on the sofa.

"Then, Mr. Horns from America, what do you want?"

Horns stared at Kaeser and said in a serious manner, "We detected an unusual order involving sensitive equipment. Two high precision five-axis linkage machines, which are used in the aerospace industry."

Kaeser frowned and immediately thought of the company's recent order, which was exported to Italy.

"Unusual order? The deposit was paid normally, and the 20 million has arrived in our accounts. I don't think this is unusual at all."

Horns: "The problem is, we have heard some rumors about this order. We need you to provide information about the buyer, and this includes the account for the payment, as well as the company's registered legal person, etc."

Kaeser shook his head and said, "This is an invasion of customer privacy. I can't tell you unless you have a letter from the Ministry of Commerce…"

"This is the letter." Horns impatiently took out a document from his pocket and placed it on the table. He said, "I hope you can cooperate."

Kaeser adjusted his glasses and picked up the document. He briefly glanced at the document before placing the document back onto the table.

"Since you have the approval from the Ministry of Commerce, I have nothing else to say."

Kaeser paused for a second. He then looked at his secretary who was standing next to the sofa.

"Print out the relevant documents for the order."

"Yes, sir."

The man standing next to Kaeser nodded and left the lounge.

Kaeser didn't have to wait for long.

About ten minutes later, the secretary came back with a pile of freshly printed document.

"This is the document you requested." Kaeser threw the document on the table and paused for a second. He said, "The buyer is a manufacturing company in Naples, Italy. Called Ai Industry. The corporate representative is an Italian named Saatche Farbile. The parts are for Rolls Royce to produce aerospace components… I don't see a problem with this order."

Multi-axis linkage machine technology had always been a highly confidential technology. Over the past few years, China had made breakthroughs in high-precision machine technology, which caused many countries to remove some of the five-axis linkage machines from the sensitive technology list, but a lot of high-precision five-axis linkage machines were still on the prohibited list.

These machines were often exported to international companies.

When China wasn't able to produce five-axis machine tools, other countries only sold three-axis machine tools to China. Then, when China was able to produce five-axis machine tools, other countries immediately began selling high-precision five-axis machine tools to China, affecting China's machine tool industry.

One of the focuses during the controllable fusion technology negotiation was on the five-axis linkage machine technology. China hoped that the Europeans could open up the machine tool market, which meant allowing Chinese companies to acquire European industrial equipment.

However, regardless of what the Europeans thought, the Americans weren't happy with this…

Horns frowned and said, "Ai Industry?"

Kaeser nodded and said, "Yeah, it's a strange name, but nothing out of the ordinary, I've seen stranger names. Also, we checked their Ministry of Commerce filings, they don't have any equipment export qualifications."

"I'll investigate their export qualifications myself." Horns stood up from the sofa and shook hands with Kaeser. He said, "Thanks for your cooperation."

Horns let go and looked at his assistant, who was sitting next to him.

"Let's go, next stop, Naples."

His assistant hesitated for a second.

"Now?"

Horns nodded and looked outside the window with a solemn look on his face.

"Yeah, the sooner the better, I have a bad feeling about this."

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638 Clever Proof Idea

Institute of Physics.

Luo Wenxuan and Lu Zhou were standing side by side in front of a blackboard in the director's office. They looked at the lines of equations on the blackboard and stood there silently for a long time.

Five minutes went by.

Luo Wenxuan suddenly broke the silence.

"I'll get us something to drink?"

"Alcohol?"

"Yeah, it's my habit. Whenever I can't solve a problem, I'll find something to drink"

"Then take a nap on the couch? Just throw the troublesome things aside?"

"Don't say that… Do you really think I'm someone who does that?" Luo Wenxuan rubbed his nose and looked at the blackboard. He said, "Okay then, drinking aside, I suddenly remembered something."

Lu Zhou: "What?"

"A thesis in Annual Mathematics, published in 1974… I don't remember which page, but Witten showed it to me." Luo Wenxuan recalled for a moment and said, "It mentioned a possible way."

Annual Mathematics was one of the four big journals, and the theses inside were all authoritative.

Lu Zhou gave him the chalk and made an inviting gesture.

After Luo Wenxuan thought for a second and played around with the chalk, he walked up to the blackboard and began to write.

[The simplest case of energy density with standard order is λφ4φ2, where 0

Luo Wenxuan paused for a second and looked at Lu Zhou.

"The existence and uniqueness of the field have already been proven by the thesis author, I can find the thesis for you to look at."

"Okay." Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Continue."

Luo Wenxuan turned around and continued to write while speaking.

"The mass of the field satisfies m=(2O(λ3))

"Setting the subset to satisfy Ω being dense in H, the existence of the mass gap depends on proving the following estimation… Which is, for any constant C, C 2="" and="" λ0=""0. Also, the constant B of the operator A(A), for any 0λλ0, has (AΩe(-tH)·AΩ)Be(-tC), and is labeled as 1t… "

It took around five minutes for Luo Wenxuan to transfer the equations from his brain onto the blackboard.

"This is basically it. I'm not sure if there are any mistakes. I'll take a look at the thesis later… Hey, why are you looking at me?"

"Nothing." Lu Zhou looked away and shook his head. He said, "I'm just a bit surprised."

Luo Wenxuan coughed and said, "I mean, I am Witten's student."

Lu Zhou: "Oh."

Luo Wenxuan: "…"

Jesus, bragging to Lu Zhou doesn't work at all.

Lu Zhou didn't have time to care about Luo Wenxuan's background. He stared at the equations on the blackboard for a minute.

Generally speaking, this proof idea was quite clever.

It took into account that the single-particle state was the eigenstate of the "mass" operator of the Hilbert space, and the corresponding eigenvalue was the mass of the particle. According to special relativity, letting the speed of light be 1, the mass M, the energy H, and the momentum P of the exchange operator satisfy M2 = H2 – P2.

This special case allowed the spectrum of M to be studied in more detail, and at the same time, the field mass M was an isolated eigenvalue in the spectrum M, and the corresponding eigenstate was the observed single-particle state. This was an irreducible representation transformation of the Poincare group.

Furthermore, the estimation formula (1) proved that for any ε0 and sufficiently small λ, the mass gap Δ satisfied Δ(2-ε). This way, the whole problem became clear… At least, Lu Zhou thought so.Read more chapter on NovelFull

Lu Zhou thought for a bit before voicing his opinion.

"In theory, this proof should be feasible, but there are a few parts of the problem that need to be solved, like the particle… Or how the existence of mass M can't be determined. You haven't given a proof for that yet. Also, the asymptotic expansion of λ in (2O(λ3)) isn't written here."

Luo Wenxuan was stunned, and he looked at Lu Zhou in disbelief.

"You've finished reading the whole thing?"

When Lu Zhou saw how surprised he was, he paused for a second before asking, "Is this supposed to be difficult?"

Luo Wenxuan said, "No… Not that difficult."

It only took Luo Wenxuan five days to comprehend these equations.

Well, this thesis was actually quite simple compared to some of Witten's other homework assignments.

Luo Wenxuan comforted himself in his mind and returned to the main question at hand. He coughed and said, "The asymptotic expansion of the λ you just talked about, in the paper I mentioned, it provided a way to project the two masses in a state in H by constructing a linear operator E2. We can prove that the existence of the operator E2 is a space formed by a vector of the form of Ω and e(-sH) Ω. As for the existence of the particle that proves the mass M… "

He paused and awkwardly smiled.

"If I prove this, wouldn't I win the Fields Medal?"

Lu Zhou: "…"

Luo Wenxuan's words made sense, so Lu Zhou didn't even know what to respond.

Even though this was a quantum chromodynamics problem, it was more specifically a complex mathematical proposition.

If someone could mathematically prove the existence of this particle, even if they couldn't win a Fields Medal, they would at least win a Heinemann Mathematical Physics Award. Even though the latter had a lower status in the academic world and wasn't comparable to the Nobel Prize, not to mention the prize money was only five thousand dollars, it was still highly respected in the world of mathematical physics. A lot of theoretical physics experts had won this award before.

For example, Weinberg, who founded the unified theory of electroweak interaction, won the award in 1977. He went on to win the Nobel Prize two years later.

If anyone could find the value of M or even observe the particle mass M…

It would definitely be worthy of a Nobel Prize.

While these two were silently thinking, an Institute of Physics researcher walked in.

He looked at the equations on the blackboard and was muddled. He even began to have doubts about his life.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What the hell are these things on the blackboard?

He ignored the things written on the blackboard and gently knocked on the door.

"Professor Lu, there is someone outside the institute looking for you."

Lu Zhou kept staring at the blackboard. "Who?"

The researcher said, "He claims to be the owner of Zhongshan New Materials, I think his name is Liu Wanshan."

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639 Seller Has Shipped!

The first floor of the Institute of Physics of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Exquisite sofas, coffee tables, and cabinets were placed inside a spacious room near the stairway. Rows of books and magazines were stood against the wall on a bookshelf.

When Lu Zhou first designed this research institute, he hoped that his researchers could have a relaxing place to research interesting academic problems. He wanted them to spend an hour or two every afternoon to rest in the lounge, have a cup of coffee, and try to get inspired by talking with other researchers. Just like what he often did back at Princeton.

However, while dreams were beautiful, the reality was cruel.

And it seemed like he was the only one who could enjoy the "pleasure" of research.

Other than some PhD researchers that had studied abroad, most researchers didn't even have the habit of drinking coffee in the afternoon, and they didn't have any spare time either. Most of the researchers in the Institute of Computational Materials were spending their nights in the laboratories; they didn't have time to rest in this lounge at all.

Therefore, the library lounge was left alone, only to be used by occasional visitors and guests.

"Thank you."

Liu Wanshan, who was sitting on the sofa, said to the assistant who poured him a cup of tea. His eyes occasionally drifted toward the lounge entrance and the clock on the wall.

Just when he was wondering how long it would take for Lu Zhou to come, he heard footsteps outside the lounge.

Liu Wanshan immediately sat up straight.

The lounge door was pushed open.

When Liu Wanshan saw Lu Zhou enter the room, he immediately stood up from the sofa and reached out his hand with a smile on his face.

"Professor Lu, long time no see!"

"Long time no see," Lu Zhou said with a smile as he shook CEO Liu's hand.

Lu Zhou quite liked CEO Liu.

After all, back when he was going through a tough time, CEO Liu gave him five million yuan in funding, helping him complete that horrible system mission.

Speaking of which, Lu Zhou was quite embarrassed about this whole thing.

After all, even though the Campus Assistant app was profitable and had a wide market penetration among college students, the user retention rate was too low, so it didn't make a lot of money.

A lot of people stopped using the app after they graduated, or they just outright uninstalled the app. It was very difficult to increase their revenue, and they had mainly been relying on advertisements.

There had been several changes to the app development team, but Lu Zhou, as one of the main shareholders, hadn't earned any money from it.

However, it wasn't like Lu Zhou was relying on this app to make him money…

After the two sat down on the sofa, the assistant came over and poured a cup of coffee for Lu Zhou.

Liu Wanshan looked at Lu Zhou, who was sitting across from him, and spoke emotionally.

"Time really flies by quickly. You were still studying at Jin Ling University when we first met. Five or six years have gone by since then, and now, you're almost an academician."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm still far from being an academician, I'm just teaching at Jin Ling University for fun and doing research on some interesting things. I don't have time to become an academician."

Lu Zhou wasn't being overly humble. After all, the academician selection process wasn't heavily correlated with one's academic ability. A lot of times, it still depended on whether or not the judges liked the applicant. Lu Zhou wasn't really interested in this title.

Not to mention, he didn't need the title of an academician to receive funding.

At least in China, a Ling Yun medal was better than any academic title he could get.

Liu Wanshan smiled and said, "You're not far off at all. Next year is the academician-selection year. If even you can't become an academician, then there's no value in the academician title at all."

Lu Zhou smiled and didn't explain anything. He just replied humbly, "You're too kind."

A cup of coffee and a cup of tea.

Neither Lu Zhou nor Liu Wanshan was in a hurry to talk about business.

Even though Lu Zhou had been very busy recently, he still had time to enjoy a cup of coffee.

He learned a lot while chatting with CEO Liu.

For example, the students who worked on the Campus Assistant app with him had moved from Jin Ling to Shanghai, and they expanded their target audience from Jiangsu to the entire country.

Even though the members of the app development team had changed, the roles of CEO and CHO were still held by Yuan Liwei and fat guy Wu. Technical Director Rong Hai had already left after they received their series B financing. Apparently, Rong Hai was now an executive at Penguin, doing pretty well for himself.

Also, the special cement that Professor Li Rongen developed was now used for infrastructure projects in Pakistan, creating billions of yuan in profit.

When the conversation happened to stumble onto business, Liu Wanshan put down the cup of tea and suddenly smiled.

"Oh yeah, speaking of which, how come you're suddenly building space shuttle? Is it profitable?"

Lu Zhou: "Earning money is secondary, it's just my hobby."

"Professor Lu, you're so ambitious." Liu Wanshan sighed and said, "Maybe this is why my businesses haven't made a lot of money."

Lu Zhou: "You're too humble, your businesses are worth hundreds of millions."

"Not quite hundreds of millions, I'm in the materials processing industry. We're sandwiched between the upstream and downstream of the supply chain. The profits are eaten up by either side of the chain. Even though our cash flow is in the hundreds of millions, we don't make a lot of money. Otherwise, I wouldn't have wanted to get into the battery industry." Liu Wanshan smiled and said, "Oh yeah, Professor Lu, have you heard that China plans on allowing the export of the SG-1 superconducting magnet?"

A while ago, the United States began a large-scale controllable fusion reactor project in California. Due to the trade war tension, the ban on the export of the SG-1 superconducting magnet caused a standstill at the California fusion reactor site, angering the Americans.

Now that the negotiation for the controllable fusion technology had made some progress, the export ban on SG-1 superconducting magnets had been lifted. The orders were flying in from various countries. The patent owners, Baosheng Group and Star Sky Technology, made a lot of money because of this.

Zhongshan New Materials was also in the carbon materials industry, so they obviously wanted a piece of this pie.

Lu Zhou immediately understood his intentions.

"You want a technology license?"

Liu Wanshan smiled and said, "You are correct, I don't know if you're fine with it or not."

Lu Zhou: "I'm fine with anything, as long as you can pass the production qualifications and site confidentiality check. I'll send people to help you solve the technical problems. However, I don't like to worry about business matters, so you should talk about the specifics with my CEO."

Liu Wanshan immediately nodded and smiled.

"For sure, bothering you with boring business talk is a disservice to the entire country!"

Lu Zhou nearly choked on his coffee. He coughed for a bit and put down his coffee cup.

"You're totally exaggerating."

"I'm not exaggerating at all, I'm being honest." Liu Wanshan stood up from the sofa and bowed to Lu Zhou. He said, "It's getting late, I won't disturb you any longer. I'll see you later."

Lu Zhou: "Yeah, take it easy."

When did CEO Liu become so friendly?

I guess time really changes people…

After Liu Wanshan left, Lu Zhou returned to his office. He sat in front of his desk and took out a piece of paper and a pen. He began to continue thinking about the problem he discussed with Luo Wenxuan. At the same time, he also wrote some notes.

Suddenly, a text bubble popped up on the lower right corner of the screen.

[Master, the seller has shipped the items. I helped you buy the equipment I need! (๑•̀ᄇ•́)و]

When Lu Zhou saw Xiao Ai's message, he suddenly stopped writing.

You bought it?!

Already?

Lu Zhou didn't say anything for a while, so another text bubble popped up.

[Compliment me! Do it now! o(*)ツ]

Lu Zhou was muddled as he nodded and replied, "Yeah, thanks for your help."

How did this thing do it…

If Lu Zhou recalled correctly, buying high-precision industrial equipment overseas, especially the equipment that he wanted, wasn't an easy thing at all.

For example, the "end-user access rights" was a pain in the a*s, the complicated EU foreign export procedures was complicated and messy. Even if he went through a third party country for the shipment, it would take at least two weeks for the whole thing to be sorted.

What Lu Zhou didn't know was that, all the way in Naples, Italy, there was someone else who was just as confused as him.

However, it was another type of confusion…

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640 Finessed

Italy, on the outskirts of Naples, a black Mercedes drove slowly along a curved, flat road into a small town near the hills.

Horns, who was holding the steering wheel, looked at the rundown streets on the sides of the road. His eyebrows began to furrow.

"Are we in the wrong place?"

"There's no way…" The assistant sitting shotgun repeatedly looked at the document in his hand. He said in an uncertain tone, "Both the shipping information and the Italian Ministry of Commerce points to here."

Horns didn't say anything, but he was getting more and more suspicious.

Honestly, this didn't look like a place for industrial prosperity. Even if someone didn't build a factory near a railway or near the sea, they would at least build it in a relatively densely populated area. Even the most stupid business owner wouldn't open a factory in the middle of nowhere.

The road started to get shorter and shorter.

The car could barely fit on the road.

The two got out of the car and walked along the country road for around fifty meters. They arrived at a rundown street near the community market. The people living here were mostly farmers or retired elderly. Other than a few children playing around in the alleyways, there wasn't a single sign of youth.

Horns arrived at a brick cottage with his assistant. He stopped, looked around, and raised his eyebrows.

"This is the factory?"

His assistant was also at a loss, and he took out the document again.

An old Italian man wearing a braided hat noticed the two strange foreigners standing at the doorsteps. He walked out of his house and looked at the two men suspiciously.

"Who are you guys?"

"Horns, this is my colleague. My apologies for bothering you. I'm looking for a company called AI Industry. To my understanding, this is the address." Horns said with a friendly smile on his face, which made him look a bit more approachable.

"AI Industry?" The old Italian didn't buy it. He frowned and looked suspiciously at Horns. He said, "I've lived here for many years, and I've never heard of AI Industry. There are no factories nearby."

The moment Horns heard this, he made eye contact with his assistant.

Everything made sense now.

The other party forged their identity. Not only did they deceive the Italian government and Siemens, they even deceived German customs, as well as the EU Import and Export Committee!

He remembered the ongoing controllable fusion technology exchange between the EU and China and couldn't help but break out in cold sweat.

Everything else on the list wasn't important, but if the two machine tools ended up in China's docks, the US would undoubtedly lose leverage over the negotiations.

The two machines couldn't end up in the hands of China, no matter what!

Horns looked at the old man and made a desperate final attempt. He took a deep breath and asked, "Is there anyone near here called Saatche Farbile?"

The batch of equipment only recently arrived in Italy. If it was to sneak out of European waters, it would take a while.

The only clue he had, other than the fact that the other party had an experienced computer hacker, was this name.

As long as he could find Saatche Farbile, he could solve this case!

The old Italian man frowned and shook his head.

"I haven't heard of him before."

Five seconds of silence passed by.

Horns took a deep breath. He was about to thank the old man and walk back to his car when an old woman suddenly jumped into the conversation.

"You guys know Farbile?"Read more chapter on NovelFull

The moment Horns heard this, he immediately asked with excitement, "Of course, I'm his friend, may I…"

"You're his friend? Perfect, wait a second."

The old woman turned around and went inside her house.

After a while, he saw the old woman walk out while holding a large parcel.

"A few days ago, a parcel was sent here. The recipient's name is Saatche Farbile. I don't know this person at all, and no one on this street has this name. I was wondering if the delivery man sent it to the wrong address, but I triple checked the address, and it's correct… Since you're his friend, can you pass this parcel to him?"

"Thank you… I'll give it to him."

Horns restrained the excitement in his heart and took the parcel from the elderly woman. He immediately got back into the car with his assistant.

He was about to open the parcel when he suddenly stopped.

His assistant was confused.

"Sir?"

Horns paused for a second and looked at his assistant.

"I need you to do something."

The assistant hesitated and asked, "What?"

Horns handed him the parcel and spoke in a serious manner.

"Open it."

The assistant instantly realized what was going on, and his face turned blue.

Even though he wanted to refuse, he still followed orders and took the package. He walked to the side of the road and carefully began to open it.

Fortunately, nothing happened.

There weren't any explosives in the parcel, nothing that was dangerous.

The assistant looked at the envelope lying inside the parcel and sighed. He took the envelope out of the parcel.

"Sir, there's a letter in here."

He opened the letter and pulled out a piece of paper.

However, when the assistant read the letter, it was like he made eye contact with Medusa and froze.

Horns noticed his assistant's face and thought that there was an important clue written in the letter. He quickly walked over there and grabbed the letter.

"What is it…"

It was almost like Horns had a stroke as he stood there motionlessly.

A string of random symbols was written in the letter.

[âTMa(∇*)]

Horns: "… ???"

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641 Quantum Yang-Mills Field

After Lu Zhou asked Xiao Ai how it was able to buy all of the equipment, he went silent for a while.

Seeing how Lu Zhou didn't speak for a while, a text bubble popped up on the lower right corner of the screen.

[Master? 0.0]

"Nothing, I'm just a bit shocked… Oh yeah, you didn't leave any trails behind, right?"

[Don't worry, I already killed the company! (๑•̀ᄇ•́)و]

"Oh, good…"

Since there wasn't going to be any evidence left, Lu Zhou stopped asking questions.

After Lu Zhou praised Xiao Ai, he began to search the database for the thesis that Luo Wenxuan mentioned. After he found the thesis and looked at the author, he had a surprised look on his face…

"The thesis author is Arthur Jaffe…"

Arthur Jaffe was the former head of the American Mathematical Society and served as the director of the Clay Mathematics Institute.

He and Edward Witten were the people who proposed the Yang-Mills equations to be one of the Millennium Prize Problems and made the announcement at the Institut de France.

Before this problem was declared as a Millennium Prize Problem, Professor Jaffe had researched this problem for more than a decade, and he was considered a big name in this field.

Janies Glimm was the other thesis author. He was a well-known mathematical physics professor at Harvard University, but still a level below Jaffe.

In any case, this thesis was the life work of these two big names.

Knowing this, Lu Zhou had much more respect for this thesis. He printed the thesis on A4 paper and began to carefully read the content.

Roughly speaking, Luo Wenxuan's interpretation was correct. Even though there were some minor problems, the overall idea matched the thesis content.

"I see…"

Lu Zhou had a hint of excitement in his tone, and he began to write a few lines of equations on a piece of paper.

"By constructing a progressive projection linear operator E2 on H and project the state in H onto a state less than two particle masses, one can prove that the operator E2 has a range of values between Ω and e(- sH)Ω, forming a vector space…

"Then, I can obtain the asymptotic expansion of λ!

"As for the specific value of the mass m… What exactly is the particle mass m anyway?"

Lu Zhou gently tapped his pen on the paper and scribbled a solid dot on the piece of paper.

Using theoretical physics to find a particle was no easy feat, especially when the particle was made up of massless bricks.

Fortunately, Lu Zhou was a mathematician. He just had to be logically consistent. The problem could be hugely simplified. However, if he had to physically look for the particle himself, that would be nearly impossible.

"The renormalization group equation has to have a fixed subtraction point. Then set all the parameters of the renormalization at this subtraction point… If only I can attach a scalar field on a space-time manifold like the electroweak interaction and solve a problem that way…

"Wait a minute, fields…"

The pen in Lu Zhou's hand suddenly jerked, and his eyes lit up.

"Quantum Yang-Mills Field!"

Lu Zhou spun the pen in his hand as his eyes flashed with excitement.

Goddamn it!

Why didn't I think of this before?

…

No matter how interesting mathematics was, everyone still had to eat.

After all, Lu Zhou couldn't stay up all night on an empty stomach.

Lu Zhou went to the cafeteria at night.

Unfortunately, the cafeteria at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study didn't serve authentic BBQ meat and rice. Lu Zhou happened to bump into Wang Peng, so he ordered three dishes and a bowl of soup before sitting down with Wang Peng.

Wang Peng walked over holding two bowls of yellow bean soup and handed one of the bowls to Lu Zhou. He opened the disposable chopsticks and asked, "You seem busy recently?"

Lu Zhou: "Kind of… How do you know?"

"From experience."

"Experience?"

Wang Peng smiled and said, "You go to university more often when you're not busy. But when you're busy, you would stay longer at the Institute for Advanced Study. If you get even busier, you won't even leave your house."

Lu Zhou paused for a second and smiled. "You really are from the special military force."

Wang Peng smiled and said, "This doesn't have a lot to do with special forces, just like experience."

"I don't think most people have your type of life experience."

While the two were chatting, Lu Zhou's phone in his pocket suddenly began to ring.

He took out his phone and saw the call was from Chen Yushan, so he put down his chopsticks and stood up.

"I have to take this call."

Lu Zhou picked up the call and walked to the side.

The second the call connected, Chen Yushan's voice traveled through the phone.

"The chairman of Zhongshan New Materials went to find you?"

"Yeah, why?"

Chen Yushan was suspicious, and she said, "Baosheng Group is exporting SG-1 superconducting materials, which is owned by China Airlines. Why the hell is a private company like him trying to get in on this?"

Lu Zhou: "Is there a problem?"

Chen Yushan: "Not exactly a problem. As long as the company can pass the confidentiality check and production qualification check, there aren't any problems. However, this type of business is heavily affected by government policies, and it might seem profitable now, but what about later? The worst thing a small company can do is try to diversify. They're already producing battery materials, now they're investing in SG-1. This isn't a good thing."

Star Sky Technology had a 15% stake in Zhongshan New Materials. In some sense, the interests of Zhongshan New Materials aligned with the interests of Star Sky Technology. Therefore, even though Star Sky Technology had normal voting shares, Chen Yushan still had to watch what Zhongshan New Materials was doing.

"You know more about business than me, just do what you want." Lu Zhou paused for a second before adding, "However, Liu Wanshan helped me a lot in the past, so it'd be best if we can help him."

Lu Zhou didn't really care about how much money he could earn. Whether Baosheng Group had exclusive market shares or that there were other companies, Star Sky Technology's patent licensing fees were charged by production amount, so it wouldn't make a huge difference.

Since CEO Liu really wanted to enter this market, Lu Zhou obviously wouldn't stop him.

However, any type of new business venture was risky.

Since CEO Liu had done business for so long, he was definitely well aware of this.

Chen Yushan jokingly said, "I didn't expect you to be a sentimental person."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Isn't everyone like this?"

"Not necessarily."

Lu Zhou: "Then what type of person did you think I was?"

Chen Yushan couldn't help but smile and said flirtatiously, "An apathetic person."

"Apathetic person?"

Lu Zhou went silent for two seconds, and Chen Yushan continued to speak, "Yeah, I still have a meeting to attend. You're probably busy, so I'll stop bothering you… Oh yeah, in the second half of this year, I plan on moving the headquarters of Star Sky Technology to Jinling. It's easier to communicate with you then. What do you think?"

Lu Zhou: "I'm fine with anything… What about employees?"

"Some will stay in Shanghai, some will come here. It's not like we're disbanding the Shanghai office."

Lu Zhou nodded and replied, "Okay then."

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642 Maybe This Is Fate

Virginia, CIA headquarters.

Yelling sounds were heard inside the director's office, and the office windows nearly shattered from the yelling.

"A bunch of useless idiots! How did the equipment just slip away?" The CIA director slammed the report from Europe on his table and screamed, "Three whole shipping containers! Three! You're telling me you can't find it?"

Jared, director of CIA European affairs, had an awkward expression on his face as he looked down and whispered quietly, "Sir… This matter is a bit complicated."

The director said angrily, "Complicated? All of our cases are complicated!"

James quickly said, "According to the latest intel from Agent Horns in Italy, we still aren't sure where these pieces of equipment are being shipped to, so it might not be China…"

"Do you think I'm stupid? What other countries could possibly want these pieces of equipment urgently?"

Jared thought, Of course you're stupid.

However, Jared decided to keep his thoughts in his mind.

He lowered his head and tried to be honest.

"But I…"

"Don't give me buts!" The director controlled his anger and sat down on his chair. He drank some water and said, "Where is the investigation at now?"

Jared looked at the director and carefully arranged his words before he said, "We tried to find the Italian named Saatche Farbile, but we can't find him. We suspect that it was a forged identity."

The director said, "The parcel… What about the parcel address? The parcel is the key! We can backtrack the postal system and find these criminals!" He thought back to ten minutes ago when he threw the scrunched up paper with weird characters written on it, into the trash can. This made his blood boil.

In his opinion, these criminals were trying to insult him!

Not just him, but it was insulting the entire CIA!

"Sir?"

The director looked at Jared and frowned.

"What now?"

"The method you suggested… We have already thought about it, and we found the mailing address of the parcel through the DHL transshipment system. The final address points to French Guiana. We contacted the agents in South American and found the person who sent the package. It was a young man who was still in high school, and he said that he didn't know who Saatche Farbile was at all. Someone sent him an email and said that he would receive 100 if he shipped the parcel."

The director immediately asked, "What about the email address?"

Jared had a painful look on his face.

"The email address doesn't exist anymore."

Everyone went silent.

The director sighed and pinched his eyebrows. He didn't say anything for a long time.

Jared looked at the director and whispered, "Sir?"

"What?"

"What… do we do now?"

"I don't know, don't ask me." The director reached out and picked up a document from his desk before saying, "This is a huge mistake. This will seriously impact the ongoing controllable fusion negotiations… F*ck, what do I say to the president…"

…

While half of the western intelligence agencies were in a chaos because of the missing equipment, the containers that contained the equipment had already traveled through the Panama Canal, through the East China Sea, and docked at the port of Haizhou.

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Lu Zhou came here in the morning and went to the Institute of Physics with a copy of the thesis.

When Lu Zhou arrived at the director's office, Luo Wenxuan was standing next to the coffee machine waiting for the water to boil while reading the documents in his hands.

Lu Zhou knocked on the door and placed the stack of documents on the table. He said, "I have carefully read through the thesis, I think it's a good idea."

"I think so too… The main part is the value of m." Luo Wenxuan poured himself a cup of coffee and looked at Lu Zhou. He asked, "Do you want one?"

Lu Zhou: "No, thanks… I prefer instant coffee."

Luo Wenxuan put two sugar cubes into his cup and shook his head. He said, "Instant coffee is soulless."

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Luo Wenxuan walked to his desk and looked at the thesis that Lu Zhou brought, which was full of Lu Zhou's written comments. He took a sip of the coffee before asking, "What do you think, do you have any ideas?"

Lu Zhou: "Some."

"Pfft!"

Luo Wenxuan spat a mouthful of coffee onto his computer. He started to cough while he quickly took a piece of tissue and wiped down the thesis.

Lu Zhou was stunned. He frowned and asked, "Are you really that excited?"

"Not excited! No, actually I am." Luo Wenxuan took a deep breath and tried to calm down. His voice went up a notch as he said, "You're saying, you have an idea?"

"Yeah." Lu Zhou nodded and looked at the blackboard as he said, "Do you want me to explain it?"

Luo Wenxuan: "Please tell me if you can!"

"Of course I can, it's not like this problem can be solved by one person alone, I need your help." Lu Zhou picked up a piece of chalk from the desk next to him and wrote down a line of words on the blackboard.

Luo Wenxuan stared at the line of words for a long time with his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

"Quantum… Yang-Mills Field?"

"Yes." Lu Zhou nodded and said, "The Higgs mechanism and the Yang-Mills Field have been successfully applied to explain the electroweak interaction part of the standard model for quantum field theory. However, the strong interaction part of the Yang-Mills theory can't be solved just by using symmetry breaking. Do you know what I mean?"

Luo Wenxuan's eyes gradually lit up. He could only manage to say one word.

"So…"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded and said, "you probably already know what I'm about to say. In order to solve this problem, we have to set a quantum field that corresponds to the aforementioned problem, namely the Quantum Yang-Mills Field."

If they could construct a Quantum Yang-Mills Field, they could easily find the particle mass m, and the massless problem of the strong interaction would undoubtedly be solved.

Lu Zhou was about to further explain his ideas when his phone that was in his pocket suddenly began to ring.

Lu Zhou put down the chalk and took out his phone.

He saw the caller ID and paused for a second.

State Administration for National Defense?

Lu Zhou was puzzled. He picked up the call and put his phone next to his ear.

Luo Wenxuan walked to the side and drank his coffee while sitting on the sofa. He quietly waited for Lu Zhou to finish his call.

Five minutes went by.

The call finally ended.

Lu Zhou put his phone into his pocket and looked at Luo Wenxuan.

"How come I'm in trouble every time I talk about problems with you?"

Luo Wenxuan paused for a second and smiled.

"I don't know… It's probably fate."

Lu Zhou: "…"

Lu Zhou wasn't happy at all.

However, he wasn't in huge trouble.

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643 What If I Don"t Sell It to You?

While the negotiations with Western Europe were still going on, no one thought that the treasures would be buried on a ship full of corn. When the machines were dug out from the pile of corn, the customs staff were surprised, to say the least. They immediately reported this news to the superiors.

Because this was an important matter, the news was reported all the way to the State Administration for National Defense.

Because the defense agency had to contact two engineers from Shenyang Machine Tool to inspect the machines, the rumors began to spread to the public.

There were several major machine tool manufacturers in China, mainly Shenyang Machine Tool, Qiqihar Heavy CNC Equipment Corporation, and BYJC Machine Tools. They occupied a significant amount of China's machine tool market, and everyone was aiming to manufacture high-end machine tools.

The problem was that every company wanted to improve its product, and they were all confident that they could reverse engineer this high-end exported machine tool. However, there were only two machine tools, which was not enough for everyone to get a piece.

Therefore, when Shenyang Machine Tool chief engineer Academician Yang Zhongquan heard about the news, he skipped his lunch break and went on a flight with his colleague Secretary Wu.

The two sat on the couch in the lounge of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Secretary Wu looked at the door and lowered his voice.

"Mr. Yang, the machines are very important for our factory. We have to try and get one in our hands, preferably both."

Yang Zhongquan took a sip of the tea. His expression didn't change at all.

"Of course."

Suddenly, the door opened, and the two immediately stopped talking.

Lu Zhou greeted the two and sat across them on a sofa. He looked at them and asked, "You two came all the way to see me. I'm curious, what do you guys want?"

Yang Zhongquan was about to speak, but Secretary Wu coughed and took the initiative. Secretary Wu looked at Lu Zhou and said, "We know you're a busy person, so I'll get straight to the point. Did you buy the machines?"

Lu Zhou: "Yes."

Honestly, Lu Zhou was surprised.

The person that arranged a meeting was one of the State Administration for National Defense executives. However, these two corporate businessmen came instead.

Secretary Wu asked, "How much money did you spend?"

The price wasn't anything worthy of keeping a secret, so Lu Zhou replied casually, "Around 20 million."

"Only 20 million?" Yang Zhongquan was in disbelief. He looked at Lu Zhou with a curious expression and immediately asked, "Where did you get it?"

According to his experience, if someone in China wanted to buy a high-end machine like that, they would have to transfer it using a third-party country, and the price would often double or more. 20 million was a good deal for this type of machine.

Not to mention, this wasn't even the main point.

It would be difficult to buy the latest industrial machine tools for three times the normal price, especially the machine tools used for aircraft engine production. First of all, the middleman in the third-party country wanted to make a profit, but they didn't want to take on too much risk. Secondly, companies in Europe had a strict qualification review process and end-user license agreements. After all, this could impact their market competitiveness, and everyone knew that Chinese companies often ignored rules and regulations.

It would be much more valuable to know where these two pieces of machinery came from, than to buy them off Lu Zhou's hands.

Yang Zhongquan and Secretary Wu were thrilled. They couldn't wait to find out how Lu Zhou was able to get these two pieces of machinery in the country.

However, Lu Zhou, who was sitting across from the two, felt a little uncomfortable.

The tone of the pair made Lu Zhou feel a little unpleasant. Not to mention, this wasn't something that Lu Zhou should disclose so easily.

Lu Zhou leaned on the sofa and wasn't as polite as before.

"I met some friends during my study abroad. I just asked for a favor. What? Do I have to report my friends' favors?"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

Secretary Wu looked at Lu Zhou's expression and realized something was wrong.

Lu Zhou looked very young, so Secretary Wu subconsciously spoke in an authoritative manner. He was about to speak in a more polite manner to salvage the conversation, but Yang Zhongquan spoke first.

Yang Zhongquan looked at Lu Zhou for a while and waved his hand.

"Forget about it, I don't care where the machines came from. I'll pay you 20 million, and you'll give us the machines."

When Lu Zhou heard the old man's demands, he frowned.

"I don't plan on selling."

Yang Zhongquan stared at him and said, "Do you even know what you bought?"

Lu Zhou said, "Two high precision five-axis linkage machine tools from Siemens?"

These two were the most expensive pieces of machinery in the equipment batch. Due to its high precision, it was even more expensive than six or seven-axis linkage machine tools.

Yang Zhongquan snorted and leaned on the sofa.

"Good, so you know."

Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile at Yang Zhongquan's face.

"What happens if I don't sell it to you?"

Yang Zhongquan said, "This concerns national security. I hope Professor Lu can think of the bigger picture. Otherwise, there will be consequences."

Seeing how these two were about to get into an argument, Secretary Wu felt anxious. However, he didn't have an opportunity to speak. He could only stare at Yang Zhongquan with a desperate look in his eyes.

However, Yang Zhongquan was still furious. He didn't care about Secretary Wu.

Lu Zhou looked at the old man's face and smiled. He took out his phone from his pocket and dialed a number.

"Oh, Regiment Commander Dai? Do me a favor."

Regiment Commander Dai had immediately picked up the call when he saw Lu Zhou's name on the screen. "Sure, anything you want."

"There's a batch of equipment at the Haizhou port. It contains state secrets, so can you please send it to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study."

"Okay."

A total of four sentences were exchanged over the phone.

Yang Zhongquan's eyes widened. His face turned bright red as he pointed his finger at Lu Zhou.

"You! Do you know what the hell you're doing?!"

"I do." Lu Zhou stuffed his phone back into his pocket and smiled. He said, "But it's a state secret, so I can't tell you anything."

Do you think I'm scared of you?

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644 Things Went Wrong

The army was quite efficient.

The phone call was made in the morning and the delivery truck arrived at the Institute for Advanced Study in the afternoon.

These two engineers came all the way to Jinling only to look at these three untouchable shipping containers. Yang Zhongquan was enraged; he almost wanted to skin Lu Zhou alive.

He couldn't help but question Lu Zhou, "Why the hell would you need high precision machine tools for your tiny laboratory. Are you building a particle collider or something?"

Lu Zhou replied impolitely as well, "Then why the hell would you need high precision machine tools for your factory? Are you going to disassemble them and play with them like Lego?"

Yang Zhongquan nearly vomited blood.

Wang Peng was standing nearby watching this unfold. He wanted to persuade Lu Zhou to calm down, but he didn't know what to do. Therefore, he decided to keep his mouth shut.

In the afternoon, the executives from the State Administration for National Defense finally came over.

A black sedan parked at the front entrance. Director Li quickly got out of the car. He and Lu Zhou went into another lounge.

"Professor Lu, that batch of machines is very important to us."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Is aerospace not important?"

"No, that's not what I meant. Aerospace is the future of China, of course it's important from a long term perspective, it's very important! Not to mention, you're the chief consultant of the moon landing project, so I understand what you're feeling!"

Lu Zhou sipped his coffee and didn't say anything.

Director Li sipped some tea to moisturize his throat. He then said with a sincere tone, "But you also know, that in addition to long term issues, we also have to think about the short term. Our industrial revolution began late, thus we're more than 15 years behind from the Germans and the Japanese. Especially in key areas of national defense like engines and submarines. There's still a big gap between us and the western countries."

Chinese machine tools had their own advantages, such as being relatively low cost, which almost made foreign low-end machine tools unprofitable. However, when it came to high-end machine tools, whether it was processing precision or failure rate, Chinese machine tools were no match with international industry giants.

Since China desperately wanted to improve its manufacturing industry, it had to focus on obtaining higher quality machinery.

For example, some Chinese manufacturers that needed high precision manufacturing machines would usually choose to import machine tools and nano-precision CNC machines. Since the west had the machines, the west had all the leverage. Not only did the Chinese have to pay huge prices, but they also had to deal with the horrible "end-user access rights". Therefore, the companies that were involved in sensitive technology didn't even dare to use imported machine tools.

Therefore, the cutting edge industrial technologies were also placed on the controllable fusion negotiation table.

After Lu Zhou heard Director Li's explanation, he nodded.

He wasn't a stingy person. He just didn't like the attitudes of the other two men.

He just wanted to have a normal conversation.

Lu Zhou was a reasonable person.

Seeing how Lu Zhou seemed to calm down, Director Li continued to speak sincerely, "I know it's difficult for you to buy these two machine tools. I hope you can give us one of them. Of course, we won't just take it from you. Tell me how much you bought it, and we'll buy it at triple the price. If you have any other requests, feel free to tell me."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "There's no need to pay me triple the price, I didn't buy this thing to make money."

Director Li said, "Then is there any matter regarding the policy that we can help you?"

Lu Zhou thought for a bit. His eyes suddenly lit up as he said, "The domestic spaceports are quite far from Jinling. After I build the space shuttle, transportation might be a little difficult."

Director Li began to sweat from his forehead.

"Are you implying…"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "If only the spaceport can be a little closer…"

Director Li said with a headache, "That's impossible! Even if we agree, the local government wouldn't agree. Not only is this about confidentiality, but this also concerns the surrounding geographical environment, as well as other safety and meteorology factors. This isn't just something we can approve of."

Lu Zhou coughed and said, "You're misunderstanding me. I don't need spaceports like the ones in Jiuquan or Xichuang. I just need a small spaceport to launch a space shuttle."

Space shuttles were different from rockets, especially since Lu Zhou planned on reverse-engineering the Debris No.3 Hall-effect thruster, which was much more environmentally friendly than normal chemical rockets.

Director Li shook his head and said, "That won't work either!"

Lu Zhou slapped his thigh and was about to leave.

"Okay then, I'll talk to you about the machines some other day. I'll write a letter about the spaceport to the big man."

When Director Li heard that Lu Zhou was going to write a letter to the president, he anxiously said, "Don't need to write a letter, don't bother the big man with these little matters."

Lu Zhou said in a serious tone, "Aerospace engineering is one of the country's main national strategies, how is this a little matter?"

Director Li: "…"

The room was silent for five seconds.

Director Li sighed and said, "I can't give you any promises. To be honest, this is out of my control. However, I will try my best to find a way to coordinate with the relevant departments to help you solve this problem."

Director Li contemplated in his mind.

If Lu Zhou only wanted to launch a space shuttle and not a high-powered rocket, a small spaceport would work fine. The spaceport just had to be away from the urban area, and they had to ensure that the launch path didn't pass through any densely-populated areas.

After all, Jinling was different from Shanghai. There was plenty of land on the eastern side.

If Lu Zhou really didn't need to launch rockets, a small scale spaceport should do the job.

Since Director Li didn't immediately refuse, Lu Zhou knew that this plan might work. He smiled and said, "Then thank you, Director Li."

Director Li waved his hand and said politely, "You're welcome, I'm happy to help scientific researchers like you."

Lu Zhou: "Oh yeah, one more thing."

Director Li: "What?"

Lu Zhou: "The machines are already here. After the inspection, you guys can take one."

Director Li thought for a bit and immediately knew what Lu Zhou was talking about, so he smiled and replied, "Good idea."

Lu Zhou nodded at Director Li.

Lu Zhou was a mathematician. He didn't want to deal with these sleazy businessmen, nor did he want to offend anyone. Now that Shenyang Machine Tool heard about the rumors, other companies would follow suit and try to buy the machines off him.

It would be better to just give the machines to the State Administration for National Defense, and let the companies contact them instead.

Yang Zhongquan was standing in the research institute warehouse. When he saw Lu Zhou and Director Li smiling, he guessed that the two had reached a consensus. So he stood there and didn't say anything, nor did he look at Lu Zhou.

Obviously, he was still angry about what happened.

Director Li walked to Yang Zhongquan and smiled.

"Let your engineers inspect the two machines first."

Yang Zhongquan nodded and waved at the two engineers standing next to him.

The two engineers excitedly walked over to the two five-axis linkage machine tools, which were placed in the middle of the warehouse. They carefully began to tinker with the machines.

Lu Zhou was bored, so he took out his phone and began to read some theses.

Yang Zhongquan saw the theses on Lu Zhou's screen and looked away. The mathematics symbols gave him a headache.

Five minutes went by.

The engineers who were inspecting the machines suddenly looked worried.

"There's a problem with this batch of machines," said one of them.

Director Li's heart rate dropped, and he immediately asked, "What's the problem?"

The engineer's face was white as he replied hesitantly, "The CNC system… isn't installed yet."

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645 Let Me Find An Expert Firs

The CNC system isn't installed?!

Other than Lu Zhou, everyone else in the warehouse was stunned.

Secretary Wu from Shenyang Machine Tool sighed. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and walked out of the warehouse. Director Li from the State Administration for National Defense stared at the two machines silently. His eyes were filled with disappointment.

Yang Zhongquan almost looked like his lottery ticket was stolen. He shook his head and sighed.

"CNC system hasn't been installed… I knew there is no such thing as a free lunch."

In the beginning, he didn't understand how Lu Zhou was able to use 20 million to buy this batch of equipment since the two machine tools alone were worth more than that. However, he finally understood why. It turned out that Lu Zhou bought a "soulless version".

Lu Zhou stared at everyone and quietly asked, "Isn't it just the control system?"

He didn't think this was a big deal at all…

However, he didn't expect to piss off the engineers surrounding him.

Especially Yang Zhongquan; he couldn't help but berate Lu Zhou.

"Do you know what the CNC system even does?"

Lu Zhou: "…"

Lu Zhou was a mathematician; he didn't know a lot about machinery control systems.

But even then, he didn't think this was a big deal.

When Director Li saw that these two people were about to get into an argument again, he coughed and tried to act as the peacemaker.

"This machine tool is quite special. There's the software part and the hardware part. The hardware is simple. It involves materials, hydraulics, pneumatic components, bearings, servo motors, etc. Every part of the machine affects its accuracy. As for the software, that determines whether the hardware can be used in actual production."

Lu Zhou nodded and kind of understood what was going on.

"The software is the CNC system?"

Yang Zhongquan sneered.

"No sh*t, Sherlock, what now, do you plan on manually controlling the machine?"

Relatively speaking, industrial machine tools didn't require high-end computer chips. However, they were highly dependent on CNC system algorithms. To achieve the highest degree of accuracy, an excellent machine tool had to be combined with an excellent CNC system.

According to the report from the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries (CECIMO), it clearly stated that the main competitors of the European's machine tool industry were Japan and Asia, while Japan and Europe were around the same level. China's machine tools had the advantage of being cheap, and their technology was gradually increasing. However, China was still behind Europe and Japan.

One of the reasons was because the Chinese produced machine tools by using imported CNC systems, such as systems from Japan. Not only did this add to the cost, but it also caused China to fall behind in terms of machine tool software.

Now that the machine tools were here without a control system, even though they weren't completely worthless, their values were halved, at the very least. Also, it was halved for the companies that planned on reverse-engineering the machine tools. For the companies that planned on using these machine tools, these were worthless.

When Yang Zhongquan saw Lu Zhou silently standing there, he thought Lu Zhou was distressed over wasting money, so Yang Zhongquan began to gloat.

"You might as well sell both of the machine tools to us, they're useless for you anyway. Might as well melt them down and recycle them. Don't worry, we'll still pay you 20 million."

Lu Zhou ignored him. He looked at Director Li and asked, "Can't we just buy a system and install it?"

Director Li shook his head and said, "It's difficult. If you bought it through legitimate channels, it would be fine, but this… is a bit difficult."

Lu Zhou instantly realized what the director was talking about.

The main part was that these two machine tools were considered "illegal goods". Everyone around the country was trying to look for these two machines. It wasn't as if Lu Zhou could knock on Siemens' door and just ask for a system?

Especially since the controllable fusion energy negotiations were still going on, he couldn't do anything that would affect the negotiations.

As for installing a Chinese CNC system…

It would be useless, Chinese systems were no match for this monster.

Lu Zhou looked to the side.

"I'll find some engineers and try to figure it out."

Yang Zhongquan couldn't help but say, "Ah, if you can figure this machine tool system out, I'll eat this machine."

"Okay, I'll remember that."

Lu Zhou didn't bother arguing with him, he didn't have the time nor did he care.

Director Li shook his head.

Old engineers with a bad temper like this couldn't be stopped. Lu Zhou, on the other hand, was quite easy-going. However, that was based on the premise that the other party was also polite.

After all, Lu Zhou was an internationally-renowned scholar. Even though he wasn't a machine tool expert, Yang Zhongquan should be a little more respectful.

Overall, the customs office did a bad job. Not only did they forgo telling Jinling Institute for Advanced Study about the arrival of the equipment, but they also didn't immediately report this to the higher-ups. Instead, they quickly contacted engineers from the industry for inspection.

In any case, Yang Zhongquan and Lu Zhou were two pillars of the country.

Even though this was out of Director Li's control, he still hoped that these two could be on good terms…

Most people in the warehouse left, leaving two engineers and a few Institute for Advanced Study security guards behind. One of the machine tools was going to be moved to another warehouse, while the other one was going to be taken away from the State Administration for National Defense.

Secretary Wu stayed with Director Li. Yang Zhongquan, on the other hand, obviously didn't care about this anymore. He went into his car and got back to his hotel.

As for Lu Zhou, he didn't waste any time here either. After he told the research institute about the situation, he went back to his office and began to research the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem. When the sun was setting, he went downstairs to the cafeteria for some dinner.

Wang Peng sat across from Lu Zhou and casually asked, "This is bad, right?"

Using his chopsticks, Lu Zhou picked some meat into his bowl of rice as he said nonchalantly, "It's not bad at all, they're just overreacting."

Wang Peng looked at Lu Zhou and said, "But… the chief engineer from Shenyang Machine Tool said that there is no CNC system? That system is important, right?"

Even though Lu Zhou wasn't an expert in machine tools, he was vaguely familiar with hardware and software interactions.

However, Lu Zhou still looked carefree as he continued to gorge on his food.

"Their opinions don't matter. I'll find an expert and talk with them."

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646 Who Installed This System for You?

The expert that Lu Zhou referred to was obviously Xiao Ai.

In the evening, a flat AGV followed Lu Zhou into the warehouse where the equipment were stored. It strolled around the warehouse for a few laps. Lu Zhou was about to ask what it was doing, but his phone began to vibrate.

[Where is my machine tool? It was just here a second ago. (ー〃)]

The AGV spun in a circle on the warehouse floor; the circle was approximately the size of the equipment.

Lu Zhou looked at the message on his screen and felt a bit apologetic. He scratched his cheek and muttered, "Oh, the other one was borrowed by someone else."

The AGV suddenly stopped.

After a while, a message appeared on his phone screen.

: (]

Lu Zhou coughed and said, "There's no point sulking. There's only one left, just deal with it… Or I can give you some money and you can go buy another one."

Xiao Ai: [It's very difficult to buy another one using the same method. ]

Lu Zhou: "…"

The same method wouldn't fool the intelligence agencies a second time.

They would have to make do with just one machine.

Exchanging one machine tool for a nearby launch site was a good deal. Not to mention, one machine tool should be enough. It would just take longer.

Lu Zhou paused for a second.

"Xiao Ai, do you know there's no CNC system in the equipment you bought?"

Xiao Ai: [Why does it need a system? Can't I just learn how to use it? 0.0]

Lu Zhou: "…"

Even though Lu Zhou wanted to criticize Xiao Ai, he didn't know what to say.

However, Xiao Ai did make sense. After all, it was able to build a Transformer replica model with normal industrial tools. So, it should be able to operate high-precision tools with no problem.

Even though Lu Zhou believed in Xiao Ai's abilities, he still asked Xiao Ai just in case, "You're not going to ruin the machine tool, right?"

Xiao Ai: [I won't, I'll be careful.]

Lu Zhou: "Then please, learn how to use it…"

Xiao Ai: [Okay, Master, I got this! (๑•̀ᄇ•́)و]

…

The next day, a truck from the State Administration for National Defense drove to the Institute for Advanced Study.

A group of people came to the warehouse. They were ready to retrieve the machine tool.

Lu Zhou walked over and ignored Yang Zhongquan. He looked at Director Li and said, "I found someone to install the CNC system."

When Director Li heard this, he nearly dropped his cigarette.

However, before he could speak, Yang Zhongquan smiled and said, "Oh, really now? Who did you find?"

Lu Zhou said, "State secrets."

Yang Zhongquan thought that Lu Zhou probably installed some fake sub-par system. He gently tapped his cigarette and glanced at the machine tool.

"Let's give it a test then."

Lu Zhou: "Sure, what kind of test?"

Yang Zhongquan tapped his cigarette and casually said, "I'm not going to make it too difficult, just make an S-shaped test piece."

An S-shaped test piece was a machine tool testing standard, which was proposed by several experts from the Academy of Engineering. It was first proposed in a patent and played a special role in testing five-axis linkage machine tools. It was used in various machine tool factories across the country.

The S-shaped test piece was the only Chinese-created ISO test standard for high-end machine tools. Prior to this, the ISO standard was made by countries such as Germany and Japan.Read more chapter on NovelFull

Therefore, the S-shaped test piece was one of China's great machine-tool-related inventions.

As an academician at the Academy of Engineering and the chief engineer of Shenyang Machine Tool, Yang Zhongquan obviously participated in the S-shaped test piece design. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that with his experience, he could tell the quality of a machine tool just by touching the S-shaped test piece.

Lu Zhou: "…?"

What the hell is the S-shaped test piece?

However, Xiao Ai understood what was going on.

Lu Zhou walked to the control terminal and pretended to press some buttons. He then pressed the start button.

After the start button was pressed, it was like a beast was awaken inside the warehouse. The tool connected to the spindle began to rotate at a high speed. It was like an avalanche was happening on the solid block of metal as large amounts of metal debris were peeling off.

Yang Zhongquan frowned when he saw this, and he squinted.

This is at least spinning in the tens of thousands of RPM range.

This doesn't seem right.

High-speed cutting had obvious advantages. It reduced the cutting force and the deformation from the thermal stress on the product. It also improved the rigidity of the thinly-cut parts, and the final product had a higher degree of quality.

However, the disadvantages were fatal. High-speed cutting might break the tool or even melt and burn off the machinery components.

Normally, high-speed cutting had to be paired with a corresponding feed rate, and both of them had to be within a certain range. This was so that the machine's accuracy and lifespan on the tools were optimized.

The quality of a CNC system was reflected in this system.

If a poor machine tool broke down during operation, the blame wasn't entirely on the machine tool itself. At least half of the blame was on the CNC system.

Of course, Yang Zhongquan was surprised at the machine for maintaining such a high cutting speed.

However, this wasn't anything special. A lot of machine tools with imported ceramic bearings could cut at high speeds, much less a five-axis linkage machine tool from Siemens.

The key to a reliable machine was the final product.

If the machine couldn't produce the final product or if the final product had a defect, then the cutting speeds wouldn't matter.

Yang Zhongquan thought about this and felt a little more comfortable.

Lu Zhou was standing next to the control terminal. He didn't really know what was going on, so he took out his phone and began to read a thesis from where he left off last night. Around ten minutes later, the rotating tool stopped and an S-shaped piece of metal was presented on the workbench.

The engineers standing nearby all looked shocked.

Done?

Already?

Lu Zhou put his phone into his pocket and smiled at Yang Zhongquan.

"I think it's done."

"I know."

Yang Zhongquan frowned and walked toward the machine tool.

He stood next to the machine tool with his eyebrows furrowed.

He extended his finger and touched the S-shaped test piece.

It's warm!

Lu Zhou looked at him and didn't know what he was doing. He smiled and said, "Is it too hot? Maybe blow on it a little."

Yang Zhongquan didn't care for Lu Zhou's ridicule. He flipped over the S-shaped test piece and rubbed his thumb on the curved surface of the metal test piece.

His facial expression totally changed.

Yang Zhongquan's hands trembled slightly while holding the S-shaped test piece, and he stuttered, "W-Who installed… this system for you?"

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647 The Secretive and Modest Professor Lu

Yang Zhongquan stared at the S-shaped test piece in his hand. He was in disbelief.

One shouldn't estimate this small S-shaped metal sheet. The surface of the metal object followed a spline function, which was generated by using a control point spline. This was very similar to the shape of aircraft wings.

Because of the twisted S-shape, the curved surface was at an acute angle with the base, therefore only a five-axis linkage machine tool could produce a shape like this. Also, the feed rate had to be changed several times during the machining process. This was a test of the performance of the machine.

Therefore, what reflected in the final S-shaped product wasn't only the machining accuracy, but also the force, heat, vibration, noise, and other error factors.

Yang Zhongquan didn't know what the control system for this machine tool was, but his intuition told him that it would be difficult to achieve this level of accuracy even if Siemens tailored a CNC system for this machine tool.

Lu Zhou saw Yang Zhongquan's expression and knew that Xiao Ai's performance was too good. He didn't know how to explain himself.

However, he thought…

Why the f*ck do I need to explain myself?

I don't need to explain anything!

Therefore, he casually made up a reason.

"I met a few friends while studying in Europe, and some of them were experts in this field. I was told that he was working on a machine tool control system based on neural networks and machine learning…"

"This is impossible!" Yang Zhongquan's eyes went wide open. "The application of the neural networks and machine learning algorithms on machine tools has been researched before, but it is all theoretical. There aren't any examples of algorithms being able to improve the accuracy of machine tools…"

Lu Zhou used his chin to point toward the machine.

"The example is right in front of you."

Yang Zhongquan went silent for a while.

"Who is your friend?"

Lu Zhou said, "I'm not telling you."

Yang Zhongquan: "…"

Secretary Wu: "…"

Director Li: "…"

The atmosphere in the warehouse was a bit awkward.

Lu Zhou didn't want to end things on a bad note, so he looked at the engineer, then at Yang Zhongquan. He continued to speak, "I can't tell you where I got the system, but if you want to buy it, I might consider selling it."

Yang Zhongquan said, "Your CNC system is compatible with other machines?"

"Of cour… I don't know." Lu Zhou suddenly changed his reply. "But whatever machine you want to install the system on, bring it over here, and I'll find someone to see if they can install the CNC system on it."

Yang Zhongquan didn't ask who. After all, he knew that Lu Zhou wouldn't tell him. He asked, "What about the price?"

Lu Zhou didn't have a sense of money, so he said, "Don't bring me a low-end machine tool, I don't have the time for that. I'll only tailor CNC systems to high-end machine tools. A million per machine."

Before Yang Zhongquan could speak, Secretary Wu quickly said, "Deal!"

Lu Zhou: "…"

Did I ask for too low?

…

During dinner time.

A group of people sat in front of the dinner table, laughing while eating.

After some drinking and eating, it was getting late. Secretary Wu whispered to Director Li, who was sitting next to him.

"Director Li, can you find out who is making the systems? Chinese machine tools are always of poor quality. If we find this person for help, I am certain that Shenyang Machine Tool will be the top machine tool manufacturer in the world!"

Even though this sounded like an exaggeration, after Secretary Wu saw the quality of the S-shaped test piece, he was totally confident about it.

The domestic CNC system field desperately needed talents, and to let a huge talent like this stay in a research institute was painful for Secretary Wu.

Director Li didn't say anything. He just smiled and looked at him.

Even though he was drinking, he wasn't drunk yet.

After a while, he said, "The person wants to stay in the Institute for Advanced Study, so let's just leave them alone, okay? Do you have to have them work in your company? Paying them to design systems for you is the same thing, right? The economy has changed, so try to keep up with the times. You're doing business with another entity, stop trying to get me involved."

Director Li sounded like he was criticizing Secretary Wu.

Secretary Wu smiled and tried to explain.

"I just don't want good talents to go to waste."

Director Li smiled and shook his head. "Then talk with Professor Lu, see if he wants to cooperate."

Secretary Wu shut his mouth.

Lu Zhou was the chief designer of the controllable fusion project and was now the chief consultant of the moon landing project. He had made great contributions to the country. Lu Zhou didn't have time to meet with guys like him.

If it wasn't for the State Administration for National Defense, Lu Zhou wouldn't have met with them in the first place.

Director Li said subtly, "Also, I don't think his friend is necessarily the one who created the CNC system."

Secretary Wu paused for a second before asking, "What do you mean?"

Director Li stared at him and said, "Around six or seven years go, he wrote more than a dozen theses on artificial intelligence, neural network, and drone logistics. Even though it was sent to an unknown journal, some of the experts from the information engineering department found and read the theses. They all agreed that these theses couldn't be written by an average scholar. After all these years, if his programming ability stayed the same or even improved… He might have done something incredible himself."

Secretary Wu was in shock and disbelief.

"So you're saying he is the one who wrote the CNC system code? But this is totally different from mathematics, this is…"

"It's ridiculous, right?" Director Li smiled and said, "Sometimes I think so too, but it's not impossible. Think about it, he spent all that effort buying the equipment, so how could he forget about the crucial CNC system?"

Secretary Wu said, "But he didn't know…"

Director Li shook his head.

"Even if he didn't know, what about the people who helped him buy the equipment?"

Director Li stared at Secretary Wu, who was totally frozen, and said with nuances, "Not to mention, do you really think the CNC system is more difficult than a controllable fusion control system?"

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648 Was Proven?

At night time.

Lu Zhou quickly finished his dinner and began walking back to his office. On his way there, he called Chen Yushan and told her about the equipment.

After Chen Yushan heard Lu Zhou's explanation, she sighed.

"You should have called me, your price is obviously too low."

Lu Zhou sighed and said, "I thought so too, but I couldn't go back on my word."

Chen Yushan was speechless. She said, "Of course you can go back on your word, who cares what an enterprise thinks? Just change your offer."

Lu Zhou: "Uh, that's not good, right? I already agreed."

Chen Yushan: "Okay then, if you want to keep your word, we can use another method."

Lu Zhou: "What method?"

Chen Yushan smiled mischievously and replied, "A million is just the installation fee, this doesn't include the service fee and system update fees."

Lu Zhou was speechless. He said, "You're way too good at extortion."

Honestly speaking, even though Lu Zhou didn't like these two Shenyang Machine Tool executives, he still wanted China to have a spot in the international machine tool industry.

Even though he wasn't familiar with this field, production and research were closely related. He didn't want to offend anyone.

He had plans to build a collider and an outer-space laboratory, and all of these exciting high-tech projects needed industrial support. He would have to pay a ton of import taxes if he relied on other countries.

"Why would you care about them?" Chen Yushan said, "I'm telling you, if you really care, then you shouldn't have offered such a low price! They deserve to pay a higher price. It's only then that they will try to invent new technology on their own. If you don't charge them a higher price, they'll never treat their researchers well. True competitive enterprises all come from high patent licensing fees!"

Lu Zhou felt that Chen Yushan made sense, so he nodded and replied, "I don't really want to handle this, so we'll just do what you say."

Chen Yushan: "You should have made me handle it in the beginning!"

When it came to things that were related to work, Chen Yushan was like a different person. Her mannerisms and actions were almost ferocious.

It was refreshing for Lu Zhou to see this side of her.

After everyone left for the evening, Lu Zhou went back to the institute warehouse. He installed the CNC system that Xiao Ai wrote onto another machine. He didn't have to worry about this anymore since Star Sky Technology would handle the rest.

The next day, the people from the State Administration for National Defense came over and placed the machine tool into their car.

Lu Zhou happened to see Yang Zhongquan, so he smiled and greeted him.

"Oh, Yang Zhongquan, are you ready to eat?"

Yang Zhongquan thought back to his words and instantly blushed. He turned around and walked away.

Secretary Wu smiled and joked, "Ummm… The machine tool is too expensive. It costs us tens of millions, we can't let him eat it."

Lu Zhou smiled and didn't say anything.

…

The new space launch site was still under examination and approval, but the State Administration for National Defense said that it shouldn't be a big problem. The space shuttle manufacturing site was approved a week ago. The construction equipment had already been moved to the site, and they had begun the construction.

The construction company that won the bidding wars was a local engineering company based in Jinling. It met the military engineering qualifications, as well as the security and confidentiality conditions. It should be able to easily construct the spacecraft assembly factory.

Since the construction was managed by professionals, Lu Zhou left it alone. He focused on his Yang-Mills existence and mass gap research.

According to the results he discussed with Luo Wenxuan, the most reliable way to find the particle mass m was to introduce a Quantum Yang-Mills Field.

This would require a massless field that could propagate at the speed of light, whereas quantum particles had a positive mass, which was, a positive number . And the energy of any excited particle state must not be less than , thus ensuring that the strong interaction nuclear force was short-ranged.

Lu Zhou exchanged ideas with Professor Fefferman and Professor Witten through email messages, and the advice Lu Zhou received was peculiar.

Witten believed that the method of using a Quantum Yang-Mills Field to solve the Yang-Mills theory wasn't reliable and that the M theory would be a more reliable way of explaining the mass gap.

However, the problem was that there wasn't any direct evidence to prove the existence of the M theory, or string theory for that matter. Using a hypothesis to prove another hypothesis was obviously unreliable.

Unlike Witten, Professor Fefferman was optimistic about Lu Zhou's proposal of a Quantum Yang-Mills Field.

At the end of Fefferman's email, he mentioned something interesting.

[… When traditional methods fail to solve new problems, the best thing to do is to create new ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of science. You're creating a quantum field that corresponds to the classical effects described above, to solve a problem that cannot be described on this space-time manifold. I think this method is very interesting, it is at least worth a try.

[If I weren't busy with my own research project, I would have bought a plane ticket to fly over there and research this problem together with you.]

Other than exchanging emails with Professor Fefferman and Witten, Lu Zhou's only other partner was Luo Wenxuan.

This was actually quite embarrassing. Even though the Institute for Advanced Study had been established for a long time, there weren't a lot of big talents. Institute of Computational Materials, on the other hand, had plenty of talents, and their scientific research level was world-class.

However, when it came to the Institute of Mathematics or the Institute of Physics…

They were basically relying on Lu Zhou's reputation.

He had to admit, cultivating talents and creating an academic environment would take a lot of time.

Institute of Physics.

Director's office.

Whenever Lu Zhou couldn't find any inspiration to solve a problem, he would come here. This was his time to exchange new research discoveries with Luo Wenxuan.

When Luo Wenxuan saw Lu Zhou walk into this office, he looked up from his computer and asked, "Did you make any progress on the Quantum Yang-Mills Field?"

"I'm still a bit off, but I think I'm very close to the answer. There's just a thin layer between me and the answer… Of course, this layer might be made of frosted glass," Lu Zhou walked to the water dispenser and made himself a cup of instant coffee. "What about you?"

Luo Wenxuan shook his head.

"I think there's a thick wall between me and the answer."

Lu Zhou: "You'll figure it out eventually… Oh yeah, what are you doing?"

Luo Wenxuan: "I'm looking at the theses on Arxiv to see if there are any interesting ideas. Ever since your report, the number of Yang-Mills equations theses has been growing at an exponential rate. However, the average quality of these theses has been declining at an exponential rate."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "That's understandable, everyone wants to find an answer."

Luo Wenxuan sighed and said, "Yeah, after all, this is the most difficult problem of the century."

Lu Zhou took a sip of his coffee and said, "Not necessarily. I think the Riemann's conjecture is more difficult. There has been some progress made on the Yang-Mills theory over the past few decades, but the Riemann's conjecture is still a mystery."

"Really, is that what you think?" Luo Wenxuan shrugged and carelessly said, "One might be more difficult than the other, but as long as I am unable to solve the problem, they're the same to me."

He said while clicking his mouse.

While staring at the computer screen, he suddenly froze.

Lu Zhou, who was sipping on his coffee, noticed Luo Wenxuan's expression and asked, "What now?"

Luo Wenxuan looked away from his computer screen. He looked at Lu Zhou as he said with a perplexed expression on his face, "The Yang-Mills existence and mass gap… was proven?"

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649 Serious Flaws

It was proven?

When Lu Zhou looked at the screen, his face was full of surprise. He put down the coffee cup in his hand.

"Are you sure it was proven? Is it not a possible proof idea?"

"Yeah, I am… The author of the thesis claimed that he solved the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem. Also, this guy's background is impressive," Luo Wenxuan said while looking at the author's information. He spoke in disbelief, "Brian Caro, professor at Oxford University. A member of the Royal Society, academician of Academia Europaea. Participated in the Higgs particle discovery. Won five medals, including the Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal… Unbelievable, he's sixty years old."

Sixty years old wasn't exactly the golden age for physics research, but it wasn't old enough for significant memory decline. However, even then, making such an achievement at this age was no piece of cake.

Lu Zhou had never even heard of Professor Brian Caro, but maybe that was because he didn't know a lot about the theoretical physics community.

After Lu Zhou heard Luo Wenxuan talk about Brian's accomplishments, he began to ask questions.

"Is the thesis already released as a preprint? Or just the abstract?"

Luo Wenxuan clicked his mouse and said, "The preprint is already released."

Even though this type of situation was rare in the mathematics world, it wasn't rare in the physics world, especially in the field of theoretical physics. For a major theoretical physics problem like this, a lot of experienced professors like to publish a preprint of their theses to prevent other scholars from stealing their glory.

After all, it was very difficult to produce results in theoretical physics. Being one step behind could lead to years of extra hard work.

Lu Zhou was intrigued. "Print a copy for me."

"Okay… But I don't understand why you like to read printed papers, isn't it easier to read it on an e-reader?"

"There's no special reason why, I just like being able to physically touch the thesis."

Even though Lu Zhou would read papers on his phone, that was only when he didn't have access to the printed version.

If he were sitting on a sofa or studying at a desk in the library now, he would much rather prefer reading a printed copy of the thesis. Not only was it easier to make notes, but it was also easier for him to write down inspirational thoughts that come to mind.

The printer started humming.

Luo Wenxuan was reading the thesis on his computer when he suddenly said, "What if he is correct?"

Lu Zhou paused for a second and looked at him strangely.

"Good for him then, what's the problem?"

Luo Wenxuan looked at him in disbelief.

"You won't feel sad?"

Lu Zhou: "What's so sad about it?"

Luo Wenxuan looked helpless as he said, "But, we researched this problem for so long, we are one step away from the finish line. You don't feel anything?"

Lu Zhou said nonchalantly, "I don't feel anything. I don't really care who solves the problem, it's all the same for me."

Lu Zhou had already won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize. He didn't crave for more medals. He researched these problems purely because he wanted an answer. If someone else was inspired by his research and successfully solved the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem, he would actually feel more satisfied than if he had solved it himself.Read more chapter on NovelFull

Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou. He opened his mouth and sighed.

"Okay then… I don't feel the same at all."

Lu Zhou said, "You'll get there eventually."

…

After a minute or two, the twenty-page thesis was printed.

One could say that a lot of care had been put into this thesis, especially since it was a preprint version.

The formatting met all of the normal journal standards and the proof section of the thesis was clear and concise. It wasn't like those typical Internet preprints, which were full of mistakes.

After the thesis was printed, Lu Zhou sat down on a sofa and began to read the thesis abstract and content.

Overall, Brian Caro did a pretty good job, both from a mathematical and a physics perspective. Even though there was still a gap between him and top scholars, Caro's ability matched his reputation.

What surprised Lu Zhou the most was that the method adopted by Brian Caro was similar to the idea that Lu Zhou and Luo Wenxuan had. Brian Caro's thesis was also based on Professor Jaffe's thesis in Annual Mathematics. It tried to explain the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap by finding the particle mass m.

However, Lu Zhou and Caro had different methods of finding the particle mass m.

Brian Caro didn't introduce a Quantum Yang-Mills Field. Instead, he used a method similar to Weinberg, he introduced a scalar space-time manifold to solve this problem.

However, even though there were many nuances in the thesis, in Lu Zhou's opinion, this thesis wasn't rigorous at all.

After all, the massless strong interaction problem couldn't be solved by using a simple "symmetry breaking" method.

"His proof is very close, but it's still a bit off." Lu Zhou put down the thesis and grabbed his coffee mug. He noticed that his coffee was cold, so he walked up and made himself another cup of coffee.

Luo Wenxuan immediately looked up. "So, is he correct?"

"Yeah, but don't gloat too much. We can still learn some stuff from his thesis, like how he used the existence of a four-dimensional gauge field to normalize the lattice point or how he set a constant effect on the torus Euclid space… Of course, there are many problems."

Luo Wenxuan: "Like what?"

"Like when he talked about the normalization of grid points, he didn't prove that the lattice step size limit tends to zero. Therefore, his method of defining the torus Euclid space-time isn't rigorous, it's actually wrong."

Lu Zhou gently blew on his cup of coffee and took a sip. He paused for a few seconds before saying, "But I'm not sure if it's because this is a preprint version. He might have already found a good proof method, but just didn't post it yet."

This type of scenario was pretty common.

After all, a lot of high-quality theses on arXiv were perfected through constant discussion and revision.

Luo Wenxuan: "So he didn't prove it?"

"It seems so. I don't care what other people think, in my opinion, he didn't succeed." Lu Zhou sighed and looked a bit disappointed.

He originally thought Professor Brian could show him something novel. He didn't expect Professor Brian to make so many mistakes.

As expected, Lu Zhou had to rely on himself to solve the problem.

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650 Professor Brian"s Invitation

Professor Brian Caro's thesis caused a sensation in the academic community.

Since most people speculated that the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap was going to be solved by Professor Lu, no one expected this sudden change of events.

The last problem of the Yang-Mills equations was actually solved by a professor at Oxford University.

Of course, people weren't overly surprised by Professor Brian Caro's proof. After all, this big name had been in the field of theoretical physics studying gauge theory for more than two decades. It was understandable for him to make such a major breakthrough like this.

After Professor Lu gave a general solution to the Yang-Mills equations, it inspired the entire mathematics and physics community.

Professor Brian Caro's reputation instantly blew up in the theoretical physics community, and the number of theses that were being posted on arXiv regarding the Yang-Mills equations also reduced by a huge amount.

Everyone was waiting.

They wanted to see what the physics community thought about this thesis.

They were waiting for opinions posted by top scholars.

Oxford University.

Inside a study room with red wooden bookshelves, Professor Brian Caro was sitting on a sofa. He was being interviewed by Nature Weekly. He looked energetic and high-spirited.

When he was asked about the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, the question that troubled the theoretical physics community for decades, he leaned back against the sofa cushions and easily gave an answer.

"The Yang-Mills existence and mass gap is a very complicated problem. Even though we can observe the phenomenon in physics experiments and computer simulations, we weren't able to give a mathematical explanation. This was the reason why we couldn't understand its existence from a quantitative perspective. This problem troubled the physics community for more than half a century. It's like a marathon, but now the marathon is finally finished."

The journalist Belinda from Nature Weekly was holding a microphone, and she asked seriously, "Then how did you solve it?"

Brian Caro said, "How do you want me to answer this question?"

Belinda smirked and said, "I hope you can talk about the source of your inspiration and the solution to the problem in a way that can be understood by the average person."

"I'll try." Brian took a sip of black tea and gracefully put down the teacup. He said, "I have researched this problem for more than two decades. The report from Jin Ling University inspired me to a great degree. By introducing the L Manifold method, Professor Lu taught us how to apply a differential geometry method to the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations. I think this is extremely significant to the mathematics and physics world."

Belinda said, "So did you use the same, or a similar method?"

Brian shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, but Professor Lu's idea did give me some inspiration. We all know that the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap cannot be observed in a four-dimensional gauge field. In order to prove it, we must introduce classical variable transformations. Therefore, my approach is to introduce a scalar space-time manifold on the whole problem, then use a simple method to solve the problem."

Brian unconsciously grinned.

He couldn't help but feel satisfied whenever he thought about how smart he was.

Belinda smiled and said, "Will you display the content of your thesis in the form of a report presentation?"

Professor Brian smiled politely and said, "Of course, this is the common practice of academia. Every great discovery is bound to be met with questions, even Einstein was no exception to this rule. My proof report will be held in the lecture hall at the University of Oxford. I will explain all of the methods I have used and answer any questions from my peers."

Belinda then asked, "What do you think would be the opinions of the other physicists?"

Professor Brian: "If they are confused or have any questions, I welcome them to ask me any questions. However, I think the possibility of this happening is low."

Belinda: "However, according to the comments on arXiv, Professor Lu has some interesting opinions about your thesis. He thinks that there are at least three sections in your thesis that weren't explained clearly, and that these sections couldn't be easily fixed."

Professor Brian initially frowned, but he quickly relaxed and spoke in a gentle tone.

"Professor Lu is a respectable scholar, but he isn't the highest authority in academia. Everyone makes mistakes, including me, including him."

Belinda was interested, and she asked, "So, what you're saying is, Professor Lu could be wrong this time?"

"I didn't say that, but that is possible. I am confident in my own thesis, after all. I have been researching this problem for more than 20 years. He has researched this problem for less than a year, a little negligence from him is normal"

Professor Brian stopped for a second and cleared his throat.

"Of course, in order to clarify his misunderstandings, I will send him an invitation to my University of Oxford report. He will get to witness this glorious moment. If he wants to come, I will answer all of his questions during the report."

…

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Knocking sounds were heard from outside the institute director's office.

Lu Zhou was writing something on his desk. He stopped writing and looked up at the door.

"Come in."

The door was pushed open.

Luo Wenxuan walked in while carrying a Nature Weekly magazine.

"I heard that Professor Brian wants to invite you to his report," Luo Wenxuan said as he placed the magazine on Lu Zhou's desk. He looked at Lu Zhou and asked, "Did you receive his invitation?"

"Yeah, I received it yesterday," Lu Zhou said as he nodded.

Luo Wenxuan: "Do you plan on going?"

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and shook his head as he said, "It's not a good idea for me to leave the country within the next five years, I might not be able to go."

Luo Wenxuan: "That's unfortunate."

Luo Wenxuan knew about Lu Zhou's situation.

Before the controllable fusion negotiations were finished, a top scholar like him should be more careful when traveling overseas, both from the standpoints of technology confidentiality and personal safety.

It was just too risky.

Lu Zhou didn't really care. "It's not unfortunate at all. After all, it's not an important conference."

He had been following the thesis. Even though Professor Brian made some modifications to the thesis preprint, Lu Zhou wasn't satisfied. Honestly speaking, even if Lu Zhou had the time, he wouldn't want to attend the report.

After all, he could just email Brian the thesis mistakes.

Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Then I'll go instead, make sure to reimburse me for the flight."

Lu Zhou joked, "You still care about that?"

Luo Wenxuan waved his hand and said, "Yeah, I have to. I plan on starting a family, so I have to be more frugal."

"Well, good for you then…" Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head. He pulled out a check from his drawer and signed his name on the check. "Forget about the reimbursement. Just take 5,000."

Luo Wenxuan took the check and smiled as he said, "Why are you being so generous? Looks like I'm going to spend an extra day or two in England."

"Go ahead, have a great vacation."

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