Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 131 Professor Zhou's Mathematics Paper
"Life simulator? This thing is not easy to study. It is impossible for me to tell other people about the life simulator, and it is impossible to take it to the experimental equipment for research." Thinking of the long-term research direction in the future, Zhou Ming One that comes to mind is a life simulator.

The life simulator appeared without any warning, and according to the information he learned from his unsimulated future self last time, the disappearance of the life simulator was just as without warning as its appearance.

In addition, the life simulator can also unreasonably pour future knowledge into Zhou Ming's brain like water. It seems to be invisible and insubstantial. Even if Zhou Ming wants to investigate, there is no way to investigate, just like in the last simulation. It's the same as losing the life simulator.

"Forget it, the life simulator is too fantasy. With the knowledge I have now and the technology on earth now, it is impossible to research anything." Zhou Ming finally gave up the research on the life simulator. It is even suspected that no matter how hard he presses the accelerator button or how fast the world develops, he will never be able to simulate it enough to study the principles and origins of the life simulator.

There are too many uncertainties in the future. Zhou Ming's future life trajectory and development in the simulation are not programmed in advance, and it is impossible to develop exactly as Zhou Ming thought in his mind before the simulation.

Moreover, the lifespan of human beings has a limit. No matter how fast Zhou Ming accelerates the rapid development of social science and technology, it is impossible for him to study the nature of the universe before the limit of his lifespan is reached.

Unless Zhou Ming can develop the elixir of life before his lifespan reaches the limit through countless simulations, or research the essence of consciousness, and realize the long-term transmission of consciousness and achieve the immortality of consciousness.

But both of these are too difficult. In Zhou Ming's view, no matter how he uses the life simulator, he probably won't be able to achieve it in his short life.

"The composition of the universe? Let's wait until we open other companies in the future." After leaving the life simulator behind, Zhou Ming began to think about other long-term projects.

"Consciousness? Although it is impossible to achieve the wish of consciousness and immortality in my lifetime, this can be used as a long-term research project, and there are many things that can be studied, such as the biological basis of consciousness, the generation of consciousness, neurobiology, and memory. storage and recovery of..."

"Aging? This problem is the same as consciousness. Although it is impossible to develop the technology of immortality in my lifetime, this is indeed a long-term project that needs to be researched. It is also good to extend the lifespan a little bit. The content of its research There are genetic variations, problems of health and disease, problems of the limits of human lifespan..."

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Among the issues of consciousness, Zhou Ming feels that it is necessary to study how memories are stored and restored.

Because Zhou Ming has gained a lot of future biological knowledge through the life simulator, he has more understanding and a clearer understanding of how memories are stored and restored than people of this era.

But despite this, Zhou Ming is still unclear about how the life simulator instilled the knowledge he learned in the future into his mind now, and how his memory of that knowledge was formed. .

Maybe it's not a question of memory, but of consciousness, or maybe Cartesian dualism is right?
Matter and spirit are actually separated?Humans have souls, but the knowledge instilled by the life simulator is directly instilled in the soul?

In other words, the human brain produces consciousness because of quantum entanglement?Or is it just some chemistry?
Many conjectures flashed through Zhou Ming's mind, but these were only conjectures after all. Even though he possessed knowledge beyond this era, he still didn't know which one of the correct answers was.

Compared with the previous two, Zhou Ming didn't spend much time on this long-term research project about the future. It took him less than a day to complete the list.

After finishing this matter, Zhou Ming began to pay attention to stocks.

It has been so many days since the mission started, although the progress of the mission has been increasing every day, but Zhou Ming still dislikes the speed of this increase is too slow, so he wants to use stocks to make money to speed up the completion of the mission.

In the previous simulations, it was mentioned several times that Zhou Ming knew some future information because he had experienced several simulations, and through some understanding of the future, he made some money by speculating in stocks.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Ming wants to quickly complete the task through stock trading.

However, this time Zhou Ming was different from the previous stock speculations he had experienced in the simulation.

Because in the previous simulation, the information about the future that Zhou Ming obtained was in units of years, so he could only know which year in the future, but not the specific date, so his stock trading in the previous simulation They are not short-term stocks, but long-term stocks.

He knows that a certain stock will rise sharply in a certain year, so he buys it in advance before it rises sharply that year. After it reaches the position he knows, he will sell it, regardless of whether it will continue to rise later.

Because if the speculation continues, Zhou Ming is really gambling.

Zhou Ming in the previous few simulations made some money through this method of stock speculation.

But since Zhou Ming opened the company, his company has developed rapidly, and the income he has brought to him every year has been increasing. Coupled with the continuous expansion of Zhou Ming's company, he no longer needs to make money through this kind of stock speculation. up.

Moreover, Zhou Ming's influence on this world is also increasing, so his information about future stocks may also have some errors due to his changes, resulting in information that may not be accurate.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Zhou Ming did not trade in stocks in the following simulations.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming has gone through enough simulations now, and he has obtained a lot of future information. In addition, he passed a third-perspective simulation last time, and the information he obtained about the future is more detailed, so he is confident. Do some stock trading that can get huge returns in a short period of time.

Among the information Zhou Ming obtained, the shortest stock information he knew was that from the end of December this year to mid-January next year, a stock would rise significantly, but as for the specific price of this stock, When, this Zhou Ming will not know.

As for the next stock price increase, the earliest information Zhou Ming knew was in June next year.

By June of next year, Zhou Ming will have completed the task without investing in stocks.

After taking out his mobile phone and downloading the relevant software to check, Zhou Ming found that the price of the stock was much lower than that in mid-January next year, so he bought a little without waiting until the end of the month.

After finishing the stock business, Zhou Ming continued to work on his own affairs.

As a professor of mathematics at HKUST, Zhou Ming has been at the School of Mathematics at HKUST for almost half a year.

But after Zhou Ming came to the University of Science and Technology, because he was not only a professor of the School of Mathematics, but also a doctoral student of the School of Life Sciences, he was busy with the affairs of the School of Life Sciences most of the time.

After getting his graduation certificate, Zhou Ming was busy doing research on soybeans again. As a result, all the mathematics papers he wrote this year were written before coming to HKUST. He didn't write a single mathematics paper after coming to HKUST.

Therefore, Zhou Ming plans to spend some time writing a mathematics paper, which will also be the first mathematics paper he writes after entering HKUST.

When Zhou Ming turned on the computer, put his hands on the keyboard, and was about to type on the keyboard, his hands suddenly stopped in mid-air, because he didn't know which paper to write.

There are too many mathematics knowledge in Zhou Ming's mind that can be written and can reach the top four, so that Zhou Ming doesn't know which one to write.

In the end, Zhou Ming simply left the keyboard with both hands, leaned back, and leaned directly on the office chair. He just lay on the office chair and looked up at the roof.

[People always refer to number theory as the "queen of mathematics" and the "crown" in mathematics. Since this is the first mathematics paper I wrote as a professor of mathematics at HKUST after entering HKUST, I will choose number theory, which is known as For the "crown" branch of mathematics. 】

After determining the general direction of the paper, Zhou Ming began to think about which paper to write.

"Twin prime numbers were quite popular in the first two years, but after the interval between twin prime numbers was narrowed from 14 million to 7000 in 246, it is not so popular anymore. In this case, I will pour another bucket of oil on this weak fire. , let him burn it clean." In the end, Zhou Ming decided on the specific content of the paper he was going to write this time.

The conjecture of twin primes.

This is the paper Zhou Ming is going to write this time. To be more specific, Zhou Ming is going to prove the conjecture of twin primes this time.

Number theory is one of the branches of pure mathematics, which mainly studies the properties of integers.

According to research methods, number theory can be roughly divided into elementary number theory and advanced number theory.

Elementary number theory mainly includes divisibility theory, congruence theory and continued fraction theory.

Advanced number theory includes algebraic number theory, analytic number theory, computational number theory, etc.

The twin prime number conjecture that Zhou Ming wants to prove belongs to the field of analytic number theory.

A prime number is a prime number. We have learned in elementary school that a natural number greater than 1, except for 1 and itself, is not divisible by other natural numbers. It is called a prime number, that is, a prime number.

In 1849, Alphonse de Polignac proposed a conjecture: for all natural numbers k, there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers (p, p+2k).

Half a century later, that is, in 1900, Hilbert proposed in the eighth question of the report of the International Congress of Mathematicians that it can be described as follows: there are infinitely many prime numbers p such that p+2 is a prime number.

This is the case where k = 1 in Alfonde de Polignac's conjecture

The conjecture is the conjecture of twin primes, and the pair of prime numbers (p, p + 2) is called twin primes.

This problem has puzzled mathematicians for more than 100 years and has not yet been solved.

Until April 2013, a professor named Zhang submitted a paper titled "Bounded Distance Between Prime Numbers" to the "Annals of Mathematics", which proved the weakening situation of the twin prime conjecture, that is, it was discovered that there are infinite Pairs of prime numbers whose difference is less than 4 million.

To put it simply, Professor Zhang's paper proves that there are infinite prime numbers P, so that all integers between P and P+70000000 have at least one prime number.

After Professor Zhang came out with this method, people continued to reduce the distance between twin prime numbers through computers. By February 2014, the distance had been reduced from 2 million to 7000.

That is to say, by 2014, people have been able to prove that there are infinite prime numbers P, so that all integers between P and P+246 have at least one prime number.

However, Professor Zhang’s method is basically reaching the limit by reducing the distance between twin primes to 246. If you want to completely prove the twin prime conjecture and reduce the distance to 2, you need to find a better method.

What Zhou Ming has to do now is to directly prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers p, making p+2 a prime number.

After confirming the content of the thesis to be written, Zhou Ming opened the software on his computer and started typing.

To be honest, Zhou Ming’s previous papers were basically not related to number theory. This is the first time he has written a paper on number theory. This is also the time when Li Mingzhi asked Zhou Ming what he wanted to write about in the direction of enrollment. Zhou Ming said that it would be fine. , the reason why Li Mingzhi was so surprised.

After all, the few mathematical papers published by Zhou Ming just wandered around in a few mathematical fields, such as number theory, quantum mathematics, functional analysis, geometry, and many other mathematical fields, which were not very involved. It is very simple content.

Now that Zhou Ming's thesis is finished and published, I believe it will be known to people soon, and Li Mingzhi will no longer doubt Zhou Ming's previous statement of "anything is fine".

Many people think that your paper will be known only when it is published in a journal. In fact, there is a big mistake in this understanding.

就拿那位在《数学年鉴》上发表了《素数间的有界距离》的张教授来说，他是2013年的四月份月份给《数学年鉴》投稿的，《数学年鉴》在13年5月21号收了他的稿子，但是他这篇论文的出版日期却是在2014年的5月1号。

But people learned that Professor Zhang proved the weakening situation of the twin prime conjecture in May 2013.

In other words, as long as your manuscript is good enough and approved by the academic editor of the journal, the results of your thesis will almost be known to everyone.

The article "Research on Protein Structure Prediction Algorithms and Application in Protein Design" that Zhou Ming submitted to "Science" a few days ago was excellent enough, and this will happen soon.

On the second day after he started to write the proof of the twin prime number conjecture, Zhou Ming took the bus to the school and went to the school cafeteria for breakfast. He started something he would do every day, which was to read the news.

"In order to improve people's quality of life and increase social and economic benefits, according to the eating habits of Chinese residents and the current supply and demand of the soybean market, the Northeast region will expand the area of ​​high-quality edible soybeans and stabilize the area of ​​soybeans used for oil. The Huanghuaihai region focuses on high-quality, high-protein edible soybeans , to properly restore the area...

Realize the misplaced competition between domestic soybeans and foreign high-oil soybeans, and meet the national consumption demand for healthy plant protein. "

"Huh?" When Zhou Ming was drinking soy milk and watching the news, he was attracted by the content mentioned in a piece of news.

This is the content of a notice titled "National Soybean Planting Industry Structural Adjustment Plan" just released above. The content mentioned in the notice is mainly about increasing the soybean planting area, and it also mentions a little bit To compete with foreign soybeans.

However, this notice refers to the launch of misaligned competition, or it is due to problems with domestic and foreign soybean varieties.

"Didn't I submit the soybean project I want to research before? Since the above have passed the outstanding youth science fund project I applied for, they should also know the content of my research? My research results will come out on the first day of next year. We need to increase the planting area of ​​soybeans." When Zhou Ming saw the news, he was a little puzzled.

How did Zhou Ming know that the higher-ups did know about his research project on soybeans, but the project Zhou Ming applied for mentioned too many improvements, and it couldn't be completed in a short period of time.

As the saying goes, distant water cannot quench near thirst. Since Zhou Ming's research is unlikely to produce results in a short period of time, the notice they want to release will naturally be released according to the original plan.

Moreover, when Zhou Ming applied for the project, he only mentioned that his research was to increase the characteristics of soybeans such as disease resistance and insect resistance, and did not explain the content of his research in more detail. Naturally, the above did not know that Zhou Ming's research was so advanced. Well, if they knew, they probably wouldn't approve Zhou Ming's application.

(End of this chapter)