Rule department scholar

This is a bit strange!

Is it still stipulated to study something?

Zhao Yi couldn't help complaining a few words, and planned to continue reading the topology books in his hand. Unexpectedly, Qian Zhijin approached him and asked him if he wanted to work in the Intelligence and Automation Laboratory again, and added, "We have many directions. You can refer to or even join in any research.”

Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment before he realized that Qian Zhijin probably read the public opinion news and thought that he really wanted to focus on other subjects?

but……

Public opinion still makes sense!

Even if he chooses a subject as his main research direction, it should be physics, because he already has the main task of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics.

informology?

If someone who is boring to discuss on the Internet knows that Qian Zhijin persuaded him to focus on research in informatics, he will probably be sprayed to death by public opinion, right?

Zhao Yi read some discussion information, and they seemed to know a lot about the academic circle. They listed several disciplines, including physics, chemistry, and even biological research.

The computer direction is selectively ignored.

the reason is simple.

In high-end academic circles, computer science and informatics are not considered as 'science', but 'technology', which can be counted as 'engineering'.

Zhao Yi is a top mathematician. It is not a big deal to occasionally make a computer achievement, but it will definitely be considered a waste of talent if he focuses on computer research.

Qian Zhijin found that Zhao Yi was unmoved, and laughed and said, "It's okay. I know you are very busy, but I came to see you, Director Zhang of the Department of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, and I wanted to ask if you would like to join the collision machine team."

"The collider team?"

"It's just that the above fund is allocated to build a collider. This is a huge investment in scientific research, billions, or even more." Qian Zhijin seemed to be drooling, "So I want to ask you..."

"Not for now."

Zhao Yi shook his head after thinking about it, "If it is doing collision experiments and data research, I can still help a little bit, but now it is in the early stage of investment, research and development, and construction, I can't help much. I don't know much about physics."

"..."

Qian Zhijin felt like scolding his mother a little bit.

Don't understand physics?

A person who discovered the Higgs particle and published the theory of particle energy, who is considered to be the "founder of the school", actually said that he didn't know much about physics?

Then who dares to understand?

Qian Zhijin took a deep breath, and held back for a long time, "Okay, I'll just answer him like this." His voice was very forceful, as if he was speaking out of anger.

"Ah."

Zhao Yi nodded strangely, not understanding why Qian Zhijin said that?After thinking about it for a long time, I don't know where I said it wrong...

I really don't understand physics!

Chapter 335 Look!It's that student!

"Don't understand physics?"

"What does it mean?"

Director Zhang of the Department of Physics, Academy of Sciences, heard what Qian Zhijin said on the other side of the phone, and didn't react immediately, "Zhao Yi said he doesn't understand physics?"

"That's what he said."

Qian Zhijin was also a little angry with Zhao Yi's attitude, but his relationship with Zhao Yi can be regarded as friends, and he must be much better than Director Zhang. Research, you don’t know, he got very angry when he was doing research, so don’t disturb him.”

"Also, young man, I can't figure out my temper. I don't understand what it means. Maybe I didn't understand it, so I just replied casually."

"I'll ask after he finishes his research."

Director Zhang pondered Qian Zhijin's words, and said politely, "Then I'll trouble Professor Qian."

"No trouble, no trouble, it should, it should." Qian Zhijin put down the phone with a few polite words.

Director Zhang's thoughts are much more complicated.

As the director of the Physics Department of the Academy of Sciences, Director Zhang will definitely have the title of academician. Not only is he a rare academician of physics, he is only 57 years old.

It must be quite remarkable to be elected as an academician at this age, and to be the director of the Academy of Sciences and be responsible for managing the research of a discipline.

Director Zhang wanted Zhao Yi to join the team of the collider, but his purpose was not so simple.

In fact, the collider does not have a particularly high technical content. Many countries have the technical strength to build it, but few can afford enough funds to support the construction.

Large-scale particle colliders require astronomical capital investment.

Dozens of countries participated in the construction of the particle collider in Europe. The most important thing is to share the investment funds for so many countries to participate.

The current domestic proposal to build a large particle collider is also stuck in terms of capital investment, rather than technical support.

This is not an investment of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, but an investment of billions or tens of billions.

Such a huge amount of capital investment is definitely not something that can be approved by someone's suggestion. It can be said that it is very difficult to gather the power of the country to invest in a single project and persuade the country to make up its mind to invest.

The Department of Physics of the Academy of Sciences definitely supports the construction. From the perspective of physics research, the country has its own particle collider, which is much more convenient for research.

But only the Department of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, and even the domestic physics circle, all the scholars, professors, and experts could not convince the superiors to make such a large-scale investment, and naturally they had to win over some heavyweights.

Now Director Zhang is working on 'wooing heavyweights' to convince the superiors to decide to have their own particle collider in China.

Before, Director Zhang went to lobby the famous Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhenning, but Yang Zhenning directly turned him back.

Yang Zhenning's violent temper is not very good. Not only did he directly reject Director Zhang, but he also publicly stated in the media that he does not support the construction of the collider. His reason is simple, "This investment is not worth the candle!"

"With tens of billions of funds, the collider built is equivalent to a wedding dress for foreign physics research!"

"There are not many physicists in China. Even if we have enough economic conditions to build a collider, it will be those foreign scientists who really serve in the end. This is a waste."

Of course.

This is a matter of perspective.

What Yang Zhenning said is not necessarily correct. Those who support the construction of the collider have good reasons. For example, they can attract outstanding physicists to settle in China.

"If the collider is successfully built, it may attract thousands of physicists and physicists from all over the world to work and settle in China for a long time."

"At the same time, the collider is a big project, and it can also provide a large number of jobs. At the same time, it can also develop many elite positions. For example, excellent computer engineers can contribute to the maintenance of the collider. , Experimental service."

and many more.

Director Zhang is an absolute supporter of the construction of the collider. His purpose of wanting Zhao Yi to join the team is tantamount to getting Zhao Yi to express his support.

Zhao Yi joined the team building the collider, and he definitely supported the construction.

Zhao Yi is a very important person.

In domestic physics circles, Yang Zhenning has achieved the greatest achievement, but Yang Zhenning has no Chinese nationality yet, so he can only be regarded as an overseas Chinese physicist.

Zhao Yi is a purely domestic scholar and the person with the highest achievements in domestic physics research. His statement is still of great reference value.

However, Zhao Yi refused!

Director Zhang's mind was very complicated, he never thought about it at all, Zhao Yi just didn't want to add work to himself, and he really felt that he was not good at physics, so he said 'I don't understand physics' and refused.

Why did Zhao Yi refuse?

There is only one answer: oppose domestic investment in the construction of colliders!

"It's fine if Yang Zhenning objected, even Zhao Yi objected..." Director Zhang rubbed his forehead in distress. He felt that the work of persuasion had become more difficult.

Both physicists are against it, so how can they convince the higher authorities to agree to invest in the construction of the collider?

……

Zhao Yi didn't know that his words would cause Director Zhang to have so many thoughts. He didn't know about the domestic collider. Whether the investment is still under debate, he can say that "the tire doesn't even have an environment for forming", He thought the collider was already being built.

He really thinks he doesn't understand physics.

Compared with mathematics and computers, his physics can only be regarded as a first glance, and he understands the principles of the collider, but some basic knowledge is not very meaningful. Building and understanding the principles are two different things, and it is useless for him to participate.

After a few words with Qian Zhijin, he put the matter behind him and continued to study topology.

The basic knowledge of topology can be learned from books, but when it comes to advanced topology, it cannot be touched by books.

He specially went to the internal library of the Faculty of Science, which contained some advanced professional books, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any suitable ones. There was one that looked good, but it was a book in Russian.

Zhao Yi did not have the idea of ​​learning a foreign language first in order to read a book. He decided to find an expert in topology to communicate with.

The Faculty of Science of Yanhua University is not small. There are seven professors of mathematics in the school alone. One of them is doing exchanges abroad. The others have no research on topology. In terms of understanding of this subject, it is estimated that they are not as good as Go to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi went to ask the old professor He Mingcheng, and got a disappointed answer.

He Mingcheng said, "In any branch of mathematics, if you want to understand advanced content, you must find someone who is proficient in related research and has achieved certain achievements."

Such people are of course hard to find.

Topology is placed in China, and it itself belongs to the "unpopular subject", and professional research needs to be successful...

Anyway, Zhao Yi didn't know him.

He simply made a video call to Edward Witten, wanting to ask if the other party has any research on topology.

Edward Witten was very enthusiastic when he saw Zhao Yi. Usually, he took the initiative to call. It was rare when Zhao Yi took the initiative, but what Zhao Yi said surprised him, "Topology?"

He said embarrassingly, "I have studied it, but only when I first constructed M theory."

"Borrowing the concept of topology and combining Fermat's conjecture and Riemann's conjecture as the basis, constructing the geometric topology of M theory is my most successful mathematical masterpiece."

Edward said his eyes were bright, but he still regretted, "But I only use the concepts and methods of topology, and I don't have any special research on topology."

"But you don't need cutting-edge research, do you?" He asked suddenly while speaking.

Zhao Yi was right when he thought about it.

He wants to learn more about topology, some advanced topology theories and research, but it doesn't have to be cutting-edge research, maybe some advanced foundations can also help him.

Next, Edward took the initiative to talk about topology, but unfortunately, there was nothing special about it. Zhao Yi knew most of it, and some new things seemed meaningless.

Seeing Zhao Yi's disappointed expression, Edward couldn't help asking, "Why do you study topology, topology... Do you want to reconstruct the geometric topology of M-theory? Or, are you trying to find multi-dimensional space?"

He said his eyes lit up, "This is really an interesting idea, using topology, why didn't I think of it?"

"If you think about it carefully, extending it from the direction of topology may help you understand four-dimensional space, or multi-dimensional space!"

"Maybe topology is the key to find the four-dimensional space!"

Edward said with absolute certainty.

Zhao Yi, on the other hand, was a little dazed when he heard it. How could it turn into a four-dimensional space?He continued to listen to Edward's explanation, and found that it really made sense.

Edward excitedly gave an example, saying that a piece of paper is flat, and if the paper is crumpled, regardless of the space and gaps in the middle, it is actually still flat, because the paper itself has not changed, but the plane has ripples and wrinkles. But adding the space in between, the paper seems to be three-dimensional, that is, a three-dimensional object.

This is the transition from [-]D to [-]D.

Topology starts in three dimensions. An object in space can be extended and transformed in shape, but it still follows certain rules.

For example, donuts cannot be turned into balls, which is a kind of rule.

If on the basis of the shape and state changes of objects in three-dimensional space, a new thing is added, such as fluctuations in space, maybe it will be four-dimensional space?

This is not incomprehensible.

In the explanation of gravity, after the space is compressed, gravity or gravitational force is produced, and then a kind of bending of space will be caused.

Now the scientific community can understand the distortion and oppression of space, try other changes on this basis, and combine the research of topology to form a four-dimensional space?

Edward kept talking, trembling with excitement, as if he was about to demonstrate the multi-dimensional space of string theory. He couldn't wait to say, "Zhao Yi, your idea is really great! It's really a genius!"

"Topology is really the best subject for string theory!"

"Now I have to do research too. I'm more lucky than you to do research with you. My colleague Pierce has published several topological research results."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the video.

Zhao Yi was confused by the screen for a long time. He just asked Edward for his knowledge of topology. How did the other party think of using topology to find four-dimensional space?

And you said it was your own genius idea?

But he really wants to use topology to solve the problem of Fermat's conjecture, not a multi-dimensional space!

……

The Faculty of Science couldn't find a topology expert, and the familiar Edward Witten was also unreliable.

Zhao Yi can only find 'foreign aid'.

The domestic academic circle, especially the mathematics circle, is not big. He asked Zhou Li and was introduced to a reliable person, Zhou Youjin, a professor of mathematics at Shuimu University.