Christmas 2023, spent in peace.

The colonists of Guanghan City have successfully settled in their new home. Except for a rare earth deposit with an estimated reserves of more than 30 million tons, which was auctioned by a large mining company in China, the news about Guanghan City seems to be coming to an end.

As this hot spot gradually fades away from people's vision, there is no new hot event to keep up with, and life seems to return to the daily track for a short time.

However, although for the world, it has gained a moment's respite from the successive shocks, for the physics world, it is the opposite.

Like a gift from Santa Claus, a message from imcrc has attracted the attention of physicists all over the world.

Professor Luo, Secretary General of imcrc, joined the research group on gravitational anomalies of Z particles.

What's more, the gravitational wave formula of Z particle has been solved by Professor Wei Hong of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor davick of Brussels university?

"It's incredible..."

Imcrc's Cafe.

Almost sitting in the place where Lu Zhou talked with senior brother Luo last time, looking at the paper in his hand, Professor Witten's face was filled with incredible expressions.

"Even from the point of view of a mathematician, the content of this paper is quite wonderful. His understanding of algebraic geometry and topology is beyond doubt... "

Vilzek: "did the boat help?"

“…… That's not true, "said Witten, turning the page of his paper." it's not a small gap with the land boat, but it's quite rare for a scholar engaged in high-energy physics to master mathematics to this degree. After all, I've seen too many physics professors who, when they're working on a phenomenal model, obliterate a letter in a row of formulas as if nothing had happened

Hearing this, Professor vilzek, who was drinking black tea, almost didn't choke on the tea. He coughed several times before he came back.

"Fortunately, I'm the only one here Or your parables will offend many people. "

"Who cares?" Witten shrugged his shoulders as if nothing had happened. "I'm my age."

Over the years, there have been more and more old friends. Many people haven't contacted each other for a period of time. After sending emails, they have no news.

And not to mention his old friends, even himself began to feel that it was becoming more and more difficult to adapt to the current rhythm of physics research.

Aging is an eternal topic.

Neither great nor humble life can get rid of this curse.

Since we can't be the king of what amazing achievements we can make, the only thing that Witten still cares about now is probably that we hope to see more new things emerge in our lifetime.

Aware of the sadness of this topic, Professor vilzek took a sip of black tea in the cup and casually turned the topic off.

"But about the unexpected you said Actually, I think it's expected. There is at least an 80% probability that the research that can be favored by the guy in the land boat will have a surprising discovery behind it. "

It seems that his statement is not accurate enough, Professor vilzek thought for a while and added.

"Or to put it more accurately More than 90%. "

"What surprised me was not the z-particle gravitational wave formula. Although its derivation process was ingenious enough, it was far from surprising. Don't say it's a land boat, even if it's me now With so many clues, a month should be enough. "

Pushing the presbyopic glasses on the bridge of his nose and looking at the paper in his hand, Witten's eyes showed a look of obvious interest.

"What really surprised me was what the land boat was doing."

"Land boat?" Vilzek took a strange look at him and asked vaguely, "isn't he just studying this?"

"Of course not. If he is studying this, even if I can't see the trace of his calculation in this paper, at least I can see his name in the column of the author. I'll bet that even if he doesn't want to be named, his collaborators will want to hang his name very much, and maybe they will do it without permission... "

At this point, Witten seems to think of something that happened a long time ago, and the wrinkled face shows a smile.

“…… There seems to be only one possibility for him to keep such an interesting topic

"He must have found something more interesting."

At the moment of hearing this sentence, vilzek seemed to think of something, and his turbid pupils suddenly brightened up, murmuring to himself.

“…… And he's not even sure if that's right. "Witten said with a laugh and a loud finger.

"That's right."

Vilzek smashed his tongue and said, "well, you have aroused my curiosity! I even wish I could visit him in Jinling now to see what he is studying. "

"You can't see him," Witten said with a smile

Vilzek: why

"According to my knowledge of him, he would lock himself up when such a thing happened."

Put down the teacup, Witten some nostalgic smile, said.

"He called it, shut up."

……

As a matter of fact, Professor Witten guessed very well.

Although the land boat has not yet closed, it is already preparing for the closing.

What's more, his research topic, as Professor Witten guessed, is different from that of Professor Wei Hong and Professor davick.

The gravitational wave formula of Z particle is a perfect result, but it can only be regarded as the first step to find out the cause of the gravitational disturbance when Z particle falls from high dimension to low dimension.

There is no doubt that it is a great result if we can reach the end of this road, but it is not easy to find all the clues of this research direction in a short time.

At least, not in the short term.

In contrast, in this research direction, land boat found something else that interested him. And it was because of this discovery that he temporarily turned his attention away from the topic of Z particle's disturbance to the gravitational field.

However, this discovery may be a little strange to say.

Even he can't be sure of his own guess Or is the brain hole of the aura a possibility of realization.

But it was this sense of uncertainty that ignited his thirst for knowledge and the spirit of science.

I can't even think about it. What's the difference between it and salted fish?

Even if it's only one percent possible, he should take a magnifying glass and dig out the clues corresponding to that one percent!

"I might have to stay at home for a while During this period of time, I may not be able to contact. "

Video phone.

Looking at the hologram of the schoolsister unfolding in front of him, Lu Zhou was silent for a while, and finally said this.

In fact, he had been hesitant for a long time before making the call.

Even if he is such a stranger, it is more or less clear that no woman can tolerate her boyfriend's not returning his news for a long time. And even if the reason is said, it may cause the other party to have a variety of misunderstandings such as "I am a burden".

However, after hearing this, Chen Yushan's response was unexpected.

Seeing a smile, she did not make small mood as he imagined, but made fun of him in a relaxed tone.

"Shut up?"

“…… Eh? Even you know the word? "

"Don't look down on your girlfriend, I also know you very well," said Chen Yushan, who couldn't help joking, "and you just scared me, you know? Suddenly so serious I thought you were breaking up with me. "

"Why?!"

"That's not good. What if there is a younger girl than me pursuing you? After all, I'm not as clingy and sentimental as a little girl. What's more, you have so many fans. Every time you tweet, someone yells to be with you Give birth to little monkeys. "

Although from the beginning is a royal elder sister like expression, but when it comes to the last sentence "give birth to a little monkey", her face still can't help but burn because of being ashamed.

As for the land boat at the other end of the phone, it was a boat that couldn't help but was almost choked by this sentence.

What kind of ghost is a baby monkey?

Is there really such a change in his fans?

emmm……

All right.

Thinking of how handsome he is, Lu Zhou suddenly has no confidence.

"All right, stop teasing you."

Looking at Lu Zhou, who wanted to explain but didn't know how to open her mouth and was crying and laughing, Chen Yushan raised her lips a little proudly and let go of the boy who was not good at expression.

After enjoying a moment's silence, she continued in a gentle voice.

"Remember to take care of yourself. Even if the research is interesting, remember to eat and sleep on time. "

Looking at his girlfriend so considerate and understanding, Lu Zhou was moved for a while and could hardly speak.

The Adam's Apple moved gently.

In the end, all the unspoken words were integrated into one sentence.

"Well, you too!"

Hang up the phone, sit in front of the desk, take a deep breath, try to calm down the ripples, and focus all your attention on the draft paper on the desk."This should be the last checkpoint..."

Mouth read softly, gradually into the state of the boat, reached out to pick up the ballpoint pen on the table.

“…… The last level before the physical level is full. "

The world after lv10.

Just think about it, it makes his heart surging