Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1002: 501

Zhao Yi nodded as he listened, the figure of ten percent was roughly in line with the numerical framework he had envisioned. The most perfectly designed superconducting antigravity device could only reduce weight by a little over ten percent.

He also did not have exact figures.

Such exact figures would require detailed mathematical logic for genuine calculation, but because the underlying logic was built on imagination and not truly determined, it was not possible to perform detailed calculations.

If one were to carry out detailed calculations, it would be necessary to identify the underlying logic, namely the reason why superconductivity can produce an anti-gravitational effect, in order to compute it mathematically.

Current research was still a bit far from this step, at most involving the design of simple experiments to demonstrate the effects of superconducting antigravity.

As the professors continued to immerse themselves in their experiments, Li Ning approached Zhao Yi to discuss matters related to publishing their paper.

The paper would mainly belong to Zhao Yi, as he was the designer of the experiment.

There was no question about that.

Li Ning would just add a bit to it, caring mostly about the part related to the theory of superconducting antigravity, as he was the one who discovered the theory.

Together, the two of them would verify the superconducting antigravity issue.

During the discussion with Li Ning, Zhao Yi showed clear signs of excitement, with his eyes slightly reddened, probably having shed many tears.

Twenty years of theory, twenty years of waiting, now at the end of his scientific career, the confirmation of his own theory was enough to be thrilling. ƒreewebɳovel.com

This would be an affirmation of a lifetime!

At the same time, Zhao Yi also clarified with Li Ning what specific parts of the theory should be written, which part would be the discovery from the experimental design, and which would be the content of the antigravity theory.

And so on.

In the process, Li Ning discovered a problem—that the ’experimental designs and discoveries’ Zhao Yi mentioned were all based on his own theory, not the mathematical framework constructed by Zhao Yi himself.

"Why don’t you publish those... those mathematical theoretical parts?" Li Ning asked in confusion, thinking that the mathematical framework was key.

If Zhao Yi published that content, he would undoubtedly receive world recognition, and the international physics community might even consider Zhao Yi’s contribution greater than his, the ’discoverer of superconducting antigravity.’

Firstly, Zhao Yi had designed experiments to prove superconducting antigravity.

Internationally, contributions to physics theory are usually deemed greater, but experimental discoveries also have their significance, and often times, the discoverers of experiments share in the related physics awards alongside those who publish the theories.

Secondly, Zhao Yi had performed a detailed theoretical framework analysis and used mathematical methods to derive experimental designs, essentially completing the superconducting antigravity theory and deepening the international physics community’s understanding of the principles of superconducting antigravity.

Combining the two, Zhao Yi’s contribution would exceed his own.

If a Nobel Prize were to be awarded for the discovery of ’superconducting antigravity,’ Zhao Yi might even win it by himself, although, of course, it was most likely that the two of them would win it together.

Zhao Yi said, "Because the theory isn’t perfect. My theoretical foundation is hypothetical, not real."

"This theory, I still need to refine it further."

Li Ning’s eyes lit up as he asked, "Can I join you?"

Zhao Yi asked in return with a look of puzzlement, "Professor Li, are you planning on returning to develop your career in China?"

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Li Ning hadn’t considered that yet.

More than two decades earlier, Li Ning had contemplated returning home to develop his future, as returning to one’s hometown in glory is every countryman’s dream.

There’s an old saying, "What good is wealth and honor if you don’t return home, it is like brocade silk worn at night!"

After becoming successful abroad, to work and live back home, engage in education or academic pursuits, would be favorable for one’s reputation and could concurrently support the development of the motherland.

However, Li Ning had since stopped considering it because his theory had never been confirmed.

That was the frustrating part.

In the international academic circle, he had been labeled a ’fraud,’ so how could he be taken seriously upon returning home? At best, he could find a university post as a professor and still, there might be whispers behind his back.

For instance, "He couldn’t make it abroad, so he came back home."

"If he couldn’t make it abroad, why didn’t he return earlier? At his age, what can he still do? Just come back to retire..."

And so on.

Such is society.

Li Ning dared not compare himself to Qian Xueshen, but he did hope to be like Qiu Chengwen and Yang Zhenning, to win an international award before returning home. With an international award in hand, his return would definitely be met with importance.

Then, the talk around him would change to, "He didn’t come back earlier, simply because the domestic scientific research environment wasn’t good!"

"Li Ning is extremely patriotic. Having achieved results abroad, he immediately came back to contribute to the educational cause, to cultivate talent for the motherland."

"Every overseas student should learn from Professor Li..."

Li Ning sighed with frustration, knowing that returning home without fame at an old age was not a good option, and that the future was uncertain.

He understood what Zhao Yi meant.

Zhao Yi’s mention of ’whether to return home’ was surely because research would require a lot of time; once you stretch out the timeline of theoretical research, you start counting by ’years.’

In the end, Li Ning didn’t continue the topic.

In fact, he’d misunderstood.

Zhao Yi’s point wasn’t that ’research would take a lot of time,’ but rather ’research might involve some secrets, and expose content that could not be publicly published.’ Superconducting antigravity could be published because the theory of superconducting antigravity had already been released twenty years ago, and now it was just a matter of experimental verification, of publishing some superficial supporting theory.