Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1079: Chapter 535 Am I a Genius? Of Course!_2

The upper echelons were waiting for Zhao Yi.

They knew Zhao Yi had examined the nuclear reaction’s apparatus and materials, and they were aware he was conducting related theoretical research; what they were waiting for was the experimental report that Zhao Yi was working on.

Whether the experiment yielded results or not, a report would certainly be submitted.

Zhao Yi had been conducting research continuously, and since the experiment ended, he had not yet submitted an experimental report, which meant that the experiment had not yielded results and was, therefore, not entirely concluded.

...

Yanhua University.

Zhao Yi was still immersed in his research, facing a difficult problem. The ’conditions’ revealed a loose structure in uranium, but in reality, the nucleus remained stable. Theoretically, as uranium-235 is naturally radioactive, even a minor looseness in the structure would certainly lead to involvement in the reaction.

In other words, once the anti-gravity device was activated, there was no need to ’ignite’; the uranium-235 inside the nuclear apparatus would directly undergo fission.

This issue had initially been a source of trouble for Zhao Yi, who had thought to build a mathematical system, linking other aspects to analyze and deduce, which could perhaps lead to the desired answers.

But it hadn’t.

After a week of continuous research, he was still troubled by this problem.

Zhao Yi was extremely puzzled; despite having pondered at length, he couldn’t arrive at an answer and decided to step out of his room to seek inspiration by walking around outside.

He had just descended from the faculty residence building when he encountered an unexpected person—

Edward Witten!

"Zhao Yi, you’ve finally come out!" Edward Witten greeted him enthusiastically, while also grumbling, "Your security detail is really diligent, I wasn’t even allowed up to the fifth floor, afraid they’d disturb you. We’re collaborators, naturally, I’d only help you."

"I’m sorry!"

Zhao Yi nodded apologetically, "When did you arrive? Why didn’t you tell me?"

"I decided a few days ago, but I couldn’t find you at all. Your assistant, Miss Qian, said you were busy with research and couldn’t be disturbed."

Edward Witten commented, still pouting slightly, as if very dissatisfied, then continued, "I was invited. Your university invited me to serve as a professor at the School of Sciences, to give a few lectures a year, or teach a couple of classes. I thought about it and agreed, seeing as I’d be coming to see you anyway."

"Oh, welcome, we’re colleagues now," Zhao Yi said with a smile.

Edward Witten casually mentioned ’a few lectures’ and ’a couple of classes’, which seemed to indicate very light workload, yet with a substantial salary. In reality, many universities around the world would vie to pay even more for Witten to come and give lectures or teach classes, and some didn’t even require his physical presence, simply having him hold a professorial title would suffice.

This was the influence of a top-tier mathematician and theoretical physicist. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Thus, Edward Witten’s acceptance of the invitation from Yanhua University College of Science was undoubtedly because of Zhao Yi.

He changed the subject, asking, "What research are you conducting? Any progress?"

Zhao Yi replied, somewhat disappointedly, "None. It’s precisely because I’ve reached an impasse that I came outside to look around."

"Hahaha~~"

Edward Witten seemed surprised but then burst into laughter, patting Zhao Yi’s shoulder, "It’s good to get out. Stuck in an office by oneself, one can’t come up with anything. If you need inspiration, you might find it in unrelated things. In physics, what seems unrelated might actually be related." freewebnoveℓ.com

"The last time I was stuck, I attended a school dance. Many graduate students were there, in their twenties, youthful and beautiful, some of them..."

"Cough cough."

Edward Witten quickly stopped himself and switched topics, "What are you researching? What problems have you encountered?"

"It’s, of course, particle mathematics, research about space—I’ve always been working on this," Zhao Yi said frankly.

Witten said, "I thought as much. Space is complex. I’ve constructed several ways to understand multi-dimensional space, but each seems imperfect."

He continued, "So, I was thinking that maybe we could continue our last collaboration, dealing with the 2 to the power of N energy points. That’s quite interesting."

Zhao Yi pondered briefly, then nodded, "I was thinking the same."

The two reached an agreement.

That day, Edward Witten conducted an open class on string theory at Yanhua University College of Science’s teaching building.

Zhao Yi even went to help out, sitting in the back row to listen in.

The next day, they began researching together the problems related to the 2 to the power of N energy points and spatial repulsion.

This area of research was primarily approached from the construction of mathematical frameworks and the mathematical logic of mass in space.

Edward Witten was firmly convinced that mass originated from multi-dimensional spaces.

The idea that mass is a product of multi-dimensional space was proposed by Zhao Yi, but even he was somewhat skeptical, treating it just as ’a possibility’. Witten, however, was a strong proponent of this idea, even repeatedly instilling it in his students during lectures and classes.

In their discussions, Edward Witten approached the subject from the perspective that ’mass belongs to higher-dimensional products’, whereas Zhao Yi’s understanding of mass was more grounded in reality. He based his work on the repulsion of mass by space, not venturing into the more esoteric realms of multi-dimensional spaces or dimensional collisions.