Free Web NovelChapter 1552: Chapter 733: Inverted World! _2
"This section introduces the pattern of Voidon transitions, which should be a sort of prime number pattern, but there shouldn’t be any topology involved."
"I can’t understand it either. Who wants to take a look?"
"——"
This was just the first day, and by the second day, they still hadn’t figured out the problems from the first, and they couldn’t even understand what the formulas in the conclusions were supposed to represent.
Right then, they decided to skip ahead and continue reading, but embarrassingly, they discovered that the conclusions from the first day were very important, and much of the subsequent content, even that unrelated to the first day’s conclusions, was also incredibly abstruse and difficult to understand.
Huang Hongguo joined in the research of the materials, only to find that he was not much better than the others; most of the content was completely beyond him, and it was a good morning’s work if he could understand just a few steps of the derivation.
"This math is like some sort of divine script!" someone exclaimed.
Huang Hongguo naturally felt very unwilling to give up, but he was embarrassed to go to Qiu Chengwen again. After much deliberation, he decided to seek out another person—
Yan Rong.
Huang Hongguo knew Yan Rong; they had collaborated on research and development before, and though they hadn’t seen each other for several years, upon meeting again they were still on familiar terms, so he took the materials to her to inquire.
Yan Rong was also a member of the theoretical group, but since joining, she’d been doing the same as everyone else: aiding with the work, keeping records, providing more detailed analyses for certain conclusions to help others comprehend, or handling some computational tasks.
And so on.
When Yan Rong heard Huang Hongguo ask about the so-called ’fundamental mathematical problems,’ she was quite surprised as well. She pointed to the materials and said, "Are you saying your team wants to understand... this stuff?"
"Right. What about it?"
Yan Rong stared at Huang Hongguo with a puzzled expression and asked, "Why would you do that?"
"What?"
"I mean, why do you need to understand all this? I think it’s completely unnecessary. Didn’t your team come here to assist with research? Academician Zhao has already arranged everything, and you’ll definitely be involved later on. Our theoretical group isn’t good at technical or experimental work."
"That—," Huang Hongguo hesitated, then explained, "We just want to understand the principles and hope to be involved in theoretical research, instead of like now, where Academician Zhao dictates the direction, but we don’t understand—"
"Of course, you don’t understand."
"Huh?" Huang Hongguo was somewhat baffled.
Yan Rong gave a wry smile and said, "It’s not just you guys who don’t understand; I don’t either. Let me be clear with you—there are more than twenty people in the theoretical group, but only four are actually involved in fundamental theory research, including Academician Zhao, Academician Qiu, Mr. Edward, and Zhang Qican, who is Academician Zhao’s assistant, Xiao Zhang."
"Don’t underestimate Zhang Qican. Although he’s just Academician Zhao’s assistant, he’s very likely to win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year, and getting the Fields Medal is just a matter of time."
"When we first came here, we also hoped to be involved in the research. But eventually, we just gave up, because much of the space-related research is based on mathematical foundations that are obscure and difficult to fathom."
"To put it bluntly, our intelligence isn’t up to it."
"Maybe what they research in one day, you’d need a week to understand."
"The so-called fundamental materials in your hands—we’ve been continuously deciphering them, but so far we’ve only finished a third. We would like more people to understand it, but some of it we need to study for a long time, and we still need people like Academician Qiu to explain it before we get it."
"So, isn’t this all normal?"
"Your wanting to research this is simply masochism!"
After Yan Rong’s heartfelt remarks, Huang Hongguo stood there stunned. He began to understand why the theoretical group seemed odd; besides the core four, it appeared that the others didn’t participate in the research, or even seemed to have little work and an easy time of it.
As it turned out, they weren’t supposed to be involved!
He was well aware of Yan Rong’s mathematical abilities—at least she was no worse than he was—but if even someone of Yan Rong’s caliber found it hard to understand the materials, then attempting research based on them was purely fantasy. What made them think they could understand it?
Huang Hongguo was momentarily lost. freēwebnovel.com
Yan Rong patted his shoulder, offering consolation, "Old Huang, you’re just too competitive. Take a good look at those few people: three Fields Medalists with considerable influence. Xiao Zhang, already a prodigy from the Mathematics Institute of the Science Academy; very young, and he’s been with Academician Zhao for so many years."
"In terms of math, what do we have to compare?"
"Don’t take it too hard. Some gaps have to be acknowledged." Huang Hongguo forced a smile. When he returned to the station, he simply said, "We’ll just take a look at these materials. If any of you are interested, you can study them. We’ll just wait for the experimental tests."
He changed his pitch.
The others also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although under Huang Hongguo’s leadership they were very competitive and didn’t want to be inferior to anyone, the mathematics at hand was like some divine script, and it was indeed very difficult to grasp in a short time.
Now, without such demands, they felt much more relaxed.
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Experimental testing officially began.
With a series of commands, the equipment was activated and successfully connected, and a great vibration suddenly emanated from the experimental site.
