Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 760: Chapter 414: Zhao Yi, is God!

Zhou Zhengbin still wanted to discuss the issue of the Particle Mathematics Research Center with Edward Witten.

Over the weekend, he took Edward Witten around the school. They spent about half a day together and got to know each other better. He also learned that Edward Witten was supportive of the establishment of the Particle Mathematics Center.

Besides, he wanted to have more bargaining chips.

For instance, he hoped that Edward Witten could serve as a professor at the future Particle Mathematics Center.

That would be an honorary title.

This would mean that when Edward Witten comes here, he could give lectures to the students of the Particle Mathematics Center.

The advantage of this arrangement is that Zhou Zhengbin can tell the person in charge of the science and technology department that they have already been in touch with top mathematicians early on. This will let them know that the Particle Mathematics Center has a lot of development potential.

Zhou Zhengbin had many thoughts, but he didn’t manage to voice any of them to Zhao Yi. Because Zhao Yi was intensely discussing his ideas with Edward Witten. They kept talking about related issues, some of which were steeped in abstruse mathematical concepts that seemed utterly incomprehensible. However, some things they could still grasp.

For instance--

"Pure energy would dissipate if it existed alone. It must combine in a certain pattern to form a particle in order to exist."

Edward Witten added, "Just like strings. Strings cannot exist alone either. They have to combine to form something..."

"Particles formed purely from energy are not constrained by three-dimensional space."

Edward Witten added, "Without the intervention of multidimensional spacetime, that does seem plausible."

"Precisely because they are not constrained, particles formed purely from energy can reach the theoretical speed of light, or exist in a form that moves at the speed of light."

Edward Witten added, "This idea might find support in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity."

"..."

At first, Zhou Zhengbin didn’t perceive much from what he heard. But as he gradually understood the meaning, he realized the most significant issue--

"Space limitations?"

He couldn’t help but discuss it with Hu Zhibin, "If I heard Zhao Yi correctly, he seems to be talking about not being limited by space, meaning position and distance are not important..."

"So does it mean, position and distance are irrelevant, right?"

Hu Zhibin pondered and nodded, "It seems so."

"So according to this, pure energy should be able to defy space limitations, right?"

Hu Zhibin thought about it and said, "Does it matter? I just heard Mr. Witten mention the Theory of Relativity. For matter moving at the speed of light itself, time doesn’t hold much sense since they are already moving at this speed. Have you heard of a theory that if you could exceed the speed of light, you could go back in time..."

"However..."

Hu Zhibin asked with sudden interest, "Dean Zhou, since when did you start caring about academic research?"

Zhou Zhengbin’s face darkened and he said, "I may be doing administrative work now, but I used to be involved in academics, too!"

"Really?" Hu Zhibin was somewhat doubtful.

"Of course."

Just as Zhou Zhengbin was about to reminisce about his academic past, he glanced at Hu Zhibin and remembered what had just taken place. His mood immediately dropped and he said coldly, "Pay close attention to what’s being said and learn something. Stop engaging in strange activities."

"I... Damn Wang Gang!"

Hu Zhibin felt incredibly aggrieved and inoffensively disparaged Zhou Zhengbin, mumbling under his breath, "And he talks about academics. Didn’t he just do some research on partial differential equations? He had a bit of... achievement and has been promoting it all over the school." frёewebηovel.cѳm

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Hu Zhibin’s understanding was not wrong.

Zhao Yi’s idea of overcoming ’spatial limitations’ meant that energy wouldn’t be constrained by space. Position and distance would have no meaning for pure energy.

"It’s like deep-sea creatures that don’t succumb to the intense pressure because they evolved in that environment." Zhao Yi’s analogy won the support of Edward Witten as it created a connection with his theory. The reason mass is repelled is because ’it is not a material of three-dimensional space’."

The position and distance having no meaning for pure energy doesn’t imply that energy can achieve ’space jumping’.

Firstly, an individual unit of energy cannot exist alone. They have to combine into a group.

Secondly, particles composed purely of energy units can reach the theoretical speed of light. Some even exist purely at the speed of light. From their perspective, even time holds no meaning, let alone space, position, or distance. But space jumping is a study of space itself, almost as if it ’transcends space’; these are two completely different concepts.

These theories seemed bizarre, and Zhou Zhengbin felt somewhat unreceptive to them.

However, in reality, physics has many strange aspects, especially in microscopic physics and particle physics, where many concepts defy common sense. For instance, the initial concept of quantum uncertainty was not accepted by many, but gradually it gained acceptance.

Even Einstein’s theories were initially unwelcomed, like the speed of light being finite. It’s intuitive that an object would keep getting faster with continuous acceleration, so how could its speed be finite?

Thus, genuine mathematicians and physicists who conduct research do not care about these counterintuitive aberrations; they discuss based on mathematics and reality.