Chapter 443 In Front of the Universe, the Glory of the Human Mind Is so Small

While the Nobel Prize in Chemistry review committee was still arguing fiercely over whether Lu Zhou should win the award, the impact of the paper published on RPX on the physics community continued to ferment.

These days, Lu Zhou has received many calls and emails.

Among them, Professor Frank Wilczek, Professor Klaus von Klitzing, who had a good relationship with him, and other scholars in the physics field expressed surprise at his work.

There are also some colleagues who he doesn't know but want to know with him, and want to discuss the research on turbulence phenomena with him.

In addition, some of them are invitations from academic conferences.

For example, the IAEA-Demo International Symposium to be held in November, the organizer of the conference invited him to give a one-hour report on the research of plasma turbulence phenomena.

If it was normal, Lu Zhou might go there.

After all, there are many excellent reports on the field of controllable nuclear fusion. If he wants to complete the first DEMO demonstration reactor before 2025, it is impossible not to make full use of international academic resources...

But in the past few days, he has been a little "out of state".

After receiving the task, Lu Zhou did not immediately start with a seemingly feasible project from the list, but gave himself a one-week vacation.

Every day he either takes a walk on campus or goes for a drive in his Explorer.

In fact, although New Jersey is small, there are still many tourist attractions.

For example, High Point State Park in Sussex County is in the golden autumn season, and the mountains and plains are full of flames. There is also the 220-foot white monument, which can even overlook the land of the three states when you climb to the top.

After coming to North America for so long, Lu Zhou suddenly found himself ignoring a lot of fun around him. But the only regret is that he was the only one on this autumn outing, and he only brought one set of tableware and food for the picnic.

Unless, including Xiao Ai who has been by his side from beginning to end.

In fact, no matter whether it was in High Point State Park or the Princeton campus, during this time of fishing, Lu Zhou was not completely idle, but was always thinking about a problem.

As far as the "system" is concerned, the earth's civilization... or the so-called unexplainable problems that the so-called human academia thinks are actually all the data collected in the database, then the most efficient way is undoubtedly to tell them directly about these technologies , instead of asking him to repeat the research.

However, the system did not do this, but guided him to think about these unsolved mysteries through auxiliary methods such as strengthening the brain and providing persuasive guidance.

Although he enjoyed this process very much, with the help of the system, Lu Zhou really felt that his abilities in all aspects have been improved rapidly. Not only did he get rid of his peers around him all the way, but he even completed many tasks that many people would not be able to achieve in a lifetime. Completed achievement.

What puzzled him most, however, was the system's motivation for doing so.

In fact, he had thought about this question a long time ago.

Could it be that in some corner of the universe, there are still alien civilizations that enjoy the enlightenment of lower civilizations? Or is the system actually from the future?

If you let your mind fly, there are so many possibilities, even more difficult to generalize than the chaotic system in physics.

However, Lu Zhou feels that no matter what kind of motivation it is, it is highly unlikely to be a boring principled issue like "human problems must be solved by humans themselves".

This system from somewhere in the universe must have a deeper purpose.

Suddenly, Lu Zhou had a strange idea.

If Zhou’s conjecture related to the distribution of Mersenne prime numbers is just an example, then the subsequent twin prime number conjecture to Goldbach’s conjecture...even the millennium problems such as whether the solution of the NS equation exists or not, and whether it is smooth or not, are actually just systems. The "homework" assigned to him, or the "research topic".

As for the points, it is to show him the answer, or the opportunity to retake the exam.

In this way, when all subjects are upgraded to level ten, the unlocked future era will be the "diploma certificate" or the "admission letter" for a higher degree issued to him by the system?

If you think about it this way, what kind of professor is he? In fact, from the perspective of the system, he hasn't graduated yet...

Especially in the description of the mission chain, he saw that the system's description of controllable nuclear fusion only used words like "keep warm in swaddling clothes"...

Sitting on a bench beside Carnegie Lake, Lu Zhou stared at the sparkling lake water in the setting sun, feeling a little dazed for a while. This lake once brought him a lot of inspiration, but only this question, he could not get the answer from the lake water.

"Aren't these problems 'problems' at all to you?"

It's not the first time I feel this way though.

But at this moment, Lu Zhou felt for the first time that the glory of the human mind is so small in front of the universe...

At this time, a familiar voice came from the side, pulling back his scattered thoughts.

"What are you looking at?"

Hearing this voice, Lu Zhou turned his face and saw Molina standing there.

Lu Zhou glanced at Molina, for some reason, suddenly had the feeling that her gaze passed through her body.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Lu Zhou shook his head.

"It's nothing... just encountered a problem that I can't figure out."

"There are still questions that you don't understand?" Molina raised her eyebrows, "I thought there was nothing in this world that you didn't know."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

"Although I don't know what caused you to have such an illusion, but there are too many problems that I can't figure out."

Every evening, many professors and students in Princeton who love sports choose to jog along the path by Lake Carnegie, and Molina is one of them.

Occasionally sitting on a bench by the lake to rest, Lu Zhou would always meet her running late at night.

The relationship between the two is not bad at ordinary times. In addition to academic exchanges, they are also ordinary friends in life.

In a place like Princeton, apart from his own students, there are not many peers who can communicate with him as friends.

After staring at Lu Zhou in a daze on the lake for a while, Molina who was standing next to him teased, "You look more and more like those people."

Lu Zhou: "Which ones?"

"Those old men in the Institute for Advanced Study," Molina continued in a teasing tone, "Maybe someday the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will award you the title of lifetime researcher, and I won't be surprised."

The tenured researcher of the Institute for Advanced Study is different from the tenured professor of Princeton University. Apart from the position, it is one of the top honors in the academic world. There are no more than 30 lifetime fellows of the four major colleges.

Historically, a bigwig like Einstein was one of Princeton's lifelong researchers, which shows how high the threshold is.

Moreover, honors of this lifetime nature would scarcely have considered young scholars, were it not exceptional circumstances...

Hearing Molina's joke, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "Researcher for life? Can I take your words as a good wish?"

Molina burst out laughing: "Of course it's okay, but am I not complaining that you look like an old man when you think about problems?"

Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head: "Don't say that, in terms of age, you should be older than me."

Molina: ...

For some reason, the moment she heard these words, she suddenly had the urge to throw the coffee can in her hand at his face...