I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 927: There is only one small step left to solve the mystery of the dimensionality problem of M theory!

"Mr. Qin, we have basically cultivated the 'Special Cold-resistant Type III' balcony rapeseed. Are you and Mr. Ning free to come over for inspection and guidance? If you don't nod, I dare not leave it to Qing Ning Technology to go through the patent process and promotion. The process.”

On the other end of the phone, Wei Xueming invited enthusiastically.

Wei Xueming can be said to be very proud now. He has gone from being a down-and-out little researcher a few years ago to becoming the director of one of the country's leading plant breeding laboratories. Everyone in the Xia country's seed industry will give him a rude and flattering shout when they see him. "Director Wei"?
Moreover, the research team has also won many domestic awards. The company's high bonuses and the large amount of year-end dividends from the "Lime Research Incentive Fund" have made countless elites in the financial world jealous.

Wei Xueming has a successful career, a rich income, and a harmonious family. He is extremely satisfied with the life in front of him, so he and his wife, Qin Ke, who have promoted and cultivated him, are extremely grateful and loyal. It is said that a large seed company has paid 3000 Even an annual salary of [-] yuan could not lure him.

No, Lao Wei called again today to report.

In fact, for the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory, Qin Ke can basically let go now and does not need to interfere much. Supervisor Wei Xueming and his team have roughly mastered computational seed science, although they are still far from being "fluent" in application. , but enough to be used to accelerate research on cross-breeding programs for food crops and increase the mutation probability of DNA for certain characteristics.

Especially at the beginning of this year, several new crops with short growth cycles and adaptable to harsh environments, such as "drought-tolerant type II" rice that can withstand high temperature and drought, and "high-temperature easy-to-grow type III" cabbage, caused a rush to buy. Not only farmers are rushing to buy, but also many families have bought some cabbage, red tomatoes, and rapeseed seeds that can be grown on balconies to plant at home in case of emergency.

All Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have to do is take about an hour every month to carefully read the detailed research reports sent by the Lime Plant Laboratory.

Wei Xueming, on the other hand, made a habit of calling and reporting in person every month, and occasionally invited Qin Ke and the others to come over for guidance, probably with the intention of increasing his presence in front of his boss.

"Old Wei, I have read the final report you submitted yesterday. There is no problem. Your level has also improved very quickly. You don't need to worry about it now. You can follow the procedures as normal. Qingyun and I will not Running over." Qin Ke was having fun holding his baby daughter and son, thinking that he only went there last month and was too lazy to run this month.

Wei Xueming is Qin Ke's "old minister", and he is the first "old minister". He is familiar with Qin Ke's character. Although he always calls him "Mr. Qin", he often makes jokes. At this time, he pretended to be dissatisfied:

"Mr. Qin, our laboratory is yours. You can't favor one over the other. I heard that you and President Ning have gone to the quantum computing laboratory three times this month. You can't not come to our laboratory even once." ? That kid Ling Shaotang played a few rounds in front of me. You also know that most of the young people in our team regard you as idols. You come over and encourage them with a few words, which is better than me beating my chicken blood for ten days. "

Qin Ke has three large laboratories in the capital. Of course, the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is a research institution affiliated with Qingmu University. The current director is still the senior academician Jiang Weixian. Qin Ke is just the de facto person in power.

In addition, there are the Qing Ning Quantum Computing Laboratory and the Qing Ning Plant Cultivation Laboratory. One is a rising star and the other is a pillar, both of which have made great contributions to Qin Ke’s scientific research goals.Because Qin Ke has an extroverted personality and does not want researchers to be immersed in research all day long and have no interest in life, they ask the two laboratories to conduct team building every quarter to improve morale and promote healthy competition.

Therefore, Lao Wei is very familiar with Harold and Ling Shaotang, the chief and deputy director of Qing Ning Quantum Laboratory, and they often meet up to drink dark beer in private. However, Ling Shaotang has a somewhat arrogant personality, and Lao Wei often competes with him for supremacy.

Qing Ning Technology has deep pockets, and there is never a shortage of funds for the two laboratories. The competition is not about the funds, but the recognition and importance Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun place on the laboratory.

However, Qingning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory is now going all out to conduct research on quantum chips along the direction of "carbon crystal composite nanomaterials". Although Qin Ke knows that it will take several years, he will still find more time. Go check it out and help solve some problems.

In the eyes of Lao Wei and Ling Shaotang, this naturally became "the difference between closeness and distance".

Qin Kele was delighted: "Old Wei, you were such an honest researcher in the past, but you stuttered a bit when you spoke. Why are you so busy talking about flattery now? It turns out that society is a big dyeing vat. Okay, this Qingjun and I took our two children for a walk on the weekend, just in time for them to experience the joy of picking vegetables."

Qin Ke changed his mind when he thought that the greenhouse of the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory, which was warm in winter and cool in summer, would be a good place to walk his children.

"Haha, thank you, Mr. Qin, we are waiting for you!"

Wei Xueming doesn't care what Qin Ke is here for. As he said, the young people in the laboratory have a fanatical pursuit and admiration complex for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun. The presence of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun will bring great encouragement. effect, and with the deepening of research, the laboratory is encountering more and more computational seed science application problems. Although he is confident that he will lead the team to slowly overcome these problems, it will take a lot of time and effort, and there will be no time to solve them. After Qin Ke and Shang arrived at the scene, was it quick and efficient to ask them questions directly to get answers?

After finishing the call with Wei Xueming, Qin Ke lay back on the sofa and acted as a horse for his daughter and son to ride. Next to him, Ning Qingyun pursed her lips and smiled while protecting her, for fear that the two babies would be too excited to play. Roll off Qin Ke.

Qin Ke dotes on his two children so much that now they are not afraid of their father but their mother, because their mother sometimes scolds them with a straight face, but their father is always smiling and reluctant to say harsh words to them.

Even though they are only a little over a year old, they are extremely smart at identifying who is easier to bully.

This time too, they quietly observed their mother, and when they saw that her mother had no intention of stopping them, they giggled, rolled around on their father's back, and shouted "horse riding".

Then the children's joyful and childlike laughter rang out in the living room.

By the way, it is now a weekday afternoon. Yanyan, the little girl who is the nanny Qingsao at home, is still in elementary school. Qin Xiaoke has also gone to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to attend classes, so there are only Qin Ke’s family of four, plus Edward, in the hall. The couple, Lao Tao, Academician Tian Jianlan, who is here as a guest, and oh, there are also Lao Tao's three students who are here to ask questions.

Why are Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun at home even though it is a working day?Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun usually stay in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in the morning to deal with problems encountered by domestic and European meteorological centers in extreme climate research topics. In the afternoon, they either teach undergraduates, or teach master's and doctoral students. Attend class.

But now it has entered the exam week, the undergraduate courses are over, and the graduate students they led have begun the "thesis examination" once every semester. Qin Ke's afternoon time is relatively free, mainly spending time with Edward and When Lao Tao was studying the issue of "Calabi-Qiu space", when he got tired during the research process, he took pleasure in amusing his children.

It is said that these 24 students, including Liang Shaoping, Sun Bingfei, Jiang Xiaopang, Hua Manting, and Li Xiangxue, have been studying with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun for almost two years. Although in Qin Ke's eyes, they are still far from "graduated", but Indeed, they have achieved a lot of achievements and reputation. Almost everyone has published several papers. Some "crazy" paper writers such as Liang Shaoping and Dirk Hill have even published 9 papers at home and abroad. .

Generally speaking, the mathematics papers and physics papers published by these students are of good quality. As a result, these students have been targeted by many research institutions before they leave school. Some impatient research institutions even offer them an olive branch before they graduate. , promising a high salary.

It's just that these students, without exception, all said that they just wanted to devote themselves to studying with the two academicians and did not want to think about future employment, so they declined these invitations.

After these things spread, many people who had worn colored glasses and expected Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to "miss the mark" in leading graduate students were greatly disappointed.

Of course, the most disappointing thing is the majority of students who want to apply for two graduate students. Because Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have already said that no more new students will be admitted before the current batch of students graduate. Many students can only regretfully apply for other professors' programs. postgraduate.For example, Wei Yuyuan, Qin Ke’s former Mathematical Olympiad partner, took Qin Ke’s letter of introduction and was admitted to Princeton University’s graduate program under Professor Kelvin Thomson.

Professor Thomson was famous in the mathematics community for proving the Wursch conjecture regarding the direction of the Diophantine equation. He also won the Sherlock Memorial Prize in Mathematics the year before last. He is considered a rising talent in the international mathematics community and an acquaintance of Qin Ke.

After teasing the baby, he handed Xiaoxiao and Zhengzheng to the two childcare aunts to take them to the children's room on the second floor to play. Qin Ke sat back in the living room and "tea room" again.

At this time, Tao Zhexuan had just finished instructing his three graduate students Wang Changai, Aiqi Sal, and Basri Bellon, and waved them to go back to the dormitory to study on their own.

Wang Changai and the other three people saw Qin Kedou bowing slightly respectfully before saying goodbye and leaving.

When Qin Ke saw Edward Witten looking at the backs of Lao Tao's three students and smiling without saying a word, Qin Ke blinked and said, "Why, Edward, seeing such a talented person, does it arouse your enthusiasm for teaching students again?" How many students can you admit to Qingmu University even if you are not at Qingmu University?" He then said to Witten's wife Kia: "Kiya too, if you are willing to recruit students at Qingmu University, the queue of students will probably be one kilometer away."

Edward Witten and his wife burst into laughter. Edward shook his head and said with a smile:
"I don't have the energy to take care of students now. I'm different from Lao Qiu, who is still thinking about accepting these two children from your family as students. I just lamented that there are indeed many students in Xia State in recent years. You and Xiao Ning won’t mention young geniuses. That Wang Changai just now is a genius with a super IQ and excellent mathematical talent. Coupled with the students from Xia Guo you brought, I think within ten years, your Xia Guo’s The world of mathematics will usher in a new grand occasion."

Qin Ke persuaded: "Edward, don't you want to participate in such a great event? With your mathematical level, the students you bring out from Xia Guo will definitely go down in history." Naturally, he wanted to fool Edward, a master of physics and mathematics. Stay in Xia Kingdom and cultivate more talents for Xia Kingdom.

Edward's gray eyebrows trembled with laughter: "You, it's not enough to capture me as a young man to participate in your research? But to be honest, if I meet a student with half the mathematical talent of you and Xiao Ning, I will really say Maybe she will be tempted. Unfortunately, Kiya and I are both old. Once we have mastered M Theory and fulfilled our lifelong wish, we can continue to travel around the world. We really don’t have the time and energy to take care of students anymore.”

Foreigners do pay more attention to the quality of personal life and have little potential for workaholics. Seeing this, Qin Ke chose to respect the other party's wishes and did not persuade him any more.While everyone was drinking coffee or green tea, listening to the chirping of cicadas in summer outside, the topic returned to M theory, especially the issue of "Calabi-Qiu space".

Kya has actually done research on M theory. After all, it is her husband's lifelong pursuit. She is also a physicist herself, but the focus of the discussion among the four people here is to use "new geometry" to solve the "Calabi-Qiu space" She couldn't keep up with the problem of optimal solution of dimensions. After listening for a while, she left with a smile and went to play with the babies on the second floor - she also liked the two beautiful and cute babies.

Academician Tian Jianlan originally wanted to leave to avoid suspicion, but was retained by Qin Ke. In fact, everyone is still stuck at a certain key node and needs a little inspiration from an outside mathematics master.

Tian Jianlan is best at number theory and is a great mathematician who has studied ancient and modern times. She has also spent a lot of time reading the "new geometry" of Qin Ke and others. It is most appropriate to invite her as a new foreign aid.

"Let me summarize the latest research progress first." Qin Ke stood in front of the big whiteboard as usual, playing the role of "writer" and host:

"Based on the Maldacena duality, we have calculated that new six dimensions will appear after the creation and annihilation of pairs of particles and antiparticles in three-dimensional space, and we have reached the following conclusion: the new six dimensions in superstring theory It is not an essential thing, but a secondary concept expressed by three-dimensional quantum field theory..."

"We have also solved the equations of the ten-dimensional supergravity theory, and one solution we obtained is a two-dimensional membrane, and the other is a five-dimensional object. From this, it can be deduced that in the ten-dimensional space, the two dimensions and Things that are nine will always be entangled with each other. The movement trajectory of a two-dimensional membrane is three-dimensional, while the movement trajectory of a five-dimensional object is six dimensions. Based on the above conclusion, we can determine that when they move, they will always Tangled together.”

Qin Ke wrote three sets of partial differential equations on the big whiteboard.

"Based on the above conclusion, we have now established three sets of partial differential equations by using 'new geometry' to explain the compactification of the 'Calabi-Qiu space' for extra dimensions. But among these three sets of partial differential equations, The optimal solution obtained by the first two groups is 6, but the optimal solution obtained by the third group is not 6, but 9. We think there is probably something wrong with this third group of partial differential equations, but we have not found the problem yet."

He drew a circle in the third set of equations with bright eyes:

"As long as the correction and optimization of the third set of partial differential equations are completed, the compactification problem of the 'Calabi-Qiu space' will no longer be a secret in our eyes, and various dimensional problems can be explained mathematically! And now There is only a little distance away from this goal. I think this parameter should be improved so that it can simultaneously meet the requirements of calculating physical quantities in three-dimensional space. There is a phenomenon that the probability is greater than 1 or less than 0, and the calculation results are placed in In 25-dimensional space, the probability satisfies the condition between 0 and 1!”

(End of this chapter)