From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

Over the next week, everyone in the research team was busy, constantly searching for content related to space.

Whether it was mathematics, physics, or some past theories, including string theory in its final state, the relevant content was found. After they found the information, they began to study it, hoping to correlate it with the experimental findings. .

During this period, Huang Xing decided to attend an academic conference.

It was the ‘Annihilation Physics and Astronomy Application Conference’ held by Capital University, and it was also an academic conference that only appeared after the annihilation theory flourished.

The Conference on Applications of Annihilation Physics in Astronomy is led by the Institute of Basic Physics of Capital University. Its content is to combine annihilation theory with astronomy and specialize in the application of annihilation theory in astronomy.

In recent years, astrophysics has been undergoing reforms. The annihilation theory has had a great impact on astrophysics. Especially after part of the "Theory of Relativity" was denied, astrophysics has been affected in all aspects.

In astrophysics, some past content has been denied, some new content has been added, and there is still a lot of content that needs to be recalculated and studied.

It contains a very large workload, but it also makes astrophysics become active. There is a lot more work in the field of astrophysics. Elements related to the annihilation theory are added, and some elements that have been denied are withdrawn, which makes more young people Physicists join in.

The joining of more young physicists has also brought vitality and impetus for development and reform to the field of astrophysics.

Wang Hao still supports Huang Xing's participation in academic conferences. He thinks it is also good to go to academic conferences to expand his thinking, which may bring some new ideas to research.

Although the new research was just about to start, he still agreed with Huang Xing to attend the meeting, "We will study together when you come back."

Huang Zhendao, "I'll be back in two weeks. I'm looking forward to studying space issues together."

"When you come back, maybe you will have new ideas."

Huang Xing's departure did not affect the research, and others continued to search for various information.

The same is true for Wang Hao.

He not only searched for information, but also discussed space issues with the top scholars he knew, including even the elderly Edward Witten.

Since string theory was denied to a certain extent, Edward Witten simply retired. He officially entered retirement life and no longer participated in any work or published any academic research content.

But Edward Witten is still very persistent in string theory.

That was his life's study.

After seeing the message from Wang Hao, Edward Witten immediately became energetic. He did not expect to receive an email from Wang Hao, and discuss with him a very important space issue in string theory.

Edward Witten wrote a reply email very seriously, the content of which was almost as long as a paper.

"That's my understanding."

"From a cosmological point of view, there is space only when there is matter. If matter does not exist, space does not exist, so there is the theory of universe expansion. The area not covered by matter cannot be called a universe."

"Space itself does not exist."

"From the perspective of particle theory, areas where energy exists will continue to emerge..."

"The Higgs force field is a special manifestation of space energy..."

The content sent by Edward Witten is obscure and difficult to understand. The front is a general introduction of viewpoints, and the middle contains content on string theory, particle theory, and cosmology. There are even a lot of mathematical expressions in the follow-up.

Wang Hao didn't expect Edward Witten to be so serious. He sincerely sent a thank you email, saying that the content was of great help to him.

Then, I continued to read the content.

opposite.

Edward Witten, who was over eighty years old, looked at the emails on his computer, especially when he saw "It helped me a lot". He couldn't help but smile. He said to his wife Anna, "Look, Anna, although he denied it." String theory, but when it comes to understanding physical theory, he still can’t compare to me.”

"You still have to come to me to find out about issues involving space..."

Edward Witten said with some pride.

Anna put the black tea on the table. There was one piece of mail missing. She poked Edward Witten's forehead with her finger, "Are you confused?"

"What?"

Ana shook her head and said, "You wrote the reply email in the afternoon. You wrote it for more than three hours and then sent it."

"It's only 21 o'clock now, and the flower gardener's time has only just reached morning. Even if Wang Hao stayed up late to watch the content, he would only have watched it for four hours at most. That is basically impossible. He must have just gotten up to work."

"So, when he saw the email, he didn't read the content carefully, let alone understand it."

"He was just being polite!"

Edward Witten was stunned for a moment, checked the time carefully, and said angrily like a child, "I will never pay attention to him again!"

the other side.

Wang Hao was studying the content carefully. He studied for more than two hours before he finally figured it out. He couldn't help but sigh at the level of Edward Witten.

He is indeed a top theoretical physicist!

For example, cosmology, quantum physics, particle theory, and the best of all, string theory, all the contents can be explained at the drop of a hat.

The main theme of Edward Witten's theory of space is still one sentence, "Only with examples can there be space."

"It is precisely because there are particles that there is space, so matter can also affect space in turn."

"That makes sense."

After having this foundation, you can construct some mathematical logic by thinking deeply. However, because the description of space-related content is too confusing, and the various theories can even be described as conflicts, it is still difficult to draw any conclusions for a while.

Wang Hao studied for a whole day, but there was no definite result, so he simply went to see the progress of others.

Then I discovered that others had made no progress either.

"Teacher Wang, space is really difficult to understand. I have no clue at all."

"I found a lot of information, but it was all very confusing. If time can exist alone based on the Theory of Time, can space exist alone?"

"There's no clear answer to that."

Helen's words confused Wang Hao. He had just been thinking that space exists only if there are particles. As a result, Helen said that 'space can exist alone'.

Of course this cannot be denied.

So there are many different directions for research.

Wang Hao looked at Ding Zhiqiang again, and was helpless to find that Ding Zhiqiang was playing games. He walked over and asked, "Xiao Ding, do you have any ideas?"

Ding Zhiqiang trembled with fright, quickly turned off the phone screen, stood up and said, "Wang, Teacher Wang...it's...you...what are you asking?"

"I'm asking if you have any ideas about space?"

"Space? This, that..."

"Forget it~~"

Wang Hao felt very disappointed. He didn't blame Ding Zhiqiang for not thinking carefully, because it was indeed difficult to make progress!

This situation lasted for three days.

Wang Hao held a symbolic research meeting and found that everyone still had some ideas, but there was no correct feedback.

He is disappointed and can choose to give up temporarily.

"never mind!"

Wang Hao shook his head in disappointment, "It's too difficult to start with theory, and there is nothing we can do for the time being."

"...?"

"Teacher Wang, are you giving up?"

"It's a pity to give up like this, it's a gravitational field!"

"yes!"

Ding Zhiqiang, Chen Mengmeng, and Helen all felt very sorry, and then heard Wang Hao sigh and say, "It seems we can only study technology first!"

"??"

"——?"

"What's the meaning?"

…

Starting from theory, there was no progress at all, and then he could only give up temporarily. He made up his mind to study technology first.

When there is no theoretical support for a certain technology, there is no direction for research, and technological breakthroughs can basically only be made by luck.

This method of research relies heavily on luck.

Of course, it is also possible to achieve technical improvements through accidental research and then infer theories at the same time. It is also a common practice in physics research to find rules through experiments. However, most of them are experiments that are easy to do, rather than complex technologies.

A technology without theoretical support will not go far.

Most similar research will fail midway, including anti-gravity technology. The anti-gravity phenomenon was first discovered by the Dutch superconducting experimental group. After they made the results public, they also organized a team to conduct research. Later, it was I found that I didn’t have any clue, and it was very, very difficult to even replicate the experiment.

Then, you just have to give up.

Wang Hao doesn't like to simply study technology, because he can only rely on correct feedback from the system to improve technology.

He doesn't like this.

In other words, most physicists don't like it. Physicists always like the feeling of having everything in their hands. Only by using theory to guide technological improvement can we go in the right direction and make technological research go further.

There is no alternative now.

It is too difficult to study space theoretically. It can be said that there is no entry point for research. We can only start from an experimental perspective and try to improve technology.

After Wang Hao made his decision, he took the research team to the Antigravity Behavior Research Center the next day.

He summoned the core seven researchers, including members of the research team, to discuss it.

This is a small meeting.

Wang Hao announced the next work and asked everyone to think of an experimental adjustment plan to "increase the gravitational field."

After he finished talking about the next step, many people felt that they couldn't understand it.

For example, Qian Hongyu.

Qian Hongyu went to He Yi and whispered privately, "Director He, is this really possible? We don't understand the theory at all. Now we just suddenly discovered that we have no clue how to adjust the experiment."

"Isn't it just a waste of money to adjust experiments without theoretical guidance?"

Other researchers have similar thoughts. Such a complex experiment without the support of theoretical basis is tantamount to discrediting the progress and it is impossible not to get lost.

He Yi didn't care. He smiled and said, "Professor Qian, we just do what Academician Wang said. In fact, I think this is the normal rhythm."

"Academician Wang and I have done a lot of research together, and the experience we have learned is that we must not understand Academician Wang based on the IQ of ordinary people."

"We can't understand many of his ideas."

"But there will definitely be no problem if you follow Academician Wang to do research!"

"Look, I got the Nobel Prize."

Qian Hongyu listened blankly.

Without the last sentence, he felt that what He Yi said was simply unacceptable, so he added the last sentence...

How convincing!

…

Although the research was only a technical exploration, Wang Hao still attached great importance to confidentiality issues. He only summoned core researchers to participate in the meeting.

Other researchers and associate researchers are not eligible.

The anti-gravity center is no longer what it used to be.

There are more than fifty regular researchers in the research center, including three huge teams. There are only seven people who can be considered core researchers, the lowest being 'large project leaders' like Qian Hongyu.

So a total of a dozen people participated in the study.

Each of them must think about new adjustment methods based on experimental data. The purpose of adjustment is to increase the gravitational field strength value.

This is actually the same as the original anti-gravity research.

Wang Hao’s requirement for adjustments is that they must have a certain theoretical and experimental basis. To put it simply, adjustments are not made randomly, but with certain ideas.

This makes the job difficult.

Without a theoretical basis, what ideas can you have? Many people can only think in terms of anti-gravity architecture.

The result was that the first wrap-up meeting was very unsuccessful.

Although everyone explained their plans carefully, Wang Hao found that there was no correct feedback, which meant that all the plans were wrong and would not bring any positive benefits related to the gravitational field.

Wang Hao said with regret, "I know everyone is very serious, but I hope you will think more carefully."

"I find that everyone thinks from the perspective of anti-gravity architecture, but we can relax our thinking. In fact, gravitational fields and anti-gravity are probably not related."

"This discovery was accidental."

"Don't go into dead ends in your thinking. Think carefully and seriously. Everyone knows how important research is."

"Come on, everybody……"

After some encouragement, Wang Hao continued to distribute the work of changing the plan.

Many people had grimaces.

For example, He Yi.

He Yi felt that he had no idea at all. He didn't even know how to complete the next step of the work, any new plan, etc., he had no clue at all.

He simply went to find some of Wang Hao's students.

His idea was to carry out 'copying homework'. Helen, Ding Zhiqiang and others had ideas, so he imitated the plagiarism and then made simple modifications.

As a result, both Chen Mengmeng and Helen said they had no idea.

They went to ask Ding Zhiqiang together.

Ding Zhiqiang was chased and questioned for a long time. He pressed his forehead hard and said, "I have an idea. This research actually has an entry point."

"ah?"

I thought there was nothing to gain, but I didn't expect that Ding Zhiqiang actually had an idea, and several people immediately started urging him.

Ding Zhiqiang said, "My idea is very simple. No matter what, the experiment must be related to the material, so we will start from the perspective of the material."

"β-CWY-137?"

"yes."

"Then what?"

"No, that's all I can think of."

"Cut~~"

Helen and Chen Mengmeng were both dismissive, but they knew very well that what Ding Zhiqiang said made sense.

Before, they all started from the perspective of anti-gravity structure, without thinking about the specific situation of the material. Now think about it, other beta superconducting materials using the same structure cannot create a gravitational field.

When I thought about it this way, I suddenly became enlightened.

Two days later.

Wang Hao held a research meeting again.

He Yi became very confident.

He was thinking from a material perspective and believed that the semi-topological structure of β-CWY-137 should be studied.

"Starting from the perspective of semi-topological structure, there may be new discoveries." He Yi did not say a specific plan, but he felt that he could find a new idea, which would be a contribution to research.

Wang Hao did not make an evaluation, but asked Helen to express his opinion.

Helen said seriously, "What Academician He said makes sense. Considering the particularity of β-CWY-137, we should indeed study its topology, but not its anti-gravity properties, but to find out the directionality of its geometric composition. "

"I compared two similar materials, 136 and 130, and found that based on the curved geometry theory, β-CWY-137 has..."

"This characteristic will make..."

Helen talked a lot in succession, which made He Yi and other researchers a little confused.

Wang Hao just nodded and still did not make any comments. He continued to ask Chen Mengmeng. Chen Mengmeng said seriously, "Have you noticed a problem? The gravitational field is downward. I think we can learn from the field force. Start with the direction and angle to make experimental adjustments.”

"To improve the structure, you can transform the basic model by disrupting the basic structure or using current groups in the same direction..."

She also said a lot.

The last person to speak was Ding Zhiqiang. Ding Zhiqiang only said one sentence, "We can split the underlying architecture. For example, remove a certain part and then do experiments. We may be able to determine which part works."

The conference room suddenly became quiet.

Everyone understood what Ding Zhiqiang said, and at the same time they were filled with admiration.

Chen Mengmeng and Helen talked about a lot in succession, such as topological structures and the same direction and different directions. It felt like there was a lot of bells and whistles and I couldn't understand it.

What Ding Zhiqiang said was very simple, but it went directly into the experiment, and it sounded very feasible.

But……

Why didn't they think of that?