Almost on the same day that the International Mathematical Union recognized the Grand Unified Theory, the scholars from Jin Ling University hadn't even taken off yet, but the news had already spread across the seven continents and four oceans.
The entire mathematics community was shocked by this piece of news.
Professor Tao Zhexuan's flight hadn't even taken off yet. He couldn't wait to update his blog. He wrote down some of the inspirations and thoughts he had while reviewing the thesis.
Even a new master's student could roughly understand this blog post. It was for the vast majority of scientific researchers who couldn't understand the original text of the thesis. It explained the earth-shattering events that had happened in the mathematics world over the past few days. It also provided an opportunity for them to get a closer look at the blog post.
Within half an hour of this blog post being posted, screenshots and links had spread throughout the mathematics community. One could imagine how crazy the people who were paying attention to this matter were!
On the other hand, the MathOverflow forum was flooded with discussion topics.
In almost every post, one could see "Lu Zhou", "Grand Unified Theory", or "Lu Zhou Theory".
Because so far, Lu Zhou hadn't given an official name for this theory, so everyone could only refer to it as such.
[Big news! Just now! The International Mathematical Union announced in the Jin Ling University auditorium that they recognize the completeness of the Grand Unified Theory!]
[Haha! I feel nostalgic seeing the name of my alma mater!]
[I guessed it a week ago. With Professor Lu's personality, he wouldn't publicly announce what he was doing unless he was 90% sure. At the International Congress of Mathematicians, he announced that he would unify algebra and geometry as his next research project. I guessed that he already had some ideas.]
[I heard that Professor Schulz and Professor Faltings are also involved in this project?]
[They did participate in the research on the fold method, but I heard from my classmates at the University of Bonn that in the last two months of the research, everyone thought that there was no need to cooperate. So, they tacitly decided to have an open competition, so …]
[I'm curious who came up with this idea.]
[I heard it's Professor Faltings …]
[This is terrible. Less than two months after they parted ways, their partners have already produced results … So, did they help at all?]
[Uh, according to Lu Zhou's thanks during the report, they obviously helped. But I agree with your point of view, this is really … too tragic.]
The strange news surrounding the Grand Unified Theory was also discussed by the group of mathematicians who loved to gossip.
Apart from that "fair and square competition", there was also Perelman, the hermit who had returned to the martial world.
On the one hand, people were curious about what moved him to participate in this Grand Unified Theory project. On the other hand, they were curious about whether he planned to return to the mathematics world or return to the suburbs of St. Petersburg to continue his reclusive life.
So far, he didn't seem to have left. According to a PhD student who witnessed him at Jin Ling University, this big name seemed to be attracted by something. He still went to the office of Jin Ling University every day to clock in.
Let's not talk about the tidbits behind the crown.
The influence of the Grand Unified Theory had spread from the mathematics world to the outside.
It wasn't just the International Mathematical Union that updated the electronic version of the Grand Unified Theory paper on its official website. Even CERN, a scientific research organization that focused on particle physics, answered some questions from reporters at a recent press conference and expressed optimistic views.
In fact, mathematics and physics were inseparable.
Especially from a historical perspective, every major breakthrough in the field of mathematics eventually played a vital role in the development of physics.
It wasn't just the physics world.
The same week after the International Mathematical Union's statement, a portrait of Lu Zhou appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. It was accompanied by a very extraordinary title.
["The Greatest Man of the Century" — The Most Influential Person of the Early 21st Century]
In the past, such honors were usually given to politicians and were rarely given to business people or celebrities. It was extremely rare for a scholar to receive such a title.
Not only that, but in the main body of the article, the article gave a highly positive evaluation of his work …
[… For most people, mathematics is an extremely complicated subject. Only a very small number of people can master the essence of mathematics and develop it into an art.
[But for him, mathematics is different. For him, mathematics is like a language.
[Through this language, he can communicate with God and make deals with Satan. The truth of everything in the world is no longer a secret. He brought the fire of Helios to the earth and used the treasure of the Snow Goddess to freeze the scythe of the Grim Reaper. Even though he didn't directly invent any strange gadgets, even though his knowledge is too far away from our daily lives, his theories have already changed our civilization and changed our society.
[Because of his wisdom, the imagination of mortals was able to grow wings, and dreams of the future became reality.
[Where will our civilization go? Only the future can answer this question.]
[But on this day, we once again crossed a mountain peak.]
[That is the pinnacle of the human mind.]
On the other hand, a rare scene appeared in the North America media.
Even CNN, which had a clear-cut political stance and tried to smear Lu Zhou's virtual reality experiment two months ago, gave a rare neutral report.
There was no praise or smear … After all, there was nothing to smear.
However, to be able to make a person who was used to lying unwillingly tell the truth for once, it could be considered a rather difficult thing.
Boston. A cryobiology laboratory.
Elon was sitting in a cafe. He looked at the Times Magazine in his hand and suddenly spoke.
"It would be great if he continued to study mathematics."
Lawrence, who was sitting across from him, smiled and said in a joking tone, "I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough problems in the world."
"Why does it matter? As long as he stays away from our business. "
Lawrence smiled and said, "Oh really? I hope he can come up with more interesting things. Actually, our interests aren't in conflict. At least so far, the new things he has invented have been quite helpful to my plan. "
Musk curled his lips and said, "Really? I'm the opposite, I'd be thankful if this guy could stay away for a while. "
Lawrence spoke nonchalantly.
"Maybe you should think about getting along with him differently."
Elon shook his head and didn't say anything.
Get along with him differently?
If only it was that simple.
The entire Silicon Valley was in chaos, and many technology companies had closed down.
People weren't talking about the future trend, but what Lu Zhou might be researching, what he was planning to research, and how to avoid competing with Star Sky Technology.
This sounded ridiculous, but it was the truth.
Not only did the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs use "what Professor Lu might be researching" as an indicator of their project risk assessment, but they even included the analysis results in their PowerPoint presentations.
The worst part was that the investors were buying this?!
This was too preposterous!
While the entire world was talking about this name, Professor Lu, who Elon Musk hated, was in the deepest part of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study's underground laboratory. He had no idea that he was on Time Magazine again.
Lu Zhou was facing a modified virtual reality device. He took a deep breath and spoke in a calm voice.
"Xiao Ai, are you ready?"
A line of text was directly projected on his AR glasses.
[Ready, Master! (?????)????】
Lu Zhou nodded and didn't say anything. He walked next to the virtual reality device and laid down on the soft bed.
Lu Zhou took off his glasses and put them on the table. He then reached for the helmet and put it on his head.
The flow of time in the system space was synchronized with the flow of time in the outside world. He had verified this a long time ago.
Based on the startup speed of the virtual reality device, he had about one to two seconds of error tolerance.
If his guess was correct …
Lu Zhou closed his eyes and took another deep breath. He stopped praying and said "system" in his heart. The next second, his consciousness appeared in a pure white space.
Without stopping at all, Lu Zhou walked to the side of the holographic panel, stretched out his index finger, and selected the inventory.
A purplish-black sphere, entangled by misty tentacles, floated there quietly.
There was no description, it was like it didn't belong here.
Other than the name "Void Memory B", everything else about it was a mystery.
Lu Zhou quietly looked at the sphere that exuded an ominous aura. When he counted to twenty, he reached out and grabbed it without hesitation.
Almost as soon as he grabbed the purplish-black sphere floating in his inventory, the tentacles wrapped around the purple sphere suddenly expanded rapidly, releasing a gel-like viscous black mist that was as deep as a black hole.
"… Let me see what kind of unspeakable secrets you are hiding behind your back."
This wasn't the first time Lu Zhou came into contact with this thing. He watched it wrap around him and obediently let it pull him into the pitch-black darkness.
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