ILHCRC headquarters.
In an office with a wall full of whiteboards.
Professor Wei Hong, who was holding a marker in his hand, was facing one of the whiteboards that was almost full. He pondered for a long time and suddenly broke the silence.
"I got it!"
Professor Dobrik, who was standing next to him, quickly asked.
"What did you think of?"
Three people, including Luo Wenxuan, were discussing the problem of "the possible cause of the Z particle's gravitational field disturbance". Wei Hong gave a possibility from a mathematical point of view on the whiteboard.
However, just as the other two were listening attentively, he suddenly stopped talking while he was talking. It was as if his train of thought was stuck, and he stood there in a daze for a long time.
Professor Dobrik finally came back to his senses. He thought he had discovered some amazing ideas, so he quickly gave him a questioning look.
Professor Wei Hong pondered for about two minutes. He sorted out the ideas that emerged in his mind into simple, easy-to-understand words. He then spoke.
"The essence of gravity is the bending of the mass of an object to space-time. The Z particle moving from a high dimension to a low dimension does not interfere with the gravitational field itself. Instead, it changes the curvature of space-time relative to the gravitational field."
As he spoke, he picked up a pen and drew two parallel circles on the whiteboard. He then used two arcs to connect the upper and lower ends of the circles.
"There is curvature in space-time. Suppose the curvature is x, and these two lines are the gravitational field lines under conventional space-time. When the Z particle oscillates at both ends, the value of x will change or even be reduced to infinitely close to zero. These two arcs will also be infinitely straightened, approaching a straight line —"
Luo Wenxuan looked at the two clean straight lines drawn by Professor Wei Hong, and a look of surprise gradually appeared on his face.
"I understand what you mean, but this sounds … a bit weird. In other words, we only need two Lunar Hadron Colliders to create a portal on the other side of the Milky Way? "
Wei Hong shook his head.
"This analogy is not appropriate. To be precise, it's more like building a highway between two undulating mountains."
According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, matter and time (space-time) are warped by the presence of matter. In the classical universe where matter existed everywhere, which was the universe that humans could directly observe, it obviously belonged to a "curved" universe.
In this curved universe, moving from A to B seemed like a straight line on the surface, but in fact, in the higher dimensional universe, it was a crooked path.
If Wei Hong's conjecture was correct, it meant that they might be able to 'straighten' the curled space-time in a certain way, directly following a real 'straight line' through the curled universe to where they wanted to go.
Taking Mars as an example, the closest distance between Mars and Earth was 55 million kilometers. Even at the speed of light, it would take 182 seconds to travel this distance.
However, if the curved space-time between the two was' straightened ', or even just the width of a highway, the distance could be shortened to 5.5 million or even 550,000 kilometers.
In this case, even if they did not master the method to exceed the speed of light, they could break through the limit of the speed of light and travel through the universe in light-years in a very short time.
Luo Wenxuan was shocked by the broad prospects behind this theory. He was stunned for a long time before he gradually showed a serious expression.
"Is there a way to prove it?"
"It's difficult." Wei Hong looked at the calculations on the whiteboard with a dignified expression. A bitter smile gradually appeared on his face as he said, "Or to be more precise, it's quite difficult. This not only involves complex difficulties, but it is also related to the most complex high-dimensional differential manifold and algebraic geometry problem in mathematics. It is no exaggeration to say that if this problem is abstracted into a mathematical problem, its difficulty will not be lower than the Poincaré conjecture! "
Luo Wenxuan and Professor Dobrik looked at each other.
Even for Dobrik, who was not good at mathematics, they knew the seven Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics.
As the crown of differential geometry, the Poincaré conjecture took three generations of mathematicians nearly a century of hard work to solve.
If the difficulty of solving this problem was more difficult than the Poincaré conjecture …
They had almost no chance of winning.
"If we can prove this conclusion, I'm afraid it's not a problem to go down in history," Professor Dobrik said with an envious tone.
Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "It's more than just going down in history … If we can really do it, we'll at least be on the same level as Einstein."
This is the key to the edge of the Milky Way!
Whoever can find it will be the father of the interstellar era.
Even if it was theoretically providing a feasible idea for navigation between star systems, its significance was enormous. If someone in the distant future really achieved hyperspace navigation through their theory, then even Einstein and Newton would be inferior to this supreme glory.
Professor Wei Hong also foresaw this. He sighed softly.
"Although it's regrettable, this theory is not something that ordinary people can complete … At least it is beyond the scope of my ability."
"What about Professor Witten?"
"He might have been able to do it when he was in his thirties, but now … It's basically impossible." After a pause, Wei Hong continued, "For now, the most promising person to solve this problem may be Professor Lu."
Luo Wenxuan was slightly taken aback when he saw the two of them looking at him at the same time. He then said while sweating profusely.
"Why are you all looking at me?"
Professor Wei Hong said, "You have the best relationship with Professor Lu … From the perspective of the success rate, it is more appropriate for you to ask him for help."
Dobrik quickly nodded in agreement.
"I think so too."
The last time he went to Jinling Airport, he really didn't want to experience it again.
"It's useless even if you guys look at me like this. Even though I'm his brother … He's on a retreat now. It's almost impossible to contact him."
As he spoke, Luo Wenxuan could not help but reveal a helpless expression.
To be honest, his status might not even be as high as that guy's disciple.
Professor Dobrik did not give up. He tried to make one last effort to speak.
"But … How do you know if you don't even try?"
"No buts. Even if we can contact him, it's unlikely that he will invest a lot of time to study an idea that has little chance of being realized … Unless it's really worth it."
Luo Wenxuan shrugged and continued.
"So, for us, the only way now is to write our speculations in a paper and publish them. If we can arouse his interest, this problem will be solved. If we can't … I think it's really not worth wasting too much time on. "
This is the best way.
According to Luo Wenxuan's understanding of Lu Zhou, even though he would hardly reply to the outside world when he was on a retreat, he would not completely break away from the Internet.
He would at least follow up on the latest research results.
If there is no response …
It could only be said that Lu Zhou was not optimistic about their speculation.
If this was the case, Luo Wenxuan felt that they could give up.
After all, warp travel sounded a bit unbelievable. To be honest, he was still in a state of skepticism. After all, other than this most impossible explanation, there were many more plausible explanations.
"That's the only way …"
After a long silence, Professor Wei Hong nodded with difficulty. Even though he did not like to wait for an uncertain thing, there seemed to be no better way now.
"I will try my best to use mathematical language to describe this speculation."
Luo Wenxuan looked at him and nodded.
"Then I'll leave it to you."
The three of them were about to return to the previous discussion.
However, the phone in Luo Wenxuan's pocket suddenly rang.
"Wait a minute … I'll take a call."
As the secretary-general of the ILHCRC, there were always a lot of work calls that he had to answer every day.
Even though he wanted to leave these things aside, considering that a certain chairman did not care, he could only bite the bullet and take on the work that originally belonged to Lu Zhou.
Without looking at the caller ID, Luo Wenxuan pressed the answer button and walked to the side.
Wei Hong and Dobrik ignored him for the time being. They stopped discussing and waited quietly for their teammates to come back.
However, they did not hear Luo Wenxuan's footsteps coming back. Instead, they heard a strange cry from a distance. The voice was probably Professor Luo's, but it was very thin and long —
It was like the curled space was suddenly straightened.
Dobrik looked at Wei Hong with a dumbfounded expression and said blankly.
"What is he talking about?"
"I don't know."
Wei Hong looked in the direction Luo Wenxuan left with a dumbfounded expression. Just as he was hesitating whether or not to go and see what was going on, he saw Luo Wenxuan walk back with a dazed expression as if he was sleepwalking.
Professor Dobrik quickly got up and looked at him.
"What happened?"
Wei Hong also stood up.
"Who called?"
"Lu Zhou …"
Luo Wenxuan gulped and said in a sleepy voice, "Just now … Didn't we discuss whether the stable oscillation of the Z particle can make space bend stably?"
"Yes … Could it be?!"
When Luo Wenxuan saw Professor Wei Hong's shocked expression, he nodded with his eyes wide open.
"Yes."
"He's done it."
"Just a few minutes ago."
"In a mathematical sense."
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