Lu Zhou still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, which was that the trouble faced by the space elevator project was really like what Chairman Li Guangya said, it was just the beginning.
However, the reality was that one problem was just the beginning of another.
Now that the problem of site selection was solved, the next step was to return to the design of the space elevator. Now, not only the design of the space elevator, but even the Penglai City project was included in the space elevator project team.
Although he understood Li Guangya's intention to delegate power to him, with so much work on him, Lu Zhou, as the chief consultant of the entire project, still felt a lot of pressure.
After leaving the institute, Li Guangya, who was sitting in the car, suddenly looked a little melancholy in his eyes.
Wu Shuhua inadvertently noticed this and asked casually.
She asked casually, "I thought you would be happy."
"Happy? Of course I'm happy. "Li Guangya withdrew his gaze from the window and gave her a strange look." Why do you ask? "
Wu Shuhua gently shrugged her shoulders and spoke in a casual tone.
"I don't know, maybe your expression makes the air heavy."
"Heavy? Not really, just a little … emotional. "
"Emotional?"
"Yes." Li Guangya sighed. "If only it were a century earlier."
"Sorry, I don't quite understand what you're talking about."
Li Guangya shook his head with a smile and said, "I mean, if only I could have been born a century earlier, in that magnificent era."
No wonder he's from that era.
Especially the last suggestion, it was simply too much to his liking.
Wu Shuhua: "…?"
…
In recent days, a piece of news suddenly spread on the Internet, saying that the Pan-Asian Cooperation planned to build a city on the high seas to be used as an anchorage for the space elevator.
Once this news spread, it immediately caused a lot of controversy on the Internet.
Some people said that it was a good job, while others shook their heads and sighed, saying that it damaged the international image of the Pan-Asian Cooperation.
However, the news was unverified after all. For inquiries at the regular press conference, the press spokesman also said that he was unaware of this and reiterated that the Pacific Ocean was the common property of all mankind.
Although they were somewhat puzzled as to why the official press spokesman of the Pan-Asian Cooperation repeatedly emphasized this point, seeing that he was so determined, the senior executives of the major regional alliances were still slightly relieved.
Jin Ling University, in a cafe in the mathematics department laboratory building. Several mathematics professors were sitting there, drinking coffee while gossiping inside and outside the university.
As they chatted, they naturally talked about Academician Lu, who was an influential figure in the school.
"Speaking of which, have you heard? Academician Lu seems to have graduated from the preparatory course."
"I heard about it, I heard about it a long time ago. Haha," a professor said with a smile, "I think it's funny. Of all people, why did they choose Academician Lu? Isn't that unnecessary?"
"You can't say that. Although his academic achievements and talent are obvious to all, a century has passed since then, and many things are different from the past. It is a good thing that he is willing to take the initiative to understand the rules of this era. "
"I don't deny this." Perhaps he thought of something, the professor said with some emotion, "It's just that I didn't expect that after a century, he could still teach mathematics to our students as before, and even publish papers in cutting-edge research fields … It feels like we haven't made any progress in the past 100 years."
"Science is a gradual process. It takes time to accumulate from quantitative change to qualitative change, so there is no need to belittle ourselves." Another professor said with a sigh, "But what you said is true. The more in-depth the research, the more I feel that whether it is mathematics or physics, we may have reached the boundary. If we want to make another breakthrough, I am afraid that we really have to wait until we step outside the solar system and have a new understanding of the universe. "
"You are too pessimistic." The professor sitting across from him looked at him with some surprise. He took a sip of coffee and continued, "I don't feel the boundary you are talking about. There are many things that can be researched … For example, the recent second-generation controllable fusion, isn't it an epoch-making breakthrough?"
The professor asked, "After all, there are only a few people who can surpass their own era. If there was no Academician Lu, would we be able to make a breakthrough?"
The few people who were drinking coffee fell into silence.
Although they didn't have to worry about this kind of thing, this question seemed to be on point.
A slightly chubby mathematics professor who had not spoken gently pushed his glasses up and spoke in a voice with emotion.
"Our Academician Lu is really amazing … After waking up, he did a big thing in less than a year. He created the second-generation controllable nuclear fusion, and he immediately launched the space elevator plan to build a vertical track with a length of 500 kilometers. If someone else told me this, I would think he was talking in his sleep. "
"What do you think? After all, he was a man who stood at the peak of the human mind a century ago. "
"It's just a pity … His mind is not on mathematics at all now."
At this point, the group of professors sighed again. They sighed for the choice of this once-in-a-century genius.
Sitting at a coffee table not far away, Professor Sun Jingwen put down the coffee cup in his hand and looked at Academician Qin Chuan, the dean of the mathematics department sitting across from him.
He asked casually, "Has Academician Lu said when he will return to the school to teach?"
Qin Chuan looked at his apprentice strangely and replied.
"He hasn't mentioned it … Why?"
"Nothing, it's just that there are some academic questions that I want to ask him, but I haven't been able to find an opportunity." There was some hesitation on his face. After being silent for a while, Sun Jingwen continued, "Do you think … he will come back to study mathematics?"
"I'm afraid only he knows the answer to this question." Dean Qin smiled and looked out the window at the students returning to the dormitory in twos and threes. He continued in a relaxed tone, "I was actually quite obsessed with this matter before. I have been trying to persuade him to return to the mathematics department and solve some world problems while he is still young. But after getting in touch with him for a while, I kind of understood his thoughts. "
"What thoughts …"
"Remember when he was in your class, he picked out the problems of the zero-point distribution of the Dirichlet L function that you wrote on the blackboard?"
If an ordinary person were to be exposed like this, most people would show an embarrassed expression on their faces. However, Professor Sun Jingwen just fell into deep thought and nodded after a long time.
"I think I understand."
There was a trace of approval in his eyes. Dean Qin looked at him and sighed softly.
"A long time ago, I read a memoir written by Professor Perelman. I remember very clearly that he wrote this in his memoir.
"That was when we had just entered the tortuous and abstract maze of the Hodge conjecture. My collaborators, Professor Chen and Professor Ji, coincidentally fell into a dilemma in understanding abstract things. Unlike the Poincaré conjecture, its requirements for abstract geometry were beyond our imagination, so much so that I couldn't extricate myself. I tried to ask him for help, but he didn't answer my question directly. Instead, he gave me a meaningful look.
"Maybe it was just an illusion. At that time, I vaguely felt that he might have already known the answer, but he just wanted to leave this treasure to those who had not yet set foot in the same field as him. I made up my mind that when he came back from Mars, I must ask him for the answer to this proposition. It wasn't until the bad news came from Mars that I gave up the idea of asking him for help … "
Qin Chuan repeated the original text of the autobiography. He looked at his student who was lost in thought and spoke with a smile.
"He looked forward to the progress of mathematics more than anyone else, but what he hoped for might be a little further than what we expected.
"One person's greatness cannot make the entire discipline flourish unless he is willing to share his greatness with others. I think this may be why he didn't directly solve the generalized Riemann conjecture. Instead, he chose to guide your argument. "
At this moment, Sun Jingwen's expressionless face finally showed a trace of emotion.
"You mean … He has solved the generalized Riemann conjecture?"
Dean Qin spoke with a smile.
"Most likely."
"But … When was it? Was it frozen for 100 years? No way … He was unconscious when he was frozen. "
"It doesn't matter when he solved it." Dean Qin looked at his student and said, "The point is that he wants to see us solve it."
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