Zhou Zhengbin still wanted to discuss the issue of the Particle Mathematics Research Center with Edward Witten.
Over the weekend, he took Edward Witten around the school. They spent about half a day together and got to know each other better. He also learned that Edward Witten was supportive of the establishnt of the Particle Mathematics Center.
Besides, he wanted to have more bargaining chips.
For instance, he hoped that Edward Witten could serve as a professor at the future Particle Mathematics Center.
That would be an honorary title.
This would an that when Edward Witten cos here, he could give lectures to the students of the Particle Mathematics Center.
The advantage of this arrangent is that Zhou Zhengbin can tell the person in charge of the science and technology departnt that they have already been in touch with top mathematicians early on. This will let them know that the Particle Mathematics Center has a lot of developnt potential.
Zhou Zhengbin had many thoughts, but he didn’t manage to voice any of them to Zhao Yi. Because Zhao Yi was intensely discussing his ideas with Edward Witten. They kept talking about related issues, so of which were steeped in abstruse mathematical concepts that seed utterly incomprehensible. However, so things they could still grasp.
For instance--
"Pure energy would dissipate if it existed alone. It must combine in a certain pattern to form a particle in order to exist."
Edward Witten added, "Just like strings. Strings cannot exist alone either. They have to combine to form sothing..."
"Particles ford purely from energy are not constrained by three-dinsional space."
Edward Witten added, "Without the intervention of multidinsional spaceti, that does seem plausible."
"Precisely because they are not constrained, particles ford purely from energy can reach the theoretical speed of light, or exist in a form that moves at the speed of light."
Edward Witten added, "This idea might find support in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity."
"..."
At first, Zhou Zhengbin didn’t perceive much from what he heard. But as he gradually understood the aning, he realized the most significant issue--
"Space limitations?"
He couldn’t help but discuss it with Hu Zhibin, "If I heard Zhao Yi correctly, he seems to be talking about not being limited by space, aning position and distance are not important..."
"So does it an, position and distance are irrelevant, right?"
Hu Zhibin pondered and nodded, "It seems so."
"So according to this, pure energy should be able to defy space limitations, right?"
Hu Zhibin thought about it and said, "Does it matter? I just heard Mr. Witten ntion the Theory of Relativity. For matter moving at the speed of light itself, ti doesn’t hold much sense since they are already moving at this speed. Have you heard of a theory that if you could exceed the speed of light, you could go back in ti..."
"However..."
Hu Zhibin asked with sudden interest, "Dean Zhou, since when did you start caring about academic research?"
Zhou Zhengbin’s face darkened and he said, "I may be doing administrative work now, but I used to be involved in academics, too!"
"Really?" Hu Zhibin was sowhat doubtful.
"Of course."
Just as Zhou Zhengbin was about to reminisce about his academic past, he glanced at Hu Zhibin and rembered what had just taken place. His mood imdiately dropped and he said coldly, "Pay close attention to what’s being said and learn sothing. Stop engaging in strange activities."
"I... Damn Wang Gang!"
Hu Zhibin felt incredibly aggrieved and inoffensively disparaged Zhou Zhengbin, mumbling under his breath, "And he talks about academics. Didn’t he just do so research on partial differential equations? He had a bit of... achievent and has been promoting it all over the school."
...
Hu Zhibin’s understanding was not wrong.
Zhao Yi’s idea of overcoming ’spatial limitations’ ant that energy wouldn’t be constrained by space. Position and distance would have no aning for pure energy.
"It’s like deep-sea creatures that don’t succumb to the intense pressure because they evolved in that environnt." Zhao Yi’s analogy won the support of Edward Witten as it created a connection with his theory. The reason mass is repelled is because ’it is not a material of three-dinsional space’."
The position and distance having no aning for pure energy doesn’t imply that energy can achieve ’space jumping’.
Firstly, an individual unit of energy cannot exist alone. They have to combine into a group.
Secondly, particles composed purely of energy units can reach the theoretical speed of light. So even exist purely at the speed of light. From their perspective, even ti holds no aning, let alone space, position, or distance. But space jumping is a study of space itself, almost as if it ’transcends space’; these are two completely different concepts.
These theories seed bizarre, and Zhou Zhengbin felt sowhat unreceptive to them.
However, in reality, physics has many strange aspects, especially in microscopic physics and particle physics, where many concepts defy common sense. For instance, the initial concept of quantum uncertainty was not accepted by many, but gradually it gained acceptance.
Even Einstein’s theories were initially unwelcod, like the speed of light being finite. It’s intuitive that an object would keep getting faster with continuous acceleration, so how could its speed be finite?
Thus, genuine mathematicians and physicists who conduct research do not care about these counterintuitive aberrations; they discuss based on mathematics and reality.
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