Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Princeton University.

Located in the café on the second floor of the building on the side of the boulevard, many of the professors will choose to have a drink here, or exchange academic questions with their peers, or take a book to read quietly, or simply enjoy this afternoon. peaceful.

Since the settlement in Princeton, Edward Witten has been a frequent visitor here.

For the practitioner who has won the Fields Prize, the cattle who are only one line away from the Nobel Prize, the students here are mostly respected from the heart, and many people will enthusiastically take the initiative after meeting him. Say hello, or ask some physics questions that are too obscure for the original Scholar.

Every time I encounter these things, the old mister is very happy to answer.

In the powerhouse of Princeton, he and the Fefferman Professor are few of the most approachable, and there is no master of the shelf.

One day, after completing the class, the Witten Professor came here as usual, ordered a cup of coffee and sat by the window, spread out the notes taken out of his pocket, but then suddenly saw an unexpected person. Going up from the stairs.

“Angus?” widened his eyes in a slightly surprised way, closed the slightly old notes that were spread out on the table, and looked at Angus Professor, who came to his side, and Witton joked, “My friend, why are you coming back so soon?”

“Because I have got the answer I want,” the crutches that I carried with me leaned against the table, and Angus Professor sat down on the opposite side of Witten, paused for a moment and said, “You are right. Although it was less than an hour of communication with him, it really benefited me a lot.”

Witton Professor laughed, “Oh? Can you share your harvest with me?”

“Their generation of students is more optimistic than us, and the idea is very unique. I have pessimistically thought that this world is probably finished, but now I have a new perspective.”

“I’m glad you can make a difference,” looked at the time on the watch, and the Witten language said calmly. “I still have a physics class for a while, I will not accompany you.”

“Go ahead… Speak up, when did you start to be interested in undergraduates?” Angus Professor asked him strangely.

“Because life has an end… I think you are right. We will inevitably sleep for a while, but some things can be inheritance,” Witten laughed, finished the rest of the coffee, put the cup in his hand and whispered softly. Continue to say, “Maybe one day in the future, one of my students can see the unity of the four fundamental forces for me and the string that makes up our World.”

Angus Professor has a good intention to say with a smile : “Maybe they are all fart.”

Witeng haha ​​laughed and said: “haha, maybe! No matter what the opposite is, it is an answer to me… Say, do you want to make a bet?”

Angus Professor: “No problem, but the question is what are you going to gamble? There is no money in heaven, even if I win, it is not good.”

Witten played with with a smile : “I think there will be, after all, we sent that many economists.”

“Let’s talk about it later!”

Witten is gone.

The Angus Professor stayed in the coffee shop and continued to sit, but there was one less person who could talk to him.

Looking quietly at the campus outside the window, watching the students walking down the tree-lined path downstairs, he was a little bit fascinated.

After a long time, he slowly pulled out a crumpled notebook from his arms.

This is his memo, because he will occasionally forget things when he is older, so he often carries such a thing on his body. Whenever he wonders if he has forgotten something important, he will turn it out. .

In addition to recording the livelihood trivia of “repaying bills” and “renovating the faucet”, he occasionally wrote down his usual inspiration to prevent it from slipping away from his sparse silver hair…

Staring at the blank page on the paper, Angus Professor pondered for a long time, and the nib that was pinched in his hand was like a rusty dagger, swaying gently above the notes.

After a while, he seemed to figure out what it was like, and his eyebrows were loose.

“…using the past to speculate on the future is not true, what the future needs is the way to the future, and… beyond the realities of thinking.”

He whispered to someone else who couldn’t understand, and then he wrote a line of words on this blank note.

[Cosmic Economics]

After a pause, he crossed it off with a pen, rewrote a line of words, and whispered to himself.

[Future Sociology]

“This name sounds more interesting…”

Great ideas are often born out of inadvertent thinking.

A theory that has a great influence on future generations was born inadvertently…

……

Just in the second week of sending away Angus’s Professor, Lu Zhou heard an interesting rumor.

A professor of economics called Angus Deton, Princeton opened a new course called “Future Sociology.” This course does not have any specific theoretical knowledge of Professor, only teaching a thought about the future.

Although the name is a bit strange to hear, but because the course is a Nobel laureate, there are still many student registrations.

The Angus Professor, who opened the course, is said to be writing a book on the subject.

Although the specific content has not yet been made public, according to one of his old friends who have read the manuscript, this serious academic work is more like a science fiction without a protagonist than an academic monograph. It is quite boring to read.

However, the old friend also said that some of the ideas put forward are very interesting, and maybe they will come in handy in the future…

These interesting things are known to Lu Zhou from the students who teach at Princeton.

In these years, Qin Yue has been a professor from the lecturer, and Hardy, who returned to teach at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, has also mixed well. He has even become one of the academic leaders of the local number theory school… Of course, this is also possible. The Brazilian mathematics community, which is “seriously serious”, is not good at number theory research.

As for Vera, it is said that it is working with Morina of the Institute of Advanced Studies to challenge the highest crown of the mathematics world, GFB Riemann’s Conjecture. It doesn’t matter if there is any result. The timid girl is able to come up with the courage to challenge this century’s problems. It is already a very gratifying thing.

Wei Wen, who is about to take a PhD from Princeton, and Jericho, who was recruited by the Institute of Computational Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

In general, several of his students have done quite well.

As their Professor, Lu Zhou is also very pleased.

After Qin Yue, who sent the mail, returned an email, he got a lazy waist in Lu Zhou. He was busy preparing to sneak up on Arxiv to see if there was any interesting mathematics thesis. The quietness of the office was suddenly knocked out by the door. The door broke.

Cleared the blind, Lu Zhou started talking.

“Please come in.”

The door was gently pushed open, and Wang Peng, a serious face, walked in quickly.

Seeing his expression, Lu Zhou had not had time to ask “what’s wrong,” he said first.

“bad news!”

Lu Zhou slightly frowned.

“What happened?”

Wang Peng hesitated for half a second, and said with a heavy tone.

“Biology circle a encountered an unidentified armed attack, according to local army news, the loss was heavy…”

Unidentified armed forces… attack?

Lying in the trough? !

Lu Zhou listened, subconsciously grabbed the handrail and slammed up from the office chair.

“Is it okay?”

Wang Peng: “The militants have all been killed in the crossfire. The researchers and foreign experts present are safe and sound… They have been transferred to nearby cities for resettlement. The local troops have been dispatched urgently to block all roads in the nearby area. Investigating the background of armed elements and access channels, but…”

Lu Zhou has just been relaxed, and the heartbeat has slowed down, and the word “but” has been raised.

“but?”

Wang Peng continued to speak with a heavy tone.

“…biology The loss of circle a is said to be very serious.”