Great Country Academician

After a casual dinner in the hotel, Xu Chuan took a cold shower, wiped his hair, sat at the desk, and flipped through his laptop.

After finishing the work on the CRHPC collider and aerospace, he took advantage of the time he had to attend a meeting in Beijing to learn about the progress and technological development in the forefront of the academic world.

Of course, his main focus is still on the two major fields of mathematics and physics.

After 24 years, the most concerned thing in the mathematics world is naturally the annual Abel Prize.

And this year's Abel Prize was awarded to French mathematician Professor Michel Taragran.

It is used to recognize his pioneering contributions in probability theory and functional analysis, as well as his outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.

Looking at the photos and medals in the news, Xu Chuan's eyes were full of envy.

Although he is sure to win the Abel Prize, he may have to wait at least 20 to 30 years.

Because this award, which is known as the "Nobel Prize" in mathematics, and even the prize money is almost the same as the Nobel Prize, is almost only awarded to mathematicians over 60 years old.

This is an award for lifetime achievement.

At his age, he has not yet reached the Norwegian science selection criteria. Even if some concessions are made to top mathematicians, he will probably have to wait until he is 45 years old to get this medal.

After all, in the academic world, the career before 45 can be said to be the golden period for a scholar to do research.

In the physics world, there was not much new in the first half of 24 years.

Both the CRHPC and CERN institutions are verifying his theory of strong electric unification.

It was a new achievement in astrophysics that caught his attention.

In the first half of the year, an astronomer from the UK named Alexia Lopez discovered a huge circular ring structure in the observable universe.

This cosmic structure, named the "Big Ring", is about 9 billion light-years away from the earth. After being calculated using various mathematical tools, its diameter has reached an astonishing 1.3 billion light-years, and its circumference is more than 4 billion light-years.

If you can witness the spectacular sight of this "Big Ring" in the night sky, its visual area will be equivalent to the size of 15 full moons.

This is also the largest "single cosmic structure" in the observable universe.

Although there are many structures in the observable universe whose diameter exceeds this "big ring".

For example, the Sloan Great Wall and the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are two examples.

The former is 1.37 billion light-years long, while the latter is even more than 10 billion light-years long.

But these two are not considered to be single cosmic structures in the definition of astrophysics.

Simply put, they are made up of multiple "single institutions".

And this big ring discovered this year has broken all historical discoveries.

Because it seems to violate a basic assumption, the cosmic principle.

At present, the scientific community generally believes that large structures in the universe are mainly formed through gravitational instability processes, and the theoretical upper limit of the size of the structure formed by this process is about 1.2 billion light-years.

However, the newly discovered big ring structure obviously exceeds this limit, and the circumference of the big ring is more than three times longer.

Theoretically, such a huge single cosmic structure cannot exist in the universe. It will collapse into several or more cosmic structures during the formation process.

Instead of stably existing in the universe.

This new discovery in astrophysics did arouse Xu Chuan's interest.

Because its existence may verify some of the theories in the void field theory he derived.

In the void field theory that has not yet been made public to the physics community, the universe originates from the void, and the void is broken to form the Higgs field and another field that constitutes dark matter and dark energy.

But in the deduction of the void field theory, there may be "primordial voids" in the universe that have not yet been broken and fissioned.

Perhaps the number will be very small, but like antimatter, the primordial void may exist somewhere in the universe, where it has not yet begun to evolve.

If such a structure can be found, it will be of great help to the formation of the observable universe and the understanding of the universe.

With a hint of interest in his eyes, Xu Chuan hung up the VPN specially prepared for him by the security team and found the results published by Professor Lopez.

Interestingly, in addition to using different statistical algorithms, he also used his previous research results, the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, to calculate the properties of the large ring through various parameters such as radiation fluctuations and gravitational lenses.

Looking at the downloaded data and papers, Xu Chuan took out a stack of draft paper from his backpack with a gleam in his eyes.

If his speculation is correct, he may get a brand new cosmic structure based on this result.

And it is extremely rare, and may even provide some research ideas for the Einstein-Rosen bridge he has been studying, which is the space-time hole in science fiction movies and novels that can travel through the universe.

The lights in the middle of the night were on until the second half of the night, and Xu Chuan, who was tired but a little excited, forced himself to lie down on the bed.

After all, tomorrow, oh, today I have to take Xu Xiao to Beihang University, so I can't stay up too late.

I glanced at the time on the phone screen, 3:46 in the morning.

Not too late.

After dropping his phone, Xu Chuan closed his eyes, but his mind was full of the research he had just done.

This could be considered as the ‘aftereffects of research’, just like when you read a novel and you can’t forget it even when you lie on the bed.

I don’t know how long he stayed in bed before Xu Chuan fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, he was awakened by the ringing of his cell phone.

The noisy ringing sounded in the bedroom, and he touched the phone and subconsciously turned it off.

I don’t know how long it took, but outside the door, a doorbell rang.

After waking up from his sleep, Xu Chuan sat on the bed in a daze for a while before getting up and going out to open the door.

"Brother, it's already nine o'clock. When will it be?"

As soon as he said this, Xu Xiao saw his brother's face full of dejection. He couldn't help but frowned and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you? Why do you feel a little..."

Yawning, Xu Chuan turned his head and went into the room, and replied casually, "I stayed up all night last night and I'm a little sleepy."

"Oh, then you continue to sleep?"

Xu Xiao hesitated for a moment and said.

"No, I'll wash up and have breakfast." Xu Chuan replied and walked into the bathroom.

Although I didn't get enough sleep, I definitely couldn't fall asleep if I woke up. If it doesn't work, I can sleep for half an hour at noon.

Beihang University, campus.

The two siblings walked side by side towards the administrative building.

"Brother, what were you doing when you stayed up all night last night?" Following beside him, Xu Xiao asked curiously.

"Some physics research, I forgot to check the time."

Xu Chuan replied casually and took her to find Academician Jiang Xinghuai of the School of Engineering of Beihang University.

He and Academician Jiang Xinghuai met at the bidding conference for manned space flight and lunar exploration two years ago.

At that time, he was invited to give a report on "Condensed Matter Physics" and "Grand Unified Framework Theory of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems" at Beihang University, which was considered a favor.

After knocking on the door of the office, Xu Chuan walked in first with a "Come in" from inside.

Behind the desk, Academician Jiang Xinghuai, who was drinking tea with a thermos cup and reading the newspaper, was stunned for a moment when he saw the person coming in, then quickly put down the teacup, stood up and greeted him with a smile.

"Hey, rare guest, what brings you here?"

"Mr. Jiang."

Xu Chuan smiled and greeted him, saying, "The International Lunar Biosphere Project Seminar is about to start, and I have time to come and see you."

Jiang Xinghuai laughed and said, "Don't come on, the seminar will start in three days. With your personality, if you don't have anything else to do, I'm afraid you won't arrive for at least two days."

That's what he said verbally, but Jiang Xinghuai was happy that Xu Chuan came to see him, even if he might have something to ask for.

After all, he would only choose him if he remembered him and was relatively close to him, right?

There are so many academicians in the country, and he is not special.

Even in the field of aerospace, there are scholars more famous than him.

After laughing and teasing, Jiang Xinghuai got up and walked to the closet, took out a can of tea that he was reluctant to drink, and prepared to make tea.

"Mr. Jiang, this is my sister, Xu Xiao, who is currently researching things related to 'human-computer interaction technology' and 'bio-electrode chips'."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Xu Chuan took the initiative to introduce each other.

"Xiaoxiao, this is Academician Jiang Xinghuai, the dean of the School of Engineering at Beihang University, a top expert in both aerospace and robotics."

"Hello, Academician Jiang." Xu Xiao greeted him obediently.

On the other side, Jiang Xinghuai smiled and said, "Two stars from the same family, both brothers and sisters are talented, it's rare, it's really enviable."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "To be honest with Mr. Jiang, I came here this time because I want to ask you for help."

Jiang Xinghuai smiled and said, "Just tell me what it is, there's no need to go around in circles, as long as I can help."

Xu Chuan nodded and smiled, "Then I'll say it straight."

After saying this, he organized his words and briefly told Academician Jiang Xinghuai the purpose of coming here.

After hearing the story, Academician Jiang Xinghuai said with a smile: "Well, I thought it was something very important that required you to come here in person."

He smiled, stood up, and said: "It just so happens that there is a similar project at the Institute of Engineering. Although it also controls machinery through neural electrical signals, the research direction is slightly different from Xu Xiao's. Do you want to go and take a look together?"

Xu Chuan also stood up and said with a smile: "Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Jiang."

Following Academician Jiang Xinghuai, the group came to the experimental building of the Institute of Engineering of Beihang University.

As they walked, Academician Jiang introduced them.

"We are working with the National University of Defense Technology to study a robotic arm or exoskeleton device that can be controlled by nerve signal resonance."

"If this technology is finally successful, it will not only make breakthroughs in exoskeletons, but may also solve some medical problems, such as amputation."

"There has been some progress, but it is not very big. The main problem is the resonance and simulation of nerve signals."

Jiang Xinghuai did not hide anything from Xu Chuan. Although this kind of project has a certain confidentiality, it depends on who it is.

Of course, he will definitely not talk about the specific technical content for the time being.

If the cooperation is confirmed, it doesn't matter.

"Neural electrical signal resonance synchronization?"

Xu Xiao, who was following beside him, said: "This should be a relatively cutting-edge field. If I remember correctly, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States should be the leader in this field."

"They use a mapping neuron model to construct a discrete modular small-world neural network to carry out research in this area."

"But as far as I know, they should have been stuck in this area for a long time."

Academician Jiang Xinghuai turned his head and looked at Xu Xiao, with some surprise in his eyes, and smiled and said: "I'm not sure about this."

"We are doing research with the National University of Defense Technology. We mainly solve problems such as exoskeleton materials and mechanical equipment. As for neural interfaces, they are responsible for research."

After a slight pause, he continued: "Xiaoxiao, are you interested in working here at Beihang University?"

"Ah?"

Xu Xiao was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a while to why the topic suddenly turned to this.

With a shy smile, she quickly said, "I already have a job here, and I have no intention of leaving for the time being. Sorry, Academician Jiang."

On the basis of already controlling a brain neural interface company with a valuation of more than 20 billion, and with her own experience in this field, she must be crazy to agree to work at Beihang University, right?

Jiang Xinghuai smiled 'kindly', and then tempted: "Don't rush to refuse, come here, there is no problem for me to take you to participate in this project in person."

"This is a project jointly researched with the National University of Defense Technology, and the future is still very good. Apart from other things, after the project is completed, there is no problem in helping you to be evaluated as a full professor."

It is impossible to invite Xu Chuan to work at Beihang University. In his eyes, domestic universities are probably the same, even Shuimu and Peking University are the same.

After all, his own influence and ability have long exceeded the help of the university to him.

On the contrary, whichever university he is in, the development of that university is called a bright and magnificent one.

Have you seen the development of Nanjing University in recent years, which is envied by domestic universities. From outside the top 20, she entered the top five last year.

This year's funding estimate can probably be raised a bit.

If other universities try to recruit Xu Chuan, the president of Nanjing University will probably rush to their house and hold a knife to their neck.

Unless Xu Chuan is willing, other universities can't recruit him.

So Jiang Xinghuai set his sights on Xu Xiao to see if he can recruit her.

After all, she is Xu Chuan's biological sister. If he can recruit her, Beihang University will also be able to take off.

Of course, he was just trying. After all, Xu Xiao's identity and background are here. If he can really invite her, Nanjing University will probably not miss this opportunity.