Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 1175 - 465: When the Music Ends, the People Remain (Part 2)
Through their relentless efforts and innovation, mathematical science continues to progress, new theories and methods are born, they are the pride and role models of our field. The first Fields Medal recipient of the year, a young mathematician and leading figure of the new generation in the mathematical community—Qiao Ze."
What does it mean to strike as quickly as lightning?
This is it.
The conference had just begun, and the first step of the speech segment had already concluded. Dou Dou, the AI host used for the first time in an academic conference, was eager to announce Qiao Ze’s name.
In fact, Dou Dou also felt pretty aggrieved; it’s not that it valued the Fields Medal so much, but currently, the only academic award in Huaxia comparable to such a world-level award is the Qiaoze Natural Science Award.
But this award was initiated by Qiao Ze, so naturally, he wouldn’t participate in judging. As for the Nobel Prize, Qiao Ze had already declined to receive it the first time. Although at his age he might win several more, he couldn’t be bothered to take the medal the first time, and surely wouldn’t want it later.
Thus, the Fields Medal this time has the most commemorative value.
Huaxia values the principle that filial piety comes first among all virtues. So naturally, Dou Dou had to make today’s award ceremony lively and festive...
Qiao Ze actually felt rather helpless about this.
By nature, he didn’t care much about winning awards or gaining fame. Moreover, during this period, his mindset has been quite detached; he hasn’t done much research work aside from pondering some philosophical questions and considering what to do in the future.
Continuing theoretical research is, of course, an option.
Qiao Ze even felt that he could indeed advance mathematics another step forward. But the problem is, once you start with practical application, you’ll find that theories being too advanced is actually not a good thing, the technological level simply cannot validate those predictions.
This follows the same old path as Edward Witten.
M-theory is ingeniously designed; otherwise, this big shot couldn’t have won the Fields Medal. Yet no matter how impeccable the theory, if it can’t be validated, then it can’t be validated. After all, physics differs from mathematics; merely having a flawless proof process doesn’t mean it will be accepted—without lab results, it can’t be confirmed.
This is why even though Edward Witten, a physicist, won the Fields Medal thirty years ago, string theory still isn’t the mainstream theory, and he would need Qiao Ze to win a Physics Prize as the fundamental reason.
The inability to verify with current technological levels means if it’s wrong, a lifetime’s research effort might become worthless one day in the future.
Strings endlessly vibrating under the Planck scale might possess breathtaking beauty, but they could also be just a beautiful trap.
The situation for Qiao Ze is quite similar now.
He can design theories to be ever so elaborate, prove processes to be impeccable, and even get validation through supercomputing. But unfortunately, at present, there’s simply no way to conduct laboratory verification.
With his theoretical guidance, observing galaxies diverging from the current universal model is almost the limit. Wanting to verify more is nothing but wishful thinking.
Just like he said before, conquering the moon first, human civilization will then have the qualification to study the Solar System.
Of course, conquering the moon doesn’t just mean going up for a spin and coming back.
Rather, it involves establishing one or even several stable Earth-Moon routes, having a permanent base on the moon, then transforming the moon into an off-planet springboard where ordinary people could vacation, allowing the moon to truly fulfill the functions of a super satellite.
Next, planets would be explored one by one, until there’s no secret from human civilization within the Solar System.
Only when Earth’s technology reaches this point can the intricate and complex theories in his mind be validated. He was too naive in his youth, thinking everything in this universe was overly simplistic.
The good news is, according to Dou Dou’s calculations, with the support from material models and current aerospace technology levels, as long as there’s a clear direction, it’s anticipated that at least one stable Earth-Moon corridor can be constructed in ten years, a large-scale Earth-Moon base and a large lunar port in thirty years.
Of course, in the span of thirty years besides these, given no issues in resource allocation, a spacecraft capable of navigating within the Solar System can also be designed.
Meaning when Qiao Ze reaches his fifties, humanity can formally enter the realm of the Solar System, no longer confined to a single-planet civilization on Earth. Only by then, humanity’s technology might have a shot at validating a series of theories proposed by Qiao Ze now.
Also, to achieve this feat in thirty years, there’s another prerequisite—the agreement signed in the Capital by East University must be fulfilled.
In other words, at least ensuring Earth doesn’t fall into large-scale internal losses and global resource allocation functions seamlessly. Thus, some attention must be focused on this matter. This requires continuing the development akin to projects like the deep-sea unmanned clusters.
To summarize, the choice Qiao Ze needs to ponder now is whether to continue vigorously advancing theoretical research, irrespective of accuracy, and publish results methodically, leaving the validation to future generations.
Or, perhaps focus more energy on digging into existing theories, and finding ways to realize certain things.
