Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 656 - 262 The Starting Point of the Great Change Turned Out to Be an Activation Code?!

This topic is indeed an awakening, Lotte Dugan certainly understood Edward Whitten's meaning. However, he just blinked and then said, "Hmm, your concerns are very valid. But does it have anything to do with us?"

Edward Whitten frowned.

"Well, regardless of whether they actually have a material like that, how they got it, and whether the material model has any issues, it doesn't concern us in the slightest. Don't overestimate your own capabilities. Neither the National Science Foundation nor the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy has sought our opinion on this."

Lotte Dugan said without much interest.

He truly didn't want to ponder the unknown secrets involved.

What excited him was that the world seemed to be at the cusp of another burst in fundamental science. Big data, the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, superspiral algebra, geometry, Quantum Containment Theory, the discovery of gravitons...

In Lotte Dugan's eyes, material science models capable of backtracking laboratory environments were indeed remarkable, but they were just a starting point.

Just like the invention of the steam engine back then.

As the mysteries of mathematics were unraveled, humanity began to truly see the microscopic and the macroscopic, to understand the most real aspect of the universe, to fully comprehend the rules that govern the flow of energy, and that was the most exciting part.

Just as Qiao Ze said, nuclear fusion is happening on the sun every moment. The earth receives less than 0.02% of the sun's energy and fifty percent of that is wasted.

If we could double the solar energy we receive and further improve its utilization efficiency, it would be far more economical than figuring out how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion on Earth.

Beyond that, the kinetic and potential energy possessed by planets or other celestial bodies revolving around a constant gravitational source like the sun are also massive sources of energy.

The theoretical basis is simple: Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, the Law of Conservation of Energy, Einstein's theory of gravitational fields, and the mass-energy equivalence equation E=mc².

When people recognize the essence of the universe and technology is able to create devices that harness the energy generated by celestial rotation, the energy crisis will likely become a term of history.

In Qiao Ze's own words, "Look up, gaze at the stars, and you can clearly see that there is an innumerable amount of energy and resources out there. If you only look down, even if you had all the oceans of the world, what of it?"

If Qiao Ze's envisioned scenario truly emerged, from the perspective of modern humans, it would definitely be a miracle of engineering and would propel human civilization into a new era. Oil, nuclear power, all would become history.

Solving this series of issues would be more exciting than just a material model.

Most importantly, every time Qiao Ze mentioned this content, he gave Lotte Dugan the feeling that the future could indeed realize all this through the efforts of this young man.

That made Lotte Dugan really hate that he was already 58 years old.

It's hard to say if his remaining life span would allow him to see the day when humanity could make use of the universe's conventional energy.

If he had been born in the same era as Qiao Ze, maybe he could have witnessed the day when various cosmic energy sources illuminated the Earth.

Perhaps in that era, the inhabitants of Earth would be struggling with having too much energy, unable to use it all.

More likely, in that era, humanity would finally be able to leave Earth and start building extraterrestrial planetary bases.

With an inexhaustible supply of energy, many seemingly impossible planetary remodeling projects could be put on the agenda. For instance, the source of life, water, is nothing but a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. In a high-temperature and high-pressure environment, hydrogen and oxygen molecules can combine to produce enough water.

A high-temperature and high-pressure environment can precisely be achieved through energy.

In this way, all planets within the habitable zone, with the supply of nearly endless energy, could potentially be transformed into planets suitable for human survival. This is probably the ultimate pursuit of all scholars at the current stage.

Knowing that the universe is filled with planets similar to Earth as numerous as grains of sand, which civilization would, given the slightest chance, want to be forever constrained by gravity to a tiny broken ball?

Thinking about those who are still fixated on the resources of that tiny spot of Earth, and then thinking about someone who has already looked up at the stars early on, Lotte Dugan felt all these were meaningless.

Edward Whitten looked at Lotte Dugan with a furrowed brow.

When he realized that this guy was completely indifferent to the possibly involved conspiracies, he was somewhat surprised.

"Alright, Professor Whitten, don't worry so much. The integrity of those at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we're all very aware of it. The politicians are very clear that all the privileged advantages we enjoy are nothing more than colonial dividends. These thoughts are already ingrained in them, but fortunately, we don't need to consider so much."

"Let's put our limited energy into science. Do you really want me to tell you what science is? Science started from the beginning of human existence, when there were only two sexes, not a hundred and one. Why bother thinking about what those who have completely disregarded science will do?" Lotte Dugan said, facing Edward Whitten's surprised gaze with a smile.

This statement also made Edward Whitten feel helpless, and he had to change the subject, "Alright, Dugan, don't talk nonsense, if you still want to continue sitting in this office comfortably."

"Haha, don't worry, I won't talk about these things outside. Besides, I don't really mind if I can continue to have this office or not. You know? Perhaps my research on N-body motion might make this world a better place in the future, and that's what I really care about. Interestingly, even if I lose this office, I can still continue my research."

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