Rebirth of Northland Technology

Chapter 1994.

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School started soon after the Spring Festival and the campus was filled with hustle and bustle.

As the conditions for research improved, the results kept coming. What greets returning students and faculty is the news of a large number of papers being published.

Not everyone was celebrating either, the physics graduate students were on a sad cloud. They were given extremely difficult tasks as soon as they returned.

"How's it going? Is there any progress?"

Professor Wang Wenfang brought the bitter young people together.

"Progress isn't even talked about, it's just been two weeks of going through string theory roughly and building up some concepts."

In the face of a lot of mathematical formulas, people's heads were big.

String theory was developed based on mathematical theory. There are countless amounts of raw, higher-order mathematics involved.

For example, the sum of all the natural numbers 1+2+3+4+... Can anyone believe this?

As the ultimate theory at the root of physics, the mathematical power required for string theory is daunting. This is the real reason why string theory eventually fell out of favor.

Physics is a discipline developed from experimentation. String theory clearly contradicts this consensus.

When string theory first came to campus, physicists working in particle physics, field theory, and condensed matter simply refused to teach string theory as a physics class. If you want to teach it, you can, it's a math class, not a physics class!

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"There are too many dimensions here, aren't there?"

The most troubling aspect of string theory is that it is super multidimensional. When string theory was first introduced, the concept of 25 dimensions was actually proposed in order to balance the photon energy formula.

Multidimensional spaces are nothing new to people who do physics. General relativity, for example, is a four-dimensional space. On this basis, the German mathematical physicist Theodore Kaluza added a fifth dimension, the rewritten equation can be "electromagnetic force" and "gravitational force" unified in the same equation.

But in any case, 25 Dimensions is a little too much.

The good news is that superstring theory introduces the concept of hyperspace. The strings of superstring theory vibrate not only in the D-dimensional direction of ordinary space, but also in the direction of the Grassmann number coordinates of hyperspace.

Each normal latitude will have its own Grassmann number companion dimension (space). The total dimensionality of space is thus reduced from 25 to 9 dimensions.

But 9 dimensions of ordinary space is 27 dimensions in hyperspace! Add in the extra time dimension, and the actual dimensionality of superstring theory is now as much as 28 dimensions.

To the newcomer to string theory, it's purely a hodgepodge of theories that can't be justified.

"Not much. This paper mentions the concept of 11-dimensional space."

Copies of several papers were thrown on the table. The 11-dimensional concept was mentioned in the paper on the relationship between string theory and supergravity field theory.

M-theory is also an 11-dimensional concept. It includes the normal 9 dimensions of space, a time dimension, and an additional dimension. Counting hyperspace, the effective dimension is 29 dimensions!

"Why go into the purely theoretical side of things? Don't talk about unifying others with these theories, even it divides itself."

Several students who were not too good at math were very dissatisfied with this assignment.

One superstring theory is hard enough, but now there are five versions!

Cheng Yongxing patted himself on the back and walked away, leaving a whole lot of unanswered questions. In particular, his insistence on an edited version of the sci-fi film has even become a laughing stock among the professionals.

Sci-fi movies are appealing because the sky is the limit and the unexpected. What if the movies were to be more serious, not only sci-fi, but also fantasy, kamikazes, and martial arts movies. Are those things going to be taken out and studied as well?

Why not just let the directing students publish their physics papers and save everyone a lot of beating around the bush.

"It's not exactly conjecture. Science doesn't believe in chance!

String theory can explain some things, and there must be a reason for it. You guys take a good look at these articles. I think Xiao Cheng has a point, there are 6 sides to the dice."

Professor Wang had also read through string theory over the past month or so, and had gained some insight.

A number of physicists have already discovered that seemingly dissimilar theories can be unified by two mathematical transformations called S-pair and T-pair, respectively.

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"We suspect that he left the subject to us because he couldn't handle these complicated formulae."

When we see new information coming out again, we can only keep spouting off.

Lately it was every time we touched a meeting, there was an extra pile of stuff to read. Graduate school in physics is just too hard.

But they sort of guessed right. The mathematical knowledge involved in string theory was indeed beyond Cheng Yongxing's level and ability. This time he didn't dare to make the mistake of the curvature formula again, so it was important to publish the results first.

It didn't matter if it was a few papers, but it was crucial to occupy the industry's high ground and grasp the right to speak. There wouldn't be such a good opportunity again for a while.

"Once this idea can be proven, the results will be groundbreaking. And Kosei's idea never misses, you have to have some faith!"

Professor Wang constantly cheers up the young man who has a fearful spirit.

Although Cheng Yongxing had attended basic physics with her for less than a year and had repeatedly skipped classes, Wang Wenfang had always treated him as a prized disciple.

Since his birth, the disciple has been unstoppable, except for repeated emotional setbacks.

As the scale of the optoelectronic business and influence continues to expand, the number of people and institutions concerned about Cheng Yongxing is also increasing.

In this era, everyone is crossing the river by touching the stones, whenever someone can make some achievements, countless people will be attracted to summarize for him, hoping to find some successful experience that can be copied.

In this era, mouth-breathing masters are rampant. Qigong masters, idea kings, the list goes on and on.

Among this group of so-called capable people, Cheng Yongxing appeared extremely alien. When others were being promoted, it was often the time when they went downhill.

Although Cheng Yongxing did not write papers anymore, his influence was still expanding day by day. In the eyes of those who are interested, through the amplification of several funds, the speed at which he produces results is actually faster.

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"All right. We'll look into it. I'm afraid, in the end, we'll get nothing out of it."

The many anti-common sense mathematical theories involved in string theory also caused the crowd to be quite resistant. The physics profession generally believes that seeing is believing. String theory is not only invisible, but also contradicts common sense.

But the situation is stronger than people. Since they couldn't resist, they could only try to learn to enjoy it.

"Don't worry! Even if you end up with nothing, it's guaranteed that you won't regret it."

Professor Wang was downright generous and handed out a great deal of money.

"What do you say?"

"At least you're allotted, no more problems."

The distribution of science majors was always a big problem. At this point, although the distribution is planned, the results of the distribution are all poor. Students and their parents were left to their own devices to find their own way out, even the graduate students.

"Is it some good news?"

The ears in the room perked up.

"In 1994, Photonics will open its doors to physics graduates. They'll take as many as we have. There's no need to talk about the treatment of photonics."

The growth of engineering students in the photonics department is evident for all to see. Whether it was full color or colorful, the people in power were their own people. Meet directly address the teacher, no problem at all. Full Color is preparing to go to the United States to build a new production line, and there are a lot of opportunities to work abroad.

One step to heaven, one step to hell!

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"Seriously? But what do they need physics majors for?"

The good news came so suddenly that some will believe it.

"Are you a physics major or not? Why can't we go into semiconductors? How many courses are there in total that are different between semiconductors and physics?"

It's a big deal, we have to fight!

But he does have a point.

Semiconductor majors, until their junior year, have the same curriculum as physics majors. The semiconductor department at Lam University was simply split off from the physics department.

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All competition, in the end, is people competition.

TSMC's continued success has a lot to do with the fact that over 80% of their employees have master's degrees. This unimaginably high proportion of educated people has put TSMC on the leading throne in the foundry industry.

With Lin Wafer and Colorful making a big push into the semiconductor industry, the shortage of talent that Full Color once faced has emerged in the wafer industry.

The depth and breadth of the wafer industry's demand for talent is unprecedented.

To catch up with the world's advanced level with the domestic talent base and talent stock is simply impossible.

The average operator in a wafer fab is required to start with at least a bachelor's degree!

But the country can't even do that.

From downstream chip design to upstream semiconductor equipment and materials, it's a whole industry taking off!

The semiconductor industry is growing by leaps and bounds and requires highly qualified personnel in the hundreds of thousands.

For this reason, optoelectronics has opened its doors not only to physics majors, but also to science majors such as chemistry and mathematics across the board.

The majors in Chinese universities do not change with the market. Over the decades, hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of science students have settled down.

At this point in time in China, finding thousands of semiconductor graduates is impossible, but finding hundreds of thousands of physics majors is not stressful at all!

Stocks aside, it's the new additions, and physics majors are a must for science, engineering and general universities alike.

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"Sing is our physics major by the way!"

Someone slapped a thigh. Post-doctoral study, too.

"Yes!"

"Right."

Asses make the head, science has no boundaries, but scientists do.

"Say what you will for your own people!"

"What do you mean by holding a party? Originally string theory was right. We just proved it."

Anything that doesn't make sense, now makes sense!

"Right, right!"

It was a great time to be in the conference room.

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The basic skills of the engineering students are still strong. After a change in mindset, what was once a moat quickly becomes an open road.

In many subject studies, the success of things often depends on persistence.

And persistence depends on faith.

The letter is the spirit.