Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Perhaps because of the age issue, the Ark always felt that the distance between itself and the students was small, especially Qin Yue and Hadi, who were a year older than him, and there was no age gap at all.

Perhaps in his students' eyes as well, he is also a respectable but less prestigious “boss”.

To convince the Ark, Hardy even came up with the absurd saying, "This is Princeton's tradition." The Ark has lived here for so long, it's the first time Princeton's tradition of having to party to celebrate when it wins an award.

Obviously, it was made up by Hadihu.

But for his enthusiasm and the interest of the other students, the ark was in his hands.

The location of the party is naturally the cabin of the ark, and the number of participants is tentatively six.

Eventually, however, the size of the party was unexpected by the Ark.

He was just going to celebrate with his students, and it turned out that someone had passed on the news of his award, and then more than one or two people came to celebrate.

First Brother Luo and his current girlfriend came back, then Brother Luo's mentor Edward Witten heard the news and followed.

And then Deligne, although the old Belgian didn't like to go to crowded places, came to the party with a bottle of whiskey.

Then there are the friends that the Ark met at Ivy Club, as well as professors and researchers who have a good relationship with him at Pu Gao...

Good thing the Ark prepared a lot of champagne and food beforehand, otherwise it wouldn't have to be handled.

On the day of the party, on the lawn in front of the cabin, the aromas of barbecue and beer permeated.

Standing next to the long table, the ark and his old mentor are chatting about the calculation materials.

Unlike the view of the Ark, Delinière did not see it as a meaningful task, considering that he was wasting time.

“... mathematics is pure, more like an art than a tool. What mathematicians should think about is how to build this building, and how to apply it to other areas, that's a matter for physicists or chemists. ”

Having a sip of whiskey, the bright old man looked as sharp as ever.

“My dear Professor Deligne, I cannot agree with you,” Bald a quarter of Witten, suddenly inserted the topic, vibrant words said, "Mathematics is a great tool, but merely mathematical field research simply does not reflect its greatness, only when it is applied to more relevant fields can it play its greatest value… for example, physics. ”

“I can't see that your M theory has any practical significance," Deligne said with a needle of blood shutting his mouth and looking at the ark, silent for a while, lifting his high foot cup.

“Anyway, this is a compliment to you. Congratulations. ”

The boat touched its own mentor and was happy to say, "Thank you. ”

“Congratulations to me, too.” Witten grinned and touched the ark, saying in a relaxed tone, "Perhaps the Princeton Institute of Higher Studies should open a computational material...”

Deligne said with a face: "Impossible. ”

Witten shrugged: “Well, I was just kidding, when I didn't say it. ”

Pu Gao was founded with the intention of establishing a platonic institute of pure theoretical research. In addition to one professor of biophysics, all six full-time researchers at the Institute of Natural Sciences study theoretical physics and astrophysics.

As for the Institute of Mathematics, there are many directions, but all without exception are pure mathematics.

After all, there are enough people who have studied applied science, and there must be a group of noble people who continue to explore it in the field of theory.

And what's the use of that?

Before semiconductor technology was born, no one could figure out what relativity and quantum mechanics really were.

……

Everyone had a great time at the party and the ark was quite enjoyable.

For him, the Adams Chemistry Award was an unexpected surprise.

He thought his first cross-cutting medal would be born in the field of theoretical physics, but didn't expect to bring him the surprise of chemistry.

The $10,000 prize is not valuable, and in fact, almost all the winners are not concerned about this insignificant prize.

Scholars studying chemistry are more affluent than those studying mathematics and theoretical physics. Financial freedom could easily be achieved by paying a little attention to the issue of intellectual property.

As is customary, in addition to winning the prize, the Ark will deliver a speech at a symposium on organic chemistry held in San Francisco in April this year.

This can be academic or non-academic, depending on the individual's choices.

However, although advance submissions are not required, the Ark intends to prepare it carefully.

By coincidence, on the third day of his return to Princeton, Professor Sarott made a video call with him reporting on the progress of his research over this period.

“… we have performed 200 sets of experiments as you requested and the relevant experimental data have been sent to your email address. But I have to tell you the unfortunate news that we were not observed in the reaction chamber with the kind of caged structural molecules you predicted. With all due respect, using carbon nanotubes to modify the fullerene material is not a good research idea, although it sounds interesting. ”

Sarott's face was exhausted when he said that.

He's been busy with this for the past month, controlling the reaction temperature and reaction time, doing a lot of experiments. Unfortunately, however, there has been no surprising discovery, apart from a complex and useless pile of carbon ash.

Sitting on an office chair, he turned a ballpoint pen canoe with a thoughtful look on his face.

“Nothing? ”

“That's not true,” Sarott shrugged, "although we didn't get what you wanted, we still harvested a lot of samples in the by-products of the experiment that you designed… although I'm not sure what works. ”

A slight movement in the heart of the ark said, "You send me some by-products. ”

Sarott: "Okay, direct to your office at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies? ”

The Ark thought about it and said, "Send it to Frick's Chemical Lab. Just write my name. I'm not sure if the Princeton Institute of Higher Studies receives packages labeled with chemical information. ”

After hanging up the phone, the ark turned on the computer and turned over the e-mail that Sarott had sent to himself.

Data such as product information, quality analysis test results, etc. are listed in the mail.

The experimental report was carefully seen, and finally, the captain took a breath and leaned back against the office chair and fell into thought.

From the macro data, the carbon nanotubes and fullerene materials that opened π bonds did not undergo recombination as he had expected under thermal reaction conditions.

While this is theoretically feasible, from a practical point of view, countless side reactions make this operation fundamentally difficult to achieve.

It's just that he still didn't expect even a microgram of the sample to be collected.

“Looks like we need to redesign the experiment! ”

The ballpoint pen lit gently on the desk and the ark thought in its heart.