Super God-Level Top Student

Both reports had been completed, but the group still had to stay in the Capital for two more days to attend Li Jiangao's project defense.

After dinner on Sunday night, Yu Chenggong quietly checked out of the Yanbei hotel and led a group of people to transfer to the Jingcheng International Conference Center, where the Jingqing selection meeting was being held this year.

Although this amounted to wasting a day's room fee, it gave Yu Chenggong a full sense of security, and the school wouldn't mind anyway.

The conference was set to start on Monday, but only the life sciences and chemical sciences sections were being reviewed on Monday and Tuesday. The mathematical and physical sciences section would not start its review until Wednesday.

After attending the opening ceremony on Monday, Qiao Ze also rarely had two free days.

Even though it was his first day in the Capital, Qiao Ze had no desire to go out and explore, and eventually decided to stay in the hotel.

As for the other members of the Xilin University of Technology team, it was not their first time in the Capital, and they had basically visited all the sights of the Capital. Respecting Qiao Ze's reluctance to go out, the others naturally respected his wishes.

The Capital is located on the northern side of Huaxia, and even in clear weather in November, the temperature still hovers around single digits. Coupled with the strong winds and the excessively dry weather of these days, Qiao Ze, who had always lived in the south, couldn't adapt and kept getting nosebleeds. Su Mucheng, who was quite eager to take Qiao Ze out for a tour, also lost interest.

Staying at the hotel always meant having something to do, so Qiao Ze decided to simply summarize his recent thoughts and many drafts, and first work out the paper on the existence of Yang-Mills Theory.

This time it was not Li Jiangao's suggestion. After asking Qiao Ze that day, Li Jiangao chose silence. Then, he told Qiao Ze to choose whether or not to publish this research result.

Because when the Clay Mathematics Institute released the Millennium Problems, they divided this particular problem into two parts: the existence proof for the solution to the Yang-Mills Equations and the mass gap problem.

Had it been someone else, no persuasion would be needed to publish the proof process immediately. As Zhang Hongcai described, truly solving this problem and gaining recognition from the mathematical physics community would definitely reap both fame and fortune.

There is a saying in the mathematical community, "Don't study number theory unless you have a mine at home," which is quite reasonable. Because the vast majority of mathematicians working on number theory studies may never have results worth presenting in their lifetime. But if one solves the Riemann Hypothesis, the P vs NP Problem, or any of the seven Millennium Problems, the situation would be entirely different.

Even those who disdain fame and fortune, too, would not be able to resist publishing, because the more dedicated the mathematician, the more they wish to be recognized.

Just like the Russian mathematician who solved the high-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture.

He can refuse the Clay Institute's prize money, and even not attend a series of conferences, but he still has to publish the paper.

However, Qiao Ze is different after all.

The reason Li Jiangao did not offer advice this time was because he seriously suspected that it might only take Qiao Ze a few years to solve the mass gap problem as well. Presenting a complete paper then would not just cause a tremor, but a volcanic eruption.

So, as for how to choose, Li Jiangao thought it better to let Qiao Ze consider it himself.

As for Qiao Ze's thoughts, they were simple.

For this proposition, he could hardly find anyone to discuss it with now.

Even Xu Changshu could only discuss some mathematical aspects with him.

Although it's said that mathematics and physics are inseparable, at the level of this issue, not having specialized and deeply researched quantum physics, field theories offer little help.

Actually, Qiao Ze had thought about finding a chance to talk to Elder Yang, believing the old man would not refuse.

But considering that Elder Yang was already 101 years old this year, simple conversation might be possible, but high-intensity thinking and argumentation would be too demanding, so he abandoned the idea.

Thus, publishing the mathematical proof process in advance, if it could provoke a wide discussion in the mathematical and physics community, might give him some inspiration.

After all, he was idle anyway.

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When Qiao Ze was immersed in a very concrete mathematical proposition, it always made his thinking clearer and more focused.

The various formulas in his mind seemed to transform into particles moving at the microscopic level, constantly moving along extremely complex geometric structures. It even gave Qiao Ze the illusion that these microscopic particles were no longer always in a state of quantum superposition, as if even the uncertainty principle had lost its effectiveness.

Every single particle moved on its own trajectory, just like in the macroscopic world.

Even those particles that are extremely short-lived, which emerge and decay in the blink of an eye, like the Higgs boson.

It wasn't that Qiao Ze was denying the uncertainty principle, but he suspected that specifically in the microscopic world, the concept of time as defined by macroscopic standards no longer held any meaning.

This can be inferred by using a biological organism as a reference, such as a critical parameter—the speed at which neural signals propagate.

In different media, the speed at which nerve signals propagate has a range of values, for instance, the transmission speed in myelinated somatic nerve fibers is 39-90 meters per second. Therefore, theoretically speaking, the shorter the distance, the shorter the time required for signal propagation.

This is also why elephants are much slower than humans.

Similarly, at the level of microscopic particles, the Planck scale is currently the smallest scale that human scientific theory can study. Exceeding it would result in a transformation into a black hole, and the time it takes light to travel the Planck distance has been defined as Planck time.