The Scholar's Grind
Chapter 183

Submitting to "Nature"

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As soon as everyone heard Luo Mingya's words, they all immediately looked at Xiao Yi who was present.

Indeed.

At this time, Academician Liao smiled and said to Xiao Yi, "Xiao Yi, you just watched the defense, so you can evaluate it too."

As he spoke, he handed the microphone to Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi had no choice but to take the microphone and then said, "Well... first of all, let me correct what Luo Mingya said. You are the best student today. After all, I am already a professor, so you have to call me Professor Xiao."

Everyone present laughed, and Xu Ming and the others behind them laughed even more.

Probably, only Xiao Yi has the ability to say this to their senior sister.

Luo Mingya on the stage rolled his eyes.

But who could have thought of this?

Xiao Yi, who was an undergraduate last year, graduated directly with a doctorate this year and even became their professor.

"Of course, no matter what, this paper by classmate Luo Mingya has fully reached the level of an outstanding doctoral student, and it is still at the highest level. Even in academia, it can be said to be worth learning by everyone. This is my evaluation."

Regarding Xiao Yi's high praise, Luo Mingya smiled, then winked at Xiao Yi and said, "Thank you, Professor Xiao~"

The last, elongated "Professor Xiao" sentence made Xu Ming and the others, who had to face the abuse of senior sister's inhumane words almost every day, widen their eyes. 

Xu Ming: "No, this is our senior sister?"

Liu Chao: "Something is wrong, something very wrong."

Zhao Yuanyuan: "Hiss~"

With Xiao Yi's evaluation completed, logically, Sun Lina, as the mentor, would have to comment anyway, but she just asked, "Are you really not going to stay?"

Then Luo Mingya has only one word. "No."

Then Sun Lina went back again.

In this way, Luo Mingya's defense comes to an end.

Then the group photo began. Luo Mingya held the flowers that had been prepared and started to take pictures with the academicians of the defense committee.

As for her degree certificate, etc., you need to wait for a while to get it.

Probably only Xiao Yi can enjoy the benefits of getting a degree certificate directly like Xiao Yi.

This kind of group photo has nothing to do with Xiao Yi. After all, it is the business of teachers Luo Mingya and School of Materials Science.

Including Sun Lina no longer felt weak and went up to take a photo with his cousin and student.

Then people started to disperse.

Xiao Yi stepped forward and sent his congratulations. "Congratulations, you graduated."

Luo Mingya smiled, "It's all a matter of time."

Xiao Yi asked, "I'm still curious as to why you suddenly plan to graduate."

Luo Mingya replied, "I probably heard what you said."

"My words?"

Xiao Yi showed a confused expression.

The salty fish eyes of Sun Lina next to him immediately turned into dead fish eyes, and he looked at Xiao Yi: "Professor Xiao, you actually plan to kidnap my cousin? This is not kind!"

Xiao Yi: "???"

Luo Mingya rolled his eyes at Sun Lina angrily and said, "Sun Lina, what have you been thinking about all day? What I said about Xiao Yi is what Xiao Yi said on CCTV, 'Never give up your curiosity about problems.'"

"I think what you said is right, so I think it's time to explore my most curious question."

Xiao Yi was stunned, was it because of his words?

"What's the problem?"

Luo Mingya shook his head apologetically and looked at Academician Li who was wearing military uniform over there.

Xiao Yi nodded clearly, it turned out to be a confidential question.

So he didn't ask any more questions, and then said, "No matter what, I wish you success first."

"Thank you."

Luo Mingya smiled slightly, and then asked, "So, what's the matter with you coming here?"

"Oh, I wanted to borrow your materials laboratory." Xiao Yi smiled sheepishly, "Then I met Professor Chen on the way and learned that you were conducting your graduation defense here, so I came over."

"That's it." Luo Mingya squeezed his hand imperceptibly, then nodded and said, "Of course, you can use our laboratory at any time, but I should be leaving tomorrow. Then you can just go to Sun Lina."

She looked at Sun Lina next to her and said, "Sun Lina, did you hear that?"

"I know, I know." Sun Lina waved his hand and said angrily, "Really, everyone is leaving, and you still want to control our laboratory, right?"

Luo Mingya gestured OK to Xiao Yi and said, "Okay, until your Science Island Laboratory is built, you can use our laboratory in the future."

"Thank you." Xiao Yi nodded.

"By the way, can I take a photo with you?" Luo Mingya suddenly joked, "Maybe when I come back next time, you will become an academician or something, and I won't be able to climb up to you by then."

Xiao Yi laughed and said, "How is this possible? I also want to invite you to come to Science Island Laboratory as a researcher after you come back."

"Really?"

"Why are you lying to me?" Xiao Yi shrugged and said, "I just hope you Dean Fei won't blame me when the time comes."

Luo Mingya chuckled, "Fortunately Dean Fei is not here, otherwise he would definitely be in a hurry with you."

"I'm still here." Sun Lina next to her said at this time. She glanced at Xiao Yi, crossed her arms and said, "Professor Xiao, so you really want to kidnap our Mingya?"

Xiao Yi said to her, "Professor Sun can also consider coming to Science Island Laboratory by then. I also extend my warm welcome."

"Well, this..." Sun Lina hesitated immediately. "Let me think about it."

Xiao Yi smiled, "Just think about it slowly."

"Don't think about it, take a photo of me and Xiao Yi first." Luo Mingya handed the phone to Sun Lina.

"Okay, okay." Sun Lina took the phone and stretched out his hand to direct the two people to stand.

Until the end. 

"Crack!"

A shutter sound sounded on the phone, leaving a photo of the two of them. 

The matter is over. Luo Mingya did not return to the laboratory. There are probably some things to deal with.

Xiao Yi came to their laboratory and started experiments.

The main purpose is to prepare various high-temperature superconductors, such as cuprate superconductors and iron-based superconductors, and then use various experimental equipment to analyze and measure these superconductor materials. Then based on the measurement results and these samples, he launches his Material Mastery to achieve the final optimization of XSC theory.

Just like that, the day passed.

The next day, Luo Mingya also set foot on the road to the military project, seemingly in a hurry.

Xiao Yi originally thought it was because the project was urgently needed, but later he realized that it was just Luo Mingya who wanted to go there as soon as possible.

It also made him curious about what this mysterious project was researching.

However, it was a secret after all, so he could only tighten his curiosity.

Time began to pass slowly.

Next, Xiao Yi, who went to Sun Lina's laboratory whenever he had nothing to do, seemed to have inadvertently replaced the identity of Luo Mingya's senior sister and became Xu Ming's senior brother. When Xu Ming and the others encountered problems in their research, Xiao Yi would occasionally provide guidance.

Of course, the main reason is that I often use other people's laboratories, and I would feel bad if I didn't do anything for them.

In addition, Sun Lina finally reluctantly stopped doing research and started doing research. Xu Ming and the others were amazed. It turned out that their teacher had such awesome skills?

He is indeed a veteran genius who also came out of Gifted Class.

In this way, about a month passed.

"OK, finally done!"

In the dormitory, Xiao Yi looked at the paper on the computer and showed a satisfied smile.

A month later, he has optimized XSC theory to the point of perfection from an academic point of view.

Various phenomena under high-temperature superconductors can be mathematically approximated with the help of this optimized theory. Even if there are still experimental errors, these errors can be ignored.

The most important thing is that he found the connection point between Copper Oxide High-Temperature Superconductor and Iron-Based High-Temperature Superconductor, allowing them to be classified into such a superconducting mechanism.

This is probably an incredible breakthrough for superconducting physics.

You know, in actual research, there are differences in the superconducting mechanism between Copper Oxide High-Temperature Superconductor like Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide and Iron-Based High-Temperature Superconductor like FeSCs.

But Xiao Yi unifies the two mechanisms!

Unification, whether it is physics, mathematics, or anything else, is an extremely important thing.

"But the problem is that those low-temperature iron-based superconductors, as well as BCS theory, cannot be unified with XSC theory."

"There's still something missing."

Xiao Yi pondered.

But no matter how he thought about it, he could not find the similarities between so many different superconductors for the time being.

"It's impossible that the superconducting mechanism cannot achieve unification, right?"

He frowned.

One of his scientific philosophy is that all problems can be unified theoretically.

Just like the grand unified theory pursued by the physics community, and Langlands Program pursued by the mathematics community.

But now...

These superconducting mechanisms are too complex to describe a single phenomenon.

For a moment, he couldn't help but think jokingly.

Could it be that after he unifies all these mechanisms, it will even help him find room-temperature superconductors?

"Okay, it's better not to think so much."

He shook his head and looked at the paper on the computer.

"Publish the paper."

Who will I submit to this time?

Finally, without much thought, he settled on his goal.

After some manipulation on the computer, he submitted the paper to "Natue". The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity was such a major breakthrough that Natue would not reject it.

After finishing this matter, he was shocked. "Okay, the high-temperature superconducting mechanism is figured out, and the next step... is to synthesize high-temperature superconductors."

This is the real big project!

Theoretical things can always only be limited to theory. Only by truly practicing can the correctness of the theory be finally verified.

"And maybe, if I synthesize the high-temperature superconductor I want, it can also help me unify all superconducting theories?"

Such thoughts made him smile, "It's useless to think so much. Let's synthesize a high-temperature superconductor that can replace niobium-titanium alloy first."

"As for now..."

He touched his belly and said, "It's time to eat."

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