A Promising Situation
"I just wanted to exchange ideas with Professor Lu. Could you please provide me with a copy of these sample data? Thank you."
After obtaining the data, Shen Qi, under Professor Lu's guidance, operated the Radio Telescope to capture radio signals from NGC 3115 and NGC 4258 in the Milky Way.
NGC3115 and NGC4258, with masses 2 billion and 36 million times that of the Sun respectively, were first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope and are well-known black holes in the Milky Way.
When astronomers first start Radio Telescope, they often use these two black holes as practice.
Radio signals describe facts invisible to the human eye, and the black holes shown by synthetic aperture imaging are completely different from those in science fiction movies.
The image of NGC 4258 on Earth is a dark, indistinct cloud. The orbital velocity of its maser source as a function of the radius of its center of motion is known, and the disk surrounding the black hole is somewhat distorted.
"Black holes in science fiction movies are artistic depictions, while black holes in the eyes of astronomers are just a bunch of data." Shen Qi finished the operation, said goodbye to Professor Lu, and returned to Yanda University with the data.
With data, you can write popular science articles.
"Since scientists proposed in the 1970s that the Black Hole Horizon is proportional to its entropy, the study of black hole thermodynamics has made great progress, but the origin of black hole entropy is still unclear."
"To this end, people have proposed various methods for calculating the entropy of black holes, such as the Brick-Wall method and its improved thin-layer model, String Theory, and single-loop quantum gravity theory."
"The study of black hole entropy must take into account the quantum effects of black holes, that is, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle must be considered when black holes absorb and radiate particles."
"The key issue is that the original Heisenberg uncertainty principle must be modified in the strong gravitational field of a black hole. Based on a large amount of observational data, this paper modifies it as follows..."
Through calculations, Shen Qi derived a modified form of black hole entropy: SE = (1 + 2α^2lp^2β^2/l^2 + 8Q^β^2/πl^2)S + α^2lp^2π/4lns...
The final conclusion is that the black hole entropy correction method in this paper is applicable to large-scale theories and is consistent with many conclusions obtained from String Theory.
Compared to GUP (Generalized Uncertainty Principle), the black hole entropy correction method in this paper has a wider range of applications. It is effective for black holes with single event horizons and non-extreme inner event horizons, and can correct the black hole entropy in complex spacetimes. This provides some reference for us to further understand the internal workings of black holes.
"It's quite informative; most readers should be able to understand it." After finishing this popular science article about black holes, Shen Qi called Yang Ding Tian to the Director's Office: "Dingtian, your undergraduate major was astronomy. Can you understand this article I wrote?"
Yang Ding Tian studied it for half an hour, then nodded and said, "I can understand about 70-80% of it."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy." Shen Qi understood the situation and then revised the article about black holes.
Yang Ding Tian, a top student majoring in astronomy in his undergraduate studies, could only understand about 70-80% of it. That wouldn't do; it was still too profound.
Shen Qi simplified the Mathematical Physics derivations and calculations, added popular science content with textual descriptions, and then showed it to Yang Ding Tian again.
This time, Yang Ding Tian: "So Professor Shen supports String Theory."
"Of course I support it; the bigwig in String Theory is my physics mentor."
"Is Witten your mentor?"
"Yes, so Witten is your ancestor."
"This is so exciting!" Yang Ding Tian discovered that he had come from a prestigious family, and that Witten and Shen Qi were far more capable than his previous master's supervisor, Professor Chang.
Shen Qi submitted his article on black hole entropy to Science, and it was published shortly afterward.
System: "New achievement! The host has published a physics paper in <Science>, with a base reward of 50,000 Academic Points. Multiplied by the journal's IF value of 41.346, the final reward is 2,067,300 Academic Points. Remaining balance: 29,893,918 Academic Points. Please confirm."
Sure, that's very scientific. Shen Qi quickly and efficiently completed a scientific paper, earning over two million academic points.
Continuing his efforts, Shen Qi completed another popular science article about black holes using different mathematical processing methods.
"The formation of black hole accretion and jets is considered to be scale-invariant, and the fundamental relationship of black hole accretion can be expressed by an empirical formula consisting of black hole mass and radio/X-ray luminosity."
"With the support of the Nangang University of Technology Astronomical Observatory, and through a large amount of observational data, this paper calculates a new fundamental expression for the relationship between black hole activity surfaces: dL(z)=c/H0(1+z)∫[ΩΛ+Ωm(1+z')^3]^-1/2dz..."
"The results further demonstrate the high degree of consistency in the fundamental relationship between X-ray/radio luminosity and mass of black holes, providing new insights for our future research on black holes."
Shen Qi submitted his second article on black holes to Science, less than a month after the first article on black holes was published.
The editorial department of Science magazine attached great importance to Shen Qi's rapid submission of manuscripts. They assigned an experienced editor to contact Shen Qi directly. This editor did nothing but communicate with Shen Qi.
The editor, named Clay, contacted Shen Qi via email. "Professor Shen, from now on, when you submit articles to Science, you don't need to go through the submission system; just send them to me directly. Actually, you've already published two articles in Science, one on earthquake models, and the other on black hole entropy, which was just accepted. I received another article from you yesterday, also related to black holes, so Professor Shen, are you planning to write a series on black holes?"
Shen Qi replied, "Dear Mr. Clay, my black hole series has two articles in total, and I will continue to write other series to fulfill my duty as a popular General Physics. Thank you for your support."
A week later, Shen Qi's second article in the black hole series, "A New Fundamental Expression for the Active Surface of Black Holes," was published in Science.
Even if Shen Qi is incredibly good at fabricating stories, he can only write a maximum of two different popular science papers based on the same set of data. The two black hole articles together bring in 4,134,600 academic points.
Shen Qi published a series of articles in the journal Science in a short period of time, and both of them were related to astrophysics and cosmology. To be more specific, both articles were related to black holes.
This has attracted the attention of the academic community. What exactly is Shen Qi trying to do?
The project leader in charge of the 973 Program approached Shen Qi and asked, "Professor Shen, weren't you focusing your efforts on Condensed Matter Physics? Why are you so interested in black holes lately?"
Shen Qi explained, "Leader, I haven't stopped the Condensed Matter Physics project under the 973 Program, and it's progressing smoothly. The two black hole articles I published are for popular science purposes; I funded them myself, so they won't take up any resources from the 973 Program."
The leader just asked a few questions and didn't say anything, after all, publishing articles in Science is a good research achievement.
Meanwhile, Xiao Junlong's "A Study of Moran Set" was published in the "London Mathematical Society Journal," a well-known journal in the Mathematics Community, second only to the Top Four Journals in terms of reputation.
The Shen Qi Mathematical and Physical Research Center has seen promising results in the first two quarters of this year, with both mathematics and physics fields flourishing.