One Stone Stirs Up a Thousand Waves
Shen Qi's report concluded, causing a stir in the academic community.
Nature reporter Miles was originally conducting an interview with the Shen Qi Mathematical and Physical Research Center when he happened to be there during Shen Qi's lecture, which he attended in its entirety.
Miles quickly produced a briefing on the latest developments in the academic community, which was published in Nature.
"This lecture was held at Yenching University, presented by Professor Shen Qi, and broadcast live globally. Shen Qi Team claimed to have solved a problem in Superstring Theory: the optimal choice is the Carbilo- Qiu Chengtong space with an absolute Euler Number of 6. Furthermore, Shen Qi predicted that all five independent theories within M-theory describe the universe."
"But that wasn't all the report had to offer. In the final stage, Shen Qi presented a groundbreaking new hypothesis: he constructed a tree network with a conch shell structure, representing the entirety of physics."
According to Shen Qi, the physical framework of this conch-shaped structure will guide physicists to upgrade their research methods from a trial-and-error mode to a 'planned execution' mode.
"However, within the physics framework of the 'Shen Qi Conjecture,' he didn't specify which research field lay above M-theory; he simply labeled it as 'Physics of Tomorrow' and 'The Hidden.'"
"It is noteworthy that the conch shell in Shen Qi Conjecture does not contain Dark Matter or Dark Energy. Could we interpret this to mean that Shen Qi does not believe that Dark Matter and Dark Energy exist in the universe?"
In this report, Miles refers to Shen Qi's conception of physics as the "Shen Qi Conjecture." At the same time, Miles objectively points out several unresolved mysteries in the "Shen Qi Conjecture."
The international Physics Community was shaken.
Shen Qi 'Shen Qi report contained a wealth of information, and different schools of thought in the international Physics Community commented on it based on their respective research directions.
The "Superstring Alliance," whose core members are physicists from Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and Caltech, excitedly shouted that, in their view, Superstring Theory had finally achieved self-consistency, and Shen Qi had filled the last loophole in the theory.
This same group of people were full of confidence in the further improvement of M-theory, and their comments on Shen Qi were full of praise. They said that Shen Qi should win the Nobel Prize in Physics for the third time.
These same American scholars showed great interest in the physics conch shell framework constructed in the "Shen Qi Conjecture." Overall, they temporarily agreed with the core idea of the "Shen Qi Conjecture," which is to lead physicists into a "execute according to plan" mode.
Meanwhile, there was widespread skepticism in Europe, because Shen Qi had publicly denied the existence of Dark Matter.
To prove the existence of Dark Matter, European physicists launched state-of-the-art detectors into space and predicted that more than 90% of the matter in the universe is composed of Dark Matter.
European physicists, of course, could not accept Shen Qi's conjecture; if Shen Qi was correct, then the whole of Europe was wrong.
"We positively acknowledge Professor Shen Qi's research achievements in Superstring Theory. However, we believe that the conch shell in the so-called 'Shen Qi Conjecture' has too many logical flaws in its construction." --- A strong voice from the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
The Max Planck Institute is Germany's most prestigious non-profit research institution, with its research funding primarily coming from the German government; it is essentially the highest Chinese Academy of Sciences of sciences in any country.
The Max Planck Institute, the leading institution of the European Dark Matter Alliance, has explicitly questioned the validity of the "Shen Qi Conjecture".
Shen Qi had long anticipated that once his conch shell was released, it would inevitably provoke strong opposition from some physicists.
Not to mention the Max Planck Institute in Europe, even some physicists in China were skeptical of Shen Qi's conch shell.
Cao Yigang, the newly appointed dean of the Physics Department of the Yanjing University Physics Department, is an academician of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He recently went on a business trip to Europe, and the destination happened to be the Max Planck Institute.
Dean Cao watched Shen Qi's global live broadcast in Germany, and then flew back to China the next day, rushing to the Shen Qi Mathematical and Physical Research Center.
"Where is Academician Shen? Shen Qi, come out here!" Dean Cao searched from the Director's Office on the top floor of the center to the underground computer room, but found no trace of Shen Qi.
"Academician Cao, Teacher Cao, please don't get agitated, let's talk slowly." Zhou Yu'an, the center's "second-in-command," carefully accompanied Dean Cao.
The phrase "second-in-command" was in quotation marks because Zhou Yu'an has not yet received official recognition as the center's deputy director; Yenching University has not formally promoted Zhou Yu'an to deputy director of the center.
Although Zhou Yu'an has achieved certain success in mathematics, he is still too young, only in his early thirties.
The center director is a dual academician of China and a foreign academician of four scientifically advanced countries in Europe and America. Shouldn't the deputy director of the center first become a single academician of China to be eligible to compete for the position?
When Shen Qi is away on business from the capital, his supervisor usually delegates his authority to only one person: Zhou Yu'an.
Zhou Yu'an had signed many documents on behalf of Shen Qi. Of course, these documents were mostly research project proposals in the field of mathematics, with the application amount generally not exceeding 100,000 yuan.
Zhou Yu'an never signs documents outside of mathematics that exceed 100,000 yuan. In such cases, he usually only says one thing, "Let's wait for Director Shen to return."
Shen Qi trusts Zhou Yu'an a lot. If Zhou Yu'an wants to advance further, he needs to work harder and hold himself to higher standards, both academically and politically.
Today, Zhou Yu'an, the center's "designated second-in-command," was all smiles as he dealt with the dean of the Physics Department. What could he do? Old Cao was the dean, an academician, and a top physicist in China. Zhou, a mere "designated second-in-command" without any official title, had to keep a low profile.
"Teacher Cao, come to my office, I'll brew you a pot of tea. It's excellent tea, the finest Longjing. Most importantly, this tea set of mine has a very distinguished history; it's said to date back to the Daoguang era..."
"Xiao Zhou, can you please change your indecisive personality?" Dean Cao had no intention of going for tea with Zhou Yu'an. He shouted loudly, as if he had come to cause trouble, "Shen Qi, you come out here and explain yourself!"
Zhou Yu'an knew that Dean Cao was a Theoretical Physics Dean Cao main research area was Dark Matter.
Shen Qi's recent statement, which included a conch shell, can be seen as a subtle signal: the research direction of Dark Matter has no future.
"Director Shen isn't at the center. Why don't you come another day, Teacher Cao?" Zhou Yu'an didn't want to provoke Dean Cao, who was in a bad mood, but he also didn't want to betray his leader or his brother, so he could only play it safe.
"Is your Director Shen away on a business trip?" Dean Cao asked.
"I don't know, I don't think so. Why don't you call Director Shen, Teacher Cao?"
"I tried calling, but couldn't get through, and the phone was switched off! That's why I came to your center to talk to Shen Qi in person!"
"Teacher Cao, which number did you call?"
"The one with 138!"
"Oh, maybe Director Shen's phone number 138 is out of battery. Why don't you call him at 133?"
"Give me number 133."
"1331024..."
Finally, Dean Cao contacted Shen Qi: "Director Shen, this is Cao Yigang. Where are you? What? You're at home taking care of the baby? It's only 10 a. m., are you late or leaving early...? What? The baby's sick? I understand, I understand, I'll contact you another day... By the way, what's wrong with your daughter? If it's serious, we need to take her to the hospital right away... What? The baby's unhappy, what kind of illness is that?"