Undergraduates, I've Never Mentored One

"How does it feel?" Retracting the gravity, Bai Jing asked.

"I think I can no longer sense the Hulk's presence!" The expression on Banner's face was thirty percent surprise, thirty percent sorrow, and forty percent bewilderment.

It was naturally something to be happy about that the Hulk, who had troubled him for so long, was resolved, but the Hulk had also accompanied him for five years.

Even if someone raised a cat or a dog, they would develop feelings for it.

"Actually, there is still one more sad thing to tell you!" Seeing that Banner looked somewhat happy, Bai Jing forced a sorrowful look and said, "In fact, the Hulk only left temporarily!"

"Temporarily?" Banner was dumbfounded.

"I found a hole inside your body, and the other side of the hole is entirely filled with that green energy that allows you to transform. Right now, I've only absorbed the energy on this side of the hole, but the energy on the other side is still seeping through this hole, and it will be back to its original scale before long!" Bai Jing described what that hole looked like: "Can you understand what I mean by this?"

"A hole?" Banner blinked: "Inside my body, moving along with me? And connecting to another world?"

Bai Jing nodded.

"This." Banner frowned and thought for a moment. As a top physicist and biologist, he naturally habitualized trying to explain this matter using scientific theories.

"Could it be because that beam of gamma rays pierced through some pocket dimension?"

"What is a pocket dimension?" Bai Jing asked.

"We generally consider our universe to be a perfect three-dimensional universe, but nothing perfect exists in this world; it might develop wrinkles, it might become distorted..." Banner said: "If a piece of paper has a wrinkle occur at a certain point, then a second plane that doesn't belong to this paper will be born. The three-dimensional universe is the same. If a wrinkle occurs, a second universe attached to our universe will be born!" Banner said: "This universe might be very small, or it might be very large, and it might possess the same rules as us or completely different ones. Even our universe itself might be a wrinkle on the body of another universe. It's just like the pocket on a person's clothes, so we generally also call this kind of universe a pocket universe, or a pocket dimension!"

"This sounds quite easy to understand!" Bai Jing nodded. Weren't these just greater chiliocosm and lesser chiliocosm worlds? Concepts frequently used in Xianxia Novels from his past life.

"However, there was previously no evidence for the existence of a pocket universe. I should conduct research targeting this universe, and perhaps I can figure something out—like why the energy existing in this universe can allow me to transform!"

"So the energy inside isn't gamma ray energy?" Hearing this, Bai Jing was stunned. He had always been absorbing that mass of energy as gamma ray energy!

"Gamma rays are like the key that opens that door. The energy inside is definitely not gamma rays; I've never found gamma rays to have the ability to make people transform," Banner shook his head and said.

"Alright!" Bai Jing nodded, yet he felt somewhat apprehensive. He had just absorbed so much energy, wouldn't there be any problems?

However, it seemed he didn't feel any bad changes in his vision either; on the contrary, his sight had improved a lot.

"But before that..." Banner looked at Bai Jing. He had no choice but to latch onto Bai Jing.

After all, besides Bai Jing, no one else in this world could help him with treatment.

"Don't worry, leave it to me!" Bai Jing nodded, then pulled out a mobile phone and called Ryan.

"A boat will come to pick us up in a moment!" Bai Jing said.

"Good!" Banner nodded, then looked at Bai Jing: "Is your ability also because of radiation?"

"That's not it!" Bai Jing shook his head: "I think it's probably because of spacetime compression, which gave me superpowers!"

"Oh, oh!" Banner nodded. Since Bai Jing was unwilling to elaborate, naturally he wouldn't ask further.

"Oh right, Dr. Banner, do you recruit research students or PhD candidates?" Bai Jing asked again.

"Eh?" Banner scratched his head: "I am certainly qualified to mentor PhD students, but at the time I was engaged in classified missions, so I didn't take any. Why do you ask?"

"I just got an acceptance letter from Columbia University and am preparing to study over there. If I have a scientist by my side, wouldn't it be even better to study directly following you?"

In the Marvel Universe, Banner was a powerhouse whose IQ ranked in the top three, second only to Mr. Fantastic Reed and Doctor Doom.

Let's not even mention the seven degrees; in the later stages, he even directly created devices capable of traveling through parallel universes and time, which was simply awesome to the max.

Compared to him, Tony Stark was just a little brother, and Spider-Man Peter Parker—who invented web-shooters—had Banner among the pictures of scientists pasted up in his classroom when he was in elementary school.

Imagine what kind of figures were pasted all over the walls of your classroom when you were in elementary school.

Studying with such a person, Bai Jing didn't feel awkward in the slightest.

"Haha..." Banner was actually quite pleased: "The standard of Columbia University is still very high, but it doesn't mean much to us. As long as we study physics, we can figure out everything in this world!"

Talking about his own discipline, Banner was undoubtedly proud.

Although he was also a biologist, biology was actually just something he picked up along the way. When generally introducing himself, he still said he was a physicist.

Because physicists had high status.

Of course, he didn't actually need to introduce himself either, because his research projects had produced a significant impact on the world, and few people did not know Banner.

What he researched was quantum field theory, which belonged to the highest level among physicists, situated at the very top of the natural science chain of contempt, and together with general relativity, they were known as the two giants of natural sciences.

Nuclear physics, particle physics, atomic physics, chemistry, astrophysics, mechanics, solid state physics, mechanical engineering, fluid dynamics, sociology, and electromagnetism—beneath quantum field theory, they were all little brothers with zero presence.

Of course, Banner was very modest and not the type of person to go around looking down on others.

By the way, Yang Zhenning was also a scientist in this field, and peers in this domain also included Feynman, Pauli, Heisenberg, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Schrödinger...

"Quantum field theory is a physical theory combining quantum mechanics, special relativity, and classical field theory. It is generally used to describe multi-particle systems, especially systems containing particle generation and annihilation processes!" Seeing that the boat hadn't arrived yet, Banner simply decided to explain some basic things to Bai Jing first.

"To want to study quantum field theory, first we must know what a particle is and what a field is. Particles are the various smallest substances that we can confirm to exist in a free state under our existing experimental level. Electrons, photons, neutrons, and protons are the earliest batch of particles we understood, and up until now we have discovered a massive number of particles—mesons and resonance states. Currently, the number of particles reaches into the hundreds..."

Bai Jing wore a blank expression. What are you even saying?

"As for fields, they are another form of substance existence. The primary characteristic of fields is that they are diffused throughout all space; they permeate each other and interact with each other. Each kind of particle corresponds to a kind of field, the excitation of a field manifests as the appearance of particles, and the de-excitation of a field manifests as the annihilation of particles..."

"Right, do you previously have a foundation in quantum mechanics and particle physics? What did you study in university before?"

Finally, there was a sentence Bai Jing could understand.

"I studied Electrical Engineering and Automation?" Bai Jing was somewhat embarrassed. Other sciences were at least still within the natural science chain of contempt, but his discipline didn't even qualify for being looked down upon.

Banner fell silent. He thought for a moment, and hesitated as he said: "Undergraduates, I've never mentored one!"

Bai Jing was speechless. Suddenly, he turned his head and pointed to the distant lights. At this moment, he only felt how wonderful the engine sound of that yacht was.

"Dr. Banner, the boat is here!"

"Oh, let me recommend a few books for you first. You can study them on your own first, and come ask me if you encounter difficulties..."

"Alright, alright, alright..."