After Wang Qi stepped out of the radiance emitted by the calculation device, Chen Feng felt that his expression had turned very strange. He could not help asking, "Hey, what's wrong with you?"
Wang Qi gave a foolish chuckle. "I remember that the founders of your Yangshen Pavilion once had a debate, right?"
Keha'er, the Essence of Soul and Spirit, and Gao Erqi, the Primordial Spirit Network, were the two founders of Yangshen Pavilion. They had been fellow disciples, and through concerted effort had won the Path of Living Beings category of the immortal dao grand gathering, the Auspicious Ceremony. However, Gao Erqi had always believed that the essence of the soul lay in its network structure, while Keha'er believed that the structure itself was unimportant—the individual factors composing that network were the foundation of the soul. In the end, the two still went their separate ways because their paths differed.
Chen Feng found this odd. "There was indeed such a case. But later facts proved that the Primordial Spirit Network's Direct-Link Syncytial Heavenly Net Art was inferior to the Essence of Soul and Spirit's Synaptic Void Chain Soul Skill—why are you asking about this?"
"Suppose, just suppose, there were an immortal art that let you return to the past and join the debate between those two. What would you do?"
Chen Feng answered without thinking, "I already know the outcome of the theories. I would just present the theory, conduct the empirical proof, and the debate would be over."
Damn, I forgot that mathematics was not purely a natural science. You could not settle victory or defeat through experiments.
Unless it was something as intuitively obvious as Non-Euclidean Geometry, it was truly too difficult to argue out a winner in mathematics. Especially in such foundational fields.
Hilbert's structuralism