It is an honor for this old man to win the Nobel Prize.

...

Let’s get back to the topic. In Xu Chuan’s view, arranging gravitational wave-related experiments in the collision experiments in the first half of this year is a complete waste of money.

With the current collision energy level of the LHC, even if it is turned to the maximum, it can at most create an extremely small black hole with a diameter of more than the negative twentieth power.

Even if such a black hole could produce gravitational waves, current detection equipment would not be able to detect them at all.

In Xu Chuan's opinion, the gravitational waves produced by the black holes knocked out by the Large Strong Particle Collider are no higher than those of two cars colliding.

To detect such weak gravitational waves, the current detection equipment may not be able to do so unless it evolves to a dozen or so levels.

So arranging a collision experiment is a complete waste of time and money.

Xu Chuan had no interest in this at all.

On the side, Witten spread his hands and said: "But there is nothing we can do. We always hope to do something big, but the current equipment and theory simply do not support it."

After a pause, he then sighed: "With the development of the physics community, to be honest, nothing new has appeared for a long time. We are still tinkering with the previous standard model."

"It will be impossible to verify my m-theory for at least a century, and other things..."

"To be honest, I'm very pessimistic."

As he spoke, the old man sighed again and shook his head slightly.

Regarding this, Xu Chuan had a different view. He smiled and comforted: "That won't happen."

"Technology is always developing, and it's faster than you and I can imagine."

"Perhaps in the near future we will find something beyond the Standard Model?"

Witten smiled and said, "I hope so."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Definitely."

.......

The days at Princeton passed little by little. After confirming that there were no collision experiments that he was interested in in the first half of this year, Xu Chuan focused his attention on his target 'manifold'.

This is the first and most important learning goal, which is related to the existence and smoothness of the solution to the ns equation, and is also related to the mathematical control of turbulence simulation.

Regarding manifolds, the two most important directions are topological manifolds and differential manifolds.

Thanks to his previous research on the Hodge conjecture, he has a certain foundation in both aspects, but that is not enough. The Hodge conjecture and the Navier-Stokes equation are problems in two different fields.

He needs more complete basic knowledge of topological manifolds and differential manifolds.

Fortunately, the Flintstone Library can fully meet this requirement. He only needs to go there to borrow books, materials, and download papers.

Time passed like this day by day, and soon it was mid-March.

Xu Chuan, who was immersed in his studies, received a call from Witten and hurried over.

On March 14, 2018, a major earthquake occurred in the physics world.

World-renowned great physicist Stephen William Hawking has died at the age of 76.

This news stunned Xu Chuan for a long time.

Compared with the previous Professor Mirzakhani, he is undoubtedly more familiar with Hawking.

He had already experienced Hawking's death once in his previous life, and experiencing it again in this life still made him feel like he was suddenly separated from the rest of the world, and he also felt a sense of melancholy in his heart.

All living beings in the long river of time are as small as dust. Even the most outstanding people only exude their own brilliance for a short time, and then extinguish and submerge in the long river of time.

Sighing, Xu Chuan threw out some of the messy thoughts in his mind and cheered up again.

Everyone is a history, some stories have been written, and some stories are still being written; some people live to leave a name through the ages, and some live to live a happy life.

And he lives because he wants to make up for the regrets of his previous life and to see further places.

...

At the end of March, after attending Mr. Hawking's funeral, Xu Chuan finally remembered that he still held the position of full professor at Princeton University under the tactful reminder of Fefferman, the chairman of the mathematics department.

A month and a half has passed since the Spring Festival started, but he has not taught a single class except for four students.

The long period of inactivity made Fefferman, a good friend who had been with him for many years, unable to stand it anymore.

On the other hand, Deligne, who was also a professor in the Department of Mathematics, didn't care about this at all. Xu Chuan went to him almost every two or three days, and he didn't even bother.

In addition to teaching students, professors at Princeton University also have basic class tasks, although many full professors leave them to their doctoral students or assistant professors to complete.

But you have to start classes anyway.

It doesn't make sense that classes aren't even open.
Chapter completed!