367 You Probably Can't Understand It In This Life (2/3)

Chapter 367 You probably won't realize it in your life (23)

He didn't stay in Greifswald for a long time. The day after visiting the Helix 7-X laboratory, Lu Zhou and Professor Klitzing returned to Berlin.

It has been almost a month since I came to Germany. Although Lu Zhou has gained a lot during this period, there are still a lot of things in Princeton waiting for him to complete, and it is almost time to return. when.

After booking the air ticket for the weekend, Lu Zhou stopped by to visit the University of Bonn, and the president of the Max Planck Society, Stramann, personally drove him to Berlin Tegel International Airport.

When getting out of the car, the gray-haired old man held Lu Zhou's hand and said with a smile, "Thank you for the speech you brought to Berlin. We sincerely look forward to your next visit, and sincerely hope that you will climb higher on the academic road." high peak."

"I will," Lu Zhou smiled friendly while holding the hand of President Straman, and continued in a humorous tone, "Even if it is for the magnificent scenery along the way, I will continue on this road." go down."

After bidding farewell to President Straman, Lu Zhou dragged his suitcase through the waiting hall and boarded the plane all the way.

After a ten-hour flight, I finally landed at JFK International Airport in New York.

This time he came back without notifying anyone in advance, Lu Zhou had a rare experience of the slow train.

All the way to the familiar town of Princeton, it was naturally his students who greeted him.

To celebrate his Holff Medal, a group of young people had a party in front of Lu Zhou's hut at Hardy's suggestion.

However, the food at the party this time was not Hardy’s self-proclaimed authentic Brazilian barbecue, but one of Huaguo’s roadside delicacies—kebabs.

After going abroad for so long, it was the first time for Lu Zhou to experience the feeling of a skewer abroad.

The only regret is that there is no beer in the refrigerator, only fruity champagne, which is not authentic enough.

Sitting on the lawn, Lu Zhou couldn't help but think of the three little friends in 201 when he was rolling skewers.

After graduation, the trajectories of their lives have no intersection, and they have basically lost contact with each other in normal times, and they don't know how they are doing now.

At this moment, Hardy, with a hippie smile, came over with a bottle of champagne.

"Professor, can I interview you?"

Lu Zhou said casually, "If it's a normal problem."

"Don't worry, it must be a normal question." Clearing his throat, Hardy said, "Excuse me, what kind of experience is it to be honored by the chemistry community as a mathematician?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "Probably... it's an experience you'll never experience in your life."

"Oh, professor, it's really hurtful for you to say that. I'm also one of your chief disciples." Hardy said with a shocked expression on his face, "You can't have more confidence in me ?"

Looking at Hardy, who was shocked on the surface but didn't take it seriously at all, Lu Zhou felt a little heartbroken.

Not for this silly boy, but for himself.

At that time, what advantage did I see in this guy, so I sent this guy an offer?

This question still haunts him to this day...

In the second half of the party, Brother Luo, who had just talked about a new girlfriend, finally came late.

It's just that this time he didn't bring his girlfriend over, instead he brought good news.

After several months of hard work, with the help of Wei Wen, he finally completed his graduation thesis.

The paper "Research on the Coherent State of q-Distortion Harmonic Oscillators in Finite-dimensional Hilbert Space" was finally accepted by the journal "PHYS-TODAY" and will be published within half a year.

This journal is considered a comprehensive journal. Although the impact factor is not high, only 4.3, but for a doctoral student, especially in the field of theoretical physics, this score is quite good.

Moreover, the impact factor is not the only criterion for measuring the academic value of journals. Witten, his boss, occasionally "waters" on "PHYS-TODAY".

After this paper is published, if nothing else happens, he will be able to successfully obtain his Ph.D. at the beginning of next year.

"Thank you so much, you are my savior!" As soon as we met at the party, Luo Wenxuan found Lu Zhou, hugged his shoulders excitedly, "I must buy you a drink sometime!"

"You don't need to thank me, it's Wei Wen who helped you," Lu Zhou said with a smile as he stepped back half a step, "Of course, if you must buy me a drink, I won't object."

"Actually, I didn't help much," Wei Wen coughed lightly, as if he was not used to being praised so much, and explained solemnly, "At most, I am only responsible for some calculation work, but my name is on the In the paper, is it really appropriate?"

"No, no, I don't agree with the saying 'just computational work'." Brother Luo shook his head and said, "The essence of mathematical physics is to study the mathematical solutions to physical problems, and you made up for my shortcomings in this regard .Without your help, maybe this paper will not be finished until the end of the year.”

Seeing Senior Brother Luo admit his lack of mathematics so frankly, Lu Zhou sighed and couldn't help complaining: "Old Tang will be heartbroken when he hears you say this, are you really from applied mathematics? ?”

How the hell did this guy get an offer from Princeton?

And it's an offer from a big guy like Witten.

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Senior Brother Luo rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, and laughed cheekily.

"It's okay, Old Tang is mentally prepared, he has trained me a lot before."

Lu Zhou: "..."

...

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Zhou, who returned to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, did not immediately start his own research. Instead, he found Professor Edward Witten and planned to consult something.

The designer of the stellarator, Lyman Spitzer, worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for a long time, and the concept of the earliest stellarator was born at Princeton University.

According to common sense, there should be some clues left in the place where he used to work.

"Congratulations, the Hoffman Medal is a great honor," Edward Witten said with a smile, looking at Lu Zhou who appeared at the door, "How does the trip to Germany feel? I saw that old guy in Faltings ?"

"I saw it, but I always feel that he doesn't like me very much." Lu Zhou said helplessly.

Edward Witten laughed, "Please don't mind, that old man treats everyone like this. Even Deligne, who has always had a good relationship with him, often can't stand him. But listening to you say that, I would rather I'm relieved... It seems that his body should be pretty good, at least there is still that strength that hurts people."

"I don't mind," Lu Zhou shrugged. After a short pause, he continued, "Actually, when I went to Germany this time, I not only stayed in Berlin, but also went to Greifswald."

"Greifswald?" Hearing the place name, Witten raised his eyebrows with interest, and immediately guessed where Lu Zhou's destination was. "Did you go to Spiral Stone 7-X laboratory?"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded, "Professor Klitzing took me to visit the Helix 7-X stellarator there. Not only that, I was very lucky to see the test site."

"You are really lucky. I have been to Europe five times in the past two years, and two of them were to Germany. However, every time I went there, I perfectly missed the Helix 7-X experiment, especially the one in 2016." Speaking of this, Professor Witten had a regretful expression on his face.

Unable to help him with his regret, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said his purpose of coming to visit him.

"About the stellarator, I would like to ask you one thing."

Witten said kindly, "What is it?"

Lu Zhou: "About Lyman Spitzer's manuscript..."