Phi-Fic Chapter 160 Future Star
Chapter 160 Future Star
The busy researchers around would occasionally stop writing and look at the two figures in front of the whiteboard with a very complicated expression.
This scene is truly impactful.
Like grandfather and grandson, the two generations of mathematicians, whose ages differ by nearly sixty years, worked side by side without any sense of incongruity.
One is a renowned academic monument, the other is a prodigy who emerged out of nowhere.
The two figures from behind possessed an indescribable weight.
A wondrous tension, spanning half a century and reaching a pure consensus in the face of truth, dazzled and captivated everyone present who held academic beliefs.
Until the dawn, like a sharp sword, pierced the Boston night and shone into the laboratory through the glass windows.
Everyone present continued to exert their mental energy tirelessly.
Incredibly, not a single person complained or said they were tired in the huge laboratory.
Not a single word.
For true scientists, what reward in this world could be more insane than personally participating in an epic study that could shatter existing cognitive systems and leave their mark on academic history?
The dopamine rush of pleasure is ten thousand times more intense than any material enjoyment in the world!
Money? Honor? Status?
Those things, placed before me, seem as light as dust.
At this moment, everyone in this laboratory is a pilgrim, and they are building a ladder to miracles with their own hands!
..........
"Ouch... my back, my life..."
If this keeps up, I'm afraid I won't even see the sun next week. I'll definitely die from overwork here...
The young researcher, Mike, let out a bloodcurdling scream, collapsing undignifiedly into a chair in the lab, his tongue practically lolling out.
He struggled to turn his stiff neck and look around.
Good heavens, the scene before us is like a battlefield that has just witnessed the brutal carnage of the Middle Ages.
Everywhere you look, there are researchers sleeping soundly, some lying down, some standing up, some crooked, some leaning to one side.
The soft sofas were piled high with people, and under the slightly cleaner desks were several PhDs with only their feet sticking out. Even the cold floor of the corridor was filled with snoring research elites lying haphazardly.
Their lab coats were their blankets, their arms their pillows, and the dents and marks from the keyboard were still clearly imprinted on half of one guy's face.
"This is outrageous... I thought this kind of intense, inhumane all-nighter only happened when I was an undergraduate trying to meet final deadlines..."
Sarah, the female PhD student next to him with dark circles under her eyes, held a cup of coffee that had long since gone cold and sighed deeply in agreement.
It wasn't until after 7 a.m., when the morning light fully illuminated Boston, that the overall theoretical verification and massive data cleaning work finally came to a complete end.
Those nerves, taut for over ten hours, finally relaxed completely. The top researchers, who had been holding on with only the surge of adrenaline and sheer willpower...
Like machines that have been unplugged, they collapsed one after another, falling into a deep sleep.
"Those two big shots... they're the real monsters."
Mike swallowed hard, gestured with his chin towards the glass partition of the office, his eyes filled with awe as if he were looking at a deity.
Sarah followed his gaze and saw an extremely bizarre scene:
Leonard and Whitman, two highly respected deans who walked at a slow pace, were now sitting side by side at the desk like two stone statues.
The two men stood ramrod straight, their hands moving at a dizzying pace, frantically writing the first draft of this academic paper that was destined to stir up a bloodbath!
The burning fervor in their eyes and their trembling hands were definitely not the mental state of two elderly people nearing seventy, with half their bodies in the ground!
Sarah rolled her eyes and weakly complained:
"Isn't the real prodigy... that kid named Su Hao?"
To be honest, Mike, my mind is still blank.
I can't understand it, at that age...
How did he develop that level of thinking that allows him to directly overlook the entire universe?!
This doesn't seem to be the level of normal intellectual development and evolution seen in humans on Earth!
"Who knows?" Mike gave a wry smile.
"Throughout the history of human science, there are occasionally one or two such bug-level beings that completely disregard morality and defy common sense, falling from the sky."
My advisor told me that Ilya Cronin, who rose to prominence like a comet, was just as astonishing in his youth, overshadowing his contemporaries.
At this point in their conversation, the two of them suddenly fell into an extremely strange and brief silence.
There was a sensitive atmosphere in the air, one that everyone knew about but no one dared to easily expose.
Mike glanced around discreetly, lowered his voice, and couldn't help but ask a question:
"Sarah, do you think... if the results of this experiment are officially published as a paper, the entire international academic community... will definitely experience a massive upheaval?"
"That's natural." Sarah nodded.
"Once this thing is released, it will provide a brand new clue to the critical line for solving the 'Riemann Hypothesis' that has puzzled mankind for a century!"
I guarantee that not only our theoretical physics community, but the entire mathematics community and even the global financial network will be completely detonated by this nuclear bomb!
Then, Mike took a deep breath and asked the question that was really on his mind:
"Well... as the hard workers who participated in the core verification process, shouldn't we also be eligible for co-authorship at the end of the paper?"
Hearing this, Sarah gave him a reassuring look and nodded with absolute certainty:
"Don't worry, Dean Leonard made it clear before he stayed up all night last night."
Su Hao is the undisputed first author with absolute contribution;
Leonard and Whitman, two prominent figures, served as co-corresponding authors, giving the paper their credibility.
As for all the other attendees, regardless of seniority, they will be listed as co-authors in order of their academic contributions!
"call--"
Mike breathed a sigh of relief, slumped back in his chair, and let out a long sigh. Then, a sense of absurdity washed over him.
"My God! That's fucking insane!"
Su Hao is still a minor... Let alone a master's or doctoral degree, he hasn't even gotten a proper bachelor's degree yet, right?
I'm about to become the first author in a top-tier international journal...
Sarah turned her head and looked leisurely at the rising sun outside the window:
"What's the big deal?"
In that self-important mathematics circle, they've already crushed those old pedants!
From the day he debunked the Four Color Theorem... he was already recognized by the academic community as a future star to be revered and looked up to!