To come out and mix is to talk about credit, saying that if you graduate with a doctorate in one year, you will graduate in one year, and you will never drag your feet.

This is the principle of being a good man.

In good conscience, Professor Iverson is not a supervisor who particularly likes the graduation years of Dr. Ka's students.

Even because doctoral students in the field of astrophysics, even if they are retained as cheap labor, they can't squeeze much oil and water, so Professor Iverson and other professors in astrophysics belong to the generally benevolent category of science and engineering professors.

This professor's own character has little to do with it, and it is purely the professional direction that leads to the higher average of conscience.

If you change to a professor in the field of material physics or other chemical synthesis or biomedicine, even if you don't have the ability to do it, it is cheaper to wash the flask and feed the guinea pig than to hire a migrant worker, then you will be enslaved for a few more years.

Isn't there a joke in later generations: "You still want to hire a migrant worker for 5,000 yuan?"

Of course, this paragraph has a sense of ridicule, but if the content of the content is replaced, and the college graduates are replaced with graduate students, it will definitely not be wrong. It is inevitable that the allowance for graduate students is lower than that of migrant workers.

Professor Iverson and others are so conscientious on average, but they still play with a card, so that Gu Play has to work hard to set up posts as evidence and check and balance the tutor, in the final analysis, Gu Play wants far more than ordinary people.

If he wants three years of normal graduation, or two years at most, then Professor Iverson will turn a blind eye and let it go. At most, collect a little more money from him and give full play to his money ability.

But Gu Yu wants a year, and Professor Iverson must of course give full play to his gatekeeping ability and be strict in everything to maintain his academic reputation.

Otherwise, if Gu Yu's strength is not enough to convince the public but he gets a doctorate, doesn't it seem that Professor Iverson is attached to the powerful and gives special treatment to prestigious and wealthy students.

All this can only be washed away with Gu Play's solid real strength.

……

More than a month after the debate and showdown with Professor Iverson, Gu Play completely entered the tense rhythm of replying to the thesis inquiry letter.

The questions that Professor Iverson asked, the reviewers selected by the journal Astrophysics, of course, will all be questioned.

The study of data deduction and details will also be stricter than that of Professor Iverson.

Gu Wan needs to be transferred by the editorial department of the journal under the condition of double blindness, and debate and clarify with the other party. It is not possible to apply for an in-person oral examination because it is necessary to prevent collusion of confessions.

This process of persuasion and debate is relatively long, basically even writing and posting tapes and waiting for the other party to think, verify, and organize the reply, and one round is a month.

As for the result of the defense, Gu Wan is not worried, after all, how Hawking passed the defense on the earth, he will also pass the defense. You can still get lost after walking the road.

The remaining two months of the fall semester of 2000 were only enough for two rounds of such a confrontation.

In the middle, Gu Wan originally planned to take advantage of the winter vacation to return to China for the New Year or something. But the family also considered that he was going abroad for the first year, so they chose to come to Oceania for the New Year.

Anyway, from his mother to his sister to his cousin, no relative in his family dares to say that he is tired of coming to the United States, and there is nothing wrong with going around San Francisco and Los Angeles in the name of visiting Gu Wan.

In addition, his cousin Zhou Xuan has officially resigned from Fengyun Fund and chose to work for Gu Play as CFO in the newly established scientific research company of Gu Play, responsible for helping Gu Play solve all financing problems. So after the Chinese New Year, he will stay here to help Gu Play handle business, and he doesn't have to return to China for the time being.

The time soon shifted to the second semester of my PhD, which was the spring semester of 2001.

After two rounds of defense in February and March, Gu Wan finally fully replied to the opinions of several reviewers of "Astrophysics" one by one, and convinced them.

His paper on "Solving the Paradox Between the Definition of a Black Hole and the Second Law of Thermodynamics on the Failure of Closed Systems to Spontaneously Reduce Entropy" was also published in the issue of Astrophysics at the end of March.

In just two or three days, there has been fierce controversy and disagreement in the academic circles over the views of this article.

In the beginning, it was just some scientists in the field of astrophysics who came out to point fingers.

Later, about a week later, even many top gods who study the specific performance of antimatter, and many scientists who are capable of competing for the Nobel Prize in physics, have also joined in.

Their focus is no longer just on black holes and astrophysics, but on the paper, which gives them more to think about the nature of antimatter.

After all, this thing has no impact on real life, and the people who eat melons will not pay attention to it except for curiosity. (Although there are many people who pay attention to the earth in later generations, it is the result of years of subculture and science fiction, not by the popularization of science itself)

And if you study the "natural causes of antimatter", the threshold is suddenly much higher.

Nuclear reactions, even hydrogen fusion, and the energy conversion caused by mass loss, are only seven thousandths.

The conversion efficiency of antimatter annihilation is 100%, and this gimmick in the field of energy science alone can make the top capital bosses of the upper class pay attention to this topic, even if it is just a pie and brag.

Gu Wan kept a low profile first, and withstood the first wave of doubts abroad, basically not speaking to outsiders, and it took about half a month.

By mid-April, the doubts of professionals had finally subsided, and the rest was dominated by constructive discussions.

At this time, Gu Wan began to publish his latest scientific research trends on his blog, and published a series of relevant popular science articles that are easy for ordinary people to understand.

What's more, this is the world's first Chinese popular science article on this topic. Because both the previous thesis and the subsequent argument were all done in the context of English. The melon-eating masses in China who do not engage in physics or learn foreign languages did not know that such a thing happened in the first month after the news broke out.

After Gu Wan spoke out, the general public in China finally began to notice the results in this regard.

As mentioned earlier, Gu Wan is now a guy who has a bit of a face and has been on several major news in the domestic scientific community. His popular science book "The Order of Time" has now sold three to four million copies after two years of sales.

As a god who has been interviewed by the news for two and a half minutes, his blog fans have also exceeded 5 million followers.

Such a loud voice will naturally be noticed by hundreds of thousands of people on the first day. And that number will swell to more than one million in just one week.

"What paradox did the Chinese solve first?

"What is a black hole? But no matter what, it looks like it's very powerful. ”

Countless fans left messages on the post below.

Some scumbags can only choose to coax: "It doesn't matter if it understands it or not, anyway, this matter is something that the journals of the Oceanic people have to admit, and it was discovered by the Chinese, that is, great scientific progress, just shout 666." ”

Because of this, his blog followers skyrocketed again, easily breaking the 5 million mark. His previous popular science monographs have sold an additional 500,000 copies worldwide in this semester. The income from the author's remuneration alone is an extra two or three million US dollars, which is completely money falling from the sky.

There are more scientific publishers who have come to him to ask for manuscripts, hoping that he will write more popular science works. And one publisher said that no matter what he wrote, as long as he was given the exclusive right to publish it, he would directly pay a million dollars in advance. It's just a lot of money, comparable to 50% of the treatment qualifications of Carl Sagan when he was asked to write a manuscript on the planet. As a PhD student, it's simply unforgiving.

The number of replies is in the tens of thousands, and the number of likes is in the hundreds. This media hype performance has made countless peers red.

Those who are engaged in astrophysics and antimatter theory in China more or less want to have such public popularity.

Even if scientists in science and engineering are a little more indifferent to public fame and fortune than scholars in the liberal arts, and always have a sense of "it's hard for me to explain to you with your IQ", after all, no one hates fame.

However, Gu Yu felt that the public reaction was not enthusiastic enough.

In his imagination, the heat of the earthlings when they talk about black holes cannot be compared at all.

Could it be that in the final analysis, are the Blue Hole Star people too unidealistic, too gold-worshipping, and too lazy to look up at the starry sky?

After repeatedly checking the comparison conditions, Gu Yu estimated that he had found some of the possible reasons.

"Could it be that there is a lack of subculture in the field of astrophysics on the Blue Hole Star? Lack of content that can be understood by even beginners? It seems that Futaba should find a way to write a little sci-fi with the theme of black holes. ”

After Gu Yu figured out the taste, he made a transatlantic call to his sister who had returned to China after the Chinese New Year.

Although it is possible to talk on BB, he is not used to it.

"Sister, I have an idea, I'll help you provide scientific materials and evaluation guidance, and you can write a science fiction book related to black hole traversal. I feel that there are so few subcultures in this area that my serious scientific research alone is not enough to arouse the interest of the uninitiated. ”

Li Shuangye did not refuse, but after asking his brother's specific requirements, he said that he would start preparations as soon as possible.

She was originally from the Academy of Education and Sciences, and she majored in "science education" at the Central University of Science and Technology, so writing popular science books was originally her professional content.

Adjust the focus a little, write science fiction, and the major is also quite right. After all, the biggest charm of science fiction is that the brain hole should be good, the logical structure should be self-consistent and cool, and the writing is not important.

At that moment, Gu Yu arranged a few brain hole ideas, so that the tool man sister could use them casually.

As for himself, he plans to take advantage of the last few months of his Ph.D. to wipe out all the opportunities for scientific prestige based on the follow-up brought by "defining black holes".