In a café at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, several young students gathered a boy who looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old in the center, "Sheldon, congratulations on your first PhD; oh my God, the thought of you being fifteen years old makes me feel frustrated, I'm a full ten years older than you, and my PhD seems to be a light year away!"

"Leonard, mortals have to compare themselves to geniuses, which can only bring you trouble!" Penny, the waitress of the coffee shop, was an old friend of him, and couldn't help but comfort him when she saw his depressed look.

"Yes, tell us about your life as an exchange student at the University of Heidelberg, and what is the difference between Germany and the United States?" Howard also said to the end, "Isn't the girl there great?"

"It's no different, the students there are similar to the Caltech, they are all stupid, and it makes me sad!" Sheldon said with a glaring eye and dancing hands, "It's hard to find a guy who can communicate with you normally, it's a simple thing, but they always don't understand!"

Oh my God, this guy is starting again, Penny couldn't help but stroke his forehead and smile bitterly, Sheldon's IQ is as high as 187, many of his simple and clear theories are heavenly books for others, but he obviously doesn't understand this, and his tone has also offended countless classmates who have discussed with him, but fortunately, all of them are his old friends, so it didn't cause conflicts.

"Now that you've got your PhD, what are you going to do next?" Leonard saw that Howard's tactics of diverting the topic failed, and hurriedly provoked a new topic again, "Stay at Caltech to teach or go to a research institute?"

"It doesn't have to be to stay at Caltech, or go to UCLA, at least where is Terrance Tao, I still have a good time communicating with him!" Sheldon tilted his head and said, Tao Zhexuan is probably one of the few people he has met who can keep up with or even exceed the pace of his own thinking!

"UCLA is not bad, but I still think Caltech is better!" Leonard was tasked with helping the school retain the gift. Now seeing that he wants to go to another school, I can't help but be a little anxious, "By the way, you plan to conduct in-depth research in that field? Wouldn't it be better to choose a school or laboratory according to your needs after you have determined the research direction?"

"I've been interested in this field lately. Sheldon didn't hide his direction, and then began to ramble on his various views on dark matter research, which made Penny dizzy, and Leonard took this important information to heart, planning to report back to Professor Reiner-Weiss later.

The next day, Sheldon was summoned to his office by Professor Weiss, "Sheldon, I heard you're going to do research on dark matter?"

"Yes, Mr. Professor!" Sheldon did not wait for Professor Weiss's invitation. He sat on the sofa and looked at the various knick-knacks on the coffee table curiously.

"Can you tell us why you chose dark matter research?" Professor Weiss had a headache, he didn't want this Caltech babe to enter this field.

"I recently read an article by Professor Dietrich of the University of Munich and the Purple Mountain Observatory in China," Sheldon began to gush about his thoughts on the two articles, "So, I think dark matter is a promising field!

I also think there may be a great discovery, but the discoverer may not be you! Professor Weiss is full of expectations for Sheldon, he always wants Sheldon to be a pioneer in a certain field, but from now it seems that dark matter is not a suitable field for him, "Dark matter is indeed very promising. But at Caltech, at least for now, it is not in a position to conduct research in this area!" Professor Weiss began to fool Shelton.

"Uh, why?" Sheldon looked at Professor Weiss in confusion.

"Because we don't have the right equipment!" Professor Weiss said with a shrug, "since that damn guy Anderson vetoed the SSC's construction plans. The entire high-energy physics community in the United States can only go to Geneva to do research! If you want to engage in dark matter research, I am afraid that you can only go somewhere!"

"But dark matter research doesn't have to be a collider, satellite detection, underground test chambers, high-altitude balloons!" Sheldon argued with his hands outstretched.

"The underground laboratory in South Dakota is still being debated, and I don't know when it will be operational! Samuel's AMS program has also come to a standstill because Congress has terminated the spacecraft launch program. And AMS is also in Geneva!" Professor Weiss has always refused to reveal the real reason why he stopped Sheldon, not to mention that Lu Qiujian is also conducting research on dark matter! Although Sheldon is a genius, it is not easy to make a breakthrough in the field of dark matter before Lu Qiujian, right?

The competition in science is more brutal than in sports. The second place is meaningless, so when possible, scholars in the same field will avoid each other's research branches, for example, Shi Yigong has received the world's most advanced experimental equipment and strong support from Shuimu University after returning to China, so other biologists will first inquire about what research Shi Yigong has been doing recently? If there is a conflict with their own plan, they usually change their goals, so as not to work half of their efforts, but Shi Yigong has made the results first.

Professor Weiss's current concern is the same, Lu Qiujian's strength is only higher than Sheldon's, and he has already gained a certain status in CERN, plus the help of LHC, how can Sheldon compete with him?

But Sheldon was obviously not persuaded by him, his eyes flickered, and he refused to change his mind; Professor Weiss stroked his forehead and shook his head, he knew that he couldn't get this kid out without taking some dry goods, he got up and took out a large stack of printed articles from the cabinet behind him, "Sheldon, these are all recent articles by a dark matter researcher, you can take them back and take a look, if you still think that you will make results before him after reading them, then I will support you in dark matter research!" If you can't, then come with me to LIGO to do gravitational wave research!"

Well, isn't it all a bad thing that Anderson vetoed the SSC plan in the first place? Professor Weiss thought to himself, if it weren't for the fact that the SSC was cut and left behind a large amount of scientific research funding, how could he have established a LOGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory) to detect gravitational waves? )

PS: I see that everyone pays attention to gravitational waves, so I also want to water, I checked the main units of gravitational waves are Caltech and MIT, so I thought of this genius from MIT, I happened to be a person with naming disorder, so I let him appear!