While the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jury was still debating whether Lu Zhou should win the prize, the impact of the paper published on RPX on the physics community continued to ferment.

Lu Zhou has received a lot of calls and emails these days.

Among them, such scholars in the field of physics as Professor Frank Wilzeck, Professor Klaus von Klitzing, who had a good relationship with him, expressed surprise at his work.

There are also colleagues he doesn't know but would like to know and want to discuss the study of turbulence phenomena with him.

In addition to this, there are also invitations from academic conferences.

For example, at the upcoming IAEA-Demo International Symposium in November, the conference organizers invited him to give a one-hour presentation on the study of plasma turbulence phenomena.

If it were a normal day, Lu Zhou might go there.

After all, there are many excellent reports on the field of controlled nuclear fusion, and if he wants to complete the first DEMO reactor by 2025, it is impossible not to make full use of international academic resources......

However, these days, he has been a little "out of shape".

After receiving the task, Lu Zhou did not immediately pick a seemingly feasible item from the list to start, but gave himself a week off.

Every day he either walks around the campus or goes out for a ride with his explorer.

In fact, although New Jersey is small, there are still many attractions that can be visited.

For example, High Point State Park in Sussex County, which is full of wildfires in the middle of autumn, and the 220-foot white monument that climbs to the top and even overlooks the tri-state.

After coming to North America for so long, Lu Zhou suddenly found that he had neglected a lot of the fun around him. But the only regret is that he was the only one on this autumn trip, and he only brought one tableware and food for the picnic.

Unless, counting Xiao Ai, who has been by his side all along.

In fact, whether it is in High Point State Park or on the campus of Princeton, during this time of fishing, Lu Zhou is not completely idle, but has been thinking about a problem.

If for the "system", the civilization of the earth ...... In other words, the so-called human academic community thinks that the unexplained problems are actually all the information included in the database, so the most efficient way is undoubtedly to tell him these techniques directly, rather than to ask him to repeat the study.

However, the system did not do this, but guided him to think about these unsolved mysteries by himself through this kind of auxiliary way of strengthening his brain, guiding him step by step.

Although he enjoyed the process very much, with the help of the system, Lu Zhou did feel that his abilities in all aspects had been rapidly improved, not only throwing off his peers all the way around, but even completing achievements that many people could not complete in a lifetime.

But what puzzled him the most was the system's motivation for doing so.

In fact, he has been thinking about this question for a long time.

Could it be that somewhere in the universe, there is still an alien civilization that takes pleasure in enlightening the lower civilizations? Or is the system actually from the future?

If you let your mind go, there are so many possibilities that it is even more difficult to generalize than the chaotic systems in physics.

However, Lu Zhou felt that no matter what the motive was, it would most likely not be a boring problem of principle that "human problems must be solved by human beings themselves".

This system, which comes from a corner of the universe, must have a deeper purpose.

Suddenly, Lu Zhou had a strange idea.

If Zhou's guess related to the distribution of Mersenne primes is just an example, then the twin prime conjecture is Goldbach's conjecture...... Even the millennial problems of whether the solution of the NS equation exists or not, whether it is smooth or not, are actually just "homework" or "research topics" assigned to him by the system.

As for the points, it is to show him the answers, or the opportunity to retake the exam.

In this way, when all the subject grades are upgraded to level 10, the future era unlocked is the "graduation certificate" or "admission letter" issued to him by the system.

If you think about it this way, he is a professor, but in the eyes of the system, he has not graduated at all......

In particular, in the description of the task chain, he saw that the system's description of controlled nuclear fusion was only in the language "warming up in swaddling clothes......

Sitting on a bench next to Lake Carnegie, Lu Zhou stared at the sparkling waters of the lake in the setting sun, and was a little distracted for a while. The lake had inspired him a lot, but he couldn't get an answer to the question alone.

"Aren't any of these questions a 'problem' at all for you?"

It's not the first time I've felt this way, though.

But at this moment, Lu Zhou felt for the first time in his heart that the glory of the human mind was so small in front of the universe......

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the side, pulling his divergent thoughts back.

"What are you looking at?"

Hearing this voice, Lu Zhou turned his face sideways and saw Mo Lina standing there.

was glanced at by Lu Zhou, Mo Lina didn't know why, and suddenly had a feeling that the line of sight passed through her.

"You...... What's wrong? ”

Lu Zhou shook his head.

"Nothing...... I just ran into a problem that I couldn't figure out. ”

"And you still have questions that you don't understand?" Molina raised an eyebrow, "I thought there was nothing in this world that you didn't know. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile.

"I don't know what caused you to have such a delusion, but there are so many questions that I don't understand."

Every evening, many of Princeton's sports-loving professors and students choose to jog along the trails along Lake Carnegie, and Molina is one of them.

Occasionally sitting on a bench by the lake to rest, Lu Zhou always happened to meet her who was running late.

The two usually have a good relationship, in addition to academic exchanges, they are also ordinary friends in life.

In a place like Princeton, there are not many peers other than his own students who can communicate with him as friends.

staring at Lu Zhou, who was staring at the lake for a while, Mo Lina, who was standing next to him, teased: "You are becoming more and more similar to those people." ”

Lu Zhou: "Which ones?" ”

"Those old men at the Institute for Advanced Study," Molina continued in a teasing tone, "and I won't be surprised that the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will award you the title of Fellow for Life one day. ”

Unlike tenured professors at Princeton University, tenured fellows at the Institute for Advanced Study are among the top honors in academia in addition to their positions. The total number of lifetime researchers in the four colleges does not exceed 30.

In history, a big man like Albert Einstein is one of Princeton's lifelong researchers, which shows that the threshold is high.

Moreover, this lifelong glory, unless it is a special circumstance, would hardly be considered for young scholars......

Hearing Mo Lina's joke, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "Lifelong researcher? Can I take your words as a good wish? ”

Molina burst out laughing: "Of course it's no problem, but aren't I complaining that you look like an old man when you think about it?" ”

Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile: "Don't say that, in terms of age, you should be older than me." ”

Molina: ......

I don't know why, the moment she heard this, she suddenly felt the urge to throw the coffee can in her hand in his face......