The discussion lasted for an entire afternoon, and a large number of problems were identified and resolved. Many of these questions have not been thought about by Junxin before, and it is a very helpful brainstorming for Junxin.

Towards the end of the discussion, Professor Witten suddenly stared at Jun Xin and said, "Jun, I heard that you recently became the coach of the school's basketball team, is there such a thing?" ”

Jun Xin was stunned for a moment and replied: "There is such a thing, but I was invited by Coach Pique to join his coaching team and be his assistant coach until the end of this season, that is, in April next year at the latest." What, what's wrong? ”

Professor Witten shook his head and said, "There's nothing wrong with that, I just hope you don't spend too much time on something as inconsequential as basketball, which will waste a lot of your precious research time." ”

Regarding Junxin's participation in the school basketball team, Professor Witten didn't care at all. Because he knows that there are people in this world who are geniuses, who can quickly master the skills of a new subject, and even squeeze out a lot of time while researching things that some people think are somewhat deviant.

Witten himself was a genius, he studied history in college, then began to study physics, and then studied mathematics, and he still had high achievements in mathematics. So much so that there is a saying in the scientific community because of his experience: a physicist who doesn't want to win a Fields Medal is not a good history student.

Therefore, Witten does not pay much attention to some of Junxin's practices, and does not think about persuading Junxin to concentrate on a certain aspect. The reason why I asked such a sentence is entirely because Professor Dyson, who has always paid great attention to Junxin.

Professor Dyson has been very concerned about Junxin since he first met him. Because in the process of his own study, Dyson has been taught and helped by many predecessors, studied under the famous mathematician Professor Hardy, served as an assistant to Professor Einstein, and was a colleague with Oppenheimer, Holmann-Weyl, Feynman and others, and is regarded as the founder of quantum electrodynamics, these achievements have been greatly encouraged and helped by his predecessors. So Dyson was naturally influenced by his predecessors, and did his best to help some young people with excellent talents.

Junxin is the most talented and gifted young man Dyson has ever met, and he has already achieved great achievements in mathematics at a young age, and is the world's first-class mathematician. In chemistry, the successful discovery of a new form of matter is a world-class achievement.

However, in Dyson's eyes, none of these are as good as the superstring theory proposed by Junxin in the "Physical Review Letters", perhaps this theory was not first proposed by Junxin, because when this theory was proposed, Junxin may not have gone to school. However, this theory is indeed carried forward by Junxin, which is almost every conclusion drawn from four very potential and talented professors and postdoctoral fellows such as Professor Witten of Princeton University, and every idea that flashes has to pass through Junxin, almost in superstring theory, Junxin, a student of their son's generation, is regarded as a leader, which shows Junxin's status.

Therefore, Dyson takes Junxin very seriously, and almost every academic activity and life change of Junxin will be known by Professor Dyson, and many times, some of the things that Junxin can obtain that are privileged in Princeton will occasionally flash the shadow of Dyson behind it. The most obvious thing is that Junxin can come and go in and out of any physics laboratory at Princeton University at will, which is the result of Professor Dyson's influence behind it.

However, Professor Dyson is different from Professor Witten, Professor Dyson is not the kind of genius person, but the achievement of continuous efforts and educational learning, and he naturally believes that concentration is what Junxin should do at present, either focusing on mathematics, physics, or chemistry. Each of these disciplines is an achievement that requires all concentration to achieve, and it is natural that Junxin is dissatisfied with the fact that he participates in the basketball team.

However, Professor Dyson knew that he was not suitable to come forward to preach, and he had something to go out to lecture and communicate, so he entrusted this matter to his friend, Professor Witten, who had a close relationship with Junxin, so Professor Witten said this.

But it is clear that Professor Dyson seems to have found the wrong person, and Professor Witten may be a very good scientist, but he is definitely not a very good persuader, at least not when it comes to Junxin.

Junxin didn't know about these things, so he couldn't figure out what Professor Witten was thinking. However, Junxin himself did not spend a lot of energy on basketball, so naturally he did not take this sentence to heart. Because no matter what time it is, scientific research is his greatest pursuit. So when Jun Xin heard this, he only agreed lightly, and didn't say anything more.

As for Professor Witten, he didn't say anything more, but changed the topic: "On the question of how to develop superstring theory in the future, we will discuss this place today, since several of us have different research directions, so we usually have time to discuss the problems encountered in the research, and the rest of the time we will study on our own and make connections with each other, what do you think?" ”

Junxin glanced at Horowitz and Professor Strominger, and saw that they nodded slowly, and Junxin had no objections, and the proposal was settled.

"Well, how about we meet in this conference room on the last Saturday of the last week of the month to discuss the various problems that we have encountered in the past month, and to discuss the direction of each other's research and how to solve them?" Junxin also proposed with great interest.

"Yes!"

"No problem!"

"Well, that's fine, you can have a fixed time to discuss."

"So be it, there's no problem on my side, but I suggest that it be moved to the afternoon, and in the morning my research group has other meetings, how about it?" Professor Strominger asked.

After discussing it, Junxin and the other four also agreed one after another.

"In the next time, we will discuss how to expand the influence of superstring theory, after all, if this theory is only studied and discussed by a few of us, not only will the development be relatively slow, but also not accepted by the public, there will be no point in researching, do you have any ideas?" Professor Witten asked.