The awarding of the Nobel Prize was a feast, and it also disrupted some of Xu Chuan's research arrangements.

Although he himself didn't care much about this, this is the Nobel Prize after all, and the influence is the largest of all the awards in the world.

Congratulations from relatives and friends, interviews with major media, and various social interactions and other things kept him busy for several days.

However, as time passed, new hotspots replaced old ones, and his life gradually stabilized.

Although he was busy for a while, Xu Chuan also took the opportunity to learn about some things in the outside world, mainly in the mathematical world.

Since the Fields Medal was awarded, he has temporarily left the world of mathematics and started his application journey.

But as the main research direction in this life, he must understand the major events in the field of mathematics.

As of the beginning of October this year, two big things have happened in the world of mathematics.

The first is that Peter Schulz, a professor of Germanic mathematics who recently won the Fields Medal, and Professor Jacoby Stix of Goethe University jointly wrote that they said:

They found a "serious, irreparable error" in the paper in which Sakura Country mathematics professor 'Shinichi Mochizuki' proved the ABC conjecture. ”

In 2012, Sakura Country mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki announced that he had proved the 'ABC conjecture', the puzzle of the century.

But in the six years since, only a handful of mathematicians have said they understood Mochizuki's proof and agreed with it.

And the vast majority of mathematicians are confused by Shinichi Mochizuki's lengthy and confusing proof, which has led some to doubt Shinichi Mochizuki's proof.

To this day, Schultz and Jacobi have made a major flaw, no doubt that the proof that confirms the ABC conjecture has failed.

Xu Chuan has something to remember about this incident.

Because the ABC conjecture is of great significance in the mathematical community, it has a high status in number theory, almost on the same level as the Riemann conjecture.

Many famous conjectures/theories are its corollary, such as Fermat's theorem, Beer's conjecture, Mordell's conjecture, and the twin prime conjecture.

In 1995, Professor Andrew Wiles spent more than 200 pages of paper to complete the proof of Fermat's theorem. But if the ABC conjecture is true, then the proof of Fermat's conjecture is only a few lines:

Let a=x^n,b=y^n,; where a+b=c

According to the ABC conjecture, there are: C≤(rad(ABC))2;

i.e. z^n≤(rad(x^ny^nz^n)2≤(xyz)2

So n<6, and n=3,4,5 has been demonstrated by Euler et al.;

Available: Fermat's theorem holds.

These few lines of math that can be understood by deleveraging in junior high school can be described as extremely simple.

But it can prove the Fermat conjecture that took three hundred years to solve in history.

And its foundation is based on the ABC conjecture.

Xu Chuan has also read Shinichi's proof paper, but he can't understand it either.

In a paper of more than 600 pages, Shinichi Mochizuki created a new set of mathematical theories of his own, even mathematical symbols, and words.

Specifically, the essay is full of all sorts of strange symbols, such as the gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the like in traditional gossip literature.

Not only the text, but also the kind of gossip diagram is used.

In addition, there are a large number of weirdly styled definitions and names in the paper. For example, "The Dark Edge of the Universe", "Hodge Cinema", "Extraterrestrial Arithmetic Pure Structure" and so on.

To understand these things, you have to read the more than 600 pages of the paper, and more than 500 pages of other papers (these 500 pages, all of which are Shinichi Mochizuki's own. ）

So after a cursory flip through the proof of the ABC conjecture, he threw it aside.

In Xu Chuan's view, Mochizuki Shinichi's proof paper and the natural and round place of the civil science are a great unification.

Although the former is a real and internationally renowned mathematician.

And the fact is that until he was reborn and came back, Mochizuki Shinichi's thesis was still in a state of enclosure and self-play.

Although he insisted that he had confirmed the ABC conjecture, the mathematical community had lost any hope for his paper.

As for the other thing, it is the extension of mathematics to quantum computers.

2018 was supposed to be the year quantum computers achieved quantum supremacy, when evidence emerged that quantum computers were far superior to ordinary classical computers.

However, this is not the case.

In August, when the Fields Medal was awarded, Tang Yiwen, an 18-year-old Chinese teenager, proposed a traditional computer AI algorithm.

Its computing speed can be compared with quantum computing, and the computing speed has increased exponentially compared to the previous traditional algorithms.

This discovery not only debunks the quantum acceleration myth of two quantum computing heavyweights, but also proves that there is a fruitful interaction between quantum algorithms and classical algorithm research.

Interestingly, Tang B's text is intended to prove that such an algorithm does not exist.

But over time and her own research, she discovered that such an algorithm did exist.

And the delay in quantum supremacy has even led some theoretical computer scientists to believe that quantum computers will never surpass the best classical computers.

Xu Chuan really didn't know much about this matter.

But he is well aware that the development of quantum computers has not been abandoned by future people.

After all, Moore's Law has limited the computational speed of traditional supercomputing.

However, at present, Xu Chuan is very interested in the AI algorithm proposed by Tang Yiwen, so he found a paper and flipped through it.

It's just that he doesn't know much about algorithms, so he can only take a cursory look at them to understand some of the ideas and cores inside.

After thinking about it, Xu Chuan wrote down the name in his heart.

If you have the opportunity, maybe you can mention it to the above and see if you can poach this talent from the United States.

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He understands the importance of traditional supercomputers better than anyone else.

In the next 20 to 30 years, traditional supercomputing will still be the main force of large-scale computing.

The importance of talents who can provide algorithms for supercomputing is unquestionable.

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After tossing for a while, when the Nobel Prize turmoil passed, Xu Chuan finally returned to his normal life.

The delayed R&D projects for nuclear energy and lithium-sulfur batteries are back in the market.

Under his leadership, the R&D progress of the two major projects has been significantly improved.

In particular, nuclear energy projects.

On the basis of the already perfect theory + Xu Chuan's 'prophet', coupled with the stimulation of the Nobel Prize, the research and development of new radiation-resistant materials is progressing rapidly.

With the help of the advanced equipment in the 'Modu Institute of Nuclear Research, the Academy of Sciences', in less than a month, the R&D team successfully manufactured the most primitive 'crystalline erbium zirconate'.

Although it can be confusing to step from one familiar field to another, Xu Chuan's one-month familiarization time with the paper has shortened the confusion period and observation of the eight researchers.

"Professor, the first batch of 'crystalline erbium zirconate' manufactured by nano process has completed the preliminary processing."

In the Modu Institute of Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences, scientific researcher Xi Xuebo looked at the young man in front of him who was more than ten years younger than him, and reported seriously.

The first-ever Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winner.

Not to mention that it is put in China, it is put to the whole world, and it is also a super bull standing on the top of Mount Everest overlooking the entire planet.

Being able to engage in scientific research under such a super bull and burn high incense for eight lifetimes may not necessarily have this opportunity.

As a postdoctoral fellow, he actually had the opportunity to join the first batch of such old scientific research projects.

Xi Xuebo didn't know how to describe his luck, so he could only choose to do his best to do everything well.

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In the laboratory, when he heard that the first batch of 'crystalline erbium zirconate' had been produced, Xu Chuan didn't even raise his head, but just whispered 'um', indicating that he already knew.

Before his eyes is another ongoing material experiment, a follow-up to the 'crystalline erbium zirconate' material.

The material experiment in his hand lasted for nearly an hour, and after initially processing the various materials in the experiment box, Xu Chuan took off his gloves and looked at Xi Xuebo, who had been waiting on the side.

"Let's go, take me to see your results."

During this time, he did not follow up on the manufacture of 'crystalline erbium zirconate', a material that he had prepared in advance with a fairly detailed manufacturing process and handed it over to others.

As for himself, he has more important work on hand.

'Crystalline erbium zirconate' is true to insulate nuclear radiation, but it is a solid material similar to ceramics.

There is nothing wrong with the use of this material in the manufacture of containers to store nuclear waste, but it simply cannot be used to make protective clothing.

When confronted with nuclear waste that carries high levels of ionizing radiation, the vast majority of electrical equipment fails.

This is because electronic equipment generally relies on circuits to transmit signals to achieve function, and nuclear radiation, especially the radiation of some neutron proton streams, will destroy the structure or produce interference signals, causing electronic equipment to malfunction or permanently fail.

In this case, it is not realistic to use robots or machines to complete experiments on nuclear waste.

Therefore, when he is faced with nuclear waste with high-intensity radiation, a protective clothing that can isolate radiation is indispensable.

Metal clothing made of lead metal can be adapted to some experimental environments, but due to inherent defects, lead protective clothing cannot be used in all experiments.

A protective suit that can perfectly isolate nuclear radiation and does not affect the operation of the experiment is the basic precondition for starting the nuclear waste experiment.

The material experiment that Xu Chuan is currently conducting is like this.

Using atomic cycle technology, he is creating a relatively lightweight protective material for subsequent nuclear β radiation energy gathering and conversion projects.

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Following Xi Wenbo, the two came to another laboratory together.

The first batch of processed "crystalline erbium zirconates" was stored here, and the total weight was less than a hundred kilograms.

However, it was enough to verify the effect of this new material in the first isolation experiments.

Under the leadership of Han Jin, several researchers are processing the manufactured "crystalline erbium zirconate" into containers.

These containers are varied, some are box-shaped, some are cylindrical, and they are not very large, no more than one meter in length and only about ten centimeters in diameter.

These things are customized based on the nuclear fuel rods in nuclear power plants.

In general, nuclear fuel takes the form of uranium dioxide ceramic pellets sintered from a powder of a uranium mixture.

The porcelain core is a cylinder with a diameter of one centimeter and a height of one centimeter. Hundreds of pellets are stacked together into a slender zirconium alloy material casing with a diameter of one centimeter, a length of about four meters, and a thickness of about one millimeter, and then form a metal plate one by one.

Because the nuclear fission reaction is like burning atoms, these metal plates are called nuclear fuel rods.

And after five to eight years of use, the fuel rods will be decommissioned from the nuclear power plant and become nuclear waste that is a headache for everyone.

Xu Chuan needs to use the material "crystalline erbium zirconate" to show the progress of his nuclear energy research and development project and the phased results.

The best way to do this is to use containers made of it to preserve nuclear waste and test its performance.

By loading nuclear waste and then storing it for a period of time, it is tested to check the stability and isolation of the container.

The advantages of this new material can then be seen by comparing the data with conventional containers.

With phased results, follow-up experiments, whether it is scientific research funds or corresponding talents, can be quickly approved or convened.

Of course, with his current status, even if there are no phased results, it is easy to apply for these resources from above.

But there is a limit to the level of trust between people.

If he squandered his reputation for resources now, but without results, it will be difficult to gain the support of the state in the future.

The Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal are not omnipotent, they bring glory, but they are also a double-edged sword.

As for how to use it, it's up to the winners themselves.

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After the first batch of containers made of crystalline erbium zirconate was processed, the first batch of conventional radiation countermeasure experiments were started at the nuclear energy laboratory.

The experimental method is not too complicated.

Through instrumentation, a strong radiation source is manufactured, and then a container made of crystalline erbium zirconate is tested, and a series of data are collected.

But for the researchers on the side of the nuclear energy project team, it is a crucial step.

They spent two months working under the leadership of a Nobel laureate to create a new type of radiation-resistant material.

And how effective this material is, today will know.

This is related to the correctness of the theory of the 'atomic cycle', and also to the follow-up of the 'nuclear energy β radiation energy aggregation and conversion mechanism technology project'.

After all, after all this period of research, everyone knows that the entire project is based on the theory of the atomic cycle.

If the most basic theory collapses, it is only a matter of time before the project is disbanded.

This is a difficult thing for the researchers in the project team to accept.

After all, it was not easy to have the opportunity to follow the Nobel Prize boss to do experiments, and if the project was disbanded, it would be a big loss.

Therefore, everyone except Xu Chuan was nervous and anxiously waiting for the results of the irradiation confrontation test.

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