Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 732 - 281: The Deep Sea Exploration Project Enters the Engineering Phase (Wishing All Readers Great Luck in the Dragon Year, Advancing Steadily)_3

According to the plan, after the official launch of the autonomous deep-sea exploration cluster system, the initial trial operations utilized existing satellites for data link transmission. Following the official launch, a dedicated satellite network would be deployed to ensure that the system's information transfer remained uninterrupted.

In simple terms, they wanted to first see the results, and if the results were good, subsequent investments would naturally follow.

And this was by no means a waste.

It should be noted that in the proposal submitted by Qiao Ze, once the project was on the right track, two thousand Bearers would be put into the sea over the next ten years. Each Bearer would manage three hundred Explorers, which meant that in ten years, six hundred thousand Explorers would laboriously carry out carpet-like scientific exploration work at the bottom of the sea, generating an astonishing amount of data.

Even if the Bearer's computing system could filter out most of the redundant and worthless data, the data needing to be sent back to the control center would still be massive.

Moreover, this scientific research system might also need to undertake other tasks, so a dedicated information channel was necessary both for its safety and professionalism.

Of course, for Qiao Ze, a ten-year plan was definitely a long-term schedule.

So, after merely glancing over the engineering plan submitted by Dou Dou, he gave his authorization without a second thought.

It didn't matter if there were minor flaws in Dou Dou's plan.

Such large projects inherently had self-correcting procedures and wouldn't result in any major chaos.

He was currently too busy with other things.

The follow-up reactions to the two papers published in "New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics" were more intense than he had imagined.

Even including those close to him.

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"Qiao Ze, I'm planning to stay here a bit longer, would that be convenient for you?"

Qiao Ze had just looked away from his computer when Edward Witten made this somewhat impolite request.

It's only after having a point of comparison that people realize how precious what they currently have is. The professor from Princeton also saw what happened yesterday. Being able to sit face-to-face with Qiao Ze in the same office had turned out to be a rare privilege.

This young man was not just refusing to give face to their Western scholars, but he didn't hesitate to do the same to his own people.

Speaking of which, he was quite fortunate to at least be able to sit in this office and discuss the problem of gravitons with Qiao Ze every day.

"Don't you have an important meeting on Friday?" Qiao Ze asked, frowning.

Edward Witten's travel itinerary had been set long ago: he was to fly to the Capital on Wednesday and then take a direct flight to Washington to attend a supposedly important academic meeting. Although Qiao Ze believed being too active in the academic community could interfere with time for research, he clearly had no desire to manage how others arranged their time.

"I'm planning to cancel that meeting," Edward Witten said helplessly.

He had almost fully digested the paper about the graviton wave function.

Lately, he had written many manuscripts, noting his understanding of Qiao Ze's research. freёnovelkiss.com

After returning, it would be perfect for helping others explore and understand Qiao Ze's thinking in constructing these equations.

But just as a wedding had occurred, Qiao Ze announced the existence of element 119.

Although the paper was now published, there was only a Chinese version available for the time being.

It's true that artificial intelligence translation capabilities are strong, but for highly specialized papers like this one, relying solely on AI for translation introduces too many inaccuracies, especially for issues related to precision experiments.

The microscopic world is indeed a matter of small discrepancies leading to vast errors.

Clearly, being in the same office as the author was conducive to his quick understanding of the paper's content, allowing him to ignore potential misunderstandings due to language issues and synthesize element 119 in the laboratory at the fastest speed.

At the very least, from the standpoint of saving funds and time, staying an extra week was very meaningful.

Edward Witten had also taken a rough look through the translated version of the paper.

Beyond the synthesis method for element 119, the paper only briefly mentioned the industry-friendly stable isotopes to which Qiao Ze referred, simply stating the new element had two stable isotopes. These stable isotopes each had 184 and 192 neutrons, respectively.

If the new Chinese naming is ultimately adopted by the management committee, they would be named Nihonium-303 and Nihonium-311.

Nihonium-311, in particular, can be said to be very special.

Because this does not conform to the predictions of the nuclear shell model.

According to existing theoretical deductions, the nucleus becomes more stable when a shell of protons or neutrons is filled.

In the shell model, there is a concept of "magic numbers," which correspond to the number of protons or neutrons when a shell is completely filled.

For superheavy elements, the predicted magic numbers for neutrons are 184 or 196.

Nihonium-303 conforms to the nuclear shell model prediction, as 303 atomic mass units minus 119 protons is exactly 184 neutrons.

But Nihonium-311 does not match the shell model prediction. 311 atomic mass units minus 119 protons equals only 192 neutrons, which is four neutrons fewer than the shell model prediction.

For such scientific theoretical models, that represents an entirely new research direction.

It means the nuclear shell effect requires revision, as this is sufficient evidence that the nucleon interactions in superheavy elements are far more complex than imagined, including some inter-nucleon interactions not yet foreseen at the present stage.

It also means that a series of synthesized superheavy elements might have more stable isotopes yet to be discovered.

Even the relative stability of Nihonium-311 compared to expectations could be evidence of a new physical effect, possibly a new type of nucleon arrangement not observed in experiments before, or some unknown quantum mechanical effect.

In short, any of these possibilities if proven, could perhaps lead to another Nobel Prize.

As is well known, Edward Witten, being a physicist, has yet to win a Nobel Prize.

In this era, apart from Qiao Ze, probably no one else would scoff at the Nobel Prize.

Even Edward Witten couldn't.