Super God-Level Top Student

The paper was in Chinese, but fortunately, formulas are universal.

Sitting before Edward Witten, the distinguished scholar merely glanced at the steaming cup of water, furrowed his brow slightly, and then set it aside, paying it no further attention.

The next moment, Qiao Ze had already casually written down the most important high-dimensional graviton wave function equation from the paper and handed it over to Edward Witten.

A bit complex, a brand new equation presented a fresh challenge even for professionals.

However, Edward Witten wasn't in a hurry; after looking through it carefully, he waited for Qiao Ze's explanation.

Qiao Ze didn't disappoint; as soon as he saw that Witten had roughly looked through it, he explained the function's composition.

"△s​ is the Laplace operator in the Super Helical Coordinate System; V(s,t) represents the potential energy of containment gravitons in the Super Helical Coordinate System;

"Fk(Ψ, s) is a set of nonlinear functions describing the interaction between gravitons and super helical spacetime. These functions include topological and geometric properties of high-dimensional space, as well as graviton effects derived from the second theorem of the Super Helical Coordinate System.

αk is the fixed curvature constant for each curve in the Super Helical Coordinate System, with different curves representing different physical effects."

Having briefly introduced the topic, Qiao Ze fell silent.

Waiting for Edward Witten to ponder.

Just like with his previous papers, understanding this function expression required a foundational knowledge of the Super Helical Coordinate System.

Given that the function involved complex geometric characteristics and extra physical dimensions and structures, representing it with conventional equations would be even more complex. This was the simplest form, and starting from here could save a lot of time.

But soon, Qiao Ze realized that even with Princeton's dedicated research, their understanding of the Super Helical Coordinate System was still insufficient. The furrowed brow of Edward Witten across from him said it all.

So Qiao Ze simply wrote another equation and handed it over.

This function was more traditional in form, simply translating the content related to the Super Helical Coordinate System.

"First, compare the two equations. □ represents the D'Alembert operator in D-dimensional spacetime, μ is the mass parameter of the graviton, R is the D-dimensional Ricci scalar describing spacetime curvature, and M* is a high-energy scale used to describe physical effects in the extra dimensions..."

Clearly, this time Edward Witten understood quite quickly.

After a few minutes, he said with a frown, "I think I understand, but this doesn't describe the behavior trajectory of the containment graviton as you mentioned to Lotte Dugan."

"It just needs a simple transformation," said Qiao Ze succinctly.

Then he picked up his pen again, wrote down a passage, and handed it to Edward Witten.

Edward Witten first looked up at Qiao Ze, then set his gaze on the formula that Qiao Ze had handed over.

Quite puzzled.

"As described in the previous equation, the potential energy V(s, t) of the graviton combined with the nonlinear function Fk​(Ψ,s) of graviton interactions, includes the mathematical form of spiral motion properties. Because this involves unique topological and geometric properties in the Super Helical Coordinate System, I can only explain it simply.

This equation represents the spiral topological defects and the corresponding paths of energy minimization in spiral form. βk is a constant in the Super Helical Coordinate System, and θ(s) is a phase function related to the spiral path. Does this explanation make sense to you?"

Qiao Ze watched Edward Witten's expression intently, rather than starting on other tasks as usual.

While it was a discussion, from Qiao Ze's perspective, it could also be seen as a test.

This was also why he chose to directly provide the formulas, letting Edward Witten mull over them.

Because this was how he instructed his graduate students.

Like the time during the report meeting when he heard Wang Yu whispering comments below, then he formulated a theorem and asked Wang Yu to prove it as an additional homework assignment. It wasn't punishment, but Qiao Ze always believed that formulas derived from theorems were the best problems.

As long as one managed to prove or completely understand these theorems synthesized by predecessors, then one would have grasped the corresponding knowledge.

That was why he started the five graduate students' materials from here.

The homework he assigned was also meant to test their understanding of the basic theorems of superspiral algebra and transcendental geometry.

Looking at it now, this method proved highly efficient for him, but for his students, it was difficult.

So Qiao Ze decided to test it out on Edward Witten first.

If even this industry titan couldn't adapt to his mode of communication, then it most likely meant that his way of teaching students indeed had significant issues. The current state of the five grad students was largely his own responsibility.

By now, Edward Witten had slightly closed his eyes, evidently memorizing the equation in his mind and starting to ponder its meaning, combining it with Qiao Ze's explanation.

This made Qiao Ze begin to anticipate, one minute, five minutes, ten minutes...

After a long silence, Qiao Ze started to feel a bit disappointed.

Alright, the responsibility ultimately fell on him.

This highly efficient innovation in teaching was perhaps too presumptuous of him.

Despite being over seventy years old, with a mind not as agile as before, the scholar's depth of learning was undeniable.

If even such a high-caliber expert couldn't understand what he intended to convey solely through transfigured formulas, it was enough to show that his teaching model lacked universality.