Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 93 - 95 Significant Breakthrough

Chapter 93: Chapter 95 Significant Breakthrough

Zhao Qingfeng saw a group of people teasing Zhang Yuan and joked, “Stop giving him a hard time. Even if you rivaled Helen in beauty, he wouldn’t bat an eyelid until he has real results or has formally decided to give up.”

“Helen?”

“…the daughter of Zeus, the chief god of Greece; her unmatched beauty ultimately triggered the Trojan War.”

“I can’t compare to that kind of beauty, so it seems I won’t get to have this spicy hotpot.” Anna giggled. She noticed that Zhang Yuan was still absent-minded, focusing the majority of his attention somewhere unknown.

Being fellow researchers in the laboratory, such behavior was somewhat understandable, and the desire to tease each other momentarily intensified.

“Hey! I’m talking to you?”

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“What?”

“But I’m a few years older than you, and have a boyfriend. Do you think you could take him?”

“Ah! What?”

“Just like a coyote, it needs a duel, you know?”

“Oh.”

Suddenly, a “boom” resonated in Zhang Yuan’s mind.

A bolt of lightning seemed to flash through his brain.

It felt as though he had pierced the dim sky with a bamboo pole, revealing a hint of faint light!

He jumped up from his chair impulsively.

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“What’s wrong?” Anna was quite startled.

Excitement sparkled in Zhang Yuan’s eyes as he ran quickly toward the main door.

“I’ve got a good idea! Gotta go!”

“What about my spicy meatballs?”

“I’ll treat you next time!”

Anna muttered a complaint under her breath, showing a look of helplessness.

Zhao Qingfeng and the others also burst into laughter.

It wasn’t strange at all, not strange in the least.

Zhang Yuan’s mind raced, completely oblivious to what the people around him were saying.

The feeling of inspiration was uncanny; although there was no experimental verification, he was utterly convinced of its correctness, as if his energy meridians had been unlocked and he’d established a mysterious connection with the ultimate truth of the universe.

For the first time in his life, Zhang Yuan experienced this indescribable Sixth Sense, his excitement causing his body hair to stand on end.

What he thought of was a method using differentiable neural networks to string together a whole series of segmented data!

The idea was unique and also challenging.

Reaching his room, he exhaled the stale air from his lungs.

Let’s begin!

He tried to clarify the entire inspiration.

His right hand feverishly scribbled on the tablet, and dozens of pages of the electronic manuscript were written in no time.

Deep into the night, Zhang Yuan was unaware of the passage of time; he kept trying over and over to enlarge the small hole in the dark sky.

As his thoughts deepened, the mysterious Sixth Sense appeared again, and the light in the sky grew brighter, slowly unveiling the truth hidden behind the fog!

He was fully immersed in the pleasure of tackling a famously difficult problem in the world. That intermittent rush of joy was so intense it seemed as if the entire meaning of life was just for this moment.

Then the dawn arrived…

He stood up, his face flushed.

Overnight, the intricate problem of turbulence had been perfectly transformed into an issue of neural networks!

Various groups were divided exceptionally clearly, processing these groups region by region and then integrating them in a subtle way to provide a clear description of the turbulence problem.

The sense of achievement felt as if he had been injected with adrenaline, soaring through the clouds.

Without caring for sleep, Zhang Yuan grabbed a quick breakfast in the restaurant and, with the results of a night’s work, excitedly presented them to Academician Ding Zhaodong.

“You’ve got some good ideas?”

Academician Ding’s brows furrowed at first glance at the diagram. “What is this?”

“Yes, look, this is a transformation structure of a neural network…”

But in the next ten minutes, as he listened to Zhang Yuan’s explanation, Academician Ding began to get excited.

His voice involuntarily grew louder, “Your idea is indeed very good! But, I still feel there are some problems that haven’t been resolved, including a few key points…”

Zhang Yuan then asked, “…there are indeed a few major issues, like how to extend this method to topologically complex surfaces? How to implement a global approach?”

After a moment of thought, Academician Ding said decisively, “To link analysis with topology, you may try using the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, where the harmonic differential can be seen as a smooth vector field.”

“…Then, while keeping the cohomology class constant, you can try to work on some problems.”

The two of them enthusiastically discussed for six hours straight.

Academician Ding was a busy man, often receiving calls, but today, he put everything aside when he became engrossed in the conversation.

Because he had realized this was a very significant breakthrough.

In the end, he exclaimed with great excitement, “Be bold in trying! Even if the final direction is wrong, it doesn’t matter. You don’t need to work on anything else for now. I will apply for the experiments you need; focus on researching this problem!”

When Zhang Yuan came out of the room, the feeling of eagerness, of eagerly rubbing his hands together, made his heart blaze with a passion like nuclear fusion.

This was the first time in his life he had caught prey in the mysterious forest.

Strictly speaking, his previous paper couldn’t count because all the inspiration came from his father, but this time was different—it was his own resolve that captured it.

Zhang Yuan clenched his fist.

Go for it!

It took three whole months.

Writing the paper was tough; even with the general direction clear, countless details still required clarification. Zhang Yuan reckoned that if he had used paper drafts instead of digital ones, the piles of discarded drafts would have weighed more than he did.

Moreover, the problem of turbulence was substantial—it had to be validated by real experiments to prove the value of a solution. Otherwise, no matter how eloquently one spoke, no one would believe it.

But the experimental conditions atop the Earth Era weren’t great, and even if Zhang Yuan’s solution was excellent, it wasn’t possible to use the Mother Ship’s nuclear engines for the experiment. Therefore, the most critical plasma turbulence experiment couldn’t be conducted for now.

If plasma turbulence experiments couldn’t be done, there were still various other types of turbulence to explore, like pipeline fluid experiments, which were not a problem.

When the results came out, the lab burst into warm and sustained applause.

The experimental outcome, in two words—perfect.

“…A very good result, and even though it’s not a plasma turbulence experiment, your achievement is already magnificent!” Professor Ding Zhaodong led the applause: “Congratulations!”

Witnessing the birth of a miracle, he couldn’t help being moved, his face slightly flushed, “The plasma turbulence experiment can be sent back for scientists on Earth to verify. I believe there won’t be any major issues!”