I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck off the coast west of Portland.

Fortunately, with God's blessing, when the earthquake and tsunami reached the coast of Portland, the energy was greatly attenuated, and the big waves turned into high tides. The height of the waves was less than 2 meters, and no destructive damage was caused.

Pacific Rim countries such as China, the United States, Russia, Japan, and Australia still dare not relax their vigilance. Every year, earthquakes and tsunamis in Pacific Rim countries account for 80% of the world's total.

60% of the earthquakes and tsunamis hit Japan, which is the country most affected by earthquakes and earthquakes and tsunamis.

Today's quake off the coast of west Portland could, given the aftershocks, generate a devastating tsunami that could strike coastal nations in the Eastern Hemisphere in a matter of months.

Tsunamis are hard to guard against. The tsunami triggered by the earthquake in Chile in 1960 reached Hawaii and Japan on the other side of the earth a few months later, causing serious damage.

Shen Qi declared that he really did not expect an earthquake to occur in the waters near Portland, and this cannot be blamed on him.

"Yes, this is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with any human being." Rodney, the chairman of IRIS, said, and he gave Shen Qi a meaningful look: "Professor Shen, I want to talk to you alone."

"Okay, Mr. Chairman." Shen Qi left with Rodney, and he also wanted to say something to the chairman.

In the chairman's office, Rodney first told a story:

"During World War II, the Japanese army hired a scientist named Hidetoshi Arakawa. This Hidetoshi Arakawa was very clever. He could predict and even change the airflow."

"At the suggestion of Hidetoshi Arakawa, the Japanese army built a large number of hot air balloons and placed nearly ten thousand bombs in them."

"In the spring and summer of 1944, the Japanese army's hot-air balloon bombs traveled across the ocean, followed a stable and strange high-altitude westerly wind belt to the western United States, and then landed automatically to bomb the continental United States."

"Americans are reeling from hot air balloons falling from the sky, shops and factories shutting down in San Francisco, and forest fires raging in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada for months."

"But the problem is that even in the 21st century, Americans have never found a stable and precise air path that allows hot air balloons to reach the eastern hemisphere unimpeded along the airflow." The chairman finished his story.

The scientist hired by the Japanese army is too monstrous. It is simply the World War II version of Kong Ming borrowing the wind. Shen Qi asked: "You mean, the Japanese army began to use the power of nature to attack the enemy during World War II and achieved success?"

"We all know a theory that when a butterfly flaps its wings, a continent thousands of kilometers away is hit by a tornado." Rodney stood in front of a wall with a huge world map hanging on it. He pointed to Brazil with his finger The location, and then all the way north, and finally arrived in the middle of the United States.

Shen Qi said: "Even if human scientists fully grasp the butterfly effect and build an accurate model, the purpose should not be used for war, but to improve the earth's ecological environment and save human lives."

Rodney smiled strangely: "You predicted four earthquake points, two of which were confirmed by real earthquakes. And just yesterday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 occurred in the west of Portland."

Shen Qi shook his head: "This has nothing to do with me, it really has nothing to do, the occurrence of earthquakes is affected by many factors, you can't associate me with earthquakes all over the world just because I predicted two earthquakes."

"As I said, this is a natural phenomenon." Rodney shrugged, and then said seriously: "Professor Shen, there are not many people who can really understand your new earthquake model. I believe I am one of them. You are not a simple Starting from seismology to build an earthquake model, you have used a large number of complex and profound mathematical tools. Chaos, turbulence, and partial differential processing of variants of N-S equations, Professor Shen, you are the butterfly, or you have this kind of ambition.”

"Hehe." Shen Qi smiled calmly, and asked, "So?"

"So we can cooperate. You said that your new earthquake model is still a semi-finished product. At present, it seems to be true. Join us, Professor Shen, and we will provide you with various resources beyond imagination to help you complete the remaining work. " Rodney made a handshake gesture and said expectantly.

Some gifts are acceptable and some must never be touched.

Joining you, I may not be able to leave the United States in my life...Shen Qi refused on the spot. He said: "I'm sorry, Chairman Rodney, I should leave. There are still many jobs waiting for me in the Princeton Department of Mathematics."

"Well, think about it again, we welcome you to join us at any time." Rodney was not upset, if he could easily convince Shen Qi, he would not be worthy of Shen Qi's status.

Shen Qi returned to Princeton, keeping a low profile.

The research work on the new earthquake model has been postponed. First, Shen Qi must be cautious, reclusive, and refrain from making public remarks in public places.

Secondly, Shen Qi encountered a bottleneck, and it was difficult to achieve results if the theoretical research work continued.

Shen Qi has never forgotten two key indicators, time and intensity.

At present, we need to add another indicator: the quantitative description of the chain reaction of predictability.

"Math level 14, physics level 12, a bit low, unable to pry into the true mysteries of nature."

Shen Qi is unwilling to have in-depth contacts with foreign governments, military forces, and scientists with political inclinations, but it does not mean that he is afraid of them.

If you can really become that butterfly, you try to touch me?

But at this stage, the butterfly is still in the state of a caterpillar, quietly wrapped in a cocoon.

On the day of breaking out of the cocoon, it must be a new world.

Shen Qi's mathematics and physics levels are locked at level 14 and level 12. To continue to upgrade, he needs enough Xueba points and the completion of relevant conditional tasks.

Unimak Island and Nikolskoye Island are still calm, and Harry Manson and others are still staying in Princeton to protect Shen Qi.

Shen Qi summoned Yu Lei and Ralph to his office, and said, "You two have successfully completed your postgraduate training, and you can enter the stage of doctoral students."

Yu Lei and the University of Victoria collaborated on a thesis that was published in the Annals of Mathematics, one of the four major journals, as early as six months ago.

The project paper that Ralph and Yale collaborated on went through some ups and downs in the review process, and was finally published in another four major mathematics journals, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

The authors of "Research on Linear Lie Superalgebras and Their Supergroups" are Ralph, Jimmy, Shen Qi, and Jackson. The first two are graduate students and doctoral students, and the latter two are their supervisors.

Because of this "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" paper, Shen Qi gained 355,800 Xueba points.

Yu Lei and Ralph both published papers in the four major journals of mathematics under the guidance of Shen Qi in the third semester of postgraduate study.

Shen Qi thought that the two of them could enter the stage of doctoral students: "Of course, you can continue to choose me as your doctoral supervisor, or you don't have to."