"Academician Zhang, Academician Han, Principal!"
Walking along the main path of the school, the surrounding students greeted them enthusiastically as they passed by.
"Where shall we go first?"
"Let's have a look at our hardware facilities first," said Zhang Menglong. "We've just renovated the road to the Physics Academy."
"I've heard your school has a Particle Collider and I've been eager to see it for myself!" It was almost common knowledge that Jiangnan University of Science and Technology possessed a Particle Collider, which made other technical universities green with envy!
"Where did you hear such rumors?"
"Why call it a rumor? I heard that it had already been in place since last year, and external tests have even started."
"But I heard that it's now impossible to book, their own students have to queue up to use it."
"It isn't just a publicity stunt, is it?"
The principals began whispering among themselves. Although this news had been out for a while, truthfully, no one outside of Jiangnan University of Science and Technology had used it yet, and no images or video materials had even leaked.
Moreover, they weren't uneducated, how much space would be needed to build a Particle Collider? It would require dozens of kilometers of tunnels for accelerating particles; even encompassing the entire Jiangnan University of Science and Technology wouldn't suffice for the space needed by a Particle Collider!
In many people's minds, this was simply a lie! Had Zhang Menglong really just debunked it himself?
"So you're saying your school doesn't actually have a Particle Collider?" For them, this was the more plausible explanation since such technology couldn't merely be bought with money.
"No, no, no," Zhang Menglong shook his head, "What I mean is, it's a rumor that our school only has one Particle Collider. In fact, we have already installed two, and are now setting up the third one!"
"You've already installed two?"
"I can't help it," Zhang Menglong tapped his forehead, "the intensity of our scientific research has increased several times; one Particle Collider can no longer meet our daily needs, so we simply decided to install more."
"That's impossible!" someone immediately retorted, "Where would you get the space to build them? Even one is unlikely!"
"Why not see for yourselves?" Zhang Menglong smiled.
He led the group of principals in an elevator to the basement level of this brand-new building.
The moment the elevator doors opened, they were stunned.
The entire basement was so vast that one could not see its limits; they stood in a corridor, separated by a pane of glass, beyond which were researchers dressed in special suits.
Through the glass, they could see a massive circular tunnel, approximately two to three hundred meters in diameter.
"Is this the Particle Collider you built?" From what they could see, it indeed looked like a mini version of a Particle Collider.
"Yes, I've modified and upgraded the current Particle Collider. Europe's largest Particle Collider has a circumference of 27 kilometers, while mine is only 600 meters, but the acceleration effect is just as strong, if not stronger! And it is now mass-produced!"
"This is incredible!" a professor with a background in physics leaned against the glass, "The temperature is close to absolute zero, the superconducting effect has almost reached its peak, and the particles can even approach the speed of light."
"Oh, it just so happens that there's a physics class going on right here," Zhang Menglong pointed to a glass classroom nearby. Inside, there were about forty or fifty students in uniform protective suits, and a dozen or so older individuals.
They were bent over various instruments analyzing the data, it was unclear what experiment they were conducting.
"Are these your students?"
Han Jinyu glanced at the teaching schedule, "Yes, these are our new first-year physics students."
"You're letting them into the lab to conduct such experiments in their first year?" The principals were astonished.
It's not that just because you can build a Particle Collider, you can readily incorporate it into teaching. These first-year students haven't even mastered the basic theoretical knowledge, and they might not even understand the principles of a collider, yet you're letting them operate a Particle Collider for experiments?
"Ladies and gentlemen, as I said, our students are very capable; they have already completed all the compulsory courses from undergraduate to master's level at our school," Zhang Menglong explained.
Indeed, only the students from genius classes enter the Super God Academy, but you should know, theSuper God Academy offers them not just knowledge, but also various teaching methods.
Those abstruse physics concepts were as simple as elementary mathematics to them, and they could even teach others in the simplest way possible.
Under Zhang Menglong's arrangement, these students became teaching assistants in various classes, and the students in those classes seemed as if they had cheats enabled. This might be the so-called "dimensional reduction attack."
"So what are they doing now?"
"I'll go ask," Han Jinyu waved at one of the genius teaching assistants inside, "Xu Zhe, what are you guys doing today?"
"Oh, we just simulated a universe big bang today, and now we're analyzing the data we obtained!" Xu Zhe replied.
"This... is this something their age should be dealing with?"
Those who could reach this academic level were about 100,000 people worldwide, either renowned professors and academic scholars or top researchers. Calling them scientists would be perfectly fitting.
Ordinary first-year university students wouldn't even understand what those data meant, let alone analyze them.
"Can we go in and have a look?"
"Of course," Zhang Menglong nodded.
With a mindset full of reverence, they entered the classroom and saw students constantly calculating on several monitors, and the displayed data left them dumbfounded.
"Such fast calculation speed!"
"Oh, we have a supercomputer downstairs that specifically processes these data."
"Who are those people? Foreigners?" a principal suddenly noticed some people around who didn't look like students.
"Oh, they are foreign professors who came to Jiangnan University of Science and Technology for academic exchange," Zhang Menglong explained, "Let me introduce, this is Professor Bertelli, this is Professor Azures, oh right, Professor Azures is also nominated for this year's Nobel Prize."
"Study? Who is leading their study? Are you guiding them personally, Academician Zhang?"
"No need for that," Zhang Menglong shook his head, "I just find a couple of first-year students to guide them around, you see, they are watching very intently over there."
"You... you have these first-year students teaching these professors?"
"I... This world is too crazy!"
Even after they left the Physics Academy building, those principals still had a dazed expression on their faces.
Where the hell are these first-year students? Even if you told them these were academicians, they'd believe it! Is this the "normal" academic level of Jiangnan University of Science and Technology's first-year students?
If that was really the case, then indeed, other universities might as well not exist. Has this world really gone this far in terms of internal competition?
"Boom!" Suddenly, a huge explosion sounded from another building nearby.
"Oh, that's the Mechanical Academy, it must be our students tinkering with something again," Zhang Menglong said irritably, "Our first-year students this year are very mischievous, they just love to mess with all sorts of crazy things. A few days ago, some first-year students built a particle cannon and almost blew up our teaching building!"
"First-year students can build a particle cannon?"
Zhang Menglong led them into the building. On the third floor of the Mechanical Academy, a group of students gathered around a strange-looking machine, a male student's face was dirty, but his expression was incredibly excited.
"Isn't that Professor Orrick from England?" a principal suddenly recognized the person.
"He's the founder of England's aerospace engines!"
"Hey, you!" the male student suddenly shouted, "Professor Orrick, right? Come over and help me with this, hand me that wrench, come here and I'll explain the principles of this anti-gravity engine device to you, bring your notebook!"