Wang Yu spoke first on behalf of everyone.
"Yes, Qiao, we feel the same way. The paper still needs to be published."
Qiao Ze slightly furrowed his brow, interrupting the others who wanted to speak, and asked, "Who told you all this?"
Wang Yu hesitated, then nodded toward the direction where Edward Witten was sitting, and replied, "Zhang said yesterday that he mentioned it after the report."
Qiao Ze looked at Edward Witten, and their eyes met. He could read the professor's curious gaze, then saw him shrug. Qiao Ze then turned his gaze back to the five people.
"Oh, don't feel pressured. It's not really related to you, it just needs some refinement."
"Actually, we're not pressured..."
"If there's no pressure, why do you often complain about being under a lot of stress?" Qiao Ze asked.
"No, what I mean is, this pressure isn't that pressure... it should be academic pressure," Wang Yu said with a headache.
"Is academic pressure difficult?" Qiao Ze persisted.
"Yes, yes, yes, extremely difficult," several people answered almost simultaneously.
"What is difficult about it?" Qiao Ze continued.
This time, all five of them were stunned and didn't know where to begin.
Qiao Ze frowned, then began to list, "The examples I teach?"
Some nodded, others shook their heads, and still others nodded first and then shook their heads.
"Then is it the entire theory itself?"
This time they all nodded in unison.
"Yes, Qiao, we actually find the entire system quite difficult. The key is understanding, like the Super Helix Equation. Some calculations are commutative, some are not..."
Qiao Ze frowned, grabbed a piece of paper, and quickly scribbled down a question.
Then he seriously asked, "C (s, Θ) has non-commutative properties of operators. We directly bring in non-commutative operators Θ^ ij to reflect this, representing the dimensions of i and j in superspiral space. Aside from these two dimensions, all other dimensions are commutative. Why do you find it hard to understand?"
Wang Yu swallowed involuntarily.
Here it comes again...
Then this time he finally plucked up his courage and said, "Qiao, the problem is right here. You can analyze these problems clearly at will. It's true that after hearing it once, one does understand. After listening to your discussion, I also feel like I've understood, but when I try to deal with these problems myself, I have no idea how to accurately define a Hamiltonian operator with non-commutative terms.
Let me put it this way, as soon as you listed the equation, you accurately recognized that this equation has non-commutative properties in dimensions i and j. But when we start to analyze this equation, it takes a long time to figure out where to start analyzing the non-commutative dimensions. Often we still get it wrong, and frequently make mistakes when inserting the known values for calculation, making it very hard to solve these problems in one go."
This speech left Qiao Ze stunned.
Qiao Ze was silent for a long while, then finally spoke, "You mean to say that you can't even determine by looking at the most basic equation, its location and basic geometrical structure in the Super Helical Coordinate System? Shouldn't it be obvious once you comprehend the general structure?"
Wang Yu blankly said, "Qiao, don't even mention looking at it for a second, you could let me look for a long time but without those auxiliary theorems and tools, I still wouldn't see it!"
Qiao Ze sighed inwardly, then turned to the others and asked, "What about you guys?"
The others uniformly shook their heads, bravely expressing that they couldn't do it either.
Qiao Ze pondered for a moment, glanced at Edward Witten who was curiously watching their conversation with interest, then quickly wrote down the English version and passed it over.
And asked, "Professor Witten, having looked at this equation, can you figure out its specific location and geometrical structure in the Super Helical Coordinate System?"
Edward Witten probably didn't expect to be brought into the conversation while listening in. He looked carefully at the manuscript Qiao Ze had written and then blurted out involuntarily, "Qiao Ze, have you gone mad? I'm not a supercomputer! How is that possible! Even a supercomputer couldn't analyze it in a short time, could it?"
Indeed, despite some previous resentment towards Edward Witten by the doctoral students present, feeling that the prominent scholar had been a bit boastful, his words immediately elevated his status in their minds to that of their formerly respected academic. They even felt a sense of gratitude.
At last, the heavyweight seemed to understand them.
Qiao always says this is easy, that's simple.
See, now finally someone is willing to prove, face to face, that the things Qiao claims to understand at a glance are not actually that simple.
Qiao Ze looked at Edward Witten's expression. Although his voice was loud, it was clear that the great scholar was speaking the truth.
However, it might also be as he often joked himself, that he was getting older and the remaining brain cells were dwindling, unable to keep up with his own pace anymore.
Thus, Qiao Ze asked another question, "What about the students at the Princeton Mathematics Institute? Do you think they can handle it?"
This question also left Edward Witten silent for a long while before he answered, "To tell you the truth, Qiao Ze, I rarely teach at the School of Mathematics, so I don't interact much with those young people. I wouldn't normally have much to say on this issue. Besides, you know, Princeton doesn't have this course, and the students don't know much about the Super Helical Coordinate System."