As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 12 Does the basis for spellcasting exist?
High school biology teaches us that protein is the executive layer of life activities. Protein is composed of amino acids and has spatial structures at different levels.

Humans have studied the structural properties of the twenty kinds of amino acids in the human body and the sequences of proteins, but we still don’t know what exactly are the functions and spatial structures of proteins, and why a simple oxidation reaction has dozens of sub-reactions.

Instead of using a more cost-effective reaction, they insist on using a less efficient reaction.

Why do we need to use uncoupling proteins to release the proton gradient that has been accumulated with great difficulty?

There are many fundamental problems that have not been solved at the protein level alone. Biology is very similar to mathematics in a way: the more fundamental the problem, the harder it is to solve.

The 21st century is the century of biology. This statement has been mentioned since the s and continues to this day, but today it has become a joke.

The biology score line is getting lower and lower, from the nearly highest score line in the late 21s and early st century to the current biology score line that is only a few points away from the admission line.

This is the case for undergraduates, and the level of graduate students is even worse every year. There are very few undergraduate and graduate students at Shuimu Biology who continue to study biology, not to mention Jiangcheng University, where a large number of graduate students come from second-tier universities. It is not easy to find a student willing to study at a regular university.

Why does this phenomenon occur?

From the end of the last century to the beginning of the 20th century, various biological concepts such as "Human Genome Project", "Cloning" and "Biochip" were in full swing. What is the concept of biology now? One of the four major tiankengs.

Li Xulin was admitted to the Department of Biology of Jiangcheng University in the 1980s, and studied for his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees at Jiangcheng University. He has deep feelings for the School of Life Sciences of Jiangcheng University.

He saw that the quality of students in the School of Life Sciences was getting worse year by year, and he wanted to revive it but didn't know where to start.

You should know that Jiangcheng University's School of Life Sciences has five academicians, and its administrative and academic resources are enormous.

One of the academicians is already very old. When he retires, with the strength of the School of Life Sciences of Jiangcheng University, it is likely that one or two more academicians will be able to emerge.

There are two academicians in the medical polymer laboratory alone.

After Zheng Li came to the Medical Polymer Laboratory, the same experiments were taught to him and the experimental results were more ideal.

Take a simple PCR experiment as an example. The PCR experiment has very few steps and the core principle is simple, but slight differences in the reagents in each step among the limited steps may result in not getting the desired results in the end.

Many times when Zheng Li was doing experiments, he felt like he was a wizard from ancient times making potions.

Others would get stuck and not get the desired strips for various reasons, but Zheng Li could always achieve the desired effect.

PCR is just one of many types of experiments, and more and more important experiments were handed over to him.

Not only that, Zheng Li also has his own ideas on biological experiments and can put forward targeted optimization suggestions to make experiments and theories more consistent.

For several SCI papers, with his contribution, he could have been the second author, but Zheng Li refused.

Zheng Li said that he had ideas and hoped that his first paper would be the realization of his ideas.

"Hello, Mr. Liu, I have something I want to discuss with you." Li Xulin made a call.

After receiving the call, Liu Gui subconsciously felt that something bad was going to happen: "Go ahead."

Li Xulin: "Zheng Li expressed his wish to transfer to the School of Life Sciences, so I want to ask who to contact for the transfer process? Who is responsible for the administrative work of your School of Mathematics?"

Liu Gui said firmly, "Humph, I knew it was bad news. There is no way Zheng Li will transfer his major to the School of Biology!"

Li Xulin: "He wants to come to the School of Biology. You have to respect the student's wishes."

Liu Gui: "He didn't agree at all. I asked him what he thought. I admit that he doesn't really feel strongly about belonging to the School of Mathematics, but I'm afraid his sense of belonging to your School of Life Sciences isn't much stronger either."

Li Xulin: "He feels much more attached to the School of Life Sciences. He has only attended a few classes at the School of Mathematics, but he comes to the laboratory of the School of Life Sciences for internship every day."

Liu Gui: "Internship? I think his work is not much worse than the PhD students in your School of Life Sciences." "We really can't let such an excellent student go to the School of Life Sciences."

"Although he doesn't come to class every day, he goes to the School of Biology every day."

"But do you know what he accomplished in mathematics?"

“He solved the similarity problem for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, and the paper will be published in ARMA next semester.”

ARMA is a second-tier mathematics journal, second only to the Big Four in value.

After Liu Gui finished speaking, Li Xulin felt that he was indeed a genius among geniuses. He knew that this trip to recruit people would not be easy:
"But do you know what Zheng Li has accomplished in the School of Biology?"

"We are about to publish a paper in Nature, and he is the first author."

"As long as the editors at Nature replicate the experiment, they will definitely publish an article in Nature."

"The School of Life Sciences has never published a paper in the main journal Nature to date. This is our first paper in the main journal Nature."

"Academician Lu and Academician Zhu both expressed their optimism about Zheng Li. They will greet your President Chen."

Liu Gui shouted, "Li Linfu, you are trying to pressure me with your academician title?"

Li Xulin has another nickname in Jiangcheng University called Li Linfu, which implies that he is sweet-mouthed but has a sharp tongue and is sinister and cunning.

"No wonder you guys are so impatient, it turns out Zheng Li is going to publish in Nature."

He laughed strangely twice: "But I'm afraid your plan will fail."

"Zheng Li was admitted through recommendation, and according to national regulations, recommended students are not allowed to change their majors."

"Even if you have a lot of academicians, you can't accomplish this!"

Liu Gui was so happy: "I never thought that our School of Mathematics would publish a paper in Nature."

"Hahahaha thank you for bringing me this good news."

Li Xulin hung up the phone before he could finish listening to Liu Gui's wild laughter. He thought to himself:
"We were careless. If the School of Mathematics didn't know about this, Zheng Li might have been able to recruit him. But in this situation, I'm afraid that won't work."

"Hmph, Xiao Guizi, let you be proud for a while. Wait until Zheng Li graduates from university and see if he will stay in the School of Mathematics or come to our School of Biology."

In a closed environment, a piece of paper stood alone in the center of the room. There was no other sound in the room except the chirping of the little white mouse.

Zheng Li first injected the mouse with an anesthetic and then implanted the embryo-like living creature into the mouse's body.

After the operation was completed, he put the mouse into a cage and sat quietly by the side waiting for the mouse to wake up.

Most of the money he earned from tutoring was spent on this. Zheng Li needed to prove that willpower in this world could influence the real world.

This is the basis of all spellcasting.

Everything the two professors argued about was meaningless to him, and publishing the paper was just to establish his image as a genius.

Whether the basis for spellcasting exists in this world is the most important thing for Zheng Li.

(End of this chapter)