94: From Technological Warfare to Space Empire

Unable to suppress the turmoil surging within my heart.

The group of Russian experts stared wide-eyed at Lin Yu, their gray-blue pupils wide with disbelief.

This subtle pattern was only confirmed by the Soviet materials science community through numerous experiments after the Cold War, and it had never been published in any public literature.

Not to mention China, apart from their research group, there are very few experts in China who know about it.

The Chinese experts were initially taken aback, as they were unaware of such details. They could only feign confidence and agree with Lin Yu.

When Lin Yu exposed his lie, only Sergei was not alarmed; on the contrary, he was somewhat delighted.

This time, they came to exchange equally matched techniques, rather than for one-sided instruction.

Lin Yu's insight shows that they made the right choice in coming here.

"That's right, Comrade Lin, that's exactly how it is in the experiment."

"However, since we don't yet have solid theoretical evidence, we don't understand why this situation occurs."

"I wouldn't dare to mislead people by sharing my theories."

"What are Comrade Lin's insights?"

Hearing the question thrown his way, Lin Yu stood up, walked to the blackboard, pulled out a piece of chalk, and smiled confidently.

This is the first essential piece of knowledge that the Eye of Insight observed to convince Sergei and his group—the calculation of the density functional equation.

"It's very simple."

"The vacuum environment reduces the oxygen partial pressure, causing a slight change in the binding energy between titanium atoms."

"The 0.3-volt bond energy attenuation between titanium bonds is incorporated into density functional theory calculations."

Lin Yu picked up the chalk and began writing in the blank space on the blackboard.

Lines of complex quantum mechanics formulas flowed smoothly from the page.

Lin Yu explained as he calculated.

"This is the basic form of the density functional theory equation."

"When the ambient pressure drops to a vacuum, the correlated potential energy will be corrected by 0.03%, which in turn affects the distribution of the electron cloud."

Lin Yu spoke at a steady pace, and his reasoning was rigorous.

The chalk danced across the blackboard. Starting from the first principles of quantum mechanics, seven minutes later, the calculated result, based on the derivation of the formula, was clearly written on the blackboard.

-8.2 degrees Celsius, exactly as predicted.

"See, that's it."

When Lin Yu put down the chalk, the meeting room was deathly silent.

All six Soviet experts stood up, their eyes fixed on the blackboard full of derivation process.

Sergei's hands were trembling slightly.

He was the deputy director of the Soviet Institute of Mechanics, specializing in mechanics for over 30 years. He had seen countless geniuses, but none could derive specific process parameters from first principles so easily.

This isn't a matter of knowledge reserves; it's a matter of overwhelming superiority in theoretical ability.

The group of Chinese professors who followed were also having a hard time.

Sitting on the stool, I felt restless, but I had to put on a matter-of-fact smile.

He cursed Professor Song inwardly for going out to deploy counter-signal jamming measures.

Your apprentice is so strong, how come I've never heard you mention it before?

If you have this ability, why didn't you hand it over to our physics department sooner? A few years ago, we could have had Professor Qian mentor and train you.

After hearing the theoretical derivation, Sergei was so shocked that his voice became hoarse.

"When...when did you do these calculations?"

Lin Yu thought to himself that he had been cramming for the past few days without eating or sleeping, but he certainly couldn't tell Andrei about it.

He lightly patted the chalk dust off his hands and said casually.

"I just thought of it. Your process parameters reminded me of some basic physics problems, so I just made a rough calculation."

……

I gave it a push casually.

These words struck the hearts of every Soviet expert like a heavy hammer.

They used large computers and spent countless hours, but in the end, they still relied on visual observation and statistical analysis to discover the patterns.

Theoretically, we are still in a state of partial understanding.

But this young Chinese man actually deduced it from scratch in 7 minutes?

No...not only.

He had already figured it out by the time he wrote it down, and the calculation time was even shorter!

Is this a sign of China's overall industrial level rising, or is it just that this young man has a skill?

Is he the unparalleled theoretical genius mentioned in popular gossip?

Sergei took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

This is a crucial moment for both sides to exchange knowledge and engage in confrontation; we cannot afford to be cowardly.

Soviet pride wouldn't allow him to simply admit that his students had so easily surpassed him.

Sergei then frantically searched his mind for flaws in Lin Yu's previous deductions.

Finally, he found a flaw: Lin Yu's deduction process seemed to be a priori, based on the result.

"Comrade Lin Yu, the density functional theory you just used often requires a lot of empirical parameter corrections when calculating actual materials, as far as I know."

"But you didn't seem to use it in your calculations, did you?"

Lin Yu nodded.

"really."

Seeing Lin Yu admit it, Sergei breathed a sigh of relief. If the deduction was made by working backward from the result, then the deduction wasn't so terrible.

The Soviet Union was very good at keeping secrets, but it wasn't impossible for someone to reveal such a little bit of knowledge after drinking.

As long as the conclusion is not derived entirely by taking the derivative of the unknown, it is still within his acceptable range.

But Lin Yu's next words made him feel as if he had fallen to the bottom of a lake.

"Therefore, I improved the commutative correlation functional."

Lin Yu picked up the chalk again and added a term next to the original formula.

The time has come for the actual installation.

All of the above is based on existing formulas of this era.

What follows are theories that only emerged after breakthroughs in later disciplines!

Lin Yu wrote down a formula and smiled shyly.

"These are minor revisions I came up with myself."

"The α and β inside are adjustable parameters."

"This commutative correlation functional is particularly effective for transition metals."

"I've used it to calculate the phase transition behavior of elements such as titanium, vanadium, and zirconium, with an average error of no more than 5%"

Gregory suddenly stood up, his eyes wide open behind his reading glasses.

"That's impossible!"

"How could you possibly have derived a commutative correlation functional?"

"China doesn't have a research center for condensed matter physics at all."

"Improving exchange-correlated functionals is a cutting-edge topic in condensed matter physics, and dozens of top teams worldwide are working on it! So far, there are no results..."

"You!! How could you possibly do this?!"

When the translator translated Gregory's words into Chinese, the entire room fell silent.

The professors on the Chinese side were already sweating profusely.

Is this correct? Is this correct?

The military commander told them to come and support Lin Yu, but he didn't tell them that Lin Yu's skill level didn't require their support at all.

They couldn't understand the formulas being explained!

After listening to the translator's explanation, Lin Yu tilted his head, revealed an innocent smile, and clapped his hands.

He was about to put on a tea ceremony and perform a trick.

"That's great, so I'm right?"

"I was worried about this conjecture before, wondering if I had made a mistake somewhere."

Silence fell over the meeting room once again.

Hearing the message conveyed in these simple and unadorned words, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

His conjecture…his conjecture…

Did he come up with this all by himself?

Sergei felt a little dizzy. He slowly sat down, holding onto the chair, and picked up the teacup, only to find that his hands were trembling slightly.

This young Chinese man is terrifying.

Who the hell said he committed academic misconduct?

If there's an academic problem with this, then what are we?