After Zheng Li returned, the researchers all clamored for him to give them his blessings as well.

Unfortunately, no birds flew overhead.

“Alan, I think we can start with dark matter and Planck’s constant.”

By combining these two detection methods, we study higher-dimensional space by applying them to a combination of dark matter speculation and Planck's posterior hypothesis.

“Allen, I think we can use regularized regression to study universal results in high-dimensional spaces.”

Everyone is very interested in higher-dimensional space.

Especially after proving that soul particles can escape into higher dimensions, researchers realized that higher dimensions might be able to solve the eternal question that has plagued humanity for thousands of years—immortality.

Of the solutions they proposed, only a few were valuable; most were impossible to implement.

There is a long gap between experimental design and implementation.

For example, in the first scenario, everyone only speculated about the existence of dark matter; no one had ever directly observed it.

It's a solution that sounds great, but actually has many pitfalls.

On the path of scientific research, the most important role of a mentor is to prevent you from falling into pitfalls.

He and his academic friends, mentors' mentors, fellow students, etc., must have encountered many pitfalls and gained a lot of experience in this specific sub-field.

A good supervisor at the doctoral level can help you choose a project that is somewhat difficult, but one that you can work on and publish in top journals.

A completely hands-off mentor isn't even the worst kind.

The worst kind is the kind that asks you to help them complete their research project, and then helps you choose a project that's almost impossible to get a result from.

A key reason why China has been able to develop rapidly is that it has avoided some of the pitfalls that other countries have encountered.

Of course, I did make some mistakes; human nature makes it unrealistic to expect to avoid all pitfalls.

Even knowing that a wealth gap will emerge, this problem cannot be solved, because differentiation itself is one of the best means of controlling the people.

If there were no wealth gap or class divisions, and everyone's interests were aligned, that would be a terrifying thing for those in power.

Returning to the research, Zheng Li's thousand-year research career in the Mage Alliance gave him a very clear understanding of which plans were feasible and which were major pitfalls.

"The question we need to figure out now is whether time counts as a dimension."

Whether time is a dimension has been a subject of much debate in academia.

Einstein believed that time combined with three-dimensional spacetime constitutes four-dimensional spacetime.

However, many scientists believe that dimension is a spatial concept and a variable indicator, while time is linear and irreversible.

However, Zheng Li doesn't care whether time and space are the same concept.

He simply wanted to know if the concept of time existed in the higher dimensions that the soul traveled to.