Especially Yang Xuanqing, he was utterly flabbergasted upon seeing the first batch of pictures transmitted from within the country.
The more awkward part was that just yesterday he had told Edward Witten that Qiao Ze wasn't very interested in their research, only for Qiao Ze to publish such a revolutionary thing on Weibo the very next day.
It was truly a slap in the face.
Of course, that was a minor issue. The key point was, if this deduction was also correct and they really could find evidence of the graviton using this equation, then the upcoming discussions on the standard model's revision would indeed be very thrilling.
The most important fundamental mechanism of basic physics was poised to make history with the name of someone from The East.
A grand unifying theory that the West had coveted for a century was about to be completed by the hands of a young Huaxia mathematician who had never even been educated in the West, let alone visited the Nuclear Research Center.