The first time I knew Professor Zhang Shousheng was in a WeChat group, when everyone was discussing angel particles and arguing whether Professor Zhang would win the Nobel Prize.

I am Zhengfang. Judging from the quality of the Franklin Award, Buckley Award, and Dirac Award won by Professor Zhang, most of the people who won these awards before won the Nobel Prize, so I believe he will be able to win the Nobel Prize in the future. prize. Of course, some people think that his contribution is probably in the top two or three in his subdivided field, which belongs to the type that can be given, but it can also not be given. Perhaps those of our generation who went abroad in the early 1980s all have a Nobel Prize complex. Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao have won the Nobel Prize for more than ten years after going abroad. It has been almost 40 years since the policy of our generation went abroad, and there has not been one. We always hope to make a breakthrough. So subjectively, I still hope that Professor Zhang can win the Nobel Prize.

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Professor Zhang mentioned that mining in the blockchain is an entropy reduction behavior. At the same time, it emphasizes anonymity and decentralization. From a financial point of view, I think that the blockchain must be subject to supervision, and to accept supervision, one must have a real name, or a hidden real name. At the same time, I do not think that decentralization is the purpose of the blockchain. Although we disagreed, we had a good conversation, and before we knew it, it was lunch time. We all have appointments, so we bid farewell to our respective restaurants.

I made an appointment with Chen Ping, an alumnus of Cheung Kong. Interestingly, Chen Ping is also an investor of Professor Zhang. He happened to make an appointment with Professor Zhang, and we ended up having lunch together. At that time, Professor Zhang's wife was also present, and some employees of Danhua Fund were also there. During the meeting, we talked about Professor Wen Xiaogang from MIT, who is also a member of the American Academy of Sciences and a winner of the Buckley Condensation Physics Prize. Those who come from the mainland are the only ones who can pass. Zhang Shousheng and Wen Xiaogang should be among the top students in the field of physics among the mainland students. Wen Xiaogang is also likely to win the Nobel Prize.

Professor Zhang also asked about Wen Xiaogang's leg. He fell in Shanghai and he didn't know how he recovered. In short, Professor Zhang is very sincere to people, has a wide range of knowledge, and has always been a leader among his peers. There are not many setbacks. After the meal, I exchanged WeChat and articles about the blockchain. I have been following his articles. He is very knowledgeable, sees the problem to the essence, and can learn a lot from his articles.

In Shanghai in the summer, as the executive director of the Blockchain Application Research Center chaired by Dr. Wang Wei, I had the honor to deliver a speech with Professor Zhang.

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The last time I saw Professor Zhang was in Silicon Valley in October this year. At that time, I was talking about stablecoins with Lan Bo, the founder of the North American Blockchain Association. Professor Zhang happened to pass by. I learned that Danhua invested in stablecoin projects like Basis. Objections were raised. Stablecoins must have certain collateral, whether it is legal currency or digital currency or other collateral, otherwise the redemption cannot be completed. A fully algorithmic stablecoin project like Basis will eventually turn into a kind of Ponzi scheme. Professor Zhang also asked about the progress of our project and exchanged views with each other. He still looked very optimistic and positive. He didn't feel anything strange at the time, but he didn't expect to be able to succeed forever.

I happened to be at the Shenzhen Institute of Capital Markets when I heard the sad news about Professor Zhang. At first I thought it was an online joke, but I didn’t expect it to be true. Professor Zhang has given practitioners great confidence in the blockchain industry. Because this field is relatively new, many practitioners are born in the 90s and work very aggressively, so many people suspect it is a Ponzi scheme. Once in a group, some supervisors said that all the people in the currency circle are liars. Let’s use the example of Professor Zhang to refute. People like Professor Zhang should be serious about their work. With Professor Zhang in the company, we feel confident.

Although Professor Zhang has always been a master of physics, Professor Zhang still has some origins in the blockchain. Part of Professor Zhang's research involves phase transitions in topological insulators. The usual first-order phase transition refers to the phase transition caused by the change of the relationship between molecules caused by thermal motion. During the phase transition, there will be a change in heat, and the first-order derivative of the potential function is not zero. The topological order phase transition studied by Professor Zhang belongs to a second-order phase transition. The first derivative of the potential function is zero, but the second derivative is not zero. There is no release of heat, and near absolute zero, thermal motion is almost zero. But due to quantum fluctuations, when the relationship between the elementary particles in the material changes from one rule to another, a phase change will also occur. At this time, other variables other than temperature need to be changed, such as electric field, magnetic field or pressure. It can also be seen why Professor Zhang has a soft spot for the blockchain and emphasizes the change of entropy. Because of the phase change, the mutual relation of the elementary particles in the similar material is transformed from one cooperative rule to another cooperative rule. The consensus in the blockchain also represents a synergistic effect in the community, and the conversion of different consensuses is similar to a phase transition. Entropy is a measure of disorder, and maintaining a consensus requires the energy input of miners. However, the maintenance of entropy reduction can also be completed through the information brought in by the use of the certificate or the information input brought in by the transaction of the certificate. From this point, it can also be seen that a blockchain community without tokens will become a zombie community.

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Professor Zhang's accident this time also gave me some insights. From the perspective of blockchain practitioners, there are several difficulties recently. The first is the general environment of the Sino-US trade war, which will put a lot of pressure on individuals, especially in high-tech investments, which will attract the attention of many people. The second is that the high-tech investment range is long and the risk is high, and the application of high-tech requires long-term accumulation and precipitation. At this time, the cooperation of investors is very important, and they must be prepared for long-term investment. The third is that the price of blockchain encrypted tokens has fluctuated greatly recently. For example, Bitcoin has dropped by about 85% from nearly 20,000 to more than 3,000. Such a price drop has had a great impact on the Danhua Foundation. The distress and anxiety caused by these points is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Professor Zhang Shoucheng is a young college student. He went to university at the age of 15 and became a full professor at Stanford at the age of 32. He has won all physics awards except the Nobel Prize. Many people feel that it is a pity that Professor Zhang passed away. He continued his physics research. According to Professor Yang Zhenning, it will be a matter of time before he wins the Nobel Prize. After him, the generation of mainland scholars born in the 1960s counted on Wen Xiaogang to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

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Professor Zhang Shousheng is eternal! Professor Zhang's thought and spirit will last forever in physics and on the blockchain!