I Got an Omnipotent Brain Chapter 105

Novel: I Got an Omnipotent Brain Author: 몽쉐르 Updated: Jun 15, 2026

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Now reading: Chapter 105 from I Got an Omnipotent Brain, a Action novel by 몽쉐르.

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Before long, Seo-ha left, saying he had a class to get to.

The mont the door closed, silence settled over the lab.

"..."

Sri fidgeted with the cup he was holding.

Tap-tap-tap.

Theo opened his laptop and began typing.

He pulled up the archive and entered a search term, and hundreds of papers flooded the screen.

Sri sat in the chair across from him and stole a glance at Theo's laptop.

'Wow... he's covering a much broader range than I expected.'

Theo was scanning the list, sorting the papers he needed from the ones he didn't.

Quick and efficient selection.

"From here on, it's the engineering side..."

Theo scrolled down and stopped.

The screen was filled with terms like aerodynamics, microstructure, and semiconductors.

"Sri."

"Yes?"

"Have you ever compiled the minimum energy models used in engineering?"

Sri shook his head.

"I only know the ones related to my own field.

I've worked with Euler-Lagrange models and basic thin shell (thin shell * a curved structural body with a small thickness), but I'm not sure they'd be useful for our research."

"I figured as much."

"Is there a problem?"

"A big one. The minimum energy models on the engineering side are way too ad hoc. And it makes sense. They've all developed separately without any unified frawork."

"Ah..."

"Fluids, structures, materials, aerospace, chanical, semiconductors, they've all only ever discussed this problem within their own little corners. Even when they tried to collaborate, the lack of a unified theory would've been a wall."

Sri swallowed hard.

"And that's what we're trying to build."

"Exactly. If we pull it off, modern engineering will take a massive leap forward. I think Seo-ha made an excellent choice bringing you on. The two of us are hopeless when it cos to engineering."

"I think I see what I need to do. Gather the scattered discussions from different branches of engineering and extract the common elents, right?"

Theo nodded, looking satisfied.

"Right. Nice not having to explain it.

There's sothing else to keep in mind, too. If possible, compile the physical constraints and realistic paraters from the models used in each field. So that whatever theory we build can actually work in real-world engineering."

"Then we'll need to unify the language first..."

"That's right, that cos first. Looking at the list of papers, I can see why Seo-ha was drawn to this."

"What do you an?"

"I haven't known Seo-ha all that long, but the guy has sothing close to a math-supremacist ntality.

Physics? He definitely thinks it's just a branch of mathematics. Sa with engineering. Did you notice how he casually referred to you as a mathematician earlier?"

"Oh! Now that you ntion it!"

"What are the core subjects in chanical engineering?"

"Calculus, linear algebra, engineering mathematics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, dynamics, fluid chanics, control engineering..."

Sri trailed off, a bitter expression crossing his face.

"Obviously, without math, engineering can't exist.

Seo-ha doesn't seem to draw a line between them. He probably just considers it all applied mathematics."

"Engineers would have a fit hearing that."

"In aerodynamics, the minimum energy model is called surface tension minimization.

Semiconductors are essentially a composite of energy minimization problems. Electrostatic potential, carrier diffusion, Fermi level, surface energy... everything is interconnected. Fluids, structures, electrical and electronic, robotics, it's all the sa.

They're all just borrowing fragnts from the larger mathematical the of minimum energy levels."

"Oh!"

"Seo-ha intends to place all of them onto the sa equation.

Sothing like, 'I'll build the unified mathematical theory, so you all handle the details yourselves.'

He might have been frustrated watching the engineering world fiddle with branches and stems while leaving the roots untouched."

"In a way, that could sound incredibly arrogant."

"Arrogant? Seo-ha doesn't have that kind of ego. It's just a statent of fact.

He's simply saying he'll do what he's capable of doing. So this research is guaranteed to succeed as long as you and I do our parts."

Trendous confidence.

Theo seed to have absolute faith in Seo-ha.

Even though Theo himself was an exceptionally talented mathematician.

"You're incredible too, Theodore. Like how you recognized that the drawing on the board was an Energy Function."

"Oh, that?"

Theo smirked.

"I'm no once-in-a-century genius. Obviously I couldn't have figured it out just from that."

"Then how?"

Theo pulled out his cara and showed it to Sri.

"I record every idea Seo-ha writes down.

Naturally, I already knew about the work you two were discussing in Building 33. I've barely slept lately from studying all of it."

"Why would you go that far?"

"Hmm... that's a hard question to answer when you actually ask.

You've probably noticed, but Seo-ha has an extraordinarily sharp intuition. There are plenty of theories that look plausible but turn out to be wrong, right?

Seo-ha doesn't fall for those. You're a scholar too, so you know what an unbelievable blessing that is."

"Of course. Researchers lose their way all the ti. Is there a single academic who hasn't wasted years going down the wrong path?"

"But those kinds of theories get eliminated at the first pass in Seo-ha's head. They don't even make it to consideration. Which ans every idea Seo-ha writes down has an extrely low chance of being wrong.

Even ideas he tossed aside thinking they were nothing turned out to have real significance. I'm planning to suggest we compile them into a book soday."

Theo chuckled in a low voice, as if he couldn't wait for that day.

'So that's what it was.'

It sounded too good to be true, but Sri found himself nodding without realizing it. If it weren't the case, no one could dare challenge an open problem.

Solving an open problem ant fighting through obstacle after obstacle. An ordinary researcher would spend years building and verifying a theory for each one. But what if soone could break through all of them without any trial and error?

"Elijah Cronen once said that before he even starts calculating, he feels the current of a problem first. I thought that was just bluster."

Theo gestured toward the board with a flick of his eyes.

"When you see sothing like that, you can't help but acknowledge it. Exceptional talent clearly exists. And Seo-ha is probably even more exceptional among them.

So what we need to do on this team is crystal clear."

Snap!

Sri snapped his fingers.

"Provide as much material and as many theories as possible. That's our job. Seo-ha will filter out the junk on his own."

Theo studied Sri with a probing gaze.

"Are you bothered that you'll just be playing support?"

Sri shook his head.

"Not at all. It's not sothing just anyone can do.

I'll put in the effort, just like you, Theo. If I can't understand how Seo-ha thinks, working together as a team going forward would be impossible."

"Right. That's the bare minimum for being on this team. Let's make this work."

Quietly,

Theo extended his hand to Sri first, for the first ti.

"I look forward to working with you."

Sri gripped the offered hand firmly in return.

* * *

A few days later,

Seo-ha's lab was unusually bustling from early morning.

"Should we set up the workstation here?"

Two installation technicians were moving a large piece of equipnt.

Seo-ha wore a dazed, blank expression.

"What in the world is going on, Sri?"

A top-spec workstation, a high-performance GPU server, a high-resolution monitor for precision modeling, and dedicated physics simulation software.

The kind of equipnt a professor would have to burn through an entire year's personal budget to barely afford.

And yet these expensive machines were being installed in the Team Apex lab like standard setup.

"I decided to stop being shy about it. Dean Thomas told us before to let him know if we needed anything.

So I told him. Everything we need."

Sri gave a sheepish grin.

"The dean said he'd give us his full backing, so more support should be coming from the math departnt too."

Theo had already submitted his own list of required equipnt.

One workstation and a handful of other minor items.

The lab, once a modest personal space, had turned into a small research center before anyone realized it.

"I feel the weight of responsibility. It almost feels like pressure to produce results."

At Seo-ha's naive remark, Theo snickered.

"Co on, it's not that serious. With this kind of research, even one success out of a hundred is a jackpot. So let's take it easy."

"But do we really need all this?"

There was so much equipnt that it didn't feel like a math lab anymore, and Seo-ha felt out of place.

But Theo said firmly,

"We do. It's a privilege that mathematicians of the past never had. I'll show you the details through results."

Beep–

A short tone sounded, and blue LEDs lit up across the entire lab.

Together with the new equipnt, Team Apex's first official project kicked off.

* * *

"This is the data from the aerospace and fluids side. Surface tension, viscous dissipation energy, pressure distribution. And this one covers semiconductors and electromagnetism."

Sri and Theo showed up at the lab every morning with a fresh stack of materials.

Notes bearing the traces of all-night work, with sections Seo-ha needed to see highlighted in fluorescent colors on each paper. The files they piled up were tagged by field, making them easy to find.

On top of that, Theo added his analytical annotations.

"I think the sa Energy Function can be applied to both fluids and materials. They're both using an identical structure."

The results of the brainstorming sessions between the two gradually filled the whiteboard.

Arrows, asterisks, question marks.

They poured every idea they could think of onto the board.

"Seo-ha, about the 'ta-stable states in nonlinear domains' you ntioned yesterday, I found a similar structure showing up on the chanical engineering side."

"So it's the sa type of critical point problem after all?"

Seo-ha devoured the materials they brought him, flipping through them at a frantic pace.

"This one, this one, and this one too.

These three can be grouped into the sa category. Let's try building a function that encompasses all of them."

Theo's and Sri's eyes wavered for a mont.

Seo-ha was in his elent.

Look at the problem, feel its structure, pick out the useful axes, build a function, then add conditions and verify again...

Normally it took several sleepless nights to produce a single halfway-decent draft.

But now, Sri and Theo were doing half of that work in advance.

Before he even had to ask.

Seo-ha resolved to repay their efforts to the fullest.

He stood before the whiteboard and quickly marked ○, ×, and △.

"This one won't work. Let's save dynamics for after the energy landscape is sorted out.

'Interface thickness is constant,' 'External force distribution is linear,' forget both of these conditions. We can establish the existence of a solution without them."

Theo and Sri scribbled Seo-ha's words into their notebooks as fast as they could.

"Let's use this as the lower bound condition for the unified theory. No matter how ssy the boundaries get in each domain, we'll need a minimum standard."

The eting continued for a long while even after that.

"You two are amazing. How do you keep bringing exactly what I need? With a team like this, I feel like we can do anything."

The people who had advised him that he would need a team,

working alongside them, Seo-ha finally understood what they had ant.

Evening.

Theo was slumped at a corner table in the cafeteria.

"Food's here."

Sri, looking haggard, picked up his dinner tray. It was chicken pasta, one of the safer options in the U.S.

"Eat up."

"Yeah... I should."

Despite what they said, neither of them seed to have much appetite.

"The materials we spent a whole week killing ourselves to prepare..."