Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was a post-doctoral researcher looking at a theoretical model featuring emergent particles in a condensed matter environment before he became an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy. He planned to develop the model after he got to Purdue, anticipating it to be quite simple. He gave the seemingly straightforward calculations to Guangjie Li, a graduate student working with Vayrynen, but the calculations yielded an unexpected result. Their findings were a startling hurdle that nearly put an end to their investigation. This obstacle has been used by Team Tenacity to create a potential path
