Chapter 212 "There is a lot of popular science about this chapter, so it is recommended to subscribe with caution for the second time"

Chapter 212 "There is a lot of popular science about this chapter, so it is recommended to subscribe with caution for the second time"

In the toilet.

Look at the invitation in your hand.

Xu Yun's heart suddenly skipped a beat!

All classmates who are time travelers should know this.

more than ten years ago.

That is, on June 28, 2009, someone once held a "Time Traveler Party."

At that time, in order to prevent someone from pretending to be a time traveler.

He did not invite anyone before the banquet, and there was no news about it.

After the banquet.

Only then did he choose to send out the invitation.

The invitation invites people with the ability to "travel" to the banquet. It not only states that the banquet will be held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, UK, but also thoughtfully indicates the longitude and latitude.

This person thinks.

What if someone "from the future" could see this invitation and "travel" back to the past?

Then he will see a real "time traveler" at that banquet.

But in the end, the answer he gave in the interview was:

"I waited for a long time and no one showed up to the party."

During that interview, he also released a video recorded at the gathering.

in video.

He sat alone in a room with toast and champagne beside him, hoping fervently that the door would open or that a mysterious "future man" would suddenly appear.

But in the end no one showed up.

Later, the academic community made a consensus on this:

Through this experiment, it has been proven that time travel to the past is simply impossible.

The person who did this experiment is not some little shrimp, his name is

Stephen William Hawking.

Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942. It is worth mentioning that the day of Hawking's birth happened to be the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.

His father Frank was a tropical disease expert who graduated from Oxford University, and his mother Isabel graduated from Oxford in 1930 studying philosophy, politics and economics.

Under the education of two Oxford University alumni, Hawking finally entered Cambridge University to study cosmology.

1963.

The 21-year-old Hawking received a piece of bad news:

He was unfortunately diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or motor neuron disease.

At that time, doctors diagnosed him with a terminal illness and he could only live for two years, but he survived strongly.

And the price is.

paralysis.

By 1985.

Hawking encountered another bad news:

He underwent tracheal surgery due to pneumonia and was completely deprived of the ability to speak. His speeches and questions and answers could only be completed through a speech synthesizer.

He was confined to a wheelchair, with only three fingers and two eyes able to move. The disease had severely deformed his body, and his head could only tilt to the right.

The shoulders are lowered to the left and raised to the right, and the hands are tightly together, holding a palm-sized fomatopoeia.

The legs are twisted inward, and the mouth is almost twisted into an S shape.

As long as you smile slightly, you will immediately have a "grinning" look.

He cannot write and must rely on a machine to turn pages when reading.

When reading loose-leaf literature.

Someone must spread each page flat on a large desk, and then drive the wheelchair to read page by page like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves.

However, such a person who has completely lost his physical freedom and language ability has the most avant-garde, sharpest, freest and most unrestrained thoughts, and he shines with unparalleled brilliance in the field of science.

His tenacious will and vitality are worthy of everyone's respect and learning.

The evolution history of wheelchairs under him can simply constitute a history of the development of modern science and technology.

But on the other hand.

Many people believe that Hawking's value mainly lies in spiritual inspiration, and his achievements are almost not worth mentioning in history.

This is obviously wrong.

True.

Hawking's high praise does have bonus points in terms of tragedy, but aside from the irrelevant factors, Hawking's academic achievements alone are indeed eye-catching.

After all, academic awards are not necessarily awarded to Hawking just because he is disabled.

Hawking has received many academic awards, most of which came from his early research results.

For example, in 1966, he wrote "Singularity and Space-Time Geometry".

1968.

He co-authored a paper with Penrose on initial time.

1971.

He published "Black Hole".

1974.

Hawking presented "Black Hole Explosion" at the Second Quantum Gravity Conference at Newton University.

Later, he also proved the singularity theorem and the black hole area theorem of general relativity, and pointed out the black hole evaporation theory and the boundaryless Hawking universe model.

He has won the Einstein Award for his achievements in the field of astrophysics.

As for the reason why Hawking did not win the Nobel Prize, it was because he did theoretical research.

If a physics achievement is only theory without experiment, it is not enough to win the Nobel Prize.

For example, the British scientist Higgs proposed the existence of the Higgs particle more than 50 years ago.

However, it was not until CERN actually discovered the Higgs particle in an experiment in 2012 that Higgs himself won the Nobel Prize in 2013.

This is the Higgs particle, the particle that gives everything mass.

In fantasy novels, this thing is the mother spirit of all things that "points directly to the origin of the great road", but you can't win the prize until you discover it.

Same thing.

Since "Hawking radiation" has not been discovered experimentally so far, Hawking's theory has not yet been experimentally confirmed.

Naturally, he cannot win the Nobel Prize.

When you mention Hawking at the same time, you basically mention another person - and the same thing is said in reverse.

This person is Mr. Yang.

The controversy between the two in public opinion has lasted for ten or twenty years. From inside the circle to outside the circle, mentioning one will inevitably mention the other.

To put it more objectively.

In terms of achievements, Yang Lao is higher than Hawking, but in terms of pure theory, Hawking is better.

As of now.

Mr. Yang's comprehensive contribution to existing scientific research fields is higher than that of Hawking.

Yang Lao's achievements have become the basic theories of many related branches in the fields of physics and mathematics, such as Yang-Mills gauge field theory, Yang-Baxter equation, etc.

These are much higher than Hawking's most representative results.

Hawking's leading area lies in the citation of theories. For example, the number of citations of his papers is more than twice that of Yang Lao, etc.

The contributions of the two can actually be intuitively described using another analogy.

Very long ago.

Archimedes dug a cave into which people could live.

Galileo felt that the cave was too crude, so he dug a hole and wanted to build a house.

He found a contractor named Newton, and with a group of younger brothers such as Kepler, Hooke, and Descartes, he laid the foundation.

Hundreds of years later.

A group of physicists, including Faraday, built a beautiful and perfect house on this foundation.

Then Kelvin said that the house was built, everyone should go in and live in it, everything was perfect, and the physicists had nothing to do.

Why isn't the sky clear? There are two dark clouds overhead?

As a result, Maxwell, the maker of the dark clouds, struck two bolts of lightning and the house collapsed.

Maxwell said, can you take a longer view of the house in Ganima?

So the second-generation Einstein, the contractor, appeared.

He first led Lorenz and other younger brothers to build a floor named "Special Theory of Relativity".

Later, his younger brother no longer needed it, and he built an entire building on this floor alone!

However, although this building has been built, its decoration has not yet been completed.

The scientists in the back, including Schwarzschild and Hawking, were all decorating the Einstein building.

Hawking almost put up a wall.

After finishing building this building.

Einstein called on Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg and others to build another building next door, which is quantum mechanics.

From the outside, this building seems more awesome.

As for Mr. Yang.

Then an elevator shaft was drilled in this building and a standard model was used to penetrate the building.

Later, people found that the two buildings could not be connected, so Witten and others used strings to build a bridge there.

At present, it seems that it is just a rainbow bridge and cannot be walked on.

As for the future, it’s not certain. Maybe the Rainbow Bridge is the truth?

See here.

It’s easy to judge who is higher and who is lower based on the contributions of Mr. Yang and Hawking:

One renovated the wall and the other built the elevator shaft.

As for Einstein who built the building and Newton who laid the foundation, there is no comparison.

Of course.

It would be a different story if some of Hawking's theories could be proven experimentally.

It's a pity that due to some reasons, many people are unable to have a concrete understanding of Mr. Yang's achievements.

When most people mention Mr. Yang, they only think of two words:

Nationality and marriage.

This is actually unfair to Mr. Yang. In some sense, he can be said to have become another Mr. Su. There is a very thick information barrier between him and the public in terms of achievements.

At the same time, since Mr. Yang has been mentioned, let me correct another wrong rumor.

Just like the saying that Hawking rivals Einstein, there are also many marketing accounts on the Internet that have spread such a title:

"Nature" selected the 20 greatest physicists of the past millennium in 2000. Mr. Yang is the only living figure and the only Chinese.

This rumor seems full of pride and makes people feel excited.

But it's a pity.

Like the fake hacker godfather Guo Shenghua mentioned earlier, this rumor is actually fabricated.

At present, all issues of "Nature" magazine published in 2000 can be found in many libraries, and the results needless to say:

In the 51 issues of Nature published in 2000, there was no list of physicists.

In addition, in the advanced search mode on the Nature website - that is, nature.com/search (preceded by three W's), searching for Mr. Yang's name also failed to find this content.

So where does this sentence appear?

Friends who often use browsers should know it.

Baidu has a very interesting function called "custom time search" function.

Through this function, you can easily find out when and where the rumors about Mr. Yang and the Nature magazine list first originated.

It's easy to find after a simple search.

Before November 27, 2014.

The combination of the three keywords "Yang Lao/Nature Magazine/The Greatest" is

0.

That's right.

None of the filtered results were about the list of physicists selected by Nature magazine.

But if the search time range is adjusted to one day later, that is, November 28, 2014.

The search results will change:

The first search result within this time range appeared for the first time in the list of physicists selected by Nature magazine.

Therefore it can be determined.

November 28, 2014.

This is when this rumor first appeared on the Internet.

Clicking on this search result, you can find that this is a post posted by a netizen named "Duo Kong Wu Jian 2013" in the Tianya community.

In this post, this netizen wrote:

"In 2000, Nature magazine selected the greatest physicists of the past thousand years. There were only twenty or thirty people on the list (which can be compared to the list of gods in physics). Mr. Yang is the only one alive to be on the list of gods." .

He also copied the same post to multiple sections of the Tianya community, causing a certain degree of influence in the Tianya community.

The root of all evil.JPG.

This post was still widely circulated in the early days of the Internet, and it once "established" Mr. Yang's position on the Internet.

But gradually.

With the development of the Internet, many ordinary people have the ability to search for relevant content on Nature.

After they discovered that this was fabricated content, the backlash came, and many people used it to criticize Mr. Yang.

He made up news to post Jin Yunyun for himself, but it caused a lot of pressure from public opinion.

The other thing is very nasty.

A certain academician had a grudge against Mr. Yang because of the collider, and they cut off contact with each other. Mr. Yang did not even congratulate him on his birthday.

However, he blatantly spread this sentence in public even though he knew it was fake news.

At that time, this person pretended to praise Mr. Yang, but a few hours later, the media affiliated with his university published a long article to refute it.

The article seemed to be criticizing the man for not having any evidence for his words, but in fact it was "skinning" Mr. Yang, which was really deplorable.

The topic returns to its original place.

all in all.

Hawking is not a bastard who rose to power solely by virtue of his tragic personality. His ability is enough to occupy a place in physics.

Maybe many years later the holographic principle will shine, and we will definitely think of the person who first calculated the entropic radiation of black holes.

And the banquet of time and space.

This was a very famous experiment he conducted in the second half of his life.

It's a pity.

At that time, until the end of the banquet, no time traveler came to the scene.

same.

Later generations also speculated a lot about the failure of the banquet.

For example, conditions do not allow it, rules do not allow it, systems do not allow it, etc.

Some people even think that Mr. Hawking only marked the longitude and latitude but not the cosmic coordinates, making it impossible for future generations to locate the banquet site.

But now that Guanghuan has given out such an invitation, does it mean that Xu Yun has a chance to attend that banquet?

Then he flattened the invitation and read its contents again.

In fact, speaking of this invitation, there is an interesting episode.

When Xu Yun was writing a novel in his previous life, he once wrote the content of the invitation in a certain chapter, all in English.

And guess what?

That day, in the comment section of a pirated website, a prostitute came out and posted a lot of stuff.

The meaning is probably that Xu Yun had a lot of grammatical loopholes and so on. In the end, he angrily said, "Don't pretend if you don't speak English."

But the problem is

Xu Yun copied that paragraph directly from Hawking's original text without changing a single word.

To know.

Invitations to Hawking's space-time banquet are still on sale, priced at $39.

In 2017, Xu Yun asked a friend to bring back a copy for collection purposes.

Even if you search online, you can find the original invitation letter, which is just a matter of hands-on work.

In general.

Xu Yun rarely uses the word "ignorance" to evaluate others.

Because he felt that the word was particularly arrogant and arrogant, and it would make him look down on others from a high place, but he actually did not have such qualifications.

But when faced with this matter, he really wanted to say that this person is quite ignorant.

The topic returns to reality.

Xu Yun turned over the invitation a few more times, and his eyes finally landed on the prompts on the light screen.

"This reward can only be activated after the Wall Facer completes the next mission. Can the Wall Facer bring one extra person?"

See this situation.

Xu Yun couldn't help but touched his chin and said to himself:

"In other words, this invitation is not the content of the next copy?"

"Hawking and Maverick are both Professor Lucas of Cambridge University. Could it be that the letter I sent had an impact on Hawking, and that's why he received such a reward?"

This is the only requirement for the invitation to be activated after the next mission.

So look at it in the short term.

I guess this invitation has little chance of being activated?

Also

What about bringing an extra person?

Is it possible to let him take Lao Su there?

But Lao Su has almost no substantive understanding of the universe and the concept of black holes. Should he take him over to eat bread?

Still say.

The person who can be taken by him is actually someone else?

Think of this.

Xu Yun couldn't help but shook his head slightly:

“There is still too little information.”

Then he looked at the time again and found that about ten minutes had passed.

Seeing this, Xu Yun pondered for a moment, carefully put away Hawking's invitation and Maverick's letter, turned around and walked out of the toilet.

This is due to the complete stasis of time in this space.

When he returned to Lao Su's grave, Lao Su was still communicating with Su Hua with great interest - why is this sentence so strange?

"The location of Su Zu's specific tomb is still in progress, and I don't know when we will have a specific result."

Su Hua was holding a cigarette in his hand at this time and said with emotion:

"Actually, as descendants of the Su family, our clan association has contacted Zhenjiang's Media, Radio and Television Bureau many times."

"I hope they can send more manpower to search the tomb as quickly as possible and on a large scale."

"But guess what they said?"

Lao Su glanced at him and asked:

"What did they say?"

Su Hua picked up the cigarette holder and took two heavy puffs, exhaled a puff of smoke, shook his head and said:

"They said that the public attention of Su Zu's Mausoleum is limited. There are only so many resources that can be invested at present, and the bureau has nothing to do."

"After all, the number of archaeological projects being carried out simultaneously in China is not too many, but it is not too many."

"If Su Zu's fame could be comparable to that of Su Shi and Su Qin, then the search specifications for the mausoleum would be several times higher than they are now. I am afraid that all the coffins have been successfully unearthed."

"It's a pity."

As he spoke, Su Hua's expression became much heavier.

The clan association is a common social organization that does not belong to the official system and has no business establishment and related income.

Therefore, I want to serve as the chairman of the clan association.

In addition to being qualified for fame and seniority, one’s own awareness needs are also extremely high.

Many times.

The chairman of the clan association not only has no extra income, but also has to invest a lot of energy and even financial resources.

It can be said that.

In today's increasingly indifferent clan system, the chairman is often one of the people who have the highest recognition of blood.

And Su Hua is this kind of person.

Now in his fifties, Su Hua runs a trading company with a net income of about three to five million a year.

This kind of income may not be top-notch in a big place, but in the business circle of a place like Zhenjiang, he can be regarded as a man of influence.

When Su Hua was a child, he lived in the countryside with his grandfather. He knew and admired Lao Su very well since he was a child.

Later, when he became successful in his career, several elders from the same clan came to him and expressed their hope that he would serve as the chairman of the clan association.

Su Hua barely hesitated and agreed on the spot.

After taking office, Su Hua was dedicated to his responsibilities. On the one hand, he contacted his compatriots in Zhenjiang, and on the other hand, he also maintained a close relationship with the main branch of Tong'an.

years ago.

Driven by Su Hua.

The Zhenjiang New Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting and Television restarted the investigation of Lao Su's tomb, and achieved a series of results mentioned previously.

But on the other hand.

At this point, it is no longer social relationships that determine the progress of exploration, but the social attention of the exploration target.

This kind of thing is not exactly bureaucratic, but it still feels a bit like looking at what others are doing.

They are also exploring tombs.

A is more famous than B, attracts more media attention and generates more public opinion, so resources will naturally be directed towards A.

Although Su Hua asked the News, Radio and Television Bureau countless times to popularize Lao Su’s achievements, all he got was the same sentence:

“Chairman Su, we know it’s useless, we have to let the public know about it.”

Ever since.

Lao Su's tomb exploration work experienced a serious stagnation after the project was launched.

Exploration is definitely going on, but the equipment and manpower are far from enough, and it's as slow as an ant.

This is very painful.

At the same time, as a descendant of Lao Su.

Su Hua couldn't stand on the grave and scold his ancestors for their lack of fame, otherwise wouldn't they become unworthy descendants?

Therefore, there has always been a lot of pressure on Su Hua's shoulders.

Think of this.

Su Hua couldn't help but sigh again, patted Old Su on the shoulder as if he had come before, and said:

"Xiao Su, although Su Zu's reputation is not high now, as his descendants, we all know what kind of person Su Zu is."

"So if there is a chance, we still have to try our best to help Su Zu clear his name and let more people know about Su Zu's contribution, don't you think so?"

After Lao Su nodded, he continued:

"I'm a businessman, I don't have much education, and I'm not too young. I probably won't be able to make a sound outside a radius of two hundred miles in my life."

"But you are different. You are still young and a top student who graduated from the University of Science and Technology. Your name is the same as Su Zu."

"So even though you and I met by chance, I still want to ask you to say something, Xiao Su, you have to be worthy of your name."

"You don't have to think about reviving the Su family. It's not popular these days. All you have to do is try to make some contributions and let others think of our ancestor when they think of you."

After speaking, Su Hua shook the cigarette butt, kicked away a pebble, and continued:

"Of course, this is just a suggestion. This is not your mission. No one will blame you if you can't do it."

"There are many people named Su Song in the world. We can't let every one of them become scientists, right?"

"Just treat the above words as the complaints of an elder. Just listen to what I say and don't take it too seriously. Is that okay?"

Lao Su glanced at him, was silent for a moment, nodded and said:

"No problem."

"As long as there is no problem, that's fine. If there's no problem, that's fine."

Su Hua laughed and patted Lao Su on the shoulder again.

Then something suddenly occurred to me:

"By the way, I have a niece who just graduated from Fudan University this year. She is quite beautiful."

"How about it? Do you want to introduce me to you two?"

Old Su's mouth twitched:

"?!"

Looking at Su Hua with the expression "I want to be a Yue Lao", Old Su quickly raised his hand:

"No, no, no, I have no plans to find a girlfriend yet."

Su Hua didn't seem to want to give up yet, so he took out his cell phone:

"That girl is really virtuous. Let me show you the photo. She is also a descendant of our Su family. But don't worry, she will definitely be on the fifth server with you."

When Lao Su heard this, he moved his hands faster, as if Jax was launching a counterattack storm.

Later, under Lao Su's firm opposition, Su Hua gave up the idea of ​​​​matching.

Of course.

Fortunately it didn't work out.

Half an hour later.

The ancestor worship ceremony is completed.

Everyone simply cleaned up the scene, and Su Hua came to Xu Yun and asked:

"Xiao Xu, Xiao Su, can we all go down the mountain together?"

When Xu Yun saw that he and Lao Su looked at each other, he nodded immediately and said:

"Okay."

The reason Xu Yun and Lao Su found before was that Lao Su's parents knew each other, and they were playmates when they were young.

Now that I have arrived in Yongcheng and I happen to be free, I came to Zhenjiang with a group of people to pay homage to an elder from the ancestor of Lao Su.

At that time, Xu Yun and Lin Zhenhua agreed that the round trip time was two days, which was not sufficient after deducting the driving time.

The worship is now over.

Naturally, they had to rush back to Hanhua Factory as soon as possible.

After making a decision.

Xu Yun and the two took the initiative to help with some salutes, and everyone started marching in the direction of Su Song Temple.

Su Hua and the others had about a dozen packages of various sizes, containing unburned paper money and some video equipment. They were not too light.

According to Xu Yun’s judgment.

They were supposed to have to carry their luggage down the mountain manually, so they were specially prepared to work as coolies.

As a result, when they arrived at the entrance of Su Song Temple.

Suddenly, I saw a man pulling a cart and staying there.

donkey.

That's right.

A donkey that looks somewhat similar to Brother Donkey?

Su Hua asked everyone to put their luggage on the trolley, and at the same time explained to Xu Yun:

"Although Wuzhou Mountain is only over 300 meters high, carrying things still consumes a lot of energy."

"So a few years ago, we started to find a donkey to pull the cart. We just had to control the donkey when going down the mountain."

"After all, the mountain road in Wuzhou Mountain is a winding road, not a straight road. There is no need to worry about the donkey cart losing control and falling to the bottom of the mountain."

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Xu Yun turned to look at the donkey, his eyes stayed on the luggage placed behind it for a while, and asked:

"Chairman Su, can this donkey carry so much luggage?"

Su Hua suddenly laughed. It seemed that many people had asked this question.

I saw him pointing at the donkey and saying:

"Xiao Xu, I'm afraid you don't know something."

"Although this is a female donkey, she is a serious native species and can hardly be found in the country now!"

"This kind of donkey is much stronger than a meat donkey in pulling goods, so there is no need to worry about losing its strength."

"We have been using it to worship our ancestors for several years, and there has never been any trouble. It is very stable!"

Xu Yun was stunned when he heard this, and immediately his eyes were as big as twenty Li Ronghao:

"Native donkey? Or female?"

Su Hua didn't notice Xu Yun's expression and thought he was just surprised after hearing about the donkey breed, so he explained:

"Yes, native donkey."

"It is said that when Su Gong was an official in Bianjing, he once raised a donkey, but before returning to Jingkou, he was killed by Su Gong's six sons and made into donkey meat and burned."

"After returning to Jingkou, in order to take care of Mr. Su's daily life, Mr. Xie raised another donkey to pull the mill."

"Later, Mr. Su passed away due to illness. Xie Laoduguan and some descendants of the Su family settled here and took root here, and the donkey also stayed here."

"At the same time, due to the remoteness of this place, Sujia Village does not have much contact with the outside world, so the bloodline of the donkey has been passed down."

"Later, Sujia Village was demolished, and this donkey came into the hands of our clan association."

Su Hua sighed, shook his head and said:

"But this female donkey is a only child. Now there is only one local donkey in Zhenjiang. I am worried about how to breed her."

Hear this.

A poem suddenly appeared in Xu Yun's mind:

Gou Li was wrong, he couldn't find anything after wearing iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it!

To know.

Not long ago, he just got a piece of news from Qiu Sheng:

The business of Dongyuan Canteen is getting more and more popular these days, and Brother Lu’s working hours have reached fourteen hours a day.

It can be said that apart from sleeping and eating, Brother Lu spends the rest of his time grinding away at work.

Other than that.

Brother Donkey also has some problems with his hair supply.

After all, although black sesame and minoxidil have some effects on hair growth in theory, they still require a long period of time.

At least it's impossible for them to pop up in just a few days.

But the cultivation process of Yi'an bacteria has reached a very critical point, so now brother donkey's back is almost bald.

Therefore, whether it is from the perspective of sharing work or breeding, finding another local donkey is a top priority.

But it has been introduced before.

Due to the introduction of a large number of donkeys from Pakistan around 2000, the native donkeys in the country are basically extinct.

So the whole process fell into a deadlock, and even Xu Yun didn't know how to break it.

But who would have thought.

I went out to visit Lao Su's grave and actually saw a local donkey?

More importantly.

The other party is still a female! (End of chapter)