Chapter 356: Unfair
In the evening of the same day, five officials of the Organizing Committee of the Mind Olympic Games, four members of the Executive Committee of the Cultural Federation, and seven referee representatives, including Ding Huaizhong, held a small meeting as observers.
"Tomorrow is the final of the junior category, the judges have officially submitted nine final questions, we have to determine the questions at this meeting, and the Chinese delegation has also submitted a request in the form of an official document...... We also have to reply, everyone, let's confirm the exam questions first!"
With a wave of his hand, Mr. Gutiérrez, the President of the Organizing Committee of the Mental Olympic Games, nine rolls were distributed to the nine representatives of the Organizing Committee and the Federation.
There are three different papers for each subject, and the nine delegates have to choose one for the official examination paper for tomorrow's final, and the other is the final examination paper, and if there is a disagreement between the different members, then the minority obeys the majority, which is a bit like the voting of the United Nations.
Ding Huaizhong and the others just attended the meeting as observers, and did not have the right to vote, so they could only watch obediently.
Nine people looked at the papers, although the five members of the organizing committee were all officials, but they were originally university professors, and they may not understand the advanced knowledge, but there was still no problem with the topic of the junior group.
Before anyone else could speak, the commissioner named Horton was the first to speak.
"I choose Paper 2 for the physics finals, and I choose Paper 3 for the mathematics finals...... Volume 1 will do!"
Horton's choice made Ding Huaizhong frown.
Physics Paper 2 and Mathematics Paper 3 have some problems!
Ding Huaizhong had read these nine volumes and was most impressed by the two sets of volumes proposed by Horton.
There are only two questions in the final exam paper, the difficulty can be said to be very high, and the answer time is only half an hour, not to mention fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, even college students in related majors may not be able to do it within the specified time, but in general, it still meets the examination standards.
But there is a problem in each of the two papers that Horton said, the one in physics that deals with quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, and the one in mathematics that deals with the change of time at different speeds.
Of course, these two questions are not deep questions about quantum mechanics and relativity, because all the relevant conclusions are given in the questions, just let the students make logical deductions according to the conclusions, and finally get the results, but the problem is that quantum mechanics and relativity themselves are not within the scope of the juvenile group.
Moreover, these two questions are particularly unfavorable to the Chinese team, such as the United States, those Western countries, science and technology are at the forefront of the world, although many middle school students' courses do not involve quantum mechanics and relativity, but these genius students are completely different, they will more or less be exposed to some knowledge in this area, after all, these two research is the world's most cutting-edge knowledge in the past ten years, and many universities have set up corresponding laboratories, but China is different, what have they been doing in the past ten years? Basically in a "secluded world" In this state, many advanced foreign knowledge is basically out of contact with them.
Ding Huaizhong has been very concerned about the country in recent years, and has heard a lot of news from all sides, Huaxia University, as the best university in China, the only high-energy particle laboratory was set up in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there has been no improvement over the years, and the best universities are like this, not to mention other universities, from this point it can be seen that the domestic research on quantum mechanics and relativistic gravity is almost a blank, and even the courses set up are rarely involved, I am afraid that even many college students, only the names of Einstein or Bohr know about these two theories。
"This Horton is really hateful, it's clearly aimed at the Chinese team!"
Ding Huaizhong immediately thought of the reason, that Horton had long been dissatisfied with Liu Lang, I'm afraid these two questions are specifically for Liu Lang, aren't you extremely smart? Don't you calculate without straw paper? I'll just come up with two questions that you have even read.
These questions were the ones of the invited professors, most of whom were white, and some of them inevitably had the same ideas as Horton, and these two questions were not over-the-top, and no one could object to them.
Just as Ding Huai thought, a member of the executive committee of the federation frowned at the two sets of rolls in his hand, and then asked a question.
"These two questions don't seem to be within the knowledge of the juvenile group, if you use these two sets of papers, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!"
"Mr. Ritchie, at first glance, these two questions are relativity and quantum mechanics, but all the conclusions have been given, and the test is still the student's logical reasoning ability, as long as they are connected, it is still very simple!"
Horton said immediately.
"What a fart?"
Ding Huaizhong scolded secretly on the side.
These two questions are too famous for physicists like them, they are a mind experiment proposed by Einstein and Bohr during the debate, Einstein came up with the question, Bohr solved the other party, even a great figure like Bohr took most of the day to come up with a solution, a person who has never been exposed to this mental experiment can solve it faster than Bohr?
"Horton, I think this question is still a little difficult for those teenagers, let's change it!"
Another member of the Federation's Executive Committee also objected.
When Horton heard this, his face suddenly darkened.
"Members, members, do you think that quantum mechanics and relativity are too far away for these children? In recent years, more than 80 of our country's scientific research projects have been related to them, and the State of Science and Technology White Paper has also put the research of quantum mechanics and relativity in the top priority, which has become a major national strategy, in this form, of course, we have reason to let these children understand these cutting-edge sciences, at least to broaden their horizons, this is our big mind, big thinking ......... the United States.
In fact, not only those children, but also those of us who have become famous scientists, should also begin to pay attention to it, there are many people who are still engaged in the classical mechanics of the set, that is, outdated, you can look at the research results of Professor Ding Huaizhong, that is the future of the world, the future of mankind, because of this, I chose these two topics, just to remind those children, to know more about high-tech things, isn't it good?"
Horton shouted to everyone.
"What a clever tongue!"
Ding Huai is so angry in the center! Is Horton right? Of course yes, but to divide the occasion, now is the competition of the junior group, the only criterion of this competition is to compete fairly, under the premise of fairness can do other things, quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity should be the future development trend of the world, but now, only in the United States will get a certain amount of attention, other countries related research is still in the beginning stage, many people do not understand this, let alone developing countries, let alone know very little, if the competition appears in this area, it is an unfair performance for many countries。
The same is true for competitive events at the Summer Olympics, such as pole vaulting, where you American athletes use a highly elastic pole while other countries use traditional poles, which is not fair.