Chapter 37: The High Wind and Bright Festival

Gu Play explained so many subtle and mysterious technical science popularization before, which seemed to be very successful, but after all, he only persuaded Professor Meng, that is, he got the referee.

The rest is to get the audience.

TV popular science variety shows are not debate competitions. The situation of winning the score and losing the word of mouth abounds in history.

Because Gu Play knows that 99% of the audience can't understand the previous words, but they are too many people.

What will be said later is the key to winning public opinion. It is also the dry goods that Gu Play got after being ordered by Aunt Li at Shuangye's house in the past few days.

"Moderator, Academician Meng, I think this question is actually very easy to explain - that is, why my method seems rigorous, but no one in the industry has done it before.

Because, with the current situation of the astronomical community, the degree of financial constraint and the urgency of eagerness to prove the rationality of their academic behavior arrangements to the financial appropriation unit, Academician Meng should be well aware of this.

Could you please answer my question, if an observatory or a camera reports a pilot project that may have been looking at the sky for several years and not getting anything, can you explain it to the financial appropriation department?"

Academician Meng actually flashed a look of self-pity: "That is naturally not possible, engaging in science, especially cutting-edge discovery science, it is difficult to make civilian financial officials understand through reasoning."

If we arrange a plan that may not produce any phased results for several years, it will definitely be questioned as a waste of state funds and sprayed to death by taxpayers. ”

Gu Yu made a firm gesture with a knife and said categorically: "So, this is destined that the differential method of measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation that I mentioned will not be thought of by the public appropriation observatory. ”

Academician Meng's expression darkened for a few seconds, and he actually nodded slightly.

Seeing this, the hostess Xu Yuan immediately realized that she had captured a hot spot with her keen professionalism, and she hurriedly asked eagerly: "Classmate Gu, why can you say that?"

Gu Yu said, spreading out a copy of the materials he brought in and at the same time, the conversation changed: "Host, this is a photo of the starry sky, please tell me your first impression of it from a layman's perspective." ”

It turned out that Gu Biao took out a very bright picture of the starry sky, the kind that must not be seen by the naked eye on the earth, but it is definitely not a stunt.

The hostess took a closer look, she was still a media practitioner, so she knew a little bit about photography, so she asked tentatively: "This is really beautiful, I have never seen such a bright starry sky." But...... It's supposed to be fake, right? Or maybe it's overexposed when shooting, and you set the aperture time for a long time?"

"With a good eye, I immediately saw the key to overexposure. However, not exactly. "Gu Play sells a little bit so that it can be expanded,

"In fact, this is a picture obtained after 10 nights of intermittent integration with an astronomical thermal image integrator.

And if we observe directly, let alone the naked eye, even if we directly look at the direction of the astronomical telescope or astronomical thermal imaging integrator in the sky, we will not see anything, only darkness.

You should know about the integrating sphere, right? Or the distributed photometer used for illumination and optical testing, which is a measurement method that prolongs the integration time in exchange for sensing too weak radiation.

I say this to illustrate: astronomical observations, sometimes when the accuracy of the instrument is not enough, it is necessary to accumulate a lot of integration time to perceive the amount of weak radiation. Perhaps a single piece of the observatory's equipment can only perform this level of ultra-fine perception forty or fifty times a year, which is the basic guarantee for them to produce results every year. Academician Meng, do you agree with this?"

Academician Meng sighed: "We can't help it, astronomy can't produce economic benefits, and the budget is only so much." The equipment is older and less accurate than that of Oceania, so it can only continue to pile time. Otherwise, the state will not allow the private sector to pay to rent the hours of use of the observatory's instruments. ”

In the end, there is still no money to make trouble.

The degree of money worship of the Blue Hole Star people is far better than that of the earthlings. Therefore, their fly camp dogs are far more careful and calculating than the earthlings.

In this world, trolls who say, "There are still children in the world who have no food to eat, what starry sky to look up at" is accurate.

The hostess didn't seem to understand, but she had to control the rhythm of the program, and she couldn't be moved by Academician Meng, so she crooked the building back: "So, what does this have to do with the difficulty of popularizing the test method you just said?"

Gu Yu continued: "It's very simple, my observation method is not enough for every single position, because my method seems to be impatient, often exposed in the middle of the night, I will fine-tune the tenths or even tenths of a lens upwards or to the right.

Therefore, the images produced by this observation method have no value for visual observation, and cannot be used to discover new stars and galaxies, because the final result will be a blur.

However, in this blur, the total radiation of the picture can be measured, but the coordinates are not fine and pasted together.

In this case, I don't want to discover new stars, I just want the lowest microwave background radiation in the universe, so if I get lucky enough to catch that point, I can get the result I want.

As for other professional practitioners, their observation of cosmic microwave background radiation is only incidental, and they hope that in their daily observations, they can also discover new stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, and they cannot bet all the equipment and hours on just one cosmic microwave background radiation.

In that case, what if the lower cosmic microwave background radiation is not observed? Wouldn't it be equivalent to spending so long that they didn't get anything, and they didn't even have the bargaining chips to comfort the appropriation unit?

I was able to do this because I bet that I was spending my own money, and I didn't have to think about how to explain to the taxpayer when I couldn't see anythingβ€”

To tell you the truth, in the ten days after the college entrance examination, I spent 34,000 yuan on the rental of observatory equipment, including the rental fee for temporary modification parts. It costs a lot of money to engage in scientific research, and this is still the situation that the equipment is not 100% charged at market price and there are state subsidies. You can see, here's the invoice. ”

Gu Play doesn't know if the later links of taking out all the physical evidence will be on TV in the end.

Maybe some points that are too sharp will be cut out.

But fortunately, this is not a live broadcast, so the choreographer will not stop him from saying some large-scale words on the spot. Because of the live broadcast, it will definitely be more indulgent.

The hostess took the invoice and looked at it, she was in awe.

Gu played for more than a week, and took out the equivalent of her white salary for several months to pay for her scientific interests.

Even in the later stage, Yuan Chezi, who had never had a chance to speak, also changed color slightly.

The reason why Yuan Chezi didn't speak for a long time was because what Gu Yu talked about with Academician Meng was the bitterness of astronomy practitioners and the hidden pain of the industry. This thing, Yuan Chezi's low-paid junior who invited him to study and sell now didn't know about it, and Yuan Chezi naturally had a black eye.

But he finally knew that this evidence was too sensational, and even if the people who eat melons couldn't understand anything else, at least they could understand money.

Gu Play is a guy who has no self-interested motives and is willing to ruin his family for the cause of science.

The other party's noble temperament and personality charm can impress many people.

"Classmate Gu ruined his family and relieved the difficulties, and his righteous deeds were crowned, which is really terrifying. Academician Meng sighed in a low voice from the bottom of his heart, and even set off the atmosphere of the scene to the G tide.

"However, although you have spent tens of thousands of yuan, you have made such a significant scientific discovery, classmate Gu, your contribution is too worthwhile. The hostess was afraid that Academician Meng would lose control of her emotions, so she hurriedly answered.

Gu Yu smiled lightly: "Yes, actually, it's my luck." Because normal people, if they don't hit the big luck, it may take hundreds of times longer, and it can't be measured.

Since I took the first place in the college entrance examination in this state, my father gave me 50,000 yuan, saying that it was my tuition fee, and I was rewarded with more rewards for doing something I was interested in, so I originally planned that if the 50,000 yuan was spent and I didn't get any results, then it would be regarded as spending money to study. ”

Hostess: "Then your parents really support you." ”

Gu Play: "My dad is a travel writer and has also written some popular science books, maybe he is more open-minded." ”

Speaking of which, the show time is about the same.

Yuan Chezi saw that he was about to be completely defeated, and finally said the last sentence that he had been holding back for a long time with emotion as retreat.

"That's really glad that Gu was so lucky that he could get such an unprobable achievement...... However, science should still be rigorous, and luck is not worth advocating. ”

Yuan Chezi knew that after he finished saying this, he had nothing else to say.

Therefore, according to the "law of the end peak", you must hold it until the end of the show.

The so-called "law of the end peak" is a psychological concept.

It means that after an audience/reader finishes watching a work, whether it is literature, variety shows, film and television, or music, his residual impression of the work is generally determined by the moment when the emotional appreciation is at its peak and the senses at the moment of the finale.

And the bits and pieces in the middle, in fact, the audience forgot about it after watching it.

Therefore, the emotional peak must be created well, and the finale must be closed well. If TJ is not finished, the fans will be gone.

After all, Yuan Chezi is a person who plays with public opinion, and his grasp of audience psychology is of course very sophisticated.

It's a pity that Gu Yu has been taught some precautions in this regard by Aunt Li in the past few days, so he has seen through the other party's intentions.

"Don't you know the law of the end of the peak? Brother also has the biggest and most popular killer feature, waiting for you. Gu Yu smiled inwardly, and finally took out a few periodicals and a letter with the official seal.