Chapter 30: Heaven Borrowed 500 Million Years from Me
To be fair, Wu Hao is spreading grievances outside, and this matter itself is not a heinous crime.
After all, those posts on the Internet did not say that Gu played cheating, but only emphasized that "Gu played affected the difficulty of this year's science papers, so as to get the first place in the state this year".
These are inherently facts, so there is no disagreement in the factual judgment section.
The key lies in the public's interpretation, that is, the value judgment part.
In the end, Gu Wanhui easily proved through his own strength and performance that the grade and style he pursued far exceeded that of other high school students, and he didn't need to care about the "vanity of the first in the province", so he easily reversed the public's value judgment.
Just like when Keiko was worried that Zhuangzi would snatch the throne of other countries, Zhuangzi would only be sarcastic: when the night owl (owl) saw the phoenix flying by, it would hiss nervously and warned the phoenix not to come and eat its dead rats.
"The first in the college entrance examination in Donghai Prefecture" is the dead rat of Wu Hao and others.
Although because of Gu Hao's demeanor and Wu Hao's own concealment, he will not be exposed immediately for the time being.
But this is not a good thing for Wu Hao, because it will become a time bomb, which makes him frightened when he thinks about it from time to time, afraid that his reputation will be lost in the future, and he will bear the notoriety of "jealousy and jealousy".
In contrast, Gu Play can completely afford to take it and put it down, and there is no need to worry about it at all.
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July 2, 10 p.m.
The first part of the interview was just sent out three hours later.
Netizens have initially reversed their views on Gu Play. Among the viewers who pay attention to the news of this year's college entrance examination, the faction that supports and worships him has the absolute upper hand.
It's just that Gu You, who is at the observatory, doesn't know yet.
He was still putting the finishing touches on his experimental observations, and three young reporters gathered around him, asking this and that.
Including Ma Xiyuan, the reporters left behind are all young people, no more than 30 years old, maybe young people have the energy to stay up all night as night owls.
When Gu Play and his sister Li Shuangye operated, they were wearing white coats, so that the reporters didn't dare to disturb rashly, until he seemed to be busy, and the reporters dared to come up.
"This is the experimental data I preliminarily sorted out, with all the process records and the final result coordinates. If nothing else, tomorrow I will send the paper out, and when it is officially published, we will be able to announce that we have measured a lower cosmic microwave background radiation than is currently available in the world. ”
Gu Yu put the materials on the table and said easily.
"This thing...... Is it important?" asked Ma Xiyuan cautiously.
The other two reporters also pricked up their ears and listened, ready to take notes.
Gu Wan: "According to this number, we can know how many degrees of residual temperature the Big Bang has been left so far. Based on this, we can also work backwards to fine-tune the life span of the universe originally estimated according to the Big Bang theory. ”
AS GU WAN SPOKE, HE TOOK OUT A COPY OF THE JOURNAL NATURE, TURNED TO ONE OF THE PAGES, AND POINTED:
"So far, the lowest cosmic microwave background radiation has been measured by two scientists in Oceania, Alan Penzias and Woodrow Wilson, who work at Bell Laboratories and use the observatory and thermal imaging integration observation equipment of Bell Labs.
The last time this data was refreshed was 5 years ago, in 93. At that time, it was thought that the value of the cosmic microwave background radiation was 2.78 K -- K, you know? It's Kelvin, the unit of temperature, which starts at absolute zero. So 2.78K is minus 270.37 degrees Celsius.
And the result I measured this time should be 2.65K, which is 0.13K lower than their result figure 5 years ago. Based on this new figure, which is added to the gravitational field equation Rμv-(1/2)Rgμv=kTμv, it can be easily inverted: the lifetime of the universe is at least 400 million years longer than what was measured five years ago. ”
Gu Play said lightly, as calmly as describing how the flowers and plants in his back garden were rising.
And the three reporters who were born as liberal arts students were completely confused.
"Wait...... What's that? What is the equation you just talked about? What is the reason, can you say it slowly?" Ma Xiyuan had to interrupt, because she really couldn't keep up.
Gu Yu realized that he was speaking a little quickly: "Don't you know this? Today's liberal arts students haven't even heard of the old-fashioned physics common sense born seventy years ago? This is Einstein's gravitational field equation, which can be used to reverse the expansion process of the universe under the combined action of radiation and gravity."
Not the wrong version he wrote in the first place, of course. In the 1910s, when Einstein first wrote this equation, he was still reluctant to believe in the existence of the Big Bang, so he specially added a cosmological constant to this formula.
However, since 1928, when the astronomer Edwin Hubble overturned Einstein's hypothesis with his observations, he quickly changed the formula back to the one I used in my calculations, which had no cosmological constant.
So these formulas are not important, they are not cutting-edge science, they are all old theories that existed 70 years ago. We don't have any theoretical innovations, just a primary school student who substitutes this theory again and makes observations and calculations. In front of Einstein and Hubble, we were all schoolchildren. ”
"You're a primary school student, okay! Can we be considered a primary school student?" Ma Xiyuan roared in his heart, he had never felt so frustrated,
"If you were a 'schoolboy in front of Einstein', I would only be a kindergarten, no, a nursery, no, not even a nursery, just a premature baby in an incubator!"
For a moment, Ma Xiyuan felt that Gu Wan's sincere expression had an indescribable cheapness.
is like some famous actors in the cross talk industry who have exploded at the box office, and they always say that they are "just a primary school student in the cross talk industry".
But Gu Play's face is so handsome, and his expression is so sincere, without a trace of obscenity.
Are the current science champions so rebellious?
Ma Xiyuan finally suppressed the "grief and indignation" in his heart, and forcibly let his attention focus on Gu Yu's awesomeness.
She asked a few more questions, mainly about how significant the significance of this research/observation was.
Gu Yu naturally has to answer all questions, which is nothing more than the reasons he told his sister Li Shuangye ten days ago, and then take them out and say them again.
Of course, the part about his own selfishness must be erased. changed all the considerations of personal fame and fortune to "Destiny, coincidence, I just wanted to practice my hands, but the sky let me pick up the leak and achieve a blind sniper headshot 800 miles away".
In short, it is to interpret the hanging as luck, the nerve gun.
And Ma Xiyuan is not stupid, listening to it, I always feel that this kind of luck is too unbelievable.
"This matter is too mysterious, we can't just listen to the words of one family, it is better to ask the researcher on duty at the observatory and ask for some circumstantial evidence. Ma Xiyuan thought so, so he temporarily said that he wanted to go to the bathroom and lose company.
Naturally, other reporters took her place and continued to ask questions.
Gu Play actually gave her a lot of face, and most of the opportunities to ask questions just now were reserved for her. Mainly because at dinner just now, Ma Xiyuan helped Liu Jinsong of the Shock Department.
Therefore, the reporters of the other two companies are already regretting it in their hearts at the moment: I knew that Gu Wan had so much valuable material, so we should have taken the initiative to help him slap Liu Jinsong just now and report and revoke that guy's license......
In that case, wouldn't it be our turn to be the main team member of the interview? It wouldn't be worse than not being able to ask a question even if we raised our hands N times at the press conference.
Ma Xiyuan left quietly for a few minutes, and when he came back, he invited Qin Haifeng, a researcher at the observatory who was on duty tonight.
On the day Gu Wan first came, Qin Haifeng was also on duty.
Because the observatory has a long night shift, it must be unbearable for a person to come every night, so the establishment is that two groups of people take turns to work the long night shift. In this way, the probability of hitting Qin Haifeng on duty is as high as 50%, so it is not a coincidence.
After Ma Xiyuan invited people over, he asked a few questions in a very low posture to create an atmosphere of face-to-face confrontation: "Teacher Qin, do you think Gu Wan's observation method can really achieve this effect?"
Even if the method is fine, how much luck does it have to observe this result? Can you give us an easy-to-understand example and give us a visual understanding of how small this probability is?
Qin Haifeng is a typical technician, and he is still happy to answer the beautiful girl's question: "I think that with the instruments of our observatory, the accuracy is definitely not enough to make this kind of observation, and we are a state-level observatory." Although because of the relatively good economy of Donghai Prefecture, the observatory equipment is already among the top five state-level units in China.
But this accuracy is at least ten times worse than that of Bell Labs, or even dozens of times better. Of course, Xiao Gu explained to me that he had designed an additional test method, which was not within my purview, and I had not learned about it, so maybe he could do it.
Finally, let me answer the question of probability that you said. I think it's based on the distribution of observation power and accuracy at the observatory under Bell Labs.
If the purpose is to find the point in the entire universe where the cosmic microwave background radiation is the darkest and the interference source is the smallest, a carpet scan is performed.
That is, every angle of the entire celestial sphere is scanned line by line according to the coverage of the longest focal length. That's at least 60 years. If you can do this with a satellite orbiting telescope, it will take 15 years - of course, you know that thing has been mentioned since 10 years ago, but no country has ever made it, after all, it is too expensive, it may cost more than $3 billion.
Moreover, this is still a glimpse of the whole universe, without considering the problem of 'identifying the originally undetectable weak radiation sources by extending the radiation integration time of the exposure', and if you want to consider the prolonged radiation by staring at the point, then it is possible to extend the radiation by one or two times.
In this case, he said that he relied on a week of observations from the state observatory to catch a lower solution...... This is equivalent to the fact that you would have to shoot tens of thousands of bullets to get a shot, but he only fired one shot and hit it directly. ”
Gu Yu was very polite and did not interrupt Qin Haifeng's cliché.
After the other party finished speaking, he followed lightly: "Ma reporter, I think if you don't understand, then don't report this matter for the time being." My experimental method was submitted to the Journal of Tunghai University before I started it.
Professor Yuan also sent me a sample journal, which should be officially published in July. Whether it is feasible or not, you might as well wait for the scientific judgment to come out and then follow up. Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll attract attacks from those who claim to be cultured people who specialize in pseudoscience. ”