"Wow, look at that guy, it's Amazing Jan!"

UCLA South Campus, in autumn, the green lawn gradually becomes a little yellow, and there are some scattered fallen leaves on the clean and beautiful campus road, and the students come and go to make the whole environment full of youthful atmosphere. A group of five or six students were pleasantly surprised to find that a tall man walking towards them was Miracle Young, and immediately surrounded him and laughed and talked: "Young, Young, how are you? What are you doing at UCLA?", "It's so cool to watch, it's the first time I've seen Magic Yang!", "It feels so good!"

"Hey, dear guys, how are you reading?" Wang Yang looked at this group of happy Asian students, smiled and asked while walking, it was easy to see that they were all Chinese, because Koreans and Japanese Americans did not look like this, and their impressions and feelings were different, which was a skill that he had cultivated since childhood.

UCLA has a very high percentage of Asian-American students, often reaching 30%-40%, with more than 30% white, 15% Latinos, and 5% African-American. California's Asian-American population is only about 10% of the population, so UCLA has the nickname "University-of-Chinese-and-Lots-of-Asia Chinese ns."

Of course, the proportion of Asian-American students in the major universities in the United States is very high, which seems very natural, and the policies of the national higher education system to care for minorities have never included Asians, and this kind of good thing is only divided among Latinos, African-Americans, Indians, etc., while Asians need better application forms.

Looking back on the days of high school graduation, Wang Yang also applied to UCLA and received an admission letter, and then it is well known that he finally chose Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, and Ron Howard, who was afraid that he couldn't learn anything and dropped out of school...... of the city's sworn enemy, USC.

USC's film and television schools and research institutes are ranked first in the United States, but the science schools are much weaker, and the UCLA College of Arts and Sciences Natural Sciences, including physics, mathematics, astronomy and other majors, is among the best in the United States, and is in the first tier with MIT, CIT and other schools. Wang Yang stepped into the UCLA campus science department this time to visit David Salzbao, a professor of physics and astronomy.

"Very good! We're hollowing out scholarships. A round-faced boy with rimless glasses spoke casually, everyone smiled, and a short-haired girl in jeans took out a pen and paper from her backpack with an interested face, and said, "Amazing Jan, I want an autograph, I don't want to miss it." Wang Yang took it and said OK, signing as he walked, several young people followed, and another boy with some pimples asked, "Yang, are you going to make that set of "The Big Bang Theory"? You said that there is scientific content, I studied theoretical physics, will there be this?"

He tries to explain: "It's like 'string theory,' and you know that the biggest problem with modern physics is probably that the laws of gravitation don't match quantum mechanics. He made a hand movement: "String theory is an attempt to solve this problem by changing the point particles into very small vibrating strings and circles. Will The Big Bang Theory have that aspect?"

"Don't talk about your string theory, okay......" The short-haired girl and the other ponytail apple-faced girl all have a few black lines on their foreheads, who would put any string theory on a sitcom? Wonder Young is not a physicist! They have chatted with many classmates on this topic, and they all think that "scientific content" should refer to those common popular science knowledge in life, such as "Can old and new batteries be mixed?", "Can I put my mobile phone on the head of the bed when sleeping?", and added this knowledge while laughing.

String theory? Just let it stay in the institute. Just as they were thinking so, Wang Yang, who had signed his name, nodded and showed his signature smile: "Yes, I know string theory, there will be." They all felt electrified, and they were stunned for a few seconds before they reacted. Everyone didn't have to think about it, and Wang Yang said helplessly: "Oh, for God's sake, why does everyone meet me in movies and television?

"Of course you have! You and Jessica are going to get married in January next year, right?" The short-haired girl asked with an interesting smile, and the gossip soul of the apple-faced girl was already burning: "This question may be a bit personal, but I really want to know!

"Let's talk about film and television. Wang Yang spread his hands and did not answer these emotional questions. The boy in glasses couldn't wait to ask, "One question, will there be a Chinese character in The Big Bang Theory? The short-haired girl nodded again and again: "Yes, let's do something!" Wang Yang nodded silently, without revealing specific information, and suddenly asked: "What do you think Chinese nerds are like?"

Several students immediately looked at each other with uncertain expressions: "I don't know, modest, introverted?", "Can't drink, can't drive, don't go to parties?...... The apple-faced girl adored, "I knew you weren't a nerd at all." ”

"Thank you, thank you, I should have complimented!Hey, I'm going to see Professor David Salzbao, so see you next time, bye!" Wang Yang smiled and waved his palm at them, and then quickened his pace and walked towards the building in front. A few Chinese students watched him walk away, and then laughed and started again: "He's so cool!", "What is he doing with David Salzberg......? Soon, another student recognized Wang Yang, a group of people who were both Asian and white, and walked up to him in surprise: "Amazing Yang! You're here at UCLA, there's a ball game today?"

In the office that is not spacious but very neat and elegant, a beautiful and vast nebula map hangs on the wall, there are rows of bookshelves full of thick books on the wall, and there are perpetual motion instruments, globes and other things on the steel and wood desk, David Salzbao, who is sitting behind the desk, smiles a little strangely and asks: "Why did you ask me to do a TV series?"

He was a middle-aged white man with a fat body, his chest bulging like a woman's under his shirt, and the hairline on his head had disappeared, except for two ears and a ring of black hair on the back of his head. But with a simple smile and a tall and big nose, he seems to be the kind of person who is easy to talk to and get along with.

"Hmm. "A white drawing board in the corner of the wall is full of physics formulas that have been tried densely, T→B, BR(T→B) = ...... Wang Yang held his chin and stared at it for a long time, and pretended to be serious: "You obviously haven't considered the XX theory here, right? Professor Salzbao, you should use the XX theory, and you will find that there will be a big breakthrough in your thinking." Oh cute! It looks like you're in the era when Newton had just been hit by an apple. ”

David Salzbao opened his mouth slightly, a look of astonishment, XX theory? He asked suspiciously, "Uh, excuse me, what XX theory?"

"Haha! Professor Salzbao, that's why I asked you to do a TV series!" Wang Yang smiled and spread his hands, knocked on the whiteboard again, and said: "I can't understand this, and no one in the Hollywood screenwriting team and set team can understand this, let alone write and draw it." If it's just a shot, we need this blank slate, we need that line, we need a real physicist. ”

He came to the desk and sat down, fiddled with the perpetual motion instrument, looked at David Salzberg, and said with a smile: "Help us write out whether the blank space in this script is XX theory, XO theory, or XP theory." ”

"I think I get it. Salzibao nodded suddenly, he had never done consulting work or participating in work on film and television and scripts, but as a smart person with a high IQ, he naturally understood it. Born in 1967, Salzbao received a bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University at the age of 22, a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago at the age of 27, worked at CERN from 95 to 97, and is now a double professor at UCLA at the age of 36.

In his spare time, he teaches students, sometimes on expeditions to Antarctica, to fly a science balloon, or to Switzerland to work on CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Although in Los Angeles, anyone who asks him will have a "friend of a friend's friend" working in Hollywood, but Salzbao has not been exposed to the entertainment industry. He asked, "Are you trying to deliberately design the calculation formula on the whiteboard that is outdated and has loopholes, and then another person points out the latest theory and then laughs at him?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Yes! That's it just now." Salzbao frowned and said, "But I don't know how to write jokes!"

"No, no, you don't need to write, we write about it, you do fill-in-the-blank questions, it's like a translator. ”

Wang Yang stopped fiddling with the perpetual motion device, took out a few pages of improvised script from his pocket, and was ready to explain it well, believing that David Salzbao would be interested in the job and would do a good job. Because according to the information in his head, Salzbao is the script consultant for the original "The Big Bang Theory", in charge of this job, he doesn't want to bother to find other people, translators also need humor, tacit understanding and spirituality, if you meet someone like "Sheldon Cooper", I really don't know what will happen.

"You know that almost all scripts, movies, TV series, that involve a certain area of expertise, there will be Fact-Checkers, and they are experts in that field. It's like one of my movies "MIT-21-TEAM". ”

Hearing him say this, David Salzbao nodded and said, "I've seen it, and there were people in Princeton who used to play card counting, but it wasn't about the physics department, so I'm staying in this office now." Wang Yang laughed and said, "I don't think so. Anyway, "MIT-21-TEAM" has Jeff Ma as a consultant, "Prison Break", "The Demon Wears Prada...... You know CSI, ER, the difference is that The Big Bang Theory is a field of science, theoretical physics, applied physics, astronomy, mathematics ......"

Salzbao took a page of the script handed by Wang Yang, and saw that there were several scenes written on it, just like the "XX theory" just now, each line has some blank places, and the parentheses next to it read: (need to fill in the scientific content), he took a look at some of the arguments, some are telling, some are scenes, the characters are doing experiments, and the parentheses ask for the corresponding experiments and names.

The parentheses also have star symbols, and there is a note below them that asks "A star is required to be easy to understand, this is the content of the 'first grade', and most people can understand it." "A few people understand the two stars, or they can figure it out after searching for information on their own", "Very few people understand the three stars, but a few people can understand them after searching", "The four stars are understood by no one except professionals, and very few people can understand them after searching", "The five stars require everyone to be confused, and non-professors cannot understand it. ”

The script is basically one and two stars, and Salzbao only sees one three-star, without four-star and five-star parentheses.

"Professor Salzbao, your job is to fill in the brackets, and sometimes you can change them back and forth as the case sees, but only if you are scientific and keep the original idea of the script. Wang Yang said and handed him another page of the script, which did not have parentheses, and explained: "Not all scientific lines need you to be out of the way, sometimes when we write it, you help us check it to make sure that there are no mistakes and loopholes, and we don't want to be ridiculed." That's what a script consultant is. ”

"It sounds like marking and doing papers. David Salzbao looked at Wang Yang, who was smiling and nodding, very interested, but also had a concern, and asked, "Will it be busy? I am a working professor, and occasionally participate in some research." ”

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders, the busiest sitcom is the screenwriter, and said seriously: "It won't be very busy, under normal circumstances, 1 month before the recording of each episode, we will hand over the script to you for review, and return it to us within 1 month, of course, in fact, it is one episode a week." Now in the situation, we're going to give you the script for the first 12 episodes of the first season in December, and we're going to start recording in March, and you've got a long time. ”

"Your other job is when you're on set recording scenes with scientific content. Wang Yang turned around and pointed to the formula whiteboard behind him, and said with a smile: "You need to take care of the set designer to lay out the scenes, provide the formulas on those whiteboards, if you want to set up the laboratory scenes, just say what you have to make everything more realistic, and you also take care of the scientific dialogues of the characters." Record one episode a week, everyone can accommodate if the time does not coincide, we are booked for the whole season, and there is a lot of flexibility. ”

"I seem to be able to handle it, but I've never done anything like it......" David Salzbao is still a little hesitant, and he can still think about it, and he has to do it when he signs a contract. He frowned, "I need time to think about it. ”

Wang Yang said OK, but he didn't want Salzbao to think about it for too long, because his personal time was too tight, and he wanted to get the script consultant today!

When it comes to this office, whoever is good at physical sciences and who is more nerdy is naturally an NCLA professor, but when it comes to sweet words and inspiration, no one in this school is a match for USC graduates, and the professors themselves are very interested.

"Professor Salzbao, I hope you know that The Big Bang Theory is going to be an absolutely fun and hilarious series when you think about it. Wang Yang put his hands on the table, looked at David Salzbao seriously, and said: "But what I want to say is that this is a good opportunity to popularize science, and it is no longer the usual milk, mobile phone, and battery...... This is string theory, the law of gravitation, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat, the Doppler effect! ”

Listening to the rhythmic and melodious words of this amazing director, Salzbao felt his heart speed up a little, the excitement of having something new discovered while doing experiments.

"Trust me!" Wang Yang flicked the globe vigorously, and the whole globe turned at a speed that the map could not be seen clearly with the naked eye, and he continued: "It will arouse people's interest in science, Schrödinger's cats will become popular search terms in Yahoo and Google, the hottest! You have a blog? Your blog will suddenly have a lot of visitors, everyone is searching, searching, thinking overnight, and everyone enjoys the fun and topics brought by science." ”

The fun of science, and blogging...... Salzbao felt the string of his heart pluck again. I heard Wang Yang suddenly say in a loud voice: "This is popular science! This is the contribution to science, ten years later, who knows how many people have embarked on the road of learning and exploring natural science because they have watched "The Big Bang Theory" since childhood, come to UCLA, sit in the classroom, and listen to Professor David Salzbao give a lecture?" Salzbao moved his ass a little unnaturally.

"It's going to make scientists superstars, it's going to bring them into the world of ordinary people, they're no longer paintings or sculptures, they're no longer Nobel laureates whose names are unknown, they're lovely people. ”

"Here, Professor, give it a try!" Wang Yang took the page of the fill-in-the-blank script and pointed to a parentheses, urging Salz to protect himself: "That's it, now help me try to fill it in." Salzbao looked at the bracket and said uncertainly: "Strange quantum phenomena?" Wang Yangha laughed, snapped his fingers crisply, and agreed: "What else? Cool! Professor, I know that you are an applied physicist, and you have made many, many new and brave attempts, and applied physics is like that, isn't it?"

Wang Yang spread his hands and frowned, "So why don't you try to be a script consultant, the one who brings science to 10 million, 20 million American audiences, and 100 million, 200 million global audiences? If not now, then when?" He snapped his palms together and said with a serious face: "Professor, I hope you will think of these things when you think about it." ”

"Hmm......" David Salzbao involuntarily took a deep breath, and he was interested, timed, paid, and able to participate in this brewing new scientific storm, if not now, then what time? Knowing that this young man was agitating, he was still willingly agitated, and there was a feeling of blood boiling all over his body, as if he had heard a master of physics talk about his latest paper...... That's, that's really, cool! Salzbao reached out and flicked the globe and nodded heavily: "I've thought about it, I'll join!"

"Wow! Congratulations, congratulations. Wang Yang immediately laughed happily, the script consultant is a very important member of the screenwriting team, especially for his current situation, the team needs to design some scientific aspects from the beginning. Wang Yang stretched out his right hand and shook it with Salzibao, and said with a smile: "Professor, our screenwriter and creative team will have the first meeting in a few days, you need to come." ”

"It should be no problem, I've finished my class this week. David Salzbao nodded, a smile on his fat face. Wang Yang put away a few pages of the script, stood up, and said with a smile: "I really want to visit the physics laboratories of UCLA, can I?" Salzibao also stood up, made a gesture of please, and said happily: "Of course, director, I'll take you to see what USC doesn't have......"

After leaving UCLA, he continued to be busy all day, until dusk, Wang Yang drove back to his warm home, and with a snort, he sat on the soft sofa, threw the key on the coffee table, and suddenly snapped, and Danny had already shook his head and rushed over, licking his palm enthusiastically. He closed his eyes and plucked up his strength and shouted, "Jessica, I'm back, are you home?"

"Jan, I'm cooking dinner!" Jessica's voice came from the direction of the dining room kitchen, and there seemed to be some aroma at the same time. Wang Yang closed his eyes and continued to rest, until Danny was tired of licking and walked away, he shook his head, got up and came to the fragrant kitchen, Jessica, who was dressed in home casual clothes, was busy in front of the country-style cabinet, he walked over and hugged her waist from behind: "Hi, sweetheart." ”

He sniffed the fried meat on the gas stove below, it was really fragrant, and he smiled in her ear, "They can't be bought by you from Mr. Zhou's restaurant outside, right?" Jessica suddenly grinned, her eyes were full of happiness, and she took control of the shovel while smirking smirked: "Yes! I deliberately make it unpalatable now, it tastes like I made it." ”

"It's cunning. Wang Yangxiao leaned against her head, Jessica looked up at him, but felt a trace of his tiredness, some heartache, although she was very supportive of his full of energy, but also worried that he would wear himself out. She kissed him on the cheek, then stretched out her left hand wearing an engagement ring and touched his head, and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, I'll fry a few more poached eggs, your favorite six ripe!"

"Do you want me to bring the microphone and takeout notebook?" Wang Yang smiled, Jessica rolled her eyes, and slapped him with a smile: "If you get angry, I'll let you eat burnt." Wang Yang looked at her stir-frying, thought for a while and smiled: "If we have that laser device, we can use it to heat this pot, and then we can scramble eggs." Jessica smiled puzzled and asked, "What does that mean? What laser? Is this what you learned at UCLA today?"

"Well, I'll have to call the professor and ask the professor what the hell is a laser ......."

(To be continued)