Stephen Hawking's popular science books are called "A Brief History of Time" and "The Universe in the Shell", and Freeman Dyson's popular science books are called "Cosmic Waves", "All-round Infinity", "The Sun, Genome and the Internet", and "The Imaginary World".

So what is the name of my book? Lu Qiujian pondered for a moment, well, just use the classic sentence of Da Liu's "Chaowen Dao"! At the top of the document, he typed nine words: "When human beings begin to look up at the starry sky."

"When human beings begin to look up at the starry sky, then they are only one step away from revealing the ultimate mystery of the universe" Thanks to Da Liu, Lu Qiujian could not find a more suitable sentence as the beginning of his article.

The most important factor driving the development of human science and technology is curiosity, when human beings begin to be curious about the starry sky, then they will use their imagination to guess the secrets hidden in the starry sky.

The first human beings determined the time, direction and calendar by observing the sun, the moon and some other celestial bodies and celestial phenomena...... The ancient Egyptians discovered that the rising waters of the Nile River in the delta occurred at the same time as the rise of the sun and Sirius on the horizon, and they set the time between the two occurrences of such a phenomenon as a year, a total of 365 days. The year is divided into 12 months, with 30 days per month, and the remaining 5 days are used for festivals, and the year is divided into three seasons, namely the "flood season", the "grain season", and the "harvest season", each season is 4 months.

The ancient Chinese people discovered that the waxing and waning cycle of the moon can be used to measure the length of the year, and found that the twelve full moons are one year old, which is one of the most accurate achievements of the early calendar.

Stonehenge, built by the ancient British on the island of Great Britain, can accurately understand the 12 directions of the sun and moon, and observe and calculate the rise and fall of the sun, moon and stars in different seasons.

Thales of ancient Greece carried out the first predicted total solar eclipse; Medon discovered that the phase of the moon repeats the same date of the present solar calendar in a 19-year cycle; Eudox proposed that the sun, moon and stars move in concentric circles around the earth; Parmenides and Democritus argued that the earth is spherical, that the morning star and the evening star are the same Venus, and that the Milky Way is formed by the density of many stars; Anasagula proposed the cause of the lunar eclipse and believed that the moon is bright because of the reflection of the sun's light.

The Romans, Arabs, Mayans, Indians, and others each presented their own understanding of the mysteries of the universe. And progress has been made in different areas.

In the process of human exploration of the ultimate mystery of the universe, they have found the most powerful tool - that is, mathematics, through which they can process all kinds of data collected through observations, and at the same time, there are many data that cannot be directly obtained through observations, so they have developed mathematical knowledge such as logarithms, spherical coordinate systems, and trigonometric functions.

At the same time, as human beings observe the universe, their requirements for observation tools are getting higher and higher, and the manufacture of these tools also requires superb knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. After Newton used the classical system of mechanics to describe the macroscopic world in mathematical language, mathematics and astronomy became more and more closely linked, and non-Euclidean geometry and calculus developed rapidly under the needs of astronomy.

to modern times. Whether it is Einstein's theory of relativity or Gamow's Big Bang theory, they have borrowed many advanced data tools, and it can be said that without mathematics, human beings would not have been able to achieve today's scientific and technological achievements.

Lu Qiujian plans to start with the development of mathematics, and gradually uncover the process of human beings using mathematics as a tool to gradually reveal the ultimate mystery of the universe, which will also be interspersed with some physics, chemistry and other knowledge.

What he wants to do is not only to tell people these conclusions, but more importantly, to show the scientific methods of human beings in the process of pursuing the ultimate mystery of the universe, bold assumptions, precise verification, so as to eliminate those wrong conjectures and arrive at correct theories.

The current test-oriented education in China has ensured the fairness of education to a certain extent. A group of useful talents has been produced in a short period of time, but it is not without its shortcomings, test-oriented education tends to focus more on conclusions and neglect the process, and in order to get better results in exams, teachers usually ask students to memorize those important conclusions. such as formulas, definitions, and so on, while ignoring the derivation of the processes that led to these conclusions.

This creates a series of problems, people tend to focus on the results and ignore the process, but in scientific research, the process is often more important than the result.

And these conclusions are often presented with inappropriate examples and methods. For example, Newton was smashed on the head by an apple and had a flash of inspiration to discover the secret of gravity, and Watt saw the lid of a teapot being opened by steam, and a flash of inspiration improved the steam engine.

One of the stories that left a lasting impression was that it seemed to be a flash of inspiration. One invention after another has suddenly appeared! This is one of the important reasons for the emergence of scientific delusions.

It is true that Edison also said that success is equal to 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, but I think that 1 percent inspiration is more important than 99 percent perspiration.

But inspiration also needs a foundation, if Newton did not have advanced knowledge of mathematics and physics, then he would not have thought of gravity from the apple to the ground; there are so many apple trees in the world, he will not be the only one who has been hit on the head by an apple, and the vast majority of people will probably only wipe the apple and eat it, only Newton has found the mystery of gravity from it.

In the same way, there are countless housewives who have seen the lid of a teapot being lifted by water vapor, but they will only turn down the heat a little and use boiling water to make tea and coffee, and like Watt, they will realize that there is no one way to improve the steam engine.

Therefore, in this book, Lu Qiujian not only wants to tell people these conclusions, but also wants to show the process of these conclusions to all readers, so that they can have a relatively scientific understanding of science after reading this book, and will not be admired when they see such lofty terms as gravitational waves and matter waves, so as to express their opinions without thinking.

It is obviously not an overnight task to complete such a book, and the most important thing about popular science works is that they are easy to understand and interesting, and if he writes a paper as difficult, I am afraid that no one will read it, so it will take a long process.

But he's not in a hurry, anyway, it's gradually idle now, some time is complete, and even if it is written now, it is not the right time to release; as for the best release opportunity, he already has a plan in his heart, just waiting for the announcement of a certain award! )

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