Chapter 353: Out of the Cradle (26/39)
"Then, let's officially invite Dr. Lu Qiujian to give a speech for us!" After saying that, Takeshi Sasaki stepped back, and Lu Qiujian stood in front of the podium.
"Dear Neon colleagues, students from the University of Tokyo and other guests present, I am very happy to have this opportunity to chat with the outstanding students of Neon!" Although Lu Qiujian is proficient in neon, he still chooses to speak in Chinese.
The University of Tokyo is currently the No. 1 university in Asia, which makes Lu Qiujian inevitably have some regrets, maybe after he returns to China, after accumulation and development, Beijing Normal University will occupy this throne.
"Today I don't want to talk to you about the Poincaré conjecture, the Langlands program, and I don't want to talk about the Higgs boson and dark matter! Because that's all in the past!" Lu Qiujian looked around, the eyes of the students in the audience were full of curiosity, since he didn't want to talk about this, what did he want to say?
"The title of my speech this time is 'Out of the Cradle -- Prospects for the Future of Human Science and Technology'!" Lu Qiujian quickly revealed the answer, "Ladies and gentlemen, it is a very fortunate thing that life and wisdom can be born in the universe! If the distance between the earth and the sun is closer or farther away, then the earth will be too hot and too cold to give birth to life!"
"The earth is like a cradle, caring for the gradual growth of human beings! We live in the cradle, we don't have to worry about the killing of all kinds of cosmic rays, the sun provides us with energy, and the moon shields us from meteorites" used a long analogy to describe the superior environment of the earth, and then the conversation changed, "But Tsiolkovsky, the father of world astronautics, once said that the earth is the cradle of mankind, but mankind will never lie in the cradle forever." ”
"In the 21st century, the level of human science and technology has been unprecedentedly developed, and the rapid breakthrough of science and technology has made our world more colorful! The code of 50,000 genes has been unlocked, and human beings have never known more about themselves than ever before!"
"Breakthroughs in the fields of quantum computers, biological computers, and supercomputers have enabled mankind to master more powerful tools! The development of information technology and network technology has made our lives more exciting!"
"The discovery of the Higgs boson completes the Standard Model, and the interception of neutrinos opens an extremely important window in astrophysics!" said this, there was a slight commotion in the audience, because neutrino research is the achievement of Koshiba Masatoshi, a student at the University of Tokyo. They have honor.
"A number of major achievements have been made in the field of nanotechnology; superconducting temperature has been pushed to a higher level by scientists, and mankind is steadily moving forward on the road to achieving zero resistance current at room temperature; cancer, AIDS and other diseases that have plagued mankind for many years are gradually seeing the dawn of cracking. ”
"For the first time, scientists have measured the velocity of gravity. This experiment once again confirmed the correctness of Einstein's theory. Scientists are convinced that gravity travels at the same speed as the speed of light, and the gravitational wave detector LIGO is being updated and believes that it can bring even greater surprises to mankind!"
"The development of new technologies for space photography, the successful shooting of photographs of the infancy of the universe, the launch of the Mars probe, the landing of a rover on Mars and the discovery of evidence of water, the successful entry of the Cassini spacecraft into the orbit of Saturn, the discovery by astronomers of the most distant large objects in the solar system, and the continuous exploration of the universe by mankind!"
One after another scientific breakthroughs made by mankind in the 21 st century were put forward by Lu Qiujian, many of whom were the achievements of Chinese and neon scientists, and the scholars and students in the audience were full of excitement and deeply felt fortunate and proud that they lived in such a great era.
"But is this enough?" Just when everyone's emotions were rising, Lu Qiujian poured a scoop of cold water on his head, he pressed his hands on the podium, stretched his neck to look at the audience, and repeated what he had just said again. "But is that enough? Should we be content with what we have achieved? Can human wisdom only reach its present level?"
The audience gradually calmed down from their euphoria, "According to Professor Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, we can divide civilization into three levels: Type I civilizations can exploit the natural resources of the world they inhabit, Type II civilizations can build things like Dyson spheres and handle the full energy output of their star, and Type III civilizations have mastered the technology to use all the resources of their galaxy. ”
"By this criterion, we will find that the scientific achievements that make us extremely proud and proud do not even meet the standards of a Type I civilization!" According to Dyson's classification method, humanity is currently only 0. Level 7 civilization level.
"In 1969, Neil Alden Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins drove the Apollo 11 spacecraft across 380,000 kilometers and set foot on the surface of the moon with the dream of all mankind, which was the first step for mankind to take the cradle!"
But only three years have passed. After the last expedition of the Apollo 17 spacecraft to the moon in 1972, mankind retracted its footsteps and never stepped out of the cradle since!"
Speaking of this, Lu Qiujian shrugged, "Maybe space is too cold. It's still warmer in the cradle!"
This caused a lot of laughter among the students of the University of Tokyo, but after the laughter, a deep regret gradually spread, yes, it has been 33 years since Apollo 17 landed on the moon!
"Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bing, Shepard, Mitchell, Scott, Elwin, Young, Duke, Sernan, Smitt!" Lu Qiujian reported the names of the twelve astronauts who successfully landed on the moon in one breath. "Of the trillions of people in the entire history of mankind, these twelve lucky people have walked out of the cradle!
"Mankind will eventually come out of the cradle!" Lu Qiujian remembered the picture on the wall of Professor Dietrich's office, "The universe is so wonderful. It's a shame that we're huddled in the cradle all the time!"
Speaking of this, the lyricism is over, and Lu Qiujian began to talk about his thoughts on the exploration of the universe, "In my opinion, the current scientific and technological level of human beings is still not a short distance from the real universe Taiso, which requires a common breakthrough in many fields, I have pointed out the direction in the field of mathematics two years ago, and in the field of physics, I think it is in the field of chemistry."
Lu Qiujian ended his speech after describing his expectations for the development of human science, "Finally, please allow me to end this speech with a famous quote from a neon writer - our journey is the sea of stars!" (To be continued. )
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