Chapter 178: God Is Dead

The conservatism of the British people is finally vividly reflected in the change of the president of Cambridge University, and the world's recognized first academic god is actually strongly opposed, because her husband's life is in the hands of Downing, Queen Victoria herself does not want to oppose it, nor does she want to oppose it, but the public opinion led by the Times has reacted very strongly, and the biggest reason is, of course, the atheistic position of a certain god, The Times believes that if Downing, a bold and reckless guy, becomes president, he will destroy the theology of the entire British university and shake the faith of the British Empire.

Downing didn't care what the British thought, he added fuel to the fire in the Telegraph, throwing out his philosophy of governance: under his leadership, Cambridge University was no longer the highest university in the British Empire, but the world's academic center, and there would be branch campuses in the world's education centers, credits would be exchanged with the main department, students could also apply to study in London, assistant professors and lecturers would be required to go to schools around the world to support higher education, and of course, the funding of these branches would be borne by the local government or commercial institutions and individuals. Not only that, but he only gave the British government three days to think about it, otherwise he would start a new stove and make his own way, whether Cambridge was going to do it with him, you can see what to do.

The University Department of the International Academy had already had the rudiments of this model, and if it weren't for the Prince's part, he would not have considered the position of Chancellor of Cambridge University at all, and of course he would have to be subject to various constraints, especially theological compromises, which he hated.

It seems that a certain god is not sincere enough to govern Cambridge University, and despite Palmerston's support for Downing, the members of Parliament are still arguing fiercely.

While they were arguing, the American press unearthed a strange story: Downing Windsor had donated £100,000 to the Boston Institute of Technology, which was founded in April, and his only request was that the school be renamed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is, the abbreviation is.

Haha, that's interesting, it turns out that Tang Ning claimed to have graduated from it, and everyone didn't know what it was, but now he finally knows, but he created it by force, so this incident is called a strange anecdote. The news that someone "created his own alma mater" spread around the world and became a big laughing stock.

However, this joke also made the American Yankees less hostile to the Windsor consortium, you see, they also donated some money to the North, and they still have a trace of conscience in the midst of the loss of conscience.

Receiving Downing's funding and "hype," and the rapid acquisition of high-quality faculty and students, Harvard University shamelessly wanted to annex it. However, he has his own academic philosophy, and he does not pay attention to Harvard University at all. American universities have a strong ** tradition, I don't care if you fight the federal government with the Windsor consortium or something, and still give Downing a board seat. Downing's directors reciprocated, saying that they would donate at least £100,000 every year, and the treatment was the same as that of the British Museum!

There was no news of Downing's new stove for a long time, but the three-day deadline had long since passed, and the conservatism of Cambridge University seemed to have won, and now people were curious about what the Great God's stove was.

The answer has finally been revealed - the Global Polytechnic University Alliance. The slogan is: "God is dead." Note that this is not the name of a particular university, but rather a system, and any top university with a science and engineering program that agrees with a complete rejection of theology, a lecture on evidence, and the courage to challenge any academic authority can join the alliance.

Hehe, it turned out to be an atheist university alliance, hmph, for the "thugs" who have no faith, this is really his choice. Downing personally donated £10 million to the Global Polytechnic University Foundation to help the members of the Alliance develop their careers. The Foundation has sent invitations to the world's top universities, but the condition of "completely rejecting theology" is really a bit rude, and the trustees of the famous universities are hesitant and even entangled.

While these universities are struggling, and when believers are clamoring to boycott the Global Polytechnic University Alliance, several national university programs are quietly applying to join the alliance. The first is the University of Tokyo, which was funded by the Japanese federal government, the second is Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the third is the Daqing National University that Downing himself created, the fourth is the Imperial Institute of Technology, and the fifth is the Politecnico di Milano.

In order to make the alliance more famous and shocking, the decision to establish the headquarters of the Universal University of Technology in London was finally made. Downing himself served as president of Universal Polytechnic and published an earth-shattering paper in Nature on the day of its official opening, "Can't the Atom Be Divided?" 》。

The paper mainly reveals the discovery of a subatomic particle - the electron. Discharge in a glass vacuum tube can produce a green glow on the glass wall, and this ray turns out not to be light, but to have a mass of solid matter, and its mass is much smaller than that of atoms that were previously thought to be indivisible, because it can be deflected by a magnetic field, and the amplitude of the deflection is enormous, either because it has a large charge or it has a small mass. After the determination of the real yàn room of the physics department of the newly established "Universal University of Technology", its mass is 1/1837 of the hydrogen atom.

Ah~, scientists were so excited by the unveiling of the subatomic age that they abandoned the boring work at hand and repeated the real yàn according to the detailed description in the paper, of course, the real yàn results could not disappoint them, unless the extremely unreliable real yàn people were mistaken.

At this time, a certain president personally recruited doctoral students to study the subatomic world in depth, and the world's top students also frantically competed for the doctoral position that represented the top status of the ivory tower. Even some professors want to do a doctorate under the great god scientist regardless of shame, and in the future, they will print "doctoral supervisor: Downing Windsor" on their diplomas.

One of the most incredible applications came from James Clark Maxwell, a professor of natural philosophy at King's College London and a member of the Royal Society. Those undergraduate graduates couldn't help but despair when they saw that these people were also applying for a certain god's doctoral student to become their competitors.

Of course, the professors are not young, and Downing is not interested in training them anymore, only this Professor Maxwell, who is 30 years old, is still a malleable material, becoming the only student who already has a professorship, and is the first of Downing's doctoral students.

Tang Ning is a person who dares to do things, and many others recommend him to Gasse, and even his wife recommends doctoral students to him. Tang Ning laughed: "How come you also have someone to recommend?" When did you have this ability? I don't know! ”

Mocked by her husband, the Duchess blushed for the first time, they had known each other for so many years, and it had not happened for a long time, but she still felt justified: "I am a younger brother, he studied at the University of Munich, and studied with a teacher like Liebig, so I think he is qualified to be your doctoral student." ”

Ah, wasn't that the little Duke of Bavaria under the guise of falling in love with Sissi? The kid is quite smart, well, you can think about it.

The third incredible student was recommended by Faraday, he recommended his daughter to study for a doctorate, Tang Ning gasped, according to Faraday's recommendation was reliable, but the little witch was not talented...... How old are you? 15 years old! Big brother, this is the golden age of middle school or football, isn't your baby daughter determined to be a football referee? Why did you change your ambition again?

Faraday may be old and confused, in fact, since 58 years Downing has felt that Faraday's thinking has slowed down, alas, he is exactly sixty years old this year, and he has been struggling in scientific research, and the Faraday team of the Qing Railway Bureau only borrowed his name, in fact, "Pharaoh" is semi-retired.

Downing's objection was invalid, but Pharaoh still insisted that his baby daughter was qualified to be a doctoral student, well, at this time, Downing, who had never paid attention to Linfield's studies, was forced to study the little girl's past grades, and was surprised to find that the 15-year-old girl had really learned enough credits for the University Division of the International Academy! This suggests that she is at least theoretically qualified to be a graduate student.

Downing really loves and hates Maxwell, a great genius, loves talent, and hates that his "On the Lines of Physical Force" published this year has sorted out the existing research results in electricity and magnetism at that time into a system of differential equations composed of twenty equations, which means that the mystery of radio waves has reached a critical point when it is recognized and solved by scientists all over the world, and the Windsor consortium and the four NATO powers have made the engineers of the four countries play with their lives to study wireless telegraphy technology that is related to life and death, and it is likely that they are already on the verge of breakthrough. Prussia, France, and the United States are not fuel-efficient lamps, and Russia, of course, is not good in science.

The U.S. Department of Defense has taken the lead in issuing a reward for radio technology, claiming that "as long as there is a little reliability, military technology does not pursue mass production and does not pursue cost." This time Napoleon III was disheartened and did not pay attention to this aspect, while Bismarck thought that the French team's innovative "800-mile expedited" short-range telegraph connection was enough, and even the sea could be connected in series with telegraph ships. (http://.)。 Now the situation is different, not only with Maxwell's equations, but also with Downing's self-cutting publication of "electrons", the Americans are luckier than the French.

Bismarck valued smokeless propellants, military engineers were working on it, and with the use of the FN-1855 rifle in the war of Italian unification, spies had collected samples of firearms and bullets.

One of the great advantages of military confrontation is that state-level research institutions will no longer care about any patents, as long as they can get them, who will talk about fairness, justice, and law when life and death are at stake?

The French have suffered from the "treatment export" of the Windsor military hospital, and their military research and development institutions have solicited proposals for copycat antibacterial drugs from the best scientists in France. French scientists tried out penicillin in small batches in the real yàn room, and after receiving orders from the emperor, they carried forward the French passion and fought against bacteria day and night.

All in all, the United States, France, and Prussia all struggled with their own priorities under the tremendous pressure of the Windsor chaebol, which is called composing a heroic war song that can be sung and cried.