Two weeks later, in the spring when day and night began to be divided, Dome once again entered Tokiwadai Junior High School.

This time, it was not for the exam, but to meet with my own teacher.

knocked on the office door, and Dome didn't wait for a response, just opened the door and walked in.

As she expected, her teacher sat at her desk, as usual, giving her a casual feel.

Dome bowed deeply, and never lifted her head.

"I'm sorry, Oleg Dimitryevich."

"What's wrong? Ah, by the way, your results should come out, right? ”

His teacher looked unimpressed, as if he had not learned about her grades at all, and did not seem to care about her test results at all, which made her a little sad. She had always thought that the teacher would be more demanding of her, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"Yes. Sorry, there was no expected ideal. ”

"It's okay." As if noticing a somewhat disappointed look on his face, he paused and said, "You should know that the results of exams usually don't mean anything. I've also had times when Schwinger (Julian_Schwinger) didn't do well in school. Moreover, this exam is quite special, and not everyone can adapt to it. ”

"I'm sorry ......"

Although he was comforted by his teacher, Dome didn't feel any better. She couldn't say anything but apologize.

"Anyway, how's the grade?"

Probably thinking it would be endless for her to go on like this, her teacher asked.

Dome took a deep breath to adjust her low mood. She found that although the experience was too difficult to explain made her indifferent, she had also become more susceptible to emotional influences since this awakening. In other words, she seems to have become more emotional than she remembers. Like now, she even needs to adjust her emotions before she can speak it.

"Although it passed, it was not a high score. And ......"

"Wait a minute, what did you just say? Say it to me again? ”

"Huh?"

Her teacher suddenly raised her voice. Dome looked up in confusion, and her teacher's eyes widened as if she had heard something extremely incredible.

"This ...... Although it passed, it didn't get a high score......"

"Really?"

"Yes......"

Her teacher's performance really scared Qiongno, and she even replied with some trepidation.

In front of her eyes, her teacher's eyes were glazed, her mouth was open and closed, but she didn't say anything.

Just as she was about to call the school hospital, her teacher finally responded.

It was a wild laugh that made people's ears hurt.

Although her teacher was burly Russian and had a rather short temper, she was definitely not the raunchy type. If you really want to say it, although you will conflict with people as soon as you open your mouth, most of the time, he is the kind of person who pays attention to his image as a scholar. It can even be said that when he doesn't speak, he is closer to the image of a Western intellectual beautiful man.

But his current performance really made Dome almost completely unsure of what to say. Perhaps it was the habit of her previous self who often failed, and her first reaction was to think if she had done something wrong. But it doesn't look like that.

Dome watched in amazement as he turned on the large screen and microphone used for the conference call and connected to Tokiwada's teacher platform. I don't know what he's thinking at all, although she also knows something about her teacher who goes off the line from time to time, but she really doesn't understand this, she doesn't understand it at all.

"Hey, you guys are still alive! Get out of here! ”

Well, it's simply inexplicable, downright inexplicable.

"Oh! Kurkov, you damn bastard! If you don't die, you have to be noisy at this time, right? Well? Haiwon? Are you there too? ”

The large screen shows several frames separately. Take a closer look, and the few people who appeared on the screen have actually seen all of them.

Those teachers who have tutored her in the past six months, except for three who don't seem to be there, all appeared on the big screen.

"There's no time to talk nonsense with you. Hurry up and check her grades, and then get ready for this month's salary! I'm waiting to empty you guys! ”

This...... It seems that their test scores are being used as the content of a bet?

"What do you mean...... Could it be ......" The middle-aged man who had instructed the Dome on the screen on the quantum electrodynamics quickly glanced at the computer next to him a few times, and soon his expression became downright incredible. "Haiyuan, how old are you this year? No...... It's obvious...... Unbelievable...... Unbelievable......"

"It can't ......"

"Crazy, this is absolutely crazy......"

All the teachers who also looked up their computers had exactly the same reaction.

"Wait a minute!" Dome interrupted them, "Oleg Dimitrievich, please explain what the hell is going on?" ”

To her surprise, her teacher turned her head awkwardly to the side to avoid her gaze.

"I'll explain." The middle-aged man said, "Haiyuan, do you know what you took this test?" ”

"Huh? Isn't it Tokiwadai's entrance exam? In fact, their reaction had already made Dome realize that there was definitely something wrong with the content of the exam, but she still asked it out of politeness.

"Go ******!" The middle-aged man actually scolded, "Tokiwadai entrance exam, you passed before taking the exam." ”

"I haven't taken any other exams, have I?"

"No, you participated. The eleven of us, who rated you based on the content of your interactions with us during your preparation for this exam, are the contents of the Tokiwadai Entrance Exam. By the time you start reviewing for a month, we've got a complete consensus on this. ”

"Ahh

Dome finally understood. No wonder her teacher told her at the beginning that she would not be involved in instructing her, and it turned out that the process itself was an entrance exam for Tokiwadai. It's no wonder that after getting the exam papers, I felt that there was something wrong with the way I prepared for the exam, and it turned out that the preparation guidance was not for the exam itself at all.

In this way, a new doubt arises.

"That'...... What exactly am I doing? ”

"To be honest, when Kurkov first asked us to reserve your assistant seat in advance, quite a few of us thought he was slapping the chairman's ass. But by the time this guy took the exam questions out, none of us thought so. The reason is very simple, if you let the chairman know that he is using this thing to toss his granddaughter, I am afraid that he will be kicked out of Tokiwatai in the first place. Truth be told, none of us thought you could pass at all, including your teacher, himself. Kurkov, this is the question bank you found yourself, and you yourself tell her what kind of exam it is. ”

The teacher coughed in embarrassment, but his expression was filled with a sense of pride.

"It's an exam from the last century. While the details have changed, the framework hasn't changed. It comes from my homeland, from a truly great man who gave it the name 'Essentials of Theoretical Physics'. In the thirty years that he himself checked for this exam, only forty-three people successfully passed. Almost all of these forty-three people left their mark in the physics community, except for those who left physics for various reasons. I guess that's enough, right? ”

Yes, enough. Domino was completely stunned, she understood her teacher's words perfectly, but she felt as if she was dreaming.

Because the great man of which her teacher spoke was the great Lev Davidovich Landau. And the content of her exam turned out to be the famous "Landau Barrier"!

Dome was in a trance, she could never have imagined that her teacher would use the Landau barrier as an exam question, let alone that she had completely unknowingly passed the Landau barrier, which had always been regarded as a hellish path by young physicists!

It is already an extremely amazing thing to let a junior high school student take the position of Kalang Road. And this junior high school student actually passed the Landau barrier, which can really only be described as "like a dream".

Even if it's a dream, it's outrageous.

"Hey, don't give me a sudden stiffness!"

"Who made you mess around like this!" (Note: In fact, in Russia, it is customary to use "you" only for those who are unfamiliar with it, and before Qiongnai had always called her teacher "you".) However, considering the habit of using words in Chinese to show respect for one's teacher, "you" was used as the second person. But in this sentence, Qiong Nai uses "you", mainly to express his dissatisfaction with the unfamiliar title. ）

In an extremely rare move, Dome shouted back directly to his teacher. For her, who has always been calm and breezy, this can be said to be very rare.

It's not that she's overly emotional, but I'm afraid no one can guarantee that she's not emotional.

Landau's Theoretical Essentials exam is certainly a very high status physics exam, but it is also undeniably an extremely painful exam. Hence the word "barrier", which means that particles that do not have enough energy cannot pass through. In fact, even among those who passed Landau's barriers, many eventually had to give up physics forever because of exhaustion. In history, it is said that there have even been instances of people being tossed to the point of madness.

In the six months that she was being instructed, almost all of her instructors repeatedly stressed to her that she could give up if she felt that it was too difficult. Her teacher also told her on the first day that she could change the content of the exam if she found it too difficult. Here's why.

Therefore, the middle-aged teacher who pointed out the quantum electrodynamics of the dome said, "If you let the chairman know that he used this thing to toss his granddaughter, I'm afraid he will be kicked out of Tokiwadai at the first time" There is no exaggeration at all. Let a junior high school candidate go to the Langdao barrier, and if you don't do it well, you can't say if you really want to cause a big disaster.

"This ...... Haiyuan has already scolded me half to death...... Feed! You guys might as well help me say a few words! You provoked this! ”

I'm afraid it's the first time in his life that Douna's teacher has shown such a lack of confidence.

"Ahem!" Although everyone looked like they wanted to see a good show, in the end, the middle-aged teacher who instructed Dome in quantum electrodynamics interjected to stop the pair of masters and apprentices who were making conflicts, "Haiyuan, although Kurkov has always been unreliable, after all, there are still a few of us in check. If you find any discomfort in the process, either of us will intervene to stop. ”

"I'm asking you to say a few nice things for me, not to say bad things about me in front of my students!"

Dome sighed. She could tell that these people were actually quite happy that she had passed the Landau base. Although it was too chaotic as a cause, in terms of the result, it was really not bad. But......

"I would like to ask, Oleg Dimitrievich, did you pass the Landau barrier?"

"This ...... I did pass the test, but I barely ...... Almost ......"

"Heh, I'm just now realizing that you're not that stupid."

"You damn girl!"

Dome No's teacher sat back in his chair. Although he was not lightly damaged by his own students, he couldn't stop smiling.

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Uploader's Note:

Regarding the sentence "So you're not that stupid":

This seemingly extremely unkind sentence has a very famous allusion. It was said that it was Albert Einstein, or twice. One time was when Einstein made a mistake while giving a speech. It is estimated that many of you should have discovered it, but no one dared to mention it because Einstein was too famous. At this time, Landau walked up and said: "Actually, what Mr. Einstein just said is not so stupid, but it cannot be directly deduced, and a hypothesis must be added here...... "Another time is even better." It was also Einstein who went up to give a presentation, and after the lecture, Landau's old opponent in Bohr's seminar, the famous Pauli, stood up and said, "I now realize that Einstein was not so stupid." ”

However, it is important to note here that these two guys are actually die-hard fans of Einstein, although they are both disciples of Bohr, an old rival who has deflated Einstein all his life.

Understanding this background will understand why Qiong Nai dares to use this sentence to harm her teacher, and why her teacher is not unhappy with this rather unkind remark - it seems that Qiong Nai is expressing her dissatisfaction directly, but in fact, she is also expressing her dissatisfaction while praising her own teacher without bounds.

A few digressions about Landau's base:

Somewhat off-topic, although I am providing this material to the author for quite some reason to commemorate Landau.

Only two people in China have ever passed the Landau barrier. One of them took two years to barely get through, and Landau didn't seem to be satisfied with it and didn't accept him as a disciple. The other was Mr. Hao Bolin, which took ten months. However, Mr. Hao Berlin did not consider himself a direct disciple of Landau, because when Mr. Hao Berlin took the Landau Theory Essentials exam, Landau did not take the exam in its entirety - due to Landau's car accident in 1962, the last course was taken by Abrikosov. It is said that Mr. Hao Bolin has always regarded this as a lifelong regret.

Some other digressions:

One cannot mention Landau without mentioning the Landau school, which also has to extend to the question of the community of scientists. Unlike in the West, the organization of the community of scientists in the former Soviet Union (including present-day Russia) was a different approach entirely. Western groups of scientists are more like salons, where a group of people with little obvious relationship sit together (often in a café or something), arguing with each other and drawing inspiration from others. Although there are mentors and apprentices, apprentices usually don't stay with the mentor for long. The group of scientists in the former Soviet Union is more similar to the sect in China's martial arts novels, where the master and apprentice brothers are closely united, arguing with other groups and gaining inspiration. Sometimes, a group of people even stays for more than ten years. This is the case, for example, with the Landau school.

These two models are often compared and often blamed for reasons by the other side. But in fact, in my opinion, it is more of a personality issue than an academic one. For example, some people once accused the Soviet community of scientists that students were like slaves to their mentors, and that it was difficult for them to develop even independently. But in fact, if you look at Landau, you will find that this accusation is unreasonable. Mentors of the Soviet group of scientists, such as Landau (can also include Zeldovich, Ginzburg, the example of Ginzburg is more special. Landau even encouraged students to form their own groups (many of Landau's disciples later formed their own groups, and some of them even used the "Landau Theoretical Physics Instructions" as the assessment standard like Landau). In fact, it is the character of Russians that leads to the fact that they are usually more willing to form or join a close-knit group. In fact, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian scientific community also tried to learn from the Western form of organization, but after a big circle, it returned to the old path of Landau. What is even more interesting is that there are some school-based groups of scientists in the West, similar to those of the former Soviet Union, and Japan can even be said to have coexisted with the two situations.

In fact, this kind of argument is not very practical, and it is not a question of who is superior and who is inferior. Heartfelt words.