The Lightness of Existence (2) (Mitsuki Umihara)
After taking a shower, I returned to the living room and found my sister playing tarot cards.
Although the school city itself has almost nothing to do with superstition, innocuous games like horoscope divination and tarot divination are still quite popular with students.
One thing that has always surprised him is that Dome also has a habit of playing tarot cards during breaks. Because he originally thought that the dome that was keen on physics should have nothing to do with such a thing that had no scientific basis. But in retrospect, it seems to be a no-brainer. After all, my sister was originally at an age when she was interested in this kind of game. Girls at this age playing tarot cards should be said to be a normal thing.
Speaking of which, this set of tarot cards in the dome is two more than the ordinary tarot cards, as if it is still the same as the book that she can't understand at all, it is something she has always carried with her.
Even when playing this kind of game, Dome has a serious face. No, it should be said that she is serious in whatever she does. In her, you can always find reasons why people can't help but want to go all out with her.
With this in mind, Haiyuan, who didn't intend to disturb her, stood aside for a while. Then......
"Kaihara! Open the door!"
A loud roar-like voice, ringing even earlier than the doorbell.
In the past two years, Mitsuki Haihara has also become so familiar with this voice that he couldn't be more familiar.
Although, in general, the students of the chaotic home economics school who work at home will go to open the door. But for this person, her sister will definitely go out to greet herself.
That's not just because this person is his father's best friend and old senior, but also because this person is his sister's teacher.
Oleg Dimitryevich Kurkov, a well-known expert in the theory of gravity in Lyceum City, is a true top scientist.
The fact that my sister was able to become a disciple of such a great scholar is already very revealing in itself.
Well, but seriously, Mitsuki Umihara doesn't really like this guy very much. It's not that there are any prejudices against him, but I think this person's temper is too short-tempered.
To put it simply, he was not an idealized Bohr-type scientist, but a scientist like Pauli.
No, that's probably not right. Maybe not Pauli, but Landau. At least when it comes to teaching his own students, Pauli can't compare to Landau.
In a moment's time, my sister has returned with her teacher. Surprisingly, my sister was holding a large cardboard box that was above her head.
Completely different from the seemingly weak appearance, Donier's athletic ability is actually the best among girls. Moreover, she was able to manipulate gravity freely, as Kaihara had known for a long time. In other words, I can actually do this kind of thing, I only need a simple mental motivation. But even so, the degree of disobedience of this scene is too high. Seeing such a weak girl do what only Hercules in American comics can do, no matter what, it's still impossible to adapt to it, right?
"Your specialty is physics, so I thought you should use physics as part of your entrance exam, so I helped you find these. Let's talk about the scope of the exam first, and you can remember it. ”
My sister's teacher said as she opened the cardboard box.
I see. By this time, Mitsuki Kaihara had already understood the intention of this father's old senior.
Tokiwadai is a well-known elite school, and even if it is inextricably linked to his own family, it is impossible to allow his sister to enroll so easily. Therefore, it is obviously impossible to reduce the entrance examination.
But then again, seeing my sister's teacher take out the amazingly thick textbooks one by one to explain, even Mitsuki Umihara wondered if this was too exaggerated.
That's a terrifying amount. The average middle school student — no, maybe a high school student can count it — would faint even just by seeing it. Although my sister just listened and took notes, she didn't feel embarrassed at all.
Why is this the case, Mitsuki Haihara is also very clear, which is also one of the reasons why her sister is different.
Because for Dome Nai, physics is actually her hobby.
Some people may take up physics as a hobby, but few people are able to make physics their hobby. A hobby can be a motivator, but a hobby is often a pleasure.
To put it simply, a hobby can attract a person to continue climbing a difficult mountain road without giving up, but a hobby means that climbing itself is already the best enjoyment.
In other words, learning more about physics is a very happy thing for Qiongno.
Generally speaking, it is very rare for someone to be able to take something as difficult and complex as physics as an interest. And someone like Dome who directly takes physics as his hobby, I'm afraid I won't see a second one again in my life.
Mitsuki Umihara himself is actually the same. Although his attainments in physics are relatively good, he has indeed developed a considerable interest in physics after understanding the beauty of nature revealed by the equations that describe nature. But to treat physics as a hobby like his sister, he thinks he will never be able to do it.
After all, it's not something that can be learned. In a way, it's also a true gift.
My sister's teacher gave me a rough explanation of the scope of the exam, and my sister looked through the textbook a little later. What is more surprising is that my father's old senior does not seem to be tutoring for exams this time. After he gave the contact information of the tutor of the dome, he got up directly and said goodbye. As direct as ever, it's hard to keep up with his rhythm.
Dome put the textbooks back into the box one by one. Seeing that the relevant matters had been explained, Haiyuan Mitsugui also walked out from the side.
But seriously, when he saw Dome holding such a large cardboard box, Kaihara still felt that he couldn't adapt to this incredible contrast. So he reached out and took the box.
"I don't think you're going to refuse me to help you complete the verification now, do you?"
"I'm a little embarrassed, but now I'm really going to ask my brother. I plan to spend the time today to familiarize myself with the content of a few subjects first, so that I can contact the instructor tomorrow. ”
This time, Dome didn't refuse his help again. Although she has always disliked bothering others, she is also fully aware of her personal limitations. After all, no matter how good a person is, you can't do two things at the same time.
"It's nothing, it's nothing, and I can't help you very much." Although Haiyuan himself has always been difficult to let go of this matter. "If you can, can you lend me a copy later? I mean textbooks. Nothing, just trying to find out. ”
In any case, at least don't want to be pulled too far. Otherwise, it feels as if the only part that can reach the other person is gone.
"Absolutely."
As always, the Dome did not react in any way.
Since the previous work was kept on Dome Nai's desktop, the two went straight back to Dome Nai's room.
Of course, Mitsuki Umihara will not enter his sister's room for the first time. Although it should be said that this room is still more girly, but every time I feel that this room lacks the vitality that girls of this age should have, and it feels like the owner of the room should be a few years older than Sister Yanyan (uploader: Speaking of this paragraph...... Mitsuki Haihara, have you ever been to your own senior sister's room?!). It's like deliberately adding some girl's breath on the basis of maturity, and there is some indescribable subtle unnaturalness.
Considering that Dome still needs to use a computer to check relevant information from the Internet, Kaihara directly lends her a notebook (Dome Nai's range of activities is relatively narrow, and she basically doesn't need a laptop), and she uses her sister's computer.
There is no need to be too polite, this kind of plainness and casualness is only available between close family members. Haiyuan himself aside, Dome seems to like this way of getting along.
The main tone of the desktop in front of me is purple with a little ice blue feeling, which is really in line with the feeling of my sister.
In terms of personal expenses, my sister actually didn't use the family's money. For some reason, she refused almost all of her family's monetary givings. In addition to her LV.3 scholarship, receiving some scientific research commissions is also a source of income. Even this computer was paid by her for assisting in research. Seriously, Umihara was shocked to learn that she had been doing this job for a long time and had already earned a pretty good income.
Lately, he's been wondering if he should try to get a job. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of things I can do.
But the most important thing now is the curvature check in front of you. It doesn't seem to be troublesome. Of course, this is also due to the rigor of the dome.
Generally speaking, physics researchers tend to show two tendencies. One will strive to be as accurate and rigorous as possible in every link, while the other will focus more on whether the direction is correct. The former requires a high level of skill, while the latter is more physically intuitive.
My sister's teacher once commented that she was a person with "infinite talent". Judging from this evaluation alone, it seems that my sister should be biased towards the latter. While it is true that Dome has a keen physical instinct, in reality, she leans more towards the former.
Umihara had read her papers. The whole essay is well-organized, well-structured, well-argued, precise and beautiful, and can almost be used as a model for a good paper. In any case, it is hard to believe that this is the work of a girl who is the age of a primary school student.
When it comes to calculating curvature, Dome has always adhered to her rigorous and precise style. Therefore, it is quite easy to do the verification work for her.
I quietly looked at my sister, who was looking up relevant materials on the library website. At this moment, her concentrated appearance is really full of indescribable charm.
Every calibration job was done as carefully as possible, and time passed surprisingly quickly. When Mitsuki Umihara's work was completed, Domino was still taking notes while looking up materials in the online library.
Although the purpose of today is only to get a rough understanding of the content of these courses, my sister is also unusually attentive.
Beautiful, smart, hardworking, serious. It's like a model of the perfect woman.
Although I felt this way at the beginning, I will always experience it again and again in my life.
Although she just spends every day with her in an ordinary way, she is more aware of her extraordinary.
What a wonderful sister.
Kaihara smiled softly.
Somewhat curious about her progress, Umihara quietly leaned over and looked at her notebook.
After a moment, he frowned. A not-so-good feeling was gradually rising from the bottom of his heart.
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Uploader's Note:
About Pauli:
The famous Wolfgang Pauli is mentioned again in this chapter, so I will say a few more here. As mentioned earlier, Pauli was notoriously mean and irascible and would have dared to scold almost anyone, including his own teachers and Albert Einstein. There is a popular joke among physicists: Pauli died and went to heaven, and God triumphantly showed Pauli the blueprint for his creation of the world. Pauli looked at it and said, "It's not easy, you didn't make a mistake!" ”
But one of the things that is good about him is that he is mean to everyone, even to himself. In fact, he scolded himself even harder. Here's an example, less than a year after he and his wife were married, she ran away with a chemist. According to his own account, if his wife ran away with a very yellow and violent macho man like a matador, then he had nothing to say. But his wife is with a chemist, which only proves that he has no ability to get along with women at all. (This is a bit of a suspicion of meat jokes)
By the way, I would like to mention that although Pauli is famous for his criticism (he has a nickname called "the conscience of physics"), the reason why he is the conscience of physics is not because he can spray people, but because he is an accomplished Pauli, and I hope you will not be mistaken.
On the difference between Pauli and Landau:
These two physicists have similar temperaments and are extremely accomplished. And both are equally harsh and mean to their students.
But there is one significant difference between the two men: Landau was one of the most famous physics instructors of the 20th century, while Pauli had almost no good students. What is the reason for this discrepancy?
Really analyzed, there is a very clear difference between Pauli and Landau in terms of teaching students. Although both men were short-tempered, Landau was not impatient, while Pauli was impatient. Overall, Pauli was too impatient with his students. Pauli didn't know how much his students knew, and he didn't want to know.
Here's an example: once Pauli's student submitted a paper to Pauli, Pauli directly threw out the sentence after reading it: "Not_even_wrong", that is, "not even a mistake".
Landau also ridiculed his students, who once compared themselves to pipers and students to sheep – anything he said the students didn't understand anyway (similar to the Chinese "playing the piano to the cow"). But at the same time, Landau is not stingy with his own energy to guide students. The cumbersome, but far-reaching "Landau Theory Essentials Course" is enough in itself. It was, without a doubt, one of the most famous and brilliant physics tutorials of the 20th century. Landau's energy is also evident in this.
Regarding Landau's teaching of students, there is also Mr. Hao Bolin's personal experience when he took the "Landau Barrier" exam as evidence.
When Mr. Hao Bolin took the exam, one of the questions was simplified vector analysis expressions. Mr. Hao Bolin's practice at that time was to directly write all the vector relations in unit symmetry and antisymmetric tensors, and then use Einstein's rules to condense the indicators. Landau (who personally took the exam) laughed a few times on the spot when he saw it (a very rude move), but then he taught Mr. Hao Bolin a simpler way.
In addition, Landau, although mean and harsh with young physicists, is not unkind. Before Mr. Hao Bolin took the Landau Barrier Test, Landau had reminded him because he was worried that Mr. Hao Bolin "would fall into an extremely difficult situation" (as mentioned in the text, not everyone can take the Landau Barrier test, and if you don't have the skills, you are likely to have an accident).
These differences, in my opinion, should be the reason why Pauli and Landau, two physicists with similar personalities, are so different in teaching their disciples.