Here in the asteroid belt of the solar system, the "Ocean" spacecraft is constantly advancing in the void, but compared to the vast universe, it looks as if it is standing still, although its speed has exceeded 30 kilometers per second at this time, but it still seems very, very slow in the vast universe.

The originally boring interstellar journey is also busy at this time because it enters the range of the asteroid belt, and scientists can study these asteroids around them.

"According to the data we have so far to extrapolate, more than 3 billion years ago, there was definitely a planet in the asteroid belt that reached the planetary mass, at least this mass will not be much lower than Mars."

"However, as time goes by, when Jupiter's mass continues to increase, its mass slowly becomes second only to Mars in the solar system, its strong gravitational pull, coupled with the huge gravitational pull of Mars, at a certain moment, when the three planets are in a line, the huge gravitational pull is pulled."

"Boom! The planet was torn apart and became the asteroid belt it is now, with countless fragments spreading in the void, relying on inertia to form an asteroid belt similar to an orbit. ”

Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei, astronomical scientists who came with the ship on board the "Ocean Ocean" spacecraft, were using supercomputers to simulate the development history of the solar system at this time.

The oldest natural thing in the solar system is the sun, which has a long history of more than 5 billion years, and as a yellow dwarf, the sun will live as long as 10 billion years, so the sun at this time has just reached middle age.

The life span of the earth is about 4.6 billion years, and the history is also very long, of course, in the long history of the earth, it is a dead planet, only about 635 million years ago the earliest complex structure of organisms began to appear on the earth, as for the existence of microbiota will be longer.

The history of human beings on the earth is even shorter, about 50 million years ago, early human beings slowly appeared, and according to the research of scientists, in the history of human evolution, there were many kinds of people at the same time in a certain period, and the difference between this race is not the difference between yellow people, black people, and white people.

Now these three kinds of people can reproduce with each other, in fact, the human race can only be regarded as one, in the development of the history of the earth, but there have been several human races, and they cannot reproduce with each other at all, just like the difference between a tiger and a lion.

Of course, in the end, it was our ancestor Homo sapiens who gained the right to rule, and the rest of the human race gradually disappeared, as for how it disappeared, I think everyone should be able to know, natural selection, survival of the fittest.

Therefore, scientists are very keen on studying the history of the earth and the history of the solar system, because only by knowing history, that is, knowing yesterday, can we cherish the present and survive better in the future.

"Didi~" Dong Zhifei, who was in charge of monitoring the surrounding planetary celestial bodies, knew when he heard this voice that the probe must have discovered some large celestial body, and hurriedly looked over.

"It's Ceres!" Dong Zhifei compared the discovered asteroid with all known planets, and immediately knew that this asteroid was Ceres.

Ceres is the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system and the only one located in the asteroid belt. Discovered by the Italian astronomer Piazzi and published on January 1, 1801. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union redefined Ceres as a dwarf planet, and Ceres was once considered the largest known asteroid in the solar system.

To put it simply, the identity of this Ceres has been controversial internationally, just like Pluto, it was initially positioned as the same status as the eight planets, and later with the understanding of the universe, it was downgraded to a dwarf planet.

Ceres was initially considered the largest asteroid, but as it was studied further, astronomers upgraded it to a dwarf planet sequence, on the same level as Pluto.

"Discover Ceres, discover Ceres!"

In the dreary spaceship, detonated by this news!

Ceres is one of the main targets of this scientific expedition, as the largest asteroid ever discovered in the asteroid belt, and is even positioned as a dwarf planet by the latest astronomical international conference, because it is basically circular and has a stable orbit around the sun, but it does not empty other asteroids in its orbit.

The most important thing is that Ceres is not only the largest star in the asteroid belt, but more importantly, according to previous observations, there should be a large amount of water resources on Ceres.

Another important purpose is to find out what the mysterious white bright spot on Ceres is!

"Ceres is now moving at 16 kilometers per second, with an orbital radius of 412 million kilometers, and is in a state of decline, with a slight increase in speed!"

"Currently 4239 km from Ceres!"

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"Finally found Ceres, I thought it was hiding in that hole!" Li Fu, who got the news, hurried over, Ceres, one of the important targets of this scientific expedition, but it has been more than ten days in the asteroid belt, but no trace of it has been found, and he is really a master of playing hide and seek.

"Don't talk about this Ceres, it was first deduced by scientists with a formula, and then scientists focused on observing the asteroid belt before discovering it!" Speaking of the stories of these planets in the solar system, Tang Boyuan, who studies astronomy, naturally knows very well.

"Oh, and there are stories like this? Tell me about it! Li Fu was interested as soon as he heard it.

"yes, it's boring anyway, let's listen to relieve boredom!" Everyone else is also interested, and there is really not much to do in this space, especially when flying, listening to stories is also a good way to relieve boredom.

In 1766, when a German secondary school teacher named Johann Titius was studying a set of numbers, he found that each item of this set of numbers was related to the ratio of the distance from the six planets (i.e., Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) to the Sun (the distance from the Earth to the Sun was set at 1 astronomical unit).

Titius's friend, the astronomer Boder, was well aware of the significance of this discovery, and published this discovery of Titius in 1772, which has since attracted great attention from scientists; It is also known as Titius-Bode's law, which is the average distance between the planets of the solar system and the sun.

At that time, Uranus and Neptune had not yet been discovered, and Saturn was thought to be the farthest planet from the Sun.

In 1781, the British-German Herschel discovered Uranus at a position close to 19.6 astronomical units (the eighth term in the sequence), and since then people have believed in this rule.

According to this rule, in the position of the fifth term of the series, 2.8, which is the asteroid belt where we are now, should also correspond to a planet, but it has not yet been discovered. As a result, many astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts embarked on a journey to find this new planet with great enthusiasm.

On New Year's night in 1801, Italian priest Giuseppe Piazzi was still intently observing the starry sky. Suddenly, he spotted a very small star in his telescope, exactly at position 2.8 in the Titius-Bode rule. The planet is constantly changing positions over a period of several days.

However, when Piazzi tried to look further at the asteroid, he fell ill, and when he recovered and tried to look for the asteroid, it was nowhere to be found, and Piazzi did not give up this opportunity, believing that it might be the planet that people had not discovered.

Astronomers have different opinions about Piazzi's discovery. Some people think that Piazzi was right; Some people believe that it may be a comet, and there are many theories about this planet, and there is a lot of discussion in the astronomical community.

Months passed, and the controversy was not clear. However, this controversy attracted the attention of the German mathematician Gauss. Gauss wondered if astronomers could not find Ceres by observation, could they find it mathematically? Many astronomers dismiss Gauss's suggestion.

Astronomers can't find Ceres, so can Gauss still be able to figure it out? Friends also advised him not to waste his time and talents on this hopeless issue.

The young Gauss, however, had his own opinions. He believed that astronomy was inseparable from mathematics. It is impossible to be a great astronomer without a strong knowledge of mathematics. This is exactly the case in the history of astronomy. It was with his mathematical talent that Kepler discovered the three laws of planetary motion; Newton also discovered the law of gravitation with his profound mathematical knowledge.

On the night of December 31, 1801, the German astronomer Obers, in the time predicted by Gauss, aimed a telescope at the sky. As expected, Ceres miraculously appeared again!

Gauss's method of calculation succeeded. The planet that Gauss found on the tip of his pen became mankind's best New Year's gift after a whole year of hiding, a gift that showed people the enormous role of mathematics in scientific research.

As Tang Boyuan slowly told the story of how Ceres was discovered, the young scientists bowed their heads and pondered!

"Compared with the persistence and persistence of the previous scientists, I think we are still too impetuous!" Li Fu thought for a long time and said what everyone thought.

This group of scientists of Fuyun Group has made incomparably brilliant achievements, but all of them are based on the various auxiliary tools provided by Li Fu, cultivating Yuan Li to improve everyone's brain development, so that everyone can better understand the problems encountered in scientific exploration.

Provide advanced scientific research instruments and advanced theories and methods, so that everyone can avoid countless detours, but all this has also caused this group of young scientists of Fuyun Group to be more impetuous, without the persistence and persistence of their predecessors.

It is conceivable that if the group of people of Fuyun Group are placed in the historical conditions of their predecessors, they will definitely not be able to study a matter for decades or even a lifetime like the predecessors of scientists.

Although taking the road of shortcuts has created the brilliance of Qingquan science and technology, but also let everyone slowly lose the quality of perseverance and persistence that scientists should have, which is not beneficial to the development of science and technology in the future.

Hearing Li Fu's emotion, the scientists of Fuyun Group, who are far away on the earth, also fell into deep contemplation, and everyone habitually relied on Li Fu when they encountered problems and difficulties, instead of sinking down and studying wholeheartedly!

"It seems that we will have to make everyone suffer more in the future!"

Li Fu muttered in his heart when he found out.

You must know that in the early scientific research, but there was no computer, so a lot of data statistics and analysis and so on all need to rely on manual calculations, the scientific ancestors are to use the pen on the paper again and again tireless calculations to slowly explore a variety of scientific truths, think about the high mathematics we have learned, just look at it makes people dizzy, not to mention the tireless to continue to research, calculation.

And there are many, many things that are explored by oneself, not only in terms of scientific truth, but also in the history of the development of mathematics, there are also too many, too many major discoveries, all of which are slowly explored by the predecessors of mathematics.

Mathematics is the most important discipline in science nowadays, and it is also the foundation of modern science, and almost all sciences are inseparable from the application of mathematical knowledge!

Of course, with the assistance of computers, scientists no longer need to carry out complex calculations over and over again on paper like their predecessors, holding a pen in their hands, and carrying out complex calculations over and over again on paper like their predecessors.

However, it is also easy for scientists to gradually lose the dedication of their predecessors to the exploration of scientific truth, and in scientific exploration, many things actually need to be explored over and over again, tirelessly, in order to discover the truth of science on the surface of complex affairs.

Li Fu looked at the dark starry sky outside the window, and kept thinking in his mind, with the seeds of super civilization, Li Fu is destined to lead Huaxia and mankind to quickly walk out of the earth and towards the interstellar universe, but whether it is really useful to promote the seedlings, and whether it will make us slowly lose the spirit of scientific exploration that has been inherited for a long time.

However, if you don't lead the development of science and technology, with the speed of scientific and technological development on the earth, it may be a long time before you can get out of the earth, and you don't know how long it will take to get out of the solar system.

There are too many vast universes, and there are so many powerful civilizations, and the people of the earth have been able to develop steadily for so many years, and they are still lucky, of course, it may also be because the location of the earth is too remote. But no matter what, it's best to hold your own destiny in your own hands.

There are too many things that are worth thinking about, especially worthy of Li Fu's thinking and deep thought.

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