Facing the energetic and well-known old professor in front of him, Zhang Yuan was a little nervous.

Not to mention other miscellaneous titles, the title of "Academician of Mathematics" alone is enough to scare ordinary people half to death.

Academician!

Professor Wang's main research direction is professional, that is, motivation theory, which is one of the most difficult disciplines. Motive is a product of Galois group theory's generalization in high dimensions, and was later accidentally discovered to have a mysterious connection with quantum field theory.

The research of the Langlands program and the Motive theory are the two main streams of mathematics at present. The Langlands program sought to unify number theory, algebraic geometry, and groups, while Motive theory sought to unify discrete as well as continuous.

They are called the heads and tails of a coin.

A mathematician once predicted: "When mankind truly completes these two frameworks, the mathematical community will usher in a real unification." All mathematical problems can be solved using these two big theories. ”

It's bluffing to say, but humanity may never be able to do it. The progress of the Langlands program is quite so-so, and after hundreds of years of research, mankind has developed geometric Langlands, p-adic Langlands, and so on. However, because of its high degree of abstraction, the Motive theory has become the self-talk of some mathematicians, and even peer review has become very difficult, so the speed of development is extremely slow.

There is no doubt that Wang Zhong is one of the top mathematicians, and the hybrid motive construction was proposed by Professor Wang, which caused a huge sensation at the time.

In the past, I often heard my father mention his teacher, and his tone was full of respect, so Zhang Yuan stopped by to visit the elders, but he had no other ideas.

He even brought a small gift, that is, Donghua ham, a local specialty of Donghua City. Although it seems a little weird now.

"What did you graduate from?"

"Z big." Zhang Yuan replied honestly.

"Z big......" Wang Zhong frowned, slightly dissatisfied in his heart. Although Z University is the third-ranked university in Xia Kingdom, it is still slightly worse than the top two. In the eyes of an old man like him, a good student has to go to the first two schools......

"Are you also a space volunteer?"

"Yes."

"Very good, inherited your father's ambitions." Wang Zhong nodded, quite satisfied.

If it weren't for his own age and not living for a few years, he would have been one of the 500,000 people to experience the life of interstellar travel.

"What are your plans for the future?" Professor Wang picked up the teacup and took a slow sip.

"There are still 19 days off and I'm going to be in the library for a while. After getting on the spaceship, I hope to find a supervisor and complete my master's and doctoral studies......"

"It's good to learn a little more knowledge, which direction do you want to engage in research?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan smiled embarrassedly: "I like to learn mathematics, but restarting a civilization requires a lot of practical talents, and all of them still plan to engage in engineering research, such as informatics...... Well, it's mostly about mathematics and space engineering. ”

Wang Zhong is a professor of science, and science despises engineering, and engineering despises liberal arts, which is a consistent chain of academic contempt.

This is determined by the simplicity of the water paper, and the difficulty of teaching the water paper in science is relatively large, so no matter how much it has to be a little innovative, right? And the liberal arts, the water thesis is not too easy, what film and television majors, performance majors, specializing in the production of parallel medicine doctorates......

When his father switched from mathematics to space mechanics, Wang Zhong also lost his temper, thinking that the act of switching to engineering was "too utilitarian".

Sure enough, Wang Zhong's brows furrowed again, and he was silent for a while. But because it was the first time to talk, the two didn't know each other very well, and he didn't say much.

"Have you found a mentor?"

"Not yet, I still have to take the exam after getting on the spaceship, I hope to get a high score......" Zhang Yuan said very modestly.

“……”

In Wang Zhong's eyes, he naturally thought a little crookedly.

The "Earth Era" is only a large spaceship, and even if it is well prepared, the resources and output of the spaceship are still limited. The majority of the crew's time will be spent in hibernation.

If you want to restart civilization on a strange planet, knowledge and technical skills are the most important. Therefore, it is natural that the experts and scholars in the spaceship control more resources and have greater authority.

The number of students enrolled by these well-known experts and scholars is also limited. Being a student, of course, has more benefits than ordinary skilled workers, which is equivalent to a kind of "backstage".

Now, it was as if Zhang Yuan knew that he couldn't get a high score in the exam, and was begging him to open the back door, trying to find a good mentor through him Wang Zhong.

He frowned and asked, "What kind of mentor do you want?" ”

Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said casually: "Of course, the better the better, and the best like my father!" ”

Wang Zhong was even more unhappy in his heart, and looked at the "Donghua Ham" on the table again.

With his many years of teaching experience, a person who wants to rely on his father's relationship to go through the back door, don't think about it, he must be a scumbag!

If not, I, Wang Zhong, will eat this ham alive!

Don't look in the mirror and see what you are......

If you want the best teacher, you have to think about whether you are worthy of it!

He looked at Zhang Yuan's eyes and became a little unkind.

……

Wang Zhong is not the kind of person who doesn't understand the world at all, and the son of his proud disciple, taking care of it a little bit, is actually not a big deal.

But when it comes to "Earth Times", it seems to touch his sensitive point, which makes him very anxious.

Because the "Earth Era" is an independent society, once it is launched, the earth civilization can no longer interfere with it. Throwing away those messy factors, such as Dyson spheres, supernovas and other external factors, there is actually another internal reason for this huge project.

It's an of idealists on earth!

A great social experiment!

When Professor Qi Yuanshan, the "father of nuclear fusion", established the "Deep Space Foundation", he also established a new school called the "New Civilization School".

The New Civilization School believes that the development of civilization is like biological evolution, which can only be tinkered with on the basis of the original, and there is no way to completely overturn and reinvent it. As a result, the history, culture, and ideology that have been created will have a profound impact on future development.

There are good and bad effects, and they can't be drastically changed by simple patching. Just like the growth of a person, once the worldview is fixed, it will be completely fixed.

Therefore, some old historical burdens will become a burden in development.

The New Civilization School once raised a question: why has the earth's civilization not yet been integrated to form a unified country?

The answer is simple.

First, human beings have no way to give up their vested rights and interests. If several countries are united with each other, the leaders of certain small countries will have to step down, and a large number of class interests will have to be redistributed, and vested interests will not be willing.

Here's a simple example: at present, there is no uniform spacing between rails around the world.

Unifying the spacing of railroad tracks involves not only political factors, but also various economic issues. Replacing the old railroad tracks requires money, who will pay for this part of the money?

Since no one wants to go out, they can only drag it out.

I don't know how long it will drag on for such a simple issue as a "rail spacing", let alone other complicated interest issues.

Second, historically, the gap between countries has been difficult to repair, and ethnic hatred and ethnic conflicts still exist today. After World War III and World War IV, with the exception of East Asia, which was slightly better, there were still new and old hatreds, as well as small-scale frictions. The poorer the place, the greater the conflict.

They are also unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future.

And thirdly, many countries are not even worth supporting and saving.

in some countries, dictatorship + bureaucratic capitalism; In some countries, the whole people take drugs, and they are exported to the world, and even the government has been held hostage by black hands; In some countries, the whole people are lazy, and they would rather let the fruit fall to the ground than pick it; In other countries, all people are religious...... The chaos of global ideology cannot be saved by a single great man or a great power.

In a word, the "New Civilization School" believes that since the current civilization of the earth cannot be unified, it will not be unified in the future. Even if reunification is forcibly carried out, there will be more chaotic contradictions, which are determined by comprehensive factors such as history and culture.

Therefore, the "Earth Era" is a great attempt of the new civilization school.

It tries to use the separation of physical distance to abandon all the dross in human history, and tries to build a new civilization that is stronger, unified, united, and has the same ideology for all people!

It's like when a dad finds out that he has no hope for the future, he pins everything on the baby.

This more powerful new civilization, once successful, will have a certain probability of affecting the original Earth civilization in turn.

This is the plan that Mr. Qi Yuanshan made at the beginning.

A great ...... 10,000 years plan!

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(Motive theory, Grothendieck's dream, to build a "universal" universal cohomology theory, called motive theory.) Anyway, the words motive and motivic appear in mathematics, and they are very powerful and abstract. )

(There will be some mathematical science fiction content in the future, and you don't need to know a lot, just know that there is such a thing.) ）