"Old cat, Mai Dong...... If you were asked to list the ten scientists who have had the most profound impact on human history, which ten would you choose? Tang Yue sat at the table, pressing the manuscript paper under his hand and turning the pen in his hand.

Since the beginning of the description of human history, Kunlun Station, originally a scientific research station for the study of natural sciences, has almost become a social science research institute.

"Isaac Newton." The old cat was tapping on the keyboard quickly, without raising his head, and his mouth was full of broken thoughts, "...... Galois was undoubtedly a young genius, worthy of being one of the greatest mathematical volumes of the nineteenth century, but unfortunately died young...... This warns us not to fight against others in areas that we are not good at all, and if Galois had chosen to duel with the officer instead of drawing his gun and shooting, then we can expect Galois not only to be beautiful, but also to die a good life......"

"Albert Einstein!" Mai Dong replied.

"Galileo Galileo." The old cat continued.

"Nicolas Cage, no, Copernicus!" Mai Dong said again.

"Charles Darwin."

"Doesn't Tesla?" Tang Yue asked, "Nikola Tesla." ”

"When you mentioned Tesla, I thought you were referring to Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors Group." The old cat shook his beard, "Nikola Tesla may be a genius, but he is not enough to be called one of the ten greatest scientists in human history, you can put Michael Faraday, James Maxwell and a whole bunch of people ahead of him." ”

"Some people say he's God."

"There is no god in academia." The old cat said, "Only neuroses." ”

"And Max Planck!" Mai Dong remembered a famous person again.

"Miss Mai Dong, it's actually meaningless to do this kind of ranking, I don't understand why you like rankings so much, you have to list the 'top ten', 'big four' and 'big three', everything likes to be divided into circles inside and outside, and the whole is forcibly separated from the eyes of laymen, you must know that division is the beginning of discrimination."

The old cat shook his head.

"Max Planck was great, of course, but as great were Niels Pohl, Max Bonn, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, and Louis de Broglie, who you named in the 1927 photograph of the Fifth Solvay Conference, the greatest physicist of the twentieth century and in the history of mankind."

Tang Yue scratched his head, liking rankings has become his mindset, not only him, but also Mai Dong and even the vast majority of Chinese.

"We've been ranked since we were young, from small to big." Tang Yue said, "Old cat, you haven't experienced the college entrance examination, we are all from the province's hundreds of thousands of candidates, not only the student ranking, the school is also ranked, the first gear in Qingbei, followed by the five schools in East China, C9 Alliance, there were 985 and 211 before, and then there was a double first-class, there are also large and small circles in various fields, what is the construction of the new and old eight schools, two electricity and one post, five colleges and four departments." ”

"What about you?" The old cat glanced at him.

"My undergraduate university is very average, it used to be a 211, and then it was a double first-class." Tang Yue replied, "The master's degree is also studied in an undergraduate university, which is considered a mixed diploma. ”

"Education is really the most serious area of involution in China." The old cat sighed, "When you draw a circle around yourself and think you're different, you're actually isolating yourself and living in a complacent. ”

"But this is also Chinese characteristics." Mai Dong smiled.

The old cat stopped talking and continued to bury his head in the history of mathematics.

It has just finished writing the life of Avarister Galois, and it is going to record Nils Abel, who is also the founder of group theory.

Abel is followed by a long list of glorious names.

Henri Poincaré, without whom there is no theory of relativity.

Georg Cantor, yes, that Cantor of the Cantor set.

Bernhard Riemann, Riemann guessed that the disappearance of the earth has not yet been solved.

David Hilbert, the uncrowned king of mathematics.

Hermann Minkowski, Einstein's teacher.

The old cat does not necessarily come chronologically when recording these people, it writes whoever it remembers, so many more famous mathematicians have been recorded and archived, such as Archimedes, Gauss, Euler, Lagrange, Gödel, Neumann, Hardy, these names have long been lying on the hard disk of Kunlun Station, and the other brilliant stars in human history have been shining together.

Tang Yue turned on the computer and connected to the survey telescope on the space station.

He was continuing to observe the comet.

The Kunlun station and the space station continue to track the comet Laomao-1, collect enough initial data, and the computer can guess its orbit - the simplest task is calculation, the most difficult is data collection, in the past when the means of observation were not developed enough, people to guess the cycle of a comet, it took decades to observe, and even to find records from ancient books hundreds of years ago.

The Dawn module of the United Space Station was damaged, and the old cat Tang Yue lost most of the long-range observation methods, so it could only be extended for a long time.

The survey telescope takes pictures every half hour, and the brightness change of the old cat-Tang-Mai-1 comet cannot be seen in a short period of time, but Tang Yue juxtaposes multiple photos together, and can detect the movement of the comet - at this time it has already formed, and in the telescope photos can be identified the head and tail of the comet emitting a faint light, according to computer calculations, the comet has crossed the orbit of Jupiter and is running towards the orbit of Mars at a very high speed.

As Comet Laomao 1 continues to approach the Sun, its gravitational pull will increase and its speed will increase.

Tang Yue stared at the photos on the monitor, imagining that the celestial body was shuttling in the void at a high speed, evaporating water vapor and carbon dioxide spewing out, not like a tail but like a tail flame ejected by a rocket engine, and behind it was Jupiter, which was so huge that it could not be contained in the field of vision, the red spot on the surface of Jupiter was slowly rotating, and the turbid atmosphere stirred up violent lightning and storms, like a huge one-eyed.

"Tang Yue, where is Grothendieck...... Tang Yue? ”

Tang Yue was stunned and woke up from his imagination.

"What?"

"Information on Alexander Grothendiek." The old cat said, "Where did you put it?" ”

"It's still in this drive." Tang Yue took out the hard drive from the drawer, put it on the table and pushed it to the old cat.

"Don't be in a daze, what are you looking at? The comet? The old cat glanced at him, and then at the monitor.

Tang Yue nodded, "You said this thing wouldn't hit Mars, right?" ”

"Of course." The old cat looked a little strange, "The probability of it hitting Mars is basically zero......"

"Ding!" Ground thud.

A pop-up window pops up on the monitor, indicating that the computing task is complete.

The old cat Tang Yue turned his head.

The workstation said it had completed its orbital calculations for Comet Don Mai 1, and it put the results on a monitor.

Done so quickly? The old cat was a little surprised, he thought it would take two more days.

A man and a cat saw a blue arc against a pitch-black background, which was the comet's projected orbit.

It originates from a white dot, which is apparently a comet.

It ends in a red circle with MARS on the edge.

There is also a small box.

Inside the box is red and bold English: WARNING: IMPACT!

The old cat froze, its face slowly twisted like a slow-motion shot, and it looked like an old general with flags planted on the stage.