Chapter 59: The Ultimate Puzzle

The two laboratory staff carried the alloy plate away, and Liu Xiangcheng beckoned a few people to sit on the side for a while. This is a laboratory, and there is nothing to entertain, which makes Liu Xiangcheng a little embarrassed, but Wei Lingdong obviously doesn't care about these formal things, just asks some of his doubts, such as the specific application of Duo, and so on.

About ten minutes later, an experimenter walked over with a report.

"Director, testing has shown that some of the Duo at the incision has absorbed a large amount of gamma rays and turned into an isotope of the Duo."

"Are there any distribution characteristics?" Tang Jingnian asked.

"Nope." The staff shook their heads.

"In this way, you slice the whole alloy plate with a high-precision waterjet, the thinner the better, and then mark the Duo isotopes on each slice with three-dimensional coordinates."

"Donald, no matter how precise this waterjet is, there will be loss, for the imaging effect... Liu Xiangcheng hesitated a little, and the corner of his eye was paying attention to Wei Lingdong's expression.

"There is no way, it will have some impact on the imaging accuracy, but it will not be blurry to the point of not being able to see clearly." Donald shook his head and said, "We don't have any other way to detect Duo now, besides, when the results come out, we can use the superbrain to compensate for the distribution characteristics of Duo isotopes in the alloy plate." ”

"Well, that's all there is to it." Liu Xiangcheng knows best what Tang Jingnian meant.

"How long will it take?" Wei Lingdong still had this question, which also made Liu Xiangcheng hear the eagerness in his words.

"There are three high-precision waterjets, five isotope mass spectrometers, and five portable ones can be transferred outside, and there is no problem with the experimenters. If all these instruments are used, it will take about two hours to complete the image, including the time taken by the superbrain to perfect the image. ”

"Okay, then I'll ask Donald for some things first, and I'll trouble Director Liu here." Wei Lingdong thought about it for a while and decided to take this opportunity to chat with Tang Jingnian.

Liu Xiangcheng nodded and agreed to take people away, Wei Lingdong pondered for a while, thinking about where to start asking. Tang Jingnian didn't bother when he saw him like this, but looked at him quietly, with a bit of appreciation in his eyes, and a hint of inexplicability.

"Donald, you can be said to be an authority in the scientific community." Wei Lingdong said slowly, "Please analyze whether my arrival and the appearance of those invaders are a blessing or a curse for the humans on the earth." ”

Tang Jingnian didn't expect the young man in front of him to ask such a question. The calm look on his face was quickly replaced by solemnity, and the solemnity became more and more obvious. He didn't know if Wei Lingdong was asking this question out of some kind of temptation, or if he was just considering things from the perspective of the human beings on earth.

Tang Jingnian thought for more than a minute, there was silence in this remote laboratory, Jiang Xue and Liu Rong next to him clearly felt the oppressive atmosphere in the air, and Qin Zhen stared at Wei Lingdong intently. When she heard Wei Lingdong's question, she seemed to understand what he was thinking, and the expression on her face was gentle and serene.

"First of all, I will just say my personal opinion. To be clear, my views are not representative of the majority, and I may even say that my views are likely to be contrary to those of the masses. Tang Jingnian explained emphatically, and then continued, "Throughout the history of human development, the real birth of wisdom is only about 100,000 years, which is not worth mentioning compared with the life span of more than 4 billion years on the earth. Civilized societies are even shorter, thousands of years. The symbolic "events" of the evolution of our earth's civilization are nothing more than the knotting of ropes, to learning to use fire, learning to farm, inventing language, inventing writing, learning to trade, forming education and transferring knowledge, and the emergence of natural science research such as mathematics and physics, and so on. The progress of modern civilization has been accompanied by war and aggression. We human beings seem to be born with animal subjugation and violent gene fragments in our genes, and the more we progress, the more terrible the violence we unfold. Even with the development of super brain technology today, our ability to control human gene expression still seems to be faltering. The more we think we know, the more we end up discovering the unknown. When biologists discovered cells, they thought that all living things were made of cells, and later discovered that cells are made of molecules. When we think that molecules are the smallest structures, we find that molecules are made up of atoms. Then it was found that atoms can be broken down into electrons, photons, neutrinos, neutrons, protons and other particles. These subatomic particles can be further decomposed into six quarks, and quantum mechanics was born, and our optical quantum computer is a great product of this continuous exploration of the microscopic world. With the development of quantum mechanics, biology, chemistry, and physics gradually have a tendency to unify, and throughout the twentieth century, almost all theoretical physicists have spent a lot of energy trying to explain everything in the universe with a wonderful formula, but we are not God after all, as a Jewish proverb says, 'God laughs when man thinks'. That formula may really be known only to God Himself. Speaking of this, Tang Jingnian sighed, one of the greatest scientists of the Celestial Empire, seemed a little lonely.

"When we have developed the microcosm to this point, the only ultimate puzzle we can't explain is how wisdom is born, and we can't even define exactly what wisdom is. It's like a spell that haunts all scientists. Many talented scientists eventually converted to theology because of this spell. Using wisdom to study the birth of wisdom is a joke in itself, some scientists say. With that, he sighed again.

"So, from my personal point of view, I am not at all excluded from the presence of you and those invaders. You have shown me a glimmer of hope for solving the ultimate puzzle. In particular, the speed of time that the people of Crow Valley said before have expanded many of our physical horizons, and the theory no longer stays at the theoretical level, but has been proved in practice. But... But the material life of this era is so rich, and it is rapidly becoming more and more abundant, and the vast majority of people do not want this balance of life to be broken. Therefore, if the news of your existence is exposed, I am afraid that the social impact will be greater than we imagined. ”

"Have you ever estimated how much social panic will put pressure on the government?" Wei Lingdong asked.

Tang Jingnian frowned, this question is not easy for him to answer, in the final analysis, his identity is still a pure scientist. He didn't go into politics, and he didn't have the energy to do so.

After a while, he gave a reply from the side, "I hope that the Nuwa plan can make a breakthrough as soon as possible, if it can give ordinary people a little hope, at least their panic and despair can have an outlet." ”

Unexpectedly, the final focus fell on the Nuwa plan, Wei Lingdong's mind turned and turned, he felt that Tang Jingnian's words were more objective, at least from the perspective of a scientist for rational analysis, he should adopt some of his views and adjust his focus. Judging from the situation of the supernatural beings in various countries, as well as the level of invasion, time is getting tighter and tighter, and it seems that quantitative changes have accumulated to a certain point, and a qualitative change will be caused in the near future.