Chapter 118: Authoritative Scientist
In the past two days, the scientific expedition team led by Professor Wu and the summer social practice investigation team led by Hu Kehao met by chance, and what is even more strange is that they met the third investigation team. There were only two people in the inspection team, Yang Shimo, a retired professor of U City University of Technology, and Hong Daoshi, who Hu Kehao introduced to him, and they were looking for a feng shui treasure suitable for relocating the laboratory. They also came to Banpo Village, Calamus Township, S County, and met Professor Wu and Hu Kehao.
Upon learning of Lin Xueyi's disappearance, Professor Wu, Professor Yang, Hu Kehao, Hong Daoshi, Dong Yucheng and others all came to the col under the Golden Glory Valley, and they searched all around but did not find Lin Xueyi. It's strange to see no one alive or dead. Professor Wu saw the strange words on the stone slab and felt that this was the problem. Professor Wu did not understand paleographies, so he extended them and prepared to go back to U University to consult paleographers.
Daoist Hong also saw these strange words, studied them carefully for a while, and muttered, "I seem to have seen these words. ”
"What do these words mean?" Professor Wu asked anxiously.
"I vaguely remember that when I was a child, my father came to my house with a monk and a young man, and they brought out a piece of paper with some strange words on it, very similar to the words on this stone tablet. In my opinion, the words on these tablets are incantations. Hong Daoshi said.
"In today's world where science is so advanced, where is there a place for mantras? Those legends about spells are made up by people, and I don't believe them. Professor Wu was puzzled.
Faced with the strange stone slab that appeared in this strange mountain col and the strange words on the stone slab, Professor Yang remembered the dusty past many years ago, and Professor Husen's deeds came into his mind. Professor Hu Sen was a classmate of Professor Yang Shimo, and after graduation, Professor Yang was assigned to U City University of Technology, and Professor Hu Sen was assigned to U University. During their research careers, they often engage in academic exchanges. Later, Professor Hussen said that he had found a monster in the laboratory, and if the monster was released from the laboratory, it would bring great disaster to the world. Professor Hussen found a hidden place and sealed the monster. For the sake of secrecy, Professor Hussen did not reveal the place where the monster was sealed.
When Professor Hu Sen was dying, he revealed the news to Professor Yang Shimo, saying that the monster was sealed somewhere in Calamus Township, S County. This matter is highly confidential, and now only Professor Yang Shimo knows about it. According to Professor Hussen's last words, if this monster is sealed forever, no longer care about it, no need to look for it, let it gradually disappear in the long river of history; If something goes wrong, find a way to deal with it. Professor Yang Shimo had forgotten about this incident, and planned to tell this secret to trusted people when he was dying.
"This slate should be a seal, contaminated by Lin Xueyi's menstrual blood, this seal has become invalid, and the monster of the seal sucked her in." In order to keep it secret, Professor Yang Shimo broke away from the students, leaving only Professor Wu, Hu Kehao and Hong Daoshi to tell what he knew.
Professor Hu Sen's hometown is in Hujiagou, Calamus Township, S County. Hu Sen was the earliest college student to go out in Hujiagou. Later, he stayed at U University to teach, and became a leader in the physics field of U University, mainly engaged in cosmic neutrino research. In 1933, in order to solve the contradiction of "beta decay", Pauli proposed the neutrino hypothesis. Do neutrinos have mass or not? This question has always bothered Professor Hussen, because the stability and closure of the universe are greatly dependent on the mass of neutrinos. Hussen is academically accomplished and internationally renowned, regularly attending world-class physics conferences and presenting many of his theories.
Professor Hussen's temper is a bit odd, just like his eccentric way of thinking. He often told his students to be skeptical of all theories, even if they tore down the powerful pillars of physics, otherwise the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics would not have been produced in the last century. And that's exactly what he did. In his scientific research work, Professor Hussen overturned an authoritative theory in the academic world, and he made a name for himself in the academic community.
It turned out that a dark cloud had risen in the clear sky of physics at U University, and the physics edifice was crumbling. Scientists from two prestigious universities have done the same experiment, and both have come up with Theory X, which shocked the academic community. Professor Hussen, with his keen intuition and deep insight, believed that Theory X should be wrong, which contradicted the conclusions of the two scientists.
"God is subtle, but God has no malice," Hussen said to himself. Hussen himself did an experiment to test Theory X. He does not believe in authority, but only in truth, and truth is a child of experimentation, not of authority. Both scientists were more famous than Hussen, and when Hussen said his intentions, his colleagues laughed at him. He wiped the ridicule away like a spider's web, not caring about them. He designed the experiment himself, and let the experiment prove everything.
Hussen is admirable because he refuses to let these "facts" determine the fate of Theory X from a methodological-theoretical perspective. He categorically claimed that "two scientists came up with Theory X based on experimental observations, which seem to me to be largely just a coincidence." I'm sure they're wrong, because the basic assumptions they put forward for new theories based on experiments are not derived from a system of theories that summarize a large number of phenomena. ”
Proponents of Professor Hussen consider this to be a very characteristic view, and some people regard the consistency of experimental facts as the primary determinant of approval or disapproval of Theory X, while Hussen disagrees with this view, which is the decisive disagreement between him and his opponents. Although the present "experimental facts" are clearly in favor of his opponent's theories and not against him, he still believes that even if the experimental data of the two scientists have not been tampered with or falsified, the peculiarity of their theories is more worthy of people's attention and objection.
Hussen intends to come up with evidence to prove that the experiments and new theories of the two scientists are wrong. He simply thinks they "can't be" correct based on "inspiration" and "intuition" because some of these basic assumptions are isolated and arbitrary. He argues that the basic assumptions must cover a wide range of areas, ideally covering the whole of physics, rather than being designed for special cases. He was convinced that the experiments of the two scientists were incorrect or even wrong, because Theory X could not be derived from the principles and could not build new theories through specific assumptions. He didn't get the grandeur of "recognizing the unity of phenomena that seemed to be very complex" from Theory X, and he had to critique Theory X.
In the lab, Hussen and his assistants worked by the fast-paced, high-energy accelerator. This accelerator is built with high precision and uses a detector with a large solid angle to detect the product. They pay attention to every link, without the slightest sloppiness, to ensure that every experimental data is accurate. Professor Hu Sen spent a lot of effort on this experiment, and in order to design the experimental plan, he consulted a large number of academic works at home and abroad, and solicited the opinions of many scientists. As long as the experimental data is reliable, it can be conclusively determined whether Theory X is correct or not. Even if Hussen himself overthrew himself, he would face it calmly and could not waver in his rigorous approach to scholarship. He hopes that he is right, which will prove that authority people are not infallible.
Fortunately, the results supported Hussen's conclusion, and the two scientists' predictions based on Theory X could not be reproduced in the laboratory, and they made an imperceptible mistake in the experiment that made the results very different. Professor Hussen succeeded, and his work was valuable. He would not have been ecstatic, since he had rarely admitted Theory X, but he was certainly satisfied: the experiment had finally proved him right. With that came his fame in the scientific community.
A few years later, experiments proved that the theory of scheming stem cells proposed by Piero Anversa, an American cardiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School, was wrong, an academic fraud, which deceived the medical community for more than ten years, and was later overturned by other medical scientists, just as Professor Hussen overturned the theory of those two scientists at this time.