Chapter Eighty-Three: Quiet Time
The time for eating has long passed, there are almost no guests in the small cafeteria, and the waiters are gathering to chat, when they are chatting together, they see Zhou Hui, who is tightly covered, and Wang Yinan, who looks stupid, walking in.
Wang Yinan asked for a small private room, and sat in the private room, Zhou Hui was able to take off her hat, scarf and sunglasses to breathe, looking at her breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Yinan was secretly vigilant, "I must not be famous", obviously, he was still too naïve.
Zhou Hui was born in the rice country, but she is from Sushi, because her parents are from Sushi, which may be the reason why Lou Hua chose her to star in "Suhe".
Like a typical Jiangnan woman, Zhou Hui is not tall, delicate, smart, and a little sophisticated cunning, although she was born in the rice country, Zhou Hui's family is still a typical Chinese family, speaking Chinese, reading vernacular Chinese, and classical Chinese, Tang poetry and Song Ci are daily homework, and even Zhou Hui writes a good brush hand, which is much stronger than Wang Yinan.
Zhou Hui's mother is a traditional lady, who grew up in a small town on the edge of Su City, and almost half of the people in that town are surnamed Zhou, so everyone should know the name of that town.
Of course, Jiangnan women also have a common characteristic, that is, they don't eat spicy, and on the contrary, Wang Yinan is from Shu Province, Cotton City is the same as other cities in Shu Province, cooking is not spicy or happy, what peppers, sharp peppers, millet peppers, peppercorns are put hard. Wang Yinan picked up the menu, ordered squirrel osmanthus fish, baby cabbage in soup, and a West Lake beef soup, Zhou Hui couldn't help but look at Wang Yinan twice.
It's okay, I can't see that Wang Yinan, who usually looks ignorant, can still take care of girls when ordering.
Due to the small number of guests, the chefs are idle and the dishes are served quickly.
The small canteen of Imperial Capital University really lives up to its reputation, and with Wang Yinan's pitiful appreciation, it seems that there is no obvious gap compared with the chef in Deng Ruoyan's high-end club.
Zhou Hui's father is an astroseismologist, and her mother used to be a NASA technician, with family history, Zhou Hui herself likes astronomy and cosmology, and compared to some stars who are sure that the earth is flat, Zhou Hui and Wang Yinan still have a lot of common language.
No, the two had a heated argument because of the Big Bang theory.
"I think the Big Bang theory must be wrong, or how to explain the singularity before, outside the singularity", this is Zhou Hui's view, (the Big Bang theory is based on Einstein. Everywhere you have your general theory of relativity, in which there is a core cosmic equation: Rμv-(1/2)Rgμv=kTμv, I don't understand, anyway, it's very powerful, deduced that the universe we live in originated from a big bang 15 billion years ago, and the explosion occurred in an energy fluctuation in the quantum vacuum sea where there was nothing and everything).
"Time and space are dependent and existent, and time and space without existence have no meaning, so there is no point in discussing outside the singularity", this is Wang Yinan's view, and it is also the view of orthodox cosmology.
"The tone of your speech is exactly the same as that of my father, I am most annoyed by you scientists, just like ostriches, for things beyond their own cognition, a meaningless sentence is dismissed, and there is no courage to face the unknown."
"This is not an ostrich, but a clear understanding of human cognitive ability, admitting that we are ignorant, in order to truly grow", Wang Yinan said.
"Is it no wonder that Newton eventually became a faithful believer in God, the more he knew, the more he did not know, did science eventually become theology?" Zhou Hui asked,
"Perhaps, from the perspective of faith, science and religion are actually very similar, both have absolute confidence in their own beliefs, but the difference is that religious believers believe in an omniscient and omnipotent God, just like the old grandfather of the system, God is the ultimate explanation of all problems",
"And what we believe in is nature itself, and we will marvel at how nature, which is as grand as the universe and as small as quarks, can be so harmonious and unified that it can be described, understood, and even predicted to some extent by us, the creatures of nature, so humble beings and wisdom."
"The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it can be understood by us."
"At this time, we often sigh that this is really a miracle, and in our eyes, nature itself is God, not that ethereal God."
"At the joint meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society on November 6, 1919, the astronomer Royle announced that the starlight was indeed deflected according to Einstein's theory of gravity, and you can feel the feeling that the whole world changed at that moment?" , Wang Yinan looked at Zhou Hui, his eyes seemed to admire her beautiful face, and Wang Yinan's gaze didn't seem to stay for anything, projected in the distance of nothingness.
From that moment on, I felt that in the eyes of scientists, God had no place for himself, and Einstein had only made a logical assumption in his own brain, which seemed to him to be self-evident: the form of the laws of physics is unchanging in all frames of reference (in Da Liu's novel, the Three-Body Man destroyed human science by creating the illusion that this hypothesis was not valid!). )”。
"Through a series of mathematical deductions, Einstein predicted that light would be bent by the gravitational pull generated by its huge mass as it passed through the sun, so that during a solar eclipse, we can see the stars that were originally obscured by the sun.
"It's really amazing", Zhou Hui nodded, her father also told her this story, of course, she was too young at that time to experience the kind of shock and huge impact that Wang Yinan expressed today.
"Can you imagine what Sir Edinburgh's mood must have been like when he picked up the developed negative and saw the star on the edge of the sun that should have been obscured in front of him?"
"At that moment, Albert. Albert Einstein, he is God".
"I remember my father telling me a story about one time when Albert Einstein was in class at Princeton, and a student asked him what he would do if his predictions turned out to be wrong," Zhou said.
"I remember that Einstein replied like this", Wang Yinan also heard this story,
"Then I will feel sorry for my dear God, after all, my theory is correct".
"Although most of the stories are apocryphal, I believe that if someone is really stupid enough to ask Lao Ai this question, he will definitely get a similar answer," Wang Yinan said.
Although he was not persuaded by Wang Yinan, jokingly, and convincing a stubborn woman is much more difficult than predicting the angle at which the light is bent, Zhou Hui still said that he couldn't imagine what a world without time and space would look like.
However, they still reached a consensus on the issue of God, and a God with the surname love seems to be more reliable than the God with the surname.
The waiter in the small canteen is particularly attentive in serving tea and pouring water, and it is possible that he recognized Zhou Hui's identity as a big star, and he was a little eager to try. However, hearing the few words discussed by Wang Yinan and Zhou Hui quickly impacted their conjectures, just kidding, the big star would go to the cafeteria of Imperial Capital University to discuss cosmology? You're kidding me.
So until Wang Yinan checked out and left, no one ventured to ask for an autograph or anything.
spent a total of 140 soft girl coins, and watching Wang Yinan check out, Zhou Hui said, "This meal is not counted, such a cheap lunch is also embarrassing to you."
"It must not be counted, next time you say the place, only pick up the expensive ones, don't do the right ones."
After eating, Wang Yinan wanted to continue to go back to the library to check the materials, Zhou Hui seemed to be relying on him today, "Anyway, I'm fine today, let's go to the library with you to have a look."
Wang Yinan thought that it was okay, most of the libraries of Imperial Capital University, including the library of the Department of Physics, were still quite open, and there were many public reading areas, "Then come with me, so that you can also see the boring and boring daily life of a scientific research dog."
The library of the Department of Physics is in a forest, which is the kind of old building at the beginning of the last century, with extremely solid materials and thick brick walls, which Wang Yinan estimated to be more than one meter thick. There were a few huge tables in the public reading area, and the room was empty with few people.
Wang Yinan asked Zhou Hui to find a place to sit down and take a few freely accessible magazines and newspapers on the side. After settling Zhou Hui, Wang Yinan walked into the huge database of the library, since the new century, all kinds of academic journals have online versions, basically as long as there is the Internet, you can access the latest journals and magazines at any time.
But Wang Yinan needs to understand the entire field of oxide superconductivity, as well as the historical research of lattice theory, so he can't just consult these online materials, otherwise, you put forward a theory in your paper, and you think it is very novel, but others tell you that the strange doctor of Claydon University published a related paper as early as 1980, which is embarrassing.
Wang Yinan first found the kind of review papers over the years, generally the big bulls in each field, will publish a paper of this type every once in a while, although there is nothing new, it is a summary of the research work in the past period of time, but this kind of review written by the big bull can be published, and it does have reference value.
As for scientific research dogs such as kittens and puppies, I want to write a review... Stay where you want.
After finding this kind of review, which is published every few years, Wang Yinan basically has a general understanding of the whole picture of the related field, and then according to his own needs, find those papers mentioned in the review that may be related to him, and then study them carefully.
If necessary, the references listed in the paper must also be carefully looked at, and there are often a lot of dry goods hidden in these references.
Wang Yinan took out a large stack of photocopies, sat next to Zhou Hui, and photocopied some academic journals thanks to China's status as a developing country, which is a special exception to the exemption allowed by international intellectual property law for developing countries, and is not considered infringement.
Zhou Hui took off her scarf and sunglasses, still wearing a small round hat, looking at the man who was intently flipping through the magazine and taking notes from time to time, her eyes were full of tenderness, and the afternoon sun passed through the window, dyeing Wang Yinan's hair with a layer of golden color, and in the huge reading room, only the occasional rustle of the tip of the pen and the sound of the keyboard were heard.
"It seems that such a quiet day is good", Zhou Hui thought.