Now, under the recommendation of Shangguan Ling, I met with Professor Liang, and the thoughts I spied on were also normal, and there was no pretense to deal with it, which was basically consistent with Long Yun's previous impression, this professor who spoke loudly and had a straightforward personality received a call from Ling, but now he was beckoned to sit down, and he had to pour two cups of tea to have a long conversation together, mainly because of a conversation in the cockpit of the passenger plane last time.

In the professor's mind, this young man named Long Yun, who acted as a driver, although he looked a little introverted and his emotional intelligence didn't seem to be high at all, the ideas in his head were quite interesting.

Now that the New Year is approaching and there is nothing to do, let's see what questions this young man has, and it's okay to chat for a while!

"So, I heard from Shangguan that you have some questions about the 'technological development of human society', you might as well talk about it?"

"Well, that's—it's actually about ...... On the direction of technological development, or some possibility,"

While speaking, Long Yun was thinking, how did Ling understand it just now, if his questions and skills are not related at all, then wouldn't it be - oh, then he wouldn't have to find Professor Liang in that case, so he organized his thoughts and found an entry point first, "Professor Liang, I have read your monograph before, which is an analysis of the development route of science and technology in human society, in short, it is the 'step theory', I think it makes sense, but there are also some counterexamples, is there a consensus in the scientific community on this theory now?" ”

The book given by Professor Liang Wuchang was still on the way back from Singapore, and "The Evolution of Science and Technology", which is not large in size and has not many pages, basically belongs to scientific ramblings, or popular science books.

"Popular Science Books". Don't look at the positioning, it's not "high-end" at all. The scientific truth is quite innovative. The wording is very smooth, and the analysis and argumentation process is also very rigorous, such a book may be a little unsightly in the academic world that uses SCI (Science_Citation_Index, Science Citation Index) and EI (Engineering_Index, Engineering Index) to discuss heroes, but it can reflect the comprehensive professional level of a scientist, the so-called "can write papers may not be able to write popular science." Those who can write popular science must be able to write papers", which is probably the case.

I didn't think much about such an interesting book at the time, but Long Yun felt quite right after reading it, and he had read it through it two or three times in his spare time, so I would like to raise some questions now.

"Haha, consensus? This one is definitely not there, not at all. ”

"Huh? That's because ......"

"Well, it's not hard to understand, as someone once wrote."

Hearing Long Yun's question, it was obvious that this young man had indeed read his own book. Instead of being respectful to his subordinates at the time and then throwing them aside, Professor Leung, although straightforward, was also very happy about it, he sat on the sofa and clapped his hands, quoting a description from an unknown popular science book:

"People often think that experts and scholars engaged in science are a group of people in white coats, cold faces, and highly consistent thoughts and behaviors, but in fact they are very wrong; Arguments in the scientific community are really rare when they don't exist, and even the most irrefutable axioms always have certain conditions for application, which can make people make a big fuss, so arguments and refutations are always indispensable.

If anything, who can find a universal truth that scientists all over the world can fully agree with?

Hehe, in my personal opinion, that's simply not possible; If that is the case, this truth will also become the 'God' in the boundaries of science, and once there is a 'God', what is the difference between the kingdom of science built by practice and reason and all those muddy religions? ”

"Oh, if you say that, it ...... true."

Hearing Professor Liang's words, although it was a bit off-topic, the reason was refreshing, Long Yun nodded thoughtfully, he was not in a hurry to speak, but supported Professor Liang to continue.

In the next period of time, the tea in the cup quickly bottomed out, and the enthusiastic Liang Wuchang first briefly introduced to Long Yun what the concept of the so-called "evolution of science and technology" is, which is not to erase the key role of people in the development of science and technology, but from a lot of historical data, according to the "theory must always be able to explain reality" and produce a theory, itself is like a meteorological model, which belongs to "just the conclusion, not the reason", as long as the deduction results are close to the actual situation.

So on the other hand, the problem with this theory is that it is not clear why, if the scientific and technological development of human society is not a rough straight line, but like a ladder with a certain period of smoothness and leap, the objective facts may not be able to refute it, but what is the internal mechanism of this phenomenon?

It's a puzzle that no one can explain.

Because of this, the mainstream scientific community has been debating this, and various explanations have been flying all over the place for a while; In addition, there are many people who disdain this, believing that this is out of the scope of science and belongs to the mystery, so there is really no "consensus" now.

"So, Professor Liang, the phenomenon of stepwise evolution is also a research hotspot now, but you did not clearly point out the reason for this phenomenon in your book "The Evolution of Science and Technology".

So, I would like to ask, what do you think about the inner mechanism of this phenomenon? ”

Since there is no "consensus", it is not impossible to listen to Professor Liang's family, Long Yun leaned over and asked respectfully, and his intuition told him that there might be some mystery in it, since he didn't have any ideas, he quickly asked an expert.

To such a question, the erudite professor frowned, and replied in an tone that was obviously not conclusive:

"Yes, I didn't write the reason; This is because ......

Well, speaking of which, in my personal opinion, this phenomenon obviously cannot be explained by 'probability', 'contingency' and so on, but is more like a manifestation of the tendency of some external force.

But if you continue to think about it like this, the question arises:

Human beings, no matter what, are still a part of the earth, and after gradually evolving into intelligent creatures, they have always controlled their own destiny, and what forces can play a role in the underworld, so that the development of human society, in fact, the development of science and technology, presents a state of step-by-step?

There are many explanations for this question, but I can only be cautious about it, just like some phenomena in the world now, we scientists can't find the real answer for the time being, so I didn't write at all, because when I write something on paper, I have to consider whether it will mislead readers, and some of the hypotheses put forward at present have all kinds of flaws and are unacceptable.

How, is this answer understandable? ”

"Understandable, that is, in your opinion, people have not yet found the cause of this phenomenon? - But in any case, this phenomenon does exist, and I get it from the book, right? ”

In response to the young man's question, Professor Liang nodded heavily to him, and then got up to pour water.

The answer he got was not far from his own thoughts, Long Yun quickly stood up and went to run errands, while pouring boiling water into the teapot, he also thought that the "prehistoric civilization" he came to discuss this time could also be the cause of this phenomenon?

For example, if there had been a "prehistoric civilization" on the earth before and reached a certain state of development, then although some kind of disaster was destroyed, perhaps some traces of "heritage" such as some traces could be left, then when the latecomers, that is, the human beings of this era, gradually discovered these "heritages", wouldn't it be possible to evolve into the current situation, so that the development of science and technology will show a step-like situation.

A sudden flash of thought made True Long Yun a little excited at first.

However, he immediately realized that, just as the "creativity" of most people in history was actually something that had already been thought of by previous people, the so-called explanation that he came up with on his whim must have been considered by a large number of people long ago.

And, even if you think about it, who can prove that this conjecture is correct or not?

Thinking of this, about the so-called "prehistoric civilization", Long Yun returned to the side of the sofa with the teapot, and he took the initiative to lead the topic in this direction.

Sure enough, the talkative Professor Liang was also very interested in this, and he told Long Yun that as far as he knew, almost none of the so-called "opaz", that is, mysterious objects that should not appear in the world, that is, that they should not appear, could stand scrutiny; Many of them are the magic of nature, but they are mistaken for man-made things, and more are obviously misunderstandings or fakes.

Professor Liang's introduction was basically similar to some of Long Yun's previous search results, which made him a little disappointed.

The "Opaz" in the parallel world is fake, and the same is true in the real world, so that is to say, as Vladimir Pugin said before, the concept of "prehistoric civilization" may be only a hypothesis after all, and has not really appeared on the earth, but why he was disappointed, he didn't quite understand for a while.

After analyzing some "Opaz", Long Yun then put forward his own speculation, and he asked Professor Liang if it was impossible for a prehistoric civilization to exist on the earth.

In this regard, according to Professor Liang's account, his views are similar to those of Vladimir Putin.

The so-called "prehistoric civilization", regardless of this definition, if it really existed on the earth, then it should leave some traces anyway. (To be continued......)