Tim Cook was one of the first to complete the check-in today.

The organizing committee did not give this big man any unusual treatment, so he could only come to the lounge after signing in with the invitation letter like other scholars. However, Apple's identity as CEO still keeps him lively all the time.

After all, many scientific research activities still require money.

Especially for basic physics and astronomy, whether it is a variety of instruments or massive data analysis work, financial support is required. And Apple has money is the consensus of the whole world.

In fact, Tim Cook's participation in today's event is also a surprise for many scientists. Is there an old man who can control a huge amount of money who is interested in this direction, maybe he can use the project at hand to attract an investment?

After all, money is the basis of scientific research in this era, and those physical research that can be carried out without too much expense have basically been done by the predecessors.

Being popular is a good thing, of course, and at least it makes the waiting time less boring.

Especially for those who are piqued by curiosity, the waiting time can become longer and longer.

Time passed quickly, and Tim Cook politely listened to some cutting-edge academic research, and then, as usual, did not draw many conclusions. The time finally came at half past nine in the morning, and the staff began to inform everyone that they could enter the venue in an orderly manner.

Well, the mystery is about to be solved, and Tim Cook is calmed down physically and mentally.

He only hopes that he will not be disappointed by the fact that Ning Xiao's words may change his sense of this worldview and even determine the future direction of Apple. At least I don't feel that staying in Huaxia for half a month is a waste of time and energy.

In the past two days in the hotel and Ning Yuan, he has also met many well-known people in the academic world, and he probably understands that they will come to participate in the astronomy forum convened by Ning Xiao, mainly because of Ning Xiao's review in Science.

When Tim Cook asked the scholars to speculate about what the theory might have to do with Apple, the vast majority of people were silenced.

Apple is a high-tech company, but the direction of Apple's business development is really difficult to relate to astronomy.

Even in the field of basic communications, Apple is not very strong.

AT LEAST FOR NOW, APPLE'S BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT IS STILL THE IPHONE REDEFINING THE SMARTPHONE AND MAKING IT A LOGICAL TRANSITION FROM THE INTERNET TO THE MOBILE INTERNET. Even now, many brands of smartphones still have traces of the original Apple design.

As for the achievements in astronomy, it is probably zero. Not in one direction at all.

So it's hard for scholars who don't understand business logic to guess how this forum will help Apple's business.

Including Tim Cook himself, he has considered countless possibilities these days, but he has rejected them all. Because even if Ning Xiao could make some things, he probably wouldn't care about them.

But fortunately, the mystery can finally be solved.

……

More than 100 scholars from all over the world, led by the staff, walked into the playground used to display the latest discoveries in the laboratory. To the surprise of many, they were not taken to the stands to sit down, but to the middle of the playground, where Ning Xiao was. ….

A small display stand has been erected there, with a large black curtain in the middle, covering a long, car-sized object in mid-air.

Obviously, what is covered by the black curtain is the protagonist of today, and many people can't help but take a few more looks. However, the geometry is so unremarkable that it is difficult to guess what it is based on the black curtain alone.

Tim Cook was at the front of the crowd so he could see better. This angle is useless, the curtain is tightly covered, judging from the outer contours...... Well, I can't tell.

Anyway, I can't figure out why this thing is put on a high platform built on a football field, and it's so mysterious.

But the answer to the mystery will soon be possible

Uncovered, he also didn't want to waste brain cells. It's just that Colin Drost, a former Nobel Prize in physics, seems less determined.

"Tim, don't you think it's weird?"

"Huh? What's so strange?"

"Look at the way the curtain falls, the thing wrapping up...... It seems to be in the air."

Tim Cook looked at it again and saw that it was, but it was a black curtain after all, so he suggested a possibility: "Maybe it's just that the shelves are smaller than the objects on them." You can't put a mat filled with hydrogen in there......

"Perhaps, but it's still a little weird. It shouldn't be that simple."

The two chatted briefly, and the young figure had already appeared on the makeshift rostrum.

Well, the main master is here, and there is no need to guess any more, and the brief discussion is over.

……

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to be invited to participate in the 1st World Astronomy Forum in Ningyuan. I know that it is not me who will attract you to this forum, but the latest discoveries made by Professor Lucius Rudy and his friends, namely the super-bright stars that are constantly moving near the heart of the galaxy."

After Ning Xiao's relaxed opening remarks, the audience burst into applause, and Lucius Rudy, who was also standing in the first row, also stepped forward, then turned around and waved casually to his peers behind him.

Of course, the professor knew that these people didn't come because they had discovered those stars, and everyone's purpose was to know how Ning Xiao had found out that there were stars there, not just a giant black hole, by pure mathematical analysis.

Yes, even if the existence of those stars has been discovered now, it does not mean that the theory of black holes in the center of galaxies has been overturned. Because there is a lot of evidence for this, and there has been evidence for this period of time, that these stars are moving much faster than they thought, which seems to mean that these stars know that if they run slowly, they can be swallowed by black holes.

Of course, this is not to say that these stars have thoughts, but only that the universe is so magical.

Of course, none of this prevented Lucius Rudy from being familiar with the more than 100 people present at this time.

It's also a sense of ritual.

Ning Xiao, who was standing on the stage, smiled and watched Lucius Rudy wave his hand, turned around and returned to the team, and then continued: "I know that everyone is very interested in the previous theoretical derivation process, but what everyone doesn't know is that in fact, all the derivation processes at that time were based on a spatial structure conjecture, which I call the Ning's spatial conjecture. ….

In this conjecture, the space we can observe is embedded in another dimension. On the premise that we assume that the theory of relativity is absolutely correct, there is a macroscopic circular high-dimensional space, and the structure of this space is affected by our observable space and another energy space, so it cannot be a conventional sphere, and its interior may present an irregular and asymmetrical hollow structure.

That's right, the black hole we often call is one of the manifestations of this heterogeneous space."

Ning Xiao's voice fell, and a whisper sounded in the audience.

In fact, these words did not reveal too much specific information, but there is one thing that Tim Cook can understand, that is, Ning Xiao's paper published in "Science" is based on an assumption.

This is somewhat unexpected.

Although science, especially the study of the universe, hypothesis is indispensable. It can even be said that most of the current theories about the universe are hypothetical, but whether it is the Big Bang theory or the white hole theory, they are all based on the observation of reality.

Like Ning Xiao, who first imagines a space and then makes theoretical deductions through this hypothesis, it can be so accurate, but it is extremely rare.

The discussion soon stopped, as everyone was more curious about what Ning Xiao was going to continue to say.

Ning Xiao also quickly spoke again: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank Professor Rudy again, it was they who found the evidence of the existence of those stars with great speed, and allowed me to do further work based on this hypothetical theory.

That's what I've been doing all this time, which is to study another imaginary medium.

Research still begins with microscopic quantum mechanics. We all know that the Schrödinger equation describes everything in the microscopic world, and we also know that there are many counterintuitive things in the microscopic world, and we also know that the position of a particle in a certain time in the quantum world can only be calculated as a probability through the wave function, and I don't want to overturn all of this, because from a macroscopic point of view, all this is proven.

I just verified another possibility, although the position of the particle can be both here and there from a macroscopic point of view, and we can't know the result at all without observation, so is it possible that this unsolvable intermediate state process from a macroscopic level is related to the imaginary space, and finally through experiments, my conjecture is correct, and there is indeed such a space."

As soon as Ning Xiao's words fell, this time it was no longer a whisper, and many people in the audience raised their hands.

Someone even shouted directly from the audience: "God, for God's sake, Ning, don't sell it, hurry up to the lecture hall to explain your test process!"

Okay, that's obviously not polite, but this sentence probably calls out to many people.

When the environment became noisy, Ning Xiao could only raise his hand slightly, so that the emotions of everyone in the audience gradually calmed down.

"I know you'd love to know what this imaginary space would look like, because it might be a more scientific explanation of the origin of the universe. But before that, I want you to see what I'm going to show you today, or what I call the evidence of the existence of this space. ….

That's right, there is no need to repeat the demonstration and explain the experimental verification process, I have found some ironclad evidence of the existence of Ning's media space, it seems a little incredible, but after showing it to everyone, I hope you will follow the order. Obey the instructions of the staff who are responsible for maintaining order on site, so that everyone can get close to it.

I would like to emphasize that in the following demonstrations and contacts, any behavior that does not follow the order will be directly discouraged, no matter who it is. Do you understand?"

Everyone in the audience fell silent.

Countless people's eyes were once again focused on the object covered by the black curtain.

There is no other place to display it here, but it could be the object wrapped under a black curtain next to the rostrum. According to Ning Xiao's description, this object is very likely to come from another dimension, which has indeed aroused the great curiosity of many people.

No one is ignoring discipline, and in fact any delay in the next presentation at this time could lead to public outrage.

Ning Xiao didn't continue to adjust the appetite of everyone at the scene, and directly signaled to the staff standing in front of the rostrum, and soon two people stepped forward and stretched out their hands to pull off the curtain with a sense of ceremony.

In the next moment, a long hexagonal object with a silver metallic luster was displayed in front of more than 100 scholars on the scene.

Everyone watched this scene in amazement, because this thing, it was really suspended in the air, very intuitive, at least its power source could not be seen.

"As you can see, this piece of matter is the product of the exchange of some substances in space through experiments. After the exchange, electrons are exchanged at the microscopic level of matter, and it is probably this wonderful reaction that makes the mass of this matter negative, and it has anti-gravity and other wonderful physical properties."

……

As an experienced and insightful photojournalist, Luo Kezhang controlled the camera at this moment and slowly swept the faces of more than 100 scholars under the rostrum. In fact, this timing was indeed very well grasped, and in the picture fed back by the camera, he saw all kinds of surprised and inexplicable expressions.

There are those who are in a daze with their mouths half open, those who hold their heads in their hands, those who raise their hands to cover their cheeks, and those who are so dazed that they seem to be wandering out of the world.

Although Luo Kezhang is not a scientist, he has been a reporter on the science and technology channel for more than ten years, and he still has a certain sensitivity to some terms, such as "negative mass" and "anti-gravity", it is no exaggeration to say that these terms appear the most in science fiction except in papers.

Of course, he was also surprised, even excited, to be able to capture these pictures, it really depends on professional habits. He thought this would probably be the most shocking moment for these scholars, but apparently, he had miscalculated this time.

……

"Anti-gravity, I don't need to demonstrate, you can see that this material can be suspended in the air on its own, and you should also be able to see that it carries a total of 76KG of metal weights on it. Now I want to show you another physical property, which is also rare in our space, which is the fusion of solids at room temperature."

As he spoke, Ning Xiao took a long strip-shaped object handed by the staff that was also wrapped in a layer of black cloth. ….

Ning Xiao uncovered the black cloth, which was also a stick-like object with a silver and metallic sheen. Ning Xiao first opened his hand lightly, and then saw that the stick-like object obviously violated the laws of physics known to everyone, quietly suspended in the air, and slowly rotated counterclockwise.

The atmosphere was tense and silent, and even the sound of people gasping could be heard.

The shock that this moment brought to the more than 100 scholars in the audience probably cannot be described in words.

Ning Xiao glanced around the stage, and then said, "As you can see, this is also a negative-mass, anti-gravity material of the same nature obtained through space exchange, and from a macroscopic point of view, there seems to be no force interaction between them."

After speaking, Ning Xiao reached out and took the stick-like object in his hand again, stepped forward, took this special stick and knocked it on the large piece of anti-gravity material floating in the air, and then made a "stuck" sound, the sound was very muffled, not as crisp as when ordinary metal was struck.

There are no obvious signs of collision between the two objects when striking.

After doing this, Ning Xiao didn't say anything more, but put the stick-like object directly under the large anti-gravity material, and then carried the metal rod to make it cling to the large anti-gravity material.

Then Ning Xiao took a step back and quietly looked at the position where the anti-gravity stick-like object was attached to the large anti-gravity matter.

His solemn and profound look obviously affected everyone at the scene, everyone stared at the position of the fit, and even many people couldn't help but take two steps ahead, until the staff in charge of maintaining order in front of the temporary rostrum began to stop people from coming forward again.

But in fact, everyone can see this distance clearly, and under everyone's eyes, the cylindrical metallic antimatter material with a diameter of at least 2CM just now fell into a large piece of anti-gravity material little by little without any external interference, and the whole process lasted about ten minutes, until finally the entire stick body was integrated into the piece of antimatter material.

Two objects that were originally separated become inseparable from each other.

Many people began to look at each other, and Tim Cook could hear people around him muttering, "God, what do I see? Is this witchcraft?"

Well, Tim Cook simply can't describe how he's feeling at this point.

It's as if he doesn't know what kind of power can make the former Nobel laureates in physics around him suspect that the phenomenon that is happening in front of him is witchcraft.

His mind began to mess up, and he began to understand the reason why Ning Xiao had asked him to stay at this meeting.

Everything he had cherished before was probably not worth mentioning in the eyes of the young man on the rostrum.

At this time, Ning Xiao probably didn't care about how much money Faster could make, let alone whether he wanted to use Faster to control their companies, because there was no need.

To put it bluntly, the tracks of the two sides are no longer on the same level.

Make hay?

If Ning Xiao wants money, just that one antimatter material can probably buy the entire apple, right?

Control?

For everything at his fingertips, what else does Ning Xiao need to control?

Tim Cook didn't know what other scientists were thinking at this time, but he had a strong feeling that the world, from today, was going to change!

96.

A bucket of pudding

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