Chapter 6 Two Hypotheses
In a meeting room in the courtyard, the doors and windows around the room were closed, and only the slightest ray of sunlight could shine in, and the room was very dark.
There was a long conference table in the center of the room, but the dozen or so scholars in the room did not sit at the conference table, but sat on one side of the room, Shen Yufei stood opposite the conference table, and on the white wall behind her, there was a PPT projected on it.
Facing the light from the projector, Shen Yufei did not feel any discomfort, and skillfully looked at the many scholars who had already sat down and said: "Before starting this discussion, let me put forward two hypotheses. β
"One of them we call the shooter hypothesis, and it goes like this, once upon a time there was a sharpshooter who could accurately hit ten rings every time he hit the target, but one time, on a whim, after the first bullet hit the ten rings, he didn't continue, but moved his position and made a hole every 10cm on the target. Imagine that there is a two-dimensional intelligent creature living on this target, and the scientists in them are observing their own universe, and after summing up, these two-dimensional scientists claim to have discovered a great law: that is, every 10 cm units of the world, there must be a hole. They see the whims of this sharpshooter as an iron law in their own universe. β
The room was very quiet, and the people listening to the lecture were all high-quality scholars and scientists, and they all tacitly did not speak, but continued to listen, and there was only Shen Yufei's voice in the room, and the needle drop could be heard.
Cao Ge felt that the atmosphere in the room was very strange, the scholars around him, the expressions on their faces were very diverse, but they all tacitly did not speak, and they didn't even make a slightly larger movement, sitting in it, Cao Ge felt a little awkward.
Although he likes to hang out with the big guys, this is a group of big guys who are fooled and have a quick brain, and he feels a little bored.
He used to have a lot of respect for scientists, but now the performance of these people is really unbearable, because he knows that several of the scholars in this room will commit suicide in the near future.
Of course, this can't be blamed on them, after all, it is a bit difficult to accept that a staunch atheist, a materialist, convinces them that they are a turkey, that physics does not exist, and that their life's research is just a joke.
Cao Ge didn't think there was anything because he knew that there were three-body people behind him, and he knew how they locked up human technology, but these scholars didn't know, they only knew that their research had suddenly entered the field of metaphysics, and they couldn't explain why this was happening, and according to the results of the experiment, their inferences always led to a strange result, that is, physics does not exist.
This is indeed a bit difficult to accept, people with a slightly higher emotional intelligence may still be able to accept it, but at the extreme, especially those scientists who only have science in their eyes and have no life, in the face of this result, suicide is acceptable.
Cao Ge looked around, left and right, the expressions of all the scholars present, and then continued to look back at Shen Yufei.
It can be seen that Shen Yufei has not talked about these two hypotheses once or twice, and she is now proficient in saying that she is expressionless.
However, it seems that all these scientists in ETO are like this.
One painting, you her whole family, and you have no love, and you want to drag all mankind to be buried with you.
Cao Ge actually doesn't understand, is modern society so dark? It can produce so many scientists who hate humans.
Cao Ge emptied his head of what he didn't have, and continued to listen to Shen Yufei.
"The second hypothesis is called the farmer hypothesis, which is about a farm with a flock of turkeys that the farmer comes to feed them every day at 11 a.m. A scientist in Turkey observed this phenomenon for almost a year without exception, and then discovered the great law of its own universe: every morning at 11 o'clock, food arrives. It proclaimed this law to everyone on Thanksgiving morning, but at 11 a.m. the food did not arrive, and the farmer came in and killed them all.
After saying these two hypotheses, Shen Yufei did not continue to speak, but looked at the many scholars on the other side of the conference table, including Cao Ge.
"After the hypothesis is finished, I wonder what you want to say after listening to these two hypotheses?"
"This time, except for a few scholars, most of them are newcomers, so you can share your views on this." Shen Yufei looked around calmly and then said.
"It's ridiculous, Dr. Shen, I thought you invited me to this conference to discuss how to solve the problems that have arisen in the fundamental physics community this time, and if I had known that you had called me here just to hear you say these two clichΓ©d hypotheses, I would have said that I would not have come here, it would be a waste of my time." A balding middle-aged uncle sitting in front of Cao Ge suddenly stood up from his chair suddenly, and then said loudly and angrily.
Speaking of this angry uncle, without waiting for Shen Yufei's answer, he immediately asked: "If you want me to accept these two hypotheses, then you tell me, what is the argument?" If we're a flock of turkeys, who are the farmers? If we are two-dimensional creatures, then who is making the hole? Where is that border? What is beyond the borders? β
"Can you tell me? You can't, because you don't know at all, don't know at all. The middle-aged uncle said angrily.
After talking continuously, the uncle sat down and waited for Shen Yufei's answer.
In stark contrast to the middle-aged uncle, Shen Yufei is still very calm, calm and unusual.
I saw her calmly replied: "I really can't tell you the answer right away, but the two hypotheses I mentioned are a possibility to explain the current problems encountered in the fundamental physics community, and whether this possibility can become a reality, I think it is inevitable, but how to prove them still needs to be discussed by everyone." β
"If Professor Liu Xiang Siguang has any other ideas, he can also put them forward, as long as they are reasonable, they can be put forward, and everyone can exchange ideas together." Shen Yufei said.
The middle-aged uncle was obviously so excited because he had some belief in these two hypotheses, and he couldn't wait to refute it because he couldn't accept this fact.
As for Professor Liu's question, Shen Yufei's answer was very guided, although she did not say an argument, nor did she say a way that could be proven, but her words were openly and secretly saying, "You are a flock of turkeys." β
Cao Ge watched the conversation between the two and did not speak, but pondered.
Soon after the middle-aged uncle, several scholars asked questions, and Shen Yufei answered them one by one.
The meeting lasted more than two hours.