Chapter 119

In his office, Zhang Yuan met an old acquaintance, Mr. John Wilson, the pessimistic scientist in the nuclear fusion engine.

John woke up two months earlier than him. He seemed to be devastated by the bleak reality. He just said hello to Zhang Yuan, and then sat in his seat all day. He was in a daze. He didn't know what he was thinking.

Zhang Yuan sighed. Almost everyone here is like this.

In the current social environment, it is impossible to engage in some complex work. At least half of the population is depressed. It is quite rare to do a simple job. Don't want to create too much social value.

Fortunately, the decision-making level has estimated this situation in advance and made some deployment when formulating the hibernation policy.

At present, there are a total of 600 sober people, more than 100 of whom are responsible for the maintenance of the power system, and the rest are distributed in communication, medical treatment, botanical gardens, material management and so on.

A small number of soldiers and administrative personnel are responsible for maintaining law and order.

In this small self-sufficient society, everyone's workload is very small.

The engine of the earth times is in the off state. Relying on inertial navigation in the universe and most functions have been turned off, it is not possible to accumulate disastrous accidents after more than 100 years of effort. It is nothing for everyone to slack off a little.

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In this uncomfortable atmosphere, time passed day by day. Zhang Yuan has restrained all his emotions and began to learn new knowledge normally.

Enough new things have taken place on earth. Whether academic, historical or humanistic, there are many things worthy of serious study.

Because of the qualitative change caused by quantitative change, Zhang Yuan found that he could not even understand the most cutting-edge scientific and technological papers. He can only read some relevant news written by popular science websites to grasp the overall scientific trends.

He said to himself, "it's very good. It's good not to understand. If ancient people like me still understand it, mankind must be finished."

"What happened to the ancient people? I can still be a university teacher! " John said, "in the 25th Century, aren't college students studying calculus? It's boring. "

Zhang Yuan couldn't help laughing. This sentence is true. Before the emergence of the technology to improve the intelligence of the whole people, college students in any era should be learning calculus. The whole civilization still depends on genius.

"John, what does this super alpha state mean?"

"I don't know. It may be a new academic term in Condensed Matter Physics... Let me help you check the relevant papers."

In the face of modern knowledge, the two people in the office have a lot of things they don't understand. However, it's interesting to study with multiple people. The research progress is faster than that of one person.

Once there was such a question on the Internet. If Einstein went through modern times, could he become a top scientist?

Not necessarily top, but it's still quite easy to be a good scientist again. Because under the influence of good habits, learning new knowledge is actually a pleasant thing for Einstein. It is estimated that he will be able to learn cutting-edge disciplines in a few years.

Even if new knowledge is put in front of you but you don't learn, you will have a degenerate sense of uneasiness.

"... there are many good news in frontier science. Through a condensed superfluid experiment, it seems that we have found evidence of the existence of gravitons!"

Suddenly, Zhang Yuan seemed to find some big news and shouted.

"It's really not easy!"

After reading one of the papers, he sighed deeply.

The mood at the moment can only be described in one word: cool!

According to the description of this paper, scientists use superfluid to surround a limited region and find that a very small amount of gravitational changes have taken place in this part of the region.

This change in gravity exceeded expectations.

In some theories, the graviton is a boson with spin 2, which will produce a superfluid mechanism similar to helium-4. That is, this part of superfluid is likely to short-circuit some gravitons flowing through this region, so as to realize local shielding.

The existence evidence of gravitons may be the greatest scientific discovery in the past two centuries!

It means that some basic theories seem to be able to be further developed.

Various related papers emerge in endlessly, and the final winner has not been selected until now.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan's heart beat slightly faster. He deeply knew how important the discovery of graviton was to cutting-edge science!

"The graviton involves a physical phenomenon, which is gravity. If gravity can be unified into quantum theory, then the" grand unification theory "will no longer be a dream!"

"If anti gravity and artificial gravity related technologies can really appear under the guidance of theoretical basis, mankind will realize the qualitative change of science and technology again!"

Zhang Yuan is still very willing to engage in this research.

Of course, for him at present, he can only be a distant watcher and find some fun in these news.

Any progress in human civilization is a very secure and gratifying thing for him.

"I'm already a 200 year old elder. Younger generation, come on." Because he was in a good mood, Zhang Yuan joked.

"Cough, if you want to understand the earth civilization, you can look at the special report of the deep space foundation every year, instead of looking for information here. There are a lot of outrageous news, some of which are fabricated by the self media."

John said slowly.

After so many months, he has slowly returned to normal. Moreover, Zhang Yuan's learning spirit of exploding liver also directly drove him, so that he had to follow suit.

This guy still sighs sometimes, but at least he can communicate.

It has to be said that time can dilute everything, and human beings are also creatures with strong acceptance ability. If they choose to keep themselves busy, all the heaviness will be slowly thrown behind their minds

People always have to live for themselves.

"Why, seeing these scientific research achievements, you are not pessimistic about the future of earth civilization?" Zhang Yuan asked with a smile, "it's refreshing to see scientific progress. Once the science and technology of earth civilization changes qualitatively, we will also change qualitatively."

John said excitedly, "it's really a great discovery! A few days ago, I was happy for a long time, diluting that pessimistic expectation. By the way, what do you think of the loss of gravity caused by superfluid? How to realize anti gravity? "

"There is an interaction between graviton and fermion. In addition to tangchuan coupling similar to electron photon interaction, there may be other terms in Lagrangian. I think as long as we understand these items, the effect of gravitational shielding can continue to increase! "

"The nature of the world is really beyond imagination!"

"Aren't the four basic forces the ultimate essence?"

"Don't be too optimistic. At present, the whole theory has not been completely clarified."

The more they talked, the more excited they became. They began to talk nonsense, as if anti gravity technology could really be realized