Chapter 408

It is because of interests that the queen finally reluctantly accepted Henry's polygamy.

Marriage is a good deal to talk about, however, which did not imagine will give the British royal family a huge dowry.

The common view in the west is that marriage is a matter for two people. Why do you want to give a bride price to a woman? The other party is not for business. If the man gives the bride price, then the woman's marrying a daughter is like selling it. In traditional families in North America, the wedding expenses of marrying a daughter are borne by the girl's father, and the man's courtesy is enough. Henry naturally wanted to "do as the Romans do", so he never talked about betrothal gifts with the British royal family. However, when the wedding was held, Henry offered that he would take care of everything and leave it to him. After all, he married more than Princess Ulysses.

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At the end of June.

One of the greatest modern physicists, Stephen William Hawking, is going to give a speech at Cambridge University. When Henry hears the speech, he takes Princess Ulysses to attend.

As we all know, Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (lugaret's disease) when he was 21 years old. He was paralyzed and could not speak. The only place he could move was a pair of eyes and three fingers. There is no doubt that Hawking is an ill fated super genius! He is Britain's "national treasure" talent, the world's recognized "the most intelligent brain", intelligence and Einstein!

Henry read Hawking's a brief history of time, and he also understood his theory! His main research fields are cosmology and black holes. He has proved the singularity theorem and black hole area theorem of general relativity, and put forward the black hole evaporation theory and the boundless Hawking model of the universe. He has made an important step in unifying the two basic theories of physics in the 20th century, the theory of relativity founded by Einstein and the quantum mechanics founded by Planck. He is considered to follow Newton, One of the greatest scientists after Einstein!

Henry has a strong interest in the universe! So, for a scientist like Hawking, Henry might as well see him if he has time!

In addition to being a scientist, Hawking has another identity - "the prophet"! From "the destruction of the earth" to "the alien is not easy to be provoked", from "the brain can exist independently of the human body" to "artificial intelligence will eventually surpass human beings", this "prophecy emperor"'s judgment is always so shocking.

However, these things are very to Henry's taste.

In the theory of "the destruction of the earth", Hawking believes that war, the exhaustion of resources, overpopulation and so on are all expanding threats. Hawking even gives a clear time - the destruction of the earth in 1000 years. Therefore, he believes that human beings can not "put all their eggs in one basket" and can not bet on one planet. The only chance for human society to escape from future disasters is not on earth, but in space! And this coincides with Henry's idea!

Hawking, the prophet, even firmly affirmed the existence of aliens. Just think, the universe is so big, one earth can give birth to intelligent life, can't other planets give birth to intelligent life? The universe has a very large number of celestial bodies, in this base, there can be no alien life! Hawking warned human beings that if they "encounter aliens" in space, it's better to "don't talk to aliens", otherwise the consequences may be quite serious, because "aliens are not easy to provoke".

A scientist named forgon has developed a computer program to simulate the operation of various planetary systems, using a large amount of data about the mass, brightness and position of stars in the Milky way. Although it is impossible to determine the exact number of planets in the Milky way, the data of extrasolar planets found so far provide an important basis for the research of falgang. Then he used the program to simulate the conditions needed for a planetary system to nurture life and civilization. Through the simulation, it is found that there may be a large number of life civilizations in the galaxy, about 30000 to 40000.

In these civilizations, most of them belong to the simple bacterial life state. About 2000 of them are in the advanced life state. Among them, less than a few hundred extraterrestrial life have wisdom!

However, so far, human beings have not found any life civilization beyond the earth. But who dares to deny that there is no alien civilization? Henry is also convinced that there must be other life civilizations in the universe. One day, human beings will find them!

In the midsummer of London, the weather is extremely hot.

Cambridge University is located in Jianqiao Town, England. There is a small river called Jianhe river. This winding river is full of willows and luxuriant grass on both sides. Many bridges with exquisite design and beautiful appearance are erected on the river, among which math bridge, grey bridge and sigh bridge are the most famous. The classic buildings that roam along the Bank of Jianhe river are tall and exquisite school buildings, solemn churches and red brick houses full of green trees and red flowers. They are verdant and full of ancient flavor.

Henry and Princess Ulysses paddle a small wooden boat and pole on the Jianhe river. They enjoy the scenery of Cambridge University along the river and the world-famous backyard of Cambridge colleges.

After getting off the ship, they walked hand in hand in Cambridge University. Little is known about Henry's new looks, and Princess Ulysses is wearing black sunglasses and a white bow sun hat, so no one recognizes them. At this moment, many students and physicists have rushed to Cambridge University to listen to Hawking's speech.

Ten minutes later, Henry and Princess Ulysses arrived at the school of physical sciences at Cambridge University.

In a very large classroom, Hawking is skinny, head askew, looks a bit like "showing his teeth". He sat in a special wheelchair with a computer in front of him. He couldn't speak. Because of his illness, he lost his language function and could only give a speech through the computer voice synthesizer.

Now, the speech begins

"The journey of time is theoretically feasible," Hawking said from the podium. "I believe that human beings can open the door to the past and the shortcut to the future! I think there are at least three possible ways to travel in time and space in theory! "

"The first way is wormhole! For physicists, time tunnels may be wormholes. The wormhole is all around us, just too small to be seen by the naked eye. All things in the universe will appear small holes or cracks. This basic law also applies to time. There are also tiny cracks and gaps in time. The smaller gap between molecules and atoms is known as quantum bubbles, and wormholes exist in the "quantum bubble".

"The second way is black holes! Time is like a river, with different flow rates in different areas, which is the key to realize the journey to the future. According to Einstein's theory, time goes slower in some places and faster in others. When the spaceship accelerates in space, the passage of time will slow down for the spaceship astronauts. A black hole is a natural time machine, which can reduce the passage of time. If humans perform a five-year mission in a supermassive black hole, they will find that 10 years have passed when they return to earth... "

"The third way is to fly at the speed of light! If we can build a spaceship whose speed is close to the speed of light, then the spaceship will surely slow down the time in the cabin because it cannot violate the law of the fastest speed of light. The astronauts fly in this way for a week, and 100 years have passed on the earth, thus realizing the journey to the future. "

Hawking's words, people excited inexplicable, the audience can not help but applaud.

At this time, the synthetic voice of Hawking's computer rang again: "however, we must not use the time machine to go back to the past, because it will lead to the violation of the basic theory of causality! For example, if you go back to the past, then your parents or even yourself may not exist, because one space-time does not allow the existence of two you! "

Henry was shocked by the words. Don't you go back to the past through time and space? Doesn't this prove the feasibility of time travel? And the parents of the previous life and themselves do not exist... It seems that their previous life is falling into the pit... And the wormhole this big pit!

However, there will be no second chance of such a tiny chance. As for Hawking's three methods, it seems that they are illusory and impossible to be realistic.

In fact, Henry's meeting with Hawking this time is to recruit him into SpaceX. Hawking's scientific theory actually doesn't have much guidance for SpaceX. But Hawking's fame is what Henry valued most. If there is a big God in the scientific community, it will attract more scientists to join SpaceX.

On the other hand, Henry wants to study Hawking's brain... It is said that he can form various mental patterns and equations in his brain, and then use these mental elements to think about physical problems. His mental arithmetic ability can be regarded as an adverse one. Physicist Werner? Israel said that Hawking's thinking process is like Mozart's writing a whole symphony with unique characteristics only by imagination.

Of course, to study Hawking's brain, we must be right. Henry remembers that in 2005, Hawking's condition worsened. He could only use the movement of his cheek muscles to control his communication equipment, which could only output one word per minute. So Hawking is working with neuroscientists to develop a new system for computers to translate his brain wave patterns into words.

Henry and gene umbrella's research on brain waves is beyond imagination. We can study Hawking's brain in the name of helping him develop brain wave translation system, and see what's the difference between "the smartest brain"?

A little curiosity flashed in Henry's eyes. Is Hawking's brain better than mine?