Deep Space Fleet

Facing the energetic and well-known old professor in front of him, Zhang Yuan felt a little nervous.

Let alone other miscellaneous titles, the title of "Scholar of Mathematics" is enough to scare ordinary people to death.

academician!

Professor Wang's main research direction is professional, that is, motivation theory, one of the most difficult subjects. Motive is a product of the promotion of Galois group theory in high dimensions, and was later accidentally discovered to have a mysterious connection with quantum field theory.

The Langlands program and the research on motivation theory are the two major mainstreams of mathematics at present. The Langlands program attempts to unify number theory, algebraic geometry, and groups, while motive theory attempts to unify the discrete and the continuous.

They are called the front and back of a coin.

A mathematician once predicted: "When human beings truly complete these two frameworks, the world of mathematics will usher in a true unification. All mathematical problems can be solved using these two big theories."

It sounds bluffing, but humans may never complete this step. The progress of the Langlands program is still so-so. After hundreds of years of research, humans have developed geometric Langlands, p-adic Langlands and so on. But with regard to motivation theory, because of its high abstraction, it has become the self-talk of some mathematicians, and even peer review has become very difficult, so the development speed is extremely slow.

Undoubtedly, Wang Zhong is one of the top mathematicians. The structure of hybrid motive was proposed by Professor Wang, which caused a huge sensation at that time.

In the past, I often heard my father mention his mentor, and his tone was full of respect, so Zhang Yuan just stopped by to visit the elders, but he had no other ideas.

He even brought a small gift, which is a local product of Donghua City - Donghua ham. Although it seems a bit weird now.

"What university did you graduate from?"

"Big Z." Zhang Yuan answered honestly.

"Big Z..." Wang Zhong frowned, slightly dissatisfied in his heart. Although Z University is the third-ranked university in the Xia Kingdom, it is still slightly behind the top two. In the eyes of an old man like him, a good student has to go to the first two schools...

"Are you an aerospace volunteer too?"

"Yes."

"Very good, inheriting your father's ambition." Wang Zhong nodded, quite satisfied with this.

If it wasn't for him being too old to live for a few years, he must be one of the 500,000 people to experience the life of interstellar travel.

"What are your plans for the future?" Professor Wang picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly.

"There are still 19 days of vacation. I plan to read books in the library for a while. After boarding the spaceship, I hope to find a mentor and complete my master's and doctoral studies..."

"It would be good to learn a little more knowledge. Which research direction do you want to pursue?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan smiled embarrassedly: "I like to study mathematics, but restarting a civilization requires a lot of practical talents, so I still plan to do engineering research, such as informatics...well, mainly mathematics And space engineering."

Wang Zhong is a professor of science. Science despises engineering, and engineering despises liberal arts. This has always been a chain of academic contempt.

This is determined according to the simplicity of water thesis. It is relatively difficult to teach water thesis in science. No matter what, you have to be a little innovative, right? As for the liberal arts, it's not easy to write a dissertation. What film and television majors, acting majors, specializing in parallel PhDs...

When his father switched from mathematics to aerospace mechanics, Wang Zhong lost his temper, thinking that switching to engineering was "too utilitarian".

Sure enough, Wang Zhong frowned again and remained silent for a while. But because it was the first conversation, the two were not familiar with each other, and he didn't say much.

"Have you found a mentor yet?"

"Not yet. After boarding the spaceship, there is an exam. I hope I can get a high score..." Zhang Yuan said very modestly.

"..."

In Wang Zhong's eyes, he was naturally a little bit wrong.

"Earth Times" is just a big spaceship. Even with sufficient preparations, the resources and output in the spaceship are still limited. Most of the crew's time inside will be spent in hibernation.

If you want to restart civilization on a strange planet, knowledge reserve and technical level are the most important. Therefore, the various experts and scholars in the spaceship naturally control more resources and have greater authority.

These well-known experts and scholars also have a limited number of places to recruit students. Being their students, of course, has more benefits than ordinary skilled workers, which is equivalent to a kind of "backstage".

Now, it was as if Zhang Yuan knew that he could not get a high score in the exam and was begging him to open the back door, trying to find a good tutor through Wang Zhong.

He frowned and asked, "What kind of mentor do you want?"

Zhang Yuan was stunned, and said casually: "Of course, the better the better, the one like my father is the best!"

Wang Zhong felt even more unhappy, and looked at the "Donghua Ham" on the table.

With his many years of teaching experience, a person who wants to rely on his father's relationship to get through the back door, don't think about it, he must be a scumbag!

If not, I, Wang Zhong, will eat this ham alive!

Instead of looking in the mirror to see what you are...

If you want the best tutor, you have to think about whether you are worthy of it!

The way he looked at Zhang Yuan became a little unfriendly.

...

Wang Zhong is not the kind of person who doesn't understand the world at all, and taking care of the son of his favorite disciple is actually not a big deal.

But when it comes to the "Earth Times", it seems to touch his sensitive point, which makes him very anxious.

Because the "Earth Era" is an independent society, once it is launched, the earth civilization can no longer interfere with it. Aside from those messy external factors such as Dyson spheres and supernovas, this huge project actually has another internal factor.

It's a carnival for idealists on Earth!

A great social experiment!

When Professor Qi Yuanshan, the "Father of Nuclear Fusion", established the "Deep Space Foundation", he also established a new school called the "New Civilization School".

The New Civilization School believes that the development of civilization is like biological evolution, which can only be repaired on the basis of the original, and there is no way to completely overturn it and start over. As a result, the history, culture and ideology that have been produced will have a profound impact on future development.

This effect can be both good and bad, and cannot be drastically changed by simple fixes. Just like the growth of a person, once the world view is finalized, it will be completely fixed.

Therefore, some old historical burdens will become burdens in development.

The New Civilization School once raised a question: Earth civilization has not yet been integrated to form a unified country, why?

The answer is simple.

First, human beings have no way to give up vested rights and interests. If several countries are united with each other, the leaders of certain small countries will have to step down, and a large number of class interests will need to be redistributed, and those with vested interests are unwilling.

To give a simple example: At present, the spacing of railroad tracks is not uniform all over the world.

Unifying the track spacing not only involves political factors, but also involves various economic issues. Replacing the old rails requires money. Who will pay for the money?

Since no one wants to come out, it can only be delayed.

I don't know how long it will take to delay such a simple question as "the distance between rail tracks", let alone other complicated interests.

Second, in history, the gap between countries is difficult to repair, and ethnic hatred and ethnic conflicts still exist to this day. After the Third World War and the Fourth World War, except for the slightly better East Asia region, there are still new and old hatreds and small-scale frictions in other places. The poorer the place, the greater the conflict. .

They are also unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future.

And third, many countries are not even worth supporting and saving.

In some countries, dictatorship + bureaucratic capitalism; in some countries, all people take drugs, and they export them to the world, even the government has been hijacked by black hands; in some countries, the people are lazy, they would rather let the fruit fall on the ground than go Excerpt; There are also countries where the whole people believe in religion... Global ideological chaos cannot be saved by a mere great man or a big country.

In a word, the "New Civilization School" believes that since the current earth civilization cannot be unified, it cannot be unified in the future either. Even if unification is forced, there will be more messy contradictions, which are determined by comprehensive factors such as history and culture.

Therefore, the "Earth Age" is a great attempt of the new civilization school.

It tries to use the physical distance to discard all the dross in human history, trying to build a stronger, unified, united new civilization with the same ideology of all people!

It's like when the father finds out that he has no hope in the future, he pins everything on the little baby.

Once this more powerful new civilization succeeds, there will be a certain probability that it will reversely affect the original earth civilization.

This is the plan that Mr. Qi Yuanshan made at the beginning.

A great... 10,000-year plan!

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(About motivation theory, Grothendieck's dream, he wants to establish a "universal" cohomology theory (universal cohomology theory), called motivation theory. Anyway, motivation appears in mathematics, and the word motivation is known to be very powerful and Very abstract.)

(In the future, there will be some mathematics and science fiction content, and you don’t need to know a lot, just know that there is such a thing.)