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　　 Joseph showed excitement and greeted them all the time. But when facing Laplace, he couldn't help but clenched his fist quietly, and beat him up in his heart-this is also the problem that later generations of science and engineering students face on the test paper. Looking out the window helplessly, but just when I saw a meteor flying by, I would generally make a wish quickly.

Joseph didn’t have a chance to beat Laplace back then. Now this **** guy actually stood in front of him, but Joseph still couldn’t beat him up, so he could only greet him with great enthusiasm: "Mr. Laplace, I I’ve read some of your books and those things have inspired me a lot. I’m so lucky to be able to see you!” As he said, he stretched out both hands and held his hand, just like *President holds Like Macron's hand, he first squeezed hard, then slammed the opponent's hand to his side, pulling Laplace staggered and almost fell.

"Mr. Laplace, it's a great honor to meet you. I have a lot of questions I want to ask you, such as..." Joseph said while grinning on his posterior molars, With all his strength, he squeezed Laplace's hand with both hands.

"Ah...Mr. Bonaparte...Mr. Bonaparte... Are you really... or sit down first, then... slowly... talk slowly..." Laplace's right shoulder shrugged high. When he got up, he tried to pull his hand back while saying intermittently.

"Ah, Mr. Bonaparte, let's sit down and talk. You are too enthusiastic, you may hurt Pierre's hand." Seeing Joseph so enthusiastic, and Laplace was holding his hand, His face was a little deformed because of the pain, Lavoisier didn't realize he wanted to laugh, but he stopped Joseph.

"Huh?" Joseph was taken aback, quickly let go of Laplace's hand like an electric shock, and kept apologizing: "Mr. Laplace, I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry, seeing you, I really It’s so excited...it’s really...you are not injured, right..."

　　 Laplace moved his right hand for a moment, and then said: "Mr. Bonaparte, how can you have such a powerful force."

　　 "Pain and hatred gave me strength." Joseph thought so, but said, "I often help Father Jacques do carpentry work, so the strength in my hands may be a little bit stronger."

"That's not a little bigger." Laplace said, "but we are not discussing this issue now-you know, we saw your paper, Mr. Lavoisier and Mr. Condorcet The articles are very appreciated, but you know that your thesis is trying to overturn a theory that is universally supported and supported by many experimental phenomena. This is a big thing. Everyone thinks it is better to be cautious, so Mr. Lavoisier and Mr. Condorcet, and some other gentlemen would like to talk to you about some things about this paper..."

"To be honest," Condorcet said with a gentle smile at Joseph. "Mr. Bonaparte, this paper of yours is a high-level paper rarely seen in these years. If nothing else, just the paper. Those few mathematical tools in the book are enough to win the game for you. However, some people don’t agree with your conclusion. Well, at least Kulun and Monge don’t like your conclusion. They are coming On the way, maybe they will have a lot of questions for you. You need to be mentally prepared."

"Mr. Condorcet, you just call me Joseph." Joseph said, "I considered this question before writing this article. Honestly, when I came to this conclusion, I was also worried. I got it wrong. And I wrote this paper precisely to discuss this issue with others."

　　 "Haha, young people nowadays are really nice." Lavoisier said, "Joseph, do you mean you are ready? Well, you don't have to be nervous, actually..."

　　Only halfway through the words, I heard the door of the small living room being pushed open.

　　 Joseph saw a few more people coming in, so he hurriedly got up.

　　 The others also stood up. It was His Royal Highness Louis Philippe Joseph of Orleans who Joseph had seen him once in a café. Behind him were two men in military uniforms. One was older and looked about fifty years old; the other was slightly shorter, with a bronze face, a pair of thick eyebrows, and a pair of bright eyes.

　　 "His Royal Highness, why are you here too?" Condorcet said.

"Ah, Mr. Condorcet, I passed by here today. I originally came to visit Monge. After listening to him talk about things here, I found that the controversial Mr. Bonaparte seemed to be someone I knew. My little friend named Joseph came over and took a look. As a result... Joseph, it's really you." Duke Charlie said as he walked over, reached out, and took Joseph's hand. Laplace's eyes widened, staring at their hands, but...

"Ah, Joseph, the last time I met you, I thought we would have another playwright in France, but I did not expect to have one more mathematician. However, Mr. Monge does not seem to agree with some of your views. I want to discuss it with you. Of course, I don’t understand these things at all. I’m just to watch the excitement.” The Duke of Orleans let go of Joseph’s hand and said: “By the way, I’m here to introduce mine to you. Two friends."

He pointed to the older one and said, "This is Mr. Cullen. He is the authority on electricity." Then he pointed to the shorter, younger one and said, "This is Mr. Monge. He is Authority in geometry."

　　 Joseph hurried forward and greeted Cullen and Monge. Duke Charles found a chair by himself and sat down and said, "You know, I don’t know much about science, but I am very interested. Monge, you have a lot of questions to ask Joseph, now you can start. ."

Monge was a straightforward person. Hearing this, he immediately opened his mouth and said: "Mr. Bonaparte, in your paper, you believe that light is a transverse wave, and the mathematical derivation is impressive, but you should know that, Both Ren Hebo propagate in a medium. If light is really a wave, what characteristics are required for this medium, this light ether, have you thought about it?"

　　 Joseph was already prepared for this question, because in the historical development of later generations, various questions about the "light ether" were the main weapon used by supporters of particle theory to oppose the wave theory.

　　 "That's how I think about this question..." Joseph said.

　　 Joseph knew that the so-called "light ether" was abandoned by scientists in later generations. But at this time, he could not directly express that the ether does not exist, because it requires a lot of scientific discoveries and scientific experiments as the pre-foundation. Therefore, he can only use some of the conjectures of the supporters of the fluctuation theory to deal with the problem of Monge.

"Regarding the hardness of the ether, it also involves the speed of light. I envision an experiment that can be used to measure the speed of light more accurately. Considering that the earth is constantly moving, it should also be in constant motion relative to the ether. , Then the speed of light measured from different directions may be different..."

　　 "A more accurate way to measure the speed of light?" Condorcet became interested.

　　 "We use an eight-sided mirror that can rotate..." Joseph said. The method he said is the Michelson rotating prism method. It is a relatively simple method with good measurement accuracy.

　　 Joseph introduced the idea of ​​the experiment, took a piece of paper and a pen, and began to draw the design drawings of the equipment needed for the experiment.

　　 Joseph habitually used the three-sided projection diagram common in later generations to depict those devices. But when he saw the pictures he drew, Monge suddenly opened his eyes.

　　 "Mr. Bonaparte, where did you learn this drawing method?" Monge asked.

"Huh?" Joseph was taken aback. He originally thought that this drawing method should be a very common technique. At this time, when he heard Monge's question, he saw the extra serious expression on Monge's face, and he immediately realized So, maybe, in this era, this kind of drawing method has not appeared at all.

　　 "This is my own scribble. I think this drawing is more intuitive and easy to understand. What, is there a problem here?" Joseph said.

Monge thought for a while and replied: "Mr. Bonaparte, you may, no, you certainly don’t know. I started to use similar drawing methods almost 20 years ago. But because this drawing method is used in the military The meaning is very important-I think, UU reading www.uukanshu.com with your cleverness, it is not difficult to understand this, so this kind of drawing method is strictly confidential. It can only be taught in military academies, and all have learned Officers of these contents must swear an oath not to spread this technique outside. I said to the above that, maybe it won’t be long before others will independently study this similar technique, like Newton and Leib Nitz respectively invented the same calculus. However, since your drawing method is so similar to the secret drawing method, this result of yours may need to be kept secret. Mr. Bonaparte, your drawing method is not taught Give it to others?"

　　 "I only taught this technique to my brother Napoleon, who is now in the first grade at the Paris Military Academy. Well, his math is also good."

　　 "First grade, the first grade is still not in touch with descriptive geometry." Monri said, "Mr. Bonaparte, you have to remind him that this technique cannot be passed on."

　　 "Is there anything like this?" Duke Charlie became interested, "Monge, science should belong to all mankind. It's not good to keep it secret."

　　 "Duke, this is not what I meant. This is the decision of the Royal Government. I can only obey." Mengge replied. He turned to Joseph and said: "Mr. Bonaparte, this discovery should have brought you honor and status, but now you have to hide it. For France, this is a necessary sacrifice, and I hope you can understand it. "

　　 Joseph nodded and said, "I understand that although science knows no borders, scientists do have nationalities."

"Like Leibniz’s calculus and Newton’s calculus, there are still quite a few differences. Mr. Bonaparte, I think there should be some differences between your painting method and Monge’s painting method." Cullen suddenly said. "Can you tell us about your drawing method?"