Fox of France

　　 Before the sun came out the next day, Joseph habitually got up early. In this era, there is no internet, no games, not even electric lights, and ordinary people can't afford candles, or even oil lamps. At night it was pitch black. Joseph, who used to go to bed after eleven in his previous life, now has the habit of going to bed early and getting up early. In fact, people in this era are basically like this.

　　 Joseph got dressed, walked out of the door, and came to the courtyard of the church. At this time, the sun had not risen, and even the east had not revealed the white belly of the fish, half of the waning moon, and a few remaining stars were still hanging on the black velvety sky. It was already mid-December by this time, and it was already Xueyue in the later Republic. Although it is not snowing in Paris at this time, and it is still not particularly cold, there is already a layer of hoarfrost on the roof and courtyard in the early morning.

　　 A stout figure was cutting wood with an axe in the yard. Joseph knew that this was Father Jean Jacques. He exercises in this way every morning.

　　 "Father, good morning!" Joseph walked over.

　　 "Ah, Joseph, good morning." The priest threw the axe aside, stood up straight and smiled at Joseph, "Want to go out for a run?"

　　 "Yes, run around the church." Joseph replied, "After running twenty laps, you can just eat."

　　 "Ah, where's your brother?" Father Jean asked again.

"I got up too, washing my face, and in a moment he went out for a run with me. By the way, Father, we invite you to have a good lunch at noon. Nothing will happen this time. I promise!" Joseph was a little embarrassed. The way.

　　 "Okay! No problem!" asked Father Jacques.

　　 At this time, Napoleon also walked out from behind. His character was not as easy-going as Joseph, so he just nodded with Father Jean Jacques and followed Joseph out.

　　 The two ran along the road beside the church. Since Napoleon entered the military academy, although his height is still very short, his physical fitness has improved a lot. So he speeded up first, trying to get rid of Joseph in order to win.

　　 But Joseph didn't intend to make him happen.

　　 "With your short legs, you want to run ahead of me?" Joseph also increased his speed. After traveling to this era, Joseph knew that the level of medicine in this era was appallingly low. Even a small cold can kill a person at any time. Therefore, strengthening physical exercise and improving immunity have become Joseph's life-saving means. Although the Louis the Great School does not have high requirements for sports like the military academies, Joseph has never relaxed his physical exercises. Coupled with his long hands and feet, in terms of running, he is obviously superior to Napoleon in terms of congenital conditions. How could he let Napoleon, who had been suppressed by him, run ahead of him?

　　 So Joseph also increased his speed, and after only a few steps, he ran in front of Napoleon. Then Napoleon began to accelerate again...

"Damn... if it wasn't for your legs longer... this time..." Napoleon bent over, panting, and said intermittently, the rising sun will spray white mist from his mouth and nose Dyed light red.

　　 "You can't run but can't run...what's the use of making excuses...but...but defeating you this time...it's a lot more difficult than before..." Joseph replied, breathing heavily.

　　Yes, Joseph believes that he must be able to overwhelm Napoleon in as many ways as possible, not because he is eager to win, but because he has enough persuasive power to put the brakes on Napoleon in the future.

　　 "Okay, are you catching your breath?" Joseph said, "If catching your breath, I will tell you something."

　　 "I'm all right a long time ago." Napoleon stood up straight and said as he walked forward.

　　 "I just won the grand prize for the thesis." Joseph pretended to be calm and said, "The prize is six hundred francs, so at noon today, we can have a big meal to celebrate."

　　 "Did you win your thesis?" Napoleon was taken aback and stopped.

　　 "Of course, your eldest brother is out, are there any problems that can't be solved?" Joseph said quite proudly.

　　 "What did you write?" Napoleon asked, "Why did you win the prize instead of me?"

　　 "Because I may have overturned an argument of Sir Newton."

　　 "What? How could it be possible?!" Napoleon stared at Joseph with wide eyes, trying to see the joking expression on Joseph's face. He noticed, however, that only the disgusting smugness on Joseph's face.

　　 "I found a phenomenon that can be used to illustrate that the nature of light is closer to Hooke's view-it is a wave rather than a particle." Joseph replied.

　　 "It turned out to be just this." Napoleon said dismissively, "I thought you overturned the Three Laws."

　　 "The three laws can't be moved in a short time." Joseph shook his head.

　　 "Can't move in a short time?" Napoleon was surprised again, he shook his head, "You mean you have found the loopholes in the Three Laws, but there is no evidence to overthrow it for the time being?"

　　 "No." Joseph shook his head, "Where is there any obvious loophole in Sir Newton's Three Laws? I am just out of faith, and I don't want to believe it."

　　 "Out of faith? Isn't it because the Three Laws didn't leave room for God?"

　　 "No, it's not." Joseph shook his head, "I just can't accept complete fatalism. This kind of argument makes me feel that life has no meaning at all."

　　 "What does this have to do with fatalism?" Napoleon obviously did not react.

"Ah, my stupid brother. You really don't have the talent to become a university student." Joseph said, "According to Newton's three laws, we can regard the current state of the universe as its past effect and future cause. If a wise man Can know the forces of all natural motions and the positions of all natural objects at a certain moment. If he can also analyze these data, the motions of the largest objects to the smallest particles in the universe will be included in a simple formula. For this For a wise man, nothing will be ambiguous, and the future will only appear before him like the past. Everything is doomed, just like Oedipus facing that terrible prophecy, in any case, he can’t resist, because even he All of his resistance is just a doomed link. If I really believe in the Three Laws, what is the meaning of my life?"

　　 This statement is completely beyond Napoleon's expectations. He frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head and said: "For the time being, I haven't found the problem with your statement. But there must be a problem with this statement. Otherwise, this conclusion is really difficult... etc. Wait! Joseph, aren’t you a devout believer? Isn’t God the wise man? God is omniscient and omnipotent. But you can’t accept omniscience, you hypocrites.”

　　 Afterwards, Napoleon laughed haha, as if he was proud of catching his brother's problem.

　　 "These are two different things." Joseph said, "In addition, from your words, I smelled a smell of Calvin, you heresy!" Joseph also responded with a smile.

　　 Calvin is an important leader of Protestantism and an important supporter of determinism in philosophy and theology. France is the territory of Catholicism, and Calvin is heresy in the eyes of Catholicism. Now that Napoleon said that God's omniscience is predestination, Joseph turned back to sneer, saying that he was a Calvinist heresy.

　　 The two made fun of each other for a while, and then went back to church together.

　　 After breakfast, Joseph took a random test of Napoleon's study, and took out his award-winning paper for Napoleon to study seriously, and then showed him the two experiments involved.

　　 "I believe your point a little." Napoleon said, "Is there anything wrong with this conclusion?"

"Of course." Joseph replied, "Any wave needs a medium to propagate, but there are many questions about what the medium of light propagates. For example, the speed of light is very fast, although the exact value has yet to be measured. But there is no problem with being very fast. If you want to transmit a wave at such a fast speed, it means that its propagation medium should have a very large intensity. But we are here. Moving in a hard medium, I have never felt the resistance from the light ether. In short, there are many problems here, but I believe that with the deepening of research, this problem can eventually be solved, although it is solved The method may not be the same as we imagined."

　　 "It's a pity," Napoleon said, "Although I am very interested in it, I have to admit that at least for the time being I have no idea at all."

"My stupid brother, you have to know that everyone’s talents are different. Some people are born to be stronger in some aspects, but not in another aspect. For example, on mathematics and others. Natural sciences, I think you are mostly inferior to me, but maybe in other aspects, you might be better than me. For example, if there is a small hole and you can drill through it, I will probably not be able to drill through it. "

　　 Listening to Joseph's serious words before, Napoleon was still a little moved. To be honest, although he is pretentious and thinks he has a strong talent in mathematics and natural sciences, Napoleon is not a person who likes to deceive himself. Although he does not admit it, in his heart, he knows that he The talent in this aspect is indeed inferior to my brother, so it is indeed a little frustrating in many cases. Now the words in front of Joseph are really heartwarming, but who knows the sentence of drilling a dog hole after him, so angry that Napoleon really wants to beat him.

　　 "Joseph, you are really not a good thing." Napoleon said.

　　 "Haha..." Joseph smiled triumphantly, "In addition, considering the difference in our size, you must not be able to eat me when eating meat at noon."