The professor looks a lot thinner, his hair is all pale, and he looks older than his well-maintained peers.
Tang Rou looked at her mentor.
It’s been three years.
The professor's hypothesis once shaken the interests of some people and was forced to "go crazy". Tang Rou always knew that jumping into the ocean was Yamada's self-rescue. If caught by those people, he would only suffer torture.
Three years later, the consortium restored Professor Yamada's legal status.
I'm afraid there is something that the professor needs help with. Thinking more deeply, there may be a power change within the consortium.
In short, the world that the world sees is the world that those people want them to see.
After a brief return speech, the media came close to attacking the professor. They asked sharp questions one after another.
"Hello Professor Yamada, you said three years ago that there is another world under the sea. Do you still think so now?"
"Professor Yamada, have you seen reports of alien creatures attacking humans?"
"Professor Yamada, there have been frequent requests for help on the Internet recently. Some netizens claim that someone around them has gone crazy, or that a relative or friend has died mysteriously. What do you think?"
"Professor Yamada, could the giant alien creatures that appeared in the ocean some time ago come from the deep-sea alien world you mentioned?"
One question after another was thrown at the thin old man on the podium like a barrage of cannonballs. He had a kind look on his face. The atmosphere in the lecture hall of 1,000 people was heated, and people kept raising their hands to ask questions.
Across the vast sea of people, Tang Rou felt her mentor looking in her direction.
So she also raised her hand.
Yamada's gentle voice came through the microphone, "The long-haired classmate wearing a white top in the fifth row, section C."
Tang Rou stood up.
The lecture hall was quiet for a moment, and someone looked towards her, wanting to know what she planned to ask.
I could only hear her speaking clearly, facing the podium, "Professor Yamada, the otherworldly views you proposed three years ago tended to be theistic. Three years later, huge sea monsters really appeared in the world attacking cities. Some people think this is related to the overpopulation.
Do you think they exist in this world and mutate due to environmental pollution, or are they alien creatures that punish humans because they are disturbed by humans?"
The sea rabbit looked up at its owner, thoughtfully.
On the podium, Yamada's answer was a little strange.
He said, "God has given up on this place."
The whole place was in an uproar.
Tang Rou heard a few young college students in the front row whispering, "This old man won't be sick and he won't be well. I still respect him as a professor..."
"Why do you feel that he is still a little crazy? I didn't expect that a marine researcher who has followed science all his life has become so confused in old age."
"Haha, otherwise even Newton and Einstein would end up studying theology in their old age. Scientific theology takes different paths and leads to the same goal."
Tang Rou ignored those voices and continued to ask questions,
"Are you advocating theism?"
As a leading scientist in the field of marine research, if even he believes in theism, what will these students who believe in science do?
Yamada obviously also heard the discussion in the audience.
The reporter in the front row staring at the camera suddenly discovered that the mask-like smile on the old scholar's face slowly disappeared, and his expression became serious and sharp, regaining the look of the mad scientist three years ago.
It seemed that he finally reached the part he wanted to talk about. Yamada approached the microphone, and his gentle voice spread to every corner of the lecture hall with thousands of people.
"Dear students, what do you think the term "god" represents?"
god?
What can God represent?
Faith, a fictitious object for help, is the spiritual sustenance of human beings when facing unknown things.
It's fake, a figment of fantasy.
"God is indeed a concept given by people." Yamada nodded and admitted openly, "When people face unsolvable difficulties and vast and terrible natural disasters, their souls need a sustenance, so God appeared."
“This has been the case with the appearance of gods since ancient times. Whether it is the male and female thunderers imagined due to lightning and thunder in Eastern mythology, or the Olympus gods derived from Western Mediterranean mythology, most of them were due to the scientific knowledge at that time.
If you cannot explain the natural phenomena in reality, you will be named as a god."
The lecture hall finally became quieter.
It turns out that Professor Yamada is not crazy.
"Religion is a special ideology of society, and some of the things described in myths can indeed be traced."
His expression was clear and clear, and he looked at the faces below that were either young or mature.
"Human civilization is just a blink of an eye for this planet with a history of more than 4 billion years. Perhaps before this blink of an eye, other civilizations appeared on the earth, or... creatures from another latitude.
"
Some discussions started again.
Someone raised their hand, "So do you think that the sea monster that attacked the city some time ago was a creature from another latitude?"
Yamada answered ambiguously, "I guess what I mean is that 'gods' are creatures that exist in another latitude."
"You mean, does God really exist..."
Yamada suddenly changed the subject and started talking about middle school biology, "Students, you should all know why we can hear sounds, right?"
Someone below answered, "Because we have ear drums and can feel sound waves."
"Then why can I smell it?" Yamada continued to ask.
"Because of the nose, and the olfactory system."
"Then why can you see it?"
"Because of the retina, the eyeball is sensitive to light."
The professor smiled gently and said, "Yes, it seems everyone knows."
There was a sigh from the ground.
What's going on with Professor Yamada? Isn't this common knowledge in middle school biology classes? Why are you wasting time talking about this in lectures?
He took a sip of water and concluded on the podium,
"We can recognize colors because we have vision, we can smell different smells, we have the sense of smell, and we can taste the sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy because we have the sense of taste."
"We can feel everything in the world because we have the corresponding organs."
He put down the cup and suppressed the smile on his face, "Okay, now, let's talk about so-called cognition."
Tang Rou knew that Professor Yamada was not talking nonsense, and what he was going to talk about was not middle school biology.
"Cognition, only by knowing can we know." His voice was gentle and seemed to be filled with magic. "For snakes, there is no sound in the world because it has no hearing."
"For ants, there are no humans in this world because their vision is two-dimensional, with only length and width, but no height. Therefore, ants can never perceive three-dimensional creatures, such as humans."
"As humans with the widest range of activities in the world and standing at the top of the food chain, our kind are everywhere, even exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth. But in the eyes of ants, there are no humans in the world."
"Isn't it amazing? You can easily press it to death with your hands, sprinkle water on it, or accidentally step on it with your feet."
"But even if the ant dies, it won't realize that the person who killed it is a three-dimensional creature."
"We can see ants, but ants cannot see us. This is dimensionality and cognition. Earth-dimensional creatures can never feel the existence of higher-dimensional creatures."
Yamada cleared his throat loudly.
"In other words, if we can't feel the existence of so-called higher dimensions, could it be because we don't have the corresponding organs?"
Who said that theism must be unscientific?
Several students who said he was crazy were speechless.
"If we describe God as controlling wind and rain, or having great power, then in the eyes of ants, we are already gods."
"So, 'god' is just a noun." Professor Yamada suddenly changed the subject and looked at Tang Rou, "Now, let's go back to the question just now."
From a long distance away, Yamada's gentle yet sharp eyes behind her lenses were like ropes, strangling her almost to the point of suffocation.
"God has given up on this place."
The creatures above this dimension abandoned this planet, and disaster befell it.
Tang Rou had a feeling.
What the professor really wants to say is not so-called theism.
Rather, humanity is about to come to an end.
There was silence.
After an unknown amount of time, the female voice sounded again.
"So if they really come to this world, what should we do?"
Professor Yamada showed a gentle smile, and his soft voice filled the lecture hall where you could hear the drop of a needle.
"do nothing."
When encountering them, humans have no chance of winning.