Chapter 201 Ordinary people can also be scientists in ancient times
These people are all professors from the Royal Institute of Technology, that is, Lin Hui, Wei Qingxin and a few others.
Why can they communicate easily with Li Xuan?
Just listen to the title they call Li Xuan. They all call them teacher...
Because these few professors at the Royal Institute of Technology can be regarded as Li Xuan's real students. They were all taught by Li Xuan himself in the early years. Even if they no longer teach directly, they often consult and discuss with Li Xuan.
Some academic issues.
Li Xuan himself is not a scientist, but he was a person who received formal education for sixteen years in his previous life. At the same time, he was still in the era of information explosion, and he still knew a lot of things in his mind, even if many things were just superficial and superficial.
But Li Xuan stands on the shoulders of countless giant scientists. The superficial knowledge he knows, even the things that are just common sense to him personally, are the top science in this era.
Because the common sense that ordinary people in later generations have taken for granted was researched with painstaking efforts by countless forefathers of scientists.
And this common sense, a little bit of knowledge, plus the few memories I learned when I was in school, and what I have preserved now, are enough to inspire super geniuses like Wei Qingxin!
For scientists, all kinds of research are often about blind people trying to find an answer from countless possibilities.
But Li Xuan often tells them the answer directly...
For example, before Wei Qingxin's electromagnetic unified theory was developed, Li Xuan asked people from the Royal Institute of Technology to start working on generators and telegraphs.
Another example is airships and the like. Li Xuan told them a long time ago not to bother, use hydrogen first, and then try to use helium.
There were many other things, and Li Xuan directly told them the answers, and many of the projects and experiments at the Royal Institute of Technology were actually based on inferring these answers.
Thus, a complete set of complete theories can be established.
So don’t think that an ordinary person in ancient times couldn’t promote scientific development because he didn’t understand many things.
In fact, the impact is huge!
For example, many people know about magnifying glasses. It’s okay if you don’t know about them. You should know about glasses. There must be many people around you wearing glasses.
Through this thing, you can know that concave and convex lenses can refract light.
If it doesn't work, then take a step back and pour water into a glass. Then look through the glass filled with water. Do you think the scene is different? Then put the chopsticks in, and you will find that the chopsticks look like...
It's the same as if it breaks out of thin air, or if you are too lazy to put your chopsticks and just put your fingers in to see, it will have the same effect...
No matter which one of the above, you can find a phenomenon: when light is incident obliquely from one transparent medium into another transparent medium, the direction of propagation will generally change. This phenomenon is called refraction of light.
For us ordinary people, knowing this principle is useless.
But for a super genius like Professor Wei Qingxin, it is of great use.
How should I put it? Ordinary people’s brains are not that flexible, but their brains are very flexible. When you say that light can be refracted, they may immediately think of using this thing to build a super telescope to observe the center of the universe...
Because the refraction of light can be extended into a telescope, a microscope, etc., the telescope can be extended into an astronomical telescope, and then it can be used to observe various celestial objects, and then extend into astronomy.
A microscope can observe the microscopic world, and then you can see various microorganisms, which then extends to the entire subject of microbiology.
After discovering bacteria, we can further observe and understand that most human diseases are caused by microorganisms such as various bacteria. If we study deeply enough, we can also find viruses...
Even if we change the angle, for example, everyone will catch a cold. Anyone with a little common sense knows that it is a bacterial invasion. Now that we know that it is a germ, we can study the microscope in reverse, and then observe and find the bacteria, which can also be further extended.
Microbiology as a whole.
So don’t underestimate the knowledge reserve of any normal person living in the era of Internet information explosion in the 21st century!
Take anyone out at random, including you and me, and put it in the scientific barbaric era of the 16th century. They are all a combination of Edison, Einstein, Newton and other scientists!
Of course, the premise is that you only use your mouth, not your hands and your brain...
Just say a few words casually like Li Xuan to give Wei Qingxin and the others some inspiration. It's a bit nonsense if you really ask Li Xuan to mess with things like steam engines, internal combustion engines, telegraphs, etc.
After all, Li Xuan knows the interaction force and the lift of the airplane. It doesn't mean that Li Xuan can build the airplane...
Therefore, Li Xuan established the Royal Institute of Technology early because he needed a lot of talented scientists to re-establish a complete scientific system under his guidance.
Professor Wei Qingxin is the leader among these people.
These outstanding leaders often chatted with Li Xuan about academic issues. Li Xuan did not treat them as courtiers, but more often treated them as contemporary students, and sometimes even treated them as friends.
We treat them as students because we are friendly, and treat them as friends simply because whether they are Wei Qingxin or Lin Hui, these students of Li Xuan are all the same kind of people.
They all have super high IQs and are obsessed with science. In order to study science, they generally don't pay much attention to or even care about external affairs.
This does not mean that they have low emotional intelligence or lack of understanding of the world, but that other people are too stupid to keep up with their thinking.
This is like a normal person living in a group of monkeys. This person will not talk nonsense to the monkeys, but the other monkeys think you are stupid or even crazy...
In fact, these few of them also have normal worldliness, but they rarely or are too lazy to show it to ordinary people.
They don't care about ordinary worldly affairs, or they don't care, which makes Wei Qingxin and others difficult to get along with outsiders.
But Li Xuan now likes to communicate with these students, because this way Li Xuan can easily discuss only technical issues with them without having to consider political issues, because they don't care about political issues at all!
It’s not that they don’t understand political issues, in fact most of them see it more clearly.
It’s just that they don’t care or pay attention!
What they care about is the nature of the universe and what they pursue is the truth of the universe.
In fact, if they had not always maintained a high level of concern and enthusiasm for science, they would not have been able to achieve these achievements.
The Tang Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions, and there are actually many people with superior IQs. With the genius selection system of the Tang Dynasty, some so-called supernatural powers with superior IQs appear in every place every year. Speaking of which, each of them has a high IQ, but in the end they can
Not many are admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology.