"Except for Shen Jian and Yang Wen, do you know the other people just now?" Zhang Zhong asked Chen Qing on the way back.
Chen Qing shook his head, "I'm not very familiar with them. From Yang Wen's introduction, they are all relatively famous people in the film and television industry."
"It's useless to ask you." Zhang Chong said with a smile. Chen Qing is a workaholic now. He should have been a top student in the past and didn't watch too much TV.
"I will pay attention to collecting their information later. When Yang Wen introduced them just now, I had already memorized them all," Chen Qing said.
Zhang Zhong said helplessly, "I just asked casually, so you don't need to take it seriously."
"Yeah." Chen Qing nodded, but he still wanted to go back and find out the information about those people just now.
"Chen Qing, do you think there are aliens?" Zhang Zhong looked up at the starry sky and suddenly asked.
Chen Qing didn't know why the boss suddenly asked this. After thinking about it, he said uncertainly, "There should be."
Zhang Zhong asked again: "Have you ever heard of the Fermi Paradox?"
"Fermi Paradox?" Chen Qing shook his head, "I've never heard of it."
Zhang Zhong explained, “In the 1950s, when Nobel laureate Fermi was discussing aliens, he suddenly asked, ‘Where are they?’, and this simple question led to scientific The topic is the Fermi Paradox. If aliens exist, then they have evolved much earlier than humans and should have arrived on starfish and existed somewhere."
"So the Fermi Paradox denies the existence of aliens?"
"That's not entirely true. The Fermi Paradox is a question that has no answer yet. Different people have different understandings, and it's a bit complicated to talk about." Zhang Zhong raised his head again and looked at the starry night sky. , "It's a good night tonight. We should be able to see more than two thousand stars from our direction, and this number is about one hundred billionth of the number of stars in the Milky Way."
"There are 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and there are almost the same number of galaxies in the observable universe. Do you know what this means? It means that the number of stars in the observable universe is about 10 to 22 Between the third and the twenty-fourth power, and the sand on the starfish is only about 7.510 to the 18th power. Calculated, the number of stars can reach 10,000 times that of the sand on the starfish..."
Chen Qing was a little confused when he heard this. He had never thought about these things, let alone the fact that there were many times more stars in the universe than the sand on starfish.
Zhang Zhong did not stop and continued to tell Chen Qing various conjectures and hypotheses about the existence or non-existence of aliens.
In fact, Zhang Zhong only talked about some basic scientific knowledge, and these basic scientific knowledge are no longer applicable to Zhang Zhong.
Because he once visited a place called Earth that was almost exactly the same as a starfish, and he was not even sure whether that place was the same as the universe he was in now.
"Perhaps, only after aliens are discovered and life is completely different from humans can today's human beings understand the shock that people felt when the heliocentric theory was spoken."
Finally, Zhang Zhong made a concluding sigh.
He rambled on for twenty or thirty minutes, and all this was because he had just raised his head and glanced at the starry sky and felt something. However, the only one who could listen to his ramble now was Chen Qing. This guy is still in a state of ignorance.
"Let's go and have a good sleep tonight."
…
After Firmino finished breakfast, he went to the study room. On the desk were two books he bought online yesterday, namely "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "The Three-Body Problem".
As a well-known science fiction film director, the books he reads most are naturally science fiction novels.
So what he read the most this year was PZ's novels, but the high-intensity work some time ago left him too distracted, so he didn't have time to read Zhang Zhong's two recent novels.
Now that the busy work is over, he decided to calm down and read these two books - no, it should be one. He can only read one now because "The Three-Body Problem" has not been released in English yet, and the one in front of him is from China.
Chinese version sent by mail.
He had no choice but to watch "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" first.
It didn't take long for Firmino to finish reading the novel.
But after reading the novel, he was left with many questions in his mind.
What is the standard that distinguishes human beings from androids? Is it the test of living spinal cord? When humans can control their emotions through emotion regulators, when feelings and thoughts can be quantified as command strings input into machines, and even when humans have a sense of self-identity.
As times change, how should humans prove themselves?
Also, do androids dream of electric sheep?
Although according to the book, the answer can be that I will not dream, but after reading it, Firmino felt that the answer should be that I will dream.
This is a science fiction novel with wasteland culture, and pz is indeed a genius.
But Firmino is a director after all, so after reading the novel, he also reviewed the novel from the perspective of film and television adaptation. The final answer is that although this novel is wonderful, if a movie is made based on the novel,
I'm afraid it's not very exciting.
He is a director, so he naturally knows what the audience of the movie wants to see. There is only one male protagonist in the book, not even a female protagonist, and the protagonist's wife does not seem to have any feelings for him.
This reminded him of PZ's previous book "The Wandering Sea Ball", in which the description of love was also so cold and impersonal.
Sometimes Firmino even suspects that PZ himself is a cold-blooded man.
Of course, there is evidence against this speculation. For example, the love between the male and female protagonists in "Flowers for Algernon" is quite touching.
If "The Bionic Man" is to be made into a movie, more elements of love should be added. Firmino believes that love is also an important factor that distinguishes humans and androids, and it can be directly presented in movie scenes, although it is very cliché.
But very practical.
And if there was to be a heroine, he thought the female android named Li Qiu would be pretty good, and the protagonist seemed to have some feelings for her...
Zhang Zhong didn't know that far away across the ocean, a film director was trying to figure out how to adapt "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" into a movie.
At this moment, he had just gotten up. He went to bed surprisingly early last night and fell asleep in bed at around nine o'clock. He didn't even receive a call from Peng Peng.
Zhang Zhong laughed when he turned on his phone and saw the message in the morning. Pengpeng's work had passed the preliminary selection, which meant that it had passed the municipal level and was about to compete at the provincial level.
This is not easy. Although Jiangyang, as the provincial capital city, has 50 quotas, 20 more than other cities, Jiangyang has a large population and high competition pressure. It is already very good to be among the top 50.