Hao Guangyi was indeed well-prepared, and his words made everyone present look at this sloppy-looking great writer with admiration.
But after all is said and done, the factors in the writer's eyes are still divergent, full of wild imagination and many uncertainties.
Unlike writers, science pays attention to rigor, concreteness and practicality.
As a professor of applied physics, Tang Chunrong's knowledge and understanding of factors obviously cannot be as jumpy or exaggerated as Hao Guangyi's.
He would not believe that Yin Yi would appear at the meeting in human form, but Hao Guangyi's words gave him a lot of inspiration.
Especially the explanation about the "human Atlantis plot".
Tang Chunrong's thinking, which had been shackles of basic science for a long time, suddenly became enlightened. In an instant, he seemed to have seen through a lot of things, and he began to gradually understand the relationship between humans and gods.
Therefore, after Hao Guangyi finished speaking, Tang Chunrong jumped in front of Qi Xinlan and made the second speech.
The following content is the content of Tang Chunrong’s speech at the seminar.
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First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Hao Guangyi. Although many of the possibilities you proposed are extremely absurd under the current scientific cognitive perspective, I admire your imagination very much.
This is exactly what our contemporary scientific community lacks.
Especially the "Atlantis plot of mankind" you mentioned, and the "aboriginals rowing in the Milky Way" you said in the live broadcast yesterday.
These views are extremely ironic to us, but we have to admit that your irony is good and your irony is right!
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Does science require imagination?
Does science even exist?
This is the starting point for my exploration of factors.
When thinking about these two questions, I was very confused.
Because it's just like the pool table that appeared in "The Three-Body Problem" many years ago.
No matter how you move the pool table, the relative results are still certain and uniform.
Although the author later created the naughty ghost "Tomoko" and completely disrupted this order, the story is indeed thought-provoking.
This is like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, twenty-four hours a day.
None of this is set up to serve humanity.
It's just there, and humans have to adapt and get used to it.
Similarly, for the Trisolaran people mentioned in "The Three-Body Problem", their world has become chaotic because of the three perseverances. Maybe you stayed in the daylight for twelve hours today, and tomorrow there may be hundreds of years of darkness.
So, does science need imagination?
My answer is...
I am very sure of that.
And it is not limited to imagination, but also to curiosity, desire and other human needs.
Just like, we want to soar in the sky like birds, so we try our best to explore the secrets of bird flight, and then we discover the secrets of air flow. In order to reduce the weight of flying objects, we also discover many other things.
Material with high strength and light weight.
When modern aircraft are getting better and better, go back and watch the Wright brothers' first flight.
I found that over the years, we have only gotten better and better at the concept of "flying". No matter how many scientific and technological achievements we make, they are still inseparable from the original idea that may be ridiculed by countless people.
Imagine if we accepted the fact that we are land creatures and never imagined flying like a bird, would we still build airplanes?
Imagination is really important, and it should always be ahead of science so that we don't stagnate.
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Having said this, I would like to add an example and a character.
This person's name is Steve Jobs, and this example is one of the technological products of the previous generation - mobile phones.
Although we no longer go out with bulky mobile phones, we no longer have to worry about charging problems.
But before the birth of smartphones, what made Steve Jobs think of changing the interactive relationship between people and technological products?
What has restrained the development of smartphones, preventing them from undergoing disruptive changes for many years after their birth?
I think this is the result of imagination.
And true imagination is never about copying within a framework or even carefully crafting it, it has to jump out and unfold from a completely new angle.
Rather than just focusing on "is the screen big?" "is the response fast?" "is the battery life long?" and other derivatives that are limited to the original idea.
Look at the present through this example.
Our Thor-class battleship is dozens of times the size of the previous generation aircraft carrier, and it can fly. As the trump card of Thor-class battleships and above, the Sovereign has completed the interstellar navigation transformation and can already fly in the star system where Gaia is located.
Navigation within.
However, it still takes two hours for a Thor-class battleship to set off from Erub to Aisinvar, and it will take two centuries for the Sovereign to complete its tour of other planets in the entire star system where Gaia is located.
But whether it's two hours or two centuries, it's too long.
For us humans, the current life span basically does not allow us to have the luxury of witnessing the entire process of the Sovereign's departure and return.
At this time, as a primary school student in applied physics, I could only think of two solutions.
First, how to increase the engine power of the Sovereign battleship, and second, how to slow down the passage of time around the crew inside the spacecraft during warp speed navigation.
These two solutions are the most direct and realistic, but they both have the same problem.
That is relying on the foundation itself to remain unchanged.
This is like, we want to write an article, but we only give you an A4 paper. Under this constraint, if you want to write more, you can only make full use of the space of this A4 paper. There are basically only two things you can do.
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One is to refine the words, and the other is to write the words small enough.
But when you rely on this foundation to do your best, an innocent but imaginative child will ask you.
Why don't you go find more paper?
More paper?
yes……
If there was more paper, why should I be confined to such a small space?
So we stopped writing and began to search for materials used to make paper in nature, until later we discovered silicon crystals, discovered Yi Yuanzi, and discovered a super "super" that is only the size of a grain of rice but can store all the books and documents in the world.
Paper”!
So, does the Sovereign have its own super paper?
After we have devoted all our efforts to develop new engines and have broken through neutron fission, neutron fusion, and neutron distortion one by one, can we be complacent and think that our efforts are worthy of appreciation?!
Before today, I thought that Miss Vers was also here. In the past, I was willing to praise her without hesitation, but today I want to say sorry to Miss Vers.
Your efforts are a waste of time!
Even if you could build an engine to propel Gaia,
No matter what, time is still the only measuring stick.
Without breaking away from this framework, no matter how big or powerful the engine is, it is impossible for any of us to return to the earth, even if it is frozen and dormant, because the voyage of the universe is too long, and there is no eternal life and God like the "Father".
For a pilot with a strong will, returning to Earth will always be just a concept.
so……
Imagination is really important, I already had a premonition! Maybe Yi Zi is that innocent child, he can sing "Planting the Sun" without feeling how terrible the song is, because he just wants to spread sunshine all over the world.
What we need is this pure power of imagining.
So...can the neutron warp engine be replaced by the "time engine"?
Can we build a machine that can use time as fuel, and in the moment that time is omitted, we can jump directly from Gaia to the earth with just two scissors?
Or even jump further afield?
Then we can build Doraemon's star gate and turn the universe into mankind's back garden?
I think this is possible.
Because when we decided to look for more paper, it was obvious that we didn’t know where the silicon crystal was at the beginning and what Yi Yuanzi was. It was this exploration power based on imagination that allowed us to develop and find more
Lots of paper.
so……
Although I am engaged in applied physics, I also realized that if human beings want to transcend, they must first dare to think.
Because what’s scary is not that you can’t do it, but that you don’t even have the courage to imagine it.
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You may be wondering, I mentioned that science requires imagination, but does this have anything to do with factors?
I think it is related, because I said that the factor may be the child. It is not a certain substance or a specific thing as we think of it. It is a child used to warn us that we should put down the pen first.
Think about how to create more paper.
And if you still don't understand what I mean, that's okay, because what I'm going to say is.
Does science really exist?
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In fact, it’s not just everyone here.
When this question comes up, I feel like I'm crazy.
I only think about this issue if I am mentally ill.
I am engaged in physics research and application! Everything designed by my team can be directly put into public life.
But I actually doubt whether science exists?
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Am I sick?
Maybe……
Science is just a word that represents human understanding and cognition of order.
When order exists, it is sacred and cannot be profaned.
But what if order does not exist?
For example, what about the riot that broke out among the Shenqi clan ten years ago?
Assume that our universe is a super sequence core, and our order is just a series of written source codes.
So what is our science?
Is it truth or source code?
The meaning of truth is that it cannot be changed by any external force. It is eternal, a wall that no one can climb over, and an absolute power.
And if science is just source code, that means that what you and I do today is just a run of a programmed program.
My past is not gone, it can be reversed.
My future is predictable because it has already been planned.