Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 20: New Civilization School
Facing the energetic, well-known old professor in front of him, Zhang Yuan felt a little nervous.
Don't talk about other miscellaneous titles, just a title of "math academician" is enough to scare ordinary people to death.
Academician !
Professor Wang's main research direction is professional, that is, motivation theory, one of the most difficult subjects. Motive is a high-dimensional promotion of Galois group theory, and was later accidentally discovered to have a mysterious connection with quantum field theory.
The Langlands Program and the study of motive theory are currently the two mainstream mathematics. The Langlands Program attempts to unify number theory, algebraic geometry, and groups, while the motive theory tries to unify discrete and continuous.
They are called the front and back of a coin.
Mathematicians once predicted that: "When human beings truly complete these two frameworks, the mathematics world will usher in a real unification. All mathematical problems can be solved by these two major theories."
sounds bluff, but humans may never make this step. The progress of the Langlands Program is still so-so. After hundreds of years of research, mankind has developed geometric Langlands, p-adic Langlands and so on. But regarding motive theory, because of its super high degree of abstraction, it has become the self-talk of some mathematicians, and it has become very difficult to comment on it, so the speed of development is also extremely slow.
There is no doubt that Wang Zhong is one of the top mathematicians. The structure of the hybrid motive was proposed by Professor Wang, which caused a huge sensation at the time.
I used to hear my father mention his teacher, and his tone was full of respect, so Zhang Yuan stopped by to visit his elders, but he had no other thoughts.
He even brought a small gift, which is Donghua Ham, a local specialty of Donghua City. Although it looks a little weird now.
"Which university did you graduate from?"
"Z is big." Zhang Yuan answered honestly.
"Z is big..." Wang Zhong frowned, slightly dissatisfied. Although Z University is Xia Guo's third-ranked university, it is still slightly behind the top two. In the eyes of old people like him, good students have to go to the first two schools...
"Are you also an aerospace volunteer?"
"Yes."
"Very good, inherited your father's ambition." Wang Zhong nodded, which is quite satisfactory.
If it weren't for him to be older and unable to live for a few years, he must also be one of the 500,000 people to experience the life of interstellar travel.
"What are your plans in the future?" Professor Wang picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"There are still 19 days of vacation. I am going to read books in the library for a while. After boarding the spaceship, I hope to find a tutor to complete my master's and doctoral studies..."
"Learn a little more knowledge, it's good, which direction do you want to pursue?"
At this point, Zhang Yuan smiled embarrassedly: "I like learning mathematics, but restarting a civilization requires a lot of practical talents, so I still plan to engage in engineering research, such as informatics... um, Mainly mathematics and space engineering."
Wang Zhong is a professor of science, science despise engineering, engineering despise liberal arts, this is a consistent chain of academic contempt.
This is determined by the simplicity of the water essay. It is relatively difficult to teach water essays in science. How can it be a little innovative? As for liberal arts, it’s not too easy to dissertate water. What is the major of film and television, the major of acting, and the doctor of parallel imports......
When his father switched from mathematics to space mechanics, Wang Zhong also lost his temper, thinking that the act of transferring to engineering was "too utilitarian."
As expected, Wang Zhong's brows frowned again, and he was silent for a while. But because it was the first conversation, the two were not familiar with each other, and he didn't make much remarks.
"Has the mentor been found?"
"Not yet, I have to take an exam after boarding the spacecraft, I hope I can get a high score..." Zhang Yuan said very modestly.
"……"
In Wang Zhong's eyes, he naturally wanted to get crooked.
"Earth Age" is just a large spacecraft. Even with sufficient preparations, the resources and output in the spacecraft are still limited. Most of the crew's time inside will be spent in hibernation.
To restart civilization on an unfamiliar planet, knowledge reserves and technical standards are the most important. Therefore, the experts and scholars in the spacecraft naturally control more resources and have greater authority.
These well-known experts and scholars have limited enrollment of students. Being their students, of course, has more benefits than ordinary skilled workers, which is equivalent to a kind of "backstage."
Now, it's as if Zhang Yuan knows that he can't get a high score and is begging him to open the back door, trying to find a good mentor through his Wang Zhong.
he frowned and asked: "What kind of mentor do you want?"
Zhang Yuan was taken aback, and said casually: "Of course the better the better, the best like my father!"
Wang Zhong felt even more unhappy, and looked at the "Donghua Ham" on the table.
With his many years of teaching experience, a person who wants to rely on his father to get through the back door, don’t think about it, he must be a scumbag!
If not, I, Wang Zhong, will eat this ham alive!
Don’t look in the mirror to see what you are...
If you want the best tutor, you have to think about whether you are worthy of it!
The look in his eyes towards Zhang Yuan became a little uncomfortable.
……
Wang Zhong is not the kind of person who is incomprehensible at all. He is proud of his disciple’s son, and if he takes care of him a little, it can’t be said to be a big deal.
But when it comes to the "Earth Age", it seems to touch his sensitive points, making him very anxious.
Because the "Earth Age" is an independent society, once it is launched, earth civilization can no longer interfere with it. Throw away those messy things, such as Dyson balls, supernovas and other external factors. In fact, there is another internal cause for this huge project.
It is the carnival of idealists on earth!
A great social experiment!
When Professor Qi Yuanshan, the "Father of Nuclear Fusion," established the "Deep Space Foundation," he also established a new school called the "New Civilization School."
The New Civilization School believes that the development of civilization is like biological evolution, which can only be repaired on the original basis, and there is no way to completely overthrow it and start over. As a result, the history, culture, and ideology that were once produced will have a profound impact on future development.
This kind of influence has good and bad, and it cannot be changed drastically by simple repairs. Just like human growth, once the world outlook is finalized, it will be completely fixed.
Therefore, some old historical baggage will become a burden in development.
The New Civilization School once asked a question: The earth civilization has not been integrated to form a unified country, why?
The answer is simple.
First, human beings cannot give up their vested rights and interests. If several countries are unified with each other, the leaders of certain small countries will have to step down, and a large number of class interests will have to be redistributed. Those with vested interests are unwilling.
A simple example: At present, the distance between rails in the world is not uniform.
Unifying the track spacing involves not only political factors, but also various economic issues. It takes money to replace the old railroad tracks. Who will pay for the money?
Since no one wants to come out, so I can only drag it.
Light a "railway pitch", such a simple issue, I don’t know how long it will be delayed, let alone other complicated interests.
Second, in history, the gap between nations is difficult to repair, ethnic hatred, and racial conflicts still exist today. After the third and fourth wars, except for the slightly better area of East Asia, there are still new and old hatreds and small-scale frictions in other places. The poorer the place, the greater the conflict. .
In the foreseeable future, they are unlikely to disappear.
There is a third, many countries are not even worth supporting and saving.
In some countries, dictatorship + bureaucratic capitalism; in some countries, the whole people take drugs, and they also export to the world~IndoMTL.com~ even the government has been held hostage by black hands; in some countries, the whole people are lazy, they would rather let the fruit If you fall on the ground, you won’t be picked; in other countries, the whole people believe in religion...The chaos of global ideology cannot be saved by a mere great man or a big country.
In a word, the "New Civilization School" believes that since the current earth civilization cannot be unified, it will not be unified in the future. Even if unification is forced, there will be more chaotic contradictions, which are determined by comprehensive factors such as history and culture.
Therefore, the "Earth Age" is a great attempt by the New Civilization School.
It is trying to use the physical distance to abandon all the dross in human history, trying to build a stronger, unified, and united new civilization with the same ideology of the whole people!
is like when the old man finds that he has no hope in the future, he puts everything on the baby.
This stronger new civilization, once it succeeds, there will be a certain probability that it will in turn affect the original earth civilization.
This is the plan that Mr. Qi Yuanshan made at the beginning.
A great... Ten Thousand Years Plan!
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(Regarding motive theory, Grothendieck’s dream, he wants to establish a "universal" cohomology theory (universalcohomology theory), called motivetheory. Anyway, there are words like motive and motivic in mathematics. Very abstract.)
(There will be some mathematics and science fiction in the future, you don’t need to know a lot, just know that there is such a thing.)