Into Unscientific Chapter 294

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On the table.

  Wheat was sneakily eating boiled sea bass, his whole body was numb by the pepper, and he was a little suspicious of life, as if he was speaking Parseltongue.

  After hearing Xu Yun's words, he quickly put down his chopsticks, quickly picked up the eggnog and took a big gulp, suppressing the taste.

   After finishing these, he began to think about Xu Yun's question.

   "Future plans."

   He scratched his head lightly, looked at Xu Yun and said:

   "Mr. Luo Feng, my original plan was to get a scholarship first, and try to stay in school as a teaching assistant after graduation to accumulate some experience."

   "When I have enough qualifications, I will return to Scotland to be a professor. I will pay off the family's debts within three or four years, and then see if there is a chance to start a family."

   Lao Tang, who was sitting across from him, noticed a word keenly, and couldn't help raising his eyelids to look at him:

   "Original plan? Now you have changed your mind?"

  Mait nodded slightly and remained silent for a few seconds, with a hint of confusion in his eyes:

   "It's not really a change of mind, but some don't know what to choose."

   "Mr. Faraday actually approached me these days and proposed the idea of ​​accepting me as a graduate student."

   "It takes time to go to graduate school—as short as two years, as long as four years. In this way, my family's debts will be difficult to repay."

  Xu Yun glanced at him lightly.

  Wheat's father, John Clerk Maxwell, was a lawyer, but more than ten years ago, he almost used up all his savings in order to treat his mother's tuberculosis.

   But unfortunately, wheat's mother eventually passed away.

   Later, his father, Lao Mai, suffered another big loss in the flour business, and owed a large amount of money outside.

   Xu Yun didn't know the exact amount, but it took eight years for the historical wheat to help pay off the money.

   Therefore, Mai's wallet has not been very big all the time.

  The core reason why Wheat returned to Scotland to teach at Marishal College in 1856 was that they gave too much

  At that time, Cambridge paid Wheat 4.5 pounds a week, which was 18 pounds a month, equivalent to the current purchasing power of about 16,000 monthly salary.

  The University of Glasgow gave a weekly salary of £5 during the trial period and £7 during the regularization period.

   And Marishal College

   In one breath, I got a weekly salary of 12 pounds, which is 48 pounds a month.

   This is just like the Huaxia, Middle East, and Eagles major leagues in later generations spend a lot of money poaching people, relying on money to poach more people.

  Some people in later generations think that it is a waste of time for Mai to spend four years at Marishal College, but they ignore the dilemma of Mai's urgent need for money.

  Scientists are also human beings, and they also need to be well-fed.

  If it comes to the national level, it may be supported by awareness and belief, but personal career is undoubtedly much more realistic.

   Then looking at the somewhat confused Mai, Xu Yun put the fork on the table and asked:

   "Maxwell, would you go to graduate school if you didn't think about debt?"

   "Of course I would."

  Wheat gave an affirmative answer without hesitation, and there was even light in his eyes:

   "I originally thought that I would go on the path of pure theoretical mathematics in this life, but until now I discovered that the electromagnetic world is countless times more mysterious than theoretical mathematics!"

   "For example, Professor Gauss gave me several volumes of manuscripts more than a week ago, which described a system other than Euclidean geometry, which I found to be equally important for electromagnetic research."

   ".Wait a minute, Maxwell!"

  Wheat hadn't finished speaking yet, Riemann on the side suddenly interrupted him, and asked solemnly:

   "Student Maxwell, you said that Mr. Gauss gave you several volumes of manuscripts, which recorded mathematical systems other than Euclidean geometry?"

  Wheat nodded, not aware of Riemann's subtle expression, but said to himself:

   "Didn't I find the companion star when I was looking for Conan's star before? I did a little favor to Professor Gauss."

   "Later, he chatted with me for a few days, and sent me a few volumes of manuscripts a few days ago."

   "In one of the manuscripts, Professor Gauss's guess about this system is recorded. At first, he named it Star Geometry, but later changed it to Non-Euclidean Geometry."

   "In my opinion, Professor Gauss's manuscript is much more complete than Mr. Lobachevsky's theory, but it is a pity that it has not been made public"

   Riemann listened quietly to his narration, was silent for a long time, and suddenly sighed with emotion:

   "Student Maxwell, from now on, I may call you junior."

   Wheat:

   Seeing that wheat was a little confused, Riemann took the initiative to explain:

   "Student Maxwell, you may not know it. The concept of non-Euclidean geometry is so powerful that it is easily refuted by public opinion."

   "Therefore, the teacher has not announced his results to the public."

   "Although there are sporadic people who have heard that the teacher is doing research on non-Euclidean geometry, the only ones who have actually seen the manuscript are our own disciples, and there are no more than five of them."

   After saying this, Riemann looked closer to Mai:

   "The teacher's health has not been very good in recent years. After you graduate from undergraduate, I'm afraid I won't have the energy to take you to graduate school."

   "But since he handed over this manuscript to you, in a sense, I can indeed call you junior."

  After listening to Riemann's words, Xiaomai's face was obviously stunned.

  This. What's the situation?

   When Gauss gave him these manuscripts, the original words were clearly "some insignificant research results".

  How did it get into Riemann's mouth, and it became a top-secret document that can only be read by disciples?

  He is a student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He just talked and laughed with Gauss a few times. How did he become a student of the professor at the University of Göttingen?

   Would you like to talk to Professor Gauss and ask him to hire another Gao Ming?

  Wheat and Riemann looked at each other in such a daze, unaware that Xu Yun beside him had already fallen into a greater shock than them.

  Mom!

   Non-Euclidean geometry!

  Gauss actually gave this to Xiaomai? ? ?

   Well known.

  In the long history of human science, many far-reaching works have been born.

  For example, there are "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" and "Nine Chapters of Suan Shu" in the East.

  For example, the West has "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", "Spiral" and so on.

  And if you talk about the book with the longest plan for establishing spatial order, then "Elements of Geometry" is undoubtedly the most recommended.

  This book establishes the famous Euclidean geometry system, which can be called a cornerstone work in the history of mathematics.

  Euclidean geometry has dominated the mathematics world for two thousand years after it was proposed, and no one can shake its authority.

But on the other hand.

  Euclidean geometry is invincible in terms of system, but some details have always been controversial.

   Such as its fifth axiom.

  The content of this axiom is as follows:

  A straight line intersects two other straight lines in the same plane. If the sum of the two interior angles on a certain side is less than two right angles, the two straight lines intersect on this side after being infinitely extended.

  The fifth axiom is less obvious due to the lengthy textual description.

   So some mathematicians came up with an idea:

  Can the fifth axiom be regarded as a theorem instead of an axiom?

   Can the fifth axiom be proved by relying on other axioms?

  This is the discussion of the "parallel line theory" that has been debated for more than two thousand years in the history of geometry development.

  Swiss geometer and mathematician Lambert, famous French mathematicians Legendre and Lagrange, etc., have all spent a lot of energy on this problem.

   Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.

  This question is like a paper man's wife.

   Ruthlessly consumes the otaku's tissues without giving them any real love.

   This situation continued until the early 19th century, and finally someone stood up:

  He is the Russian mathematician Lobachevsky.

  His thinking is completely different from his predecessors, inheriting the fine tradition of Mao Xiong, and boldly thinking about the opposite formulation of this question:

   Is there a possibility that there is no proof of the fifth postulate at all?

  So then.

  He conducted research along this line of thought, and set out to seek an answer to the unprovability of the fifth postulate.

  The first thing he does is to negate the fifth postulate.

   That is, it is assumed that "through a point outside the straight line on the plane, at least two straight lines can be drawn that do not intersect with the known straight line".

   Then use this negative proposition and other axioms and postulates to form a new axiom system, and carry out logical deduction from this.

  Finally, during the deduction process, he got a series of weird data.

   But surprisingly.

   After careful review by Barochevsky, he did not find any logical contradictions between them.

  So Lobachevsky boldly asserted:

  This new axiom system that "there is no contradiction in the result" can constitute a new geometry.

  Its logical completeness and rigor can be compared with Euclidean geometry, and the existence of this new geometry without contradiction is the rebuttal of the fifth postulate of provability.

   is the logical proof of the unprovability of the fifth postulate.

  Because the prototype and analogues of the real world of the new geometry have not yet been found, Lobachevsky cautiously called this new geometry "imaginary geometry".

   Lobachevsky chose to publish this theory in 1826, and then

  He was sprayed into the heart of a certain neon man by public opinion, with holes everywhere, and he was completely bruised.

  Because this theory really challenged the cognition at the time, it is as outrageous as a banana in later generations saying that it will explode for a week.

   It wasn't until 12 years after Lobachevsky's death, that is, in 1866, that non-Euclidean geometry was successfully overturned.

  Lobachevsky's experience looks like wheat at first glance, but in fact he is much worse than wheat:

   Wheat later served as the first director of the Cavendish Laboratory, but Lobachevsky suffered from multiple suppressions for 30 years.

  Although he entered the German Academy of Sciences, the allowance was only received once in the name of condolence money in the second month after his death, which is embarrassing.

   Compared with Lobachevsky, there is a big guy who discovered non-Euclidean geometry, which is much more chicken thief.

  He is Gauss.

  Gauss discovered non-Euclidean geometry many years earlier than Lobachevsky, and the related theoretical system is much more perfect than that constructed by Lobachevsky.

  But Gauss was very aware of the impact this new system would cause, so his cautious thinking once again took the high point, and he did not choose to disclose his theory.

   It was not until after Gauss' death that these contents were discovered from the manuscript.

   By the way.

  Along with these manuscripts, there are more than a dozen methods of algebraic proof

  The originals of these manuscripts are now in the Dransfeld Gauss Museum, 10 kilometers southwest of Göttingen, and the official website of the University of Göttingen can find scanned copies for download.

  However, what caused Xu Yun's complicated mood was not that Gauss gave the manuscripts to Maimai, but the subsequent impact of these manuscripts.

   Mentioned earlier.

  The Mavericks of this timeline independently completed the establishment of calculus, and Leibniz lost an honor that was recorded in history.

   After becoming famous, Maverick worked as Professor Lucas at Cambridge University for decades, so Cambridge University has the deepest background in calculus in Europe.

   At the same time.

  Wheat, as the ultimate metamorphosis capable of deriving Maxwell's equations, is one of the future leaders of the Department of Mathematics, and his achievements in differential topological manifolds are naturally not low.

  And friends who have studied big objects and advanced mathematics in later generations should know it.

   Differential manifolds plus non-Euclidean geometry, this is the theory of Riemannian geometry

  Don't worry, it's not over yet.

To know.

  Xu Yun had already figured out the thing about electromagnetic waves during the opening ceremony.

  With the derived wave equation, it can be said that the core of electrodynamics has almost been constructed by him.

  Earlier, he wrote to the Mavericks to mention some mistakes in the absolute space-time concept.

Oh, right.

   There is also the rotating mirror method optimized by Xu Yun when he was tinkering with the distance measurement of the speed of light. It is estimated that the Michelson-Morley experiment can be started seven or eight years earlier.

   That is to say.

  When Maimai was about forty years old, this would appear on his skill bar:

  Electrodynamics + Riemannian geometry + differential geometry + photoelectric effect + the first dark cloud are all working together

   Well known.

  Using the constant c invariant to carry out logical deduction, the variable of space-time is obtained.

   That is to say

  When Wheat was forty years old, he already had the conditions, tools, and ideas to deduce the theory of relativity.

  It's hard to tell if it's someone else, but this guy is Maxwell

  He could not deduce the theory of relativity before the age of forty-five, so Xu Yun ate that ax on the spot!

all in all.

  The things that Xu Yun did before are equivalent to piled up a mountain of gunpowder, which looks amazing, but without a source of fire, it is just a pile of powder.

  The manuscript that Gauss threw to Maimai was a match.

  Gauss seems to be just throwing lightly, but the consequences of it

  Riemann can still be supported by Riemann's conjecture, and the old love will have to scold her for guessing.

Of course.

  With Lao Ai's ability, with predecessors like Mai Mai setting the stage, maybe even more astonishing results will be created.

   At worst, if you can see your old love in the future, try to ensure that his brain will not be sliced ​​and compensated.

  Think here.

  Xu Yun couldn't help taking a deep breath, raised his head, and said to Mai:

   "Student Maxwell, you must study carefully the manuscript that Professor Gauss gave you, it may bring you some unexpected gains."

   "As for your studies. I still think you should follow Mr. Faraday to study in graduate school. There may be other solutions to the debt."

   After finishing speaking, he swept the dining table lightly.

  Since there are other people present today, some words are not suitable for him to say.

  As the great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren of later generations of wheat.

  Xu Yun didn't say everything about Mai Mai's life experience, at least he knew all the key points.

  So a long time ago, he was preparing for the life of wheat after he left.

   After all, the core of this mission is to change the fate of Xiaomai and Laotang.

   Now that the fate of Lao Tang has changed, there are two patches that must be applied to the fate of Wheat.

   The first one is naturally the stomach trouble of wheat.

  The cause of Mai Mai's untimely death was stomach cancer. His poor eating habits caused him to suffer from extremely serious stomach problems, and he died young at the age of 48.

  There is no specific medicine for gastric cancer these days, but Mai Mai is only 20 years old now. If he maintains his eating habits well, there is basically no possibility of recurrence of gastric cancer.

  In addition to this, the second patch is wheat's wallet.

  Xu Yun has arranged some backhands for Wheat, and these backhands may not be able to make Wheat a wealthy man like Cavendish.

   But at least he can do academics with peace of mind, easily afford some experimental losses, and live comfortably for the rest of his life.

   Then Xu Yun stood up.

  I went back to my bed and found a blank notebook, and returned to my seat with paper and pen:

   "Come on, Maxwell, write down your life plan, don't make it too long."

  Wheat took the paper and pen, pondered for a moment, and wrote a sentence on it:

  【Go to graduate school after graduation, the goal is to stay in school to teach, and become a nominee for the Copley Medal】—James Clerk Maxwell.

   Copley Medal.

  This is a medal established by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Before the establishment of the Nobel Prize, it was listed as the two highest honors in the world along with the Academy Essay Award of the Gallic Academy of Sciences.

   Compared with Riemann's goal, wheat's expectations are obviously a little higher.

  But if you compare the status of the two before their lives, it is Riemann who milked himself in reverse:

  Riemann became famous four years later, but Wheat went low after graduation.

  It is indeed a pity that a master who derived Maxwell's equations did not win the Copley Medal.

   Then Xu Yun took the note and thought about it, handed it to Hubert Ayrie, and said:

   "Student Airy, it's up to you next."

  Ari took the note and turned to a page, and wrote a paragraph neatly.

   After he finishes writing.

  Xu Yun took the note and read it aloud:

   "Graduated successfully, succeeding father as director of the Royal Observatory?"

  Ai Li hummed to Xu Yun, with a relaxed expression, and said with a smile:

  “I grew up in the Royal Observatory since I was a child, and I have a deep affection for it. It can even be said to be my second home.”

   "So my plan is very simple, that is, to become the real master of that family and help my father solve some troubles."

  Xu Yun nodded slightly.

  Hubert Ally's goals are neither high nor low, and there is nothing particularly eye-catching.

  Using the analogy of the situation in later generations, it is probably equivalent to a top student at Shuimu University who wants to become the director of the Purple Mountain Observatory.

  Hubert Alley's potential is obviously sufficient, but Xu Yun is not sure whether this dream has been realized in the original history—he is really not very familiar with Hubert Alley.

  If it weren't for his surname and the fact that Airy was isolated when they met, Xu Yun would never have thought about George Biddle Airy at all.

  However, considering that George Biddle Alley later became the president of the Royal Society, the possibility of Hubert Alley realizing his expectations should not be low.

   Then Xu Yun looked around again, took a few steps to the side, and handed the notebook to Kirchhoff.

  He is not that close to the German, so he has a little bit of a place in terms of ranking:

  The fourth person after Riemann, Wheat and Hubert Alley should not make him think of being underestimated.

  I saw this electrician who hadn't yet grown a beard took the notebook, tried a pen in the blank area, and quickly began to write words.

   After half a minute.

  Kirchhoff returned the notebook to Xu Yun.

  Xu Yun took it and glanced at it for a few times, and read it with some difficulty—because Kirchhoff wrote in German.

  Written expressions of German are somewhat similar to English, but most of them are the same as English letters, and the difference is not as big as that of spoken English.

   But the problem is

  Germans like to use cursive writing, which looks like prescriptions written by doctors of later generations, which adds a lot of difficulty.

  Xu Yun's translation template did not come with a fine-tuning function, so it took him some effort to see the content clearly.

   "Become as great a physicist as your teacher William Weber, then."

   While reading, Xu Yun suddenly froze.

   He glanced quietly at Kirchhoff, who was sitting upright, and continued to read:

  “. Marry a wife who is over 165 in height, fair-skinned and beautiful, with no freckles on her face, and four innocent children.”

  Hearing this, the eyes of everyone on the scene looking at Kirchhoff immediately became strange:

   Even Tian Haosuo, a shy boy who kept his head down, looked at Kirchhoff curiously.

   I didn't expect you to be this kind of person.jpg.

  Thanks to this electrician's handsome appearance, otherwise, in later generations, he would be labeled as a Puxin male in minutes.

   But then again.

  Perhaps it is also the inertia of history.

  In the original timeline.

  Kirchhoff did write such a paragraph in his letter with Bunsen, and later he actually gave birth to four children.

   By the way.

  The fourth grandson of Kirchhoff's four sons, became a member of the Arsenal board at the age of 44

how to say.

  Some things are really metaphysical, and you can't accept it.

   After Kirchhoff finished writing his notebook.

  Xu Yun glanced at the remaining three, Lao Tang, Tian Haosuo, and Avelyn.

   pondered for a moment.

  Choose to put the notebook in front of Tian Haosuo, and said:

   "Brother Hao, it's your turn."

  Tian Haosuo was a little surprised by Xu Yun's actions, and pointed to himself in surprise:

   "Huh? Brother Luo Feng, do I want to write too?"

  Xu Yun nodded, put the pen in front of him with a rattling sound:

"please."

  Tian Haosuo quickly glanced at everyone on the table, his shy character made him blush again.

  But in the end he picked up the pen and began to write seriously in the notebook.

   Five minutes later.

  He put down the pen carefully, and handed the notebook back to Xu Yun with both hands:

   "I finished writing, Brother Luo Feng."

  Xu Yun also took the notebook with both hands, and slowly flipped through it.

   Tian Hao also wrote in English. After all, he grew up in London since he was a child, otherwise he would not be able to keep up with the teaching progress of Cambridge.

  However, compared with other people, Tian Haosuo's handwriting is still a little crooked:

   "Be a businessman with a property, save money to cure my mother's rheumatism, move out of the slums, not be bullied by others, and live in a house that does not leak."

   "If I can have a child, I hope he can also enter Cambridge University and return to the East with my ashes after I die."

  Xu Yun slowly finished reading Tian Hao's note, and sighed leisurely.

  The content of the note is a bit heavy, so the expressions of everyone present are very solemn, but there is not much touch in the eyes.

  Only Sylph raised her head and gave Tian Haosuo a weak look.

  Xu Yun was not surprised by everyone's reaction.

  After all, apart from Tian Haosuo himself, all the other adults on the scene basically did not experience too miserable childhood:

  For example, Lao Tang's family is a Scottish farmer, and his family is quite wealthy. When he was ten years old, he could fully enroll in the preparatory course of Douglas University.

   Hubert Alley is about the same.

  Although his father's reputation has been ups and downs, but the position of director of the Royal Observatory has never been shifted, and the living conditions are still very good.

  Riemann's father is a Lutheran pastor. These days the pastor may not be very rich, but he must not be poor.

  Kirchhoff's grandfather was a professor at Heidelberg University, and his father opened a carriage dealer, which had nothing to do with poverty.

   Not to mention Avelyn.

  Although the family has died a bit, she can inherit the dividends from the Escu family on tomato sauce

  True rich woman.

   So on the spot today.

   Except for Xu Yun, the only one who can really empathize with Tian Hao is Sylph, the orphan who escaped from the den of thieves.

  Think here.

   Xu Yun sighed again.

  Among all the people who have written today, Tian Haosuo is the only one who did not mention academic goals.

  His idea is pure:

  Graduate, earn money, move.

   But again.

  He is also the one who touched Xu Yun the most.

  His expectations were realistic and humble.

  His requirement for the house is not spacious and luxurious, but just a leak-proof house.

   Isn't this the thinking of many people in later generations?

   I don't know why.

  Looking at the crooked words on the note, Xu Yun suddenly thought of Du Fu's poem:

  There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, which shelters the poor and the poor in the world, and is as safe as a mountain without being affected by wind and rain.

   Then he shook his head, temporarily dispelling the heaviness in his heart.

  He walked up to Lao Tang with a notebook and said to him:

   "Mr. Thomson, it's your turn."

  Lao Tang has always been a very open-minded person. He nodded after taking the paper and pen, and immediately began to write.

  In less than half a minute, he put down his pen:

"All right."

  Xu Yun picked up the notebook and saw that the content on it was very short:

   "Canonized as a lord, became the president of the Royal Society, and occupied at least two pages in the chronicle."

   Well, this is old soup.

  Lao Tang's personality and Mai Mai's personality can be called two extremes, Mai Mai is shy and honest, while Lao Tang is relatively flamboyant and ambitious.

  He never hides his pursuit of power, even if he is not afraid to compete with others.

  The Apostle Club competed with Rossetti for power, and the school ran against Ellis for the president of the Student Union. Even though they knew that they would lose the election and would drop out of school, they did not back down.

  The life plan he wrote is actually equivalent to an enlarged version of the achievements in school.

   Now that he has become the president of the Cambridge University Students' Union, he is indeed qualified to say what the above said.

   On the other hand.

  The content written by Lao Tang is also the plan that is most in line with his own direction in the real timeline among all people.

  In the original history.

  Lao Tang was indeed knighted in 1866 and promoted to Lord Kelvin in 1892.

  He also served as President of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1895, and the achievement of the photothermodynamic temperature scale is enough for him to occupy two pages in the annals.

  In addition, Lao Tang lived to be 83 years old, with a full house of children and grandchildren.

   Finally passed away peacefully on December 17, 1907. After his death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, enjoying the highest level of funeral treatment in the UK.

no doubt.

  Lao Tang's life was quite successful and brilliant, and it can even be said to be a textbook-like template.

   And in this copy right now.

  Lao Tang's only "stain" was snatched away by Earl Ellis, and he can have his name cleared for life after death.

   Hiss. Is this tmd the protagonist?

  Then Xu Yun opened another page in his notebook and walked to the .

  Aveline's side.

  He gently placed the notebook in front of Avelyn and said:

   "It's your turn, classmate Avelyn."

   Avelyn looked up at him, took the paper and pen generously, and began to write on it.

  Perhaps because of her heart and soul, Avelyn wrote faster than Lao Tang.

   After a short while.

  She handed the written notebook to Xu Yun and said:

"All right."

  Xu Yun nodded to her and took the notebook.

   After seeing the content above, he was stunned.

  I saw a sentence on the page of the notebook:

  【Go to the East once in ten years, and visit Hujian, the hometown of Mr. Fat Fish】.

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