The road to technology

Chapter 819 A wave of basic mathematics
"What?! Going now?" Colonel Weber was taken aback. Why did he go again not long after he came back? Isn't it the window period?

He looked at Dr. Banks, expecting her to say something, but Dr. Banks' reaction disappointed him.

On the contrary, Gary Donnelly said with some concern: "It's only been two hours since the last contact. I think it's best to wait. Our personnel are tired, and Abbott and Coslot also need to rest."

As he said that, he looked at Louise Banks' haggard face, and seeing her look like she had lost all her SAN value, he immediately showed a worried look.

"If you don't want to go, just stay here, old merchant, let's go." Yue Yuanzhou took a deep look at the two of them, turned his head and left.

These two people should have something to do with the original plot, and they might still be key characters, but Yue Yuanzhou didn't care, he thought aliens were the key, and he didn't have any purpose in coming here.

"Good sir." Shang Shaojian followed up.

"Two wait a moment!"

Seeing this, Colonel Weber hurriedly spoke out, but found that the two of them turned a deaf ear and continued to move forward. He said decisively, "Damn it! God bless us, let's go too! Hurry up!"

He will not allow someone to contact aliens alone without his sight, because he can't guarantee that it will not be detrimental to the United States.

The staff in the temporary tent office heard Colonel Weber's words and hurried to prepare.

"We'll go too, Gary," said Dr. Banks.

In the end, after a while of panic, the few people finally hurried to catch up.

Outside the tent is a wide field, and the end of the field of vision is a stretch of mountains. Due to the obvious temperature difference between the two sides of the mountains, the humid air forms a flowing cloud on the top of the mountains, covering the mountains, and pouring down from the other side to this side , and the spaceship of the heptapod stopped in the thick fog.

This time, Yue Yuanzhou finally observed the suspended spaceship seriously. He was not in a hurry to go up, but stood not far from the spaceship and began to detect it on a regular level.

"Who are you? Mister, do you know what's going on with their hovering?" Shang Shaojian, who followed closely behind, asked in confusion.

"Assessing their technological level."

Yue Yuanzhou withdrew his blinking eyes and continued: "As I thought, this is a space locking technology. They firmly rivet the spaceship on the space. It's not bad, but you don't have to worry, it hasn't shaken the Xia community yet. the point."

After speaking, Yue Yuanzhou quickened his pace, and Shang Shaojian, who is now the peak of human beings, also strode to keep up.

At this time, there was a truck engine beeping behind him.

Weber and the others finally caught up, along with two Hummers and a scissor lift platform.

"Stupid United Nations commissioner, if you don't have a lifting platform, why don't you go up there for me!" Seeing that the two people in front hadn't gone up yet, Weber was secretly pleased, and sitting in the co-pilot's seat, he turned his head and told the driver: "Slow down!" Click on it and let them dry for a while."

"Good sir!"

The driver was also happy to see this, but before he could slow down, he heard Colonel Weber yelling in a hurry: "Hurry up, hurry up, let me go there as soon as possible!"

"Oh my God, what did I just see?" Louise exclaimed from the other car, as she saw the two fly up.

"It must have been done by aliens! Do you still remember the change in the direction of gravity after we entered the spacecraft? Louise, it seems that we should pass by soon. It is not good news for aliens to treat us differently from them. .”

Physicist Gary Donnelly made up his own brain, and then stepped on the accelerator, the tires of the Hummer immediately rolled up a burst of grass, and then quickly rushed towards the alien spacecraft.

A physicist and a linguist, together with Colonel Weber and an anti-camera, they hurried to the bottom of the spaceship, but found that the aliens did not suck themselves up, so they could only take the scissor lift , wait for the alien spaceship in the same way as before.

This time, Louise's group of four moved much faster than before, so it wasn't too late for them to come.

When the four of them came to the mirror they were familiar with, they found that Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian had only stood there for a while, because they found that Abbott and Coslot had just come out.

"Abbot, Coslot." Louise excitedly called out their names when she saw the two heptapods appear.

The two heptapods seemed happy to see her, and responded in the same way.

I saw a crease on the top of the heptapod on the right trembled, followed by a short vibrating sound like splashing water droplets.

"Okay, since we're here, let's watch from the side." Yue Yuanzhou said at this time.

Hearing this, Shang Shaojian turned around and made a gesture of please to Louise who had just arrived, which meant to ask them to push away and not interfere with what Yue Yuanzhou was going to do next.

"Mr. Shang, I think this is the first time you have come into contact with Abbott and Cosslot. The language of the heptapod is very different from English. I think you need me to act as a translator." Louise did not retreat, Instead, argue.

"No need, I told you to watch, you just watch." Shang Shaojian refused.

This kind of answer undoubtedly made Louise very upset. After all, she had done so much work in the early stage, but due to the identities of the two of them, she just had to hold back for the time being.

"Louise, let's see what he does first!" Gary, who was behind at this moment, stretched out his hand and pulled her, said softly.

"Well, I hope they don't mess things up." Louise expressed her concerns, and then watched quietly.

Colonel Webb on the side leaned over to Louise at this time and said, "Dr. Banks, I need to know their conversation to prevent uncontrollable things, and you are the only one who can speak Chinese here, I hope you can understand. "

Wei Bo was obviously afraid that he would not understand Yue Yuanzhou's Chinese. His worry was justified, because Yue Yuanzhou really spoke Chinese to the two heptapods.

But he only said one sentence, and the way was a bit special, because he was not just a simple voice. "This is the mathematical description of human beings, how about you?"

While Yue Yuanzhou was speaking, a projection screen appeared in front of him. Inside the screen was a 36m transparent water container. A point B was clearly marked in the water in the container, and a point light source appeared in the air outside the container.

While everyone was stunned, the point light source emitted a beam of light in an instant, passing through the interface between air and water into the water, and then passing through the marked points in the water.

Then, the dotted lines representing other light paths appear, and that is the theoretical lines, but the refracted light is always shown by the realization from the beginning to the end.

At the same time, next to the projection screen, mathematical formulas appeared in the air out of thin air, and suddenly the empty space was filled with a series of formulas.

Since Hemold had used this to communicate with the heptapod before, and the various symbols of these mathematical formulas corresponded one-to-one with the symbols in the image, the two heptapods quickly understood the meaning.

Maybe these heptapods are indeed basic mathematics, so they quickly responded, several ink-colored circles were sprayed out, and then fixed on the viewing mirror.

Yue Yuanzhou was not in a hurry to interpret their answers, but continued to use mathematics to communicate.

This is because although Yue Yuanzhou obtained a lot of information from Dr. Banks and the information about human beings' contact with the heptapod during this period, these materials are far from satisfying the normal communication with the heptapod.

Now that the heptapod understands what it means, it will be easy to handle. Continue to use mathematics to communicate until you understand the mathematical system of the heptapod, and then use mathematics to correspond and demonstrate various physical phenomena in the real world. Know more about the corresponding meanings of the heptapod characters.

Now it is basically confirmed that the most basic mathematics of the heptapod is the most difficult thing for human beings, so Yue Yuanzhou plans to show them some proofs of mathematical conjectures in the next step.

Various mathematical formulas such as calculus and variable calculus, as well as mathematical descriptions such as Goldbach's conjecture, Hooch's conjecture, Poincare's conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Yang-Mills existence and quality gaps.

Since these heptapods think that mathematics that is difficult for humans is easy, Yue Yuanzhou decided to give them a wave of "basic mathematics".

(End of this chapter)