I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 787 The Field Research of the Second Coming to the Great Desert, and the Dirac Medal
Early morning, the city of Arada.

Qin Ke opened the window of the hotel room, and the morning breeze was blowing in his face. He could clearly feel that the remaining coolness in the night air was fading away, and in the distance, he could faintly see a layer of yellow dust distorting the air flow over the desert. .

Fortunately, although Alada City is close to the Taklamakan Desert, it also has a typical desert climate, with a large temperature difference between day and night, but it is much better than the hinterland of the desert. At least the climate is not so extreme. Otherwise, at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, I am afraid that there will be a heat wave It's coming.

Ning Qingyun also walked to the window. She was wearing a pure white short-sleeved T-shirt, a light UV-resistant smock, and a pair of light green cropped shorts, revealing half of her slender, beautifully curved calf. Coupled with white sneakers, it looks extremely refreshing.

It's just that Ning Qingyun's expression was a little dignified at this time.

She frowned slightly and said: "Although there is no serious El Niño phenomenon this summer, the temperature in inland areas, especially in the north, has successively broken through record highs. The highest temperature in many places has reached above 40°C. I just checked, Ala The temperature in Dashi in recent days is also 1.5°C higher than the highest ever recorded. I always feel that the climate change in recent years is a bit abnormal.”

"Yeah... It's really not normal. More than 300 northern counties and districts have continued to issue high-temperature red warnings. It stands to reason that the addition of the La Nina effect, the North Atlantic sea temperature, and the influence of mid-high latitude atmospheric circulation will not Such a long period of high temperature." Qin Ke also felt a little uneasy, especially after chatting with his father-in-law.

At present, the independent project of "Cause Analysis of National Extreme Abnormal Weather" presided over by him and Ning Qingjun in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is progressing according to the plan. With the NS equation general solution in hand, the overall research is relatively smooth. , but this is only based on the analysis of the extreme and abnormally cold winter more than four years ago and last year as the main data source, and does not include this year's extremely hot weather.

One is that not all climate data for this summer have been generated, and the other is that once the extremely hot weather data is added, the workload will be doubled, and all data analysis models must be reconstructed, which is too time-consuming.

However, Qin Ke, with his keen scientific intuition, believes that the two abnormal climate phenomena of extreme heat and extreme cold may have the same main cause. It can be used to try to parse the extreme and unusually high temperatures this summer.

Qin Ke said softly: "What I'm most worried about is that the fresh water resources in the north will become more tense due to such hot weather. Our field visit this time, we can't just look at the situation of desert sweet potatoes, we also have to add the situation of rivers and rivers. The research on water volume change is the only way to do it.”

While Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were talking, there was a knock on the door, and then came Qin Xiaoke's energetic voice: "Brother, sister-in-law, are you up yet?"

"Get up, I'll open the door right away." Ning Qingyun went to open the door, and Qin Xiaoke, who was wearing a cool sports suit, smiled and hugged her, and rubbed her hard: "Hey, let me add today The energy of a beautiful girl, um, I feel refreshed."

Qin Ke went over and tapped her on the forehead: "Are you a middle-aged nerd? You also replenish the energy of a beautiful girl! I didn't hug her today."

Qin Xiaoke protested: "Brother, you hugged enough last night. If I hug you for a while, it won't matter. Really, brother is a dictatorial cheapskate!"

"If you keep shouting, I will send you back to the capital."

"Oh, sister-in-law..."

"Okay, okay, don't talk about Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke is so cute. Come to Xiao Ke, I will hug you, and I will also replenish the energy of the beautiful girl, hehe."

"Sister-in-law is the best! Hey! Let's rub each other!"

"What's so cute, she's almost 19 years old, and still looks like she's fifteen or sixteen years old." Qin Ke curled his lips.

Don't look at his displeasure on the surface, he is actually quite happy when he sees his loving wife and sister.

Qin Xiaoke is going to study in the capital soon. According to Ning Qingyun's plan, Qin Xiaoke will live with them in the garden villa of Qingmu University.At this time, seeing that Qin Xiaoke and Ning Qingyun have such a good relationship, like sisters, how much trouble can be saved in family chores?

"Brother, brother, where are we going today?"

"Go to the desert sweet potato field outside the city first, it may be hotter, but don't shout about the heat when you follow."

Qin Xiaoke saluted: "Hey, I promise to maintain my revolutionary will and endure hardships!"

During this trip to the desert, Qin Ke did not intend to have a separate honeymoon vacation with Ning Qingyun, but a scientific research investigation, which can also be regarded as a social practice, so Wei Xueming, the director of the lime plant cultivation laboratory, and two other In addition to the researchers, there are also Ji Jiahai, the deputy director of the "Desalination Resource Recycling Technology Department" of the Yuanzhou Research Center, researcher Shen Shengxian, and the little girl Qin Xiaoke.

Qin Xiaoke was brought back to Yuanzhou by his father Qin Yanghui and mother Shen Qiuyi after their wedding in the capital. The reason was naturally not to disturb Ning Qingyun's getting along with her parents.

This time, Qin Xiaoke followed Chen Lan, Ji Jiahai, and Shen Shengxian, and flew directly from Yuanzhou City to Alada City to meet Qin Ke and his party. Afterwards, Chen Lan would follow by his side, making a guest appearance to protect Qin Xiaoke again. bodyguard role.

Yesterday, the group met at the airport in Arada and checked into the hotel together. Today is the first day of the official itinerary.

Qin Ke agreed to Qin Xiaoke's participation in this research work, naturally considering that the risk is relatively small, and it will also allow the little girl to learn a lot and see the life of the people at the bottom for herself, just like taking her to inspect Lime The same is true for the site of the student aid program.

In Qin Ke's cognition, art comes from life and is higher than life, but it has to be down-to-earth and only care about the spring and snow, which will only make art divorced from life and lose its spiritual connotation.And the latter is what Qin Ke hopes his sister should stick to most in her future artistic creation career.

Qin Ke was quite satisfied with Qin Xiaoke's statement at this time, he stretched his waist, and said to Ning Qingyun and Qin Xiaoke: "First make the Eastern Secret Code, then go down to have breakfast, and set off."

The big room he booked had a lot of space, and it was no problem for the three of them to practice the Eastern Secret Code together.

Qin Xiaoke has now learned the Oriental Secret Code from Ning Qingyun, and it seems to be fine when practicing with the two of them.

After breakfast and applying sunscreen, a group of twenty or so people set off by car, intending to visit a few places before the hottest time.

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Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's trip this time was not publicized, but it was not kept secret either. Wei Feng and Wei Jing led ten professional security personnel to guard them all the way.Alada City knew that two great academicians, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, had come to investigate, and wanted to arrange various receptions. Qin Ke declined all of them, and only accepted the guide service arranged by the local area.

The guide is Liang Zhonggui. He is a native of the local area. He is responsible for the promotion of desert sweet potatoes in Alada City. He is quite familiar with the local conditions. Under his guidance and introduction, Qin Ke and his team braved the scorching sun and heat, and walked into the field , had a direct dialogue with many farmer friends who planted desert sweet potatoes, and squatted in the ground to dig up the hot yellow sand to learn about the growth of desert sweet potatoes under such high temperature and drought.

Wei Feng and Wei Jing wanted to hold an umbrella to shield them from the sun, but Qin Ke refused, so they had to stand aside and guard.

Liang Zhonggui was very moved. He has received many big figures. Nationally famous academicians and great scientists like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun actually came to the frontline site in such bad weather to conduct in-depth research on crops. The growth status is also the first time I have seen it.

Before that, he had only heard of Mr. Yuan Lao, the late great agricultural scientist and father of hybrid rice, doing such a personal research.

No wonder, in the hearts of many farmers, the reputation of these two young academicians is almost comparable to that of Mr. Yuan. It can be seen that they are respected as living Bodhisattvas.

During the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school, Qin Xiaoke once accompanied Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun on a free trip across the country. He had seen both the desert and the Great Gobi, but what he had seen at that time was only a small desert. This was his first time. I personally experienced the world-famous super desert scenery such as the Taklamakan Desert, but obviously this experience was not very good. The little girl was so hot that her clothes were wet and she was constantly wiping sweat.

Seeing that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun didn't intend to leave, she held back the heat and squatted down to watch the two study the plants. Sometimes she would take out her mobile phone and take some photos so that she could use them as materials for drawing some illustrations in the future. .

——Later, Qin Xiaoke drew a series of cartoons based on the experience of this desert research, called "My Brother and Sister-in-law's Desert "Travel"", which recorded many scenes of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's field research .Once this set of comics was published, it caused a huge sensation and panic buying, and even triggered a big discussion on "whether academicians should conduct field research under harsh conditions".These are all things to say later, so I won’t go into details for now.

At this time, an old farmer with tanned skin respectfully brought Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun a bowl of water. Seeing that the bowl was slightly chipped, Liang Zhonggui was about to stand up and say, "We have bottled water", when suddenly When the wind and sand blew, the water in the bowl was immediately covered with a layer of dust.

Liang Zhonggui had even more reasons, and hurried forward and said, "Academician Qin, the water is dirty..."

Qin Ke waved his hand, took the bowl from the old farmer who was about to take it back in embarrassment, took a big sip of water, and handed the bowl to Ning Qingyun.

Ning Qingyun took a few sips without hesitation, Qin Xiaoke looked at the two of them, took the bowl, and drank up the remaining water.

Hearing Liang Zhonggui's words, the old farmer's weather-stained face was full of nervousness. Seeing that Qin Ke and the others drank all the water, he rubbed his palms and said anxiously in Putonghua with a country accent: "Qin Academician, this water is dirty...you shouldn't drink it, you shouldn't drink it..."

Qin Ke said with a smile: "Old man, don't you usually drink this kind of water? Just take it as a supplement of minerals. This pure natural gift of nature is much more useful than eating any nutritional supplements."

"This... this..." The old farmer had a clumsy mouth and didn't know how to answer, but the lines of his face that were originally covered in dust and nervousness were obviously relaxed.

Qin Ke took the old farmer's rough hand again, pointed to the small poles planted in the field and asked, "Old man, why did you insert so many small poles to mark the places where sweet potatoes were planted?"

Qin Ke's attitude moved and warmed the old farmer, but he also relaxed his mood, and he no longer stammered nervously in front of the big man: "Yes, sometimes the wind and sand are relatively large, which will completely bury the sweet potato vines, and the snow last winter was also very heavy. Large, it will also bury sweet potatoes. In order to find sweet potatoes and facilitate watering, I found these small hollow poles and inserted them directly into the roots. I just need to carefully water the water mixed with nutrient solution along these small poles. And it saves water."

Qin Ke was pleasantly surprised, and asked the price of the hollow rod, and found that it was only made of plastic, and the price was quite cheap, only about two to three hundred yuan per mu of land, and it could be recycled.

Qin Ke couldn't help but smiled at Ning Qingyun: "The wisdom of the people is indeed infinite. The automatic drip irrigation technology we originally developed works well, but it requires an initial investment of funds, and it can only be implemented on large state-owned farms. For ordinary individual households, the method like the old man’s is the most suitable method, which is low in cost and easy to implement, and can save water.”

Ning Qingyun nodded repeatedly while wiping the beads of sweat from her forehead. The drip irrigation technology she originally developed can indeed maximize the utilization rate of water resources, and can be applied to large-scale and large-scale sweet potato planting. The drip irrigation system can be used continuously, which greatly reduces the cost of planting, but as Qin Ke said, the disadvantage is that the initial investment is a bit large, which cannot be afforded by poor farmers in these desert fringe areas.

The two came here this time, wondering whether they should suggest that the country use rural cooperatives and apply for interest-free loans to promote drip irrigation technology. Now they find that there are actually simpler methods that are more suitable for ordinary individual poor farmers, such as this The old man's way of inserting the hollow rod is very good.

Wei Xueming next to him was also very moved. He asked and recorded a lot of questions, so as to see if he could cultivate other fresh vegetable and fruit varieties suitable for planting in the edge of the desert in the future.

This investigation was undoubtedly a success, giving Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun a lot of first-hand information, and giving them a plan to further improve the perfect desert sweet potato in the future.

The factual research on Jianghe also showed that the shortage of fresh water resources is intensifying, which made Ji Jiahai, the deputy director of the "Desalination Resource Recycling Technology Department", and Shen Shengxian, a researcher, realize for the first time the heavy responsibility on their shoulders. The original intention of the two to open the research center has a deeper understanding and understanding.

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The first ten days and the middle ten days of August were both busy and fulfilling for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun who were doing research in the Great Desert, and they also gained a lot.

Another thing happened on August 8 during the period.

This day is the birthday of Paul Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. On this day, the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy officially announced the winners of this year's Dirac Medal List, a total of three physicists shared this year's Dirac Medal, namely Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun from Qingmu University in Xiaguo, and Professor Elliot Hershel Lieb from Princeton University in the United States.

The reason for the former award is: "These two young physicists have made unparalleled great achievements in NS equations and topological quantum computing, which have had a profound impact on fluid mechanics, quantum communication and even the progress of human civilization."

The reason for the latter award is simpler: "He has made great contributions to quantum and classical many-body problems, atomic structure, stability of matter, functional inequalities, magnetic theory and Hubbard's model."

The official awarding time of the Dirac Medal will be at the end of the year, and the specific time will be announced after the preparations are completed.

Although ICTP had previously announced on the official website that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun would win the Dirac Medal this year, this is the first and second Young Fields Medal winner who broke the ICTP selection rules and won the Dirac Medal , still caused a great sensation and hot discussion, superimposed the effect of "finding the general solution of the Yang-Mills equation", Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's international reputation was the same for a while.

Qin and Ke didn't notice the announcement of the award. They were still doing research on the edge of the desert at the time.

The group's research work along the desert lasted for two weeks before returning to Arada by train, ready to return to the capital.

It's just that they didn't expect that on the last return train, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun encountered something unexpected.

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