Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 38 Chapter 38

Seeing that the audience's attention was almost attracted, Chen Muwu threw out a blockbuster that he had prepared long ago. He pointed out that according to the theory of relativity, this kind of time travel can not only go to the future, but also go back to the past.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished his speech, it caused quite a stir in the audience.

The only few time travel stories in ancient China are all inseparable from the path of "one day in the sky, one year on the earth". Basically, they encountered some kind of opportunity and stayed for a period of time in a space where time passes extremely slowly. , After coming out of this space, returning to the original world again, only to find that hundreds of years have passed, which is the so-called going to the future.

But no one ever thought that people could go back to the past.

Let me ask, who can live without a few regrets and remorse?

In the face of regret, "The Analects of Confucius" used the mouth of a Chu madman to say: "The past should not be admonished, but the coming can still be pursued";
Zhuang Xin in "Warring States Policy" advised King Xiang of Chu: "It is not too late to look after the dog when you see the rabbit; it is not too late to mend the prison when the sheep is lost";
Even Wang Bo, a former high-spirited young man, sighed in "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng": "Eastern Yu is gone, and Sang Yu is not too late."

These philosophical discourses basically talk about regrets that are already in the past tense. Since people cannot go back to the past, they can only look forward.

This philosophy of regret has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for thousands of years.

But now Mr. Chen Muwu on the stage suddenly said that under certain conditions, people can go back to the past. How can we not let other thoughts arise in people's hearts?

Immediately afterwards, Chen Muwu, who had just finished painting the pie, poured cold water on the audience who had just become enthusiastic.

He pointed to the cylinder drawn on the blackboard before and told everyone that this kind of time travel back to the past is theoretically possible, but it must meet many specific conditions, such as large enough energy, fast enough speed, etc. The current level of human technology is not enough to realize it.

For boring theoretical knowledge, it is enough to say a few sentences. If you talk too much, the audience in the audience don't like to listen, and he is easy to show timidity on the stage.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu's level of field control is very good. He then asked the audience a question that basically has nothing to do with physics.

"Perhaps in our history, there have been several people who traveled back to the past through time travel from later generations. In order not to cause trouble for themselves, they did not reveal their identities, but we can still detect it from their actions. Some clues. Please think about it, are there any ancient people who meet the requirements in your memory?"

This question made the noisy discussion in the audience louder.

Even Mr. Lu Xun closed his eyes and frowned slightly, as if he was searching his knowledge reserve carefully.

After a long while, the audience still had no discussion, so someone shouted from the auditorium: "Mr. Chen, we really can't think of such a person, why don't you give me an example!"

Chen Muwu cited Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, Shao Kangjie, and Liu Bowen as examples, saying that they were able to write "Tui Bei Tu", "Plum Blossom Poem" and "Song of Shaobing" probably not because of clever calculations, but because they came from The future, so we can know the development of future generations.

He stopped here, not daring to speak too absolutely.

Chen Muwu was very afraid that if he got out of control by talking about it, he would be labeled as a "scientific god stick" and be attacked by real insightful people.

Especially the fellow with a mustache in the audience, he had to change the subject quickly before he frowned.

He didn't want to let such a classic curse word spread on the Internet in later generations, which came from the article scolding him in "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".

But the more mysterious he was, the more people in the audience felt that what he said made sense.

Just one week after Chen Muwu's last lecture, there will be a debate between science and metaphysics in the academic world. Famous scholars and great Confucians will end one after another.

This debate was the first collision between the newly emerging materialism in China and the deeply rooted idealism, and it lasted for two or three years without a winner.

And people are already keen on these prophecies, and now that they have the "scientific explanation" made by Chen Muwu, they are even more convinced of it.

Chen Muwu's lecture was completely out of the track of physics, but the effect was surprisingly good, because he raised the next question for the audience to think about.

If humans finally built a time machine that could travel between the past, present and future conveniently and quickly, where would you most like to go?Why?
where to go?
Definitely go back in time.

What can we do when we go back to the past?
Of course, it is to avoid regrets in advance!
Otherwise, why are there a lot of time-travel and rebirth articles (including this article) in the Internet articles of later generations, while the science fiction articles describing the future world are less than one-tenth of the former?
Of course, the current situation is very different, because before Chen Muwu's lecture, people never knew that there was a theory that could support human beings to go back to the past, so there are more science fiction novels going to the future.

Liang Qichao wrote "The Future of New China" in 1902, which predicted 60 years later, and the owner of Bihe Pavilion also wrote "New Era" in 1908, imagining the country's situation in 1999.

Among them, the most classic should be a fantasy novel titled "China 1910 Years After the Constitution" written in 40 by Lu Shier, a novelist from Shanghai.

The general content of the book is that a person from the Qing Dynasty traveled to the sea in the 43rd year of Xuantong (that is, 1951) in a daze after drinking.

At that time, the Ghaihai Concession had already been withdrawn, Beijing and Shanghai were connected by train, houses were row upon row, people walked on the wide road, and a large iron bridge was built across the Huangpu River to Pudong on the other side.In order to facilitate the visit of the "Exposition" held in Pudong at that time, a cross-river tunnel was built, a subway was built, and so on.

In addition to the time error and the wrong prediction of the life expectancy of the Qing Dynasty, his novel's prediction of future generations is so accurate that many people think that the author Lu Shi'er is actually a time traveler.

Chen Muwu's words caused a deep thought in the audience.

This person is none other than Zhang Xinyuan, a reporter from Yishibao.

Although his real name is not famous, it is because he also has a well-known pseudonym called "Hen Shui".

Zhang Henshui was not yet well-known at this time, and only worked as a small editor under Cheng Shewo of Beijing's "Yishi Bao", and occasionally went out to run news.

Knowing that American Minister Shulman was going to attend the lecture at Bei University, he also came to the lecture site today, but unexpectedly saw Chen Muwu standing on the stage.

When old friends met, not only Chen Muwu was taken aback, but Zhang Henshui was also taken aback.

Isn't this the one who went to the editorial department a few times to contribute to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"?

Although he said that he was showing the publicity for others, the real author of the novel was Ms. Yao Fulan, but after reading the novel, Zhang Henshui became more and more convinced that this book could not have been written by a woman.

Now seeing Chen Muwu talking about the hottest and most popular science on the podium in the Bei Da Auditorium, this judgment of Zhang Henshui is further confirmed.

No wonder he had to use a pseudonym to submit the manuscript, it turned out that he didn't want to reveal his identity, for fear of embarrassment!
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