Son of the Stars

Chapter 14 Questions and Answers
Confusion doesn't stop a physics academic, the experience only makes him more curious.

So Academician Tang, with the help of his AI assistant, spent about 15 minutes understanding the difference between Ultraman and Kamen Rider.

During these 15 minutes, Lu Chen and Director Li exchanged words for a while, and then confirmed two facts.

The first fact is that Ultraman Ace made a piece of shit, and Kamen Rider Den Wang is really outrageous.

The second fact is that they really can't completely rule out the possibility that some kind of disease turned humans into bombs.

Two people summed up two nonsense in 15 minutes.Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing - at least Academician Tang recovered and was able to keep up with the rhythm of the conversation.

"Let the people from the Bureau of Investigation and Yang Weimin discuss this matter first." After figuring out that Ultraman and Masked Superman are not the same thing, Academician Tang arranged the work with his glasses on, "Xiao Lu, you and Zhiran The progress of the experimental work is too slow, and the two of you and I will start the experiment today."

Having said that, Tang Qinglong glanced sideways at Li Xiaohui, and said, "Since the superior has requested it, let's resolutely carry it out—Director Li, I plan to hold a group meeting tomorrow, and you want to come and participate?"

After reaching a consensus with Li Xiaohui to hold a group meeting, Watanabe can leave after completing the task.And this may be the highest-ranking General Investigation Bureau agent who survived in the entire city, and led the operators away from the Physics Institute without saying a word.

Before leaving, Watanabe chatted with Director Li Xiaohui in a low voice, and then took the director who was only two years older than Lu Chen and left the Institute of Physics directly.

In the blink of an eye, only Lu Chen and Tang Qinglong were left in the small conference room, but Academician Tang had no intention of letting Lu Chen go back first.

"Did you come up with the idea of ​​'Ultraman virus'?" After the room was empty, Academician Tang asked Lu Chen, "Do you have any ideas, or did you just mention it casually?"

"I just mentioned it casually." Lu Chen said, "If it was caused by a virus, then there is nothing to worry about—as long as you study the mechanism of the explosion clearly and make sure it won't infect other animals."

"If you can figure out how an adult male can convert energy equivalent to [-] tons of TNT, then many things will be changed." Tang Qinglong said leisurely, "In the future, the people you see on the road will be in front of your eyes. There are no people here—they’re just [-]-ton bombs that can walk and jump.”

This scene seems a little funny at first, but in Tang Qinglong's eyes, such a scene is simply the end of civilization.

"Everyone will avoid other humans like a plague god. Everyone will look at the same kind and think that the other party is a great threat... Such a scene is too scary." Tang Qinglong shook his head and said, "Our civilization is based on groups , if groups are alienated from each other out of fear, then the extinction of our species is not far away."

Lu Chen shivered, and then smiled wryly, "I really just mentioned something casually."

"Let's not talk about this first, you will meet with Zhiran later." Tang Qinglong bent down and took out his copper-colored electronic pipe from the belly of the table, took a deep breath and suggested, "Suppose your argument is Right, then there will be a lot of questions for you to answer—at least some possible conjectures and directions. During the experiment, you may wish to think about and study these questions, which may also be helpful to the experiment.”
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It has to be said that the way of thinking of scientists with the titles of academicians of four academies of sciences is quite different from that of normal people.When he went to the laboratory to meet Mu Zhiran, Lu Chen had been thinking about these questions, the more he thought about them, the more confused he became, and the more he thought about them, the more fascinated he became.

"You have been standing at the door for 10 minutes." Lu Chen, who was standing at the door of the laboratory, was awakened by Dr. Mu's gentleness, "Why did you make Teacher Tang angry? You were still punished to stand?"

Mu Zhiran frowned and said, "How about I apologize to Teacher Tang? I've never seen him so angry before."

It took Lu Chen a lot of effort to get Mu Zhiran to accept the fact that he was "too focused on thinking about problems" rather than the fact that he was punished to stand.Entering the laboratory, she asked curiously, "So, what are you thinking about?"

"If the big crash is really a disease caused by changes in the direction of electron spin, how does it spread?" Lu Chen said slowly, "Can its transmission be blocked? What kind of people are Vulnerable populations ... can we provide protection for these populations?"

"These contents sound like your professional field of clinical medicine." Mu Zhiran thought for a while and said, "I think... there is probably no vaccine for the big crash..."

Lu Chen shook his head and said, "Strictly speaking, this is the content of the public health profession." He scratched his head and said, "The second question is more interesting-if the big crash is a disease caused by the change of electron spin direction, why Can historical documentaries be therapeutic for the Great Crash?"

Mu Zhiran opened his mouth slightly, then closed it again in confusion.

"Right, at first I thought I might know the answer to this question." Lu Chen was very satisfied with Mu Zhiran's reaction, "Use the facts to break the historical nihilism of patients with the disease! But I haven't said anything yet, and I also feel something is wrong .”

What Lu Chen thinks is wrong is very simple - the state of motion of the quantum will be affected by many things, but it is a bit unimaginable that something like a "historical documentary" wants to affect the trajectory of an electron.

"The last question." Lu Chen blinked and continued, "If the big crash is electron spin... Anyway, it's just a disease, then why have the big crashes gradually sporadic in the past few decades? State? Many people died due to the big crash, and the lithium element electrons in their bodies are still spinning downward. This huge system of electrons spinning downward should be more and more easily entangled with other electrons. Why are there fewer big crashes now? ?”

Lu Chen took great pains to put these "systems", "electronics" and "entanglement" where they should be.Fortunately, Dr. Mu's professional quality is excellent, and she quickly understood what Lu Chen meant.

More than 40 billion people died because of the big crash, and the lithium element electrons in their brains are most likely to spin downward.According to the current hypothesis of Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran, electrons spinning downwards are the cause of the big crash, so naturally, quantum entanglement is the most likely channel for spreading the big crash.

The peripheral electrons of the lithium courtyard in the brains of 40 billion people together constitute a huge entanglement system, and this entanglement system should lead to the peripheral electrons of other lithium atoms, strongly inclined to join the entanglement system, and then start to spin downward.

But this tendency does not seem to be happening, and the big crash is still just a sporadic serious mental disorder that can be cured by historical documentaries.

Mu Zhiran and Lu Chen looked at each other for a long time, and suddenly they both expressed emotion.

"It's not scientific..."
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As long as he saw the news headlines these days, Lu Chen could clearly feel the inner breakdown of the reporters and editors.

In one day, there were three serious explosion accidents in East Asia alone.But for the sake of social stability, they have to find ways to prevent the three explosions from being linked.

As a result, there was an attack by an extremist religious organization in East Asia yesterday, a serious safety production accident at a port, and a planned demolition of an old building.

Fortunately, such extreme situations of "multiple explosions in one day" did not happen frequently, at least for the next two weeks, Lu Chen did not hear about the situation again.

In the past two weeks, Lu Chen's life was worse than death.He even started to think wildly - if there was an explosion in school tomorrow, wouldn't it mean that he wouldn't have to read the literature and read the introduction to quantum mechanics?
After this "self-defeating" mentality lasted for more than a week, Lu Chen himself felt that something was wrong.He made a special trip to the school's psychological counseling center for this purpose.

Under the supervision of the school's mental health staff, Lu Chen spent two hours filling out various forms.Then, the staff member stuffed all the forms that Lu Chen had filled into the card reader next to him.

The high-performance diagnostic AI took 5 minutes to give the answer, "This is a normal reaction for ordinary people to be forced to learn quantum mechanics. The general symptoms will improve as the knowledge points are gradually mastered. If it does not improve, you can consider stopping it." related fields of study.”

Normal reaction?That's fine.

Although Lu Chen is suffering from the theory of quantum mechanics, Mu Zhiran's experiment is progressing quite smoothly.The machine she designed and built herself demonstrated impressive efficiency—determining the direction of rotation of an electron every 10 minutes.

In the whole process, there is almost no need for manual intervention except for putting in the sample, and the electronic rotation direction measurement is completed automatically...Anyway, when Tang Qinglong looked at this machine, his eyes were full of gentle and joyful light.It's like an old man looking at a very cute child.

Looking at Tang Qinglong's expression, Lu Chen always felt that there was something awkward in the silence.

Although he didn't want to understand what the awkwardness was, Lu Chen really felt that... Tang Qinglong seemed to be more intimidating than before.

Everyone knows that Academician Tang is a good person.But to Lu Chen, the current academician Tang Qinglong is simply a murderous ghost.

It was Tang Qinglong's idea to learn quantum mechanics, and Old Tang still insisted on it—it's impossible if you don't learn it, you must learn it.

Learning, not very good at learning.After all, a large part of the reason why Lu Chen chose to study medicine back then was that his physics grades were really poor.Now that he has learned that his mental state is starting to worry, Tang Qinglong is still not satisfied with the result.

This is how Old Tang complained to Mu Zhiran, "Little Mu, you are good everywhere, but your vision for finding a partner is a little bit lacking. You said that Lu Chen is the same, he looks very smart, how can he even see Higgs Bo Can’t even understand the coupling of dice?”

All in all, Lu Chen, who learned that he was in a trance, spent the past two weeks in a haze.Fortunately, his "flash of inspiration" is still there.Lu Chen thought of at least one possible answer to the three questions raised by Academician Tang.

The reason why historical documentary therapy works is probably not only because of historical documentaries themselves.

"At least according to our current habits, historical documentary therapy must be completed by a nurse and a doctor." Rubbing his swollen forehead, Lu Chen said to Mu Zhiran, "If quantum entanglement can infect a big crash, then The quantum in the brain of two normal people who did not suffer from the big crash... Can you restore the quantum in the brain of the patient to normal?"

Thinking of this, Lu Chen readjusted his inner expectations.Quantum infectious disease can bring out at least one academician Yang Weimin.As for the treatment methods and plans for quantum infectious diseases, you may be able to directly turn yourself into a "Lu Jieqing" - "academician disciple + outstanding young researcher". easy to use?

Dr. Lu's heart was warm, as if he had just drunk two or two old Fenjiu.

(End of this chapter)