Son of the Stars

Chapter 30 Delicate Balance
The atmosphere in the base has been somewhat awkward.

Dr. Mu Zhiran asked a very good question, and this question...doomed not to be answered.

If treated according to "predictability", patients who have fever and can emit ultraviolet rays should be treated as explosives.The problem is, the bomb can still be defusing.

But these patients, once caught in the spiral of explosion, seem to be irreversible.Clinicians, at least so far, have not even been able to bring patients' temperatures back to normal.

They are simply bombs that cannot be dismantled, and are the nightmare of every bomb disposal expert.

What's more, the bomb disposal experts on mission at this time... are all clinicians.

Clinicians need to learn the mechanism and treatment of hundreds of diseases in this specialty during their five-year undergraduate course plus three-year regular training, plus three-year Ph.D.But doctors in any department will never learn how to dismantle bombs.

In other words, whether Lu Chen or other doctors, none of them had the experience or ability to treat such patients.

But... It is true that these diseased groups cannot be left to fend for themselves.

A great writer once said that the earliest evidence that human beings escaped from the wild and entered civilization is a broken femur that healed.As one of the longest and most important bones for movement in the body, a broken femur takes at least six weeks to potentially heal.

During the nearly fifty days, the wounded could not gather or hunt for food, and he also lost the ability to defend himself and move.Only by relying on the care of their companions can the ancient humans with a fractured femur survive.

Whether or not the femur actually existed, the story's implications are clear.

Human civilization is based on altruistic behavior.More precisely, human civilization is based on a delicate balance of altruistic and self-interested behaviors.

Completely selfish, it is impossible for human beings to establish a civilized system, and socialization and division of labor are even more nonsense.And complete altruism will make human beings eliminated in the early stages of evolution—to help their fellows at all costs, many times it will only bring the entire group into desperation.

Lu Chen couldn't answer Dr. Mu's question.His instinct and reason conflicted with each other, making it impossible for him to come up with a general directional answer.

Self-interest drives Lu Chen to let go, while altruism repeatedly emphasizes to Lu Chen that "letting go is equal to murdering more human beings."

In the end, Lu Chen decided to use work instead of answering—it would be better to let those who majored in liberal arts worry about such philosophical and social issues, and clinicians and physicists can completely focus on new key areas.

For example, research on the mechanism of "disease".

"No way... this... I don't understand it at all." Yang Weimin threw the experimental results in his hand aside, the numbers and various complicated parameters on it made him feel like there were bugs crawling under his scalp, " What is all this?"

Lu Chen, who was drinking espresso from a cup, put down the small "coffee cup" in his hand, then knelt down and picked up a data report and glanced at it.

"This is the automatic sequencing result of the magnetic moment analysis of the target sample." Lu Chen looked at the data and said, "The result is that there is a significant difference in the magnetic moment of the target sample—this report is of little significance."

Yang Weimin looked at Lu Chen, then sighed, "I really don't understand the physical things."

"Then you have to work harder." Lu Chen's PUA boss is getting more and more smooth, "Didn't the ancients often say, 'It's not your peers who kill you, but cross-border'. We want to kill others in the clinical field It’s a little difficult—jumping out of the existing rules and regulations, and going back to cross the border from the perspective of quantum physics, this is the competitiveness of being an academician!”

To be honest, Yang Weimin has been completely numb by Lu Chen's unabashed attempt.This kid never leaves an academician in his words, and what he says is extraordinarily righteous.If it weren't for Yang Weimin's deep enough understanding of his own academic level, maybe he would have been fooled and limped.

What are the benefits of being an academician?Except for easier application for experiments, easier publication of papers, easier recruitment of students, and more funding, there is no benefit at all!Instead, I have to worry about whether I will be unlucky enough to be selected as a member of the committee.

If you are unfortunately recruited, you will have to stay in the committee every day for half a year, looking at all kinds of outrageous applications and experimental plans.This can be bad for the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular.

So Yang Weimin decided to play dumb.He looked at the records all over the floor and asked, "What is this kind of thing doing? It has nothing to do with the explosion, right?"

"We don't have any clear evidence now, let alone conjecture." Lu Chen sighed and said, "It's normal for Academician Tang and the others to propose this kind of experimental plan-since clues of the spread of the big crash can be found on lithium, then other There may be some discoveries in the elements."

"Nonsense." Yang Weimin said angrily, "In the eight bombings, only Rangna left samples. These bone marrow samples and blood samples were used less—how could such a waste be possible!"

"Academician Tang made this suggestion, so it's not easy for us to refute it." Lu Chen showed Yang Weimin's smile again, "Brother Yang, work harder, and we'll scold him face to face after being selected as an academician!"
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It is of course a stupid and unacceptable stupid thing to spray a physicist with four academician titles in person.Lu Chen had full confidence that even if Brother Yang really became an academician, he wouldn't do that.

For Tang Qinglong's experimental "plan", Lu Chen actually did not agree.Ultimately, there's no evidence that the bombing is the same as the Big Crash—so far, every atom with an odd number of protons on the periodic table has been tested.

No valuable information at all.

When physicists conduct experiments, they often have some unusual ideas.For example, this time, Tang Qinglong directly decided to use the existing samples, "Take a look at all the base proton atoms."

Old Tang said, "It's better to test everything that can be measured than to analyze it in front of the computer for three or five days."

The idea is right, but the method is not right.Lu Chen vaguely felt that the explosion probably had little to do with the rotation direction of the electrons in the outer layer of the element.

The change in the rotation direction of electrons is most likely to affect the chemical properties of the lithium element.

The exchange of electrons is the main principle and composition of the chemistry itself, and the change in the spin direction of the electrons means that the magnetic axis of the electrons outside the lithium atom has changed.

It may be harder to lose than before, and it may also evolve directly from positive one to positive two.How to change specifically, still have to design experiments to do.

Walking out of Yang Jianmin's place, Lu Chen decided to verify his thinking first - there are only a few samples for Jeanna, use a little less.But the samples of the big crash are almost inexhaustible. There are at least [-] to [-] samples in the cold storage in the base, and they can be used casually.

Before taking two steps towards the laboratory, the familiar AI siren sounded again.

"Abnormal activity signals have been detected in the restricted area of ​​the base. There may be intruders entering the security zone of the base. All operators in the base are requested to report to the nearest military officer immediately. Non-combatants, please stop what you are doing, obey the command, and take refuge in place .”

Lu Chen looked out of the window, and a faint cloud of dust floated through the light yellow floor-to-ceiling windows.It looks like someone just ran past outside.

(End of this chapter)