Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 465 Looking up at the Starry Sky
Time passed slowly, and it entered September unknowingly.

In September, the capital began to gradually recede from the heat of summer, and the days were not as long as before. In the evening, it began to feel cool.

The popularity of the national news today is not about the military training of freshmen, nor about the treatment of leukemia, nor about the breakthrough of a certain technology that has reached the world's leading level.Today, all the news hotspots are all focused on news related to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, as well as the tribute to the 70th birthday of the motherland. Various places use their own methods, including the way of hanging bright five-star red flags on roads and communities, or going to patriotism. The red education base, or artistic performances, dramas and other artistic activities, attracted many people to participate.

Overseas descendants of Yan and Huang also used flash photos on the street to wish their motherland's 70th birthday.

The freshmen in the military training also celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the motherland with their own performances. 2019 is definitely a very unique year. This year, the whole country is red, which means that the Chinese people and the party are always connected by destiny and inseparable. It also represents the fruitful achievements in domestic politics in the past ten years.

Even if the WeChat Group officially moved into the headquarters, it only occupied the headlines for a day.

The news headlines during this period were about red. Under the powerful propaganda machine and the spontaneous publicity of the people, the history and details of the founding of the Republic spread throughout the entire land of China and penetrated into the hearts of everyone.

And Qin Yuanqing was writing a book, a book about the universe, when he was relatively free. This was when Qin Yuanqing suddenly saw that his children liked to watch popular science programs related to the universe, and saw the curiosity of his daughter and son. So there are popular science books written about the universe.

At the beginning of this book, he quoted a famous quote from the famous science fiction writer Da Liu: "When human beings start to look up at the starry sky, they are only one step away from uncovering the ultimate mystery of the universe."

The most important factor that promotes the development of human science and technology is curiosity. When human beings start to be curious about the starry sky, they will use their imagination to guess the secrets hidden in the starry sky.

Human beings first determined time, direction and calendar by observing the sun, moon and other celestial bodies and phenomena.The ancient Egyptians discovered that the flooding of the Nile River in the delta region occurred simultaneously with the rising of the sun and Sirius on the horizon. They set the time between the two occurrences of this phenomenon as a year, a total of 365 days.The whole year is divided into 12 months, 30 days per month, and the remaining 5 days are used as festivals; at the same time, the year is divided into 3 seasons, namely "flooding season", "growing grain season" and "harvesting season". 4 months per season.

The ancient Chinese discovered that the cycle of the moon's profit and loss can be used to measure the length of the year, and found that twelve full moons are one year. This discovery is one of the most accurate results of the early calendar.

The Stonehenge built by the ancient British on the island of Great Britain can accurately know the 12 orientations of the sun and the moon, and observe and calculate the rise and fall of the sun, moon and stars in different seasons.

Thales in ancient Greece carried out the first predicted total solar eclipse; Metton discovered that the phases of the moon repeat the same date in the Gregorian calendar in a period of 19 years; Eudocus proposed that the sun, moon and stars move in concentric circles around the earth; Parmenides and Democritus demonstrated that the earth is spherical, believed that the morning star and the evening star are the same Venus, and proposed that the Milky Way is composed of many stars; Anasagora proposed the cause of the lunar eclipse, and believed that The moon is bright because it reflects sunlight.

The Romans, Arabs, Mayans, Indians, etc. each presented their own understanding of the mysteries of the universe and made progress in different fields.

In the process of human beings exploring the ultimate mysteries of the universe, they have found the most powerful tool—that is, mathematics, through which they can process various data collected through observation, and at the same time, there are many data that cannot be obtained directly through observation , So mathematical knowledge such as logarithm, spherical coordinate system and trigonometric functions was produced.

At the same time, with the deepening of human observation of the universe, their requirements for observation tools are getting higher and higher, and the manufacture of these tools also requires advanced knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.After Newton used the classical mechanics system to describe the macroscopic world with mathematical language, the relationship between mathematics and astronomy became more and more close, and non-Euclidean geometry and calculus developed rapidly under the needs of astronomy.

In modern times, whether it is Einstein's theory of relativity or Gamow's theory of the big bang, many advanced data tools have been borrowed. It can be said that without mathematics, human beings cannot achieve today's scientific and technological achievements.

Qin Yuanqing used mathematics as the starting point, combined with physics, interspersed with biology, chemistry and other subjects, to introduce the universe.

Qin Yuanqing overthrew the dark matter and dark energy established in Europe, and even the black hole constructed by Hawking was overthrown by Qin Yuanqing.In his own way, he reinterpreted the universe by combining mathematics and physics.

He also agrees that the universe is divided into five levels: planets, stars, star systems, river systems, and the universe. Several planets and smaller celestial bodies surround stars to form star systems, and a large number of star systems form river systems. , such as the Milky Way known to the world, and then a large number of river galaxies constitute the universe.

In his book, he stated with a positive attitude that the earth is not alone in the vast universe, and the earth is not the only planet with life in the universe. There must be a large number of living planets in the vast universe, and a large number of life , These lives may be beyond the imagination of humans on earth. They are not necessarily carbon-based life, but may be silicon-based life, metal life, or other forms of life.

The level of science and technology of human beings is not the most advanced in the universe. There must be a higher civilization in the universe. This advanced civilization of the universe is far beyond human cognition.Perhaps for these advanced cosmic civilizations, they have extremely advanced spaceships. The weapons of these spaceships are extremely powerful. A single shot can annihilate the entire earth, or even destroy the entire solar system.
Compared with the universe, the earth is small, and the human beings on the earth are even smaller, but they should not be complacent, arrogant, and lose respect for the universe because of the substantial increase in productivity due to industrialization.

Qin Yuanqing wrote in the book that the future of mankind on earth lies in the starry sky, which is a vast and infinite universe. Only by bravely stepping out of the earth can there be a broader living space.The earth is small, but the universe outside is huge!
Human beings should explore the starry sky, explore the universe, and have a brave and adventurous spirit. I believe that it will not be long before human beings will truly enter the space age.

This popular science article written in his spare time is only about 40 words, and there are hundreds of photos. These pictures were drawn by Qin Yuanqing with a computer, such as the operation model of the solar system, the operation model of the Milky Way, etc. These pictures are full of Sci-fi, yet exquisite.

Qin Yuanqing reviewed the manuscript three times before finally finalizing it. Although the full text is only 40 words, it is far from comparable to the millions of words on the Internet, or even two to three million words.But the quality of the two is completely different. Maybe once his popular science article is published, there may be Internet writers who will get inspired to write a series of science fiction or fantasy or fantasy articles, and then they will become popular!
In the popular science article, Qin Yuanqing mentioned that there is no dark matter or dark energy in the universe, but cosmic energy, or cosmic energy. This kind of cosmic energy is not gas, liquid, solid, metal, or non-metal. , not to mention organic matter, but a strange energy, which can breed life, breed planets, and destroy planets.

It's this cosmic energy that ancient Westerners might have come into contact with accidentally, so there's magic and stuff like that.The ancient oriental people may also have noticed this kind of energy, so there is an oriental legend of ancient martial arts.

It's just that because of the changes of the years, this method of contacting the energy of the universe has not been passed down, so magic and ancient martial arts have become legends.And cosmic energy is not everything that humans currently know. It is undoubtedly impossible to detect cosmic energy with today's technological means.

In the book, Qin Yuanqing mentioned a question about the speed of light, that is, can the speed of a spaceship exceed the speed of light?Qin Yuanqing thinks it is possible, and when the speed of the spacecraft approaches or reaches the speed of light, then the speed will be obviously bent, that is, the time and space are bent, so as to realize the interstellar shuttle.

In the book, Qin Yuanqing also made it clear again that the current viewpoint on the size of the universe is that the distance from any direction of the earth to the universe is about 460 billion light-years. The conclusion drawn from the cosmic microwave background radiation, in fact, the diameter of the universe is far more than 460 billion light-years, this data may be 4600 billion light-years, or even 46000 trillion light-years, or even larger.

The age of the universe is 137 billion years, which is not the real age of the universe. These 137 billion years are just conclusions based on the Big Bang theory. In fact, the universe was not created by the Big Bang. How did the universe come into being? In a sense, it exceeds the current ceiling of human wisdom, and it belongs to the blind man feeling the elephant.

Just like the story of "sitting in a well and watching the sky" in ancient China, sitting in the well and thinking that the sky is so big, in fact, after jumping out of the well, you will find that the sky is much bigger than you thought before!
Qin Yuanqing voted this popular science article to Shuimu University Press. Now Shuimu University Press has grown ten times compared to ten years ago. Not only does it not need school subsidy money every year, it even has hundreds of millions of profits. A sum of money for different types of activities is also one of the few in China that can give authors royalties.The papers and articles published by Mizuki University Press are also known for their high quality.

After submitting this popular science article called "When Humans Begin to Look Up at the Starry Sky", Qin Yuanqing stopped paying attention.

He also began to prepare for another major event, which was also a great honor for him!

(End of this chapter)