Dark Forest: Liberating the Three Bodies: Chapter 194 Look at me, Ding, competing with you, Ai!
"Minister Zhang, you know a lot about physics and relativity, unlike those laymen."
Einstein listened quietly to Zhang Muzhi's speech, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
He originally thought that Zhang Muzhi was just an official who was proficient in politics and management, but now it seems that Zhang Muzhi obviously has profound theoretical qualities and understanding of science. He is not only familiar with the theoretical development of physics, but can also combine this knowledge with the broader social and philosophical background. This insight is very extraordinary.
Zhang Muzhi smiled slightly, with a hint of humility in his expression.
Although he had some knowledge of the history and philosophy of physics, he only dabbled in it and did not dare to claim to be an expert. In fact, his major was philosophy, and these things about science were just plagiarism.
The person who deeply influenced him was the number one person in Su Yan's scientific community, the current Minister of Science, Ding Yi.
According to what Zhang Muzhi learned, Ding Yi had been working in the secret scientific department of the Soviet Union and was transferred back to China after the establishment of the Soviet Union. He is a physicist who has in-depth research on both special and general relativity.
He was not only familiar with Einstein's work, but also proposed some unique insights and unpublished theories in related fields, which Zhang Muzhi could not even understand. In Zhang Muzhi's impression, Minister Ding's office was always filled with complex mathematical formulas and various scientific documents, as if his brain was always immersed in those profound scientific problems.
Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but think that if Ding Yi were to come to Shanghai, the two would probably engage in a protracted battle in the field of physics. That kind of fierce academic clash might last for several days and nights.
Unfortunately, Ding Yi didn't seem to be interested in Einstein. He had no interest in accompanying Einstein and directly pushed the task to Zhang Muzhi.
Zhang Muzhi was very clear that he could not have an equal dialogue with Einstein in the field of science, but Einstein was definitely no match for him in philosophy, so he used his own spear to attack the other's shortcomings, and added some other things when talking about science to show that he had a certain scientific level.
Now it seems that this method is relatively successful. After a brief discussion, Einstein did not realize that he was just a half-baked person. As his evaluation of him increased, his opinion of Su Yan also became better and better.
Zhang Muzhi struck while the iron was hot and said, "Professor Einstein, after visiting our newly established university and institute, you will find that at Su Yan, we not only attach importance to the development of science, but also pay attention to the understanding of scientific history and philosophy. Because we believe that only on the basis of a deep understanding of the context of scientific development can we better promote the advancement of science."
Einstein was slightly stunned. It was not the first time he had heard such a statement, but the sincerity and confidence revealed in Zhang Muzhi's words moved him a little.
As a scientist who had experienced countless occasions and met various politicians and scholars, Einstein had long been tired of those empty and politically charged words, but Zhang Muzhi's tone was somewhat different, as if he was talking about a scientific cause of true belief rather than simple political propaganda.
"Then I'd better take a good look at it." Einstein smiled and nodded in response.
Zhang Muzhi nodded slightly and breathed a sigh of relief. It was a good start, very good.
In fact, Suyan was just a socialist country that had just been established. Most of its funds and investments were in industrialization and agricultural collectivization. Investment in basic science was really stretched and full of restrictions.
However, ability is one thing and attitude is another.
Su Yan invited Einstein, a representative figure of the scientific community, to give a lecture in order to show an attitude, indicating that they welcome basic science researchers from all over the world and are willing to do their best to provide them with a good scientific research environment.
At the same time, it also dispelled some of the concerns of those scientists. After all, the bourgeois government had always been demonizing the Soviet regime, so that in the minds of many scientific researchers, entering the Soviet regime was like entering a devil's den, with an uncertain future and a high risk of death.
Of course, there are also many scientists who don't see it that way.
The scientific community has never been a pure land isolated from the rest of the world, and scientists are not immortals who are detached from the world. Their thoughts, beliefs and positions are also influenced by the entire society.
With the victory of the proletarian revolution in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, the world began to split into two opposing camps: bourgeois countries and proletarian countries. This opposition inevitably permeated into the scientific community, causing it to gradually split.
Some scientists insisted on being the running dogs and mouthpieces of the bourgeoisie, or were themselves the spokespersons of the bourgeoisie and capitalists. They were extremely hostile to the Soviet regime. These people claimed that the birth of the Soviet regime would destroy the scientific cause of mankind. They painted one bleak picture of the future after another, as if every step forward of the Soviet regime was leading human science to doom.
However, another group of scientists gradually leaned towards the camp of the proletariat. They believed that the development of science should not be controlled by a small number of elites, namely the bourgeoisie, and the results of science should not be monopolized by the bourgeoisie. The development and results of science should belong to all mankind, especially the majority of people - the oppressed proletariat, so that science can become a tool for human liberation and social progress.
The conflicting positions between these two types of scientists are like the class contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat; they are incompatible and irreconcilable.
Every academic discussion is full of heated debates and profound differences; behind every paper and scientific explanation lies an ideological struggle.
Einstein, arguably the greatest scientific master of the 20th century, happened to be somewhere between these two factions, a wavering neutral.
For Einstein, the independence and freedom of science were of vital importance. He was unwilling to let science become a political tool. He hoped that science could transcend politics and become a pure activity of exploring the truth. Because of this, he wavered between the two factions, unwilling to take sides easily, and unwilling to be interfered with too much by the outside world.
Unfortunately, in a class society, there is nothing that transcends class, and science is no exception.
It is often said that science has no borders, but scientists are divided into different classes. Science, from its creation, development to application, is always under the class society, so there are classes too.
This is also the reason why Ding Yi seemed cold towards Einstein.
He believes that Einstein seemed to be neutral, trying to find a way to maintain the purity of science without being drawn into the political whirlpool. However, in this era when the two sciences were fighting each other to establish the ultimate winner, neutrality actually meant supporting the weaker side and supporting bourgeois science.
He also believed that Einstein did not understand class theory, so he couldn't even do a simple arithmetic problem.
He said: "The scientific development of mankind must be based on the universal liberation of the proletariat throughout the world. This is actually a very simple arithmetic problem. The current bourgeois science is a science mastered by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of elite scientists around the world. It is elite science and monopolized science.
If the global proletariat is liberated one day, billions of them will have enough time to learn cutting-edge scientific theories. They can choose different scientific fields according to their interests and become scientists.
Whether the bourgeoisie, which has hundreds of thousands of scientists, will develop science faster, or the proletariat, which has billions of scientists, will develop science faster, this is an arithmetic problem that even a seven or eight-year-old child can figure out.
He believed that mankind would inevitably head towards the stars and the sea, but that bourgeois states, due to the nature of capitalist society such as corruption, monopoly, and profit-seeking that restricted the development of productivity, were unable to lead human civilization out of the solar system.
This task can only be accomplished by a proletarian state, a unified proletarian regime of humanity.
So, while Einstein was visiting Shanghai, Ding Yi, a proletarian scientist, was also preparing for an academic "competition".
He knew very well that in order to establish the banner of the proletariat in the scientific community, he must fight for the right to speak through real scientific research results.
He needed to publish some scientific results, expand his influence in the scientific field, and even compete with Einstein for the position of a scientific giant.
Soon, he published two papers, one of which was titled "On the Relativity of Quantum Mechanics", in which he proposed quantum mechanical equations to describe the behavior of electrons and predicted the existence of positrons.
Another paper, titled "On Quantum Electrodynamics," describes the interactions between electrons, positrons, and photons.
The publication of these two papers marked the birth of the discipline of quantum electrodynamics and completely changed people's understanding of the world of microscopic particles!
The entire scientific community in the world was shocked!!
Many people exclaimed, Ding Yi, he could actually establish a discipline by himself, it was really terrifying!
Dark Forest: Liberating the Three-Body Problem: Chapter 195: The Conspiracy to Recruit Scientists from All Over the World
After Ding Yi's research caused a global sensation, the Su Yan government quickly seized the opportunity and held a series of high-level academic conferences in Shanghai. The conference invited Einstein, who was already in Shanghai, as well as Bohr, Schrödinger and other quantum physicists.
Faced with the challenge from the most intelligent and prestigious scientists in the world today, Ding Yi remained calm and composed at the podium.
His goal is to establish an ultimate unified theory of the universe! The current achievement is just a small milestone on his way to that goal.
Soon, the discussion at the meeting entered a critical stage, and Einstein, Bohr and others decisively pointed out a major problem in Ding Yi's quantum electrodynamics.
This is also a problem that has been difficult to solve in the physics community for a long time since the proposal of relativity and quantum mechanics. There is a very big conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics in dealing with certain physical problems.
This conflict has not been resolved even after the creation of quantum electrodynamics. When using quantum electrodynamics to calculate any physical process, the results of the lowest-order approximation calculated using perturbation theory are approximately consistent with the experiment, but when further calculating higher-order corrections, infinite results are obtained. Infinite results are obviously inconsistent with the real laws of physics and are unacceptable.
Einstein looked at Ding Yi seriously, and his question was full of deep concern for theoretical physics: "Professor Ding, how can this problem be solved? Or is it that quantum electrodynamics still cannot solve this problem that has troubled the entire physics community for many years?"
Faced with such a sharp question, Ding Yi smiled slightly. He calmly picked up the chalk, stood in front of the blackboard, and wrote a word on the blackboard - Renormalization.
A hundred years from now, any physics undergraduate who has received formal higher education will be able to handle the renormalization problem skillfully, because the mathematical tools needed to deal with this problem had already been invented and perfected in the past hundred years. They only need to stand on the shoulders of those giants, follow their example, and practice a few more times.
However, in 1922, when the basic theories of physics were still being explored with great difficulty, this idea was undoubtedly groundbreaking!
Ding Yi looked focused. He was not in a hurry to explain. The chalk in his hand quickly moved across the blackboard, as if he was a craftsman drawing a precision mechanical blueprint. Every formula and every symbol fell precisely in the right place, gradually weaving into a wonderful mathematical picture.
The scientists in the conference hall stared with bated breath, no one made a sound, even their breathing became faint. Their eyes were fixed on the rapidly unfolding formulas, trying to understand Ding Yi's thinking and derivation process.
Bohr's brows were slightly furrowed, as if he was concentrating on digesting these complex mathematical contents. Schrödinger sometimes widened his eyes, sometimes lowered his head in thought, as if he suddenly understood something at some key point. Dirac leaned forward slightly in his seat, thinking seriously, as if he was thinking about whether every step of Ding Yi's deduction was reasonable, trying to find any flaws in the logic.
As for Einstein, there was an indescribable gleam in his eyes, a gleam that only appeared in the eyes of this great physics master when he was faced with an extremely complex and fascinating theory, as if he had seen the most charming showgirl in the world.
"This is indeed a very critical problem, but I can provide a limited solution."
Ding Yi continued to write on the blackboard. The chalk in his hand made a slight rustling sound on the blackboard. His mind seemed to have already found a path to the truth in the maze of these formulas and theories.
Every symbol he writes carries his unique logic and insights, as if opening up a bright road through the fog of physics.
As he wrote, he explained: “We can reduce all these divergent quantities to the divergence of a few physical parameters.
If we do this, we can readjust these parameters so that they take the values required by the experiment, and we can still use the existing theory to calculate other physical quantities, and then use the renormalized coupling constant to perform perturbation expansion to obtain finite results. "
The "perturbation theory" he mentioned had been used as early as the era of Newtonian mechanics, for example, to calculate the complex motion of planets in the solar system.
In quantum mechanics, this tool is used specifically to deal with the Schrödinger equation. The Dirac equation is a classical theory that combines the Schrödinger equation with the principles of relativity.
However, at this moment, neither Dirac nor Schrödinger present had yet proposed their core theories that would become world-famous in the future. They were still groping, thinking, and looking for the laws hidden deep in nature.
So, while Ding Yi was explaining, Schrödinger and Dirac stared at the formulas that were gradually taking shape on the blackboard, their hearts filled with a deep sense of identification.
"Oh my god, his ideas are so similar to mine!!"
Dark Forest: Liberating the Three Bodies: Chapter 196: There is a road ahead that cannot be crossed, the Unified Heavenly Master is above it!
"Su Yan, what a magical country! It can actually produce such a scientist!" someone exclaimed.
Ding Yi was previously unknown, and his fame was only spread in a small circle in the Soviet scientific community.
But after today, this name will be engraved on the monument of history, shoulder to shoulder with those scientific giants who once changed the world, shining like the sun, illuminating the history of mankind for all eternity.
Many scientists at the conference were also unable to suppress their inner shock, and this shock further turned into admiration for the theoretical giant.
A young physics master couldn't help but whisper, "I can't believe it! We are witnessing a groundbreaking theoretical breakthrough! We are witnessing the birth of a brand new branch of physics!"
In fact, compared with the introduction of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, Ding Yi's research is not a groundbreaking breakthrough from 0 to 1, but a further development of the theory based on the theoretical foundation of 1.
However, this development is equivalent to condensing the essence of the achievements of the entire physics community in the next thirty or forty years!
It is as if the foundation of a hundred-meter-high physics building has just been laid, and countless scientists are ready to show their talents and work hard on this new physics building, but they suddenly discover that Ding Yi has already built this building to a hundred floors by himself!
Some people were so excited that they could hardly contain themselves. Since someone had already built such a physics building, they only needed to stand on top of this building and look into the unknown realm of truth, and they would be able to see higher and farther!
However, some people felt deep despair at this moment. The direction of their efforts for many years was completely surpassed. The research results they once confidently achieved suddenly seemed insignificant. The hard work that cost countless years turned into a meaningless bubble in an instant. Honors, ideals... all turned to ashes in an instant.
"Why, why!" someone murmured to himself, as if he had collapsed.
"Why did Ding Yi appear? Why was he born in this era?"
Everything in the venue was visible to Edgar Lingyi who was standing in the back row.
Edgar is a world-renowned journalist who wrote two books, "Red Star Over the Soviet Russia" and "Red Star Over the Soviet Union", which successfully broke the prejudices and misunderstandings of many people about the Soviet regime.
This time, he was invited to write a report for this academic lecture that established Su Yan's voice in the global scientific community.
He took in every subtle change of emotion in the conference hall, and when he caught the desperate mutterings of some scientists, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.
He quickly realized that today's lecture was not an ordinary academic discussion.
Ding Yi was certainly a very outstanding scientist, but he was also a politician. In this era, science and politics were never truly separated.
This academic lecture, in which he is the protagonist, not only has scientific significance, but also has profound political implications.
Admittedly, Ding Yi's personal scientific achievements cannot directly represent the scientific achievements of Su Yan as a whole.
However, the two can be equated in propaganda, and if someone wants to delve deeper, they can give a reasonable explanation. After all, without a good environment, how can talents become talents?
Through this academic lecture, Ding Yi may become the leader of proletarian scientists in the global scientific community, leading them to compete with the bourgeois scientific community.
Therefore, today's scene is bound to become a watershed in the history of science, and the scientists' desperate sighs are the best interpretation of this great academic change.
Edgar lowered his head and quickly wrote down some key words spoken by the scientists present in his notebook, silently thinking about how to use the most concise and powerful words to capture the core and impact of this academic event.
"Yeah, that's a good sentence. You can paraphrase it and use it directly in the news."
He was muttering to himself as he worked out a news article in his mind.
"The title is like this -
There is a road ahead that cannot be crossed, Ding Yi is already ahead of us!"
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Inside a top-secret research institute jointly built by the two Soviet Unions.
Mu Yuan, as the leader of the Military Commission, is inspecting Institute 404 and listening to the report on scientific research progress from the person in charge.
The former director of the 404 Institute was the world-renowned scientist Ding Yi, whose main research direction was nuclear weapons.
"Marshal Mu, the problem that is restricting our research progress now is not theoretical. Minister Ding has already established a complete theoretical model when he was in office. However, we lack uranium ore, steel that is strong enough to make centrifuges, and electricity to purify the concentration of uranium-235 to more than 85%."
The current director was holding a folder that seemed to have been read countless times, and his report voice was filled with a hint of helplessness.
The director reported to Mu Yuan.
Mu Yuan nodded slightly to show that she understood.
She slowly said: "The research on nuclear weapons must be done as soon as possible. This is a super deterrent weapon that goes beyond the ordinary war mode. At present, various imperialist powers are preparing to launch a war against Su Yan, attempting to recreate the victory of the Eight-Nation Alliance era.
We have the confidence to win! However, if we can stop the war with one weapon and reduce the casualties of the proletarian masses who are driven by imperialism to become soldiers, it will be very valuable. "
Mu Yuan's words seemed to contain a hint of Madonna-like sentiment, and she even considered the casualties of the invading soldiers.
However, this is not out of humanitarianism or excessive saintliness, but out of a deep understanding of class struggle.
Most soldiers never wanted to fight for their masters in the rear on the battlefield, but they had no choice and were forced to go to the front line by guns and inspectors.
A country's soldiers cannot be viewed as a whole. Before being forcibly conscripted as soldiers, they may have been workers or farmers.
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