Metropolis: I Can Modify The Production Date Of Everything!

After completing the formalities, we boarded the ship.

There are also cannons on this ship...

As a tourist ship, it is indeed a special experience.

However, the open sea here is not very peaceful, and normal ordinary ships would not dare to go out from here.

Myanmar's maritime defense force is different.

They can be found anywhere nearby.

The ship went out to sea, wandered around the nearby sea, and then returned to the port.

I could have played a little longer.

However, we agreed to have dinner with the Arsdales, so we had no choice but to return to Hong Kong early.

As for this sea area, Lin Xuan will come back soon on a newly ordered luxury cruise ship.

When the ship entered the port, Chafan disembarked and boarded the ship with a white family at the port.

When they got on the boat, Mrs. Arsdale was surprised: "King!"

Wang Ruoya: "Hello, Mrs. Arsdale."

"This is the first time we've met."

They are both S-level jewelry designers. Although their main fields are different, there are only so many top designers, and everyone is familiar with each other's works.

Although we haven’t met each other yet, many official events are related to each other.

The information has already been read to each other.

Asdair looked at his wife: "Know?"

Mrs. Arsdale; "Let me introduce you to Wang Ruoya, a young jewelry designer from Dragon Kingdom and one of the youngest S-level jewelry designers in the world.

"Wang, this is my husband, Asdair."

Wang Ruoya smiled: "This is my fiancé Lin Xuan."

Lin Xuan stretched out his hand to shake hands with the two.

There was a paper bag in Asdair's hand, and it looked like it contained a bottle of wine.

Arsdale: "I originally wanted to invite you to dinner, but Mr. Lin proposed to invite us as guests, so we didn't refuse. The rule there is that guests should be given a bottle of wine.

"But you can't buy very good wine here at the moment. This bottle of Ace of Spades Platinum, I just don't know why there is no gift box."

Lin Xuan took the wine with a smile: "This is real wine. As for why there is no gift box, I'm not sure.

Wang Ruoya smiled: "My fiancé is very good at collecting red wine, so this bottle should be the right one."

In fact, it's not expensive at all. It costs more than a thousand dollars, which is far from the real expensive wine.

Next to Arsdale, a little boy hugged his thigh.

Asdair touched the little boy's head: "James, they are the ones who made the sand sculptures on the beach."

James' face was full of admiration: "Wow, so awesome!"

Asdair introduced his three children in turn.

The dining table was placed on the deck and everyone took their seats.

Arsdale: "Originally, I came here with my wife to look at jadeite. Unexpectedly, I met Ms. Wang, an expert on jadeite, and Mr. Lin, who is not famous in the industry but is actually a top architect."

Wang Ruoya smiled: "I am not an expert on jade. Rather than saying that I am an expert on jade, it is better to say that my fiancé is.

Wang Ruoya: "I didn't know that this guy knew much about Jade 353 before he fell in love with me. "Later I found out that he knew it very well."

Mrs. Arsdale was surprised: "So when Lin pursued you, he didn't use his familiarity with jade to bring the relationship closer between you?"

Wang Ruoya nodded: "Yes."

Asdale laid out the napkin: "Lin, I have a question."

Lin Xuan: "But it doesn't matter."

Arsdale: "How do you dig out a hollow layer under the sand? Such a large hollow should cause the sand weighing several tons above to collapse.

Lin Xuan smiled: "Actually, I didn't dig out the sand, I just dug out the sand in the small area that I could see."

"Then we use light diffraction to make the space inside look like it's been hollowed out."

Arsdale constructed it in his mind and suddenly realized: "So this is it."

"I thought you dug an O-shaped space inside, but actually the space inside is a V-shape?"

Lin Xuan nodded: "Yes."

Arsdale: "One more question, do you think the future design of the Tower of Babel is feasible?"

Lin Xuan shook his head: "According to my calculations, it should be impossible."

Lin Xuan took out the paper and started counting.

A whole page was quickly filled.

Asdale read it very carefully, but Mrs. Asdale and Wang Ya could not see what was written on the paper at all.

Lin Xuan: “According to my calculations, this building with a design height of 4,500 meters needs at least a counterweight of 98,700 tons to resist resonance.

"But unfortunately, the top of the structure cannot bear the weight."

Resonance is a very scary phenomenon in architecture.

Humans first discovered this phenomenon when troops crossed the bridge.

In an era when military discipline was not respected, no one had discovered this situation.

Until the time of Napoleon.

A group of soldiers walked across a stone bridge in unison. Halfway there, the bridge began to shake violently.

After the crowd panicked, the cadence became different and the vibrations disappeared immediately.

The same weight is used to cross the bridge, and walking in random steps is no problem, but walking in unison will cause the bridge to vibrate violently and almost collapse.

This phenomenon attracted the attention of scientists, and they eventually summarized the principle of resonance.

About forty years ago, a very large modern bridge in the United States began to sway violently when it encountered wind after undergoing repairs.

Scientists pinpoint the source of the wobbly resonance.

A barricade railing one meter high and weighing twelve kilograms.

This railing begins to vibrate in the wind, and the resonance frequency of the bridge is consistent with it.

As a result, the breeze caused violent resonance, and a bridge of hundreds of meters almost went straight because of a one-meter railing.

The same thing happened in the Dragon Kingdom.

In the deep city, a SEG building shook violently one day.

After scientists locked in various directions, they finally locked in a vertical lightning array on the roof of the building.

This lightning rod initially resonates at a different frequency than the building.

But as the above rusts, the frequency of the lightning array changes with the rust.

One day, the resonance frequency of the building coincided with that of the building.

The wind blew across the roof of the building, just a slight Category 4 wind, causing the whole building to shake crazily.

Eventually, the lightning rod was replaced with another one, and the problem was solved.

If the building is too high, it will swing like a pendulum, swinging left and right in a huge arc.

How to solve this problem? Just increase the counterweight.

When the building shook to the left, the counterweight suspended on the inside of the building did not move.

Mechanically speaking, it is equivalent to a force pulling the building on the right.

This prevents the building from swinging too much to the left.

When the building swayed to the right, the counterweight object still did not move, which was equivalent to a force pulling the building to the left.

In this way, the arc that exceeds 90 degrees from left to right becomes a slight tremor.

The same will be true for the Tower of Babel in the future.

Its design height is too high, more than four thousand meters.

Therefore, its resonance will be particularly terrifying.

The shaking at the top will also be particularly exaggerated.

A finger moves ninety degrees, and the distance it moves is only a dozen centimeters.

If a 100-meter tall building shakes ninety degrees, the shaking distance is fifty times pi meters.

If a one-thousand-meter-long building shakes ninety degrees, the distance it shakes is five hundred times pi meters.

What about the 4,500-meter Babel Tower?

The swaying distance is 2,250 times pi meters, which is 7,065 meters.

Just imagine, if people living on the top floor of Babel Tower encounter resonance phenomenon or DI earthquake phenomenon, they will sway back and forth within a radius of more than 7,000 meters in a short period of time.

People have long been photographed against the wall and turned into pulp.

Even if the person is fine, what about the building?

Even a pure steel building will inevitably break at this range.

Not to mention steel, even the strongest titanium alloy or the hardest diamond.

At this level, everything will collapse into slag.

The solution is to use weights.

However, this counterweight is too big.

After reading Lin Xuan's calculations, Asdair nodded: "Indeed, but is there any way to solve this problem?"

"Yes." Lin Xuan: "Between each layer, add tension springs and spring structures."

The smile on Asdair's face froze: "The manufacturing difficulty is too high and it is impossible to achieve. Is there anything else?"

"Also, the electromagnetic force floats in the air, and there is no actual contact on each floor."

Arsdale: “This is easier, but...it seems like no one can afford the electricity bill.

Lin Xuan: “That’s the wind resistance material.”

As long as the top is not blown by the wind, the base will not receive vibration.

Naturally there is no resonance.

Asdair thought for a while: "It's a pity that all of them are expected plans, and no one can realize them."

Lin Xuan smiled: "There is no possibility in terms of time for the Babel Tower project."

Asdair smiled: "I thought you would have a more realistic approach to this aspect if you built a dune tower of Babel."

"It seems that we humans still know too little about architecture."

Lin Xuan shook his head: "If there is no wind around, this kind of building will be easy to build.

No wind?

Lin Xuan drew a Babel Tower on the drawing, and then drew a circular cover on it.

"Perhaps the eco-city greenhouse cage is far simpler than the Tower of Babel itself."

"If there is a cover over this, it can prevent convection of air from the outside."

“And inside, there’s fixed wind direction ventilation.

"The Tower of Babel was successful."

To put it simply, it is to make a glass ball to cover the 'herringbone' shaped Tower of Babel.

Asdair laughed: "This is a clever plan."

"In an instant, the difficulties that architects need to overcome are transformed into difficulties that biologists need to overcome."

"It turned into a problem solving problem of creating a giant ecological greenhouse."

Lin Xuan laughed: But.........a botanist...I am one myself.

Lin Xuan: "Haha, science is all about imagination. If you don't even dare to think about it, there will be no room for progress."

A (chci) Sdale: "Look, I have recently thought of a plan. Come and evaluate it."

“My plan is to design a train track route from the Cape of Good Hope in the southernmost part of Africa to Patagonia, the southernmost end of the world in Latin America.”

Two people who understand design chatting together are the same as two people who don't know anything about it bragging about it.

’ I have a new project, which is to reclaim the Bohai Sea. ’

"I also have a new project, which is to put a lid on the Pacific Ocean."

Maybe a project like tiling the Great Wall would be a little simpler.

Lin Xuan and Lin Xuan were chatting about architectural examples of future human society.

Mrs. Arsdale is discussing jade design with Wang Ruoya.

“My recent waterscape design has reached a bottleneck, and I feel that if I add jadeite to it, it might be effective.

At first, Mrs. Arsdale was designing cat's eye gemstones.

Cat's eye gemstone is a very special natural gemstone because it looks like

Named after the cat’s eyes.

Cat's eye gemstone is a kind of chrysoberyl, which is produced only in Sri Lanka in the world.

Later, Asdale discovered that the output of opal was extremely low, and after the design reached a certain level, there was no room for further development.

It further entered the field of crystal gem design.

She even directed the aesthetic design of the growth process of the Crystal Earth in Superman Returns.

Nowadays, crystal has come to an end.

Mrs. Arsdale dared to say that no one in the world knew more about crystals than she did.

Therefore, Mrs. Arsdale began to choose a new breakthrough direction, emerald.

Wang Ruoya: "The design direction of Jade is very strong, mainly in three aspects."

"The first is the art of carving, the second is the art of cutting, and the third is the art of design."

“Carving corresponds to ornaments, cutting corresponds to polishing bracelets and jade plaques, and the design art is more complicated and needs to be combined with many precious ancient designs of the Dragon Kingdom.

Mrs. Arsdale nodded: "I understand this. The country that first used jadeite (jade is a type of jadeite) was the Dragon Kingdom.'

Wang Ruoya: "Actually, my jade design has reached its limit. I am now learning how to design diamonds."

Mrs. Arsdale: "Diamonds, rubies, and sapphires generally go together."

"Compared to crystal, what they test more is not the design ability, but the cutting skills."

Wang Ruoya nodded: "That's true. By the way, Arsdale, when making crystal jewelry, what are the first factors you consider?"

"Color matching.

Mrs. Arsdale stated the most important principle with certainty.

Wang Ruoya thought for a while: "That's right, crystals are famous for their variety. The key point is that the cheap crystals are not valuable at all, and the highest-end jadeite is also produced in huge quantities. If we want to make

In this aspect of design, a breakthrough must be made in color. "

Mrs. Arsdale also had the same question: "What is the most important thing in the design process of jade jewelry?"

Mrs. Arsdale couldn't understand the answer Wang Ruoya said at all: "The implication.

"What?"

Wang Ruoya: "This is completely related to the Dragon Kingdom culture, so if you don't understand the Dragon Kingdom culture, it will be difficult to do well in the jade design category.'

"For example, this type of vessel is called a gourd, which is the fruit of this plant."

“And gourd has the same pronunciation as Fulu in Mandarin.”

“So, when designing, we usually consider the purpose first, then consider the scene corresponding to the purpose and the required meaning, and then make the best design.

Mrs. Arsdale: "So, if I want to learn jade design, I must first learn the culture of the Dragon Kingdom?"

Wang Ruoya nodded: "That's right."

For example, how to carve a piece of jadeite with green, white and yellow colors?

The carving of this jade plaque must not touch the theme of water.

Because yellow and water merge, it creates the impression of Huangquan.

‘Friend Bao, I don’t want to wear this thing! This is called having a companion on the road to the underworld. '

However, change it, engrave it, and write "Question" on it.

The theme became "I have to find you even if I am in poverty and fall into hell." ’

In this way, the meaning has completely changed.

Therefore, if you don’t understand the culture of the Dragon Kingdom, you can’t learn green carving at all.

Wang Ruoya persuaded: "If you want to learn jade carving, it is too difficult, why not learn diamond design like me?"

Mrs. Arsdale shook her head: "I have a hunch that jade has become more and more popular in recent years."

"And the design of jadeite has a very broad road to take. If I add my cat's eye design and crystal design, and this step is taken, my road may be wider. I don't know how much wider it will be."

times. "

"The road ahead is suddenly clear."

Wang Ruoya nodded: "That's true.

Lin Xuan and Asdale have already discussed the feasibility of the space elevator design.

James and his three children couldn't understand either their father's topic or their mother's topic.

James raised his little hand: "Dad, Dad, can you build me a waffle house out of waffles?"

Lin Xuan smiled: "How about I build it for you?"

"OK!"

Lin Xuan picked up the waffles and started making waffle huts.

Soon, a refined cabin was built.

The only problem is how to fasten the door to the cabin.

The door of this cabin needs to be connected on top and then pushed and pulled.

Arsdale: "So, how do you want to make the portal axis?"

“Harden fluffy waffles and create grooves on the sides?”

"Or abandon this design and replace it with other ways to open the door?"

Lin Xuan laughed: "This problem is not even an architectural problem."

Lin Xuan picked up two toothpicks and threaded them from left to right.

The sliding window connected to the upper part is ready.

Arsdale: "Clever, although it's only a small point."

“But many designers tend to fall into misunderstandings.”

"Using toothpicks to make door hinges is far better than just taking them out."

Lin Xuan shook his head: "If it were a medieval (ancient Dragon Kingdom architecture) design, I would definitely use waffles as door shafts."

Although the earliest binding hinges in the history of the Dragon Kingdom can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

In most homes, a special structure on the door frame is used to jam the door shaft and use it to push the door.

Arsdale: "Lin Xuan, will you make any real-life designs?"

No matter how sophisticated the ideas for future architecture are, they are not as intuitive as realistic designs.

Lin Xuan: "It shouldn't be possible for the time being. I'm not short of money."

Arsdale: "I am a judge for this year's Pritzker Prize."

The Pritzker Prize, also known as the Oscars of architecture.

If you can win the unanimous favor of the judges here and get S, you can become a world design master for workers.

Lin Xuan shook his head: "I will definitely not participate this year. If there is a chance in the future, I will participate."

Asdale cut off a piece of steak and chewed it.

Then he spoke slowly: "I'm waiting to see your real building."

Through a chat over a meal, Asdale was already convinced of Lin Xuan's design philosophy and skills.

Now I just want to see Lin Xuan's design.

But…………this will have to wait.

At the pier where the lights were not too bright, the ship approached the Yangon Harbor Pier. .