Road to science and technology

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she heard Yue Yuanzhou change the topic and said: "Actually, it's not impossible, it's just that it's not something humans can do at the moment. Dr. Banks, you should have heard the idiom 'Have a plan in mind'. If you are in I use the method of 'expressing my feelings directly' when expressing 'having a well-thought-out idea', so I think it is no different from writing in Qiwen."

Louise Banks: "..." Are these two people here to argue? In fact, her first impression at the time also felt that it was somewhat similar to that kind of logotype, but later she learned that it was not exactly the same.

Gary Donnelly: "\u0026amp; # *\u0026amp; @! %fuck??"

Colonel Weber: "???"

In fact, Yue Yuanzhou is not aware of the relationship between Qiwen and the concept of time because he has never seen the relevant plot, otherwise he would not have said this.

Of course, since he said so, it can actually be achieved if you want to, as long as you compress all the information of what you want to say into one moment. This is the same as the magical power of cultivating immortals.

"Dr. Banks, have you found anything else?" Yue Yuanzhou asked. He thought there should be some information that Banks had not recorded in files or computers.

Upon hearing his words, Banks made a move: pulling his face, spreading his hands, and shrugging.

Done in one go!

Louise Banks felt that she really didn't want to say anything when she met these two bad guys. She was already complaining to Colonel Webb in her heart for inviting these two people here, even though she knew it was not Webb who did it.

In fact, Louise really made other discoveries, that is, she felt that she had been hallucinating occasionally recently, and then she saw a little girl. She had a vague feeling that it was her child, but she still doesn't know what happened. So I don’t want to talk about this kind of thing.

She has not discovered that this is caused by the influence of Heptapod Language B. In fact, the reason for her poor mental state also stems from this. She is afraid to speak out. Colonel Weber will not let her participate in the matter if he knows about it. For a language For a scientist, studying alien writing was too tempting, and she didn't want to give up the opportunity.

"Dr. Donnelly, where are you here?" Yue Yuanzhou didn't doubt that he was there, and turned to Gary who was standing aside.

Yue Yuanzhou originally thought that the communication between an alien race was no big deal. He had seen a lot of aliens, and he had never seen anyone who couldn't communicate. Just like the space principal of Super Theological Seminary, he was not able to speak fluently at the beginning, but after being beaten by the neutron war star, he became fluent and no longer confused.

But now, Yue Yuanzhou vaguely felt that this heptapod was different from other alien civilizations he had seen. At least their words were interesting.

Although many places are similar to Chinese, there are also many differences. Yue Yuanzhou is now very interested in different places.

When talking about his major, Gary Donnelly immediately woke up from his sleepy state. He touched his beard and said: "We have a common language with him in arithmetic, but we hit a wall on geometry and algebra." At first, we thought it was due to the body structure of the heptapods, and then changed our plane coordinate system to a spherical system, but the heptapods did not understand our intention."

"Oh, we also found that their mirrors and our monitors belong to different technical fields. The principles of the two are completely different. They do not use pixels or scan lines, and the refresh method is not based on frame-by-frame scanning.

Based on this discovery, we thought about whether we could communicate in the most concrete and practical aspects, such as the names of elements. In fact, this was also the case. The heptapods understood the periodic table of elements we showed, but when we entered a slightly more abstract Domain, the heptapods don’t know what we are talking about. "

Yue Yuanzhou nodded and said, "You have explained the simplest physical characteristics to them, right? Such as mass and speed."

"Yes, but they asked us to express it more clearly."

"What about spin, angular momentum, and micro-dimensional structural models?"

"Uh no!"

"I understand, you continue."

Gary Donnelly recalled the scene at that time, and then continued: "Later, we adopted the most direct demonstration method, from dots to dashes, to photos, and animation, but there was no progress."

At this point, Gary Donnelly paused for a long time. He seemed not to want to tell the latest news. It wasn't that he didn't want Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian to know, but he thought that even if he told them, they might not understand.

Because he had never heard of a physicist named Yue Yuanzhou.

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. After a long time, Gary Donnelly finally chose to say it simply: "However, there is good news. Not long ago, Dr. Hemold used animation to demonstrate the power of the heptapods. Erma's law, then they repeated it just like us, and now Dr. Heimold is doing his best to get the heptapods to express this law in symbolic formulas."

"Oh, that means that the mathematics of heptapods are still common to human mathematics." Yue Yuanzhou said happily.

"Of course!" replied Gary Donnelly.

Yue Yuanzhou nodded. His focus was different from that of Gary, Colonel Weber and even Shang Shaojian. They were concerned about communication issues with the heptapods, but Yue Yuanzhou was not, or not all of them.

Yue Yuanzhou is not worried about being unable to communicate, because he has long detected that the physical laws here in the solar system are the same as those billions of light years away. The reason why he was happy was because now he had preliminary confirmation that the heptapods did not have the ability to modify mathematical laws.

As for why the heptapods find the basic concepts of speed and mass difficult to understand, just use mathematical language to communicate.

As for the mathematical expression of Fermat's law, although Dr. Heimold has not made any progress yet, Yue Yuanzhou has made some guesses.

The various previous performances of the heptapods have shown that their brain circuits are very different from humans, and even their basic scientific views of the world are completely different. Therefore, the most likely thing is that after they understand what Dr. Blackmore meant, they can easily interpret Phil Write down the mathematical expression of Ma's law.

Because if you want to give a mathematical description of Fermat's law, only calculus can do it, and it is not ordinary calculus, you have to use variable calculus.

So of course this is difficult, but it is only relative to the human mathematical system. The mathematical system of the heptapods may be different. In their system, this may be the basis of algebra.

With this inference, Yue Yuanzhou's focus is not on whether the heptapods can write mathematical expressions and mathematical descriptions of Fermat's time minimum law, but on whether they can express the quantum mechanical content involved in this theorem. It is also described mathematically.

Because using calculus or even variable calculus to express it only explains this phenomenon in terms of classical physics, a complete explanation of it should also include the content of quantum mechanics.

What Yue Yuanzhou wants to determine now is whether the heptapod has the ability to describe this physical phenomenon in quantum mechanics. There is a huge gap between the results of yes and no.

Because it will be the embodiment of the way of thinking of the heptapod race.

"I hope you can provide a quantum mechanical explanation, otherwise you are just a miserable race trapped in your own thinking!" Yue Yuanzhou sighed in his heart. He seemed to see a race that was trapped in its thinking forever because of its own flaws. Sadness in a cage.

Yue Yuanzhou sighed, which made several people around him feel confused, but Yue Yuanzhou ignored him and said: "I understand, you did a good job, now let us go and see the performance of the two illiterate heptapods! "