Road to science and technology

"What?! Go now?" Colonel Weber was shocked. He had just come back not long ago, so why did he go again? It was not even the window period!

He looked at Dr. Banks, expecting her to say something, but Dr. Banks's reaction disappointed him.

However, Gary Donnelly said with some worry: "It has only been two hours since the last contact. I think it is best to wait. Not only are our personnel tired, Abbott and Coslot also need to rest."

As he spoke, he looked at the haggard face of Louise Banks, and when he saw that she looked like she had lost all her SAN points, he immediately looked worried.

"If you don't want to go, just stay here. Let's go, old Shang." Yue Yuanzhou looked at the two of them deeply, turned around and left.

These two people should be related to the original plot and are probably key figures, but Yue Yuanzhou doesn't think it matters. He believes that aliens are the key, and he has no purpose in coming here.

"Okay sir." Shang Shaojian followed.

"Wait a minute, you two!"

Seeing this, Colonel Weber hurriedly spoke out, but found that the two of them turned a deaf ear and continued to move forward. He made a decisive decision: "Damn it! God bless, let's go there too! Hurry!"

He will not allow someone to contact aliens without his sight, because he is not sure whether this will be detrimental to the United States.

The staff in the temporary tent office heard Colonel Weber's words and hurriedly went to prepare.

"Let's go too, Gary." Dr. Banks also said.

In the end, after a while of confusion, the few people finally hurriedly followed.

Outside the tent is a vast field, and at the end of the field of view is a stretch of mountains. Due to the obvious temperature difference between the two sides of the mountains, the moist air forms a flowing cloud layer on the top of the mountain, draped over the mountains, and pours down from the other side. , and the heptapod spaceship was parked in the thick fog.

This time, Yue Yuanzhou finally carefully observed the suspended spacecraft. He was not in a hurry to get on, but stood not far from the spacecraft and began to detect it at the rule level.

"What are you doing? Sir, do you know why they are hovering like this?" Shang Shaojian, who followed closely behind, asked in confusion.

"Assessing their technological level."

Yue Yuanzhou retracted his flashing gaze and continued: "As I thought, this is a space locking technology. They rivet the spaceship firmly to the space. It's not bad, but you don't have to worry. It's not yet enough to shake the Zhuxia Community. to the point.”

After speaking, Yue Yuanzhou quickened his pace, and Shang Shaojian, who was now at the peak of human form, also strode to keep up.

At this time, a truck engine buzzed from behind.

Weber and others finally caught up, along with two Hummers and a scissor lift platform.

"Stupid UN commissioner, if there is no lifting platform, why don't you go up there and have a look!" Weber was secretly proud when he saw that the two people in front of him had not yet climbed up. Sitting in the passenger seat, he turned to the driver and ordered: "Slow down. Click it and let them dry for a while."

"Okay sir!"

The driver was also happy to see this, but before he could slow down, he heard Colonel Weber shouting hurriedly: "Quick, quick, quick, give me the first chance to get there!"

"Oh my God, what did I just see?" Louise exclaimed in another car, and she seemed to see the two people flying up.

"It must have been done by aliens! Do you still remember the change in the direction of gravity after we entered the spacecraft? Louise, it seems we have to get there soon. It is not good news that aliens treat us and them so differently." .”

Physicist Gary Donnelly thought about it for a while, then stepped on the accelerator. The Hummer's tires immediately picked up a burst of grass clippings, and then quickly rushed towards the alien spacecraft.

A physicist, a linguist, Colonel Weber and an anti-camera person, several people hurried to the bottom of the spacecraft, only to find that the aliens did not suck them up, so they could only take the scissor lift , waiting for the alien spacecraft in the same way as before.

This time, Louise and the four others moved much faster than before, so they arrived not too late.

When the four of them came to the familiar viewing mirror, they found that Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian had only been standing there for a while, because they discovered that Abbott and Koslot had just come out.

"Abbott, Koslot." Louise saw the two heptapods appearing and shouted their names excitedly.

The two heptapods seemed happy to see her and responded in kind.

I saw a fold on the top of the heptapod on the right trembled, followed by a short vibrating sound like water droplets splashing.

"Okay, now that you're here, just watch from the side." Yue Yuanzhou said at this time.

Upon hearing this, Shang Shaojian turned around and made a gesture of invitation to Louise Si who had just arrived, meaning to ask them to push aside and not interfere with what Yue Yuanzhou was going to do next.

"Mr. Shang, I think this is your first time contacting Abbott and Coslot. The language of the heptapods is very different from English. I think you need me to act as a translator." Louise did not back down. Instead, argue with reason.

"No need, I told you to watch, just watch." Shang Shaojian refused.

This answer undoubtedly made Louise very unhappy. After all, she had done so much work in the early stage, but due to their identities, she could only hold back for the time being.

"Louise, let's see what he does first!" At this moment, Gary from behind stretched out his hand to pull her and said softly.

"Well, I hope they don't mess it up." Louise expressed her worries and then watched quietly.

Colonel Weber, who was on the side, approached Louise at this time and said: "Dr. Banks, I need to know their conversation to prevent uncontrollable things from happening, and you are the only one here who can speak Chinese. I hope you can understand. "

Weber was obviously afraid that Yue Yuanzhou would not be able to understand the Chinese he spoke. His worry was justified, because Yue Yuanzhou really spoke Chinese to two heptapods.

But he only said one sentence, and the way was a little special, because it was not just a voice. "This is a mathematical description of human beings, what about you?"

While Yue Yuanzhou was speaking, a projection screen appeared in front of him. Inside the screen was a 36m transparent water container. A point B was clearly marked in the water of the container, and a point light source appeared in the air outside the container.

While everyone was stunned, the point light source instantly emitted a beam of light, passed through the interface between air and water, entered the water, and then passed through the marked point in the water.

Subsequently, dotted lines representing other light paths appeared. They were theoretical lines, but the refracted light was always represented in reality from beginning to end.

At the same time, next to the projection screen, mathematical formulas appeared out of thin air, and suddenly the empty space was filled with series of formulas.

Since Hemold had used this to communicate with the heptapods before, and the various symbols of these mathematical formulas corresponded one-to-one with the symbols in the images, the two heptapods quickly understood the meaning.

Perhaps these heptapods were indeed basic mathematics, so they responded quickly, and several ink circles were sprayed out, and then fixed on the sight glass.

Yue Yuanzhou was not eager to interpret their answers, but continued to use mathematics to communicate.

This is because although Yue Yuanzhou obtained a lot of information from Dr. Banks and the information on human contact with the heptapods during this period, this information is far from sufficient for normal communication with the heptapods.

Now that the heptapods understand what they mean, it will be easier to handle. Continue to use mathematics to communicate until you understand the mathematical system of the heptapods, and then use mathematics to correspond and demonstrate various physical phenomena in the real world. Learn more about the corresponding meanings of the heptapod words.

It has now been basically determined that the most basic mathematics of the heptapods is the most difficult thing for humans, so Yue Yuanzhou plans to show them some proofs of mathematical conjectures in the next step.

Various mathematical formulas such as calculus and variable calculus, as well as mathematical descriptions such as Goldbach's conjecture, Hooch's conjecture, Poincare conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Yang-Mills existence and mass gap.

Since these heptapods thought that mathematics that was difficult for humans was easy, Yue Yuanzhou decided to give them a round of "basic mathematics."