The End of Technology

September is the beginning of another new school year.

After experiencing a summer vacation that made everyone feel completely transformed, the campus feels different again.

When a group begins to be proud of XX from the heart, the pride and self-confidence engraved in the bones of everyone in the group cannot be concealed. It can even be said that those pride and self-confidence have become a fixed mental state.

The scene of welcoming new students is still so lively.

There are also recruitment activities of various societies which can also be exciting.

The only regret is that the Space Academy, which is very eye-catching even among sports universities, is not on the main campus.

This is indeed a pity.

After all, the freshmen of the Space Academy are truly the best students of the University of Physical Education. It is said that 40% of the students are competition students alone, and the remaining 60% are among the top ten in the college entrance examination in each province. And most of them also need a very strict physical examination report.

Look, if you really want to talk about it, these young people from the Space Academy are definitely the best love partners in the future.

Needless to say, family conditions are definitely not much different. Even if it's a little bit worse, I've definitely made a fortune recently. Moreover, the college also helped with the physical examination. If he had any hidden diseases, he would not be able to enter the college at all. This does not involve any discrimination, but it has already been clearly written in the admissions instructions of the Space Academy. After graduation, you are likely to frequently go to outer space for business trips, etc., so the physical fitness requirements are relatively high. This makes sense and everyone can understand it.

After all, astronauts have higher requirements. Everything is determined by the particularity of the work. No one can say no.

The most important thing is the future.

It provides a job, and even dares to include the major in the academic contract with an annual salary of no less than a certain amount. At present, the Space Academy is probably the only one in the world, so it is also jokingly called a mother-in-law exemption major by many people. I don’t know whether I will be happy in the future, but there is a high probability that I won’t be too short of money.

Of course, for the first batch of Space Academy students, they didn't pay much attention to this at this time.

What excites many people the most is that their dean will deliver a speech in person on the opening ceremony.

Really, perhaps Ning Zi himself has not realized that he is already the idol in the hearts of many young people. Of course, his reputation as an idol is actually quite strange.

If you only read various news on the Internet, you would think that Ning Zi is a very high-profile person. After all, this name is often on trending searches. For many young people who cannot live without the Internet, this name is often seen and cannot be avoided.

But if you really want to find videos of Ning Zi speaking in person on the Internet, you will find that there are too few. So few that you can count them clearly on one hand. The most valuable thing is actually three times.

One time was when Ning Zi first arrived at the University, she made a speech as a student representative. The recording of this speech was not very clear, and it is difficult to find a complete version. Most of them are clips shot with mobile phones.

The second and most widely circulated video is Ning Zi’s speech at the World Congress of Mathematicians, but the entire speech was in English, and most people were difficult to understand what he said.

The third one is the speech given at the recent high-end astronomy forum, which also talked about cross-professional aspects.

In addition, it is almost impossible to find videos of Ning Zi publicly speaking. Occasionally, you can find some fragmented videos from the omnipotent Internet, probably the video of Ning Zi instructing Bell Labs to conduct lightning experiments.

This is indeed a very counter-intuitive thing.

This is probably one of the reasons why many young people admire Ning Ju. The typical person is ruthless and doesn't talk much.

Not to mention the statement of responsibility issued by the college not long ago, which strengthened that image.

A truly high-quality idol!

This is especially true for Chen Luo.

He chose the Space Academy, completely ignoring the offers from Huaqing University and Yanbei University. He even decided to attend the University of Science and Technology under pressure from his parents. His admiration for Ning Zi was definitely one of the most important reasons. Being able to hear Ning Zi speak was what he had been looking forward to.

Of course, this is what many students are looking forward to.

The only thing that dissatisfied Chen Luo was that the opening ceremony of the Space Academy did not start directly after the military training, but after a week of classes.

What is this operation?

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In fact, it is not a remarkable operation.

The main reason is that the large-scale activity venues here at the base have not been arranged yet.

After all, the research base is built for all kinds of research. The teaching base of the Space Academy is set up here mainly because there is really no open space in the headquarters. Even if you want to expand it is difficult. Mature places have limited space, and Ning Jie doesn't think it's a good idea to make the headquarters more bloated.

On the other hand, the nature of the future work of the Space Academy determines that it is a good idea to let students experience the relatively closed campus life in advance.

After all, there are gains and losses in life.

What is being cultivated here is China's first batch of relevant talents who will need to be stationed in space for a long time to conduct various scientific research and exploration activities in the future, so it is necessary to adapt to a relatively closed life in advance.

No matter how fast technology develops, the nature of space work is very different from ground work. Even if China can build a huge space city in the future and stand outside the earth, the city itself will be closed.

In addition, Ning Zi, who was the dean for the first time, also had too much work to be familiar with.

For example, the quality assessment of teaching work.

In this way, his speech at the opening ceremony can be more targeted.

After all, humans are not omnipotent.

Today, September 24, 2018, is also a particularly memorable day for the Space Academy.

This is the first day of formal classes for various departments in the college.

As the dean, Ning Zi also came to the scientific research base early, planning to follow the one-day course.

It was no joke that most of the teachers at the Space Academy were winners of various world scientific research awards.

Especially in the physics laboratory here, there are already several Nobel Prize winners. If these scientific research giants want to get enough points to study cutting-edge things, they have to take classes in exchange for points.

As for the question of whether letting these big guys teach undergraduates is a way to kill mosquitoes with cannons, Ning Zi did not consider it.

In the March planning, the teaching tasks of the Space Academy were different from those of other departments. What they most need to cultivate at this stage is the ability to study problems and cultivate their yearning and love for science. These two points are the strengths of Nobel Prize-level scientists.

As for the postgraduate stage...

Four years later, undergraduates at the Space Academy are now going to the sky to continue their postgraduate courses. Without a paranoid love for science, after staying in a space city for a long time, after the enthusiasm has worn off, it will be difficult to endure the relative boring compared to the ground. of life.

This is documented in detail in the March database.

In the civilization that March Little Cutie has experienced, the earliest scientists stationed in space cities or moon bases for a long time all had some psychological problems to a greater or lesser extent. What’s interesting about this study is that the more paranoid a scientist is about scientific pursuits, the more comfortable he is in a closed space environment. For sociologists, this must be strong evidence of human sociality.

However, at this time, it is naturally more important to cultivate students' vision and curiosity in a targeted manner.

Of course, Ning Zi did not come to the base specifically to take over classes, but planned to randomly observe a few classes.

It can be understood that the school leaders inspect whether the teaching quality of the faculty meets the standards and whether the preliminary preparations are in place. So Ning Zi took no one with him this time. He took a car to the only teaching building in the base, took the elevator and casually pressed down on the third floor, and then strolled in the corridor.

It was already class time, so there was no one in the corridor. Ning Zi walked casually until he came to a lecture theater. He heard a professor speaking English with an accent, so he subconsciously walked to the back door and faced him. Take a look inside.

This is a quantum physics lesson. A required course in the Department of Basic and Theoretical Physics of the Space Academy. The substitute professor, Ning Zi, also knew him. He was the physicist Romon Kane who had won the Albert Einstein Science Prize. He is one of the physicists who applied to join the National University of Science and Technology after the conclusion of the Ningyuan World Astronomy Forum. His main research direction is actually quantum field theory and scattering amplitude in string theory.

Of course, it is definitely enough for a professor of this level to teach the basics of quantum physics.

It can be seen that most of the students in the classroom listened very carefully. About half of the students did not wear the simultaneous headphones provided for each seat in the classroom, but this did not prevent these students from taking notes seriously.

After thinking about it, Ning Zi walked into the classroom, casually found a less conspicuous seat in the back row and sat down to listen to the class. Basically, it didn't disturb anyone. After all, most people were listening carefully to the lecture. As for the professor on the podium, he was wearing reading glasses and staring down at the copywriting on the computer on his desk.

"...Everyone, after understanding the overview of quantum mechanics, I feel it is necessary to reiterate to you in the first class why you should learn this course and learn it well. This is very important. I have been doing this for a long time. I have never taught undergraduate students, but I have been training graduate students. I found that many people have not changed some concepts that should have been changed long ago even at the graduate level.

I talked to your dean about his original intention of opening the Space Academy. His training concept is to cultivate a group of qualified and pioneering scientists for future basic research in space. This expectation is actually very high, and coincidentally, the course of quantum mechanics can train your scientific awareness to the greatest extent.

Why do you say that? Because quantum physics can be said to be the most counter-intuitive subject in the history of human science. In its constitution, the world has no reality, only probabilities. Even time can be discrete! Someone may want to refute me at this point, because according to one of the cornerstones of constructing the quantum world, the time-dependent Schrödinger equation describes time.

But students, there is still the abominable quantum gravity that needs to be understood. There are many difficult problems to solve, because the quantized description of matter and the geometric description of space-time are incompatible with each other before the inequalities given by Ning Zi, and no theory can explain the self-consistency. , what is this concept?

Probably before the dean of our space academy came into being, countless founders of quantum mechanics were doing some unknown research..."

The professor's words were met with sighs from the students in the classroom.

Everyone loves to hear this.

As for Ning Zi, who was listening to the class, his expression showed no change.

There have been too many people praising him in different ways lately, and he has gotten used to it.

"Okay, Quiet, because of this, you must work harder to learn this course. Don't underestimate this course, it is difficult. This is why you may not be able to get started if you study for two years. But please believe I, learning this course is very important for your future. At least it will help us a lot in understanding the origin of the universe.

Okay, now please open your textbook. By the way, what I want to tell you before this is that the textbook you are using was adapted by me and your dean. It is the latest quantum mechanics textbook in the world, so it may be different from the textbooks you have come across before. Likewise, our first lesson is the experimental basis of quantum mechanics. Through a classical experiment, we will reveal the mysterious world of quantum mechanics and let you understand the basic assumptions of the quantum world. "

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There is no doubt that professors who win world awards have two skills.

At least according to Ning Zhe, what Romon Kane said was actually good.

The only problem is that the professor is probably not used to teaching undergraduates yet. When describing the experiment, he wrote a series of calculation processes directly on the blackboard.

It can be seen from the status of the students that there are not many students who can keep up with the professor's ideas.

But then again, quantum mechanics is a subject with an extremely large amount of calculations, and most students have to pass this level.

In this way, Ning Zi was listening to the class and observing the reactions of the students in the class. Until the music sounded after class, he just stood up and planned to leave quietly, but he was also sitting in the back row and stretching. The student recognized it.

"Ning Zi...oh, no, Dean Ning?"

The roaring sound instantly attracted everyone's attention. Many people turned their heads instantly, and Ning Zi who was standing there looked particularly eye-catching.

"Hurry up and close the back door and let Dean Ning give us a few words."

Everything happened so fast that Ning Zi didn't even have time to notice which student shouted out such a creative idea. However, these young college students reacted very quickly, and soon two of them stood up quickly. , rushed to the back door and closed the door.

This wave of operations really surprised Ning Zi.

He looked up at Professor Romon Kane on the podium. This professor from New Zealand was looking at him with his head sideways.

When I caught his eye, I took the initiative to put on the artificial intelligence simultaneous interpretation headphones provided on the podium.

Misstep...

I feel weak and prone to cold sweats. In addition, I have completely lost my sense of smell and taste today. I even performed a show of eating orange peels with an expressionless face...

I hate COVID-19!