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Chapter 294 Einstein Has Quit the Group Chat

On the table.

Mai Mai was stealthily eating boiled sea bass, his whole body was numb with pepper, and he was a little skeptical about his life, as if he was speaking Parseltongue.

After hearing Xu Yun's words, he quickly put down his chopsticks, quickly picked up the eggnog and took a big gulp, suppressing the taste.

After doing this, he began to think about Xu Yun's question.

"Future plans."

He scratched his head lightly, looked at Xu Yun and said:

"Mr. Luo Feng, my original plan was to get a scholarship first, and try to stay in school as a teaching assistant after graduation to gain some experience."

"When I have enough qualifications, I will go back to Scotland to be a professor. I will pay off the family's debts in three or four years, and then see if there is a chance to start a family or something."

Lao Tang, who was sitting across from him, noticed a word keenly, and couldn't help raising his eyelids to look at him:

"Original plan? Now you have changed your mind?"

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Mai Mai nodded slightly and remained silent for a few seconds, with a hint of confusion in his eyes:

"It's not really a change of mind, it's just that I don't know what to choose."

"Mr. Faraday actually approached me these days and proposed the idea of ​​accepting me as a graduate student."

"It takes time to go to graduate school—as short as two years, as long as four years. In this way...my family's debts will be difficult to repay."

Xu Yun glanced at him lightly.

Although Wheat's father, John Clerk Maxwell, was a lawyer, he almost used up all his savings to treat Wheat's mother's tuberculosis more than ten years ago.

But unfortunately, wheat's mother eventually passed away.

Later, his father, Lao Mai, suffered another big loss in the flour business, and owed a large amount of money outside.

Xu Yun didn't know the exact amount, but it took eight years for the wheat in history to help pay off the money.

Therefore, wheat's wallet has not been too big all the time.

The core reason why wheat returned to Scotland to teach at Marishal College in 1856 was that they gave too much

At that time, Cambridge paid Wheat £4.50 a week, or £18 a month, equivalent to a monthly salary of about 16,000 in purchasing power.

The University of Glasgow gave a weekly salary of £5 during the trial period and £7 during the regularization period.

And Marisal College?

In one breath, I got a weekly salary of 12 pounds, which is 48 pounds a month.

This is just like the Huaxia, Middle East, and Eagles major leagues in later generations spend a lot of money poaching people, relying on money to poach more people.

Some people in later generations thought that it was a waste of time for Mai to spend four years at Marisal College, but they ignored the plight of Mai's urgent need for money.

Scientists are human beings too, and they need to be well fed.

If it comes to the national level, it may be supported by consciousness and belief, but personal career is undoubtedly much more realistic.

Then looking at the somewhat confused Mai, Xu Yun put the fork on the table and asked:

"Maxwell, would you go to graduate school if you didn't think about debt?"

"Of course I would."

Mai Mai gave an affirmative answer without hesitation, and even light appeared in his eyes:

"I originally thought that I would go on the path of pure theoretical mathematics in this life, but until now I discovered that the electromagnetic world is countless times more mysterious than theoretical mathematics!"

"For example, Professor Gauss gave me several volumes of manuscripts more than a week ago, which described a system other than Euclidean geometry, which I found to be equally important for electromagnetic research."

"Wait a minute, Maxwell!"

Before Mai Mai finished speaking, Riemann on the side suddenly interrupted him, and asked solemnly:

"Student Maxwell, you said that Mr. Gauss gave you several volumes of manuscripts, which recorded mathematical systems other than Euclidean geometry?"

Wheat nodded, not noticing Riemann's subtle expression, but said to himself:

"Didn't I discover the companion star when I was looking for Conan's star before? I did a little favor to Professor Gauss."

"Later, he chatted with me for a few days, and gave me a few volumes of manuscripts a few days ago."

"In one of the manuscripts, Professor Gauss' guesses about this system are recorded. At the beginning, he named it as Stellar Geometry, but later changed it to Non-Euclidean Geometry."

"In my opinion, Professor Gauss's manuscript is much more complete than Mr. Lobachevsky's theory, but it is a pity that it has not been made public."

After listening to his narration quietly, Riemann was silent for a long time, and suddenly sighed with emotion:

"Student Maxwell, from now on, I may call you Junior Brother."

wheat:

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Seeing that Wheat was a little confused, Riemann took the initiative to explain:

"Student Maxwell, you may not know it. The concept of non-Euclidean geometry is so powerful that it is easily refuted by public opinion."

"Therefore, the teacher has not announced his results to the public."

"Although there are sporadic people who have heard that the teacher is conducting research on non-Euclidean geometry, the only ones who have actually seen the manuscript are our direct disciples, and there are no more than five of them."

After saying this, Riemann's eyes on Maimai became closer:

"The teacher's health has not been very good in recent years. After you graduate from undergraduate, I'm afraid I won't have the energy to take you to graduate school."

"However, since he handed over this manuscript to you, in a sense, I can indeed call you junior."

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After listening to Riemann's words, Xiaomai's face was obviously stunned.

What's the situation?

When Gauss gave him these manuscripts, the original words were clearly "some insignificant research results".

How did it get into Riemann's mouth, and it became a top-secret document that can only be read by disciples?

He is a student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He only chatted and laughed with Gauss a few times. How did he become a student of the professor at the University of Göttingen?

How about talking to Professor Gauss and asking him to hire another Gao Ming?

Mai Mai just looked at Riemann in a daze like this, unaware that Xu Yun beside him had already fallen into a greater shock than them.

Mom!

Non-Euclidean geometry!

Gauss actually gave this to Xiaomai? ? ?

well known.

In the long scientific history of mankind, many far-reaching works have been born.

For example, in the East there are "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" and "Nine Chapters of Suan Shu".

For example, the West has "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", "Spiral" and so on.

And if we talk about the book with the longest plan for establishing spatial order, then the "Elements of Geometry" is undoubtedly the first.

This book established the famous Euclidean geometry system, which can be regarded as the cornerstone work in the history of mathematics.

Euclidean geometry dominated the mathematics world for two thousand years after it was proposed, and no one can shake its authority.

But on the other hand.

Euclidean geometry is invincible in terms of system, but some details have always been controversial.

Like its fifth axiom.

The content of this axiom is as follows:

A straight line intersects two other straight lines in the same plane. If the sum of the two interior angles on a certain side is less than two right angles, the two straight lines intersect on this side after infinite extension.

The fifth axiom is less obvious due to the lengthy textual description.

So some mathematicians came up with an idea:

Can the fifth axiom be regarded as a theorem instead of an axiom?

Can other axioms be relied upon to prove the fifth axiom?

This is the discussion of the "parallel line theory" that has been debated for more than two thousand years in the history of geometric development.

The Swiss geometer and mathematician Lambert, the famous French mathematicians Legendre and Lagrange, etc. have all spent a lot of energy on this problem.

Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.

This question is like the paper man's wife.

Ruthlessly consumes the tissues of the otaku without giving them any real love.

This situation continued until the early 19th century, when someone finally stood up:

He is the Russian mathematician Lobachevsky.

His way of thinking is completely different from that of his predecessors. He inherited the fine tradition of Mao Xiong and boldly thought about the opposite formulation of this question:

Is there a possibility that there is no proof of the fifth postulate at all?

So then.

He conducted research along this line of thought, and set out to seek an answer to the unprovability of the fifth postulate.

The first thing he does is to deny the fifth postulate.

That is to say, it is assumed that "through a point outside the straight line on the plane, at least two straight lines can be drawn that do not intersect with the known straight line".

Then use this negative proposition and other axioms and postulates to form a new axiom system, and carry out logical deduction from this.

In the end, during the deduction process, he got a series of weird data.

But surprisingly.

Barochevsky's careful scrutiny did not reveal any logical contradictions between them.

So Lobachevsky boldly asserted:

This new axiom system that "there is no contradiction in the result" can constitute a new geometry.

Its logical completeness and rigor are comparable to those of Euclidean geometry, and the existence of this new geometry without contradiction is the refutation of the verifiability of the fifth postulate.

That is, the logical proof of the unprovability of the fifth postulate.

Lobachevsky cautiously called this new geometry "imaginary geometry" since he has not yet found the prototype and analogue of the new geometry in the real world.

Lobachevsky chose to publish this theory in 1826, and then

He was sprayed into the heart of a certain neon man by public opinion, with holes everywhere, and he was completely bruised.

Because this theory really challenged the cognition at the time, it is as outrageous as the bananas of later generations saying that they will explode for a week.

It was not until 1866, 12 years after Lobachevsky's death, that non-Euclidean geometry was successfully overturned.

At first glance, Lobachevsky’s experience looks a bit like wheat, but in fact he is much worse than wheat:

Wheat later served as the first director of the Cavendish Laboratory at any rate, but Lobachevsky suffered from multiple suppressions for 30 years.

Although he entered the German Academy of Sciences, the allowance was only received once in the name of condolence money in the second month after his death, which is embarrassing.

Compared with Lobachevsky, there is a big guy who discovered non-Euclidean geometry, which is much more chicken thief.

He is Gauss.

Gauss discovered non-Euclidean geometry many years earlier than Lobachevsky, and the related theoretical system was much more perfect than that constructed by Lobachevsky.

But Gauss was well aware of the impact this new system would cause, so his cautious thinking once again took the high point, and he did not choose to disclose his theory.

These contents were not discovered from the manuscript until after Gauss' death.

By the way.

Along with these manuscripts were discovered a dozen methods of algebraic proof

The originals of these manuscripts are now in the Dransfeld Gauss Museum, 10 kilometers southwest of Göttingen, and the official website of the University of Göttingen can find scanned copies for download.

However, what caused Xu Yun's complicated mood was not that Gauss gave the manuscript to Maimai, but the subsequent impact of these manuscripts.

mentioned earlier.

The Mavericks of this timeline independently completed the establishment of calculus, and Leibniz lost an honor to be recorded in history.

After becoming famous, Maverick worked as Professor Lucas at Cambridge University for decades, so Cambridge University's background in calculus is naturally the deepest in Europe.

At the same time.

As the ultimate metamorphosis capable of deriving Maxwell's equations, Wheat is one of the future leaders of the Department of Mathematics, and his achievements in differential topological manifolds are naturally not low.

And friends who have studied big things and advanced mathematics in later generations should know it.

Differential manifold plus non-Euclidean geometry, this is the theory of Riemannian geometry

Don't worry, it's not over yet.

To know.

Xu Yun had already figured out the thing about electromagnetic waves during the opening ceremony.

Together with the derived wave equation, it can be said that the core of electrodynamics has almost been constructed by him.

Earlier, he also wrote to the Mavericks to mention some mistakes in the absolute space-time concept.

Oh, right.

There is also the rotating mirror method optimized by Xu Yun when he was tinkering with the distance measurement of the speed of light. It is estimated that the Michelson-Morley experiment can be started seven or eight years earlier.

That is.

When Mai is about forty years old, this will appear on his skill bar:

Electrodynamics + Riemannian geometry + differential geometry + photoelectric effect + the first dark cloud are all working together

well known.

The variable of space-time is obtained by logical deduction with the invariant of constant c.

That is to say

When Wheat was forty years old, he already had the conditions, tools, and ideas to deduce the theory of relativity.

It’s hard to tell if it’s someone else, but this guy is Maxwell

He couldn't derive the theory of relativity before the age of forty-five, so Xu Yun ate that ax on the spot!

all in all.

What Xu Yun did before is equivalent to a mountain of gunpowder, which looks amazing, but without a source of fire, it is just a pile of powder.

The manuscript that Gauss threw to Mai was a match.

Gauss seems to be just throwing it lightly, but the consequences of it

Riemann can still be supported by Riemann's conjecture, and Lao Ai will have to scold her for guessing.

Of course.

With Lao Ai's ability, with predecessors like Mai Mai setting the stage, maybe even more astonishing results will be created.

At worst, if you can see your old love in the future, try to ensure that his brain will not be sliced ​​and compensated.

Think here.

Xu Yun couldn't help taking a deep breath, raised his head, and said to Mai:

"Student Maxwell, you must study carefully the manuscript that Professor Gauss gave you, it may bring you some unexpected gains."

"As for your studies. I still think you should follow Mr. Faraday to study in graduate school. There may be other solutions to the debt."

After speaking, he swept the dining table lightly.

Since there are other people present today, some words are not suitable for him to say.

As the great-great-great-grandchildren of later generations of wheat.

Not to mention the details of Mai Mai's life experience, Xu Yun at least knows all the key points.

So a long time ago, he was preparing for the life of wheat after he left.

After all, the core of this mission is to change the fate of Xiaomai and Laotang.

Now that the fate of Lao Tang has changed, there are two patches that must be applied to the fate of Mai Mai.

The first is naturally the stomach trouble of wheat.

The cause of wheat's untimely death was stomach cancer. His poor eating habits caused him to suffer from extremely serious stomach problems, and he died young at the age of 48.

There is no specific medicine for stomach cancer these days, but Mai Mai is only 20 years old now, and with good eating habits, there is basically no possibility of recurrence of stomach cancer.

In addition, the second patch is wheat's wallet.

Xu Yun has already arranged some backhands for Wheat, and these backhands may not be able to make Wheat a wealthy man like Cavendish.

But at least he can do academics with peace of mind, easily afford some experimental losses, and live comfortably for the rest of his life.

Then Xu Yun stood up.

I went back to my bed and found a blank notebook, and returned to my seat with paper and pen:

"Come on, Maxwell, write down your life plan, don't make it too long."

Mai Mai took the paper and pen, pondered for a moment, and wrote a sentence on it:

【Go to graduate school after graduation, the goal is to stay in school to teach, and become a nominee for the Copley Medal】——James Clerk Maxwell.

Copley Medal.

This is a medal established by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Before the establishment of the Nobel Prize, it was listed as the two highest honors in the world together with the Academy Essay Award of the Gallic Academy of Sciences.

Compared with Riemann's goal, wheat's expectations are obviously higher.

But if you compare the status of the two before their lives, it is Riemann who milked himself in reverse:

Riemann became famous in the first battle four years later, but Wheat drove high and low after graduation.

It is indeed a pity that a master who derived Maxwell's equations did not win the Copley Medal.

Then Xu Yun took the note and thought about it, handed it to Hubert Alley, and said:

"Student Airi, it's up to you next."

Airi took the note and turned to a page, and wrote a paragraph neatly and generously.

After he finishes writing.

Xu Yun took the note and read it aloud:

"Graduated successfully, succeeding father as director of the Royal Observatory?"

Ai Li hummed to Xu Yun, with a relaxed expression, and said with a smile:

"I grew up in the Royal Observatory, and I have a deep affection for it. It can even be said to be my second home."

"So my plan is very simple, that is, to become the real master of that family and help my father solve some troubles."

Xu Yun nodded slightly.

Hubert Airy's goals are neither too high nor too low, nothing particularly bright.

To use the analogy of the situation in later generations, it is probably equivalent to a top student at Shuimu University who wants to become the director of the Purple Mountain Observatory.

Hubert Alley's potential is obviously sufficient, but Xu Yun is not sure whether this dream has been realized in the original history - he is really not very familiar with Hubert Alley.

If it weren't for his surname and the fact that Airy was isolated when they met, Xu Yun would never have thought of George Bedell Airy at all.

However, considering that George Biddle Airy later became the president of the Royal Society, the possibility of Hubert Airy realizing his expectations should not be low.

Then Xu Yun looked around again, took a few steps to the side, and handed the notebook to Kirchhoff.

His relationship with the German is not that close, so the ranking is slightly lightened:

The fourth person after Riemann, Wheat and Hubert Alley should not make him think of being underestimated.

I saw this electrician who hadn't yet grown a beard took the notebook, tried the pen in the blank area, and quickly began to write.

After half a minute.

Kirchhoff returned the notebook to Xu Yun.

Xu Yun took it and glanced at it for a while, and read it with some difficulty—because Kirchhoff wrote it in German.

The written expression of German is somewhat similar to that of English. In fact, most of them are the same as English letters, and the difference is not as big as that of spoken language.

but the problem is

Germans like to use cursive writing, which looks like prescriptions written by doctors of later generations, which adds a lot of difficulty.

Xu Yun's translation template didn't come with a fine-tuning function, so it took him some effort to see the content clearly.

"Be as great a physicist as your teacher, William Weber, then."

While reading, Xu Yun's expression froze suddenly.

He glanced quietly at Kirchhoff, who was sitting upright, and continued to read:

".Marry a wife who is over 165 in height, fair-skinned and beautiful. There must be no freckles on her face, and she will have four children for nothing."

Hearing this, the eyes of everyone on the scene looking at Kirchhoff immediately became strange:

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Even Tian Haosuo, a shy boy who kept his head down, looked at Kirchhoff curiously.

I didn't expect you to be this kind of person.jpg.

Thanks to this electrician's handsome appearance, otherwise, in later generations, he would be labeled as a Puxin male in minutes.

But then again.

Perhaps it is also the inertia of history.

in the original timeline.

Kirchhoff did write such a passage in a letter with Bunsen, and later had four children.

By the way.

The fourth grandson of Kirchhoff's four sons, he became a member of the Arsenal board at the age of 44

how to say.

Some things are really metaphysical, and you can't accept it.

After Kirchhoff finished his notebook.

Xu Yun glanced at the remaining three, Lao Tang, Tian Haosuo and Ai Weilin.

He pondered for a moment.

He chose to put the notebook in front of Tian Haosuo, and said:

"Brother Hao, it's your turn."

Tian Haosuo was a little surprised by Xu Yun's actions, and pointed to himself in surprise:

"Huh? Brother Luo Feng, do I want to write too?"

Xu Yun nodded, clicked the pen, and put it in front of him:

"please."

Tian Haosuo first quickly glanced at the people on the table, his shy character made him blush again.

But in the end he still picked up the pen and began to write seriously in the notebook.

After five full minutes.

He put down the pen carefully, and handed the notebook back to Xu Yun with both hands:

"I've finished writing, Brother Luo Feng."

Xu Yun also took the notebook with both hands and slowly flipped through it.

What Tian Hao wrote is also in English. After all, he grew up in London since he was a child, otherwise he would not be able to keep up with the teaching progress of Cambridge.

However, compared with other people, Tian Hao's handwriting is still a little crooked:

"Be a businessman with a property, save money to cure my mother's rheumatism, move out of the slums, not be bullied in the future, and live in a house that does not leak."

"If there is a child, I hope he can also enter Cambridge University and return to the East with my ashes after my death."

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Xu Yun finished reading Tian Hao's notes slowly, and sighed leisurely.

The contents of the notes are a bit heavy, so the expressions of everyone at the scene are very solemn, but there is not much touch in their eyes.

Only Sylve raised her head and gave Tian Haosuo a weak look.

Xu Yun was not surprised by everyone's reaction.

After all, apart from Tian Haosuo himself, all the other adults on the scene basically didn't have a miserable childhood:

For example, Lao Tang's family is a Scottish farmer, and his family is quite wealthy. When he was ten years old, he could fully fund the preparatory courses at Douglas University.

Hubert Airy is about the same.

Although his father's reputation has been ups and downs, but the position of director of the Royal Observatory has never been moved, and the living conditions are still very good.

Riemann's father is a Lutheran pastor. These days the pastor may not be very rich, but he must not be poor.

Kirchhoff's grandfather was a professor at the University of Heidelberg, and his father owned a carriage dealer, which had nothing to do with poverty.

Not to mention Avelyn.

Although the family has died a bit, she has inherited the Escu family's dividends in ketchup.

Really rich woman.

So on the spot today.

Except for Xu Yun, the only one who can really empathize with Tian Hao is Sylph, the orphan who escaped from the den of thieves.

Think here.

Xu Yun sighed again.

Among all the people who are writing today, Tian Haosuo is the only one who did not mention academic goals.

His ideas are pure:

Graduate, earn money, move.

But again.

He is also the one who touched Xu Yun the most.

His expectations were realistic and humble.

His requirement for the house is not spacious and luxurious, but just a leak-proof house.

Isn't this the thinking of many people in later generations?

I don't know why.

Looking at the crooked words on the note, Xu Yun suddenly thought of Du Fu's poem:

There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, which shelters the world's poor and happy, and is as safe as a mountain without being affected by wind and rain.

Then he shook his head, temporarily dispelling the heaviness in his heart.

Holding the notebook, he walked up to Lao Tang and said to him:

"Mr. Thomson, it's your turn."

Lao Tang has always been a very open-minded person. He nodded after receiving the paper and pen, and immediately began to write.

In less than half a minute, he put down his pen:

"alright."

Xu Yun picked up the notebook and saw that the content on it was very short:

"Created a lord, became the president of the Royal Society, and occupied at least two pages in the annals."

Well, this is very old soup.

Lao Tang's personality and Mai Mai's personality can be called two extremes, Mai Mai is shy and honest, while Lao Tang is relatively flamboyant and ambitious.

He never hides his pursuit of power, even if he is not afraid to compete with others.

The Apostle Club competed with Rossetti for power, and the school ran against Ellis for the president of the student union. Even though they knew that they would lose the election and would drop out of school, they did not back down.

The life plan he wrote is actually equivalent to an enlarged version of the achievements in school.

Now that he has become the president of the Cambridge University Students' Union, he is indeed qualified to say what he said above.

And on the other hand.

The content written by Lao Tang is also the plan that is most in line with his own direction in the real timeline among all the people at present.

in the original history.

Tom was indeed knighted in 1866 and raised to Lord Kelvin in 1892.

He also served as President of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1895, an achievement of the photothermodynamic temperature scale that would have earned him two pages in the annals.

In addition, Lao Tang lived to be 83 years old in his lifetime, with a full house of children and grandchildren.

Finally, he passed away peacefully on December 17, 1907, and was buried in Westminster Abbey after his death, enjoying the highest level of funeral treatment in the UK.

no doubt.

Lao Tang's life was quite successful and brilliant, and it can even be said to be a textbook-like template.

And in this copy right now.

Lao Tang's only "stain" was snatched away by Earl Ellis on his own initiative, and he can have his name cleared for a lifetime after his death.

Hiss. This tmd is the main character, right?

Afterwards, Xu Yun turned over another page in his notebook and walked over to .

Aveline's side.

He gently placed the notebook in front of Avelyn and said:

"It's your turn, classmate Avelyn."

Avelyn looked up at him, took the paper and pen generously, and started writing on it.

Perhaps it was because she had a heart for the manuscript, Avelyn wrote it a little faster than Lao Tang.

After a short while.

She handed the written notebook to Xu Yun and said:

"alright."

Xu Yun nodded to her and took the notebook.

After seeing the content above, he was stunned for a moment.

I saw a sentence on the page of the notebook:

[Go to the East once in ten years, and visit Hujian, the hometown of Mr. Fat Fish].