Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 216 Economics and Scientific Research

During the meal, senior Mao Rui crazily gave Wu Bin a wave of good programmers, wonderful programmers, and croaking programmers who make money.

But Wu Bin is still indifferent. It’s not that he is really not interested in solving this programming problem. On the contrary, he is very interested. However, he has not succeeded in solving the graphene material so far, so he really has no intention to do other things that require a lot of time and attention. s project.

Seeing that Wu Bin's will is so firm, Mao Rui finally gave up lobbying, but he still left his contact information, saying that if Wu Bin becomes interested in this one day, he is welcome to come to him at any time.

"Hey, from the discussion just now, I found that you don't seem to be very interested in making money?" After the procedural questions came to an end, Mao Rui found another topic.

Wu Bin smiled after hearing this, "Who would not be interested in money, but I think making money should come naturally."

"Tsk tsk, young people are still naive." Mao Rui shook his head, "Do you think that as long as you have made achievements in scientific research and obtained patents, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money?"

"I never thought that there would be a lot of them." Wu Bin corrected a word in Mao Rui's words.

"In short, you regard making money as a by-product of scientific research, right?"

Wu Bin didn't say a word after listening, it was a tacit agreement.

"Oh, the times are changing. Nowadays, undergraduates who don't know about economics and finance are equivalent to illiteracy. People are social people, and social people are economic people. No matter in life or scientific research, they can't escape money."

After taking a sip of soup, Mao Rui continued: "Which physicist doesn't want to spend hundreds of billions to build a particle collider for research, no matter how bad it is, building a small black hole is also a dream come true, but the reality is to do theory It’s embarrassing for those who can’t make money, and those who make applications don’t need such high-end devices.”

After hearing Mao Rui's remarks, Wu Bin shook his head, "I have a different opinion on this point."

"Oh? Let's hear it." Mao Rui looked at Wu Bin with interest.

"Whether it is national scientific research or corporate scientific research, it is based on a stable national environment, economic foundation and an environment supported by a sound industrial system. Without such a soil, it is impossible to continuously cultivate elites, let alone strong Talent pool."

"Yeah." Mao Rui nodded, "And then?"

"Take the particle collider you just mentioned as an example. This kind of scientific research topic with estimated cost in units of hundreds of billions, even if it is placed in South Korea, Germany, Japan, and countries of our Huaguo level, it will be too expensive. It will be rejected by a high number of votes, why? Is it really unaffordable to build? No, bite your teeth, and you can always make it out of nothing.”

Speaking of this, Wu Bin sighed, "But it is too damaging and will completely break the balance between scientific research and the economy. Especially for scientific research, from proposing hypotheses to verifying hypotheses to revising hypotheses, during this period not only do we need to smash Money must be able to withstand failure.”

"For a long time, it is normal for the money invested in scientific research to get no return. But if a great scientific research success cannot produce economic benefits in the eyes of scientists, then in the eyes of the people, it is just a waste of people and money."

"You mean... the Higgs boson?" Mao Rui tapped his index finger.

"Yes, for the knowledgeable people, this achievement is not only worth the fare, it is priceless, it is a beacon to guide physics, but this does not prevent most people from still thinking that the large particle collider A money-burning scientist's toy."

Speaking of this, Wu Bin suddenly looked at Mao Rui and asked: "Have you seen "The Three-Body Problem"?"

"Of course I have." Mao Rui nodded.

"In the novel, the Trisolarans use sophons to seal the earth's basic scientific research, but in reality sophons are GDP. If a country really blindly smashes scientific research, it can be said to be no different from militarism."

Mao Rui nodded: "I just said that there is a problem. I didn't say that you can make money to the point where you can play with things like colliders. I just want to say that if you have some scientific research that you want to do, you can buy it in your hand." It’s more comfortable to have money, at least you don’t have to ask for help.”

At this time, Li Yan, who had been an audience all the time, suddenly smiled, pointed at Wu Bin and said, "Let me intervene, there is a sentence that he looks too pretentious, let me say it, in the eyes of this guy, The only thing that can worry him is this kind of scientific research project that is beyond the scope of society's tolerance, as for the below, it is not a problem for him."

"Hahahaha, you are confident enough." Mao Rui laughed a few times, "Confidence is a good thing, it can always make you overcome the failure in front of you."

"Yes, I think so too."

After listening, Mao Rui stood up and extended his right hand to Wu Bin: "Nice to meet you. Again, I very much hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you on this project. I am waiting for you to contact me at any time."

"If there is a chance, I will." Wu Bin stood up and reached out his hand to shake Mao Rui.

"Then I'll go first, those animals are still waiting for me to go to DOTA." After stuffing the laptop back into his schoolbag, Mao Rui waved at the three of them.

After saying "goodbye" to each other, Mao Rui left the canteen.

"What you just said is wonderful." Qin Simeng looked at Wu Bin and praised.

"Thank you." Wu Bin nodded towards her.

"Actually, I'm also curious about the Higgs boson you mentioned. I know it's called the God particle, but what kind of effect will it have?"

Wu Bin thought for a while and replied, "Have you ever used navigation?"

"I've used it." Qin Simeng nodded.

"For most people, navigation is just like other high technologies, and suddenly appeared in their lives with the phrase 'modern technology is so advanced', but in fact, the birth of navigation can be traced back to 1854 when Riemann proposed The Riemannian geometry conjecture begins."

"1854..." Qin Simeng murmured to himself.

"Yes, then Einstein published special relativity in 1905, Robert Goddard began to study rockets in 1912, Einstein published general relativity in 1916, and used Riemannian geometry as a mathematical tool in the theory, and in 1957, The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was successfully launched. In 1973, the United States decided to develop a global satellite positioning system..."

"Um...do you have the legendary photographic memory?" She could understand that she could remember these events, but remembering the specific year so clearly was a bit exaggerated.

At this time, Li Yan who was on the side quickly replied: "His memory is very strong, but it hasn't reached this point yet. The reason why he memorized a passage is probably for the purpose of defending those who do not support large-scale scientific research at some kind of national conference. Economist."

"You guessed it all?" Wu Bin glanced at Li Yan.

"That's not true~ It's not for nothing that I've known you for so long." Li Yan smiled triumphantly.

(End of this chapter)