From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

For Lin Xiao, the same is true. A scientist who returns to China with a full body of honor will be cherished more in China.

Especially after he planned to go back, he started to develop on lithography machines. This is undoubtedly a project that requires a huge investment. He has no company behind him, and he does not have tens of billions of property, so the only thing he can rely on is the country.

And it is also necessary for him to use some internationally recognized honors to bring himself capital.

Of course, Lin Xiao did not forget that the old man said that he could go to him for anything, and the country would not let Lin Xiao down.

But if Lin Xiao can obtain such more capital, it will also give the country more reason to help him. After all, domestic resources need to be allocated.

So, now that Time Magazine came to interview him, it was just an appetizer.

……

Soon, Lin Xiao came to an empty classroom and came here to accept an interview with Time Magazine.

This can also be regarded as the first media interview he has accepted since the publication of the multidimensional field theory nearly half a year ago.

The reporter is a man, and there is a photographer.

"Mr. Lin, hello, I'm McLenne Kane, a reporter from Time Magazine."

After seeing Lin Xiao, the man greeted him with a smile, and stretched out his hand to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao shook hands with him and said with a smile, "Hello Kane."

"Mr. Lin's name, I have heard it for a long time, especially after the birth of your multidimensional field theory, we have been wanting to interview you, but we have not been approved, and now we can finally interview you."

When McLenne Kane thought of this incident, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion. When did Time Magazine want to interview someone, when was it so sad?

But it was with Lin Xiao that they failed to contact each other for six months.

This made them want to give up for a while, anyway, they don't necessarily have to interview Lin Xiao - because when they judge the most influential person of the year, they don't have to interview.

However, when faced with a scientist like Lin Xiao who is considered comparable to Einstein and Newton in the physics community, they still chose Zhenxiang.

Hearing what McLenne Kane said, Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing, "This matter, it's really because I've been too busy for a long time, so I haven't accepted an interview. I finally finished work a while ago, so I agreed. Your interview."

McLenne Kane nodded with a smile and said, "It seems that we are quite lucky."

After a pause, he continued, "Then let's start the interview now?"

"Ok."

Lin Xiao nodded.

"Time" does not often interview people, but the interviews are usually with people who have attracted international attention for a period of time, or they have chosen the person of the year.

Although Lin Xiao was not selected as the person of the year, it is clear that he has attracted a lot of attention in the world.

The photographer set up the camera, and the background of the two is a blackboard full of calculation formulas. If you are a person who studies high-energy physics, you can easily know that it is the standard model that has been perfected by multidimensional field theory.

If the standard model is fully expanded, it is a rather complicated formula, which can be written in about [-] to [-] lines. Of course, the formula on the blackboard is simplified. However, since the multidimensional field theory introduces more unknowns, so Still seems complicated.

But this also makes their interviews more compelling.

The camera started recording, the cameraman held the clipboard in his hand and closed it with a 'snap', and the interview officially started.

McLenne Kane asked: "So, who is the person you admire the most?"

Lin Xiao frowned. The interview questions were indeed a little different from normal interviews.

Then, he smiled slightly: "The people I admire are the people."

McLenne Kane was taken aback, "The public?"

"Yes."

Lin Xiao nodded slightly: "The people, or the vast majority of the people, don't have much desire, they just want to live a good life and not encounter troubles, such as being bullied or oppressed. , as long as this is the case, they feel that their lives are worry-free, and even if they suffer a little oppression, they will try their best to endure it."

"So I admire the people, because they are most like a 'normal person'."

McLenne Kane didn't understand, "The most like a normal person? What's there to 'admire'?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Because people have 'desires', and the way for normal people to satisfy their desires is to rely on their own efforts to obtain them."

McLenne Kane nodded half-understanding, and then said with a smile: "So that's the case, but I thought the person you admire the most would be a scientist like you."

Lin Xiao shook his head slightly: "That's too common. Since it's your interview, of course I have to give a slightly different answer."

McLenne Kane smiled, and then asked the next question.

"Then, your 'slightly different' answer is left for other people to comment on. Let's move on to the next question now."

"It may be difficult for ordinary people like us to imagine what the universe looks like in the minds of physicists. Under your multidimensional field theory description, our universe has many dimensions, so how do you think these different dimensions look like? "

Lin Xiao: "If you talk about the thoughts in my mind, I might think that there is actually a life in four-dimensional space standing beside us, or that what we are stepping on is a life in two-dimensional space."

"why is that?"

Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and pointed to the plane, "Imagine, there is a piece of paper on this plane, why can we see this paper?"

McLenne Kane thought for a moment and asked, "Because the light is reflected into our eyes?"

Lin Xiao smiled and nodded: "It can be understood in this way."

"However, there are requirements for us to 'see' something. Imagine why we can't see air? For example, we can't see oxygen? But we can see liquid oxygen?"

"This involves the problem of particle density, and for two-dimensional space, it is an infinitely thin piece of paper."

"In the case of infinite thinness, it cannot accommodate our particles, because you must know that particles have a volume, which means that their particle density is zero, which makes it even more impossible to reflect our three-dimensional light, so we can only Seeing things in three dimensions."

"So from this point of view, we can't see two-dimensional space, and there are two-dimensional spaces everywhere around us."

"The same is true for the four-dimensional space. The 'light' that passes through the four-dimensional space will pass through our three-dimensional space, so it will not be seen by us."

"Of course, you can also understand it this way: to establish a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system, x, y, and z are the length, width and height, so we don't live in the 'length and width' of the second dimension, but in the third dimension." As for the life of the fourth dimension, if a four-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is established, w, x, y, and z are the four axes, they mainly live on the fourth axis, instead of representing length, on the three axes of width and height."

Listening to Lin Xiao's introduction, McLenne Kane couldn't help feeling amazed: "Is this so? Then if we say that, will it affect the two-dimensional space if we wave our hands?"

Lin Xiao shook his head: "The force we exert comes from the electromagnetic force, and the electromagnetic force requires electrons and photons, but obviously the infinitely thin two-dimensional space cannot accommodate the electrons and photons in our three-dimensional space."

McLenne Kane nodded. Although he was a little confused, he could probably imagine what Lin Xiao meant.

Then, he asked: "So, is this your judgment based on multidimensional field theory?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao nodded.

"What if the real high-dimensional space is not carried out according to your understanding?"

Lin Xiao smiled: "If the universe does not proceed according to my mathematical deduction, then I think our universe is too bad, or in other words, our universe is false, it must have been designed by a real creator out, because only the Creator can design without following the rules."

"Oh, God won't be happy to hear you."

"God belongs to God, and scientists belong to scientists." Lin Xiao replied indifferently.

McLenne Kane was taken aback, and then said with emotion: "From this, I can be sure that you are a great scientist."

Lin Xiao laughed: "I believe every scientist thinks this way."

McLenne Kane did not respond and moved on to the next question.

The "Time" interview is no different from a normal interview, asking questions and then answering them. Since Lin Xiao is being interviewed as a scientist, the questions are basically related to mathematics.

Until the end, McLenne Kane asked the last question: "Mr. Lin, do you think theoretical science or applied science is more important?"

Hearing this question, Lin Xiao frowned, and then said with a smile: "I always firmly believe that theoretical science is the most important, and I will always contribute to solving the problems of theoretical science. As for applied science-if you know the Bourbaki School , you will know that the Bourbaki school does not like applied mathematics, and my teacher is Jean-Pierre Serre, who is also a Bourbaki school, although this concept has not had much influence in modern times , but it still survives, just like even if I study physics now, I am only studying theoretical physics."

"Leave the matter of application to others. I just want to explore the more profound truth."

A bright smile appeared on McLenne Kane's face, "Then I wish you further development on your path of theoretical science."

"Thank you."

The interview is over.

McLenne Kane got up and extended his hand to Lin Xiao again, and the two shook hands.

The first question was asked by Time Magazine, and the last question was asked by someone else.

But now, he has got a relatively satisfactory answer. As a theoretical scientist, I hope he will become more and more great, because the theory is universal.

"Oh, by the way, we need to take another photo of you. If there are no accidents, you will appear on the cover of next week. In addition, your name will also be included in the 100 most influential people of this year. Congratulations .”

Lin Xiao smiled and nodded: "Thank you."

Chapter 2 The universe is entropy increasing!

The interview with Time Magazine ended, and within two days, the video about the interview was released.

As a media with great influence in the world, the interview video of "Time Magazine" is still very easy to attract others.

Especially now that it's publishing an interview with a top physicist.

So this video immediately attracted many people.

First of all, they are the people Lin Xiao admires the most. However, for Lin Xiao's answer, most people feel that they don't understand it, so they don't think much about it. However, the next question makes people involuntarily attracted.

Around them, there are multi-dimensional spaces everywhere?

What they are stepping on is a two-dimensional space?

And the four-dimensional space is the same, is it directly stepped on them?

This has aroused the imagination of many people.

At the same time, Lin Xiao's narration of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional also reminded people of the Klein bottle, a four-dimensional space-time thing.

According to Lin Xiao's explanation, people can understand that two-dimensional space is like an infinitely thin piece of paper, and an infinite sheet of infinitely thin paper can be accommodated in a small piece of three-dimensional space, and the same is true for four-dimensional space. In the same way, a small piece of space in the four-dimensional space can accommodate an infinite number of papers in the three-dimensional space.

The Klein bottle is said to never be full of water, because water is a thing under the concept of three-dimensional space, while a Klein bottle is something under the concept of four-dimensional space, and of course it can hold an infinite amount of water.

This comment once again made some netizens who are not physicists but are interested in physics enthusiastic. Many people have heard of the Klein bottle, but they just can’t imagine why the Klein bottle can hold Putting infinite amounts of water, and now associate three-dimensional to four-dimensional from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, which allows them to easily understand the infinity of the Klein bottle.

Then, people began to use their imagination to imagine the multi-dimensional space.

Some commentators even said that if they want to make a movie in the future, they will mainly talk about multi-dimensional space. For example, when a certain second dimension suddenly has a particle-sized height and negotiates with three-dimensional space, what kind of story will happen? , or make a sci-fi horror movie, when the three-dimensional space is elevated to the particle size of the four-dimensional space, causing various weird events to occur on their earth.

Of course, real scientists don't care about these things. These scientists are more interested in what Lin Xiao said, "God belongs to God, and scientists belong to scientists".

For scientists, this sentence is very pleasing to the ear, making each of them want to praise a wonderful sentence.

The prototype of this sentence comes from the sentence in the Bible, "Give God what is God's, and Caesar what is Caesar's." This sentence Jesus said divided theocratic power and political power.

But now that Lin Xiao said this, it was tantamount to dividing theology and science.

Although today's theology can no longer affect science, this does not affect scientists' liking for this sentence, because it is undoubtedly another promotion of the status of science.

Hua Guo, in the room of Elder Yang.

"That's really good."

He has been paying attention to Lin Xiao's news, and when he heard this sentence, he also felt very grateful.

Science requires an attitude of disrespect for everything.

This God can also be generalized to refer to the so-called Creator.

Scientists, on the other hand, obviously have to have this disrespectful attitude towards the Creator.

Of course, Lin Xiao's remark that if the universe does not proceed according to his deduction, then the universe is really terrible, also made Yang Lao laugh.

What an interesting young man.

He laughed, and suddenly remembered that today is December 12th, and there are only two days before the Solvay meeting.

Because he is too old to take a long-distance airliner, and the Solvay meeting is held in Paris, he can only watch the live broadcast at home, and he can only express his regret.

After all, Lin Xiao is the young man he is most optimistic about, and he is the protagonist of this Solvay meeting. Of course, I feel sorry that I can't go.

After hearing about Lin Xiao's achievements this year, he was of course the happiest. Lin Xiao's outstanding performance also shows that he did not lose sight of his initial optimism. Lack of top scientists.

He even happily drank a few glasses of wine. Originally, at his age, he was not allowed to drink alcohol. Even his family members advised him not to drink alcohol, but he still insisted on drinking a few glasses.

If you are happy, of course you have to make a fuss about it.

"However, by the time the Solvay meeting starts, it may be too late for Huaguo, so I need to take a good rest these few days."

With this thought in his mind, he then prepared to refresh himself and prepare for watching the live broadcast.

……

Shanghai Beijing International Airport, waiting area.

There were two people sitting in a row of seats, one of them was Ma Gaoliang, director of the Huaguo Science and Technology Bureau, and the other was his secretary.

Ma Gaoliang was flipping through a periodical in his hand, looking at it quietly.