Original God, starting from the sister against the brother

"Hmm~."

"There's no complicated story behind this. The reason why I stick to my research field is actually very simple."

"Some research needs to be done by someone."

Hearing the answer from his senior, Chao Ke's body trembled visibly.

However, Faluzhan did not notice this and continued.

"I can understand those juniors who advised me to change my field. They are all good kids and they advised me with good intentions."

"Yes, as long as they switch to a field that they are equally good at. Not only will the project be carried out smoothly and the research funds be abundant, but even their so-called voice in the [Council of the Orders] will be greatly improved."

"only...."

“If even I leave this thankless field, will there be a successor to it?”

Faluzan paused for a moment.

"Logically speaking..."

“Disciplines should not be divided into high and low, and knowledge should not be divided into hot and cold.”

"But the scholars who study them are not like this. They should be studying knowledge, but they study the financial and power prospects of different disciplines to measure the learning priority of each discipline."

"........"

"I don't like this, but I can understand the decision made by these younger generations."

"After all, scholars are also human beings and need to make a living. The titles and conditions I have are not possessed by all scholars, especially those younger scholars whose families are not well off. I can fully understand why they devote their energy to subjects with high output ratios."

“After all, a hundred years ago, my research field was what they called a “hot field”.”

"At that time, when the [Council of the Church] was still immature in its research on classical mechanisms, our research field could use ancient documents to determine the operating status of the mechanisms, which was of great benefit to the investigation of relics."

"So at that time, it was particularly easy to apply for our project topics, and the research and development funds were extremely abundant. Even the number of scholars studying this field was dozens of times more than it is now."

"It's only now, a hundred years later, that the scene has changed."

"In the past hundred years, with the great development of ancient ruins by scholars, the number of undiscovered ruins in Xumi has become less and less. Moreover, the mechanism theory of the [Miaolun School] has also made great progress. From the theoretical prototype a hundred years ago, it has now grown into a complete system."

"Scholars also have more and more precise options when dealing with newly developed ancient mechanisms."

“Anyone can see that the future of the field of [interpreting the mechanisms of ancient ruins based on stone carvings and other unearthed documents] is already at its end.”

"When all the ruins in Xumi are discovered, this discipline will come to an end."

“And this process may not take too long.”

Looking at the senior who looked a little depressed, Chao Ke reached out and held Falushan in his arms.

The feeling of personally leading the rise of a discipline and then watching it decline is by no means a pleasant one.

Falushan rubbed Chao Ke's arms affectionately for a few times and spoke.

"Actually, I'm not that sad. In fact... I'm quite satisfied with my current situation."

"Compared to most scholars, I am already very lucky. I can do the research I like, have a high title and seniority, and rely on the fixed monthly allowance to guarantee basic research and life."

“Although the subject has become less popular, being able to do academic work quietly is not a bad thing.”

"With all these, I should stick to this research field."

"after all...."

“Some research, no matter how thankless or promising, has to be done by someone.”

"What if one day, Xumi suddenly unearths a relic mechanism that completely subverts previous research theories? Then, wouldn't it be my turn to research on it?"

Hearing what Falushan said, Chao Ke couldn't help but recall the last time he went to [Sumeru] to see his senior, Falushan's extremely shabby field laboratory and the almost empty refrigerator at home.

Chao Ke understood how fundamental it was that senior Falushan said "to ensure basic research and life"...

Holding his senior in his arms, Chao Ke somehow saw the figure of a cousin from his previous life in Falushan.

That cousin of Da Chao Ke Yiluan had always been the child of other people's families in her parents' eyes. In a province with the most scarce higher education resources, she was admitted to the best university in the country with the best grades.

When my cousin went to college, college students were still a scarce talent, let alone college students from the top universities.

Just as Chao Ke's uncle and aunt were fantasizing about which big company their daughter would join in the future, how high her annual salary would be, and even whether she would go abroad for further studies, Chao Ke's cousin made a move that shocked her uncle and aunt for the rest of their lives.

In my sophomore year, I switched from economics to mathematics...

I minored in physics in my junior year....

Postgraduate Theoretical Mathematics...

PhD Theoretical Physics...

Since then, my cousin has been engaged in research in theoretical physics.

To borrow the words of my uncle and aunt at the time, "This kid has become stupid from studying too much. I don't know what he is studying every day. He only comes home a few times a year. He is in his thirties and has not married or had a girlfriend. He has a PhD, but the money he gets paid every year is not as high as the monthly salary of his economics undergraduate classmates."

After that, this cousin was no longer "the other people's child" and was occasionally even pulled out as a negative example for criticism.

Until one year during the holidays, my cousin came to visit Chao Ke's home and pointed at Chao Ke who was preparing for the college entrance examination.

Well, it was the cousin's guidance that made Chao Ke deeply understand what it meant.

"If you don't learn mathematics, you will see me as a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky. If you learn mathematics, you will see me as an ant looking at the blue sky."

No matter whether it was [College Entrance Examination Mathematics] or [Comprehensive Science], the final questions seemed as easy as child's play in front of my cousin. There were even individual questions that piqued my cousin's interest. She took a piece of draft paper and immediately wrote down several college-level formulas and their variant formulas for Chao Ke, asking him to memorize them.

By using these formulas and following the high school teaching method, Chao Ke could solve the final multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions that took six or seven minutes to answer. He only needed to substitute the numbers into the formulas to get the answers in seconds.

Afterwards, Chao Ke chatted a lot with his cousin and asked many questions he had always wanted to know.

Including what exactly my cousin is researching and why she chose physics. What is there to study in such a difficult subject?

That day, Chao Ke heard many terms from his cousin that he had never heard of before.

Like "condensed matter physics", "tokamak", "particle collider", "stellarator", "artificial sun" and so on.

My cousin also said that in the theoretical physics she studies, her qualifications are still mediocre, and sometimes when she participates in academic exchanges, she can't even keep up with the thinking of academic leaders.

My cousin also seemed to have said that the theoretical physics they studied was called theory because many of the things they studied could only remain on paper and at the formula level.

Because with the current level of technology in the world, it is still impossible to build an observation instrument. Even if there are very few that can be built, they are major national projects that cost hundreds of billions of yuan.

In other words, the vast majority of theoretical physicists may never be able to see what they have studied for their entire lives in reality.

Chao Ke didn't understand at the time why his cousin would study theoretical physics even though it was such a bad subject?

Chao Ke now has a pretty good memory of what his cousin looks like.

However, Chao Ke always remembered his cousin's answer to him.

That is...

"Some research needs to be done by someone."

【Nine hundred thousand words to remember】

[Salute to the scholars and predecessors who stick to the field of scientific research]