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Has the unified field research ever been successful?

Bian Yu was shocked by Fang Haochen's words.

He looked at Fang Haochen, with doubts in his eyes, then scrutiny, and finally a burst of strong and eager anticipation inevitably burst out, but this anticipation only lasted for a moment, thousands of failures a few years ago were soon Pulling Bian Yu's enthusiasm again, he forcibly cooled it down.

"It's impossible." He asserted after taking a few deep breaths, his voice was not loud, but seemed to be convincing himself.

"It's true, I didn't lie to you."

Fang Haochen stood up while speaking, looked around Bianyu's room, then he walked quickly to the south of the room, where there was a small balcony.Fang Haochen opened the curtains, lowered the latch, stood on the edge of the balcony and waved to Bian Yu: "Come on, Bian Yu, let me show you something."

Bian Yu paused, obviously he hesitated for a moment, but the answer to that question was an irresistible magnetic field, attracting him over.

So Bian Yu came over and stood next to Fang Haochen. The balcony of the dormitory was small and simple, far less spacious and comfortable than the balcony with rattan chairs, sunshine and afternoon tea when he was in the United States. There were only simple cement here. Lines, as well as him and Fang Haochen, stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder tightly pressed together.

At this time, Fang Haochen didn't mind such close contact, he even moved his body closer to Bian Yu, pointed to the distance and asked him: "Can you see over there?"

Bian Yu followed Fang Haochen's finger to look into the distance, but only saw the blackness.

"That's the old base of 201." Fang Haochen said, "I lived there when I was young."

Bian Yu couldn't help asking: "Have you always lived in 201?"

"No." Fang Haochen replied, "After the experiment failed, I lived with my aunt's family for many years, and I didn't return to 201 until I was a teenager."

"Bian Yu, I did hide something about the research content of 201, I apologize for that." Having said that, Fang Haochen also turned his head to look at Bian Yu, "But 201 has the discipline of 201, what you want to know, I will I can tell you. It’s just that you have to swear that you will never betray 201 or the country.”

Bian Yu smiled: "You made me swear, but can you represent 201?"

"In front of you, I can do it." Fang Haochen looked serious and solemn, "As long as you swear, I can tell you everything you want to know, and I will take responsibility for any problems that arise after that."

Bian Yu lowered his head.

The wind of 201 blew between the two of them, humming a lullaby like a ghost.

His gaze flicked over the edge of the balcony, below which, there seemed to be an abyss.That is the arrogance of human beings wanting to emulate the Creator, that is the arrogance of trying to control fate, on the edge of the abyss, there are bloody handprints of strugglers, and there are also clusters of flowers that seduce people's hearts, and the greedy mouth of hell is so dark that you cannot look directly at it. However, Fang Haochen stood inside, holding up the seven-color orb that Bian Yu had longed for so much, and kept waving at him.

What is he going to do?

What can he do?

"I will die at your hands one day." Bian Yu finally said with a sigh.

"Okay, I swear."

Then Bian Yu raised his right hand as if accepting his fate, with the palm flattened and the fingertips facing the sky.

Fang Haochen looked at him and smiled like this, he leaned forward, raised his hand and attached it to the back of Bian Yu's hand, a warmth dispelled the rustling autumn, Fang Haochen held Bian Yu's hand, and bent that palm into a fist.

In Bian Yu's momentary stupefaction, Fang Haochen withdrew his hand and raised his right fist.

"I won't let you down." Fang Haochen said softly.

"Follow me."

"I swear: In the course of my work, I came into contact with the top secrets of the state."

Fang Haochen's voice was slow and firm, but it seemed so small in the vast darkness.

Bian Yu licked his lips, leaving his reason, his persistence, and his freedom behind.

"I will swear to the death to defend state secrets, and will never betray the party, country and people under any circumstances."

"I am not afraid of difficulties, I am not afraid of insults, and I am not afraid of death."

"I am a preacher of democracy and science, I am a disseminator of civilization and progress, and I am willing to dedicate all my life and glory unreservedly to the glorious cause of the proletarian revolution."

"I am a member of 201. I was born with no name and died with no name. Time will be our epitaph."

The oath is not long, but following Fang Haochen's words, it seems very long.

After reading the last sentence of the oath, Bian Yu let out a long sigh of relief, and only then did he feel that his whole body was tense just now.

"This oath..."

"what happened?"

"It's nothing." Bian Yu raised his eyes to look at the black swallow's nest under the eaves, "I just feel that this oath is different from other oaths."

"Really?" Fang Haochen showed a rare smile, "This oath was written by my mother."

Bian Yu was a little surprised: "It seems that Mrs. Fang is very different from you."

"What's the difference?" Fang Haochen asked casually, thinking that Bian Yu sometimes misjudged people.After all, from childhood to adulthood, everyone told Fang Haochen that he and his mother were carved out of the same mold, no matter whether it was praise or complaint.

Bian Yu thought for a while and said, "It's very emotional."

Fang Haochen was startled, and stopped answering.

Bian Yu originally wanted to say something more, but Fang Haochen had already changed the topic when he spoke again.

Fang Haochen said: "You guessed right. 201 is indeed not conducting pure theoretical research on the unified field. In other words, 201 used to focus on the unified field, but it is no longer the case."

"The current 201 is actually studying a kind of energy. This energy is based on the unified field. It may only be a small part of the unified field, but it has already caused us a lot of suffering. The generation of this energy is similar to nuclear fusion, but It does not require ultra-high temperature induction, nor will it release a lot of heat. But its destructive power is amazing, and it only releases a small amount of gamma rays, there is no radiation and pollution problems, and its application prospects are very broad.”

After hearing this, Bian Yu couldn't help snorting: "Director Fang, don't tell lies to deal with me. If you can't define this energy, how can you know the effect of this energy so clearly?"

"Because I'm describing the explosion that happened when my mother died."

Fang Haochen sighed slightly imperceptibly, and untied the discipline button that was always tightly fastened at the neckline, revealing a small section of well-shaped collarbone.

A momentary expression of emotion appeared on Bian Yu's face, that emotion almost made people think that he would wrap his arms around Fang Haochen's shoulder, pat it, and comfort him.

But Bian Yu didn't do that.

He just approached Fang Haochen in silence. In fact, it may only have been a few seconds, but it seemed to be a long time because of the silence. In the silence, Bian Yu took out a flip-top gasoline lighter from his suit pants, and took out a box from his coat pocket. American cigarettes, handed to Fang Haochen.

Fang Haochen glanced at Bian Yu, took the cigarette, tore off the seal, took out one and held it in his mouth, and lit the cigarette with Bian Yu's fire, he took a jerky puff, and immediately coughed twice.

Bian Yu looked at Fang Haochen and smiled, lit one for himself, skillfully exhaled a thin puff of smoke, held the smoke between his fingers, and listened to Fang Haochen talking about the past.

"You already know that my mother is the elder of 201."

Fang Haochen said: "When I was young, I lived next to the training center far away from the 201 base. Every time my mother came, she would not stay for long. It might be an hour or two when she was free, and it would only be about 10 minutes when she was busy. So at that time I don't know anything about 201."

"It wasn't until the age of 16, when Dean Cheng took me back to 201, that I realized that the failed experiment that day cut off most of the research base, and even destroyed all the preliminary research materials of 201. Fortunately, And unfortunately, my mother was the only one who died."

Fang Haochen stopped here, he wanted to take another puff of the cigarette, but trying again was no match for his body's unfamiliarity with tobacco, he coughed twice, Bian Yu took the cigarette back from Fang Haochen's hand, and pressed it against the balcony railing Come on, put out both of their cigarettes.

Throwing away the unfinished cigarette butt, Bian Yu said, "Dean Cheng is lying to you."

Fang Haochen paused, and replied: "Yes."

Fang Haochen knew why Bian Yu said this, because he also knew that Dean Cheng's words were contradictory: "If the experiment failed and caused such a huge loss, why was only my mother killed in the old 201 research base? If it was The personnel were evacuated in advance, why the important research materials were not withdrawn in advance?"

"Two possibilities." Bian Yu continued, "One possibility is that the experiment failed. Although the researchers were withdrawn in advance, the impact of the failure was beyond imagination, resulting in the destruction of the data within the radius. Another possibility ..."

Bian Yu didn't continue when he said this, yes, he thought of what Fang Haochen said to him just now.

Fang Haochen looked at the black forest in the distance, and continued Bian Yu's unfinished conjecture: "There is another possibility that the experiment was successful. But the people and materials that disappeared can only disappear forever."

"No." However, Bian Yu quickly denied, "This is just your assumption. You assume that 201 once mastered the unified field, and obtained this energy for a short time through the unified field."

Bian Yu said: "But this possibility is too low. Maybe it was just an ordinary explosion, or even just a meteorite fell on the head of 201. There are many bizarre coincidences in the world, and you can't always believe what you think The one to believe."

Fang Haochen shook his head: "But Bian Yu, I want to know. If I say it far away, I want to know what the limit of science is. When I say it close, I want to know what happened in the past. I know that for you Very selfish, but science is groping in the endless darkness, and some assumptions, even if they are wrong, are worth fighting for a lifetime."

Just like Einstein.

Although his research on the unified field failed, the two research methods he used and developed in order to study the unified field, high-dimensional gravity curled to low-dimensional and four-dimensional rules, became the foundation of modern physics research quantum field theory, string theory, quantum gravity important tool.

Having said this, Fang Haochen held Bian Yu's hand, and Bian Yu turned his head to look at Fang Haochen, but Fang Haochen's eyes were still looking at the night.

Those eyes were shining with breathtaking light at this moment, he said: "Bian Yu, time will become our epitaph."

After that day, the two didn't talk much.

Bian Yu didn't mention leaving or staying, and Fang Haochen didn't try to persuade him.

But before leaving, Fang Haochen took out a bulging package from his pocket and handed it to Bian Yu.

"For you." Fang Haochen said, lowering his head, the way his eyes were dodging intentionally made people think he was embarrassed, "Open it later."

After Fang Haochen finished speaking, he rushed out of Bianyu's room, as if he was afraid that he would be exposed if he stayed a second longer.

Bian Yu looked at Fang Haochen like this, with a puzzled expression on his face.

He took the package, walked to his seat and sat down, opened the layers of oiled paper packages, which were neither papers nor books, nor wine nor cigarettes, nor a love letter, nor a sketch, but an ordinary book. Each page is a red, green and green number, and there are a few blank horizontal lines below for notes.

Bian Yu flipped his hands casually, then stopped suddenly.

On a certain page on a certain day—a calendar page that would never have been discovered had he not turned it over, there was a line written in pencil.

"You said your room is only black and white, and I'll give you some color."

Bian Yu looked at this line of words, and looked at the lead powder left by every stroke of the pen in the words, and smiled with joy and helplessness.

Said to be the sorrow of lonely autumn,

Said to be the lovesickness of the distant sea,

If someone asks me about my worries,

I dare not say your name.

I dare not say your name,

If someone asks me about my worries,

Said to be the lovesickness of the distant sea,

Said to be the sorrow of lonely autumn.

Note:

The ending poem is "Worries" written by the modern poet Dai Wangshu.

"Worries" is a love poem, but it was created in the period when the author was confused about the revolution (20s). The biggest feature of "Worries" is that it expresses the author's tossing and turning and continuous troubles and sorrows through the way of "palindrome".