Civilization Template

Chapter 163 Distress
On the concrete guardrail of the rooftop, a one-dollar bill was folded several times and stood in a triangle shape on the concrete plane above the guardrail.

On one side, the pattern is an eye suspended in the air.

This eye quietly watched what happened in front of him: a white man in overalls, kneeling on the ground with one leg, constantly combining various parts, and soon formed a standard sniper rifle.

After the man finished everything, he tilted his head and looked into the distance from the scope on the gun.

Below the building is 60th Street. After 60th Street, there is a huge street garden with a width of 220 meters, Midway Plaisance Park. On the other side of the garden is 59th Street and the other half of the University of Chicago.

The garden in the middle of the street and the 59th and 60th streets divide the University of Chicago into two parts.The straight-line distance between the two parts of the building exceeds 300 meters.

Through the shadows of the trees in the garden in the middle of the street, at the exit of another teaching building next to 59th Street, the figure of the reporter appeared in the scope.

More and more reporters gathered on the side of 59th Street.

String theory was a hot topic in previous years.With the pace of human exploration of space, aliens and space navigation have gradually become the goal of people's curiosity.Some important purely theoretical discoveries in science are also attractive to low-level readers.

String theory split itself, resulting in five schools of news, which are well known to the general public.

A newly emerged formula, the news of reunifying the almost self-split string theory, was slowly spread.

At first, there were only a few well-informed reporters and editors of popular science magazines, but as time went by, some tabloid reporters whose main selling point was novelty hunting began to appear.

Soon, on the road, even the OB van of the TV station appeared.

Because more and more people realize that once the new theory is proven correct, the history of human science and technology will be completely rewritten!The date is today!
As time went on, more TV vans appeared on the roads.

Because of them, 59th Street was jammed with traffic in broad daylight.

When Chen Quan and Qu Yanqiu returned to the small auditorium, they were surprised to find that there was a lively scene in the auditorium.A large group of string theory experts were all crowded on the podium and in front of the blackboard, having heated discussions.

After a short break at noon, many people recovered from the shock of M theory.

There is no objection to the idea of ​​M-theory, but a whole new problem arises.The 11th dimension introduced by Chen Quanxin obviously has a different meaning from other dimensions of string theory.

In addition to vibrating in the D-dimensional direction of ordinary space, the strings of superstring theory also vibrate in the direction of Grassmann number coordinates in hyperspace.

Every normal dimension will have its own accompanying dimension (space) of Grassmann number.This is the so-called extra dimension.

But this newly added dimension is obviously not a super dimension.What the new dimension represents has become the focus of attention and discussion.

on the street

"This is reporting from the front. The annual String Theory Symposium is about to end, right behind me."

Several hosts talked freely in front of their respective cameras. "We are about to verify with our own eyes, another epoch-making breakthrough in modern physics."

"This is CN"

"This is CB"

The discussion atmosphere in the venue was extremely strong. Many times, when an idea was just thrown out, others immediately deduced it on the spot.So in a very short period of time, countless new ideas emerged.

These ideas have been difficult to be strictly defined, who is the main author.

The reporters who had been waiting for a long time on the street were extremely bored and started interviewing each other and collecting materials.The first to arrive, the reporters and editors of popular science magazines, became the first interviewees.

"Did you know? We are about to witness the history of mankind!" The interviewee was very excited.

"Oh? What history?"

"Just today, the history of human science and technology will be completely rewritten!"

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

The TV reporter was very happy.Because she doesn't know much about what string theory is.

"Grand unified theory, string theory is finally mature!" A white man in his 30s danced in front of the camera.Although he also works in the media, this is the first time he has been on TV.

"What does it mean to be mature?"

"Did you know?" The interviewee's thinking was full of leaps and bounds, "We have wrongly blamed Professor Veneziano before. What he said has always been right!"

"Oh? He was right all along? Who was wrong then?"

"It's us, it's us readers who are wrong!"

"Us? Are we wrong?"

Surprised, the TV reporter opened his mouth wide, only to be greeted with the cameraman's thumb.

"String theory is like a reminder given to us by God. God's words have always been there, and they have always been correct, but we have never understood them correctly. Now it seems that we mortals have a problem with the angle of view of God's words. "

"you sure?"

The TV reporter's mouth opened even wider. "Are you really the editor of a popular science magazine?"

Although Chen Quan and Qu Yanqiu are the creators of M-theory, they are not enough to look at in front of the real bigwigs in physics.

One is that there is still a big gap in the theoretical basis, and the other is that Chen Quan and Qu Yanqiu are not full-time researchers after all, with different sensitivities and degrees of investment, so they cannot draw inferences about other cases from one instance.

Therefore, the two of them became spectators throughout the whole process and listened to it all afternoon.

Although the two of them did not speak, all the bosses here have a good attitude towards them, and they will actively seek Chen Quan's opinions in many discussions.

At the end of the show, when they heard that there were a large number of reporters outside, they pushed Chen Quan to the front.

As soon as the door of the teaching building was opened, what greeted everyone was a flash of light.
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"Standing beside me is Chen Quan, a talented young scientist from mainland China."

A reporter from the American Chinese TV Station held a microphone in his hand and faced the camera. "Chen Quan won the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad in high school."

Chen Quan's name, along with hot topics such as MEMS tweezers, blue LEDs, and lithium-ion batteries, is well known to many people even in America.

As soon as Chen Quan came out of the teaching building, he was surrounded by reporters.

Across the wide Midway Plaisance Park, on the khaki teaching building, the camera on the iron pipe is slowly adjusting, trying to find the most suitable angle from the gap between the crowd.

Chen Quan, who is 1.8 meters tall, was completely beaten to death by a group of white and black people with an average height of 1.9.

The eye standing on the concrete platform quietly watched everything in front of him.

"Actually, you are more photogenic than Chen Quan. If I interview you, the ratings of the TV station may increase by a few points."

Ma Runze, joking with the beautiful junior sister beside him.Although Qu Yanqiu is from the mainland, but in appearance, he is very similar to the mixed blood that can be seen everywhere here. Among other things, his pair of deep and big eyes are very different from the typical squint eyes of Chinese.

"Forget it. We are not actors, we rely on our personal image."

Qu Yanqiu didn't take it seriously, and stroked back the bangs blocking her eyes with her hands, cameras were everywhere in her sight. "But there are so many reporters here today."

"Yes."

"Besides the reporters, there are quite a few policemen over there."

Not far from the exit of the teaching building, several police cars were parked. "Why do the police come to join in the fun?"

"Those should be campus police officers from the University of Chicago," Ma Runze said.

The police system in the American continent is very complicated. There are police at the state level, there are also at the city level, and each region also has its own police. There is no affiliation between these police officers.

Ma Runze sighed. "I didn't expect it. We are academics, and we can cause such a big battle. Now we need a helicopter from the sky."

"Yes."

Qu Yanqiu couldn't help but looked up to the sky, but there was nothing there.

But when she looked back, the reflection of something pierced her through the mottled leaves.

"What are you looking at?"

Ma Runze noticed that Qu Yanqiu was squinting, staring at the treetops in the distance.

On the other side, the reporter's interview is still going on: "According to your estimation, when will the era of space travel be realized."

"I"

Chen Quan didn't know how to answer this nonsensical question, but in his peripheral vision, Qu Yanqiu suddenly rushed towards him.

"Get down!"

Accompanied by the shout, Chen Quan was knocked over directly, and fell to the ground on his back.

"What are you doing?" Chen Quan was completely knocked out.

When he landed, his head landed on someone's foot, otherwise he would be injured directly.He tried to push away Qu Yanqiu who was pressing on him, trying to get up again.

"There are gunmen!" Qu Yanqiu shouted in Chen Quan's ear. "You don't move!"

"what!"

Right in front of Chen Quan, the burly white man was carrying a camera and was about to take a close-up shot of the sudden situation. Blood sprang from his shoulder and fell to the ground.The huge video camera was thrown far away by him.

"Someone is robbing!"

The reporters who couldn't understand Chinese and didn't know why finally came to their senses.With a coaxing sound, the crowd, which had been extremely dense just now, ran away collectively and fled in all directions.

Shooting incidents are everyday life in Chicago.The life-saving experience of relevant people is extremely rich.

Some people lay down on the spot, while others turned around and rushed into the teaching building, running for their lives by rolling and crawling.

In the blink of an eye, the space around Chen Quan and Qu Yanqiu was completely freed.

(End of this chapter)