Back to 80: My literary life

Chapter 193 Is this really a good poem? (Third update)

Seeing that Qi Bo was silent, Yang Shengli turned his head and turned on the computer again. He called up the chess software and a Go game appeared on the screen. He smiled and asked the ponytailed girl next to him:

“How many intersections are there on this?”

"I know this. There are 19 lines vertically and horizontally, totaling 361 points." The girl said.

"Yes, each point can be placed with black and white stones or left empty, with a total of three states. In this way, each chess game can be regarded as a poem with 19 lines and 361 words written in three Chinese characters."

"Yang Shengli, your metaphor is wonderful." The girl praised.

"Thank you, how many poems can be written by exhausting the combination of these three Chinese characters in this kind of poem? Well" Yang Shengli thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at Qi Bo: "How many poems can you say?"

Qi Bo's face was ashen, but he still said a set of data

"3 to the 361st power, or in other words, 10 to the 271st power!"

"Is this...a lot?" The girl with the ponytail still looked silly.

While listening to their argument, someone couldn't sit still and said loudly: "Wu Pingping, why do you, an archaeologist, come to join in the fun? All the atoms in the universe are only 10 to the 80th power!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

Damn it, with such huge data, computers may not be able to finish it until the end of the universe!

"Qi Bo, do you think the infinite monkey theory is feasible?" Fang Minghua asked with a smile.

Qi Bo was speechless.

"But I would like to thank you for providing that set of data." Fang Minghua said again, turning to look at Yang Shengli: "Classmate, please ask you another data. Approximately how many atoms are there in the solar system?"

Yang Shengli was a little confused, but he still thought about it and answered.

"That's about 10 to the 57th power of atoms."

"Thank you."

"Minghua, why are you asking these questions?" Yang Shengli couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, I recently wrote a science fiction novel about poetry, which requires the data just now." Fang Minghua explained.

Science fiction about poetry?

The students felt fresh after hearing this.

When asked about the content of the story, he said that the content of the novel cannot be spoiled and that you can wait until it is published in "Science and Literature" before reading it.

But there is one sentence left at the end: this novel is about "the confrontation between technology and art."

Fang Minghua and Li Li left, and Li Li asked after leaving the teaching building: "Minghua, did you really write another science fiction piece?"

"Yeah, I can't talk nonsense in front of so many students, right? I'm looking for you today just because I want you to continue translating it into English, and it won't be more than 10,000 words."

"Okay!" Li Li agreed happily.

I have translated three of Fang Minghua's novels in succession. Fang Minghua said that the response in the United States was very good, which greatly increased the girl's confidence.

Fang Minghua found a stone bench on campus and sat down, took out the manuscript and filled in the few data on it, and then handed it to Li Li.

"I'm still staying in Yanjing for two days. You try to finish the translation and send it to grandpa's house."

"Okay, I'll start translating right away."

"Okay then, I'll go and talk to Xichuan now." Fang Minghua stood up after saying that, since he came to Yanda to meet the poet.

"Do you want me to accompany you?" Li Li asked.

"No, you go about your business." Fang Minghua replied, jokingly saying: "If you come with me again. The way you look at Qi Bo, he might challenge me." "What? What does it have to do with him? A science and engineering man who doesn’t know how to be romantic!" Li Li muttered.

But he didn't go with Fang Minghua.

The current task is to translate this novel quickly.

After Fang Minghua left, Li Li hurried back to the dormitory with the manuscript and sat on the bed to read it carefully.

"Yiyi and his three men took a yacht on a poetry sailing voyage in the South Pacific. Their destination is the Antarctic. If they can get there successfully in a few days, they will drill out of the earth's crust to see the poetry clouds.

Today, the sky and sea water are very clear, and the world seems too transparent for poetry. Looking up, the American continent, which is rarely seen in ordinary times, is clearly displayed in the sky. On the huge dome covering the world formed by the Eastern Hemisphere, the continent seems to be an area where the wall has peeled off..."

Gosh

What a romantic imagination!

Li Li couldn't help but marveled again.

When I saw Dinosaur Daya translating the popular ancient poem "Ascend the Stork Tower" to "God", I almost couldn't breathe with laughter and my branches were trembling.

"The star has set behind the mountain of the planet, and a river called the Yellow River flows in the direction of the sea. Oh, this river and the sea are both composed of a compound substance composed of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. If you want to see The farther you go, the higher you should go on the building.”

This is actually a translation of "The sun is over the mountains, the Yellow River flows into the sea, and I want to see a thousand miles away and reach a higher level?"

It is simply a disgrace to our translation community.

Look how well my tutor translated!

Li Li thought of the famous "Climbing the Stork Tower" in the book "150 Tang Poems" translated by Professor Xu.

"Hey, Li Li, what are you looking at, so attentive? That great writer Fang Minghua came to see you just now." The one who spoke was the girl with pigtails on the upper bunk.

"I met him and he asked me to translate a science fiction novel, that's it."

"Science fiction? Let me see."

The girl with pigtails immediately became interested and slipped down from the upper bunk to come over to Li Li to watch together.

"Wow, this novel actually contains profound philosophical thoughts!" The girl with braids sighed after reading Dafa: "Is the essence and essence of intelligent life really beyond the reach of technology? What a profound proposition!"

Li Li was not much surprised.

Her roommate is a graduate student studying theoretical physics.

Some people say that "the end of physics is mathematics, the end of mathematics is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology."

So philosophy became her hobby.

The little braided girl continued to express her emotion:

"The solar system as a memory, the pure energy transformation of life forms, and quantum computers, oh my god, is this how Fang Minghua came up with these terms?"

"In 1981, the concept of quantum computing was introduced by Feynman, an American physicist. In a famous speech, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of ​​using quantum systems to achieve universal computation. If a computer composed of a quantum system is used to simulate With quantum phenomena, the computing time can be greatly reduced, and the concept of quantum computers has been proposed."

The little braided girl was still chattering.

Li Li ignored it, and a sense of pride suddenly rose in her heart:

Look, poetry is so awesome that even at the end of the world, in front of alien creatures like "gods", you can still use it as the ultimate showdown!

However, I was very interested in the first poem written by the god who became "Li Bai":

Ah ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah ah

Ahhhhhhhhh

Is this really a good poem?

(End of this chapter)