88. Memoirs (2)
When I started thinking about making a lot of money, I was just an ordinary mechanic at the Ningbo Power Plant, and I had to carry a heavy toolkit every day, climbing up and down high-voltage power poles, and receiving a meager salary of dozens of yuan a month.
My father fell ill in those years of hardship, and he no longer had the strength to hold the whip, and the little money I earned to get by, and the idea of having to give him medicine and see a doctor, and make a fortune, was as far away as the stars in the sky. I'm almost thirty years old, and I'm still alone, and the girl introduced by the family came to the house for a walk, politely said goodbye and left, and basically there was no follow-up.
But I'm not afraid of this predicament, Nietzsche said, I am a warrior, I am born to fight, and fighting means to be vigorous, as long as I do a vigorous and big thing, maybe only one thing, I can fundamentally turn my life around like using a wooden stick to pry the earth.
The big thing I decided to do was to pick up a little pen and write a thesis.
A power plant mechanic writing a scientific paper will only make people laugh at his inadequacy. But if the paper written by a power plant technician reaches the world's first-class level, it will become a sensational news. Not only did I write a paper, but I also got the second effect after I published it.
The proposition of that treatise, which I will never forget, is called "The Philosophy of the Universe and the Imagination of Light". The basic philosophical theory asserts that there are positive and negative opposites in all things, and it is precisely because of this opposition that the collision of positive and negative substances is caused, and all things in the universe are born.
The Book of Changes also points out that Taiji gives birth to two rituals, and two rituals give birth to four images. It means that the earth is the opposition of heaven and yin is the opposition of yang, and if there were no opposites, the universe would still be in chaos, still in the initial state of a single matter.
Opposites are identical, so they can coexist, so I boldly put forward the hypothesis that when a phenomenon actually appears in front of us, it becomes a signal for the existence of another anti-phenomenon that opposes it. In the positive and negative poles, as long as we find one of the poles, it is possible to find the other pole along the vine. The law of pros and cons applies to the entire universe, including all phenomena that occur in the universe, such as light.
Maybe even kindergarten children know that the opposite of light is darkness, and it is logical that darkness should be the opposite of light. However, this idea is absolutely wrong, because the relationship between the two is not identity, but subordinate.
Why? The reason is very simple, darkness is a collection of all colors, but the hue of light is single, even if it is polychromatic light, black light cannot be obtained after dispersion. Every color released by darkness becomes light when it is brightened enough to become light, but no one can break down darkness from light.
So the question arises, since the opposite of light is not black, what would it be? If that plane is also subordinate to black, can we find it out of the darkness? Once the antimatter of light is obtained, how will our world change?
How will our world change? This is the question that should be pondered.
After the paper was published in a scientific journal, it caused quite a stir in the space physics community at home and abroad. The theory of dark matter is a very eye-catching topic, and my argument is like a spark that ignites the enthusiasm of many astrophysicists, including Powell of the Department of Physics at Stanford University. Dr. Duvan.
Three weeks after the publication of my paper, I received an invitation letter from Dr. Du Wen in the name of Stanford University, inviting me, an ordinary electrician who sweats every day for three buckets of rice, to go to a first-class university in the United States for academic exchanges.
My father held the invitation letter in English in his hand, and he was so excited that he burst into tears. I couldn't have been relieved of him, but looking at his appearance, if I didn't say no, I might really want his life.
In this way, after completing the complicated procedures for leaving the country one by one, I embarked on a journey to California, USA. Thinking back to my childhood longing for the world of origin, I hallucinated as if I had returned to the age of twelve, carrying my suitcase and preparing to go into the depths of the universe in search of mirrors that reflected various celestial bodies.
Dr. Duvine personally greeted me at the airport. In fact, he is a few years older than me, but he has already made extraordinary achievements in the field of astrophysics. He is studying the composition of energy in the universe, hoping to collect particles from space that are not available on Earth and develop new sources of energy for the Earth.
As we all know, the earth's resources are limited, and at the current rate of exploitation, we may fall into the crisis of energy exhaustion in a few generations, and regress to the terrible living conditions of primitive people who drink blood.
Dr. Duvine's main interest is in the development of light energy, which is why he was impressed by my paper. He showed me research on possible antimatter in the universe and said to me, "Qu, do you believe that if I use a curved mirror to reflect sunlight, the utilization rate of sunlight can be multiplied?" ”
"What is a curved mirror?" I asked him. In my mind, mirrors don't roll.
Powell actually took out a mirror that could be flipped, saying that it was a mirror, but it was more like a piece of soft paper that could show people. Standing in the strong sunlight, he folded the soft paper at different angles to look like a child's metaball.
The sunlight is focused on one angle of the curved mirror, reaching the ignition point, but instead of burning, it transfers heat to the next angle opposite it. In this way, the heat was transferred one after the other, and the soft paper quickly burned like a fireball, and had to be placed on the insulating rubber pad.
Powell brought another basin of ice water, put the folded soft paper into the water, and within a second, the ice water actually boiled, which is enough to show how high the heat accumulated in the soft paper.
Powell danced with excitement at the results of the experiment, telling me: "If you use this curved material to store solar power, it will be a million times more efficient than it is now." But what's the most amazing power, you know? ”
I shook my head again.
He didn't show me anything experimentally, but whispered in my ear that the soft paper could change any kind of polychromatic light spectrum, recombining the dispersed monochromatic light into the light energy he wanted. However, because the properties of light are still there, this change is not a chemical change, and the atoms that form light remain the same, only the speed of the movement of electrons in the atoms.
I said, "How is this possible?" This is contrary to scientific common sense! Could it be that your curved mirror contains magnets? But in the case of ordinary magnets, it is also impossible to have an effect on light! ”
Powell smiled mysteriously and said: "I have really researched such a magnet, it is nothing else, it is your imagination of light - antimatter different from dark light: optical magnetism." ”