Episode 2: Wang Miao Discovers the Countdown
Wang Miao and Ding Yi met alone and saw the wedding ring in his hand. Ding Yi said with dismay and regret that he had bought a house to marry Yang Dong. He thought Yang Dong would enter the family, but she was as far away from you as a star in the sky. Wang Miao said that Chang Weisi found himself in the afternoon and hoped that he could join the Scientific Boundary Organization. Wang Miao said he didn't agree. Ding Yi was very happy and scolded them as a group of arrogant idiots. They have done some investigations and should know that two people have nothing to do with the scientific boundary. Yang Dong is one of them.
Why did Yang Dong make such a choice? Ding Yi picked up a book on the desk and gave it to Wang Miao because physics no longer exists. Wang Miao did not believe that if physics did not exist, Ding Yi should release the book in his hand and fly into the sky instead of falling on the ground. Ding Yi asked Wang Miao to take away the books on the billiards table for him, and Yang Dong liked billiards very much because it reminded them of particle collisions in the accelerator. Ding Yi asked Wang Miao to move the billiards table constantly. Wang Miao didn't understand what he was doing. Five times later, Ding Yi announced the end of the test. Wang Miao understood Ding Yi's meaning but did not understand what he wanted to express. Ding Yi asked him to imagine another result. Wang Miao was very scared. Did such a result happen in Yang Dong's laboratory? Ding Yi replied positively that it happened. It is normal for the data to be abnormal for the experiment, but he said it was different this time. After the death of Professor Man Fei, Yang Dong's mentor, the police and Yang Dong confirmed the two faxes she sent, but she found that before her results came out, Professor Man Fei had obtained the same data as Yang Dong. At that time, Yang Dong was emotional and couldn't believe everything in front of him.
Wang Miao also believed that it was impossible, and Ding Yi could not believe such a result, but if it was true, it would mean that physics did not exist, which would be a huge disaster for the cutting-edge scientific results. Sagittarius and farmers are the sayings of scientific boundaries. To put it bluntly, those theories that cannot be proved just give people a little hope, but this hope will also drag people into the abyss, just like Yang Dong. Ding Yi always thought he could catch her, but now he found that he might be wrong.
Ding Yi's words always reverberated in Wang Miao's mind. Even on the way home, they seemed to be entangled by two billiards, and they were separated from gravity. Wang Miao went to see Shen Yufei. This courtyard is the private house of one of their members, which provides scientific boundary discussion. Shen Yufei welcomed Wang Miao very much. They discussed the hypothesis of archers and farmers. Suppose there is a sharpshooter who makes a hole every ten centimeters on a target. Imagine that there is a two-dimensional intelligent creature living on the target. After observing their universe, the scientists among them discovered a great law. There must be a hole every ten centimeters. They regard the behavior of the sharpshooter as the iron law in their universe. The other is the farmer hypothesis. There is a group of turkeys on a farm. The farmer comes to feed them at 11:00 a.m. every day. After observing for a year, the scientists among them come to their laws in the universe. Food comes at 11:00 p.m. every day. But today is Thanksgiving Day. Food doesn't come. They become food on the table.
We may be a two-dimensional scientist on the target, or a turkey scientist on the farm. The truth that two-dimensional creatures come into contact with is not the truth at all. Their science has boundaries. One scientist was very excited. Even if he recognized it, he would not accept that he was a turkey scientist. Wang Miao said that this statement would kill people.
After leaving here, Wang Miao met Shi Qiang. His face was not very good. Wang Miao realized that all this was Shi Qiang's suit. It was Shi Qiang who designed to observe Yang Dong himself. Two days later, it was Yang Dong's funeral. Shi Qiang believes that Wang Miao must appear at Yang Dong's funeral. He is a very special person. Shi Qiang also made a military order in front of Chang Weisi. He will solve the case from Wang Miao, but he has to help himself with the suspension.
At Yang Dong's funeral, Wang Miao met her mother, Ye Wenjie, and gave Ye Wenjie the photo of Yang Dong that she accidentally took in the experiment as a souvenir. But when the photo was taken out, Wang Miao found a string of numbers on it that didn't belong to it, and quickly took it back. Shi Qiang was not far away and saw him chatting with Ye Wenjie for a long time. Wang Miao came home and carefully observed the number, and hurriedly asked the person who developed the picture. But his negative film also had the code, and even the code could change the color according to the background. Wang Miao carefully studied the figures in the photos and tried to find the rules. Wang Miao confirmed that this was the countdown, and the last photo stayed at 1194 hours. Wang Miao took the camera again to demonstrate, and now there are 1187 hours and 49 days left for him. What will happen after forty-nine days?