On the campus of the University of Coro, under the shade of green trees, you can see a beautiful figure. Most of them come from China, but also from the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. There are also many people from Europe on the back of the Earth.
The relaxed and diversified concept of running a school allows students, no matter where they come from, to quickly integrate into this young university.
At this moment, on the brick and stone road full of books, the students are holding books, walking in groups of three and five, walking in the direction of the teaching building. This scene is usually commonplace, but it is rare on weekends.
"Hey, have you heard that? Jiang Chen is coming to our school to give an open class!"
“Jiang Chen? Is that Jiang Chen? The chairman of the Future People Group, the founder of the virtual reality network?”
"Really real?! What is it, I am asking for a class!"
"Cosmology." The girl with glasses and a quiet look said.
"..."
"...yu...cosmology?"
"...is it science?"
"It’s really an accident. I thought he would talk about the economy, the Internet, and the like."
"Hey, do you still have to take classes? It doesn't matter to our profession."
"Crap, this is still asking!" A girl with a small star in her eyes, excitedly said.
"After all, it is the class that the world's richest man said! I heard that Harvard University wants to ask him to explain the artificial intelligence database and the three definitions, he did not go!" Another girl also echoed.
Indeed, there are not many opportunities to listen to the world's richest lectures, especially the very low-key Mr. Jiang Chen, who rarely appeared on the campus except for his face at the opening ceremony last year.
Even though the name of this public elective course is quite strange, it seems that it has nothing to do with Jiang Chen’s own field, but it still does not hinder people’s curiosity about himself.
Regardless of the purpose, when Jiang Chen walked into the lecture hall, he saw that the classroom was already crowded.
The classroom, which can accommodate two hundred people, was slowly being shackled at the moment. Some people even moved stools from the next classroom and sat on the aisle.
Looking at the ebullient face, even though I was used to the big scene, Jiang Chen’s scalp was not numb.
At this time, he remembered the unsatisfactory laughter of President Rafael Leif, who was on the phone yesterday. Sure enough, it was said by the old guy. If he opened this open class, no matter how unpopular the class, the classroom would definitely be packed.
The scalp is numb and numb, and the market is certainly impossible.
How to say that he is also the leader of hundreds of thousands of people, in the end of the world is a "big warlord" on the side of the side, a hundred students in the district, not enough to let him fall.
Smiling and waved to the stage, Jiang Chen opened the earphones hanging in the ear, coughed and tried the sound, then opened the way.
"All of you here are sure to ask, why is this person standing in front of you today picking out the inexplicable subject of cosmology instead of teaching more useful or practical successes?"
The noisy sounds in the classroom gradually subsided, and everyone looked at the position of the podium and looked at Jiang Chen’s face.
"This question is very well answered. The famous economist and Wall Street investor James Glassman recently published a book that took me as his research object, and deepened... Of course, it seems to me to be one-sided...analysis Why did my and my future people group only use it for just three years, and they went from nothing to the tip of the pyramid.” Jiang Chen smiled and looked at all the students who were sitting. “I don’t agree with him. The argumentation process, but I agree with his conclusion."
"That is, my success is unrepeatable."
"Since my experience cannot be copied, it is not a good medicine for you. It may be just a poison."
"But apart from the commercial success, I can't figure out what I can do in other areas. So I picked a topic that I personally interested in and a little research, that is, The cosmology I am going to talk about today."
Jiang Chen noticed that many students have picked up their mobile phones and are watching videos with great interest.
However, he did not care. What he said today is originally intended to be a joke.
He said, he turned and picked up the marker and wrote four words on the whiteboard.
[Where are they? 】
Turning around, Jiang Chen put the marker on the table and turned his eyes to everyone present.
"Where are they? This question, I think everyone here is certainly not strange. Yes, it is the famous Fermi paradox."
“It is estimated that the number of stars in the observable universe is roughly between 10 and 22 to the 24th power, while the amount of sand on the earth is 7.5*10 and 18 squares.” After a pause, Jiang Chen smiled and then spread his hand and said, "That is to say, every grain of sand on the earth can correspond to 10,000 planets in the universe."
"The universe is much larger than our imagination, and it is darker than we think."
"This kind of darkness does not come from any aliens. In the face of the time scale of 13.8 billion years, all civilizations are humble and small. Perhaps on the door of Mars in our home, there has been a fire of civilization. Only it appears. Life has been exhausted in billions or billions of years ago, and the earth on the earth a billion years ago was just a chaotic ocean, and even the trilobites did not exist."
"This is the so-called cosmic sieve. The probability of our encounter with extraterrestrial civilization is very small, and the probability of being able to find each other after encountering is even less."
"But we still have to make assumptions. If we meet with extraterrestrial civilizations, and we can just find each other and understand each other's existence, then I can assert that the consequences of blind contact will be quite dangerous..."
Understanding does not mean identity, and not agreeing that it will lead to conflict. This kind of identity is reflected in many aspects such as aesthetics, values, and core values. Just like the undead with death as the beauty, it is absolutely impossible to accept each other with the living people who praise the life.
Jiang Chen did not expect his class to bring too much inspiration to these students. Many of the arguments he made were discussed by the predecessors.
He just wanted to see what the students would react to when he said the truth.
Through the reactions of these students, at least a rough assessment can be made to disclose the consequences of the crisis facing the Earth civilization.
The class is coming to an end.
"...If, I mean, if there is such a colonial ship from an extraterrestrial civilization, it is on the way to the earth. We don't know where it comes from, and we are not sure if it is good or not, if you are an earth civilization. The decision maker, you will make a decision after learning the information."
"This is your homework, I hope you will do it seriously."
Jiang Chen noticed that many students in the audience had a lack of interest after hearing this assignment.
Obviously, no one will really take this inexplicable homework seriously. After all, no matter from which point of view, this assignment is really boring. They are not the naive age, they will go to fantasy space, imagining the first contact between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations, and imagining unrealistic problems.
Perhaps a job, a scholarship, or a professor's topic will make them more serious about their thinking.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen shook his head without a smile.
After arranging the books on the desk, he coughed cough and said to the students who were preparing for the class.
"Well, I know that you are definitely not interested in this, then I will say it."
"I believe that you can often play with your mobile phone and wear a helmet. The space colonization plan for the Star Ring trade will not be unfamiliar. The study of extraterrestrial civilization is part of the space colonization plan of the Star Ring Trade. You may find it very boring, but now I tell you This topic has commercial value, and the assignment I have arranged is related to this topic."
"The prize for the project is 10,000 US dollars. Ten qualified papers will be selected. If you are interested, please submit the paper to me. Yes, students who have not selected the class can also participate. The mailbox is on the whiteboard. I am this person. More afraid of trouble, I sent the bank card account to the mailbox and sent it together..."
Jiang Chen will notice that the words have not been finished yet.
That pair of eyes, looking at my own eyes suddenly different... (to be continued.)