The start of science and technology
Chapter 84
The process of the award ceremony is very slow. First, the jury will give a speech, then the winners will give a speech, and then the king will give the award. During this period, music will be played and singers will sing
Chinese domestic audiences have long been impatient.
"It''s almost twelve o''clock. Why hasn''t it been Du Xingyu''s turn?"
"Forget it, I have to go to work tomorrow. Don''t watch it. Get up tomorrow and watch the replay."
"Speechless, I want to sleep what the simultaneous translator said!"
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"Next, we will invite a talented physicist from the east to give a speech. His research in aerodynamics enables mankind to walk out of the sky and land on Mars!" the member of the Nobel physics prize selection committee shouted, "he is the winner of this Nobel physics, Mr. Du Xingyu!"
"It''s Du Xingyu at last!" the audience cheered up.
"It''s Du Xingyu!" Du Xingyu''s parents were dozing off at home. When they heard the simultaneous translation, they woke up immediately.
"It''s him!" Xu Lianqiu became nervous in the space agency.
On the screen, Du Xingyu was dressed in formal clothes, straight and handsome, but his face was not as happy as other winners, calm and indifferent.
"Lao Lu, I''ve received the award from Du Xingyu!" in an apartment, Wang Wei pulled Lv Liang up.
"Academician Du finally appeared!" in the bedroom, Fang Jiayou, founder of space technology service company, looked forward to his mobile phone.
"Coming!" a large number of scholars and experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Astronomical Observatory and the space administration are looking at this picture. They know that a news that will change the world is about to be announced!
"Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I''m Du Xingyu from China. I''m honored to be selected as the winner of this year''s Nobel Prize in physics. I thank the king and queen for their kind invitation and the recommendation of the selection committee..." Du Xingyu''s opening speech was in good order. He used English so that the audience could hear it clearly.
His words were also translated into Chinese simultaneously, so that the Chinese audience could hear them clearly.
"The Nobel laureates just described their achievements or some ideas. Here, what I want to describe is not my achievements in aerodynamics, but some of my discoveries in celestial observation." Du Xingyu''s tone is not fast or slow, and his words are clear. Even the audience in the corner of the second floor can hear it clearly.
Members of the Nobel prize selection committee, members of the foundation, members of the Swedish Royal family and the invited audience all looked at him with a smile and looked forward to his acceptance speech.
Du Xingyu continued: "there are many astrophysicists and cosmologists here. You should know that asteroids and meteorites hit Mars 3.9 billion years ago, which directly destroyed the ecological environment of Mars and turned it from a vibrant water planet into a dead world."
"Today, 3.9 billion years later, I found that the earth will face the same experience as Mars! The destruction of dinosaurs by asteroids 65 million years ago is not a special case!"
"Hmm? What is he talking about?" hearing Du Xingyu''s words, everyone wondered.
"Maybe we want to protect the environment. Many Nobel laureates give speeches like this," thought the president of the Nobel Foundation.
"Do these scientists make complaints about the destruction of the earth every day?"
Du Xingyu continued to describe his findings: "in the past two months, Professor Beth of the American Haleakala Observatory and I have been observing Neptune and objects in the nearby Kuiper belt."
"We have found a very unfortunate truth! I know that maybe telling this thing will destabilize the whole world! But in order to save our mankind, I have to say today!"
Du Xingyu''s words puzzled the audience. Isn''t it the award-winning speech? Why did you suddenly announce a news that shocked the world? What is the news?
In front of China''s TV and Internet, the audience is also confused.
"What did Du Xingyu find?"
"Do you think the earth can be destroyed?"
"No matter what he says, if my heart fluctuates a little, I lose!"
"A Kuiper belt asteroid with a diameter of about 30 kilometers is changing its orbit by Neptune''s gravity and is flying towards the earth. It is now about 4.5 billion kilometers away from the earth, with a speed of more than 25000 kilometers per hour."
"According to the current data, it will collide with the earth in about 20 years and destroy human civilization!"
"This asteroid, I call it the death star." Du Xingyu finished his words. In the Stockholm concert hall, the whole audience was silent and the needle drop could be heard!
Everyone was shocked by what Du Xingyu said. They came here to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony to celebrate the great discoveries of scientists!
But no one expected that they would hear such shocking news!
An asteroid will destroy the world in 20 years?
What the hell is going on? Is it true or false? Is Du Xingyu kidding?
In front of the Chinese TV, the fluent simultaneous interpreter''s voice suddenly stuttered and shocked. When she translated Du Xingyu''s words intermittently, the audience all over the country were stunned!
"Xiao Yu said that the earth would be destroyed by asteroids?" Du Xingyu''s parents stood up and looked at each other?
"No? Brother, this is a Nobel Prize ceremony, and international jokes are not like this!" Wang Wei and LV liangmu stared at the computer screen.
"Can the joking expression be so serious?" Fang Jiayou was eating. Hearing this sentence, he almost bit off his tongue.
"Du Xingyu really said it!" academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences stood up. From this sentence, the world will face the disaster!
The air at the Nobel Prize Presentation site seemed to freeze. Carl Haryk Harding, President of the Nobel Prize Foundation, broke the silence. He pretended to be relaxed and said to Du Xingyu: "Mr. Du, I have to remind you that it''s December. Your April Fool''s Day joke is four months early."
"No, ladies and gentlemen," Du Xingyu said seriously, "I''m not kidding. A disaster that can destroy the world is coming!"
"It''s impossible!" an astronomer at the scene immediately stood up and said, "Mr. Du, I''m from the French observatory. We''ve never observed the asteroid you said!"
"Yes! We haven''t observed it either." other astronomers expressed doubt.
"This is too alarmist!" the first feeling of the crowd was disbelief.
"Of course you can''t observe it now," said Du Xingyu. "The death star is a dead asteroid. It has almost no light and heat. It''s too far from the earth. It''s difficult for the current space telescope to directly capture its trace."
"I also calculated it based on the data of the precision pointing sensor. After today''s ceremony, I will publish all my observation and calculation data on the Internet, and you can check it!"
"In other words, you didn''t observe the asteroid directly?" asked the member of the Nobel Prize jury.
"No, I observed it, but only for a moment, about less than 0.3 seconds." Du Xingyu said: "only at a specific place can I find its trace through its influence on the light from Neptune. Now it is invisible again!"
"Mr. Du, this is a terrible prediction. Before there is conclusive evidence, I hope you can keep a cautious attitude to avoid unnecessary panic!" the jury reminded.
"It is because of prudence that I come here! Publish it to the world!" Du Xingyu said, "According to my calculation, on December 13, around 9 p.m. Beijing time, it will appear again! When you observe the direction of Neptune with a space telescope, you will see the faint light of death star. That is, it has flown far enough and began to reflect the light from the sun."
Du Xingyu spoke seriously and seriously, which made the scene quiet again for a few seconds. Then there was a fierce discussion, and the whole audience was in an uproar!