From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 171 Epiphany before

“Unity of man and nature?”

Alex was stunned, “How do you know?”

Henry Bernard said: “Have you ever read Chinese fantasy novels? That’s what it says in it. When the protagonist enters a state where he completely forgets the surrounding environment, that is the state of unity between man and nature, or in other words, A state called ‘enlightenment’.”

“What would happen in this state?”

“The protagonist will break through and be promoted to a level, such as being promoted from the Qi Refining Stage to the Foundation Building Stage.”

Alex looked confused: “What is that?”

“In Chinese myths and legends, if a mortal cultivates immortality and then becomes a god, he must first enter the foundation-building stage from the Qi-refining stage.”

“What are the Qi refining stage and the foundation building stage?”

As a Frenchman, it was difficult for Alex to understand these words, “Where did you learn this? How can a man become a god?”

“Hey, I’ll give you a Chinese novel website and you’ll know. Those are all Chinese novels.”

Alex stopped Henry from taking out his mobile phone. He was not interested in any novels now. He was only interested in Lin Xiao’s ‘epiphany’.

“Stop, stop, but what does this have to do with Lin Xiao? Is he going to become a god?”

“Uh…” Henry scratched his head and said, “Actually, it may be that Lin Xiao will suddenly realize the solution to the twin prime number conjecture.”

Alex was stunned: “Really?”

“That must be the case.” Henry nodded, believing that he had been addicted to Chinese novels for many years, and said with certainty: “You can just ask him later.”

“And think about it, before he proved Goldbach’s conjecture, did he fall into this kind of situation in the Bourbaki seminar and completely forget about his surroundings?”

After saying this, they all suddenly thought about it. It seemed that there was indeed such a thing?

“So let’s just wait and don’t wake up Lin Xiao.”

Seeing that they all remembered, Henry said confidently again.

Seeing his serious look, Alex and the four girls suddenly became excited.

Maybe it’s true?

As a result, they all quietly stopped disturbing Lin Xiao. In order to prevent Lin Xiao’s thinking from being interrupted, they even protected him to prevent other tourists from accidentally bumping into Lin Xiao. Moreover, Lin Xiao was standing The location is right in front of the “Mona Lisa”. If other tourists want to stand right in front and admire this painting, they will say to these tourists: “Please wait a moment, our friend is having an epiphany and cannot disturb.”

This is when visitors ask, “What is epiphany?”

Then they will say: “It is the unity of heaven and man.”

Tourists will obviously continue to ask: “What is the unity of heaven and man?”

So Alex and the others would look at Henry and ask this understanding brother to answer.

Henry himself didn’t know how to explain it, so he would answer mysteriously: “Do you know about Chinese Kung Fu? This is the most powerful state in Chinese Kung Fu. My friend is in this state now. When he recovers, He’ll be as good as Bruce Lee.”

Hearing Bruce Lee’s name, these tourists suddenly became confused and looked at Lin Xiao from the side.

As a result, more and more other tourists gathered around. Everyone knew that there was a Chinese who was undergoing some kind of ‘enlightenment’, which was a kind of Chinese Kung Fu. In short, it was very powerful. Then everyone gave other people As soon as people spread the word, it became more and more mysterious, and it was even discussed on the Internet, such as Facebook, which is most commonly used by French people.

The four keywords of Chinese Kung Fu, Bruce Lee, epiphany, and the Louvre came together, and they immediately attracted the attention of many French people. In France, a land of 550,000 square kilometers, there are only more than 60 million The population makes it easy for even such a small matter to attract nationwide attention.

So on the hot searches in France, this matter quietly made the list.

“Epiphany?” What is that! Is it just a move in Kung Fu? 』

“Oh my God, Bruce Lee!” Can someone like him appear again? 』

“Oh, in the mysterious East, what secrets are there that we don’t know?” 』

“I also want to learn kung fu!” 』

Eastern mysticism has always been very popular abroad, such as Tai Chi, Yin Yang, etc., and Chinese Kung Fu is naturally among them. Even Bohr, an important figure in quantum mechanics, is still in the complementary theory of the basic principles of quantum mechanics proposed by him. Introduced the theory of Tai Chi Yin and Yang, and believed that the Tai Chi diagram could well symbolize its principle of complementarity.

So Lin Xiao’s ‘epiphany’ also made these French people interested.

However, as the central figure in this matter, Lin Xiao probably didn’t expect that Henry, who loved reading fantasy novels, would be said to be a martial arts master who could compete with Bruce Lee after just making a few random remarks in front of everyone.

And his immersion state ended after about ten minutes.

When he came out of the brainstorming, what caught his eye was Mona Lisa and her shallow and simple smile.

This smile has gone through people’s complex interpretations and evolved into endless explanations. People quoted scriptures to add evidence for their own interpretations, and even judged it from various starting points such as facial muscles and life background.

However, at this moment, in Lin Xiao’s eyes, he felt that it was just a smile.

Hundreds of years ago, when the woman named Mona Lisa was waiting for the painter named Leonardo da Vinci to paint her, she probably didn’t think much about anything and just smiled.

Isn’t it normal to smile when someone is painting you?

Even Leonardo da Vinci used a variety of complicated painting techniques to draw this smile, from the overall proportions to the slight details of the corner of the eye.

But his purpose was just to paint a portrait of a woman named Mona Lisa, and what he ended up painting was just a woman named Mona Lisa and the smile she happened to show.

Just like the mathematical process calculated in Lin Xiao’s mind.

His purpose was just to prove that there are infinite pairs of prime numbers with a difference of 2. This is a problem that even elementary school students can understand.

It’s just that in the process, he has to use various complicated mathematical techniques.

Looking at the “Mona Lisa”, Lin Xiao whispered: “So all we need to do is stand here and admire this painting, that’s all.”

“Lin, is your epiphany over?”

Suddenly, Alex’s voice came from the side.

An epiphany?

What epiphany?

He was confused for a moment, and then turned his head to look. As a result, he was stunned when he turned his head.

There was almost a crowd of people behind him, and those people were looking at him, seemed to be talking about him, and even took pictures of him with their mobile phones.

Especially after he turned his head, more people took pictures, and they all seemed to be taking pictures of his face.

Lin Xiao was at a loss.

What the hell happened?

I’m looking at the Mona Lisa and you’re looking at me?

Am I more famous than the Mona Lisa?

He quickly pulled Alex and asked in a low voice: “Why are there so many people? And they are all looking at me?”

“Because you have an epiphany!” Henry Bernard next to him immediately replied, and then he asked quite excitedly: “Lin, have you found a way to prove the twin prime number conjecture?”

Lin Xiao was stunned again: “How do you know?”

“I’ll just say it!”

Henry clapped his hands and looked at Alex and the others with a proud expression. Alex and the four girls immediately cast admiring glances at him.

It turned out that Henry was really right, and Lin Xiao really had an epiphany!

He actually found a way to prove the twin prime conjecture.

Although I don’t know if it’s true or not, he is the one who proved Goldbach’s conjecture after all. He now says that he is confident in proving the twin prime conjecture. Maybe it is true?

Lin Xiao, who was listening to their conversation, became even more confused.

What happened?