Chapter 24 First Encounter with Wang Miao_1

The brain that maintained its normal activation was no longer the man who could only employ rough and rigid methods to pour knowledge into others.

The two began to engage in deep discussions, with Chen Fang injecting knowledge from the simple to the complex, teaching ever more smoothly and silkily, with many explanations and wonderful analogies suddenly making Liu Yueyue feel that physics was actually quite fun.

As time went by, Chen Fang's pace started to quicken, and Liu Yueyue concentrated hard to keep up, but before long, she couldn't keep pace with Chen Fang anymore.

In just an hour, her head had taken on the shape of physics knowledge.

Liu Yueyue shook her head, her face full of confusion, "No more, no more, my head is about to be filled with knowledge."

She, immersed in the world of physics, returned to reality and looked around, only to find that somehow many people had appeared around them, both men and women, all with distracted expressions, and it was unclear if they were there to read or to people-watch.

"Why are there so many people?" Liu Yueyue whispered quietly.

"Maybe it's because I'm lecturing so well, they're attracted by me?" Chen Fang offered his explanation.

"Is that so?"

"Perhaps," Chen Fang corrected the derailed topic, "I want to ask you a question now, and you need to answer me seriously."

"What question?"

"Which is heavier, a pound of iron or a pound of cotton?"

"Of course, a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton!" Liu Yueyue answered without hesitation.

Upon hearing this, Chen Fang fell into rare silence, his gaze fixed on her, trying to discern something from her face.

A few seconds later, he was defeated by Liu Yueyue's serious gaze and asked again.

"How did you come to that conclusion?"

After hearing this, Liu Yueyue naturally explained, "According to the principle of equivalent exchange, a pound is the same weight as another pound, and since iron is heavier than cotton, when combined, that means a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton!"

Well, at first listen, it sounded quite logical.

Chen Fang instantly understood; he knew that while he was teaching, there was a feeling that he and she weren't on the same wavelength about certain issues, not because there was a problem with him, but because her logic was flawed.

Chen Fang couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Liu Yueyue beside him.

"You understand physics."

The girl, not catching the unusual tone and the implication, was instead overjoyed with the affirmation from the learning god! Got it!

"How about that, isn't my improvement huge, sister?"

"Yes, yes, you're right!"

The second affirmation from the learning-god brother! Got it!

This filled her with such delight that Liu Yueyue's face bloomed with smiles.

Chen Fang mentally shook his head; teaching Liu Yueyue physics was, he could only say, difficult!

Honestly, if the women of the world were like Liu Yueyue, then Sophon wouldn't need to block fundamental physics, and everyone might as well just surrender!

"Grandpa, your grandson is on the phone for you."

"Grandpa, your grandson is on the phone for you."

The peculiar ringtone suddenly went off in the library, with some of the onlookers holding back their laughter, while others laughed out loud,

Liu Yueyue, with her carefree attitude, seemingly didn't hear it and took out her phone to answer, "Hello, Mom."

A minute later she hung up and said to Chen Fang, "My mom just called, Uncle Wang is coming over for lunch today and she invited you to come over for a meal."

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"Oh, who is Uncle Wang?"

"Uh, he's Mom's colleague, seems like his name is Wang Miao."

Wang Miao, the one researching nanomaterials?

Qin Ming felt puzzled and, despite originally not wanting to go, now felt he had to check it out.

He nodded and said, "Good, I'm actually a bit hungry too."

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When mealtime arrived, the two left to take a taxi and Qin Ming followed Liu Yueyue to her home for the second time.

As soon as Qin Ming entered, he saw a thin, middle-aged man with glasses sitting on the sofa, a briefcase beside him, looking every part the intellectual.

Is this Wang Miao?

As Qin Ming looked at Wang Miao, Wang Miao also noticed him.

Looking up with a gossiping smile, Wang Miao said to Liu Yueyue, "Yueyue, who is this you didn't introduce?"

He glanced at Qin Ming again.

"Uncle Wang, this is my schoolmate." Liu Yueyue's smile was sweet.

Apart from their mismatched heights, they seemed quite compatible in terms of looks.

That's what Wang Miao thought to himself.

In the kitchen, Chen Fang brought out the last dish.

After a round of courteous small talk, Chen Fang called everyone to eat.

"The dishes are going to get cold, let's eat quickly."

The four individuals in the room began to sit down and use their chopsticks.

Qin Ming noticed that today's dishes were the exact same as last night's.

After eating for a while, Chen Fang, sitting beside Wang Miao, poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile, "Professor Wang, recently many in the project team have had complaints about you. Just now, Engineer-in-Chief Zhang even called me, asking me to persuade you to be less stubborn."

"Complaints about me?" Wang Miao drank the wine and absentmindedly picked up a piece of meat, "Is it because of the reaction black box project?"

Chen Fang did not deny it, and after glancing at him, she said, "The reaction black box has been running for over a year, and many sensors have significantly reduced sensitivity. It's time for shutdown maintenance. To maintain the normal operation of the reaction black box, the lab's project team has already worked overtime for several days."

Both of them spoke at the dining table without avoiding Qin Ming and Liu Yueyue, and the conversation did not involve any technical details, which wasn't a secret anyway.

After listening quietly, Wang Miao explained patiently, "Professor Chen, as a leader at the Nanocenter, you should understand the importance of the reaction black box project. Right now, the black box is in its third batch of synthetic combination, and nobody knows if results might appear the next second."

"Experiments are like that, you can't stop before the end, and as the project's chief scientist, I'll fight alongside the engineers in the team."

His argument was flawless, leaving Chen Lin, the leader, at a loss for a response.

The conversation between the two made Qin Ming realize that this Wang Miao was the scientist working on nanomaterials from the original text, and it seemed Liu Yueyue's mother, Chen Fang, was his supervisor.

The nanomaterial Wang Miao was researching was called "Flying Blade," and in Three-Body, the guzheng plan was implemented using super-strong nanowires made of "Flying Blade."

Each was only a tenth the thickness of a strand of hair, able to easily cut through most materials on Earth, rightfully the most powerful cutting device.

Moreover, after mass production in the Crisis Era, this material was also used as a framework for space elevators, possessing excellent tensile strength, fatigue resistance, and other mechanical properties.

If Qin Ming could get the fabrication method, these thin yet strong nanowires, barely visible to the naked eye, combined with Qin Ming's invisible psychokinesis, could become his strongest trump card. Enhanced by resonance, it could greatly improve his defensive and offensive capabilities in Worlds of All Heavens.

While eating, Qin Ming plotted how to obtain the "Flying Blade" nanowires.

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