Chapter 505 - 242: Classifying World Lines (Request for Monthly Pass!!)

To be honest.

After traveling to this 1850 alternate timeline and receiving the Halo task.

Xu Yun is mainly interested in two things.

The first is naturally the growth of Wheat.

After all, he’s firmly the third giant in the history of physics, only after Einstein and Little Niu.

Unlike the Little Niu in the 1665 timeline and Old Su in the 1100 timeline.

This timeline isn’t just a short newbie task. Wheat is not like Old Su at the end of his life; he’s a completely blank slate.

In such a situation.

With the help of Xu Yun, someone from the future, how could Wheat be educated... ahem, what level can he grow to?

The most conservative estimate.

The two years he wasted on the false interpretation of Faraday by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom could be saved, right?

Not to mention, what Xu Yun can do is obviously not just this little; his help to Wheat is surely more than that.

The anticipation of witnessing the growth of a giant is truly exciting.

As for the second thing Xu Yun is interested in...

It’s naturally the level of scientific development in this timeline change.

This is knowledge he must understand to take action in the future.

The invention times of electric lamps and nitroglycerine have advanced by more than twenty years, so what about other things?

Is it possible that some "big guys" were born early?

With this thought in mind, Xu Yun called on Wheat today to come to the library to search for the truth.

......

The lighting on the second floor of the library is a bit dimmer than on the first floor, and since the electric lamps in these days are not as bright as those in the future, the layout of the seats on the second floor is also very different from the small cubicles in many traditional libraries.

All the seats are along long tables by the window, somewhat like high pub tables and stools from the future, with high utilization but perhaps less comfort.

Xu Yun casually chose a spot where the light was relatively bright and glanced around.

Perhaps it’s because the school hasn’t started yet.

This area, which takes up a quarter of the second floor of the library, has only one other person besides Xu Yun.

It’s a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a light purple shirt, and his exact appearance is unclear, but his shiny bald head is particularly striking.

No wonder Xu Yun felt that this place was a bit brighter.

Beside him was a large pile of books, and he was buried in making notes with full concentration.

Judging by his age, he should be a professor or assistant preparing for class.

Xu Yun didn’t pay much attention, withdrew his gaze, pulled out a chair, sat down, and started reading his originally intended book.

It was mentioned long ago.

The future Little Niu, besides some letters, didn’t leave an autobiography. The most authoritative work commenting on his life is "Newton’s Biography" written by James Gleick, priced at about 50 dollars.

But it’s different in this timeline.

Little Niu left an autobiography in this timeline, titled "My Life."

Although it contains only fifty to sixty thousand words, it narrates many details unknown to future generations in the real timeline.

Under this influence.

Many more authoritative biographies of Little Niu, conforming more to historical facts, also appeared in this timeline.

Famous ones include "Into Newton," "Science World Conquest Manual," "He Changed Europe," etc....

The book Xu Yun chose, "1650-1830: Two Hundred Years of Scientific History Leap," is not very famous.

But its author is the well-known William Rowan Hamilton, the giant who invented quaternions.

By 2022, the Hamiltonian remains one of the most fundamental concepts in mechanics.

Unlike other biographies.

This book approaches from a macro perspective, not entirely focused on Little Niu.

Instead, it uses Little Niu’s career and contributions as a thread, summarizing nearly two centuries.

For Xu Yun currently, this is indeed the most suitable reference book.

Then Xu Yun sat upright, opened the book’s title page.

A moment later.

A preface came into view:

[If the will to surrender were a country, it would definitely be called Gaul. If the projection of divinity were a human, it would definitely be called Isaac Newton.]

"In the 16th-17th centuries, a great scientific revolution arose in Europe. It was a product of the Renaissance."

"The translation of a large number of Ancient Greek and Roman documents in Arabic sparked humanism, inspiring humanity to explore the real world and nature."

"And the relationship between our planet and all things in the universe is undoubtedly an important area of exploration..."

Hamilton’s entry point is good. At the start of this book, he first gives an overview of the development of natural science before the 17th century.

He focused more on Copernicus’s heliocentrism and Kepler’s Three Laws.

This is the typical opening of many modern physics history books in later generations.

To facilitate later comparisons, here’s a simple introduction to the thread of modern physics history... well, rest assured, this time it’s in human words.

First.

Modern physics history is mainly divided into two periods:

The 16th-20th century and the 20-21st century.

The delineation standard of these two periods is simple:

The discovery of X-rays in 1895.

The two pillars of 20th-century physics are relativity and quantum theory. The former belongs to the classical physics system.

Our focus is on the 16th-20th centuries, which is the classical physics system.

The classical physics system, in a somewhat unstrict but simple categorization, can also be summed up into two types: