Chen Feng thought about it for about five seconds.

But in the end, he did not stand up to clearly support Ellen's point of view. He only said very obscurely: "Dr. Ellen's analysis has some truth, and it is consistent with my personal conjecture, but there is no definite evidence at present. Dr. Ellen said that I saw some mysteries that others cannot see, and that does not exist."

"I just combined the achievements of my predecessors and added some of my own bold speculations to come to these conclusions. But since I named the book "Madman's Conjecture". It means that these theoretical knowledge are all my very crazy and bold speculations, and we still need your joint efforts to prove or disprove them one by one in the coming years."

He spoke very conservatively and did not stamp Ellen's point of view.

Of course, this once again showed his crazy side.

He admitted that the relevant knowledge in the fields of physics and biology in "A Madman's Conjecture" were all conjectures without rigorous verification. He

skipped rigorous scientific experiments and gave the answer directly.

He seemed very arrogant.

If someone else had said such nonsense, he would definitely be spit on.

But the mathematical problems he solved in "A Collection of Conjectures" have been verified one after another.

One by one, the verification of Chen's theorem is being serialized in several top mathematics academic magazines at the rate of one episode per week. For

a person who can achieve such achievements in the field of mathematics at the age of 25, even if he seems to be talking nonsense in other fields, people will inevitably think about it for a while before questioning him.

Ellen was obviously disappointed with Chen Feng's attitude, but she didn't say much. After finishing the question, she walked down and sat back next to Chen Feng.

"Mr. Chen, what are you doing..."

After enduring for about two minutes, Ellen finally asked.

Chen Feng smiled and shook his head slightly, "The time is not right. You consider the problem more from an academic perspective, but I can't just consider these. In the current era, social productivity is still insufficient, and there are still many contradictions that need to be resolved. For example, between countries, between classes, between skin colors, and even between two adjacent regions in the same country, there will be contradictions that are higher than competition. Before these problems are resolved, neither ordinary people nor leaders can bear this."

Ellen nodded.

He understood.

He had thought that Chen Feng could become an excellent politician in addition to being a musician and scientist.

Now it seems to be true.

He can always stand at a higher angle and look at everything with a more comprehensive perspective.

"I didn't think it through. I thought it was a good opportunity, so I made a decision rashly. Sorry."

Chen Feng shook his head, "It's okay. This shows that you are a professional academic worker."

"It is a great fortune for mankind to have such an all-round and perfect leader like you."

"Thank you, thank you."

While the two were whispering to each other, the semi-academic and semi-casual speech on the stage continued.

There were not many participants, but they were all elite scholars from all over the world, and those who could speak on the stage also had something.

About an hour later, Chen Feng heard another interesting argument from a master of social science and economics.

He did not jump out of his professional field to prove whether aliens exist, but spent five years to complete a large-scale social experiment.

Today is the day for his final report.

This meeting was also convened by him.

His social experiment includes two aspects.

First, he invited up to 500,000 volunteers to participate in the experience in a remote town.

The content of the experience is a regularly unfolding theme simulation life, the title of which is "If the end of the world will arrive in ten years/hundred years/thousand years."

The volunteers participating in the experiment range from billionaires to homeless people, perfectly simulating a small social community.

In five years, this big guy held a total of 21 social experiments in the town, each of which revolved around the suspense of these three time periods.

Second, a large-scale questionnaire survey with millions of replies, the content of the survey was consistent with the theme simulation life.

These two aspects complement each other, one is theoretical calculation, and the other is actual exercise.

The experimental results are very interesting, showing extremely multi-dimensional feedback.

People's feedback shows great differences according to the difference in the years of the doomsday and the differences in the volunteers' own conditions.

Assuming that the end of the world will come in ten years, the vast majority of ordinary people who accepted the theme simulation life and questionnaire survey said that it is a matter of ten years from now, and they have to consider it, but it cannot be the whole of their lives at present. They must settle the current credit card bills, and then when they have some spare money, they will quickly stock up more guns and ammunition, and then go to the countryside to find a safe place to stay.

If they are single, they may add the idea of ​​going crazy when things really happen.

If they are middle-class, they will try to maintain their business and career, still stock up guns and ammunition, and try to form their own team.

If they are big businessmen in the upper class, they will try to form more alliances based on the preparations made by the middle class, and quickly pay money to help Musk complete the research and exploration of space travel as soon as possible.

If there is a chance, you must get a ticket.

When the question is changed to a hundred years later, people's feedback has changed.

The propertyless tend to not consider anything directly. That is a matter after their death. Who cares so much, just do what you have to do.

The middle class will probably add one more thing, that is, not leaving any descendants to avoid suffering. As for themselves, try to spend all the money just when they die.

The big bourgeoisie will still sponsor space projects and remain enthusiastic about the future.

Change the question to a thousand years later.

Most people's answers were straightforward.

A thousand years? What is that? What does it have to do with me? My ashes won't even see that day.

Just dealing with the current bills, work, and business is enough to make me exhausted, why would I care about what will happen a thousand years later?

Am I crazy?

Chen Feng was not surprised by this result at all.

This is the normal way of thinking.

His previous two times of traveling to a thousand years later, his thoughts were similar to this.

Just living in reality is tiring enough, so who has the time to care about the flood after death.

But the scholar on the stage listed some interesting phenomena.

All classes have similar views on the end of the world in ten years, but some people show obvious differences in a hundred years and a thousand years.

These people said that they would work harder, find ways to create more value, and try their best.

There are not many people who say this, but you can still find a lot of differences.

For example, some big businessmen and politicians can speak beautifully, but their words are so beautiful that they reveal a strong hypocrisy. Their true intention is to obtain immediate benefits, such as money and fame, through self-packaging.

Some people's answers are more constructive. They immediately start to think and keep asking what form this "doomsday" will take, how to avoid it, and how to fight it.

Most of these people are scholars, and they have to be very successful scholars.

The big shot who gave the speech finally concluded: "It took me five years to complete this social experiment, and the results are not optimistic. I think that when the crisis is far away, only those who have no worries about food and clothing, and have a considerable level of knowledge and extremely high personal moral qualities can consider a relatively boundless sense of responsibility." "

But when the crisis is imminent, almost everyone will quickly fall into doomsday fear. We will see the collapse of social order, the streets will be filled with gunshots and flames, robbery will become a job, and the lives of the same kind will not be respected. Maybe before the real doomsday comes, our population will have dropped by at least half."

The scholar's view is very pessimistic.

Chen Feng, who has seen doomsday scenes many times, did not refute him.

First of all, the doomsday assumed by this scholar does not actually exist.

According to his description, this is first of all an irresistible doomsday.

But the facts that Chen Feng saw in the future proved that when technology is sufficiently developed, everyone can have no worries about food and clothing, can receive higher education, and people do not need to plunder each other to obtain sufficiently favorable material conditions, as long as there is enough time to complete the psychological construction, even if it is faced with an irresistible and predictable doomsday, humans will still bite the bullet and want to try, as the saying goes, "You won't give up until you reach the Yellow River."

In addition, this economist from Oxford University made another mistake.

His experimental sites and questionnaire survey sites were limited to Europe and North America, and the vast majority of people surveyed were English-speaking native speakers.

This scholar ignored the Chinese-speaking population, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's total population.

Therefore, his large-scale social experiment, which seems to be of great reference value, is actually biased.

Chen Feng intuitively believes that if you ask the same question to a native Chinese speaker, you may get a completely different answer.

The formation of a person's three views is highly related to the environment he has been exposed to from childhood to adulthood and the education he has received, and it is also closely related to the type of his native language.

Human thinking needs to be based on a language medium.

The principles and philosophy in people's hearts are not empty concepts, but should also be self-summarized theories based on different language structures.

These theories constitute a person's code of conduct and will determine the direction in which he thinks and makes decisions when facing each choice.

When people with different native languages ​​face the same problem, it is easy for them to present completely different ways of coping.

There are big differences between Chinese and other languages ​​in pronunciation, writing pattern, sentence expression, logical structure, emotional expression and many other aspects.

Chinese is a fast language that tends to express accurately and is more concrete.

English is a slow language that tends to use extended metaphors and is more abstract.

People who speak Chinese tend to focus on the present, which seems practical.

Native English speakers tend to focus on the future. Native English speakers with broad knowledge and high sentiments tend to focus on the future. Therefore, scholars in Europe and the United States did not disappoint when faced with the "doomsday problem."

But unfortunately, most people in this world are still ordinary people with relatively narrow knowledge.

Therefore, ordinary people who are native English speakers can easily be immersed in the fear of abstract intensification, and have no time to think about any sense of responsibility.

According to Chen Feng's calculations, ordinary people who are native Chinese speakers will show great differences from ordinary people who are native English speakers.

It's not that the proportion of native Chinese speakers can be reversed, but the proportion of those who focus on the future and settle on the present will be much higher.

Because Chinese thinks about problems quickly enough.

When a person's overall knowledge level is narrow and his understanding of the nature of the world is not so deep and broad, the fast structure of Chinese can make it easier for people to think about the future.

The slow structure of English forces people to think more about collecting the information they need to collect at the moment, and slowly make decisions on the problems that need to be solved at the moment, that is, credit card repayments and the like.

But from another perspective, Chen Feng believes that, through his observation of the future, both top scholars who are native Chinese speakers and English speakers can actually focus on the future from the present.

When people with two native languages ​​reach the pinnacle in their respective academic fields, there is no difference between the two.

These people have mastered sufficient knowledge and a broad enough worldview to break out of their own limitations.

At this time, the influence of the mother tongue structure on people's emotions will be reduced to the minimum.

In fact, there is a new logical paradox hidden here.

Are people with more knowledge more moral?

This is not the case.

Knowledge cannot cultivate morality.

Morality comes from the education people receive from childhood to adulthood, as well as self-learning in adulthood.

The abundance of knowledge does not completely represent whether one has high morals or not.

It just means that people with high morals will give themselves some extra sense of responsibility as a driving force when learning knowledge. These people will be more focused on learning knowledge and have a higher desire for new knowledge.

Therefore, the proportion of people with strong moral standards among top scholars is relatively high.

But it does not mean that there are no scumbags among scholars, and individual cases still exist.

Although Chen Feng thought so in his heart and was a little unconvinced, he did not stand up and refute the other party on the spot.

When the meeting was over, he took the initiative to find the Oxford professor to communicate.

He expressed his doubts in private and invited the other party to return to China with him to conduct this kind of social experiment in the Chinese native department.

The Oxford professor had given up the idea, but he could not refute Chen Feng's doubts, and he only said that the funds were limited.

"Don't worry about the funds, I will pay for it. We will skip the small town model social experiment and focus on questionnaire surveys, and strive to come up with conclusions within a week."

The Oxford professor narrowed his eyes, "Mr. Chen, are you sure you don't want to glorify your motherland?"

Chen Feng shook his head, "So I invited you to come, instead of me coming in person. The final statistical results will also be fully responsible by you, I will only look at it and will never interfere, this will be more convincing."

"Okay."

Chen Feng rolled his eyes and decided to take care of his alma mater.

"Let's cooperate with Jiangnan University in Seoul?"

"No problem. My team hasn't disbanded yet. When will it start?"

Chen Feng blinked, "Now."

Some things that seem big to ordinary people are actually just a few words for Chen Feng at his current level.

...

Nine days later.

The base number of survey questionnaires in China reached one million, which is already of great reference value.

Looking at the results in front of him, the Oxford professor was dumbfounded.

Chen Feng was very relieved and full of emotion.

There is no gap without comparison.

Although the vast majority of native Chinese speakers do not show particularly obvious inclinations when facing the crisis of a hundred years/thousand years later, they basically agree with the idea of ​​working hard, strengthening learning, and trying to achieve more self-worth.

Only less than 30% of people showed obvious indifference.

As for the crisis ten years later, the performance of the Chinese-speaking people did not disappoint. Almost no Chinese showed obvious violent tendencies when facing this irresistible doomsday.

In fact, there are still some, but this violent tendency is more inclined to the unknown "enemy" behind the doomsday.

If there is really no way to resist, most people tend to stay with their families at the last moment.

The Oxford professor was very dissatisfied with the survey results and angrily accused, "The Chinese are too hypocritical!"

Chen Feng did not deny, "This may really be hypocrisy. But if 70% of the people in a huge civilization are willing to be so "hypocritical" and spend their lives in "hypocrisy", it has become a kind of sincerity. Isn't it? Businessmen are hypocritical to gain more immediate benefits, but the proportion of "hypocritical" people in China is so large, can we gain more benefits by being hypocritical? Even if this is true, will you put aside your prejudices because of our "hypocrisy"? "