NOVPUBChapter 874: Chapter 527: Appreciating the Wonders of Literature_1
In the morning before he left the house, he received the accurate list of conference attendees.
The list included as many as 1,700 names, coming from more than 800 universities, research institutions, and government agencies worldwide.
Harrison Clark’s publicly announced conference was called the 21st Century Human Technology Development Direction Exploration Summit.
He didn’t deliberately guide the conversation, but outsiders have unconsciously formed a consensus about this conference.
Now people always speculate on the purpose of every move of Harrison Clark.
Is he going to announce new technology development directions and look for external partners?
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Or will he unveil a new Madman’s Conjecture Collection on the spot, sparking a new leap in theoretical science once again?
Or is he planning to use the resources he has on hand to form a massive interest group, seeking extensive commercial and resource cooperation with others?
Regardless of the scenario, people eventually set aside their own tasks to treat Harrison Clark’s invitation as their top priority, traveling all the way from various parts of the world.
Among them, there were many familiar faces.
He had met these people before in Carlisle, attending a conference on Alien Civilization Threats.
In addition, Linton Research Institute showed great respect, with Raulsen leading the team and bringing several department heads and young talents.
It is interesting to note that there was a high proportion of faces of Pacifican descent among these young talents.
Apart from the team from the Linton Research Institute, the situation was similar in other teams.
With Harrison Clark’s unstoppable rise in the global scientific community, the status of Chinese people in the field of science has quietly improved.
In the past, such conferences that could advance scientific ranks and boost the presence of scientists were hardly accessible to young Chinese people.
This was not related to their academic level. Most Chinese young people overseas were at the grassroots level, as “research workers,” engaged in some thankless and laborious tasks, unless they were so talented and capable of breaking new ground like Rainer.
Nowadays, the situation has changed.
Although Harrison Clark has never explicitly stated any directional requirements, others will unconsciously show a change in their inclinations when dealing with matters related to him.
This is the power of authority.
At 8:45 a.m., with the conference about to begin, people gradually arrived at TH Hotel.
Seeing each other, all acquaintances, they took advantage of the brief interval to exchange warm greetings.
Among all the important figures attending the conference, only one person could vaguely guess Harrison Clark’s real intention – Dr. Mendelson from Area 52.
Since joining Area 52, Mendelson’s work position had a high level of confidentiality, which isolated him from others in social circles so much that many young people did not know him.
But many older individuals recognized Mendelson, who was knowledgeable and held a position of authority within the Ministry of Science and Technology and academic circles, expressing surprise that the reclusive Mendelson also had an interest in the development direction of technology in the 21st century.
At nine o’clock sharp, everyone took their seats, and Harrison Clark appeared.
Looking at the audience of over a thousand people, Harrison Clark felt as if he had returned to “the old days” when he was the leader of human civilization and hosted conferences in the 31st century.
People have changed, and the situation is also different, but his state of mind has never changed.
Harrison Clark first expressed his welcome and gratitude to everyone for their attendance and then proceeded with the routine announcement of some knowledge points that should have been recorded in the upcoming Madman’s Conjecture Collection.
These knowledge points include the following: detailed explanations of String Theory, Anti-String Theory, positive and negative relativity, the energy effect of neutrinos, the nature of entropy and enthalpy, the underlying link between the four fundamental interactions of the universe, the Oponitz equation set, the relationship between artificial intelligence network heuristic thinking, and geometric mathematics…
These were all part of the contents of the Millennium Plan, as well as the summary of the textbooks that had tormented young Harrison Clark in the third and fourth timelines.
Back in the day, young Harrison Clark used to sigh upon seeing such purely theoretical basic knowledge and felt tormented by it.
Now it’s time to take them all out and enjoy the novelty collectively.
Good stuff should be shared with everyone.
The pain of illiteracy I have experienced before, I’m not bragging, none of you in the audience will be able to escape from it.
Only death will free you from the abyss of knowledge seeking, hehehe… ahem…
In the Millennium Plan, Harrison Clark was originally going to unveil a slew of heavyweight technologies in July 2020, further fueling the technological frenzy of the 21st century.
This was his first step, and an extremely critical step in the history of human civilization.
In 2020, humans will come into contact with knowledge that humankind in the 24th century of the ninth timeline could grasp deeply.
Of course, it’s still difficult for the people sitting below to learn it now because the progress of basic disciplines isn’t advanced enough, and some experiments needed in the process of acquiring knowledge couldn’t be carried out.
But it doesn’t matter, Harrison Clark wasn’t expecting the audience to figure it out immediately.
Others would take at least 20 to 40 years to digest his Madman’s Conjecture Collection.
But this leaves ample time for him to advance the development of applied disciplines.
By that time, his previous arrangement for the application of research results would be fully implemented, materials and energy, and other basic technologies would just catch up with the progress, and others would just absorb all the theoretical knowledge in the Madman’s Conjectures Collection, which would naturally be seamlessly connected to the “future textbooks” provided by Harrison Clark.
As he lectured on stage, many in the audience listened with rapt attention.
Although Harrison Clark only introduced basic concepts, it constantly refreshed their perception. 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Some of the theories he proposed were wildly subverting the views of life of scientific researchers, and it turns out that science can be approached with such explanations from different perspectives?
However, some people frowned, always feeling that something was not right.
In the morning, at around twelve o’clock, Harrison Clark’s series of high-intensity explanations finally came to an end.
The conference would continue in the afternoon.
Before the meeting adjourned, some Research Institutes’ heads contacted Harrison Clark privately through Raulsen, expressing their gratitude for his selfless sharing but also expressing their doubts.
They think that the theories Harrison Clark has proposed are too subversive, but they are not suitable to be presented as scientific truths at this point.
No matter how rigorous the logic of these things are, they cannot be practiced and proven for now.
If Harrison Clark is wrong, not only would he be wrong, but there would be many die-hard academic followers who would follow him down the wrong path. His actions would not only be detrimental to civilization but might even hinder the development of science.
There are precedents for this, the most typical case being the dispute between direct current and alternating current.
So, these people hope that during the conference in the afternoon, Harrison Clark could retract some of his statements and not speak so definitively.
In communicating with Harrison Clark, they tried their best to suppress their emotions, not showing anger and focusing on the issue rather than the person, emphasizing that their opinions all came from purely academic considerations.
They were all true scholars, who usually argued academic issues with others in a straightforward manner, getting irate and banging the table when necessary. After all, academic differences in the hearts of scientists were almost equivalent to contradictions in religious beliefs. They had already restrained themselves, not wanting to offend Harrison Clark, yet not wanting to go against their scientific principles.
Harrison Clark, however, remained noncommittal, only saying that you will know in the afternoon.
