Chapter 1219 Epilogue 75 The Whole Audience Took Off Their Hats to Pay Tribute to the Young Scholar Xie

The 121st audience took off their hats to pay tribute to Bachelor Xie

Chemistry Congress.

It had been going on for most of the day, and the chemists participating in the meeting were still arguing over the three definitions given by Xie Yan.

Because those three definitions can neither be falsified nor confirmed using current scientific methods.

It can explain the results of all current chemical experiments, but nothing more.

"I think the three definitions proposed by Bachelor Xie can be used as chemical postulates first."

A Rose Bachelor named Xue Jiawen said: "Until they are proven falsified, we can keep using them and even teach them to students. However, they cannot be proven, so they cannot be used as definitions!"

"I second the proposal!" Another Rose Bachelor named Shan Ting said.

"I also agree."

"I support that these three articles should be used as public institutions."

"..."

The chemists present expressed their opinions one after another.

After all, Xie Yan is too young. Even if he has great academic achievements, these academic seniors are still vaguely dissatisfied.

What's more, it really cannot be confirmed at this stage, and it is impossible for them to admit it directly, both publicly and privately.

But this thing is really easy to use and can indeed be used to explain various chemical experiments. Therefore, they must temporarily accept that these three principles must be used to guide research and teaching.

Therefore, it is characterized as a "chemical postulate" and is a result acceptable to everyone.

Xie Yan smiled and said nothing, knowing what these people were thinking.

Definitions are not theorems and do not need to be proved at all. These people are secretly changing concepts.

The reason why they went to great lengths to mingle words and turn "definition" into "public postulate" is simply to wash away traces of Xie Yan as much as possible.

If you look at the public postulate literally, it can easily be understood to mean that everyone set it up together. Will it reduce Xie Yan's influence?

Who wants to be the disciple of a 17-year-old boy?

But no matter how hard they try, they are just covering their ears.

When Ma Changnian, the president of the Chemistry Association, saw that more than half of the scholars had expressed their opinions, he asked Xie Yan: "Bachelor Xie, are you willing to change these three definitions to public assumptions?"

"I don't care." Xie Yan chuckled.

Xie Yan's unrestrained reaction actually made some scholars feel ashamed.

Zhu Shirong corresponded with Xie Yan almost every month. At this moment, he stood up and spoke out: "Does the definition need to be proved? I have defined it more than once in my paper, and I have never seen anyone stand up to object. Why bother? Change it to public?"

The chemist named Xue Jiawen coughed twice in embarrassment: "The definition is a personal behavior. If it cannot be recognized, it will always be unconvincing."

Zhu Shirong sneered: "You have so many thoughts, why not use them more on academics."

The president, Ma Changnian, is also very old and has been neglecting things for a long time. He didn't want everyone to quarrel, so he simply said, "Since everyone agrees, how about calling these three postulates proposed by Bachelor Xie the 'Three Postulates of the Prince Consort'?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned.

I have only heard of people adding personal titles before theorems, but never heard of people adding personal titles before postulates.

With the word "consort" added to it, if the little story behind it spreads, these people in front of them will become a big joke. Not only is it a joke now, it will still be a joke hundreds of years from now.

Xue Jiawen quickly changed his words: "It's more appropriate to call it definition."

"Yes, yes, I also think the definition is more appropriate."

"There is no need to change it to a public facility."

"..."

Seeing that everyone changed their minds, Ma Changnian said: "Well, these three definitions of Bachelor Xie can be written into chemistry textbooks from now on until the day they are falsified."

Xie Yan took a closer look at Ma Changnian and felt that the chemistry president was quite interesting.

Before that, he had always been submissive and couldn't do anything, so he left everything to Vice Chairman Wei Renfu.

Now, Wei Renfu has been overthrown because of his achievements in his youth and chose to retire directly and go home to raise his grandson. Chairman Ma actually started to become ambivalent again.

"Do we no longer need to discuss Bachelor Xie's particle conjecture?" Ma Changnian asked.

A chemist named Miao Wenqing raised his hand: "Bachelor Xie's particle conjecture conflicts with the paper I published this time."

This person is the one who used experimental results to infer the relative atomic mass of unknown elements.

Ma Changnian said: "Your paper is an inference, and Bachelor Xie's is a conjecture. Neither of them has been proven yet. If there is any conflict, you can discuss it among yourselves after the meeting."

Xie Yan said: "Just continue to test the inference made by Academician Miao."

A scholar named Hu Siqi said: "I have measured the relative mass of the iron atom to be 55.6 (there is a slight error), and any rounding can be used. Based on Bachelor Miao's method, the relative mass of the iron atom should be 52."

"Perhaps your experimental data is wrong." Miao Wenqing said.

Hu Siqi smiled and said: "Anyway, my paper has been submitted. If you don't believe it, just test it yourself."

Miao Wenqing felt a little guilty and stopped talking immediately, planning to go back and do experiments as soon as possible.

Ma Changnian asked again: "Do you have any objections to Bachelor Xie's expression of the molecular formula? If you have any objections, please raise your hands."

No one raised their hand.

Ma Changnian added: "If you agree, please raise your hands."

Everyone raised their hands and the vote was unanimous.

Ma Changnian continued to ask: "Do you have any objections to Bachelor Xie's expression of chemical equations? If you agree, please raise your hands."

Another unanimous vote.

Only a fool would object to these two things.

First, it does make the expression of molecules and chemical reactions more concise and intuitive.

Second, as long as it is determined, many results can be produced. Whoever can determine a molecular formula, whoever can determine a chemical equation, will be famous enough to write a paper.

Of course, those simple molecular formulas and chemical equations, I am afraid that a lot of people can quickly determine them. There is no way to grab the results, a lot of people submit papers at the same time.

More complex molecular formulas and chemical equations must be determined!

Xie Yan didn't care about it, and he was too lazy to compete with everyone.

Anyway, he was laying the foundation. The more results others made, the higher the house built on his foundation. In the future, it will become a high-rise building, and Xie Xueshi can be called the "founder".

"Dismissed!"

A correct version was found in the 16-9 book bar!

Ma Changnian was already very tired. He was old and had been in a meeting for nearly a day.

Just as everyone was about to leave, Ma Changnian took off his hat and suddenly bowed to Xie Yan.

Xie Yan quickly took off his hat to return the greeting.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the way to express respect was to take off shoes and socks.

After the Tang Dynasty, tables and benches became popular, and people did not need to sit on the ground, and the ground was no longer kept clean all the time. Therefore, taking off shoes and socks would make feet dirty, and some people had smelly feet, so the etiquette of respect changed accordingly.

Taking off the hat now has four meanings:

One is to apologize; two is to be grateful, three is to pay tribute, and four is to express one's unrestrainedness.

For example, Liu Zhiji's "Shi Tong·Narrative" in the Tang Dynasty recorded: "Wang Shao's "Qi Zhi" recorded that Luo Gan took off his hat and thanked him for his gratitude."

At this moment, Ma Changnian took off his hat and bowed to express his respect to Xie Yan.

He, an old man, didn't care. If he did such a move, he would not be laughed at, but would be regarded as respecting knowledge.

Moreover, he could also please the princess!

But he caught the scholars on the scene by surprise. The president of the Chemistry Society took off his hat to pay tribute. Would it be stingy to pretend that he didn't see it?

But I always felt awkward when I really took off my hat and bowed to a 17-year-old boy.

Forget it, just take off your hat, after all, he has made great contributions.

Scholars took off their hats one after another and bowed to Xie Yan.

Xie Yan had no choice but to return the greeting.

Reporter Han Chengyi, who was almost yawning at the conference, finally came to life at this moment. It's a pity that there is no camera yet, otherwise he would definitely take a photo and make the scholars taking off their hats a famous scene.

Of course, text description is also possible.

Han Chengyi had interviewed many scholars during the lunch break. At this moment, he stopped Xie Yan and said, "Mr. Xie, can you stop and chat for a few words?"

Xie Yan smiled and replied, "Reporter Han, please go ahead."

"Mr. Xie, do you still remember me?" Han Chengyi was quite happy.

Xie Yan said, "Who doesn't know the great reporter Han from the cultural and educational edition of the "Da Ming Xun Bao"? "

Reporter is a profession named by Emperor Taizong himself. At that time, the official newspaper was still called "Da Ming Yue Bao".

Han Chengyi invited Xie Yan to sit in a corner of the venue, took out a small notebook and said: "How did Mr. Xie come up with the three major definitions and molecular formulas and chemical equations?"

Face to face the reporter, Xie Yan was polite and very modest: "I am just a junior in the chemical world, thanks to the chemical experiments of the predecessors. In the past four months, countless scholars have made experimental breakthroughs. I have benefited a lot from their papers and summarized a set of my own ideas."

"Why can't other scholars summarize?" Han Chengyi asked.

Xie Yan replied: "They have accumulated too many experiments. When the agate balance was suddenly invented, they wanted to redo all the experiments quickly. Where would they have time to summarize? In fact, even if I didn't come up with these things, the predecessors would have come up with them in the next one or two years. I'm just trying to please them."

"Mr. Xie is too modest," Han Chengyi asked again, "Does Mr. Xie know that Qin cement will soon be used in railway bridge construction?"

Xie Yan said: "I have heard of it. So I plan to invent a ball mill to make cement production faster. This ball mill can also be used to crush ore in mines and to make glass, porcelain and other industries."

Han Chengyi said happily: "Can you tell me more about it?"

Xie Yan shook his head: "I just have some ideas now, and I need to make real objects to continuously adjust and improve them."

"Then I wish Mr. Xie a smooth invention of the ball...ball..." Han Chengyi forgot the name.

Xie Yan said: "Ball mill."

Han Chengyi said: "Yes, ball mill, I wish Mr. Xie success."

"I'd like to borrow the good words of the great reporter Han." Xie Yan smiled.

Han Chengyi was filled with emotion. He was so humble even though he became famous at a young age. If it were someone else, he would have been arrogant. No wonder the princess fell in love with him. Xie Xueshi was indeed extraordinary.

He planned to write an article in the next issue of "Da Ming Xun Bao" to talk about Xie Xueshi's modesty, prudence, courtesy, and his words and deeds.

Xie Yan was also very happy at this moment. It was great to have a reporter to help him establish his personality. He could pretend to be more and more smooth in the future.