1
Two years after entering the university, Chen has come out of that frightened thunderstorm night.
According to an Indian legend, after the death of the king's beloved princess, he spent most of his life building a mausoleum for her. After the mausoleum was built, the king felt that the princess's coffin was not harmonious, so he had it removed.
When something occupies too much weight in a person's mind, he will gradually forget the original purpose. Ball lightning replaced the pain of losing parents and occupied all the positions in Chen's heart.
2
After returning home from vacation, Chen experienced various unexplained hallucinations.
In a home where no one has set foot for two years, there is only a thin layer of dust on the table;
The glass that lay before leaving has fallen down now;
On the watercolor painting left by my father, the water tower was built after I was admitted to the university. ......
And the long black and white hair by the sink.
That's obviously mom's hair!
He threw away his hair, and it disappeared when he drifted halfway up.
On midsummer night, there seems to be a chill in this home.
three
With the beginning of the atmospheric electricity course in the new semester, Chen met his first tutor, Zhang Bin.
Zhang Bin is a typical ordinary person, about fifty years old, not tall, giving lectures in general. The only unique thing is that his leg is a little lame.
Chen summoned up the courage to ask Zhang Bin about the ball lightning for the first time. Unexpectedly, he seems to be very good at this aspect.
He can tell Chen about its historical records, many theories, witness cases and research status one by one, and even come to the conclusion that no one has succeeded in proving those theories unless spherical lightning is made in the laboratory.
Speaking of this, Chen was surprised by Zhang Bin's indifference. But for his "erudition", Chen takes it for granted.
But think about it, if you don't collect information and study hard for many years, how can ordinary people be so familiar with such a niche field?
Importantly, Zhang Bin provided a clue for Chen: Chinese scholars in the field of atmospheric physics had seen it with their own eyes at Yuhuangding, Taishan in July 1962.
four
In the new semester, at the invitation of Zhang Bin, Chen joined a research group. The formal members of the research group are graduate students from Chen, Zhang Bin and Zhang Bin.
Taking this opportunity, Chen asked Zhang Bin about studying the internal structure of lightning. In fact, he wanted to know how to study spherical lightning by innuendo, but Zhang Bin avoided talking about his "conspiracy".
He seems to be deliberately avoiding the topic about it.
Zhao Yu described Zhang Bin like this: "He is such a person: if a key falls to the ground, he will not follow the direction that just made a noise, but will find a ruler and a piece of chalk, square the floor of the whole house, and then look for it one by one ..."
"Academically, they use the so-called rigor and seriousness to cover up their poverty and mediocrity. As you can see, universities are full of such people. But then again, after a long time, one grid can always find something, so these people have done a good job professionally. "
Zhang Bin's scientific research achievement for many years is a kind of lightning protection coating for high voltage lines, which won the second prize of provincial scientific and technological achievements. This achievement later played a decisive role in the stage of ball lightning capture.
In the final stage of the project, Chen finally measured the physical parameters of lightning as he wished. Unlike Chen, he is the kind of person who can get along with this project. Seeing that Chen was in high spirits when he did these things, he tried his best to push all the work to him and go fishing in the river himself.
five
Zhang Bin follows the rules, but he is easy-going and has rich practical experience. His major is closest to Chen's pursuit, so Chen Tong passed the postgraduate examination in Zhang Bin after graduation.
What puzzles Chen is that Zhang Bin doesn't agree with him to take ball lightning as the topic of his master's thesis anyway. He can even tolerate lazy students like Zhao Yu, but he can't accept his chosen research direction.
"Young people should not be keen on illusory things."
After several arguments, Chen Dou failed to convince Zhang Bin. He turned to convince himself: "I want to devote my whole life to that pursuit, so it doesn't matter what graduate students do in two years."
Although Chen has a firm belief, he thinks he is not ready to explore the mystery. He deeply felt that what he had learned in the past six years only made him realize his weakness in front of it.
The precipitation of the past made Chen realize that physics could not take him to his goal. After a series of thoughts, he turned his attention to mathematics and planned to continue his doctoral studies.
"As soon as it comes into contact with complex electromagnetic and fluid structures, the mathematical description becomes ferocious. Weird partial differential equations are like ropes, and cumbersome matrices are like sharp-edged traps. "
six
Chen's doctoral supervisor is Gao Bo, a doctoral student at MIT. He is active in thinking and vigorous in character, which is two extremes with Zhang Bin.
Of course, the most important thing is to support Chen to take ball lightning as his doctoral project.
Gao Bo suggested that Chen Jian build a mathematical model, which should be perfect and exquisite in mathematics and play well on the computer.
Isn't that a theoretical work of art? Chen felt that compared with Zhang Bin's idea, it went to the other extreme.
Under the guidance of Gao Bo, Chen Jian established his first mathematical model of spherical lightning and successfully passed the defense of his doctoral thesis.
As early as the doctor's time, Chen once went to Yuhuangding, Taishan Mountain, where he met his old classmate, who was then the deputy stationmaster of Yuhuangding Meteorological Station.
With the help of Liu, Chen learned the news of witnessing ball lightning that year through chef Liu.
Lao Liu called it "rolling thunder". I can remember it because that "rolling thunder" injured a scientific researcher who was engaged in scientific research and observation there at that time.
That man is Zhang Bin. Since then, he has been fascinated by "rolling thunder".
This made Chen extremely shocked. So before I left college, I couldn't help asking Zhang Bin.
Chen has long known that Zhang Bin has no family and lives alone.
In his two-bedroom apartment, Zhang Bin showed Chen one of the rooms where his secret was hidden.
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What is hidden in this room?