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There is a reason for interest, so Queen Elizabeth II finally reluctantly accepted Henry's polygamy.

The marriage is negotiated, but there is no huge dowry for the British royal family as imagined.

The general view in the West is that marriage is a matter of two people. Why do you want to give the woman a betrothal gift? The other party is not something to buy or sell. If the man gives a dowry, then the woman's marriage to a daughter is like selling it. In traditional families in North America, the wedding expenses of marrying a daughter are all borne by the father of the girl, and the man pays the money as a courtesy. Henry naturally wanted to "do as the locals do", so he never talked to the British royal family about the dowry. However, when the wedding was held, Henry took the initiative to propose that he would take care of everything and leave it all to him. After all, he was not the only one who married Princess Ulysses.

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end of June.

One of the greatest modern physicists, Stephen William Hawking, was going to give a speech at Cambridge University. Henry heard the words and took Princess Ulysses to attend.

Hawking is known to suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) at the age of 21, paralyzing his entire body and unable to speak. The only places he can move are a pair of eyes and 3 fingers. There is no doubt that Hawking is an ill-fated super genius! He is a British "national treasure" talent, recognized as the "smartest brain" in the world, with the same IQ as Einstein!

Henry has read "A Brief History of Time" written by Hawking, and he has also understood the theory he proposed! His main research fields are cosmology and black holes, and he has proved the singularity theorem of general relativity and the black hole area theorem, and proposed the black hole evaporation theory and the boundless Hawking universe model, in unifying the two basic theories of 20th century physics— - Einstein's theory of relativity and Planck's quantum mechanics have taken an important step, and he is considered to be one of the greatest scientists after Newton and Einstein!

Henry has a strong interest in the universe! So, for a scientist like Hawking, Henry might as well meet him if he has time!

In addition to being a scientist, Hawking also has another identity - "The Emperor of Prophecy"! From the "Earth Destruction Theory" to "Aliens are not easy to mess with", from "The brain can exist independently of the human body" to "Artificial intelligence will eventually surpass human beings", this "Prophecy Emperor"'s assertions are always so shocking to the world.

However, these things are very much to Henry's appetite.

In the "Earth Destruction Theory", Hawking believes that war, depletion of resources, overpopulation, etc. are all threats that are expanding, and even Hawking gave a clear time-the destruction of the earth within 1,000 years. Therefore, he believes that human beings cannot "put all their eggs in one basket" and cannot bet on one planet, and that the only chance for human society to escape from future disasters is not on Earth, but in space! And this coincides with Henry's idea!

"The Emperor of Prophecy" Hawking even unequivocally affirmed the existence of aliens. Just imagine, the universe is so big that one earth can give birth to intelligent life, but can't other planets give birth to intelligent life? The universe has a very large base of celestial bodies. On this base, it is impossible for alien life to exist! Hawking warned humans that if "unexpected encounter" with aliens in space, then it is best to "don't talk to aliens", otherwise the consequences may be quite serious, that is because... "Aliens are not easy to mess with ".

A scientist named Fukuoka used a large amount of data about the mass, brightness and position of stars in the Milky Way to develop a computer program to simulate the operation of various planetary systems. Although the exact number of planets in the Milky Way cannot be determined, the data on exoplanets that have been discovered so far provides important evidence for Falcon's research. He then used the program to simulate the conditions needed for a planetary system to harbor life and civilization. Through simulations, it is found that the number of possible life civilizations in the Milky Way will be very large, about 30,000 to 40,000.

Among these civilizations, most of them belong to simple bacterial life states, about 2,000 of them are in advanced life states, and among them, less than a few hundred extraterrestrial life has intelligence!

However, so far, human beings have not discovered the existence of any civilization of life outside the earth. But who can deny that there are no alien civilizations? Henry is also convinced that there must be other life civilizations in the universe, and one day, human beings will find them!

London in midsummer is extremely hot.

Cambridge University is located in the town of Cambridge, England. There is a small river called the Cam River. This winding river has willows, willows, and grasses on both sides. There are many bridges with exquisite designs and beautiful shapes. Among them, the Mathematical Bridge is built. , Grey Bridge and Bridge of Sighs are the most famous. The classic buildings roaming on the banks of the Jianhe River are all pitched up and down. Tall and exquisite school buildings, solemn churches and red brick residences covered with ivy stand among the green trees and red flowers in the city.

Henry and Princess Ulysses rowed a small wooden boat, took a punt tour, drifted on the Cam River to enjoy the scenery along the river of Cambridge University, and admired the world-famous backyard style of Cambridge colleges.

After disembarking, the two walked hand in hand inside Cambridge University. Few people knew about Henry's new look, and Princess Ulysses wore black sunglasses and a white bow-tie sun hat, so no one recognized them. At this moment, many students and physicists have rushed to Cambridge University to listen to Hawking's speech.

Ten minutes later, Henry and Princess Ulysses arrived at the Faculty of Physical Sciences at Cambridge University.

In a very large classroom, Hawking was scrawny, his head was tilted, and he looked a bit like "grinning his teeth". He was sitting in a specially made wheelchair with a computer in front of him, and he couldn't speak. Due to the torment of the disease, he lost his language function and could only give speeches to everyone through a computer voice synthesizer.

Now, the speech begins...

"Time travel is theoretically feasible," Hawking said on the podium at this time. "I believe that human beings can open the door to the past and a shortcut to the future! I think there are at least three possible theoretical possibilities. Time travel!"

"The first way is wormholes! For physicists, time tunnels may be wormholes. Wormholes are all around us, but they are too small to be seen by the naked eye. There are holes or cracks in everything in the universe. This basic law The same applies to time. Time also has tiny cracks and voids, and voids smaller than molecules and atoms are called 'quantum foam', and wormholes exist in 'quantum foam'."

"The second way is a black hole! Time is like a river, with different flow rates in different places, and this is the key to making the journey to the future. According to Einstein's theory, there are places where time will Slower passages, and faster passages in other places. As the spacecraft accelerates in space, the passage of time slows down for the astronauts in the spacecraft. A black hole is a natural time machine , it can reduce the passage of time, if humans perform a 5-year mission in a supermassive black hole, when they return to Earth, they will find that 10 years have passed..."

"The third way is to fly at the speed of light! If a spacecraft with a speed close to the speed of light can be built, then the spacecraft will inevitably slow down the time in the cabin because it cannot violate the law of the fastest speed of light. Astronauts fly in this way In one week, 100 years have passed on Earth, enabling a journey to the future."

Hawking's remarks made people excited and inexplicable, and the audience couldn't help applauding.

At this time, the synthesized voice of Hawking's computer rang again: "However, don't use the time machine to go back to the past, because it will violate the basic causality theory! For example, if you go back to the past, then, your It may not be possible for your parents or even yourself to exist, because two you are not allowed in one time and space!"

Hearing this, Henry's body shook suddenly. Don't you just travel back to the past through time and space? Doesn't this already prove the feasibility of time travel? Moreover, the parents of the previous life and I no longer exist... It seems that I fell into the pit in the previous life... And it is the big pit of the wormhole!

Still, there won't be a second chance of this slim chance. As for the three methods mentioned by Hawking, now it seems that they are illusory and impossible to be realistic.

In fact, when Henry met Hawking this time, he planned to recruit him to SpaceX. Hawking's scientific theories don't actually guide SpaceX much. But Hawking's fame is what Henry values ​​most. There is a great god in the scientific world sitting in the company, which will surely attract more scientists to join SpaceX.

Another point, Henry wants to study Hawking's brain... It is said that he can form various mental patterns and mental equations in his brain, and then use these mental elements to think about physical problems, and his mental arithmetic ability is unbelievable. Physicist Werner Israel said that Hawking's thinking process is like Mozart's writing a whole unique symphony only by imagination.

Of course, to study Hawking's brain, it must be justified. Henry remembers that in his previous life in 2005, Hawking's condition worsened, and he could only use the movements of his cheek muscles to control his communication device, which could only output about one word per minute. So Hawking is working with neuroscientists to develop a new system that allows computers to translate his brainwave patterns into words.

And Henry and Gene Umbrella's research on brain waves is beyond imagination. In the name of helping Hawking develop a brain wave translation system, they can study his brain and see how the "smartest brain" is different.

A trace of curiosity flashed in Henry's eyes, is Hawking's brain stronger than mine?

(To be continued ~^~)