Chapter 308: Imagination Drives Scientific Advancements
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
On the 6th of December, at the Second Mother and Child Hospital, in a deluxe nursing ward, Chen Jin was carrying a baby with a fatherly smile on his face. A baby was born. Five days later than expected, Su Yun gave birth to an adorable daughter. However, there was a little twist that happened. For the baby to be healthier, Su Yun was going to try natural delivery. But even a few days after the expected date of birth, the baby had not yet entered the pelvis. After the hospital examined her, the doctors found out that the volume of her amniotic fluid was too low. Thus, she did not have the conditions for a natural delivery. To avoid danger, she could only opt for a cesarean section. And hence, Chen Jin had a daughter.
In private, his mother expressed her concerns. “If she were to go for cesarean section, she will need another three years before she could have her second child, for her wounds to heal. Moreover, the second child will also have to come by cesarean section. Su Yun is already 29 this year, she won’t get pregnant that easily pa.s.s 30. Sigh, youngsters nowadays, none of you listen to your elders. How much better it would have been if you got married earlier!” Her dissatisfaction was mainly directed at Chen Jin.
“Mom, please don’t say that. Youngsters now don’t even have enough playtime, who’d be willing to bear such a huge burden? And besides, weren’t you almost 28 the time you had me?” said Chen Jin.
“It was very strict during the days of the one-child policy, so it was still fine for me to give birth later. Now, people can have two, three, or even four kids and n.o.body will even care. Besides, your company is so big, it’s better for you to have more kids,” He Li nagged him.
Chen Jin gave his mother a weird look. He did not expect that his mother would recognize this problem and become somewhat anxious about it. Aside from Xing Hai Technologies, Chen Jin still had an entire planet. All these would require helpers, or even more, inheritors. Shouldn’t he be more anxious? But after going through a period of ups and downs, precipitating his thoughts, Chen Jin adjusted his mindset. He no longer held a mad obsession. Now, he had a son and a daughter, which could be described as perfection. The basics were already firm, and he no longer felt light-weighted. He would not force the rest, how many he should get, and that would be it… his life was destined to be a long one, he should not be bothered by the troubles of laymen.
He came to the sickbed and placed the baby beside the woman. He held her hand and kissed the back of it. “Su Yun, thank you for your hard work.”
The woman’s face was a little pale, showing traces that she was in pain from time to time. There was no pain during the cesarean section, she had her child without even feeling a tickle. But after the anesthetics wore off, the three following days would be very difficult for her as she would feel pulsating pain emitting from the cut.
Contrarily, for natural childbirth, the pain would last a couple of hours, but the mother would be able to walk on foot at a much hastier manner. Anyways, for women, no matter how they unloaded their cargo, it would be like going through the gates of h.e.l.l itself.
“Hubby, I don’t want another one, it’s really painful.”
“Alright alright, I’ll go by you,” Chen Jin said while smiling. He did not want to stress her too much.
The woman nodded, becoming slightly relaxed.
After the three most unbearable days pa.s.sed, Su Yun could now walk. Her face regained her blush as her health obviously improved by a whole lot.
Chen Jin asked her, “Oh yeah, have you decided on the name for the baby? What should our baby be called?” He discussed with her about the baby’s name countless of times. They came up with a lot of names, but they all didn’t seem to fit. Especially Chen Jin, he thought of more than 20 names. He was thinking that, if it were a boy, he would call him “Chen Yu Zhou”; if it were a girl, he would call her “Chen Ying He” or “Chen Xing Bao”… all the names sounded very domineering, and were all rejected by Su Yun. So, Chen Jin decided to give up and let Su Yun think of the two good names. He had given up entirely on treating his ‘naming cancer.’
“Let’s call her Chen Xing Yue.” Su Yun looked at her daughter beside her and said, “I’m not good with names either. I was thinking that if it were a boy, I’d go with ‘Chen Xing Yang’, if it were a girl, I’d call her ‘Chen Xing Yue’… what do you think?”
“Chen Xing Yue…” Chen Jin mumbled to himself then nodded, “Sure, that’s a good name.” At least a lot more normal than the names he thought of. Apart from that, it would also be easy to give her a nickname. Yue Yue, she shall be called. “Yue Yue, my little darling, my cutie little apple pie.” Chen Jin teased his own daughter with an expression full of blissfulness and satisfaction.
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Another five days pa.s.sed. Su Yun and the baby were both discharged and transferred to a deluxe month confinement center. Over there, she would complete postoperative recovery and be nursed back to health under professional care. He Li would also be at the month confinement center accompanying the pair.
Chen Jin had his own matters to tend to, it was impossible for him to stay there all day every day. Therefore, he went home alone that day. Subsequently, he would visit them occasionally. In that way, he also gained a precious length of time to deal with some special things, especially those on planet Haierfa.
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On Planet Haierfa, Chen Jin’s real body showed up at the Base of Operations, which rarely happened. He frowned as he felt that things were tricky. Artificial intelligence Nuwa and Alice had encountered a “fatal” problem.
Aside from the quantum computer, this problem they were facing hampered their progress in delivering high-value tech after obtaining the Grand Unification formula and the Crystal Brainer’s advanced s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p.
Such as artificial gravity and anti-gravity devices, forcefield s.h.i.+elds, forcefield s.p.a.ce, force field weapons, smaller and higher performance next-generation nuclear fusion reactors; the research of these cutting-edge technologies became more difficult or bottlenecked at a varying margin. It became difficult for them to make major breakthroughs within a short period of time.
Nuwa said, “Master, we are more confident to attain success in the next generation fusion reactor, but we would still need around 10 years to realize it in entirety. We would need even more time for the other tech. For example, for the artificial gravity device, we would need at least 50 years. As for the small-scale forcefield s.h.i.+elds, forcefield s.p.a.ce, and forcefield weapons, we are unsure whether we could achieve any breakthrough within a hundred years. For the even higher-level s.p.a.ce-time technology, we haven’t gotten even the slightest clue. In fact, it is not physical materials that are limiting our research and development efficiency. We can build any experimental environment and have the conditions to verify any physical formula and mathematical a.s.sumptions. What we are lacking is ‘imagination.’ It is hard for us to be ‘innovative.’ After all, we are only tools and not creators. In the process of research and development of advanced technology, there are many places where ‘creativity’ is needed. We are caught in a bottleneck and are powerless in the face of many problems. Although we have near-infinite computing power, our R&D will still be slow. Master, we need ‘imagination’ to join us. We need the help of a ‘creator.’ Otherwise, it will be very difficult for us to hasten up progression.”
Chen Jin nodded. He understood what Nuwa was trying to convey. Scientific advancement was driven by ‘imagination.’ This was an irrefutable statement. At the beginning of the last century when microscopic technology was yet advanced enough, Rutherford proposed the “atomic structural model” because he dreamt of a cake with many layers. The structure of the atom was then inferred and turned out to be a complete match with the actual atomic structure. The chemist Mendeleev inferred the “chemical periodic table” when all the chemical elements were yet to be found. The big bang theory, which was widely accepted by the scientific community, was also proposed by scientists without experimentations. These scientists were like “prophets,” seeking out the truth of this world entirely through “guessing.” They often guessed a formula or theory correctly before experiment conditions even existed, peeking at faraway land ahead of time.
Did computers possess this ability? Could computers predict the truth for the time to come? Most certainly, if they did have it, artificial intelligence Nuwa and Alice would not be in front of Chen Jin expressing their helplessness.
Chen Jin had to come up with a plan to solve this tricky problem.