Chapter 12: Of course it won't start from NASA

Lin Ran's words were half-true and half-false.

It is true to find the puzzle of the Apollo moon landing, but who said that he had to ask those old men who were eighty or ninety years old for advice in 2020? What he wanted to do was to go to 1960 to find the puzzle, and even personally piece together the Apollo moon landing puzzle.

Secondly, the main risk points of using Blue Origin to get the first pot of gold were almost all said by Li Xiaoman.

And Lin Ran hadn't thought about whether he really wanted to find Blue Origin, or whether he would use Cultural Huaguo's resources to reproduce the Apollo moon landing after returning to Cultural Huaguo.

Similarly, reproducing the Apollo moon landing, the cost of returning to Cultural Huaguo to reproduce might be 100 million yuan, but the unit in Cultural Huaguo is RMB, and the unit in America is dollars.

However, no matter what he wanted to do, Lin Ran needed to return to 1960 as soon as possible.

"Of course not, okay, I accept this cooperation, I will help you solve these problems," Li Xiaoman said.

Lin Ran reached out and said: "Badge and key."

Li Xiaoman looked at the other party helplessly: "Now?"

Lin Ran turned his passport out of his schoolbag and handed it to the other party: "That's right, I will go to Columbia University early tomorrow morning first. To show sincerity, I will leave my passport with you."

Columbia University, the base camp of the Frankfurt School.

Li Xiaoman five seconds later: "Okay, communicate with me at any time if there is progress.

Although this matter is revealing absurdity from beginning to end, my intuition is telling me that you can really do it."

The absurdity of this matter is comparable to buying American military radar on Xianyu.

It is very absurd, but it really happened.

Putting the mobile phone in 2020, carrying some prepared materials, wearing the same clothes, he appeared again in the guest room prepared for him in Haines's villa in the suburbs of New York.

He specifically walked to the living room on the first floor and pretended to drink water, but actually looked at the time. Lin Ran's hanging heart was finally put down.

The time flow should be about 60 to 1.

He spent eight hours in 2020, but only a few minutes passed here.

Early the next morning, Lin Ran got up and prepared to say goodbye to Haines: "Haines, I plan to find my friends, and I can't always disturb you here."

Haines was a bit surprised. He thought the other party was going to join NASA, and in his view, NASA also needed top talents like Lin Ran: "Won't you wait any longer?

I helped you contact NASA, and they will organize an interview for you.

If the interview passes, you can become a member of NASA."

Lin Ran shook his head and said: "Although I am an aerospace enthusiast, I am not prepared to join NASA."

Lin Ran's words were half-true and half-false.

To be precise, it should be that he is not prepared to join NASA now.

Now, an unknown nobody joining NASA, even if he played a vital role in the Apollo moon landing, might not be able to get what he wanted, and it was very likely that his achievements would be buried because of his Chinese identity.

Returning to the moon in America in 2020, it is indeed necessary to be low-key and low-key. He only wants money but not fame. But participating in NASA's moon landing in America in 1960, Lin Ran wants fame but not money.

And he wants big fame.

He wants all kinds of newspapers to be unable to bypass him when mentioning the moon landing in the future.

"But..." Before Haines could finish speaking, Lin Ran interrupted: "I think I should go to Columbia University. If you are interested, you can come there to find me."

Columbia University, where a large number of Frankfurt School scholars lurk, is known as the base camp of the Frankfurt School in America.

And the meeting gift Lin Ran prepared for Columbia was the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

After he achieved success in the mathematics world, wouldn't it be easy to turn around and join NASA?

And that is also a more suitable time point.

Soviet astronaut Gagarin will fly 40,000 kilometers around the Earth's orbit in 108 minutes on April 12, 1961.

Finding scholars of the Fabian Society to escort his academic achievements, using the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as a meeting gift to become an academic star, and after becoming famous, relying on Fabian Society officials in the government to urge NASA to take the initiative to find him.

The whole plan is simply perfect.

This is also why the Fabian Society badge is an important reason for the whole plan.

Without the Fabian Society as a backer, the difficulty for a Chinese person would be more than one level higher.

The reason why he delayed for eight hours in 2020 was because the last three hours were all used to transcribe the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Professor Andrew Wiles's paper proving Fermat's Last Theorem is 130 pages in total, and it was later abbreviated to 50 pages by mathematicians.

This does not mean that he only needs 50 pages to prove it, because the 50 pages of later generations are based on a large number of theorems already proven by mathematicians.

The key theorem, like the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, is the core pillar of Wiles's proof idea. It proves that all elliptic curves are related to modular forms, proposed in 1955, and was not completely proven until 2001.

The Kolyvagin-Flach method was not proposed until the 1980s. He constructed the Euler system, which is used to solve the Selmer group calculation in "modular lifting".

And the bridge used to connect number theory and automorphic forms, that is, the local part of the Langlands program, also had to wait until the late 1970s.

So the transcription Lin Ran needs is even more than the 130 pages of Wiles's original paper.

"Professor Horkheimer, a young Chinese is looking for you. He said he has something very important to communicate with you."

Professor Horkheimer stood by the diamond-shaped window by the bed and looked down, only to see a young man wearing a suit that was somewhat different from the current style, standing straight and staring forward without moving:

"Call him up."

Professor Horkheimer remembered his Chinese colleague Li Junnan when he worked at the Frankfurt University Social Science Center. When he first met this Chinese person, Li Junnan's demeanor and age were about the same as this.

"It's a pity. Li died too early. If he were still alive to see his motherland give America some color in Korea, he would probably be very gratified."

"Professor Horkheimer, hello, I am Randolph Lin, the son of Professor Larry Meyer's student. After several twists and turns, I finally came to New York, hoping to get your help." Lin Ran walked like the wind.

Horkheimer was silent: "Larry Meyer?"

What a familiar name. After the NAZI came to power, the other party did not choose to come to America like them, but resolutely chose to stay in Frankfurt.

Because he was not a Jew, he was a Slav.

After the war ended, when everyone went back to find him, they found that Larry Meyer had died in the war.

The war had been over for more than ten years, and suddenly a son of Professor Larry Meyer's student appeared to seek his help.

Horkheimer felt inexplicable. He had never heard that Larry Meyer had any Chinese students. ===== CHAPTER 13 =====