Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 129 Two Dark Clouds (89)

After clearing all the emails in his mailbox, Zhou Ming called Chen Wen and Chen Yun again, asking them how the project of [Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicting Proteins] was going.

"Hey, Professor Zhou, your research is over?" The person who spoke was Chen Yun. After he saw the caller ID was Zhou Ming when he answered the phone, he had probably guessed why Zhou Ming called him. It was to ask how the research they were doing was going.

"The research in the laboratory is over, and the seeds have been planted in the experimental field, and now we are waiting for the harvest in February next year." Zhou Ming explained.

"Have you planted it?" Hearing what Zhou Ming said, Professor Chen Yun looked confused, and then asked Zhou Ming with a look of surprise, "But now it's November and February, and the light snow has passed, and next week will be heavy snow right?"

The light snow and heavy snow mentioned by Chen Yun did not refer to the real snow in Luzhou, but to the solar terms.

Xiaoxue is the 24th solar term in the 20 solar terms, and also the second solar term in winter.

Daxue is the 24st solar term in the 21 solar terms and the third solar term in winter.

"You heard me right, it has indeed been planted. The soybeans I have researched can be planted all year round, no matter what season you are in, or whether the temperature is more than 30 degrees or minus 20 degrees. And it can grow normally even if it is planted." Zhou Ming continued to explain.

"Ah?" Zhou Ming's explanation not only failed to break Chen Yun's doubts, but actually made him not believe what Zhou Ming said.

Although Chen Yun does not study biology, he also knows the basic knowledge of the growth cycle of soybeans.

Generally speaking, the best planting time for domestic soybeans is around June each year, but the planting time will vary according to the climate in different regions. The planting time in the northern region is slightly earlier, generally in April and May. It started planting, while in the south it started planting in May and June.

And it usually takes about 180 days from soybean planting to final harvest.

But what Zhou Ming said, Zhou Ming not only said that his soybeans are now planted, but also that they will grow in February next year, and that they can be planted in winter. Who can believe this?
"Hey, you will believe it when the beans are planted, and don't talk about it. I called you this time to ask you, how is the progress of your project?" Seeing that Chen Yun didn't believe what he said, Zhou Ming didn't say anything more to him. After all, what he hears is believing what he sees is believing. No matter how he explains it now, Chen Yun won't believe it. It's also impossible for Zhou Ming to explain his research process and The principle.

Hearing that Zhou Ming really asked this, Chen Yun stopped worrying about soybeans. Anyway, by February next year, if he has not forgotten this matter and is still interested, he can directly contact Zhou Ming and ask Zhou Ming to take him to the experimental field. Just take a look.

"Professor Zhou, the information you provided is very detailed. We follow your information step by step. The project is progressing very quickly. I estimate that it will take more than a month, and the results should be ready by January next year. .” Chen Yun explained the current progress of the project to Zhou Ming.

"January next year? That's coming soon. Then I won't waste your time. When your project is over, we'll have a good chat, so let's hang up first." Zhou Ming said.

"Okay, we'll eat and chat when the results come out. Professor Chen Wen and I have a lot of questions to ask you about this project. Then hang up first, I'm also quite busy here." Chen Yun explained Said, he hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

The progress of the [Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicting Proteins] project was completely within Zhou Ming's expectations, so when Chen Yun said that their project would end in more than a month, Zhou Ming didn't feel much. The reason for calling is to see if the progress of this project is within my expectations.

After learning about the progress of the [Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicting Protein] project, Zhou Ming took a closer look at the completion of more than 50 short-term projects of the biological company in Jinling and the biological company in Luzhou.

According to the reply from the biological company to Zhou Ming, nearly 50 of these more than [-] short-term projects have now been completed, and their development speed is completely in line with Zhou Ming's previous expectations.

The development status of all projects is very good, which makes Zhou Ming very satisfied. What Zhou Ming is going to do next is to write down the next wave of short-term projects, which will probably number more than 100.

The more than 100 short-term projects to be prepared are short-term projects for the whole year of 2016, not only related to biology, but also some artificial intelligence projects.

After the short-term project, Zhou Ming is also preparing to write a paper on protein structure prediction and determine the company's future long-term research projects.

The famous physicist William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, delivered a lecture entitled "Nineteenth Century Dark Clouds Over the Theory of Heat and Light Dynamics" at the Royal Society of England on 1900 April 4 .

"Kinetic theory affirmed that heat and light are the two modes of motion, and now its beautiful clear sky is covered by two dark clouds."

"The first dark cloud appeared on the wave theory of light."

"A second dark cloud appears in the Maxwell-Boltzmann theory of energy equipartition."

Zhou Ming, who constantly uses life simulators and continuously acquires future technological knowledge, believes that there are also two dark clouds entrenched on the building of life sciences.

These two dark clouds, one is neurobiology, the other is aging.

In terms of neurobiology, until Zhou Ming passed away in the last simulation, although there is still a long way to go, people have indeed achieved some remarkable results in this area of ​​research.

Not to mention anything else, just say that in the last simulation, when Zhou Ming was 80 years old, the virtual reality technology based on the brain-computer interface matured. This is the performance of some research results in neurobiology at that time. .

However, the progress of people's research on aging is not as fast as their research on neurobiology. Many studies are still only theoretical and cannot be verified.

Although Zhou Ming lived to be more than 150 years old in the last simulation, the reason why he can live so long is not that people have solved the mystery of longevity at that time, but because the continuous advancement of science and technology has promoted the continuous development of medical treatment.

At the beginning of the 21st century, some scientists discovered through research that there is a limit to the number of cell divisions. Generally, cells will not divide after about 50 divisions.

Of course, it also depends on what kind of cells it is. Some cells can divide without limit, while some cells cannot divide without limit.

When the cells no longer continue to divide, the aging and dead cells in the human body cannot be renewed, and the organs will continue to age and die.

Based on the view that the limitation of the number of cell divisions leads to the limit of the human body's lifespan, they judged that the theoretical lifespan limit of human beings is about 120 years old.

The views of these scientists are fine, but the judgment of the theoretical life span of human beings has problems due to the limitations of scientific development.

According to the future biological knowledge obtained by Zhou Ming, the theoretical lifespan limit of human beings is about 200 years old.

However, there is no credible record of living to the age of two hundred, even in the future more than 100 years after being accelerated by Zhou Ming.

Therefore, for the future long-term research projects of his biological company, Zhou Ming will also focus on neurobiology and aging, the two dark clouds entrenched in the life science building.

However, Zhou Ming still has to write the content of short-term projects first.

　Thanks to the book friend "I don't want to know at all" for the reward of 500 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)