朱进@华师附小
Oct 7th
在波多黎各开会期间偷闲一下,小换一下口味吧。当然还是和天文有关的。
朱进在9月22日到华师附小做报告。大猫来广州,当然是要去看看的,顺便也可以当今“00后”的风采。
靠近报告厅的时候就听到里面好像爆炸一样巨吵闹,吃了一惊…… 话说以前小学的时候,只要有点吵,还不给老师骂个狗血淋头?现在的00后也真是挺嚣张的。进去以后才明白,这是他们听讲座的方式,因为每当大猫放出一张照片,他们就“哇”一声,可见对这次讲座热情还是挺高的。
讲座之后的提问环节,成堆学生挤上前去问问题,甚至老师还要拦住后来者,开始让我想起那些“从小学生到大学生的退化”之类的争论了:大学的讲座有这么踊跃提问的好像很少吧。第一个问题是,“宇宙边界外面是什么”,大猫立马囧了,嘉宾们窃笑,一副很不以为然的样子,老师赶紧上前说“大家提的问题不要太难”,结果下一个问题是“宇宙有多少颗星星”,大猫更囧了…… 半小时的提问下来大猫满头大汗,却面带微笑,于是乎又给大家签名。虽然00后的小学生活和我们那时候截然不同,可看得出来,他们对这场讲座很兴奋。
哎,从小学生到大学生,恐怕确实退化了。这几天开会,听到了各种各样古怪而有趣的研究报告,可我们干这么多事,花这么多钱,回答的还不是那几个简单的问题吗?宇宙有多大?边界外面是啥?有外星人吗?等等。可我们搞了这么多东西,这最初的几个问题好像反倒给弄忘了。从物理学的角度来看,这从另一个角度说明了熵确实是在不断增大的……
有时候人也确实是挺可笑的啊,上帝的笑料确实不少。
Meeting Day 2: Everything's more than good
Oct 7th
The meeting moved into the second day and I'm feeling even better with how the things go. When there is a will, there is a way! I'm feeling rather lucky.
Again I got up at 6 a.m. in the morning for the sunrise, unfortunately it was slightly foggy in the morning to eliminate the possbility of a beautiful sunrise. So I went to the restraut for breakfast (everything went smooth as I was familiar with the procedure this time), then got prepared for the morning session.
The morning session was about the annoucement of awards and prizes in the field of planetary science and invited lectures for the recipients. I was adviced to attend the lectures, so although the titles were not yet specific, I still arrived early. The first lecture was the Urey Prize recipient, Dr. Sarah Stewart from Harvard University, presenting her work about the theory of icy body impacts. Then came the next, Dr. (Prof.?) Tobias Owen for the well-known prize, Kuiper Prize. This prize is the top prize in planetary science, and Dr. Owen must be a well-known and respected scientist, because when the annoucement was made, all the attendees stood up to show their respects for him. Woo, really cool.
And then the annoucement confirmed my guess, Dr. Owen was indeed a spectacular person in the field. He was said to be the father of Cassini Project -- the spacecraft that is now exploring Saturn. This reminded me something -- it was, actually, 12 years ago, I was 9 years old and had watched the news about the launch of Cassini, then keep track with it, and wondered what I would be doing in 2004 (the expect arrival time of Cassini to Saturn). After 12 years, I'm now sitting at this top-class planetery science conference, meet spectacular persons in the field, including the Cassini-related people. Everything is fantastic.
During the noon I managed to figure out the explanation of the Coriolis issue on the unusual trajetory of 2008 TC3 and sent an email to Dr. Jenniskens about this, really excited to be able to answer a question given by the big-names -- even the later discovery of being failed on getting the regular scholarship this year cannot eclipse my happiness. In the afternoon it was the comet's session, but I had a great discussion about 1998 CS1 with Alan Harris et al at the exhibition hall and was too excited to go to the talk's. At the end of the discussion they invited me to the lunch on the next day -- wow this is great!
Okay tomorrow will be a big day for me. Don't forget my presentation on the poster in the afternoon -- you are warmly welcome to Puerto Rico and have a look at it
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