Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 741

The male teacher stood still in front of the podium. Seeing that Niu Xiaoqiang was still standing, he couldn't help laughing and teasing: "Student, do you have acne on your butt? If not, please sit down quickly. If so, Please go to the hospital for treatment."

The students in the classroom immediately burst into laughter. Niu Xiaoqiang didn't expect foreign university teachers to talk to the students like this, so he lowered his head in embarrassment and quickly walked to a seat near the front row to sit down.

He didn't dare to say that he was looking for someone, otherwise he might be kicked out.

"Let's start the class. What we are going to talk about today is the principle of electronic information transmission. Please open the textbook to page No.30 six."

There was the sound of flipping books in the classroom, and Niu Xiaoqiang had both hands empty, not to mention textbooks, not even a notebook.In order not to make himself look too conspicuous, he took out a few pieces of waste paper from the desk and put them on the table to pretend, then bent his back and sat on the chair with his neck curled up.

The teacher picked up chalk and started writing on the blackboard. After finishing writing, he put down the chalk and patted the chalk dust on his hands: "Since human beings entered the stage of civilization, the way of transmitting information has been constantly evolving and improving. Up to now, We have entered the age of electronic information, and before class, I would like to ask a question, does any student here know what the essence of information is?"

After the teacher asked the question, he scanned the classroom, but no one raised his hand.He scanned the classroom again, and quickly took the initiative to point out his troops: "That classmate, do you know the answer to the question?"

The places around Niu Xiaoqiang were all vacant. Even though he had shrunk, he seemed out of place with other students. To use a Chinese idiom, that is "one seedling in an eight-acre field—a single seedling."

At the beginning, Niu Xiaoqiang didn't realize that the teacher was calling him. He lowered his head and thought about this question seriously in his mind.

"Student, class has just started, you must have fallen asleep, right?"

The teacher seemed to like joking very much. Seeing that Niu Xiaoqiang kept his head down and didn't move, he couldn't help but smiled and stepped forward two steps, and came to Niu Xiaoqiang.

Niu Xiaoqiang felt the light in front of him go dark, and looked up in confusion, and then he saw the friendly expression of the male teacher.

Niu Xiaoqiang finally understood, and quickly explained: "Teacher, I am not sleeping, but thinking about the question you raised."

The teacher was just about to speak when he caught sight of the waste paper on the table.He froze for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Are you...?"

Niu Xiaoqiang hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover the waste paper, and then felt that this was a deceitful move, so he retracted his hand in embarrassment, and said with a dry smile: "I'm sorry, teacher, I came here in a hurry today, and I accidentally left my textbook in the rental room. In the car."

The male teacher seemed very easy-going and didn't mean to pursue it.He snorted, nodded slightly and said, "Just bring the textbook next time. Regarding the question I just raised, can you explain your opinion?"

Niu Xiaoqiang was a little guilty. It wasn't that he didn't know how to answer this question, but he didn't want to attract too much attention. Otherwise, if his classmates found out that he was not a student in his class, the consequences would be too embarrassing.

"This one……"

Seeing Niu Xiaoqiang hesitating, the male teacher asked with a smile, "Are you a Chinese student?"

Niu Xiaoqiang hummed, and the male teacher sighed: "Why are Chinese students so shy? In fact, you are no worse than others. In my opinion, you are much smarter than students from most countries." , the only thing lacking may be courage."

As soon as the male teacher said this, some students immediately said unhappily, "Teacher, are you discriminating against us?"

The male teacher smiled and shook his head: "I don't discriminate against anyone. What I just said is true. Chinese students are indeed very smart. Not only me, but other teachers also think so."

The unhappy student snorted: "Not every Chinese student is smart, right? Just like the one in front of you, he looks like a fool!"

Now it was Niu Xiaoqiang's turn to be unhappy. He was quite courageous, but he just didn't want to attract attention, so he was so low-key.

Most of the time, as long as the other party doesn't do too much, Niu Xiaoqiang doesn't bother to care about it.After all, this is the United States, he is new here, and he is not familiar with the place, so there is no need to have conflicts with others.

But this person said he was a fool, Niu Xiaoqiang was a little annoyed.

If someone said that about him two years ago, he would have no way to refute it, because he was indeed a fool back then, and he was just telling the truth.As for now, not only is he not stupid, but he is also extremely smart, a genius in the eyes of Professor Watson.

Niu Xiaoqiang was not going to continue to keep a low profile, he snorted coldly, and turned his head to look at the other party fearlessly: "You are the fool!"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, the male teacher quickly waved his hands: "Okay, okay, there is no point in arguing who is a fool. If you want to prove yourself, you have to show real results."

Niu Xiaoqiang didn't bother to keep a low profile anymore, he said, "Teacher, I have some thoughts on the question you just raised, can you give me a chance to explain it?"

The male teacher nodded happily: "No problem, you can express your point of view without reservation."

Niu Xiaoqiang hummed and talked eloquently: "In 1948, the mathematician Shannon pointed out in a paper called "Mathematical Theory of Communication" that 'information is something used to eliminate random uncertainty', random uncertainty It can be described by probability. Specifically, information entropy is used as an uncertain measure in probability distribution. Probability itself is inaccurate and can only be as close as possible to a certain result. In this process, information is used as It exists in a unique form, which is different from actual matter and energy, and has no fixed pattern. In a sense, information itself is just one thing, and this kind of thing cannot be explained by the concept of conventional matter.”

As soon as these words were spoken, all the students in the classroom showed puzzled expressions, and everyone seemed to be unable to understand what Niu Xiaoqiang meant.

——Information is a kind of thing, and it is a kind of thing that cannot be explained by conventional material concepts. Is this a bit too mysterious?

The student who had a conflict with Niu Xiaoqiang just now spoke first, and he retorted: "If information cannot be explained by conventional material concepts, then what is the textbook in front of us? Isn't the text on the textbook information? Your answer is obvious. has a problem!"

This person is right, the words in the textbook do belong to the category of information, and no one can refute this.

　Thanks to the book friend "Espimas" for the reward and support, bow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)