"challenge?"

"The challenge means..."

"1. Actively try to defeat the opponent; 2. Provoke the enemy to fight; 3. Start a provocation; 4. Encourage the opponent to compete with yourself..."

"But these are all explanations of verbs, and..."

"It refers to a difficulty..."

"This probably refers to the difficulty... I guess..."

There are more and more ideas in Chen Zhou's mind.

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became.

No clue.

At this moment, the system's beep suddenly sounded.

Chen Zhou was also stunned on the spot, silently listening to the content of the notification tone.

"Special note: Since the host's mathematics subject has reached level 8, and the physics subject has reached level 8, both of which have activated the full-level upgrade mission mode, the host will face challenge mission 1."

"The background of challenge task 1 is as follows:"

"The 20th century was the century with the fastest technological progress in human history. During these 100 years, humans discovered the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and understood nuclear energy. Bacteria that killed hundreds of millions of people were defeated by antibiotics."

"Information science and technology have brought human computing power into another dimension, and the Internet has made everyone clairvoyant and clairvoyant."

"To a certain extent, the development of science and technology in these 100 years is greater than all the achievements of mankind in the previous thousands of years combined."

"After entering the 21st century, with the development of new technologies such as smartphones, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing, everyone can truly feel the rapid development of technology."

"Because of this, everyone has the illusion that the future will get better and better due to the development of technology, and technology will continue to advance."

"But in fact, the future of mankind may not be as beautiful as imagined."

"I believe that the host has already felt that basic human science has actually been stagnant for a long time, and may continue to stagnate in the coming future..."

"Challenge mission goal: break the shackles of the development of basic science, seize the time, and make breakthrough research in basic science!"

"Challenge Task 1 Description: Physics is a subject that explores the world. It basically includes all the technologies of human civilization, so the future of technological development also lies in physics."

"But unfortunately, current theoretical physics is still developing within the framework established a hundred years ago, and there will be no signs of breaking through the framework for a long time to come."

“the party is over!”

"As the feast of high-energy physics gradually comes to an end, it also represents the stagnation of basic physics!"

"Please host to accept the challenge, improve the immature physical theory you have discovered, break the trend of gradual stagnation of basic physics, and find the theory that opens the feast again within the gate of new physics!"

"Challenge Mission 1 Reward: The answer to the energy solution."

"Special reminder: This is a prerequisite for starting Challenge Mission 2! The challenge mission time is limited to 2 years!"

"Host, please choose, do you accept challenge task 1?"

As the system prompt disappeared, the task template interface originally on the display screen was replaced by the content of Challenge Task 1.

At the bottom of the display, below Challenge Task 1, are two buttons.

An "acceptance".

A "rejection".

Two buttons, one red and one green.

It is flashing continuously.

It is different from the previous ones where "accept" is green and "reject" is red.

This time the "Accept" button is red and the "Reject" button is green.

Chen Zhou stared at these two buttons closely.

He now finally understood what the "breakthrough in basic science" that the system had always prompted meant.

As stated in the background of the challenge, the past hundred years have been an era of greatest progress and subversion for mankind.

The establishment of quantum mechanics has given humans a deeper understanding of the microscopic world.

The proposal of the theory of relativity made the universe appear in front of mankind, and mankind was able to explore the nature of the universe.

However, basic human science has truly come to a standstill.

What current scholars have been doing is improving previous theories.

Also includes Chen Zhou.

Whether it is the discovery of glue balls or the research results on topics related to neutrino oscillation, they have not escaped from the original basic physical theory.

The door to new physics is just opened, but no one really enters.

Chen Zhou remembered that he was there last year, that is, in 2017.

He had seen a report.

People have opened a batch of time capsules from more than fifty years ago.

It contains the vision of people more than fifty years ago.

They said: "Now that we have entered the universe, you must be able to travel to other planets very conveniently, right? You must also be able to control the changeable climate, right? For..."

This message from more than fifty years ago is actually not an unfounded fantasy.

Because, in that era, they experienced the first time humans soared into the sky and the first time humans set foot in the universe.

And there was only more than half a century between them.

Therefore, in more than half a century, isn’t it natural for humans to conquer the solar system?

How could it be an illusory and impossible dream?

But the truth is always the truth.

In the past half century or so, humans have not lived up to their expectations.

Although today's technology is changing rapidly, new technologies seem to be born every day.

However, technology and basic science are not the same thing.

Science is the understanding of the laws of nature and the basic principles.

Technology is the application of principles.

Just like the natural sciences and applied sciences in Chen Zhou's system.

Without natural science, there would be no applied science and no technology.

In fact, a statistical analysis shows that the theoretical basis of modern science and technology basically comes from the last century.

For example, GPS technology relies on Einstein's theory of relativity published more than a hundred years ago.

The theoretical basis of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants also comes from Einstein and the mass-energy equation.

The seemingly cutting-edge research frontiers, quantum computers and quantum communication technology, can be traced back to the Planck era.

It was all a very long time ago.

What’s interesting is why mobile phones in the past could last a week on a single charge.

But with today’s mobile phones, charging them once a day is not enough.

The essential reason is that the development of battery technology has been limited by basic scientific theories.

It's far behind hardware upgrades.

Chen Zhou retracted his thoughts and looked at the two buttons that were still flashing again.

He didn't know what would happen if he chose to "accept".

I don’t know what will happen if I choose to “refuse”.

But in terms of the colors of the two buttons.

If he presses "Accept", he will embark on an extremely difficult path of exploration.

If he presses "Reject", he can rest on the existing honor roll without any worries at all.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Chen Zhou's face.

“Is this really going to change the world?”

"I'm actually quite interested in changing the world..."

"Although I have only affected the people around me at most, I have only changed myself..."

"But if you don't try it, how will you know it doesn't work?"

"Even if it's for that 'answer to the energy solution', you have to press this red button, right?"

Chen Zhou, who was muttering under his breath, suddenly raised his arm and pointed his fingers quickly.

He pressed the one in his pupils that kept getting enlarged and finally filled his entire sight——
Chapter completed!