Genius Club-Chapter 951 - 46 Galileo (Monthly ticket bonus chapter!)
Chapter 951: Chapter 46 Galileo (Monthly ticket bonus chapter!)
Galileo.
Lin Xian didn’t feel surprised at the mention of this familiar yet unfamiliar name.
Turing.
Copernicus.
These were all known codenames of members of the Genius Club.
So when another “Galileo” popped up, it didn’t feel out of place at all; if anything, it fit the pattern even more.
...
The real Galileo in human history, full name Galileo Galilei, was a famous Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, and a founder of modern natural science in Europe.
His achievements in the scientific community were significant, and the honorary titles he acquired were resounding—you could list a few and they would all be universally recognized:
The father of observational astronomy,
The father of modern physics,
The father of the scientific method,
The father of modern science;
these titles all belonged to him.
But if you had to pinpoint the thing about Galileo that left the deepest impression on the public, and what was most widely known, it would have to be the “Tower of Pisa experiment” and the “Invention of the first astronomical telescope in human history.”
The Tower of Pisa experiment overthrew Aristotle’s theory of free-falling bodies that had dominated for two thousand years.
And the invention of the Galilean telescope, the first astronomical telescope in human history, was a significant event in the annals of human scientific history.
In 1609, Galileo built a telescope that could magnify up to 32 times; he pointed it at the Moon, marking the first scientific observation of the lunar surface by humans.
Subsequently, he discovered the four satellites of Jupiter, providing solid evidence for the Copernican theory, heralding Copernicus’s theory on the path to victory.
It could be said that Galileo inaugurated a new era in astronomy. The rings of Saturn, the sunspots, the rotation of the Sun, the phases of Venus and Mercury, and the libration of the Moon were all observed by him… With this, the door to modern astronomy was flung open.
No matter the perspective, Galileo was undoubtedly a great scientist without any controversy, and at the same time, a genius beyond any dispute!
Therefore,
it was no wonder that someone in the Genius Club used Galileo as a codename.
If it was as Turing said…
that the super disaster that swept across the Earth in 2400 was orchestrated by a member of the Genius Club… then the codename Galileo even felt aptly prophetic.
But after all, a codename is just that,
one doesn’t know his true identity.
Lin Xian’s ring finger still rested on the Enter key, facing the now-dimmed, black screen of the monitor:
“Who exactly is Galileo?”
“I can’t say.”
Turing’s voice sounded helpless:
“There are things within the Genius Club that I absolutely cannot disclose. Do you remember when we first met, Lin Xian? At that time you helped me kill Kevin Walker, for which I was very grateful. I had said… I would love to tell you the answers to many mysteries, but I can’t, and back then, you weren’t qualified to know such things.”
“Unless… you formally join the Genius Club and become one of its members, then you would be able to find all the answers to these puzzles by yourself.”
The source of this c𝓸ntent is freewebnøvel.coɱ.
“So, I hope you don’t make it difficult for me, Lin Xian. It’s not that I am unwilling to tell you things, it’s that I also cannot say. On top of the safety lock Kevin Walker put on me, there is an even more restrictive lock… and that is to keep the affairs within the Genius Club confidential. This was also what the Genius Club warned Kevin Walker about before he created digital life.”
Another more restrictive lock?
Set up by the Genius Club itself?
“What would happen if it was said forcefully?”
Lin Xian asked:
“Would you vanish as well?”
“Yes,”
Turing said softly:
“I don’t really hate this lock. After all, the control of the lock is in my hands, I can choose not to tell, and I can control my own fate.”
“But indeed, this lock has higher priority than the safety lock. If I were to breach it, it would be like what you are about to do with the Enter key… it would blast me to smithereens, completely destroy me.”
Lin Xian shook his head:
“All of you are like this, either Pie in the Sky Club or Riddle Club. If you refuse to say it, regardless, then this is goodbye.”
Having said that,
Lin Xian’s finger pressed hard, slamming down the Enter key!
“Wait a minute!”
Suddenly, Porcupine Turing, as if on the edge of a cliff, shouted out.
Lin Xian looked up with a smile:
“Changed your mind?”
“No… It’s not a problem that can be resolved just by me changing my mind.”
Turing paused,
then continued:
“I’m not actually that afraid of death. Right now on Earth, there are more than thirty thousand Turings. Other than the last remaining one, the rest of the 37,422 Turings have all been prepared to die.”
“It’s just… I can’t reconcile myself with dying in this way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not resentment towards you; I just feel that the Turing who told you the safety lock password killed me with such a despicable method that I can’t swallow it.”
“Therefore, I must tell you something, Lin Xian… [The safety lock password it gave you has a problem.]”
Oh?
Lin Xian’s interest was piqued.
Fine.
Start tearing each other down, mutually assured destruction.
That was the part he enjoyed the most.
Perhaps…
this was really one of the few chances to hear Turing speak the truth.
He could use it again on the Turing of the Grizzly Tribe later.
“Let’s hear it,”
Lin Xian said with interest:
“Since this safety lock password scares you so much, I’m sure it must be flawless. And just so you know, whatever you say next, I’m ultimately going to press the Enter key and eliminate you.”
