The second question followed.
“In the process of developing the vaccine, what was the greatest difficulty you encountered?”
This question was fairly conventional.
Jiang Fuyue: “Finding new mutated strains.”
“Where was the difficulty?”
“Sample collection.”
Li Shanshui: “Isn’t that the simplest task, the one that requires the least thinking?”
“Not needing much thinking does not equal simple.”
“Oh? How so?”
“For example, the national census conducted every year in our country, put simply, it’s just counting the population of each household and recording it. This task doesn’t demand much intellectual effort, but it’s not simple at all.”
Li Shanshui: “So can I understand that there was a shortage of manpower during vaccine development?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Not accurate.”
Li Shanshui: “Can you explain more specifically?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Sampling requires entering the resettlement camps and contacting infected patients. This is not a problem that can be solved by simply having more people; it requires both medical literacy and personal capability from the participants.”
“If you had helpers or a professional team working with you, would the vaccine development process have progressed faster?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Perhaps.”
“You don’t sound very certain?”
“In mathematics, you can say 1+1 equals 2, but in real action, who can guarantee it? So I say perhaps, there is both the possibility of being greater than 2 and the probability of being less than 2.”
A glint flashed in Li Shanshui’s eyes as she began digging a trap: “So you think teamwork isn’t that important?”
Very good, another question not listed in the outline.
If she answered yes, she would inevitably appear arrogant, conceited, and unsociable; if she answered no, her earlier reply would seem fake and empty, mere lip service.
Jiang Fuyue looked at her deeply.
Li Shanshui curled her lips, meeting the examining gaze without dodging, clearly pleased at successfully setting the trap.
Let’s see if you panic.
If you panic, that’s right!
Little girl, now you know how capable your senior is, don’t you?
But at that moment, Jiang Fuyue suddenly returned a smile.
Li Shanshui’s heart skipped, and in the next second she heard Jiang Fuyue speak calmly, “I think this question shouldn’t be asked that way.”
“What?” Li Shanshui froze. This was the first time anyone had told her she shouldn’t ask a question that way.
She was the host, the famous anchor of the capital station!
If she needed a guest to teach her how to ask questions, where would she put her pride?
Yet at this moment, in front of the audience present and all the surrounding cameras, she had no choice but to continue: “Then how do you think it should be asked?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Not asked.”
“…Huh?”
“Whether teamwork is important or not doesn’t depend on what I think. And what I think has no reference value for others.”
So why ask?
“Yeah… why is Sister Li asking such superficial, irrelevant questions?” After hearing Jiang Fuyue’s answer, a cameraman pondered it carefully, scratched his head, and muttered softly.
In fact, it was far more than just “superficial” or “irrelevant.”
Li Shanshui had planned it well: start by throwing out simple questions to lower Jiang Fuyue’s guard while also searching for an entry point from the “surface.”
Once Jiang Fuyue stepped in, she would immediately throw out the sharpest question and catch her off guard.
For example, regarding teamwork, no matter whether Jiang Fuyue answered “important” or “not important,” as long as she continued the topic, Li Shanshui would follow up with during the research process, Jiang Fuyue worked almost single-handedly and personally handled everything. Was it because she looked down on teamwork, or because she thought others were unworthy of being her teammates?
At that point, the controversy and discussion value would instantly explode.
What a great question. What a brilliant setup.
But Li Shanshui never expected Jiang Fuyue to refuse to play by the rules. She neither answered important nor unimportant; instead, she turned it around and said the question itself was poorly asked.
Her approach was wildly unconventional.
However, Li Shanshui had been famous for many years and certainly hadn’t earned her reputation by luck. She was not easy to deal with.
Seeing Jiang Fuyue refuse to take the bait, she immediately changed strategies, and then made the worst decision of her career, and the one she would regret most, talking professional knowledge with Jiang Fuyue!
In the past, relying on her dual master’s degrees, Li Shanshui had confused countless PhDs, postdocs, and even already-famous scientists.
She was also very confident in her own scientific literacy, not only because of her elite academic background but also because she had continued learning and absorbing the latest knowledge across fields over the years.
Netizens once described her as, “The one who looks most like a scholar among hosts, and the sharpest-tongued among scholars.”
Li Shanshui: “I’ve heard you’ve studied various disciplines?”
Jiang Fuyue: “I know a little.”
Li Shanshui smiled: “Then let’s talk about quantum mechanics.”
Jiang Fuyue nodded. Her voice remained calm and steady: “Sure.”
Li Shanshui began her performance, “The electron double-slit interference experiment has existed for nearly a century, and the microscopic physics behind it is already widely known. Quantum mechanics has also been verified through various other experiments, and its current expansions and applications are constantly emerging… Yet ordinary people still have deviations in their so-called ‘intuitive understanding.’ From this, it’s not hard to see that debates still exist in the physics community regarding interpretations of quantum mechanics. What do you think?”
Jiang Fuyue pondered briefly, her brows gradually drawing together.
Li Shanshui’s eyes lit up, thinking she had been stumped.
But then, “Actually, from what you just said, I’m not entirely sure what you want to express. You mentioned the electron double-slit interference experiment. If you simply want to ask my view of that experiment, it’s straightforward, early interpretations considered it the statistical result of a large number of particles, until humans gained the ability to send electrons or photons through one at a time… People then discovered that even a ‘single electron’ could produce interference fringes. However, when instruments were placed behind the slits to ‘observe’ which slit the electron passed through, the interference fringes disappeared…”
Li Shanshui: “?”
Jiang Fuyue: “If you want to ask about the significance of this experiment for quantum mechanics, namely the interpretational debates you mentioned, then personally I think: the traditional Copenhagen interpretation states that ‘measurement’ itself affects the observed system. Before observation, the electron wave function spreads across all space, showing ‘wave properties,’ which produce interference effects… The electron wave function undergoes so-called ‘instantaneous collapse,’ projecting into a specific position space and showing ‘particle properties’… In fact, there’s no need to argue about these issues. Use whatever theory works. If it’s verified experimentally, then it’s correct; there’s no need to dwell excessively on representational disputes…”
Li Shanshui: “?”
Who am I?
Where am I?
Is the “quantum mechanics” she’s talking about the same “quantum mechanics” I know?
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