Chapter 9 Chapter 9 introduces a Frenchman who may clear up doubts in the future

These are probably the benefits of Director Barbicane's change of the earth's axis.Changing the motion of the earth's revolution around the sun must be done imperceptibly.The earth will continue to rotate in its eternal and unchanging orbit in space, and the conditions of the solar year will not be affected at all. When the world learned of the consequences of changing the Earth's axis, the reaction was extraordinary.People immediately responded enthusiastically to this advanced mechanics problem.At different latitudes, "consumers" can enjoy the same four seasons arbitrarily, and the prospect is indeed very attractive.Everyone will be able to enjoy the spring-like climate that Telemark bestowed on Carlisso Island in the future. They can even choose a cooler or warmer spring. Don’t you think everyone will be excited? !As for the position of the new axis on which the earth rotates, it is a secret, and no one, whether it is Director Barbicane, Captain Nicole, or Ma Sitong, seems to want to announce it to the public.Will they show off beforehand?Or do I have to wait until after the experiment?The public is full of doubts and somewhat uneasy.

What kind of mechanical force can be used to change the axis of the earth's rotation?People naturally brought up the question, and it was hotly debated in the papers.Obviously, that would require a huge amount of motivation. Tribune, a respected New York magazine, puts it precisely: "If the earth did not revolve on an axis, it would probably need only a slight touch to make it revolve on an arbitrarily chosen axis. However, it looks like A giant top is rotating at a very high speed. According to the laws of nature, objects that rotate like this are all rotating around the same axis without stopping. Lyron Fucourt proved it with facts through a famous experiment This law. Therefore, to change the axis of the earth, although it cannot be asserted that it is impossible at all, at least it is extremely difficult!" This argument is extremely true.Another intriguing question, after considering what kind of power the AARA engineers will use, is: Will the power come in slowly, or in bursts?In the latter case, won't it bring disaster to the surface of the earth when the axis is changed by the method of Barbicane?

In both the old and the new continents, the wise and the philistine alike worry about this very much.In short, impact is always impact, and being impacted, or even recoiled, is not a pleasant thing.Indeed, the advocates seem to see only the benefits of their cause, without considering the upheaval it will cause to the unfortunate planet.So the European delegates, resentful of their defeat, decided to take advantage of the situation and began subtly mobilizing public opinion against the club director. We recall that France has no territorial claim to the Arctic.Notwithstanding the official indifference of France, a Frenchman came to Baltimore out of personal inclination and for some special purpose, to learn the details of this gigantic undertaking.

This is a French mining engineer, thirty-five years old.He was admitted to the Paris Ecole Polytechnique with the first grade, and his graduation grade was also the crown of the best.He should be introduced as a first-rate mathematician, probably much higher than Ma Sitong.It is true that Ma Sitong is a great calculator, but a calculator is only a calculator after all, how can he be compared with this great French engineer?That is like letting fireflies compete with the moon, and putting Le Verrier and Newton, or Laplace together. The engineer was funny -- and that didn't hurt his image -- imaginative and insightful.There may be many such people in the bridge industry, but there are only a handful of them in the mining industry.The way he narrates things is different and very funny.When chatting with close friends, he is often as unrestrained as a Parisian child, and likes to use some folklore and popular sayings.In everyday conversation, there is nothing academic about his language, and it is only when he writes that he pays attention to the elegance of words.He was a tireless man who could work ten hours at his desk and write pages of algebra as easily as he could write a letter.His best pastime after a day of advanced mathematics was to play whist.For all his calculations he was a poor player, and when he caught Ming he would exclaim like college students in broken Latin:

"A dead card!" The name of this curious figure was Aleister Pierre.Being addicted to abbreviations - as were his classmates - he usually signed Aierd, or even A1.On top of i, he never adds dots.He was very intense when discussing issues, nicknamed "Sulfuric Acid".He was tall, and not unusually tall. Colleagues joked that he was one-fifth millionth of a quarter of the meridian, or about two metres.The numbers they estimated were roughly right.He has a broad chest and broad shoulders. Although his head looks small, he can shake it vigorously.A pair of blue eyes shining through the pince-nez is extremely divine!Prematurely bald from studying mathematics under the gas lamp in the study room, his features were both cheerful and serious.In addition, he is the best student that the school has never forgotten.

Despite his uninhibited personality, he adheres to the golden rules popular among the students of the École Polytechnique: maintain the dignity of the school uniform and maintain teamwork.Whether it was in the Acacia Court, which was called the Court, although there were no acacia trees in it, or in the "barracks", the student dormitories, everyone admired him.His wardrobe and boxes are well-organized, which shows that he is an organized person. It didn't matter that Algid Pierre's head was a little small for his tall frame!Anyway, it can be believed that it must be full of brains.Importantly, he was a mathematician, like all his classmates, past or present.He studies mathematics only to use it in experimental science, and only when mathematics is applied to industry can mathematics be attractive to him.This is his shortcoming, but who can be perfect!In short, his major is the study of science. Although science has made great progress, for scientists, there are always mysteries that cannot be fully revealed.

By the way, Algird Pierre is a bachelor.He openly admits that he eagerly looks forward to his "that one", but to this day he is still "equal to one".His friends planned to marry him to a girl from Martigues, Provence.The girl is young, pretty, happy, and smart.Unfortunately, the girl's father began by replying in the local vernacular, Marti Kaladian: "No! Your Algid is too learned! He chatted with my daughter, my poor daughter can't understand anything, what should I do?!" It seems that all real scholars don't know how to talk to ordinary people in simple and common language.

Our engineer was very annoyed by these remarks, and decided to travel far and wide to distance himself from Provence.He took a year off to care about the cause of the Arctic Experiment Association.In his opinion, this is the best way to pass the time.Therefore, at this time he came to the United States. When Algid Pierre arrived in Baltimore, he was not very interested in the huge project of the Barbicane Company.It didn't matter to him that the Earth's axis changed, that the Earth became Jupiter.However, the method used to change has aroused the scholar's great curiosity.He has a reason.

He began to reason, talking to himself: "Apparently Director Barbicane is going to give our planet a hard blow from the side! From which direction? And how? That's probably the only way to go! Yes! I think he must play the edge, which is billiards. If you hit the center, the ball will go off the rails, then it will be bad, it will turn upside down, and it will be over. No way, those dudes are just trying to put a new axis on the earth, which should not be doubted, but I still I don’t quite understand, where do they choose to be the fulcrum? And how to strike from the outside? If the earth does not move day and night, it only needs to be flicked lightly! But the earth revolves day and night, and no one can tell it to stop. That's the 'trouble' part of the problem."

"Anyway," he went on muttering to himself, "whatever method is used, there will be great disturbance!" Our venerable scholar has spent a lot of effort, but he has not even touched the edge of the method conceived by Barbicane and Marston.If he knew at this moment the method by which they changed the axis of the earth, he could deduce the formula of mechanics without too much effort.It's so exasperating. On December 29, Allegide Pierre, an engineer for a French mining company, pondered the above questions as he stretched his long legs like compasses to measure the uneven streets of Baltimore .