Yin Xi in the United States
In 1955, Qian Xuesen shouted at the American general: "You just killed me, and I will return to China!" ”
As a result, the launch of Chinese missiles and atomic bombs has advanced for at least 20 years!
China, at last, must bid farewell to the embarrassment of weak countries without diplomacy and dare to stand up and face evil.
In 2015, Yin Xi, a 32-year-old Harvard professor who was carefully cultivated by China's meticulously cultivated physics genius, also said to the media categorically: "Even if the United States is chaotic, I will not return to China." ”
As a result, China regrets the loss of a rookie who is most likely to win the Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Suddenly, public opinion was in an uproar, and while people scolded, they couldn't help but wonder: "Is the moon in a foreign country really rounder?" Confused that Yin Xi can even betray his own motherland? ”
In fact, Yin Xi's "betrayal" really did not allow the moon to be a "back pot man".
No matter how Yin Xi is packaged as a genius and a prodigy, in the final analysis, he is also a person, as long as he is a person, he cannot escape the shackles of a "love" word.
Looking back at Yin Xi's 18 years in China, there are really two major "feelings" that have tripped his left and right feet back to China, but we still can't be satisfied!
Yin Xi
"Longing for the warmth of family, the company of family affection."
Born in December 1983, Yin Xi showed a talent that was different from ordinary people at the age of 8.
What is the most obsessive of a normal 8-year-old boy?
The answer is too obvious, Ultraman must have a vote! We are to "believe in the power of light!" ”
But Yin Xi is more obsessed with calculus and quantum mechanics.
He often hid at home, read all day as soon as he read a book, and was so immersed in the ocean of knowledge that Yin Xi's mother had to force her son to go out and play.
It is conceivable that with the existence of Yin Xi, who is "someone else's child", the parents and children next door must have also suffered a lot of "suffering".
When children want to go out and play, they will definitely hear the familiar sentence: "You see Yin Xi next door to the house, every day he thinks about reading, why don't you learn from him?" ”
Children can also generously resist: "Then you see Yin Xi's mother, still begging Yin Xi to go out to play, why don't you learn from Yin Xi's mother?" ”
The two looked at each other, and could only be silent, sighing in their hearts: "Hey, who called Yin Xi a genius?" ”
Childhood Yin Xi
At the age of 10, Yin Xi entered the Beijing Eighth Middle School's Extraordinary Intelligence Trial Class, becoming the second youngest child in the class.
At the age of 13, Yin Xi and other 18-year-olds, or even 19-year-old big brothers and sisters, entered the college entrance examination hall together, and successfully passed the single wooden bridge, and was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China with a good score of 572 points.
Unlike the wounded Zhongyong imagined by passers-by, Yin Xi only had a stunning bloom on the road to the prodigy genius, and never had a disappointing moment.
In 2001, when 18-year-old Yin Xi graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with honors, he ignored his mentor's advice that he continue his studies in China and resolutely chose to go to a higher university to study for a doctorate at Harvard.
Yin Xi is in the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China
In 2006, Yin Xi successfully obtained a doctorate degree in physics from Harvard University with honors.
In 2008, Yin was hired as an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University.
In 2015, Harvard University's High Energy Theory Research Group released a message: "Congratulations to Yin Xi for his promotion to full professor."
In less than 9 years, Yin Xi opened all the way and was invincible, from a doctoral student to a doctoral-granting professor.
Harvard University Bulletin
People in China heard that Yin Xi had achieved such impressive results, and they speculated that such a good seedling would definitely return to the motherland to make contributions, right?
Unexpectedly, Yin Xi turned around and became a U.S. citizen, pouring cold water on all the people who had expectations of him.
Yin Xi was not unaware that his choice today was an invisible betrayal; but on the other side, his heart was too obvious.
Yes, geniuses are also human beings, and they also long for family, and they also crave family affection.
But Yin Xi felt too little about the affection at home.
He remembers that when he was in elementary school, his parents had a cold relationship, as if it was only because of his son that the two could barely sit together;
I also remember that after going to middle school, the parents' undisguised semi-separation state seemed to blame him for the son, and the two could not be free;
He can solve mathematical puzzles, but he can't solve the web of indifferent emotions between his parents; he can understand complex calculus, but he can understand the insinuations of his parents.
Yin Xi and his parents
The genius teenager is also a teenager, and he always feels that his birth and existence may not be a kind of happiness for his parents, but more like a burden.
The children next door envied his freedom to go out and play at any time, but only Yin Xi knew, and he also envied the happiness of other children being accompanied by their parents.
In front of people, he is a precocious and talented teenager, his parents are graduates of China University of Geosciences, and the three of them form a seemingly complete and healthy well-off family.
But after the people, Yin Xi knew better that his parents were more like "treating a satisfactory work" to him, and they arranged Yin Xi's study, made a careful plan, and laid a smooth life.
But only, can not give the full love of parents.
The more mature Yin Xi can figure out that the love between adults cannot be demanded; but the childish Yin Xi sometimes can't figure out, if not love, why should she start a family and why should she have a child?
Yin Xi when he was in school
After school, other students are anxious to go home to eat their mother's meal and watch a few episodes of cartoons; but only Yin Xi, the action of cleaning up the school bag is like adding a slow-down special effect.
"Slow down, slow down, would rather stay in school and do problems than go back to that loveless family."
But in the days of studying in a foreign country, Yin Xi's emotional world found a new home, and the missing family affection was finally made up.
Through online dating, Yin Xi met his American wife.
According to the eyes of our countrymen, she is not a beautiful woman with bright eyebrows, and even her body is slightly fat.
But in this woman's eyes, Yin Xi can not be a genius teenager, nor do he have to carry the aura of honor, just be himself, an ordinary foreign student who longs to love and be loved.
Maybe it was like-mindedness, maybe it was fate, in short, Yin Xi met his own destiny daughter, and the two soon married and gave birth to a daughter.
Yin Xi with his wife and children
He couldn't think of any fancy metaphors for the unromantic, probably a sense of reassurance.
"If I don't have a happy and fulfilling family, then simply form an ideal new family of my own, with parents and children, they will not be separated casually." 」
Yin Xi never restrains and disciplines his daughter according to the standards of a "genius child", he is like an ordinary father, picking up and dropping off the child, playing with her, in his heart, nothing is more important than a happy childhood.
Yin Xi rock climbing
Yin Xi is indeed qualified to do so.
Only those who have reached the peak can understand how lonely it is.
He had experienced it, he had climbed it, he had arrived, and though honor was in his possession, he was no longer a naïve teenager when he returned.
This childhood longing for family affection and a perfect family, the expectation of ordinary life, finally made returning to China become his Nanke dream, and his wife and children in the United States became his realistic belonging.
And the four words "will not be separated" are Yin Xi's lifelong commitment to his wife and children as an ordinary man. Wives and children are hot kilns, even scientists, can't escape.
He once said: "I most want to do things that others have not done and satisfy my passion for work."
Yin Xi also said that "science has no borders", so he wants to stay in the United States for the sake of scientific enthusiasm.
But then was rebuffed by everyone: "But scientists have borders", so even if Yin Xi has a passion for scientific research, this enthusiasm can only serve the interests of the country.
What's more speculative: "Let Yin Xi do research in the United States today, and one day, his knowledge will be transformed into a bullet hit by the Chinese people!" ”
As soon as this argument came out, Yin Xi instantly changed from "glory of the motherland" to "treasonous tumor".
Yin Xi, who can be a party, actually stated the reason for not returning to China very directly in an interview.
First, scientific research needs to communicate with many scholars, and as smart as Einstein did research alone for two years, it is not a spark that has not been made.
And his own thinking is naturally inferior to Einstein's, and he needs comrades to collide together.
When encountering difficult problems, communicate with each other, learn from each other's strengths, and only in this way can the research achieve the effect of "doing more with less", but the number of scholars in string theory research in China is not more than ten;
Second, Harvard University has the most top scientific instruments, and only with such instruments can we get more accurate results.
But Yin Xi, who "cursed from the mouth", did not have much opportunity to explain to the Chinese people.
Yin Xi and friends
The betrayal of "never returning to China" made him the target of public criticism, people imagined that his words were unpatriotic, assumed that his thoughts had been corrupted, and was sure that his life must be extremely rich, so he did not want to return to China to suffer.
Only forget, scientists' passion for scientific research;
Only to forget that our country is no longer the barren and delicate small country of a hundred years ago;
Only to forget, Yin Xi did not return to China and then followed a sentence: "If I really want to return to China, I have to bring a group of physicists back to China." ”
Yin Xi was interviewed
Sometimes hatred can make people "blind", only remember to vent their anger, and forget to search for the truth.
First, from the perspective of national security.
There has long been a saying in the physics community that applied physics can bring new technologies and should indeed first serve the country; but theoretical physics is different, it is in the service of all mankind, and its results can be shared by all mankind.
To put it simply, the atomic bomb has borders, and the lithography machine has national borders, but the string theory yin Xi studied belongs to theoretical physics and cannot make a bullet at all.
Even according to Yin Xi's current research direction, perhaps it is more suitable to be a physics teacher after returning to China, and maybe the role is even greater.
Yin Xi lectured at the scene
Second, from the perspective of national honor.
People resented his betrayal, speculating that he was going to be a pawn of U.S. imperialism, develop weapons more powerful than atomic bombs to hurt his countrymen, or, after achieving better honors, put a cloak of praise on the American flag.
But Yin Xi could only smile bitterly in the face of his research.
His research is purely theoretical, and the results of his research should be published in academic journals, that is, the entire human society can be shared.
From theory to application, up to a hundred years, as short as half a life, his research, only theory and no practical output.
To put it bluntly, just spend money, don't make money, and even spend money may not even hear a splash.
Even so, wouldn't it be more beneficial for him to spend american money on the Americans?
Yin Xi's office site
Third, from the perspective of personal interests.
Nesting can lead to phoenixes.
The storm of the collective resignation of 90 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is still in the ears, and the salary of 9,000 per month makes people wonder: "The salary of doctors and postdocs can also be so low?" ”
Zheng Shuang's 140 million, Wei Ya's 1.314 billion entertainment gossip has not yet withdrawn the hot search, and the number of millions of monthly salaries also makes netizens fry, "My ancestors did not earn so much from the monkey period. ”
Human genes are born with the pursuit of fairness, and giving and receiving must be equal to be satisfied.
Even so, from the perspective of self-interest, it seems that Yin Xi's choice does not need to be criticized by the wind or praised, but is only an optimal choice for personal career.
Fourth, from the perspective of the great righteousness of the family and the country.
Far from it, Yang Zhenning did not return to China that year, and he was also scolded by thousands of people.
After returning to China in his twilight years, he not only personally donated 6 million yuan to Tsinghua University for the introduction of talents, but also regarded himself as a living signboard, walking IP, pulling money and pulling people, paying and contributing.
In 1997, he founded the Center for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, assisted in the construction of dozens of laboratories free of charge, and published nearly 30 SCI papers, all of which were signed by Tsinghua University, directly raising the level of Tsinghua's three physics fields to world-class.
Yang Zhenning
But until now, the online insults against Yang Zhenning have not stopped.
The reason was none of him, because in that special period of that year, Qian Xuesen, who was equally famous for his ability, chose to venture back to China, and was ordered to be in danger, for national defense, to be exhausted by radiation, bowed down and died.
Compared with Qian Xuesen, Yang Zhenning is still alive, and he is still living very moist.
This alone, it seems, deserves to be scolded.
But Du Fu said that "articles have been written through the ages, and we know what we have gained and lost."
We admire Qian Xuesen like a god, but we can't see that he was also obsessed with qigong and metaphysics in his later years;
We slander Yang Zhenning like a god, digging up fierce materials to expose his private life and character, but we can't see his running and paying in his later years;
Back to the present, before the Peking University Wei Dongyi refused to offer from Harvard, and after the same genius teenager Cao Yuan gave up the US green card.
These capable people who achieve both in personal pursuit and patriotism are admirable and touching, but it seems that we are too easy to fall into collective paranoia because of a "personal choice".
Wei Dongyi and Cao Yuan
Those who return to China are good people and patriotic; those who do not return to China are traitors, that is, they are unpatriotic.
This kind of moral kidnapping of the personal choices of excellent talents will only make scientists' hearts more worried, and it seems that their choices are more correct.
Yes, if you think in a different position, one is to welcome your free embrace at any time, and the other is the stubborn thinking that you do not come back and wait to be scolded.
People have seven passions and six desires, and Yin Xi also has children's love.
Don't make scientists gods first, and treat scientists as human beings first, which is the original intention that we ordinary people should uphold.
Treat him as a man, his choice, you can understand.
And with understanding, there can be broader acceptance.