Guidance Plan

The streets of London were under a gray sky, filled with horse-drawn carriages and automobiles. Pedestrians hurried along, and the whole city thrummed with life.

The glory of the empire on which the sun never set still shone, and London remained the center of the world.

London's population exceeded two million. In this era, it was an absolute super-metropolis.

Li Qiwei slowed his steps and looked around, feeling as if he had stepped into a black-and-white photograph.

He admired the scenery as he walked toward the train station.

He planned to take a train to Cambridgeshire and return to where he was staying.

Just then, a voice suddenly called out to him.

"Hello, Bruce Li. Could I ask you to stop for a moment?"

Li Qiwei turned around and sized up the person who had approached him.

He wasn't tall, but his eyes were extraordinarily bright and unfathomably deep, as if they held the stars and the universe.

He seemed no ordinary man!

So, out of politeness, Li Qiwei replied:

"Hello. May I ask who you are?"

The other man said, "My name is Albert Einstein."

When Li Qiwei heard his name, the only thing he could think was, "Holy shit."

What was going on?

Had Einstein also come to attend this conference?

Or had history been knocked off course by the Butterfly Effect caused by his arrival in this world?

The man standing before him was none other than the world-famous Einstein, the God of Love!

If physicists were ranked, they could roughly be divided into the following categories:

T1, meaning "gods of physics." There were only three: Newton, Einstein, and Maxwell.

T2, meaning "genius physicists." Very few people belonged to this rank. Representative figures included Planck, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, and de Broglie.

T3, meaning "outstanding physicists." There were relatively few. Representative figures included Lorentz, Rutherford, Pauli, Kelvin, and Marie Curie.

T4, meaning "famous physicists." There were more of them. Representative figures included Bragg, Compton, and Debye.

T5 included all kinds of physics researchers, such as academicians, professors, lecturers, and doctoral students. This was by far the largest group.

It was worth knowing that even those in the second-lowest rank, T4, had basically all won a Nobel Prize.

From this, one could understand just how breathtaking it was for a science and engineering student to meet the living Einstein.

It had nothing to do with race. It was humanity's profound tribute to wisdom and the universe.

Although Einstein was still unknown at the moment, just a young man of twenty-one,

he would not graduate from ETH Zurich in Switzerland until August of this year.

But five years later—in 1905—he would publish his astonishing Theory of Relativity.

With his idol standing before him, Li Qiwei grew visibly excited. He grabbed Einstein's hand and said eagerly:

"Hello! Hello! Just call me Bruce. May I ask what you wanted to talk to me about?"

Einstein froze for a moment, then discreetly pulled his hand away. Looking a little embarrassed, he said:

"Bruce, what you said at the conference just now left a profound impression on me."

"I'd like to ask you: do you have any concrete ideas about the future of physics? What makes you say that physics has only just begun?"

When he had finished, Einstein gazed at Li Qiwei expectantly, hoping for a clear answer.

There were no pleasantries or beating around the bush. He had come straight out with his thirst for knowledge.

He prayed that Li Qiwei wasn't just trying to draw attention to himself, and that he truly had profound insight into physics.

Einstein loved physics too much for that. From childhood, he had been bound to light by an unbreakable connection, and he had once sworn to uncover the mysteries of light and spacetime.

But his classmates couldn't keep up with his thinking, and the professors at his school had nothing to teach him.

It seemed Lord Kelvin really was right: physics had already been perfected, and those who came after could only do the work of bricklayers.

That left Einstein deeply dissatisfied!

Yet his intuition told him there were more ultimate laws in this world, and that truth still lay hidden in the mist.

And now, this mysterious young man from the East seemed to offer him a glimmer of hope.

Looking into Einstein's clear, yearning eyes, Li Qiwei suddenly felt moved—and a little guilty.

He was moved because Einstein showed him the way the greatest minds of this era pursued the truth.

He felt guilty because he had been planning to return to Cambridge and start plagiarizing the Theory of Relativity.

But now, Li Qiwei had changed his mind.

He was fortunate enough to have traveled back to this era, and he didn't want to be merely a plagiarist, claiming someone else's theory as his own.

Li Qiwei knew his own limits. In terms of the sheer breadth of his knowledge, he could crush everyone in this era.

But when it came to genuine creative talent, he couldn't hold a candle to those genius luminaries.

So he would become a guide!

He would guide the stars of humanity, helping them avoid detours as they continued to scale the highest peaks of science and explore the mysteries of the universe.

He would even bring certain theories into the world ahead of time, completely changing and accelerating the course of history!

At the same time, he would guide the future of science in Huaxia!

Having traveled to this world, Li Qiwei had no interest in taking part in dynastic struggles. He didn't care who came out on top.

All he wanted was for Huaxia to stand at the pinnacle of science.

He alone knew the terrifying power science would unleash over the next few decades.

That forbidden weapon would completely change the balance of power in the world.

Whoever gained the upper hand first would be able to make their civilization stand proudly on its own.

And it wasn't just physics. There were also the life sciences, astronomy, and chemistry.

Countless fields held boundless possibilities.

Once he had thought this through, Li Qiwei felt his mind grow utterly clear.

So he smiled at Einstein and said:

"I don't believe Newtonian mechanics can govern the entire world. At the very least, it doesn't apply to atoms or anything within them."

Einstein was even more impressed. Research papers on atomic structure had only just begun to appear, yet the other man had already thought so deeply about it.

Before he could give it much more thought, Li Qiwei continued:

"Also, the nature of light hasn't been fully explained. So physics is nowhere near complete."

That struck exactly the right chord with Einstein.

At last, he had met someone on the same wavelength. His youthful face couldn't hide his excitement.

He was so enthusiastic that even Li Qiwei felt embarrassed.

Einstein couldn't hold back any longer and hurriedly asked, "Bruce, what do you think the nature of light is?"

Li Qiwei didn't answer right away. Instead, he fell silent for a moment.

In the end, he decided he couldn't reveal too much just yet.

So he smiled and said:

"Einstein, I still have to get to Cambridge, and I don't think I can explain my ideas in just a few words."

"How about this? Give me your address, and I'll write to you and explain my thoughts in detail."

Einstein was delighted. "That would be wonderful!"

The two exchanged addresses, then parted ways.

Li Qiwei watched Einstein's back slowly disappear, smiled faintly, and then set off for Cambridge.