Chapter 138: Psychology
The more he learned, the more Wang Qi realized Divine Province’s sciences were on a different path than Earth’s.
Even if Dao bro forced the two worlds’ physics development, divergences such as this would still appear.
Mathematics for instance, ever since Spiritual Energy’s Nature Theory’s proposal a thousand years ago, Divine Province cultivators discovered the ingenuity the system theory and number theory had on mental arts. The former offered a comprehensive understanding of the nature of cultivation, analyzing mental arts. While the latter, assisted cultivators in developing a personalized spiritual power essence equation. Divine Province had made more headway in these two mathematical branches than Earth did. Even Wang Qi found studying this part was straining.
On the other side of the spectrum, Divine Province’s progress in probability was painfully slow, an entire century behind. Flipping through Divine Province’s immortal cultivation history, Wang Qi found Sommerfeld’s death to be the turning point of the two worlds’ divergence, to the extent Kolmogorov wasn’t even born, the founder of modern probability theory. Myriad Arts Sect’s Unfettered Chebyshev’s research differed from his Earth’s counterpart—who delved in probability theory and mathematical analysis. The Unfettered hadn’t even touched probabilities, only looking into systems.
Zi Xiaopeng made Wang Qi aware of one other shortcoming in Divine Province’s sciences.
At the foundation of the Heavenly Spirit Range stood the theory of evolution and spiritual theory. Evolution Chart was what earned Heavenly Spirit Range’s right to be among the five best. Yet the Heavenly Spirit Range didn’t exclude humans, conducting anthropological research. Regarding the human evolution aspect of anthropology, many topics were discussed, while the social and cultural aspect hadn’t been broached.
The reason for this was the Divine Province’s lack of social sciences.
The main branches of social sciences were in their infancy, except for microeconomics—Celestial Chess Computation’s derivative—and linguistics—part of cryptography.
Xiang Qi patted the silent Wang Qi’s arm. “What are you thinking?”