Remarks Column

Su Tang, a young researcher, sensed the "heaviness" that instruments could not capture in an abandoned quarry, thereby uncovering the cognitive blind spots obscured by standardized forms. She and her senior brother Lin Yan used their bodies as measuring tools to deduce the truth among file creases, censorship and questioning, and their mentor's posthumous manuscripts. This is not only an exploration of scientific phenomena such as geological infrasound waves, but also a difficult confirmation of "human beings as the source of error" in the knowledge production mechanism. Two generations of researchers wrote painful honesty in the notes column, allowing the systematically forgotten truth to breathe again. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.