A Physics Student's Cheat-Fueled Life in the Qin Dynasty
Zhang Kexue is a twenty-two-year-old physics graduate student.
A quantum experiment goes disastrously wrong, and he is hurled straight into Xianyang in 221 BC.
From the start, all he has is a drafty, ramshackle hut. The only thing keeping him going is the physics knowledge in his head.
You ask how I'm going to survive in the Qin dynasty?
Sorry, Archimedes is my founding master, Newton is my esteemed predecessor, and Einstein is my lifelong idol.
In the Qin dynasty, everything I do is earth-shattering:
I improve the Qin crossbow, increasing its range by a full thirty percent!
I invent the telescope. The First Emperor peers through it at the distant horizon and is left utterly dumbfounded!
I improve papermaking. The moment bamboo paper appears, the Confucian scholars all kneel before me!
I make clear glass, and Xianyang's nobles rush to throw money at me to buy it!
I oversee the construction of Dujiangyan, and the people along the river worship me as a living immortal!
You ask about the First Emperor?
The ruler who conquered the six states clasps my hand and exclaims, “Mr. Zhang, the Qin dynasty simply can't do without you!”
You ask about Fusu?
The gentle young prince calls me Master at every turn, saying I'm the cleverest person he's ever known.
You ask about my wife?
She was a celebrated female physician in the army, cool on the outside but warm within. It took her three full street lengths of chasing me before she finally agreed to marry me.
This is the cheat-fueled story of a physics graduate student ruling the roost in the Qin dynasty.
Comedy, swagger, face-slapping, and sheer wish fulfillment: this story has it all!
