I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

So from a certain point of view, it is no problem that Frank Young has always been opposed. When he was working at Aramco, he witnessed how several large accelerators created huge financial burdens, so they would rather support LHC. Anyway, in theory The results are indeed shared by all mankind.

However, perhaps it was the success in the domestic aerospace industry that gave him confidence. Frank Yang changed his stance and stood with Wu Yunfeng to support the construction of the accelerator. His influence cannot be underestimated. Many leaders who make decisions fall into this trap. .

Lin Ju also became popular because he claimed that he would spend 10 billion yuan to support the construction of TEPA. In the following time, many domestic companies also followed suit and announced that they would make financial donations. Currently, the claimed amount according to media statistics is close to 20 billion yuan.

Local scientific research institutes and universities across the country initially took a wait-and-see attitude. After all, this was not the first time such a proposal had been made. However, when the momentum became louder and no clear opposition was expressed from above, they also joined in.

Important figures from universities continued to express their support for the construction of TEPA through the media and began to promote the benefits of accelerators. At this time, the Institute of High Energy Physics received instructions and announced that it would hold an expanded discussion meeting for the entire scientific and academic community on September 27. , local scientific research institutes also immediately sent people to go.

Hawking, Penrose and others, who originally had the idea of ​​​​trying it out, saw that TEPA was really becoming a reality, and began to use their influence to influence people from all over the world.

When the Institute of High Energy announced the conference on the 23rd, almost most scholars and scientists from prestigious universities and research institutes around the world responded, applied for qualifications to participate in the conference through the channels announced by the Institute, and prepared for their trip to China.

Although these are high-level talents in cutting-edge disciplines, most of them encountered almost no obstacles when traveling to China.

On the one hand, scientists who need accelerators to break through the existing theoretical framework are not sensitive to their own research fields and are far less important than applied scientists. On the other hand, other countries have expressed strong support for the TEPA plan, and all kinds of praise can be said. appeared in the report.

Everyone knows that giant accelerators not only cost a lot of money, but also produce almost no scientific research value that can be used today. The theoretical results are shared globally anyway. What reason is there to block the implementation of TEPA? When others build this thing, the bigger the better.

Less than half of TEPA's supporters are sincere, and more than half have other motives, but there is no doubt that TEPA has gained widespread support around the world.

The entire domestic scientific community is also extremely excited, because there are countless foreign scientists who have made it clear that they will participate in the conference, including many Nobel Prize scholars. It is conceivable that the value of the domestic scientific community will increase to an unprecedented level in the next few days. Holding an exchange meeting can make a lot of money.

Ye Changsi and Cheng Nankai, who were in the capital, spent all day communicating with people from the Institute of High Energy and spent the rest of their time greeting famous scholars and scientists who arrived.

"Michael Kosterlitz."

"Hello Hello……"

Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year together with the other two winners. The reason for the award was "theoretical discovery of topological phase transitions and topological phase matter." Michael is the youngest Ami among them and is in his prime. .

Although most people cannot understand their research field, it can generally be classified as condensed matter physics, which is also a subject that highly relies on microscopic cognition.

When the Institute of High Energy planned to promote CEPC and SQCC, the outside world was not very optimistic. They believed that these two projects would not be able to break through the standard model after they were put into production. This was also a big reason for Frank Yang's refutation.

TEPA is different. With an energy level of 300 trillion electron volts, it is theoretically more than enough to break existing barriers, so it can easily gain support from the scientific research community around the world.

"Wu, I know you. If TEPA is really established, I will do everything possible to help you and even work here. It is an amazing plan."

Wu Yunfeng smiled and shook hands with him. This was the twelfth Nobel Prize winner he had received in the past three days, and there were more on the way.

After seeing Michael off, he thought for a while and was surprised to realize that the total number of domestic and foreign researchers attending the conference had exceeded 2,000, and they were all elites of various kinds. It was an unprecedented event in the physics world.

But the most gratifying thing is the attitude of the higher-ups. When the maximum budget of 170 billion yuan was reported, they did not get angry and fight back, but remained silent.

And a day later, the Chinese Academy of Sciences received a request to summarize the current weaknesses in the domestic basic science field and the gap with the world's advanced level, and write a report on the development prospects of several large-scale scientific projects in the country.

This at least shows that the above are carefully considering the feasibility and starting preparations immediately.

At the same time, he also unexpectedly discovered that Ye Changsi, who came to the Institute of High Energy in the name of academic exchange, was unexpectedly familiar with the place, and soon almost integrated into the atmosphere of the Institute. There are many unique insights in the academic field, and even many of the Institute of High Energy these days They can provide many useful opinions on everything.

He is obviously a few years younger than himself, but he has the maturity and stability of the previous generation.

"What's wrong?"

Ye Changsi noticed his look and asked.

"It's nothing, I just think it's a pity that you didn't enter the Institute of High Energy, Lao Ye. At least you are an academician."

Ye Changsi smiled and did not answer, but instead said:

"...Have you finished reading the weak force cybernetics I gave you yesterday? Don't show it to others. I'm just guessing. If it spreads, it will make people laugh."

"Oh! I saw your weak force field hypothesis."

Wu Yunfeng immediately entered an academic state and became excited:

"It's very clever. If it can really be realized, the application prospects are too broad. Maybe the weak force inert material you mentioned is really feasible. This kind of device may also be of great use in nuclear research and is also used in electron collider. worthy of...

But it is a pity that there is no theoretical support. Although it is said that we have unified the three forces, there is too little real understanding, and there is no way to use theoretical deductions. Maybe we can find the rules when TEPA is completed ten years later. "

Ye Changsi nodded constantly and looked at Wu Yunfeng up and down. The latter's thinking ability was very good and he shouldn't waste time waiting. He decided to try to develop it.

"Old Wu, I actually have some achievements in this area. Didn't Cheng Nankai engage in nuclear research... I accidentally made some discoveries at that time, which can almost solve the problem you mentioned."

Wu Yunfeng suddenly became interested, but Ye Changsi changed the subject:

"But these results belong to the company, I can't..."

"Uh, it's okay, I understand."

"No, I mean I can't tell you that."

Ye Changsi crossed his fingers and did not reveal any emotional fluctuations:

"I hope you can become an external research consultant for our company. You don't have to come to work. It's just more convenient for us to have some academic exchanges. Of course, it will definitely not conflict with the principle of confidentiality. You can come as long as you come, and you can also receive a stipend." , not much but not bad.”

Wu Yunfeng did not doubt that he was there, he lowered his head and thought for a moment:

"Isn't this not good? Besides, my research is too general. I am using money to support idle people..."

"No, no, no, actually I just want to ask you to put your name on it. By the way, it will be more convenient for us to communicate with each other. The superiors will agree."

Ye Changsi directly pulled out the contract template on his tablet. There were very few terms on it, and it was indeed a very liberal external employment agreement.

"Oh well."