Great Country Academician

After preliminarily finalizing a set from different plans, Peng Hongxi and Gao Hongming left for the time being to make preparations.

As for Xu Chuan, he turned on his computer and clicked on his mailbox.

Tapping his fingers lightly on the keyboard, he wrote an email and sent it.

The recipient is Prof. Tillmann Lunt from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.

Professor Tillman Lunt is a physicist from Germany. He is currently the director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. The two met at CERN and exchanged some academic views and contact information.

Through him, it should be possible to contact the Planck Institute of Plasma Physics to complete the purchase negotiation of the old ASDEX device.

Of the four controllable fusion reactors he is planning to buy, he favors the old ASDEX facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Alcatel C-Mod compact fusion reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. indivual.

The ASDEX device is very complete, and he is relatively familiar with the Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, knowing each other's situation, and can negotiate conditions.

As for the Alcatel C-Mod compact fusion reactor, because of economic and budgetary pressures, the US Energy Department decided to stop its operation.

Since 2012, C-Mod has been discontinued for seven years. In addition, the U.S. economy is now going downhill, and the plan and arrangement to restart it can be said to be in the foreseeable future.

So there is hope that it can be bought, but in this regard, the help of the state is needed.

As for which one to choose specifically, it depends on which one can be negotiated and is more suitable.

And if neither the ASDEX device nor the C-Mod device can be negotiated, he will consider the other two.

Professor Tillman Lunt replied much faster than Xu Chuan expected.

In the afternoon, Xu Chuan received an email notification. Professor Tillman Lent replied to the email expressing his curiosity and asking him why he purchased the ASDEX device.

Of course, Professor Tillman Lunt is also very interested in high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials. If possible, he would like to have a video call with them.

After receiving the email, Xu Chuan quickly sent him an email back and made an appointment for a video call.

Today, Professor Tillman Lunt is interested in high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, so there is talk about buying old ASDEX devices.

After making an appointment for a video call, Xu Chuan returned to the laboratory. He was just about to enter the laboratory to speed up the optimization progress of the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material, when CERN called him.

It was Professor David Gross, chairman of CERN's board of directors, who called him.

"Xu, long time no see. Congratulations on being elected as an academician of the two academies."

Gross smiled and congratulated him. He is actually an academician of Huaguo, and was elected as a foreign academician of Huaguo Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Of course, foreign academicians are more of a title and lifelong honor. The biggest difference from local academicians is that they cannot mobilize the huge domestic resources like local academicians.

However, it is precisely because of the title of foreign academician that Gross knows how much energy he has after being elected as an academician in China and how huge resources he can mobilize.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Thank you. How is CERN recently?"

Gross sighed and shook his head, and said, "It's not very good. We haven't made any progress in the exploration of dark matter and dark energy. What you said was right. With the current performance of LHC, we want to find dark matter and dark energy." Energy is probably an impossible thing."

After a pause, he continued: "I heard from Witten that you recently developed a new type of high-temperature superconducting material? Do you want to make a deal with CERN?"

Gross wasted no time and asked straight to the point.

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "That's right, high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material, think about it?"

Gross: "Witten has shown me the superconducting parameters and data related to this material. Judging from the data, it is undeniable that it is indeed excellent."

"But the upgrade of the LHC is not a trivial matter. Although the superconductivity of the critical magnetic field of 20T is indeed very attractive, the council may prefer more stable materials. Your research and development time is too short."

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Short time does not mean anything. Excellent materials can further improve the performance of LHC. I believe the CERN Council will consider it."

Hearing this, Gross nodded and did not deny it: "It is true that excellent materials are more attractive, but the LHC can be said to carry the mission of most of the theoretical physics world. This upgrade is even more related to the future research on dark matter and The exploration of dark energy, so even if I personally prefer the better materials in your hands, it may not necessarily pass the council's discussion."

Xu Chuan frowned slightly, and said: "Compared with the superconducting material provided by Sakura Country, the performance of the copper-carbon-silver composite material in my hand is obviously better. Can this not convince the council?"

Gross sighed and said, "If your material can be developed about half a year in advance, then it probably won't be a problem."

"The problem now is that the superconducting material in your hands has appeared for too short a time, and the new material has not been verified, which is very embarrassing. The BI material in Sakura Country has appeared for nearly a year, and there are currently Many manufacturers have used this material."

"So the council should be more inclined to stable materials."

"What's more, the materials in your hands currently only exist in the laboratory and have not yet been mass-produced."

"It is also quite a long time from laboratory to mass production. CERN cannot bet on this. After all, CERN is not mine. Although the supervisors of member states do not manage things on a daily basis, our funds come from them. .”

"If the supervisors strongly object, the council will also consider their views."

"Of course, I will try my best to fight for it on the council."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Understood. This is normal. For a large collider like the LHC, it is natural to consider stability when upgrading."

After a pause, he continued: "However, I think that if we want to search for traces of dark matter and dark energy, it may not be enough just to upgrade the collision energy level."

Hearing this, David Gross raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you think should be done?"

Although it is a bit suspected that this statement is made to cut off the order of superconducting materials, but when it comes to the traces of dark matter and dark energy, he has to pay attention to it.

After all, in the entire high-energy physics world, if you want to say that the research on inert neutrinos, dark matter and dark energy is the deepest, the young man on the other side of the phone said that no one would dare to say number one.

Inert neutrinos and related theoretical data are all discovered and produced by him. In the field of connection between conventional matter and dark matter, his opinions and statements, let alone CERN, must be seriously considered by the entire physics community.

Coupled with his research in mathematical physics and his ability to use mathematical methods to explore physical particles, in the field of high-energy physics today, his ability is not only ranked first, but at least in the top three.

In the second half of last year, he and Wei Teng and others personally went to Huaguo to invite him to participate in the follow-up exploration work of CERN, isn't it because of his outstanding ability?

Xu Chuan: "Compared with the collision energy level, I think the optimization of the detector may be more appropriate."

"Blindly increasing the collision energy level is not the solution to the problem, because sometimes, it may not be that the collision energy level is not enough, but our observation methods are relatively backward, so even if it appears, we cannot see it." .”

Gross thought for a while, and said, "If that's the case, then in which direction do you think our detectors should be upgraded?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "This is not within the scope of free consultation."

"In fact, compared to upgrading CERN, I think building a large-scale strong particle collider in Huaguo may be more in line with my goal."

"Before, I communicated with the national government. Huaguo did have the idea of ​​​​building a large-scale strong particle collider, especially after the discovery of inertial neutrinos. The high-level officials approached me and asked if there was a collider. necessary."

"It's just that I'm currently busy with some other projects, and there are not many physicists in China, so the plan to build a collider has been postponed."

"If our country builds a large-scale strong particle collider, I believe that with Huaguo's infrastructure capabilities, the construction speed will be faster than upgrading the LHC, and with me, I believe that the discovery of dark matter and dark energy will be in front of CERN .”

On the other end of the phone, David Gross was silent for a moment.

To be honest, this statement is indeed true.

With Huaguo's capabilities, if it is decided to build a large and powerful collider now, if it goes all out, it may complete the upgrade of LHC one step ahead of CERN.

As for the person on the phone, I'm afraid he wanted to leave the glory of discovering dark matter and dark energy in China from the very beginning.

The fact that CERN can so smoothly seek funds from various countries to upgrade is because the discovery and improvement of the Higgs particle provides value on the one hand, and the discovery of inert neutrinos provides prospects on the other hand.

Dark matter and dark energy, this is a completely new goal, and it is a direction beyond the standard model.

Without the emergence of this direction, CERN may not be able to obtain upgrade funds so smoothly.

At present, there is only one large-scale strong particle collider, the LHC, in the whole world, and countries have no choice but to concentrate their funds in the high-energy field on this one.

But if there is news about the construction of a large-scale strong particle collider in Huaguo, it will definitely be a blow to CERN, and it may be even more difficult to ask for funds in the future.

After thinking for a while, David Gross said: "If CERN purchases the high-temperature superconducting material in your hand, will you provide the direction and technology to upgrade the detector?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It depends on how much CERN will purchase."

"Actually, for CERN, it is definitely not a loss-making business. Believe me, the performance of the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material will satisfy you."

"And in terms of its performance and stability, I can guarantee that these can be written into the contract at that time. If there are some problems caused by the superconducting material itself, I can be responsible or even compensate for it."

Gross was silent for a while, and said: "I will bring up related matters at the next council meeting."

It has to be said that this person's words really changed his mind. Originally, he wanted to politely decline the call this time.

As he said in the exchange, from a practical point of view, the CERN council is more inclined to the already stable BI high-temperature superconducting materials for the upgrade of the LHC large-scale strong particle collider. Even if its superconducting performance is not as good as that of copper-carbon-silver composite materials.

But for this kind of large-scale project, the most important thing is to be able to achieve stable completion and reach the forecasted plan.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Then please trouble Mr. Gross."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan looked at the black screen of the phone and smiled.

To be honest, he was actually a little bit black-hearted this time around.

Because he is very clear about the upgrade experience of CERN. In later generations, the first upgrade of LHC failed to allow him to find traces of dark matter and dark energy in his previous life. The reason is not that the collision energy level is not enough, but the performance of the detector is not enough. .

Later, the LHC re-upgraded and optimized the detectors, and adopted new technologies, and only then did it find traces and data of the existence of dark matter and dark energy.

And he is very clear about the upgrade route and technology of LHC detectors.

In other words, he did not use his own technology to do the transaction, but to use CERN's own technology in later generations to do the transaction.

Of course, for CERN, this is actually not a loss.

On the one hand, it is time. He can bring the optimized detector plan several years in advance. For science, it is necessary to race against time.

Years in advance, it is possible to discover more results.

On the other hand, the performance of the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material in his hands is indeed better than that of the Bi superconducting material in the small island country.

Of course, at the Large Intense Particle Collider, he left something else.

After all, after he completes the controllable nuclear fusion project, the large-scale strong particle collider project will also start. He needs to retain some key technologies to make the domestic collider surpass CERN's LHC in performance.

Only in this way can many physicists from all over the world be attracted to work for him and Huaguo.

As for the discovery of dark matter and dark energy, he did have the idea of ​​staying in China at the beginning.

But now he has encountered some difficulties in the controllable nuclear fusion project, and he needs more things to ensure that he can trade the reactor from the Germanic country or the American country.

Among them, the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material is the key. He needs to ensure the performance and status of the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material in order to successfully complete the purchase.

The purchase of CERN is undoubtedly the guarantee of quality.

As for the discovery of dark matter and dark energy, it doesn't matter if it is given to CERN.

In the follow-up, he has more important graviton theory.

Compared with dark matter and dark energy, if gravitons are discovered, this is what will really change the development of mankind and allow mankind to step from planetary civilization to space civilization.

PS: Today's blind date probably failed again. Uuuuuuu┭┮﹏┭┮, to be honest, I quite like the woman, at least the appearance is the type I like, but unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be too interested in me.

Is there a love boss, can you give me some advice?