Great Country Academician

In early May, after CERN passed the policy of exchanging technology for seats in China's collider, it quickly arranged a team composed of government representatives and scientific research representatives to rush to China to discuss related matters.

The reason why CERN is so enthusiastic is that, on the one hand, the member states of CERN hope to take this opportunity to come here to discuss other aspects of cooperation with China.

On the other hand, there are the pure physicists at CERN.

To be honest, when these theoretical physicists heard that CERN would temporarily shut down the LHC and suspend the LHC upgrade plan, these theoretical physicists almost rioted.

After all, for theoretical physics, the Large Strong Particle Collider is the lifeblood.

In the field of theoretical physics, more than 50% of the world's scientific research results are almost all produced by collider.

Stopping the operation of the collider and canceling the upgrade plan will undoubtedly plunge the future of theoretical physics into darkness.

But just when these theoretical physicists were about to go on a rampage, a piece of news quickly calmed them down.

China will start the construction of a large strong particle collider with a collision energy level of 100 Tev or even 1,000 Tev. The main person in charge is Nobel Prize winner Professor Xu Chuan.

CERN is actively discussing relevant cooperation matters with China, and hopes to cooperate more closely with China in the field of high-energy physics in the future.

This news immediately made many theoretical physicists excited.

A hadron collider with an energy level of 100 Tev, or even a 1000 Tev energy level, will undoubtedly be able to observe more things that have never been discovered before.

For the physics community, this means new life and a new world.

As for those conjectures that had no conditions to be verified before, this behemoth will also create possibilities for the physics community to realize them.

In this case, theoretical physicists naturally chose to be more proactive in promoting related work.

As the general manager of China's Large Strong Particle Collider project, Xu Chuan naturally needs to attend this series of meetings.

Overall, the negotiations went quite smoothly.

The relevant exchange of interests has been in contact and discussion with the government before. This meeting is just to complete the final details and sign the relevant contracts.

In the Beihai Hotel, in the room where Xu Chuan always stayed, the door rang loudly.

Xu Chuan put down the documents in his hands, stood up, walked over and opened the door.

Standing at the door were his mentor Edward Witten and Nobel Prize winner in physics Professor Frank Wilczek.

These two people were the first batch of physicists to come over, and they also participated in related exchange meetings and discussions.

"Instructor, Professor Frank, welcome." Seeing the two of them, Xu Chuan put a smile on his face and said hello. .

"Long time no see, Xu."

Professor Wilzek ​​smiled and hugged Xu Chuan, and then said: The last time we met was probably at the NS equation report meeting. In the blink of an eye, I didn’t expect that you had even achieved controllable nuclear fusion. "

Xu Chuan smiled and said modestly: "That is not my own contribution. I just contributed my own abilities."

"Come on, let's talk first."

Welcoming the two people into the room with a smile, Xu Chuan made two cups of tea, handed them to them, and then started chatting.

"How's it going at CERN?" Xu Chuan asked with a smile after blowing on the tea.

Witten said with a smile: "A few days ago, the CERN board of directors has passed the decision to exchange technology for seats on the Chinese collider. After the contract is signed, the engineering team, the designers of the LHCB and the Alice detector and other teams will It’s time to set off and come over.”

"We came a little earlier than them. On the one hand, we came to discuss cooperation. On the other hand, many people couldn't wait to come after hearing the news."

Xu Chuan: "Welcome, we hope that more physicists can participate to jointly promote the development of physics."

On the side, Professor Wilzek ​​asked with a smile: "I heard that you are planning to build a Large Hadron Collider with an energy level above 100 Tev this time?"

Xu Chuan smiled and nodded, saying: "The 100Tev energy level is just the lowest energy level in the plan. It would be better if it could reach 1000Tev."

Hearing this, Wilzek ​​asked in surprise: "1000 Tev? How is this possible? If it is this energy level, are you going to build the circumference of the collider to more than 200 kilometers?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "If necessary, this is not impossible."

"Of course, the actual energy level still needs to be determined through specific consultations and discussions. At present, we have started the site selection work. As long as the engineers and designers team from CERN comes over, the relevant work can be officially started. "

Wilzek ​​couldn't help but ask: "Do you know how much it will cost to have such a long collider?"

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said, "Is 100 billion RMB enough?"

Upon hearing this number, Wilzek ​​was stunned for a moment.

Even though he was a Nobel Prize winner, he was stunned.

Calculated based on the recent exchange rate, 100 billion RMB is almost 20 billion meters of gold.

In fact, as the influence of the oil-meter dollar system decreases, the impact of the RMB is far higher than the exchange rate indicates, and it can buy far more things than before.

"You win! 100 billion, which is enough to build two LHCs. Is your country really willing to spend so much money to build a collider?"

After being stunned for a while, Wilzek ​​couldn't help but swallowed and asked.

The LHC hadron collider cost tens of billions of dollars to build, which made CERN member states noisy and arguing. No one wanted to invest more money in it.

It is unimaginable that China alone can support such a huge project.

Xu Chuan smiled calmly, took a sip from the tea cup, and continued: "If necessary, this number can be increased to 150 billion, 200 billion, or even higher."

On the opposite side, Witten interjected: "Frank, you should come here more often. If you look at the high-rise buildings outside, you will know how developed their economy is."

"If I remember correctly, China's economic aggregate exceeded 18 trillion yuan last year, second only to the United States."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Teacher, we are only a developing country, and we still have a long way to go."

Hearing this, Witten glanced at him and said nothing.

On the opposite side, Frank Wilzek ​​was stunned again and couldn't help but stare at Xu Chuan again and again.

A developing country with a total GDP of more than 18 trillion meters, a country that has successfully realized "controllable nuclear fusion technology", and a country that can spend 100 billion or even 200 billion to independently complete the construction of a large strong particle collider?

Isn’t this a bit outrageous?