Great Country Academician

For Xu Chuan, if there is any need for scientific research, it is funding.

At least for what he is currently researching, he can basically find a solution if he provides money.

Although the manufacturing of a space shuttle is difficult and requires high technical requirements, it is not impossible to speed up the pace of construction if sufficient funds are provided.

If sufficient funds are available, it is not impossible to complete the production of the space shuttle one or two months in advance.

After all, the space shuttle is not a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, and the world has no experience in manufacturing one.

With the precedents of Hongsu and the United States, even if they have never built a space shuttle, they can build it as quickly as possible.

After all, the overall design of the space shuttle has been constructed in Project 863.

In the crowd, Yang Han from the Air Force Equipment Department was not too surprised when he heard Xu Chuan say "make money".

After all, everyone is short of funds.

Especially aerospace-related research is a money-burning field.

This time, the Air Force Equipment Department is also ready to make money, ahem, investment.

Although their funds are also tight, it would be best if they can purchase finished products. But when it comes to investing in scientific research, if you are confident enough, investing money in research and development first and purchasing later are two completely different concepts.

If you invest in advance now, you can talk about discounts on the price of equipment such as aerospace engines and miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactors in the future, right?

External price and internal price are not on the same level.

For this kind of technology that is destined to change the way and pattern of future wars, investing early can make profits early.

And according to what he learned from the Industrial Information Center, Xinghai Research Institute still lacks funds for aerospace projects.

But before that, he still had to look at the physical objects and related data to ensure that he would not be 'cheated' out of funds.

After all, small fusion reactors and electric propulsion systems of up to 500 kilonewtons, even with the data provided by industry and information agencies, are just a dream.

This kind of technology can be said to be a black technology. He did not dare to invest funds in others without actually seeing the real thing and before experts from the Air Force Equipment Department determined the real situation.

After all, the funds of the Air Force Equipment Department did not come from strong winds, and they were not enough for their own use.

Xu Chuan did not refuse Yang Han's request and took a group of people from the Air Force Equipment Department to the Aerospace Research Institute and the Energy Research Institute.

The aerospace engine and small fusion reactor have been completed. This is his greatest confidence.

No matter what others think or say, he has already achieved results.

Along with the observation and debugging of the physical equipment, the excellent performance and experimental data completely shocked the experts and professors from the Air Force Equipment Department who came to communicate.

All the previous doubts disappeared at this moment, and only the burning light remained in his eyes.

Those data are all true!

Xinghai Research Institute has really developed black technology equipment such as miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology and aerospace engines!

Being stared at with hot and longing eyes, Xu Chuan felt a little embarrassed.

However, the other party looked eager to understand, and he could not refuse. After briefly explaining the technical core of the aerospace engine and small reactor, he handed the person over to Weng Yunzong of the Aerospace Research Institute and asked him to take the other party to the Learn more about aerospace engine-related technologies in the institute.

After arranging the leaders and experts from the Air Force Equipment Department, Xu Chuan said goodbye to this special group of visitors and set off for Star City.

It's mid-December, and the kick-off meeting for the last planned Large Strong Particle Collider project is coming soon. (The previous article was written in mid-November, which was somewhat unreasonable. The previous article has been revised, sorry.)

Although he has been busy with work recently, the Large Hadron Collider project is something he has always been paying attention to.

It even attracts more attention than manned spaceflight.

After all, this not only involves their competition with CERN and the ownership of the world's holy land of physics, but also involves the future of physics.

Whether it is the sterile neutrinos that have been discovered, dark matter and dark energy, or the gravitons that are still hidden deep in Xu Chuan’s mind, each of them is an important achievement that can change the building of physics.

For these things, Xu Chuan does not intend to release them when CERN participates in the competition.

Although theoretical achievements are difficult to transform into practical technologies, there is no doubt that these are the future.

On the other side, Star City.

In the office building of the municipal government, Wu Tianhua flipped through the report documents in his hand.

After carefully reading the relevant information, he raised his head and looked at the director of the Science and Technology Bureau, who was responsible for coordinating the coordination work and cooperating with the Society of Physics to hold the Large Strong Particle Collider seminar, and asked solemnly: "Academician Xu's side? How is the situation? When will he arrive? Has there been any follow-up?"

The director of the Science and Technology Bureau is Xia Hongbo, a middle-aged man in his forties. After hearing the inquiry, he quickly replied: "I have followed up with Director Tai Xuewen. Academician Xu is on the way and will arrive this afternoon. "

Hearing this, Wu Tianhua nodded and then asked: "Regarding the invitations sent out, how many of them, including physicists and physics institutions, responded and would come and participate?"

Hearing this question, Xia Hongbo thought for a while and quickly replied: "The proportion of physicists who have given clear replies to come back to participate is close to 70%. The proportion of physics institutions is slightly lower, less than 10%." Thirty organizations responded to emails and messages saying they would arrange for representatives to participate.”

"This data has been informed to the Physical Society and Director Tai Xuewen, who is in charge of the collider project. Academician Xu has also sent relevant emails, but we have not received a reply from Academician Xu yet."

Although the collider project was launched at Xu Chuan's suggestion, with CERN's remorse and the intervention of the United States, this scientific research project has now taken on a political meaning.

Less than 30% of physics institutions said they would participate, which is the most typical representative of the data.

This means that almost half of the Western countries have refused to arrange representatives to attend this meeting, which is not very friendly to the competitive situation in the field of high energy physics.

However, 70% of physicists clearly responded that they would participate in this meeting. This data can be called good, even excellent.

In particular, among the scholars who clearly responded that they would come to participate in this kick-off meeting and seminar, there are also many top physicists, such as Edward Witten, Li Zhengdao, Feng Kriching, Alan Guth, Calais Michio waits.

These scholars are basically top scholars from the United States or Western countries. In the past, China did not have such a strong appeal to allow them to come to a conference at the same time.

Although a large number of physicists are attracted by strong colliders with energy levels above 100 Tev, and want to apply for part of the collider resources in China to study their own projects.

But among them, Academician Xu's unique personality charm and academic influence played a huge role.

Behind the desk, Wu Tianhua thought for a while and then said: "Leave this matter to the Physical Society and Academician Xu, we don't need to worry about it."

After a pause, he then said with a serious face: "However, we must pay attention to this kick-off meeting. You must cooperate with the Physics Society to do a complete job and ensure that no problems occur."

"If there is a problem, you are the only one I ask!"

As an international scientific research project that he applied to Xu Chuanhe's country to show off his face, he naturally attached great importance to this collider launch meeting and discussion meeting.

From city appearance and municipal administration, to hotels, transportation, security, even roadside advertisements, ground sanitation, etc., everything was planned half a month in advance.

Especially at this point when they are competing with CERN, or competing with those Western countries led by the United States in the field of basic disciplines, they are bound to show the most attractive side of China in front of the world's scientists and physicists.

Not only is this conference itself of profound significance, but also for Shonan Province, the establishment of the Large Strong Particle Collider project in the province is an important policy to promote academic development in the province.

In a province where many 985 universities and world-class universities have built colleges and universities, the inability to retain scientific research talents has always been a pain in Shonan.

However, with the help of the Large Strong Particle Collider project, it is possible for Shonan to build this province in the center of the country into a new strong scientific research province, and realize the development of economy, talent, politics and other aspects driven by science and technology.

The next day, Star City Great Hall.

The first International Large Strong Particle Collider kick-off meeting and seminar was officially held.

Xu Chuan, who deliberately arrived at the venue some time in advance, was waiting for familiar old friends in the lobby on the first floor of the General Assembly Hall.

At the door of the assembly hall, Tillman Lunt, who was wearing a down jacket, handed an invitation letter to the security staff and walked quickly towards Xuchuan after passing the inspection.

"Xu, long time no see."

Quickly walking to Xu Chuan's side, Tillman opened his hands and hugged Xu Chuan warmly, patted his shoulder vigorously, smiled and said in broken Chinese: "If I remember correctly, you have There is a saying that goes, 'I miss you so much if I don't see you for a day.'"

Although he was just a scholar studying plasma physics and didn't know much about high-energy physics, after receiving the invitation from Xu Chuan, he still chose to come over and take a look, just as a tourist.

Anyway, there is not much place to go in the Germanic country. It might as well go to the Chinese country to relax and take a look at the Spiral Stone-7X.

After a polite hug with this familiar old friend, Xu Chuan couldn't help but smile when he heard the other person's poor Chinese and wrong idioms, and said, "Long time no see, Professor Tillman."

The middle-aged and elderly professor in front of him is Tillman Lent of the Planck Institute of Plasma Research. When he was studying controllable nuclear fusion technology, the ASDEX device was purchased from him.

Although the subsequent Spiral Stone-7X has nothing to do with this professor, Spiral Stone-7X is his hard work, and almost all these years of his academic career have been spent on it.

At that time, Helixite-7X was bought by him, and Tillman even went to China to talk to him for a long time. After that, he resigned from his job at the Planck Plasma Institute and returned to his small country villa. Gone for retirement.

Xu Chuan naturally had a plan to invite this person over.

Although Professor Tillman is only an engineer in the field of plasma physics and has not made any achievements in the field of high-energy physics, in the field of superconducting magnets, he is a top expert in the world who can be ranked at least among the top five, or even among the top three. .

He really wanted to pull this person over. After all, one of the main core components of the Large Strong Particle Collider is the superconducting material that accelerates particles.

After chatting for a while, Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Sit inside first. I am one of the hosts of this meeting. I also need to greet other people. I will chat with you after the meeting is over."

Tillman smiled and nodded. As soon as he stood up and went in, Xu Chuan heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.

"I didn't expect a busy man like you to greet others here in person."

A somewhat teasing voice sounded in Xu Chuan's ears. He turned around and was surprised for a moment. Then he smiled and said, "Mr. Qiu, why are you here?"

The person who just teased him was Mr. Qiu Chengtong from Shuimu University. Xu Chuan really didn't expect that this old gentleman would come over.

After all, although his research field includes physics, he is more of a mathematician.

Qiu Chengtong smiled and said: "This is a grand event of physics, how can I lack it? Don't forget that my research fields include general relativity and string theory, and I have also solved the Calabi conjecture and the positive mass conjecture, which is more or less correct. If you understand physics, you can be considered a physicist, right?"

Xu Chuan also laughed. The Calabi conjecture and the positive mass conjecture are indeed linked to physics, and the concept of Calabi-Yau manifold is the cornerstone of string theory. If you insist that this old man is a physicist, it is acceptable. , but it's not that 'authentic', and has a bit of a mathematical physicist feel.

Qiu Chengtong shook his head with a smile and continued: "This time I came here mainly to replace Lao Yang. Originally, the old man wanted to come here in person, but he fell ill some time ago and is still recovering, so there is nothing he can do. Moved."

‘Is Mr. Yang sick? ’

Hearing the news, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment and asked quickly: "How is the situation? Is it serious? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Qiu Chengtong sighed and said: "It's serious if you say it's serious, and it's not serious if you say it's not serious. Some time ago, he ran out for a walk and got a bit cold, but this man is old, and a little bit of cold could almost kill him. Fortunately, he was admitted to the hospital some time ago. It’s been a while, but it’s almost fine now.”

After a pause, he continued: "Before coming here this time, he also told me something and asked me to tell you after I see you."

"That old guy has no time to spare. He is still lying in bed, still worrying."