Great Country Academician

The flood of applause gradually subsided until Xu Chuan completely left the stage.

After Xu Chuan stepped down, leaders from the industry and information sectors came up next, expressing China’s support and blessings for the Circular Super Particle Collider, a century-old project, and also expressing its welcome to scholars from all over the world. .

Followed closely by those physics institutions from various countries who were invited to attend the kick-off meeting and seminars.

Although many high-energy physics institutions that are closely related to CERN and the United States have refused to come to the conference, facing the entire world, there are still many physics institutions and governments who choose to participate in the conference.

For them, China's circular super particle collider may not be an opportunity.

After all, the experiments that a collider can perform are always limited. According to the scholars at CERN, no matter how advanced their status is, it is useless if there is no equipment for them to conduct experiments.

The situation is different in China. A super particle collider with an energy level of more than 100 Tev. In this era full of competition and conflict, China is bound to open up more resources to attract foreign scholars. .

Although CERN's own technology reserves, especially in the field of detectors, are stronger than those of China, a 100-Tev-level hadron collider can theoretically verify far more than the upgraded LHC.

After all, for equipment like the collider, which explores high-energy physical particles, energy level is life!

If all the quarks can be smashed into pieces, then even if the detector is stretched again, it will usher in a new era!

The opening ceremony came to an end quickly.

The kick-off meeting and seminar of the first Circular Super Particle Collider officially began.

For physics, a new era has also begun with the end of this opening ceremony.

And the other side.

While the launch seminar of the Circular Super Particle Collider was in progress, Professor Gwendolyn Casey, the new chairman of the CERN Council, was sitting in a conference room in the experimental building of the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Europe, drinking. Sipping black tea while watching the corresponding opening ceremony.

In the conference room, a CERN director looked at Professor David Gross who came to the stage to speak with some unexplainable meaning on his face.

As the former chairman of CERN, now he appears on the stage of his competitors and openly supports them. This feeling is a bit too complicated.

"This is a traitor!"

In the conference room, someone didn't know who suddenly said an angry word.

Hearing the voice, Professor Gwendolyn Casey looked over. The speaker was a middle-aged man from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States.

When it decided to support CERN funding and use the LHC upgrade to compete with China in the fields of high-energy physics and particle physics, the United States began to continuously place its own scientists into CERN in order to more conveniently control CERN.

Although it is not a member of CERN, as one of the four major observer countries, coupled with the United States' own strength and investment in CERN, it is not difficult to make such a change.

Gwendolyn glanced at the physics professor, took a sip of black tea elegantly, smiled slightly and replied: "Professor Gross has resigned from CERN. He does not represent CERN. Wherever he wants to go is up to him." Freedom has nothing to do with CERN, so there is nothing to complain about.”

"Can anything be changed just because of Gross's presence?"

As an American, she is inherently superior, especially in the field of basic subjects.

This is an achievement that the United States has led the world in basic disciplines for decades. Even if Professor Xu has completed controllable nuclear fusion technology in this era, in her opinion, nothing can be changed.

After all, the development of basic disciplines is accumulated by generations of scholars.

In this regard, the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, with the most top scholars in the world.

As for the physicists who attended the launch seminar of the Ring Super Particle Collider, it doesn't matter to her. As long as the LHC takes the lead in completing the high-brightness LH-LHC upgrade, they will still come back.

On the contrary, she was even more dissatisfied with the representatives of the European Physical Society who attended the meeting.

That's right, many European countries have arranged for representatives of the physical societies to come over to congratulate the symposium on the launch of the Ring Super Particle Collider.

The reason is that "the Large Strong Particle Collider, a scientific research equipment that is nominally beneficial to the development of physics for all mankind, should be given blessings."

But in her opinion, this reason is too ridiculous.

Hedging your bets is just a matter of hedging your bets, under the sanctimonious slogan.

However, they have no ability to forcefully stop this kind of thing.

After all, the conflict of interests between countries is far from simple.

Especially since this opponent now controls controllable nuclear fusion technology, the situation is too tense, which is not a good thing for the ongoing negotiations.

For Europe, this kind of competition is actually what they are happy to see.

Although CERN was brought into the competition, they were not at the forefront, but the United States.

As for the control of CERN, for the European member states, when China decided to build a large strong particle collision, they had already held a meeting and decided to give up the upgrade of the LHC.

After all, in the current era, controllable nuclear fusion technology is far more important than the large strong particle collider, and it is more worthy of investment.

The country's income and scientific research funding are always limited. Although there are many technologies in the collider that can be transformed into military or civilian technologies, overall, investing in the hadron collider is a loss-making thing.

In addition, research in the field of high-energy physics is made public most of the time. If China built a collider, wouldn't the results be made public?

As for the United States wanting to control CERN, let it control it.

As long as each member state retains the right to use it and can share various technologies in CERN, everything is easy to say.

Anyway, the United States does not dare to exclude them all rashly. After all, although Europe today is not as powerful as China and the United States, in the world structure and confrontation, it is more worthy of the two sides to win over.

Although it does sound like a very shameless approach, isn't it always like this in politics?

On the other side, Star City.

For Xu Chuan, the end of the opening ceremony of the Circular Super Particle Collider launch seminar does not mean that things are over.

On the contrary, for him, the busyness has just begun.

After dealing with those reporters who liked to ask all kinds of random questions, the afternoon meetings and arrangements were placed in front of him again.

As the chief designer of the Ring Super Particle Collider project, although he can usually act as a hands-off shopkeeper and leave some engineering matters to Tai Xuewen and the others, on today's occasion, he can't get away no matter what. .

As expected, except for some free time after the opening speech in the morning, the afternoon schedule was almost full.

From one o'clock to six o'clock in the evening, in addition to meetings and meetings with government representatives from the physics community of various countries, he did not even take a sip of water for five hours.

If it weren't for the purpose of attracting top physicists to China and creating a holy land of physics belonging to China, Xu Chuan would really want to give up his career.

This kind of thing should not be done by a scholar like him. Anyone from the government can do it better than him.

It is a pity that as the face of today's Chinese academic circles, others only want to see him.

He was busy until the evening. When Xu Chuan thought he could get off work, Tai Xuewen came over again with a smile.

"Academician Xu, we have a banquet at seven o'clock in the evening."

Xu Chuan was lying on the sofa, looking at Tai Xuewen with despair, and sighed: "Can I just not go to the dinner party? It's too torturous."

Tai Xuewen laughed and said: "Normally, forget it, but not today. You are the chief designer of the Ring Super Particle Collider project, and those scholars and representatives are all here for you."

"Including Professor Witten, Professor Gross and other top physicists, it's not me they want to see, but you."

Xu Chuan Ge You lay paralyzed on the sofa, looking at the ceiling with a blank expression.

This is a tough matter. He wasn't so tired when he stayed up all night doing academic research before, wasn't he?

After lying for a while, Xu Chuan suddenly remembered something. He sat up and looked at Tai Xuewen across from him, and said, "Director Tai, I have a suggestion about the Circular Super Particle Collider (CRHPC) project."

"Huh? What advice?"

In the lounge, Tai Xuewen, who was closing his eyes to rest, opened his eyes and looked over with some curiosity.

Xu Chuan pondered for a while, organized his speech and then said: "About the sharing of technologies during the construction and use of the hadron collider."

“Unlike the LHC at CERN, which is jointly funded and constructed by multiple countries, CRHPC is a collider built solely by us. Although the use of the collider will be opened up through some funding, technology transactions, etc. in the future, Don’t you think this approach is a bit too narrow?”

Unlike CERN, the CRHPC is a wholly-owned project funded by China and does not involve input from any other country.

However, taking into account the technical needs, attracting physicists and other countries, and the maintenance of equipment in subsequent experiments, they had already made some basic plans before.

For example, if other countries or physics institutions want to join in and apply for the opportunity to use the collider, they can do so through funding applications and technology exchanges.

Especially the latter, through technology exchange in the field of collider, they can get more collision opportunities from them.

After all, in the field of collider, whether it is superconducting high frequency of high-field superconducting magnets, large-scale cryogenic systems, large-scale high-speed collimation, or high-efficiency power sources, ultra-high vacuum, high-precision magnets, etc., they are all needed by China. thing.

Breakthroughs and developments in these cutting-edge technologies can not only be used in colliders, but can also be used in other large scientific installations and civilian fields.

In addition, it is also expected to cultivate a large number of high-tech enterprises that occupy leading international positions in their respective fields and make significant contributions to the long-term stable development of the national economy and national security.

Therefore, technology exchange is far more important than financial support.

Of course, it is certainly worthwhile for other physics institutions to exchange these technologies.

After all, for the theoretical physics community that is severely short of funds, it only needs to pay a small amount of funds or related technologies to meet the needs of the domestic physics community, which is more cost-effective than building it yourself.

Opposite the sofa, Tai Xuewen was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you have any new ideas?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Instead of completing this almost one-time transaction at this kick-off meeting and discussion meeting, how about we keep this 'interaction'?"

Hearing this, Tai Xuewen was stunned again: "Keep it? How to keep it?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Learn to combine the experience of CERN and ITER."

"I remember that ITER has a technology sharing agreement contract. Let's imitate it and build such a 'technology interaction platform' based on the Circular Super Particle Collider (CRHPC) project."

"On this platform, physics institutions in various countries can rely on it for technical exchanges and interactions in the field of physics. As long as they are willing, technology-leading countries can put their own technologies on it for 'trade', and other countries can also use this platform. The platform uses funds to purchase, and everyone works together to promote the development of physics."

"Compared to China's ITER technology sharing agreement, we only provide a communication platform and do not impose mandatory requirements or contractual restrictions on members participating in the CRHPC project.

"Things like using the contract technology sharing agreement in ITER to knock people out will not happen to CRPHC, let alone us."

"In addition, including some academic exchanges and academic visits, as well as physics lectures and the like, our platform can all be carried out."

Xu Chuan simply expressed some of the thoughts in his mind.

Opposite him, Tai Xuewen's eyes flashed with excitement.

Indeed, they cannot be like CERN, where member states can unconditionally share the technology produced by CERN. But they may not be unable to retain this technology contribution agreement.

This is entirely possible thanks to the Circular Super Particle Collider (CRHPC) project.

Huaguo provides a similar platform that is fair and just.

Although there may not be many transactions and activities on this platform in the early stage, as long as they continue to guide it, it may not be impossible to do it.

And even if they can't do it, they won't lose much.

But if it succeeds, in this way, it will be enough to unite China at the center of the physics community.

Even, in the future, this kind of platform with the collider as the core field may be expanded to some other fields.

Some developments and explorations at the forefront of scientific fields are often not feasible relying on the capabilities of one country.

Just like controllable nuclear fusion technology, without some technology transactions relying on ITER's technology sharing agreement, China would not have been able to develop so fast in the field of controllable nuclear fusion over the years, let alone complete it after the emergence of Xu Chuan this technology.

The importance of those early foreshadowings cannot be ignored.

If this platform can be expanded from the original collider to other fields, even if it is just some major unresolved frontier fields, it will be enough for China and the entire academic community to benefit for life.