Chapter 827 CERN's New Fashion

Ask Assistant Zhao to make another cup of coffee. After about an hour, Lu Zhou quietly listened to Luo Wenxuan's business trip experience at CERN in the past two months.

"The design of the entire lunar hadron collider is mainly in the charge of the Institute of High Energy Physics and the Institute of Space Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but the Huaguo Research Institute has no experience in constructing a large hadron collider, so we cooperated with CERN. The research organization got in touch..."

There are no secrets in research in the field of theory. Occasionally, CERN has data that cannot be processed, and it will cooperate with other research institutions around the world to process it. This is how the Internet was first born. Although there is competition for some breakthrough research, it is also an international practice to cooperate to solve problems.

When they learned that Huaguo planned to build a collider on the moon, those European guys were even more enthusiastic than the Huaguo themselves, and they sent the best team of engineers and the designers of the LHCB and Alice detectors to Beijing. While inspecting, and then gave the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ten inspection places, and even voluntarily borne the related expenses.

Of course, this is not free.

CERN is so gracious to help, and naturally hopes to have a closer cooperation with Huaguo in the field of high-energy physics research in the future. When the hadron collider on the moon is really built, more than half of the high-energy physics experiments in the world will be moved to space, and the conjectures that have not been able to be verified before, this behemoth will also create a reality for the physics community. possible.

As the one who has worked at CERN for the longest time among all the scholars of the research team at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Luo Wenxuan naturally shouldered the banner of the leader of the research team without hesitation.

He has been living in CERN for two months, and what he saw and heard there this time also made him feel a lot of emotion.

"...Edward Witten has not been there for a long time. I asked the person in charge of CERN. It is said that he has withdrawn his office at CERN and put the focus of his work back on Princeton University."

"It's not just Weiteng, many old and knowledgeable professors are gone. I walked around the lecture building, and the lectures are basically unfamiliar faces."

Seeing the faint mist on the coffee cup, Senior Brother Luo sighed a little melancholy.

He originally planned to visit old friends when he went back this time, but many of them are no longer at CERN, either because they are old, have changed careers, or have gone to other research institutions with their mentors and bosses.

"CERN is such a place. People who have a relationship with theoretical physics will go there more or less once, and then go from this intersection to an unknown direction," stretched out his index finger and gently touched the cold coffee Cup, Lu Zhou said comfortingly, "Just like theoretical physics itself, when old people leave, new people will always fill in."

"Let's not talk about this sad topic," Luo Wenxuan shook his head with a smile, "Speaking of which, I discovered an interesting thing in the past two months."

Lu Zhou: "What is it?"

Luo Wenxuan: "Do you still remember? When I was at CERN, the usual pastime of those bosses was to learn French."

Lu Zhou thought for a while, then nodded with a smile.

"I seem to have a little impression."

A place like CERN basically gathers the smartest minds in the world, and when a group of smart people stay together, there will always be someone who wants to compete or show off their IQ.

It is obviously impossible to compare mathematics and physics. After all, everyone has similar knowledge reserves, and outstanding research results cannot be explained clearly or persuaded in a few words.

However, if you can learn a language within a month, or even a week or two, it is undoubtedly something that can prove your IQ.

This may sound unbelievable, but it is actually the case. Many physics masters who come to CERN for the first time can change from knowing nothing about French to being able to speak French in a month or two, or even a few weeks Communicate normally in French.

In addition, half of the research facilities of CERN's institutions are located in France, so learning French and giving lectures in French can be regarded as one of the elegant amateur pastimes of CERN's physics experts.

When he visited CERN, although Lu Zhou didn't have the opportunity to participate in this interesting event, he still heard about it from the professor he met there.

Frank Wilczek, for example, once bragged to him how he learned French in two weeks and then won a month's worth of beer from a Frenchman...

"The current situation has changed a little bit," Luo Wenxuan frowned and said with a smile, "there are many more Chinese clubs there. In the past, learning French was a fashion and a way to show off your IQ. Now this fashion It seems to be learning Chinese."

"Study Chinese?"

"That's right," Luo Wenxuan said with a smile, "It is said that the official working language of the Moon Palace is Chinese, and the first information of the research results released on the official website is all written in Chinese. You know, use Google Translate Reading the literature on theoretical physics is simply a disaster, although it is not impossible, but it has forced many scholars engaged in research in related fields to start studying the grammar of Mandarin.”

"...That really embarrasses them."

Lu Zhou laughed and touched his nose a little embarrassedly.

Speaking of which, it seems that he approved it.

Although there are no hard and fast rules for journal papers submitted by the staff on the Moon Palace, the observation data published on the official website and the experimental results collected are all in Chinese, just like the interface on the webpage.

Although this has added a lot of workload to scholars from other countries...

But there is no way, who wants the Moon Palace to be built with money and efforts from Huaguo?

In a sense, this is also a projection of international forces on the academic world.

As an essential skill that must be mastered in scientific research, English is definitely indispensable, but it is also necessary to enhance the status of the national language in the academic world through academic influence, thereby indirectly improving the voice of domestic scholars in the international academic circle. The responsibility of an academic leader.

If the work goes well, the Moon Palace workstation will cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the future to jointly establish a special comprehensive journal to publish the research results on the Moon Palace.

At that time, not only the research data generated by the Moon Palace, but even the paper itself will be in Chinese.

"...Speaking of which, although I didn't meet my old friend when I visited CERN, I will meet your old friend then."

Lu Zhou: "Mine?"

"Professor Frank Wilczek," Luo Wenxuan shrugged his shoulders and said with a toothy smile, "He asked me to bring him a greeting for you. By the way, how is your research on the signal in the 750Gev energy region? CERN recently Did another experiment and even the 1sigema confidence signal was gone."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Then next time you see him, remember to tell him for me, and when the lunar hadron collider is built, I will give him a clear answer...no matter what the signal is. "

Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Really? Then I can look forward to it."