904 The Third Half (2/4)

Chapter 904 The Third Half (24)

The International Lunar Hadron Collider Conference will be held three days later. Because he arrived in Shangjing ahead of schedule, Lu Zhou has three full days to move freely.

However, Lu Zhou was a little tired now because he had traveled all the way from Jiangling to Jiangcheng, and then from Jiangcheng to Shangjing.

After putting his luggage in the collapsed hotel, he didn't go anywhere. After taking a shower, he sat by the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows, quietly looked at the notebook at hand, and compared it with the Wei Wei that he had already printed on the paper. The paper I pulled, I kept seeing it at dinner time.

After calling the hotel waiter to deliver a simple meal, Lu Zhou checked the documents of the meeting after eating in a hurry, then took a shower and hurried to bed, ending his busy day.

Waking up early the next morning, Lu Zhou called Wang Peng to send him to the side of the Old Summer Palace.

When he was going to go straight to Yenching University, Lu Zhou happened to be on a whim and walked towards the north gate of Shuimu University.

After seeing his ID card, the guard didn't say anything, and let him pass politely.

Just walking along the tree-lined path of Shuimu University, Lu Zhou walked towards the west gate while admiring the scenery on both sides and feeling the strong academic atmosphere of Shuimu University.

But when he walked to a lakeside, he happened to see two acquaintances.

These two backgrounds are not small.

One is a top expert in Chinese mathematics, and the other is a leader in Chinese physics.

These two are none other than Mr. Qiu, the founder of the subject of geometric analysis, and Mr. Yang, the top expert in physics.

Lu Zhou was about to go up to say hello, but he heard the two old men seem to be arguing about something, so he couldn't help slowing down and listening.

"...Old Yang, I don't agree with your words. What do you mean wasting money? Where is money spent? In my opinion, if it is spent where it should be spent, then it is the right thing to do."

"Hmph, what is the right flower? Have you asked the opinions of the people of the whole country?"

Just as he was talking about excitement, he suddenly noticed Lu Zhou walking towards him. Mr. Yang frowned, squinted his dim eyes and stared at Lu Zhou for a while, and finally recognized this young face. come out.

"Academician Lu?"

Hearing Academician Lu, Qiu Chengtong immediately turned his head, looked at Lu Zhou who was walking towards him, and greeted him with a smile.

"Hey, it's really Academician Lu! What a coincidence, why did you come to Shuimu University when you have time? You didn't tell me in advance."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I happened to come to Shangjing for a meeting. I just came here for a walk, so I didn't bother you."

"International Lunar Hadron Collider Symposium?" Mr. Qiu's eyes lit up when he heard the word "meeting", and he laughed and said, "What a coincidence, I was arguing with Lao Yang about this, he He still looks unconvinced, how about the Chief Designer Lu from the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee to give us a review?"

What do you call me to judge?

And what's good about it?

Seeing that Mr. Qiu seemed to be planning to drag himself into the battlefield, Lu Zhou had a dumbfounding expression on his face.

At the same time, when Qiu Chengtong said this, Yang Zhenning gave him a displeased glance.

"What does it mean to be unconvinced? Didn't you show off with me? I was just reasoning with you, and what I said was right!"

"Our country is still in the primary stage, and now it is barely on the edge of the intermediate stage. We have to work harder to cross this threshold. It is not the time to be blindly optimistic and overjoyed."

Qiu Chengtong said dissatisfiedly: "Lao Yang, I don't agree with what you said, we are not in the past now, 20 billion US dollars is a lot of expenses, but we don't need to bear all the money. The second is to attract at least 5,000 outstanding international scientific researchers to work in our country and bring our culture to the international academic community. This is something that money cannot buy! Is it because today the physics world is not run by us? Dominance, will you also give up tomorrow to others?"

"I really recommend you to go to the site of the seminar. Don't you hope that one day, the center of world physics can be transferred from Switzerland to us?"

"Heh, you're a math guy, but you're really worried about our physics guy," Yang Zhenning said, without saying anything, just looking at Lu Zhou.

"Does Chief Designer Lu think so too?"

"Designer is just a job title, it sounds too old-fashioned, just call me Professor Lu," Lu Zhou continued after a slight cough, "As for my point of view...Old Mr. Qiu has already said, Now is not the time to save money. Besides, money is just a number, if you are reluctant to spend money, you will never make money."

After taking a deep look at Lu Zhou, Mr. Yang turned his gaze to the lake, and paused for a while before speaking.

"I posted an article more than ten years ago. I still remember the title clearly. It was "Huaguo is not suitable for building a super large collider today". Although more than ten years have passed, my opinion has not changed. .However, now that the steering wheel is in your hands, it doesn't make sense for me to say more."

Lu Zhou opened his mouth and was about to say something, but the old man changed the topic and continued.

"I don't want to criticize your decision. You can find the general solution of the Yang-Mills equation, and connect the strong interaction force and electromagnetic force. You have already stood at the apex of this era in theoretical physics, unless someone can reveal the mystery of gravity... …but I don’t think it’s possible to do that this century.”

After saying that, he looked back from the lake, Mr. Yang took a deep look at Lu Zhou, and continued.

"I'm almost over my 100th birthday. Not all decisions are wise. I was rejected by PRL some time ago. Afterwards, I calmly thought about it. Maybe I'm really old. But it's not a bad thing. Bad thing, not to mention having such an excellent successor."

"Since you know where the right direction is, if you know it in your heart, then I will leave it to you."

After leaving this sentence of unclear meaning, Elder Yang glanced at the forty-year-old woman next to him, nodded slightly to her, and then, with her support, slowly walked away in another direction up.

"This old guy... is really fast," Mr. Qiu shook his head with a smile. "If it was normal, he would have to fight with me for at least an hour or two before giving up."

Although the media of good things always play up the debate between two top scholars in the Chinese academic circle "about whether to build a collider", in fact, the personal friendship between the two people is still very good. In particular, Mr. Qiu's research on the Calabi-Qiu space itself is a very important theoretical tool in modern mathematical physics, and the two often exchange academically.

Otherwise, Qiu Chengtong's Institute of Mathematics would not be built on the campus of Shuimu University.

Lu Zhou: "Mr. Yang is also concerned about the future of the nation, and his concerns are not unreasonable."

"That's right. Otherwise, I wouldn't talk so much nonsense with him," looking at Mr. Yang's leaving back, Qiu Chengtong nodded with emotion, then suddenly turned to look at Lu Zhou, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, 20 billion US dollars is not a small number. Can you bear such a heavy burden?"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then smiled and said.

"Mr. Qiu, you are joking."

"It's only $20 billion."

"It's about the third and a half for me."