Great Country Academician

In the central building of CERN, representatives from all over Europe were arguing fiercely with CERN board members.

CERN has not added new member states for a long time, and the last time it absorbed new member states was in 1999.

After entering the 21st century, whether it is Brazil, Turkey, Pakistan, Ukraine, or even Lao Maozi and the United States, they have all applied for membership, but none of them agreed.

Compared with observer countries and cooperative institutions, member states are the core that truly controls CERN. After all, funding and policy support are inseparable from these member states.

"CERN has never had a history of allowing non-European countries to become members. Even the United States is not a member of us. If China is allowed to pass, we will not be able to explain to the United States, nor to the outside world."

At the desk, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes expressed his opinion.

"Jewish is also a member state, and it is not a European country."

On the opposite side, the representative of Bulgaria made a steady speech, rejecting the remarks made by the representative of Denmark.

Compared with most Eastern European countries, Bulgaria and China have a lot of cooperation, and the relationship has always been very good. If it does not violate its own interests and can help, it will still choose to help.

Across the desk, the Danish representative who had just spoken rolled his eyes in his heart.

Judaism, that is, Israel, is indeed a non-European country, but does it represent itself?

Everyone knows that it is not. It occupies the status of a member of CERN and actually represents the interests of the United States.

Everyone here is well aware of this, but it is impossible for him to say it at the meeting.

After all, representatives of the Jewish people are also here, so they will definitely turn their backs.

"Okay, everyone, today's debate ends here for the time being. Regarding Huaguo's application to join CERN as a full member, the next vote will be decided."

David Gross, who presided over the meeting, stood at the head of the desk, interrupted everyone's quarrel, and continued:

"Please cast your precious votes."

Up to now, CERN has a total of 22 member states, and Judaism is the only non-European country.

Each member state has two official representatives, one for government administration and one for the country's scientific interests.

However, each member state has only one voting right. Although the council will try to seek unanimous consent when making decisions, in practice most decisions are made through the principle of simple majority.

Following the words of David Gross, the directors of Bulgaria took the lead in delivering their votes.

Immediately, there was an extra yes vote on the side that agreed on the projection screen.

As the Bulgarian council representatives cast their first vote, on the projection screen, the votes for the council are constantly increasing.

There are those in favor, those against, and those who abstain.

In less than a minute, the directors had already completed the voting in their hands.

Waiting for the representative of the last member state to cast his vote, David Gross looked at the projection beside him and sighed slightly in his heart.

But immediately, he opened his mouth and announced: "The final results of this voting are as follows:"

"The CERN directors voted 22 times in total, including 8 in favor, 12 against, and 2 abstentions. The number of votes in favor did not exceed two-thirds."

"According to the previous rules, the meeting decided to veto Hua Guo's membership in CERN."

Professor David Gross solemnly reported all the votes, and the final number rejected Huaguo's application to become a member of CERN.

Although this result was expected, Gross still sighed in his heart.

What scientists think about is relatively pure. In his opinion, Huaguo has developed quite a few scientists with basic science, and the achievements made at CERN in these years are representative.

Whether it is the Higgs particle, tetraquark particle, pentaquark particle, Higgs decay, etc., Hua Guo has made considerable contributions.

On the other hand, with one more member state, CERN's funding will increase by a large part.

Currently, CERN's annual budget is generally about 1 billion Swiss francs (CHF, about 1.02 billion yuan).

But this number is not fixed. For example, in 2015 it was 970 million yuan, and in 2016 it was 1.09 billion yuan.

Because CERN's funding is shared by all member states in proportion to GDP.

Based on this calculation, if Huaguo becomes a member of CERN, then next year, CERN's funding will skyrocket by nearly 300 million yuan.

If it were not for balance, CERN stipulates that each member state's funding cannot exceed 20% of the total funding, then this figure would be even higher.

The funding of 300 million meters gold is enough for CERN to conduct dozens of collision experiments every year.

With dozens of more collision experiments every year, the probability of discovering unknown particles or unknown cosmic phenomena will increase hundreds of times.

This can greatly promote the development of high-energy physics.

For scientific research, Hua Guo's joining is beneficial and harmless.

But for the member states, the joining of Hua Guo is not such a wonderful thing.

For CERN, member states can share various technologies born by CERN, and many of them are in short supply in China.

In the whole of Europe, most or even the vast majority of countries are unwilling to see the rise of the red country in the East.

After all, most European countries are currently the biggest beneficiaries of the current international order. With a relatively small population and relatively large resources, they can live a very good life by mastering a few core technologies.

And the continued development of Huaguo will inevitably change the international order of white supremacy at the center of Miu.

Once this order is broken, their life will not be so easy.

So even if Huaguo applied for CERN's member states this time, it had already communicated with the governments of various countries many times in advance, and it could pay a lot of benefits, but most countries still chose to oppose it.

After reporting the voting results, David Gross picked up a manuscript from the table, and continued: "Next, we will proceed to the second item of this meeting."

"About Huaguo's application for CERN associate membership."

"The matter remains for the council to vote on."

As he spoke, Professor Gross manipulated the computer in the meeting room.

"In addition, before the voting begins, please allow me to report another matter."

"In the past three days, CERN's public mailbox has received applications from 37 different national physical laboratories and research institutes, as well as 127 top physicists."

"I hope that CERN will launch one or two, or more lectures on energy level channels of physical particles from mathematical calculations."

"Excuse me, I would like to ask if this has anything to do with Huaguo's application for a CERN quasi-membership?"

In the conference room, a director raised his hand and interrupted David Gross's speech.

Gross adjusted his glasses, and continued without changing his face: "Of course it is related, because the only person who has mastered the method of mathematically calculating the energy level channel of physical particles is in Huaguo."

"If you have watched CERN's press conference some time ago, you should know that mastering this method can save CERN or other high-energy physics laboratories millions or even tens of millions of meters of gold in collision research every year. funds."

"If we're lucky, we can use this method to complete the standard model and the Higgs particle ahead of schedule, and even find something beyond the standard model, such as dark matter and dark energy."

Regarding Professor Gross' words, there was obviously some commotion in the office.

Whether it is saving millions of tens of millions of scientific research funds every year, or the follow-up of dark matter and dark energy, these things are quite attractive to any country and research institution.

Half of the directors currently participating in the meeting are officials from member states.

These people are basically elected from the governments of various countries, vote on behalf of the member states, participate in the formulation of major policies, participate in the voting for the acceptance of new member states, and communicate with the governments of various countries.

They usually don't pay much attention to the collision experiment and physical development of CERN itself, unless there are some major discoveries. Like the Higgs particle.

The other twenty-two directors are basically physical scientists from various countries.

This part of the people is the main person who discusses the daily development of CERN, such as the arrangement of the collision experiment.

From the current point of view, it is obvious that not all the official council representatives of the member states are aware of the details of the discovery of the coupling phenomenon between Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark Yukawa some time ago.

It is certain to know this, but the role of mathematics in this is not necessarily clear to everyone.

The time interval is too short, and many directors who are physicists have not had time to report to their own countries.

"A mathematical method, does it have to be him? Can't we research it ourselves or can't do it?"

At the desk, a government representative looked at David Gross and asked.

Gross shook his head and said, "Of course not. In theory, since someone can do it, so can we."

"It's just that if we do our own research, I'm afraid it will take a long time, maybe three or five years?"

"After all, the core of that calculation method is currently only mastered by him, which is indeed very important for CERN."

"The time it takes for other physicists to master this method may be shortened to a few months if the original author gives a report."

Hearing this, some government representatives who didn't know much about the details of the matter began to ask the physicist directors around them one after another, and the entire conference room was noisy.

David Gross sat quietly in a chair.

He raised this point at the meeting today, not from a request in CERN's public mailbox, but from Xu Chuan.

After all, there is no need to discuss with the government representatives of various countries on whether to hold a report meeting. It is only necessary to communicate with Xu Chuan and obtain his consent.

Xu Chuan knew about the fact that his motherland was applying for CERN membership.

But in this matter, he can do nothing.

After all, he is currently just a small researcher at CERN. Even if he has achieved something in physics, it will not affect the decision of the CERN council, and he is not even qualified to make suggestions.

But just in these two days, David Gross found him, hoping that he could give two lectures at CERN to explain the previous methods.

Taking this opportunity, he put forward his own request to the chairman, hoping that he could talk about this matter at the meeting of member states.

In exchange, he will stay at CERN to hold two lectures, explaining in detail the mathematical method used to calculate the optimal search decay channel for the Yuchuan coupling between Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark.

That's why Professor Gross brought this up at today's meeting.