Great Country Academician

Chapter 537: International Conference on High Energy Physics

The next day, Beijing.

At the entrance of the ‘Huaguo Science and Technology Hall’ on Fuxing Road, there was an endless stream of people coming and going.

Concierge staff standing at the door and on both sides of the auditorium corridors greeted the physicists and mathematicians who came to attend the High Energy Physics Conference with their signature smiles on their faces.

Those top scholars who could only be seen in news reports in the past can be said to be hit by one brick to two or three here today.

At the entrance of the 'Huaguo Science and Technology Hall', a young man wearing a t-shirt and his hair styled with mousse looked at the people coming and going, and couldn't help but sigh: "Senior Brother Xu is really amazing."

The old man standing next to him, wearing a thin gray coat, couldn't help but smile after hearing this sigh, and said: "He is indeed the most talented and the most accomplished of all the students I have ever taught."

After a pause, he glanced at his student: "If you could have one percent of his efforts, you wouldn't have graduated yet."

Standing here today are none other than Chen Zhengping from Nanjing University and Feng Shen, a new student who graduated from Xuchuan.

Hearing this, Feng Shen couldn't help but rub the back of his head and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Xu is too hardworking. I heard that when he was in charge of the controllable nuclear fusion project, he didn't sleep for a week in a row."

Hearing this, Chen Zhengping couldn't help but slap him: "What are you talking about? If you haven't slept for a week, you would have suddenly coughed. If you say this, you deserve a beating."

Being scalped by his instructor, Feng Shen didn't care. He smiled naively and looked at the foreign faces coming and going at the door.

Looking at the expectant students, Chen Zhengping said: "Only your senior brother Xu has this ability. At least three to four thousand international mathematicians and physicists attended this meeting."

"In the past, how would you have had the opportunity to participate in such a top-level conference? I have lived for decades and have never participated in a few."

"In this exchange meeting, don't just sit there stupidly like you did in school. Run around more and make more friends. Maybe the person you meet will be a great person in mathematics or physics. Where is the guy?"

Hearing this, Feng Shen nodded seriously, his eyes gleaming with excitement. He thought about it for a while, but still couldn't help asking: "Teacher, do you think I can mention Senior Brother Xu when I introduce myself?" The title of Junior Brother. I feel like I can get to know more people this way!"

Chen Zhengping glanced at him and said angrily: "At your level, even if you are called his junior brother, no one may believe it. Let's go, come on, don't be embarrassed."

Speaking of which, he was a little envious of his own student.

After all, not only him as a student, but also himself, had never participated in this kind of large-scale international exchange meeting that brought together the world's top mathematicians and physicists.

In the past, the most meetings in the physics community were held at CERN and the United States, and most of them were related to the field of high-energy physics. It would take several days to go there for a meeting, and sometimes others would not even talk about it. You must be invited.

After all, in the past, China's weakness in basic science was recognized.

It is also difficult for them to get the exchange meeting places that a small number of top conferences have fought for.

Unlike now, he, a student, doesn't even have to leave the country. He can just take a high-speed train in China and chat with the world's top mathematicians and physicists.

It's really enviable.

Under the auspices of the Chinese Society of Physics, the International High Energy Physics Exchange Conference is progressing in an orderly manner.

As mathematicians and physicists from all over the world entered the venue in an orderly manner, Xu Chuan looked helplessly at the makeup artist beside him in the backstage lounge of the Science and Technology Hall, and couldn't help but ask:

"how much longer?"

To be honest, he was confused when he was told that he had to put on makeup first to report on stage.

This is the first time I have been caught putting on makeup before going on stage to give a report.

The most important thing is that he can't refuse yet.

Hearing this, the young lady who was picking out some highlighters from the makeup box to modify the dull areas on her face replied softly: "It will be fine soon. Just add some highlighter eye shadow and do some hair treatment."

"Can't we not wear makeup?" Xu Chuan muttered.

To be honest, when the makeup girl applied the powder brush to his face, he always felt like a wall being painted by a painter.

Well, although this description is very rude for a full-time makeup artist, this is indeed how he feels.

Sitting aside, the familiar old man was also being fiddled with by the makeup girl. He smiled and turned to look at Xu Chuan and said, "You are the most important person in this exchange report, and you are also the face of our country. Outside Thousands of scholars are here for you."

Xu Chuan glanced at the old man. If it weren't for the old man's request, he would have refused to run away.

Let the makeup girl smear the highlighter on his face, and he said: "What they want to see is an academic report, not me."

After a pause, he continued: "What's more, I think I'm quite handsome without makeup."

As soon as these words came out, the make-up artist's little hand that was applying highlight visibly tilted, and she almost didn't apply it to the tip of her nose.

The smile she was holding back almost caused inflammation in her cheeks. She took deep breaths for several times before she recovered. She explained with a smile: "There is a big difference between taking pictures under the light with makeup and without makeup. Without makeup, your face will look different." It will be darker, and the photos taken will generally not look good.”

On the side, the old man couldn't hold it back. He coughed slightly and smiled and explained: "In this kind of international occasion, proper makeup and makeup to make one's body look cleaner and smoother are also a necessary sign of respect for other people participating in the exchange meeting. , just bear with it a little longer."

For the old man, this is not the first time for him to have such an occasion, and he is very familiar with it.

But he always felt like he was coaxing a child with his tone?

Then again, at Xu Chuan's age, there is not much difference between him and a child in his eyes.

What's more, given this person's situation, there seems to be no other way except coaxing.

The Huaguo Science and Technology Hall was filled with people and was filled with darkness. The auditorium, which could accommodate more than 3,000 people, was full at this moment.

Scholars from all over the world are sitting here at this moment, participating in this grand exchange meeting.

At a high-energy physics conference in the physics community, nearly half of the participating scholars were mathematicians. This was probably the first time in history.

Amidst some noisy discussions, Edward Witten walked through the sea of ​​people and found his seat.

What surprised him a little was that sitting next to him were Pierre Deligne and G. Faltins.

I don’t know what the person who arranged the seats was thinking. He seems to be classified into the system of mathematicians?

But Witten didn't pay too much attention to them. They were all acquaintances anyway, so communication was easier.

And there is nothing wrong with saying that he is a mathematician. After all, he has won the Fields Medal.

After greeting Deligne with a smile, Witten looked at G. Faltings sitting beside him, smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to come too."

Faltings glanced at him and said calmly: "This is a difficult problem in the field of mathematics, and I am a mathematician."

The corners of Witten's mouth twitched. The implication was that he was not a mathematician?

Believe it or not, he flipped the table, and he also won the Fields Medal!

Ignoring the venomous and friendless Faltins, Witten sat down and looked at the reporting table, which was still empty for the time being.

However, according to the arrangement in the meeting minutes, the first session after the exchange meeting started was his student's report on the 'Proof of the existence and solution of the Yang-Mills equation'.

Although this is indeed the most important thing in this exchange meeting, in a physics conference, the first thing to appear is a report on a mathematical problem.

Well, he's more of a physicist.

Shaking his head, Witten threw away the thoughts in his mind and began to communicate with Deligne.

As for Faltins, leave him alone.

But this old friend with a sharp tongue probably didn't care either. He was a scholar of the same nature as Perleman, and he didn't care about almost anything other than academic matters.

Speaking of which, he and Deligne's two students, Xu Chuan, were almost the same type of people.

At least apart from academic matters, he had hardly ever heard of the student being interested in anything else.

As for money, it seems that most of the money he earned through artificial SEI films and other research has been invested in various experimental research.

Time passed in the exchange and discussion. At this moment, part of the lights on the stage that were originally extinguished suddenly turned on, attracting the attention of many scholars in the auditorium.

The noise of discussions and exchanges gradually stopped, and the auditorium gradually became quiet.

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, the figure that walked out was not the figure they were expecting.

The first person to take the stage was the old man who was often seen on the news and TV.

Normally, this person would not appear at a conference in the field of high energy physics, even if it was an international conference.

After all, he had too many things to keep busy with.

However, today when CERN has suspended cooperation with China, for the sake of the development of the country's basic sciences, to show the world that China attaches great importance to the field of basic sciences, and to welcome scholars from all over the world, the old man thought about it and chose to study in the country. A brief welcome and report were given at the exchange meeting.

Of course, the huge scale of this conference is also one of the decisive factors.

A conference like this, which brings together mathematicians and physicists from all over the world, may not happen even in the whole world for several years.

After the old man expressed his warm welcome to the scholars who came to participate in the academic exchange, the chairman of the Chinese Physical Society took the stage next.

No matter how much the scholars here today look forward to the report on ‘Proof of the Existence and Solution of Solutions to the Yang-Mills Equation’, the theme of today’s conference is still the International High Energy Physics Exchange Conference.

Of course, as the most important item in the conference, the "Proof of the Existence and Solution of Solutions to the Yang-Mills Equation" report, the Chinese Society of Physics placed it as the first item on the first day, which is enough to show that it attaches great importance to it. .

After the chairman of the Society of Physics announced the brief proceedings of the meeting, Xu Chuan, dressed in formal attire, stepped onto the stage under the spotlight.

Facing the gazes of thousands of scholars in the audience, Xu Chuan tried the microphone. After confirming that there was no problem, he spoke in a steady and clear voice:

"I'm glad to see you all here today. Although I know that most of the people here are here for the solution of the Yang-Mills equation, I still want to make some digressions here."

The somewhat unexpected speech attracted the attention of many people in the auditorium, and made many scholars who were watching the stage look forward to the proof report of the solution of the Yang-Mills equation with a little curiosity in their eyes.

At this critical juncture, they wanted to hear what this scholar, who could be said to be at the top of the academic world, had to say.

Is he speaking for his country’s upcoming Large Strong Particle Collider? Or is it criticizing the United States for forcibly interfering in the cooperation between CERN and China? Or something else?

After all, it’s not like he can’t do these things with his character.

It would be fine if others didn't provoke him, but obviously, the United States' involvement in CERN has caused the Large Strong Particle Collider project he leads to be in a state of stagnation. It would be even more strange if he didn't react.

Under the spotlight, Xu Chuan spoke steadily: "From the birth of the universe, to the greatest miracle on earth - the germination of the first life underwater, to the giant beasts of the Stone Age, to the first time humans walked upright. , that we can gather here today is undoubtedly the greatest miracle in civilization."

"In the long history of human civilization, every change is accompanied by laughter and tears; and every scientific progress also witnesses the continuous evolution of human society."

“From the initial exploration of the unknown land to the azure ocean, to the vast sky and the dark deep space of the universe full of twinkling stars and hope, each discovery broadens our knowledge and brings us richer knowledge. world."

"Of course, they also leave us with more unsolved mysteries."

"For example, why the universe originated, whether time is reversible, what is driving the expansion of space in the dark deep space, etc."

"I believe that these problems are far from being solved by one country or one person."

"And this is the main reason why we can sit here together today."

Looking around at the thousands of scholars in the auditorium, Xu Chuan took a deep breath and slowly said:

"For all mankind, if there is one common interest that everyone has, it is the progress of science!"

The moment the words fell, thunderous applause erupted in the auditorium, surging like a tide and flowing continuously.