Later on December 17th.

Professor Frank Wilzek at Shanghai International Airport.

Tomorrow is the time for the conference to start, and in order not to miss this grand event, he deliberately rushed here a day early.

On the way from security to the pick-up location, he lost count of how many of his peers had met.

There were those he knew, those he didn't, and those he knew but hadn't been with for years.

The physics community is a very large circle, so large that even a Nobel Prize-level scholar has a specific idea of how large the whole circle is.

In addition to those familiar names, if they are not close to each other in the direction of research, or communicate frequently on several specific points, it may be difficult to see each other a second time, even if they exchange business cards at a certain conference.

After all, not everyone thinks of CERN as much as their second home, as Witten does. Many people may go to that school once or twice because of work or academic needs, but if there is no reason to go, some people may never go again in their lifetime.

Happened.

Just as he struggled to squeeze through the crowd and looked around at the street signs above his head, he saw another acquaintance he hadn't seen in a year.

"Witten? Coincidentally, you've just arrived here? Looking at the old man with a kind smile on his face, Frank Wilzek had a surprised expression on his face.

"According to statistical probability, today should be the 'rush hour', after all, there are only a few flights a day from North America here," Witten said with some emotion, looking around, "God...... There are just so many people here. ”

Wilzek said in a somewhat complaining tone: "Yes...... I remember the last time I was here, there weren't so many, at least not as exaggerated as they are now. Damn, are they all here for a meeting? ”

"There are a lot of people living here...... Speaking of which, where is your hotel? ”

"It's near the International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the main entrance here is less than two hundred meters."

Witten's eyes lit up and he said.

"That's a coincidence, I guess you and I booked the same hotel, let's take a ride together."

……

At the same time, on the distant moon, a prismatic landing module was slowly dropped from the Lunar Palace orbital space station, and slowly fell on the silvery-white lunar soil along the calculated orbit, kicking off billowing lunar dust.

Untying the nylon lock that fixed his body and the pipeline of the life protection system, Yan Xinjue took a deep breath of the oxygen supplied in the spacesuit and took the first step towards the outside of the cabin.

Just a year ago, when he was engaged in physics research with Academician Lu, he never thought that one day he would be able to set foot on the moon, let alone that this opportunity was provided to him by his junior brother.

If nothing else, he is probably the first physicist to receive formal astronaut training and set foot on the moon.

In the distance, a silver-white lunar rover slowly drove towards this side.

An astronaut wearing a badge of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee stepped down from the lunar rover, and the kangaroo jumped and floated towards him. At the same time, the man's voice was also heard in the communication channel.

"Friends from Earth, welcome! As much as I want to give you a hug, I'm afraid it's going to knock you out...... Let's put this on first. ”

Looking at the staff member who was walking towards him, Yan Xinjue took the cable from his hand.

"What is this?"

"Safety rope, the gravity environment here is very low, in order to avoid accidents, we will wear it when we go out of the cabin...... You should have been trained. ”

"There may not be a part of my work schedule about extravehicular activities."

"Well," the man smiled heartily, looked at him with the safety leash on, and reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll show you what we're doing on the moon, you'll be surprised!" ”

Yan Xinjue smiled and did not speak.

In fact, he was surprised enough along the way from the Jinling Space Launch Center to the Moon Palace and here.

He really couldn't imagine how he could be surprised after all these things.

……

December 17th.

On this not special day, it is destined to be an extraordinary day for the city of Shanghai.

In just one day, the city gathered almost 99% of the world's first, second and third-tier physicists, as well as practitioners in related fields.

Not everyone is qualified to sit in the conference hall and participate in the conference, but almost everyone who can get admission to the convention center has managed to get it.

December 18th.

That is, the day the meeting began.

The No. 1 conference hall of the Convention and Exhibition Center was crowded with people, and it was dark and oppressive as far as the eye could see.

After the opening speech of the chairman of the organizing committee of the conference, Lu Zhou, who also served as the chairman of the IMCRC and the general adviser of the lunar orbit construction committee, walked smoothly to the stage and reached out to straighten the microphone.

There is no need for people to maintain order at all.

There is no need for anyone to remind anyone to be quiet.

Almost as soon as his right hand touched the microphone, the entire venue fell silent, as if a pin could be heard on the ground.

In fact, it wasn't just the attendees in Hall 1 who quieted down.

It also includes those who stood in the lobby of the convention center and looked up at the big screen, and even those who could not make it to the scene and could only learn about the scene through the live broadcast on the IMCRC official website.

Everyone was waiting for him to speak.

Waiting for him to announce that physics is about to enter the future era!

"Welcome to Huaguo, welcome to Shanghai, and thank you all for coming here to participate in this grand event organized by IMCRC."

Putting the acknowledgment at the front, and glancing around the lively venue, Lu Zhou took about two seconds to organize the language and continued.

"Since the beginning of the millennium, the contradiction between experimental physics and theoretical physics has been growing, and our theoretical level has advanced far beyond the scope of experiments."

"Personally, I have always believed that experimentation is the only criterion for testing truth. Theories that are divorced from experiments are like a mirage, and no matter how beautiful the edifice standing there is, we can only look at it from afar. ”

"Now, however, there is a new turnaround."

"Thanks to advances in space technology, our spacecraft have gradually covered the moon's orbit and are able to easily deliver construction equipment there."

"The low-gravity, relatively vacuum lunar environment also allows us to build larger, more spectacular collider facilities on it."

"Since the project was established, the construction period of the Lunar Hadron Collider has been the focus of attention from all parties. We have high hopes that it will test our Standard Model and that it will be able to discover new physical ......"

"Now, that day has finally arrived."

The atmosphere in the venue was pushed to a peak, and Lu Zhou's voice gradually amplified, moving from calm to passionate.

"On this special day, on behalf of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, as well as the IMCRC Board of Governors, I announce to the world—"

"Lunar Hadron Collider—"

"From this day on—"

"It's officially completed!"

The moment the words fell, applause filled the entire venue like a torrential rain.

The thunderous sound was like a huge wave, and it almost tore over the ceiling of the entire convention and exhibition center.

Sitting in the audience, Academician Lu, with gray hair, had an excited look written on his face, and his clapping hands were bulging, as if he had used all his strength.

In his eyes, he saw more than just the completion of the moon plane collision.

I can see that the physics community in China has gradually stood on the top of the world.

From now on, the voice of IMCRC will replace CERN as the center of physics in the new era, giving orders to the world's physics community, so that physicists from all over the world can serve China's research, instead of doing some marginal work to contribute to the physics edifice in the Western world.

A new edifice is being erected in the eastern corner.

Perhaps the natural sciences are selfless, and perhaps all mankind will benefit equally from these studies, but as a scholar who grew up in China, who doesn't want this glory to be won by their own people?

He had been waiting for this day for too long......

Bathed in the applause that resounded throughout the venue, Lu Zhou raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, raised his hands to sign, and quietly waited for the applause to gradually subside.

Facing the calm room, he took a deep breath and continued.

"The first test run of the collider will start in five minutes."

"Now, let us witness this glorious moment!"

On the big screen, the picture turned, spanning a distance of 360,000 kilometers and coming to a gray land.

Situated in the corner of a crater, a silver-white building stands there, almost blending in with the mountain.

There is a research base on the lunar surface.

At the same time, it is also the place where the collider is activated......

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