Shanghai.

Restaurant near IMCRC headquarters.

Waiting for food to be served is always boring, and Witten usually finds something to do for himself. Sometimes it's reading papers, sometimes it's about the latest information about physics, or some magazines and things related to personal hobbies.

Looking through the unfinished newspaper he had brought from the office, he suddenly frowned slightly and spoke.

"Whittle has gone mad."

Hearing this, Frank Wilzek, who was sitting across from him, turned his inquiring gaze to him.

After a pause, Witten continued.

"He's trying to kidnap the Brookhaven Society of Science with public emotion, bring in things that shouldn't be brought into academia, and then force a part of the team of scholars, or rather, to make a choice."

Frank Wilzek raised his eyebrows and asked with interest, "Then what is your choice?" ”

"If I had to choose, my choice would be to stay here for the time being," Witten said, putting down the newspaper in his hand, "and whatever experiment he does, this is the first experiment of the Lunar Hadron Collider." Whether or not you can produce a satisfactory result, don't you think it's memorable? ”

After a pause, Witten smiled and continued,

"What's more, it's been a long time since the physics world has been so lively as it is today."

Sipping the lemonade before the meal, Wilzek said speechlessly.

"I wish it wasn't so busy."

The excitement doesn't do any good other than bring a lot of trouble. Theoretical physics is a discipline from which all mankind can benefit equally, and in his opinion, both Lu Zhou's approach and that of the Whittle and Brookhaven Scientific Society are a bit too irrational.

Of course, he knew it.

How can there be so many sane things in this world?

If he could, he would certainly prefer the Lunar Hadron Collider to be invested in more meaningful projects, such as the "time crystal" theory he is currently working on.

But unfortunately, even if he had this idea, I am afraid that he would have to wait until next year to bring it up.

……

It may be that the U.S. Department of Energy's thunderous warning did not work, and after the protest, Brookhaven National Laboratory finally expressed its position with practical actions and a tough attitude.

As the center of the theoretical physics community in North America, the withdrawal of Brookhaven National Laboratory is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the IMCRC, which is just on the right track...... At least in the eyes of others.

After all, physicists and engineers from North America account for at least 23% of all jobs in the entire IMCRC. Researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory account for more than half of them.

This is only for fixed positions, and there are no visiting scholars with high mobility. Whether or not they had direct contact with Brookhaven National Laboratory, their decisions were more or less influenced by this incident.

Now, news of Brookhaven National Laboratory's withdrawal has spread throughout the IMCRC.

Almost everyone was talking about this and how it might affect China's cooperation with the United States in physics.

Especially those physicists from research institutes in North America.

Although dissatisfied with Lu Zhou's arbitrary approach, Whittle's attempt to kidnap them from the IMCRC also aroused the disgust of many people. Drawing a line with either side doesn't seem to be a good thing for them personally.

In any case, this incident has had a big impact on the progress of the 750GeV characteristic peak project.

Office of the President.

Secretary-General Luo Wenxuan came here again and reported the latest situation to Lu Zhou.

“…… Brookhaven National Laboratory has formally submitted a written request to withdraw from all research collaborations in 2023 and to recall their researchers and engineers in Shanghai. ”

When reporting this matter, Luo Wenxuan's face was full of complicated expressions.

He didn't expect that the reaction of Brookhaven National Laboratory would be so big, and it would directly take a non-cooperative approach to protest the IMCRC's "insistence".

Glancing at the documents on the table, Lu Zhou didn't say a word, signed his name on it, and then threw it back into Luo Wenxuan's hands.

Seeing that Lu Zhou continued to move his gaze back to the drawings on the table without saying a word, Luo Wenxuan couldn't help but ask, "You don't seem to care at all?" ”

"What's there to care about," he glanced at him strangely, and Lu Zhou said as a matter of course, "Anyway, they've already paid, I don't care what they're doing if they don't put their names on the paper." ”

Luo Wenxuan: "......"

It made so much sense that he didn't even know what to say.

After hesitating for a while, out of kindness to his friend, Luo Wenxuan finally spoke.

"That, about the characteristic peak ...... of 750Gev"

Lu Zhou: "What's wrong?" ”

Luo Wenxuan tried to persuade him: "Yesterday I took out the CERN paper and read it again, and their experiments seem to have been done in detail, and there is really nothing there...... In case, I mean, if there's really nothing there, it's not going to be easy for us to come down. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou suddenly smiled, stopped the pen in his hand, and looked up at him.

"You understand again?"

Luo Wenxuan sighed: "Hey, I know you look down on me as a senior brother, but I can understand the paper." ”

Lu Zhou shook his head: "I haven't looked down on anyone yet, so tell me about it, how do you understand the Fa?" ”

"You ask so, how can I tell you, anyway......" made a helpless expression, Luo Wenxuan continued: "In short, they have already done the experiments that should be done. ”

Lu Zhou: "Have you done a proton collision?" ”

Luo Wenxuan: "That must have been done, the experimental records are still there." ”

Lu Zhou: "What about heavy ion collisions?" ”

Luo Wenxuan was stunned: "Heavy ...... Heavy ion collision? What is the purpose of examining the heavy ion collision on the characteristic peak of 750GeV? ”

Lu Zhou asked rhetorically: "Then what are you building a collider for?" ”

“……”

Luo Wenxuan opened his mouth, but this time he couldn't say a word.

"If you have nothing to do, just read more useful papers, and let you get in touch with administrative work is not for you to throw away academic things completely, if you are curious about why I want to do heavy ion collisions, bury your head and follow me to do a few experiments, you will understand, take it."

Subconsciously took the stack of A4 papers thrown by Lu Zhou, Luo Wenxuan was stunned and said.

"What is this?"

Lu Zhou said impatiently: "Take it and read it, ask if you don't understand, and come to help if you understand it." ”

Luo Wenxuan: "......"

If you don't make it clear, who understands?

Just when Luo Wenxuan was about to ask Lu Zhou what work he was going to arrange for him in the experiment, Lu Zhou suddenly raised his right hand as if he had a premonition that he was going to speak.

"Don't talk."

Luo Wenxuan: "? ”

Locked on the few drawings on the desktop, Lu Zhou's brows were tightly locked in the center of his eyebrows, and he said in a deep voice.

"Here we are."

Luo Wenxuan: "......"

This is...... Does it mean that inspiration comes?

So should I read this paper or not?

There is always a feeling that this "small problem" will not be able to bear fruit in a year, Luo Wenxuan glanced at the thick stack of papers in his hand, and sighed faintly in his heart.

Ay.

It's so boring to give a hand to the awesome boss......

Lamp pen