"It's not a discussion at all! I haven't spoken a single word from beginning to end! ”

"It's too much!"

"Didn't anyone persuade him?"

"It's useless, he doesn't listen, I've already stressed many times that CERN has been working on the characteristic peaks of the 750Gev for a whole year...... At least half a year! But what do we get out of it? God, now he's going to do it all over again! ”

"At least CNN isn't wrong, he's a paranoid lunatic in science......"

The meeting apparently broke up.

A group of people walked out of the conference room with expressionless faces, even angrily, and talked loudly as they went.

Noticing the indignant expression on the face of Professor Whittle, a member of the Board of Governors of the United States and director of the Brookhaven Society of Sciences, Professor Frank Wilzek, who was waiting next to the elevator, hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him and asked.

"What's going on inside? Wasn't the meeting just an hour underway? How did it end so quickly? ”

"Meeting? Does he have even the slightest bit of this council in mind? This doesn't deserve to be called a meeting at all! ”

Shaking his fists and roaring loudly, Professor Whittle said angrily, "I'm going to go back to New York to show those of the Brookhaven Society who have illusions about the Chinese how they have come to show their little bit of authority at this sacred physics conference!" ”

Looking at Professor Whittle, who was departing angrily, Frank Wilzek stood in place, dumbfounded.

His instincts told him that something terrible must have happened an hour ago, otherwise he would never have Professor Whittle to such an extent...... Although I have the impression that this guy is not a good-natured gentleman.

But he is now more and more confused about what happened at the meeting......

Could it be that the Council has been hollowed out?

Not really, right?

……

According to Murphy's theorem, the more people worry about something, the more things tend to happen.

Through an old friend of CERN, Professor Frank Wilzek finally learned what happened. And it was precisely because of hearing these regrettable things that his mood fell to the bottom.

He had the impression that Lu Zhou was not the kind of stubborn and arbitrary scholar, and he even preferred to believe that Professor Whittle and the representatives of CERN had misunderstood him.

However, the truth does not lie.

What was it that made him who he was like this?

Confused, Frank Wilzek approached Witten and asked him out of the hotel under the pretext of coffee.

In the casual conversation, he talked about the just-concluded council meeting and said with a sigh.

"It's a terrible situation."

As if expecting him to bring the conversation to the IMCRC, Witten didn't show much surprise on his face, just raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Oh?"

Frank Wilzek took a sip of his coffee, repeated the conversation he had had with Professor Whittle at noon to Witten, and shook his head pessimistically.

"What I feared most was that from the very beginning IMCRC was not cooperative, and I admit that his academic prestige for completing the unified theory of strong electricity may have surpassed that of most people...... Even me, but that shouldn't be a reason for him to mess around. ”

After listening to Frank Wilzek's words, Witten pondered for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "Maybe he really found something in the 750Gev that we didn't find." ”

"Impossible, my old friend, you know better than anyone how difficult this is, why would you say such a thing?" Wilzek shook his head and said, "What's more, I worked with him on this project for a while, and at first I believed that he could do it, and even tried to help him win the permission to experiment with the LHC, until I found out that it was a useless exercise, and I parted ways with him." I know better than anyone but him that this path is impossible! ”

Witten asked rhetorically, "Then why do you think he insisted on doing this?" ”

Frank Wilzek: "Anger at failure? Over-inflated self-confidence? Or is it stubbornness? Or are you anxious to assert your authority in physics? Whatever the reason, it is not advisable to do research with such a mindset. ”

Witten smiled and shook his head.

"It seems that you don't understand him at all."

If it were someone else, the guess would be valid.

But for a scholar who desires truth from the bottom of his heart, this is too superficial.

Visiting abroad all year round, Witten has seen many people.

Among them, there are those who are fame and fortune, and there are those who are indifferent to fame and fortune, and Lu Zhou is undoubtedly the most special among them...... It was also the most surprising to Witt.

He is not completely indifferent to fame and fortune, he will be angry when he is framed, and he will be happy when he gets bonuses and honors, but whether it is honor or money, it is not what he really chases. What really drove him forward seemed to be a curiosity about nature, about the mysteries of the universe.

This is purely quite valuable, and often only appears in the body of great people.

I don't dare to say anything about the entire physics community, but only about the scholars I have seen......

Perhaps, he is the purest of them all.

"Oh?" Frank Wilzek's eyebrows were raised, and he said in a slightly dissatisfied tone, "Witten, I know you have a good relationship with him, but I hope you can recognize the reality in this kind of big thing." Especially from the position of a friend, it is better to persuade him if you can, rather than watching him go further and further down the wrong path. ”

"What's a bug?"

The spoon stirred the coffee, and Witten smiled and continued slowly.

"And what's right?"

"We know so little about this universe that we understand and explain less than one percent of what we see. Strictly speaking, there is no concept of right and wrong in physics, only the difference between complete and incomplete. Especially after the birth of quantum mechanics, we have a deeper understanding of this——"

Frank Wilzek: "It's sophistry, why should we waste our time in a direction that proves to be a failure?" CERN has invested hundreds of millions of dollars! And those things that can't be measured by price at all, and now we're going to spend a whole year going through this impossible road all over again! ”

"Because some people think it works," Witten continued in a calm tone, looking at Wilzek, "maybe because he discovered something new, maybe because CERN didn't understand his paper correctly, if only because of a flash of inspiration...... I think that's all justified. ”

"The search for the Standard Model is a needle in a haystack, and physics is much more than the Standard Model...... Why not trust him? At least he never let us down. ”

Wilzek: "......"

Does this mean, everyone is resigned to fate?

This is probably too optimistic.

"I know what you're worried about," Witten said with a smile looking at Wilzek, who didn't speak, "Don't worry, if you still get nothing in the end, I will definitely try to convince him to realize his problem in time...... If only I could. ”

"For now, let's trust his judgment for the time being."

Lamp pen