Shanghai.

Maglev train station.

Looking at Lu Zhou who came out of the exit passage, Luo Wenxuan couldn't help but complain and said.

"I waited all day at the maglev station yesterday!"

"You should give me a call."

"I called, at three o'clock in the afternoon and five o'clock in the afternoon! But actually reminded me that the other party is not in the service area? What were you doing then? ”

Looking at Senior Brother Luo, who was complaining to him, Lu Zhou carefully recalled that he seemed to be on the third basement floor of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study at that time. Because the protection measures are very tight, there is no signal from the outside world at all, and there is no signal leakage.

As for text messages for missed calls......

Maybe it was because all his attention was on the memories of the old universe, and Lu Zhou didn't notice it at all.

“…… This is my negligence, anyway, these things are put aside for the time being," with a light cough, Lu Zhou looked at Senior Brother Luo and continued, "Have all the invitations been sent?" ”

"It's been sent! At present, the eight major institutes of high energy physics in the world have sent letters of support for the initiative jointly proposed by us and CERN. ”

Lu Zhou: "I'll go later...... I'll take the trouble for you to entertain them during this time. ”

With a helpless expression on his face, Luo Wenxuan sighed and said.

"I knew you would say that."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly and gave a thumbs up.

"You still know me."

The welcoming vehicle stopped at the exit of the station, and Wang Peng, who was walking in front, opened the door for the two of them, and then sat in the passenger seat.

Along the way, Lu Zhou briefly asked Senior Brother Luo about the progress of the preparations for the meeting.

"At present, the preparations for the conference have been completed, and we have booked the main venue of the International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the hotel has been booked for seven days at the nearby Yihao. ZF is very supportive of our work and has prepared a plan for traffic control and venue security in advance......"

Lu Zhou: "What about the physics community?" ”

Luo Wenxuan: "The response from the physics community has been quite strong, and the mainstream opinion is basically very supportive of this conference. Up to now, in addition to the invitation letters we issued, the number of applicants has reached 100,000, and the number of applications for poster display has reached 6,731...... At present, the location of the venue is not necessarily enough, and we plan to conduct a round of pre-screening for the poster presentation before arranging the academic booth. ”

With a slight hint of surprise on his face, Lu Zhou frowned and asked.

"So many people?"

100,000 people......

Is this moving the entire physics community to Shanghai?

Looking at Lu Zhou's hesitant expression, Luo Wenxuan's face couldn't help but have a wry smile.

"Who do you think it's because ......?"

From Z-particles to void theory to hyperspace theory, a series of achievements made by IMCRC in just two years have become the focus of the entire physics community.

Especially in the area of high-energy physics.

In terms of scientific research strength alone, even CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, which are the second and third respectively, are not the opponents of IMCRC.

After all, almost two-thirds of the world's high-energy physics research results were born from the Lunar Hadron Collider or at least indirectly related to it.

Such a giant of physics, under the leadership of the most outstanding scholars in the field of physics today, has issued an initiative to discuss the future of physics, and if the entire physics community is indifferent, it will be called hopeless.

Looking at the expression on Luo Wenxuan's face, Lu Zhou, who probably guessed what he wanted to say, smiled embarrassedly.

“…… This is a problem for your work. ”

"It's troublesome, although it's the first time for a conference of this scale, we can be regarded as having held several high-level international academic conferences," after a pause, Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou and continued, "Moreover, you are only afraid of more troubles than those of us who are miscellaneous." ”

"For example?"

"Have you forgotten what was going to be discussed at this meeting?" Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Anyway, it's coming soon, I'll take you directly to see it in a while." ”

As he spoke, the car had already driven into the underground parking lot of the IMCRC headquarters building.

After getting off the bus, Lu Zhou followed Senior Brother Luo's footsteps and stood on the elevator, came to the data room on the third floor, and walked to the nearest long table.

A book as thick as two heads folded was placed on the table.

And on the cover of the book, only a line of prosaic numbers is written.

【2000】

"Two thousand physics problems, covering the entire branch of physics and research directions," Luo Wenxuan, standing next to Lu Zhou, cast his eyes on this thick book, and continued, "We referred to the suggestions of eight other physics research institutions, and selected the top scholars in each research branch through recommendation letters, and according to their opinions, selected the most representative or main problems faced by this branch. ”

"And what we're going to do next...... Or rather, what you would like to do is to select one hundred of the two thousand physics problems that are the most representative and hopefully solved in this century. ”

Looking at the dictionary-thick "puzzle set", Lu Zhou stretched out his hand and laboriously picked it up from the table, and then quickly flipped it over like a banknote.

From the first image alone, this thing is really a bit like a workbook, with the serial number of the question, the category to which it belongs, and even the author of the question, the "source", and the earliest literature that can be traced back to it.

Of course, the main thing is the "question part" of the question.

The whole topic is like a rigorous paper, with descriptive language describing what the problem is, and what kind of physical background and meaning it has.

Some of these topics can be explained in three words, such as "whether the pairing of two Fermi atoms can form a so-called color superfluidity similar to that in quantum chromodynamics".

There are also questions such as "Yangzhou representation theory and solving nonlinear models" or "can we use Yangian representation theory to solve the spectrum of one-dimensional Hubbard model and H-S model", even if it takes three pages, it may not be able to fully describe it clearly, and even has certain requirements for the reader's mathematical skills.

If nothing else, this is definitely the hardest "workbook" in the world.

Even one of these questions is enough to become an expert in a certain branch of research and be accepted by the entire physics community......

Looking at this collection of puzzles that condensed the wisdom of almost all physicists in the entire human civilization, Lu Zhou felt that his scalp was numb, and he couldn't help but feel quite emotional.

“…… Even if it hadn't been chosen, I think it would have been published as a masterpiece. ”

"I think so too," Luo Wenxuan said, nodding his head, "I spent two weeks roughly flipping through it, and many of the questions in it are not just simple questions, but also contain the author's thoughts on this branch of research." And this part, some of which are even more academically valuable than the title itself. ”

“…… In short, let's wait for the delegations from other research institutes to arrive, the selection work is not something I can complete alone," Lu Zhou looked at Senior Brother Luo and continued, "I'll put this book here for the time being, and I plan to spend a few days going through it briefly." ”

Luo Wenxuan: "That's what I suggested...... By the way, as an independent research institution, we at IMCRC also need to send a delegation to participate in the selection of 100 physics propositions, who do you think is better? ”

"Don't ask me about such trivial matters."

Lu Zhou looked at Luo Wenxuan and said in a half-joking tone, "As the next chairman, if you can't even handle this little thing, I'm too sorry for me." ”