Cai Ruichen, who arrived at the villa, nodded and greeted Hawking, and his eyes were attracted by a bald man next to Hawking.

"Dr. Chua, I'm Milner." The bald man stepped forward, stretched out his right hand towards Cai Ruichen, and greeted.

"Mr. Milner, I've heard of it for a long time." Cai Ruichen naturally stepped forward and shook hands with him.

At this time, another car stopped at the door of the villa, and a young man in his thirties got out of the car, and this young man was a little surprised when he saw Cai Ruichen.

"Dr. Cai, it's a pleasure to meet you here." Zuckerberg got out of the car and walked directly towards Cai Ruichen.

Seeing Zuckerberg, Cai Ruichen finally determined the purpose of Hawking's invitation to come here.

Just a few days ago, Minard and Stephen Hawking jointly released a plan called Breakthrough Exploration, which is expected to invest $100 million to explore Alpha in the constellation Centaur, the closest constellation to the solar system, to see if there are planets with life or civilization.

For this plan, Cai Ruichen also paid attention to the content released by Milner and Hawking, and the entire plan will use the launch of thousands of camera satellites with a mass of a few grams or tens of grams to the Alpha galaxy.

All the satellites will use optical reflection as thrust and are expected to reach one-fifth of the speed of light, but they are 4.2 light-years away from Proxima Centauri Alpha, which means that even at one-fifth of the speed of light, it will take at least 21 years to reach Alpha.

And even if accidents and dangers can be avoided, there are satellites that arrive on Alpha. At the same time, the photos were taken, and it took four years to send them back.

The fastest time the whole project can see results, it will be 25 years from now. However, Cai Ruichen is still quite interested in such a plan.

And Zuckerberg is also involved in this plan, and also joins the board of directors of this plan, plus Hawking and Milner, the three key people of this plan, and they are all in place.

After a brief greeting from everyone. Soon I was in the villa and the dinner was arranged.

This surprised Cai Ruichen, because all three of them were on the board of directors of a plan. There was also no fifth person at the scene, that is, it was these three people who invited themselves alone.

If this is replaced by the previous Cai Ruichen, it will definitely be full of vanity. Take a picture and post it on the web. You can become a world celebrity in an instant.

The three people who are dining with him now are not small people, let alone Hawking.

Zuckerberg was once the youngest richest man in the world and one of the co-founders of Facebook, and his scenery back then was no less than Cai Ruichen now.

is also a veritable super-rich man with a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars at a young age, and he has only recently gotten married. Otherwise, you can compare it with Cai Ruichen's identity as the fifth diamond king.

Milner is relatively little known to the outside world. But in Russia and the United States, it is quite well-known, an investor who is keen on space exploration, a rich man.

So far, Milner has also carried out a number of space exploration programs, all of which are long-term projects, and the investment in each plan is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, and all of them are non-profit investments.

To put it bluntly, this kind of investment is purely based on imagination, throwing money into it, and satisfying one's curiosity.

And a lot of Milner's investment is also in this aspect, which is also one of the reasons why Milner is famous, after all, this kind of investor who is purely not for making money is really not much in this world.

With these people, Cai Ruichen is also very relaxed, today's party, there is no money around, all are interests and feelings.

Therefore, Cai Ruichen is also very open, and after studying with the base in the past few years, he is not afraid of showing his feet, and he is not afraid of various academic discussions at all.

Soon, the four of them began to get together and discuss many issues related to the future of academic fields.

And all the questions revolve around the space field.

As soon as the topic came to this, it naturally began to move on to the breakthrough exploration plan released a few days ago.

At present, this plan has just begun, the funds have not yet been paid, and the research and development of small satellites has not officially begun.

specially invited Cai Ruichen to come over, of course, it couldn't just be here for academic discussions, Milner began to say: "I don't know if Dr. Cai is willing to join this plan." ”

Milner is a very direct person, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he is invited.

In this regard, Cai Ruichen did not refuse, after all, for such a plan, there is no interest at all during the period, everyone is possible to come together for interest, and it can be regarded as another exploration of the mysteries of the universe.

For human beings, such an exploration plan will be very beneficial in the future.

"I can provide the necessary help in terms of funding and technology, and I am afraid that I will not have the time to join." Cai Ruichen accepted this invitation, as for himself, it is impossible for him to have the time to personally participate in such a plan.

There could be no expression on Hawking's face, and Milner and Zuckerberg both had a little bit of disappointment on their faces.

At this time, Cai Ruichen continued: "Although I can't participate in person, there are still many researchers in this area in our company, and I believe that their participation can be more effective than my participation." ”

The disappointed faces were immediately replaced by surprise, and both Milner and Zuckerberg were very happy.

With the participation of the uncrowned king of the high-tech field of Future Technology Group, the success rate of the entire plan will be greatly improved.

The most important thing is that the future technology group is still very rich, and there is no need to worry about whether this plan will not go ahead in the future.

As long as Cai Ruichen agrees, everything else will be easy to do.

"I believe that with the participation of Future Technology Group, this plan will be more successful." Milner said happily.

Although he is the main investor of this plan and has successfully reached a cooperation with Hawking, compared with the strong scientific and technological strength of Future Technology Group, there is no comparison between the two, and he feels extremely lucky to be supported by Cai Ruichen.

"At present, there is only one problem around this plan, that is, the research and development of micro-satellites, for the current technology, it is still difficult for this kind of satellite to be successfully developed."

Zuckerberg simply and directly stated the key direction of the current plan, and the purpose is also very simple, hoping that Cai Ruichen will be willing to undertake the research and development and production of this miniaturized satellite. (To be continued.) )