Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 276 Arriving in Switzerland (plus 5)

Chapter 277 Arriving in Switzerland

"Does that mean that developing string theory is useless?"

Qin Yuanqing's student 'Lin Chao' couldn't help but feel depressed, because he is engaged in theoretical physics and has been studying string theory for more than half a year. He was deeply shocked by the perfection of string theory. In his opinion, this string theory is simply the largest in the universe. truth.

"Of course not." Qin Yuanqing said with a smile: "String theory is like a castle in the air, but it doesn't mean that the castle in the air is useless!"

"Just like the establishment of the standard model, many theories are also based on conjectures. With the advancement of technology, these theories will one day be tested. String theory may just need to wait longer." Qin Yuanqing said.

"What's more, human beings should not only have the troubles in front of us, but also poetry and distance. Aren't the research on quantum chromodynamics and even the large hadron collider in Europe built to test the standard model? Even if this One day we may not see it, but one day, someone will see that string for us." Qin Yuanqing has no special feelings for string theory, but theoretical physics is like this, always ahead of the times, far ahead of the times The technology, and then with the development of the technology of the times, is constantly verified.

Therefore, many famous physicists, in fact, have a tragic life. They proposed great theories but because they were not confirmed, they did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics until their death.It is rare for Yang Lao and Li Lao to put forward the theory of parity non-conservation and then win the Nobel Prize in Physics a few months later.

Just like Peter Higgs, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, he was also lucky and lived long enough to finally wait for the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1964, Higgs published an academic theoretical article, proposing the existence of a particle field, which is the existence of a boson that can attract other particles and generate mass.He believes that this kind of boson is the source of mass of matter, and is the basis for electrons and quarks to form mass. Other particles swim in the field formed by such particles and generate inertia, thereby forming mass and forming the universe.

Nobel Laureate in Physics Lederman even called it the 'God Particle'.However, for nearly half a century, the spin-zero boson predicted by the standard model of the Department of Particle Physics has been continuously discovered in other standard models, and the result is that it has never been discovered.Until 2012, a special report meeting was held in the main lecture hall of CERN. In this report meeting, the two experiments running on the European Large Hadron Collider LHC respectively announced their The latest results: they also discovered the Higgs particle.Only then did it announce that the Higgs particle had been officially found.

Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013!
However, Robert Bloot, who also proposed the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs boson theory, did not have this luck. Like Higgs and Engler, they could live until the Higgs particle was discovered and won the Nobel Prize in Physics. scholarship.

And this is a normal phenomenon in the field of theoretical physics!

After chatting for several hours, everyone was also tired. They closed their eyes and began to rest. They didn't wake up until the broadcast reminded that the plane was about to land.

Their flight took off directly from the capital to Zurich.

When they looked down from the sky, they saw the whole picture of Zurich, and they were all filled with emotion. They all knew that Zurich was the largest city in Switzerland and the richest city in Europe. Billionaires from all over the world gathered here. So Zurich is also known as "Europe's Billionaire City".

Zurich has always been known as one of the cities with the highest standard of living, the richest life, the most expensive commodity prices, and the safest society. It is also recognized as one of the world's most livable cities in the world.

If it weren't for the Black Swan incident, Switzerland was rubbed against the ground by France, Germany, and Italy, then this place is synonymous with the world's paradise.

After leaving the airport, Huaxia's representative at CERN has already sent someone to pick it up. Although Huaxia is not an official member of CERN, and there are not many Huaxia employees among CERN's official employees, it does not mean that Huaxia has no one here.

Normally, the mobility of Huaxia people at CERN is very large, mainly in the name of on-duty or internship, and the time is a few weeks to two or three months.

The three students who followed Qin Yuanqing and two researchers from the Mizuki Institute of High Energy Physics, because of Qin Yuanqing's face, will intern at CERN for three months.

He lived directly in a five-star hotel in Zurich. After all, Qin Yuanqing's two research institutes in Shuimu University are extremely rich. They are not short of money at all, so naturally they would not stay in a hotel or hostel.

Qin Yuanqing never treats himself badly when it comes to business trips. If there is no need, Qin Yuanqing will buy a private jet otherwise.

After a night of rest, the next day a group of people took 2 cars from Zurich to Geneva.Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland. It has always been known as the "United Nations City" in the world, and there are major international organizations here.They found a restaurant, had a quick lunch, and arrived at the headquarters of CERN on the Swiss-French border in a short time— CERN, which is said to gather the smartest minds in the world.

The entrance to CERN is a bronze statue of Shiva.In CERN, the third brother is an associate member and pays a large amount of fees every year, so many researchers from Asan work here. For example, GANGA under DIRAC, a supercomputer allocation program of CERN, is made by the third brother. .This bronze statue of Shiva is a commemorative gift from the third brother to celebrate the cooperation with CERN. It uses the circle dance in the myth of the third brother to symbolize the ring of the accelerator, and at the same time, it is a metaphor for the annihilation and birth of particles in the ring.

It is strange to say that among the official members of CERN, the three world powers of the United States, Russia and China are not there.

Qin Yuanqing and others walked around the CERN headquarters to familiarize them with the environment. It has to be said that this is a place with a strong scientific research atmosphere. There are a large number of theoretical physicists gathered here. Maybe any one they meet may be a well-known An honorary professor at a university or a master in theoretical physics.

Qin Yuanqing took a photo in front of Building 1 of CERN. This research center has been out of use and has been converted into a museum-like place. Visitors can buy tickets to visit.Inside this research center, there is also a commemorative plaque that is the birthplace of the Internet.

It is sad to say that the first website, the first Internet server, and the first browser were born here. As a result, Europe did not develop the Internet, but instead made America and the Internet empire, Microsoft, Google When the Internet giants conquer cities and dominate the whole of Europe, even if the European Union issues sky-high fines from time to time, they still cannot resist the rule of the Internet giants, and they still go their own way.

Many people admire that the European Union always imposes sky-high fines on American companies, thinking that this is a powerful anti-monopoly weapon, but it turns out that such measures are useless at all. The fines are paid, but the people of the European Union ultimately pay the bill. .

Not to mention the comparison between the Internet and the United States, even compared with China, the European Internet is far inferior. Any good idea is born here, and the development is half dead and half alive after a few years, but the development in China is booming.

You can hardly imagine that there are still many people using 2G mobile phones in this place, not many people using 3G mobile phones, and only a small part of people using Apple mobile phones.

Then it was very embarrassing that when they were in a nearby restaurant in the evening, a large number of people were protesting, saying that CERN wastes a lot of money every year, which will endanger human health, and that CERN experiments may produce black holes, which will destroy Switzerland. , and even the whole of Europe and the whole world demanded that all CERN facilities be shut down.

The person who accompanied Qin Yuanqing and his party said that this is what CERN often sees. Some organizations always come to protest, and CERN has been fighting wits and courage with them.

Speaking of which, the people in Europe and the United States are really a bunch of unscrupulous people, and there are various anti-intellectual behaviors, which make a bunch of politicians very troubled.

Just like Germany, Germany used to use coal as its main energy source, and 50% of Germany’s energy demand came from coal. As a result, the Germans shouted the loudest for environmental protection, so that they had to vigorously use nuclear energy and built 17 nuclear power plants.As a result, a large number of Germans protested because of the Fukushima incident in Japan in 2011, and the result was that politicians closed half of the nuclear power plants in the country for votes, and promised to close all nuclear power plants in 2022.

For example, Europeans are extremely disgusted with high-voltage electric towers, thinking that they will produce radiation and affect people's health, so some people secretly set fire to high-voltage electric towers, causing large-scale power outages.

Looking at this beautiful landscape, Qin Yuanqing found it very interesting. He wondered if the Europeans were aware of their own crisis, and he wondered whether the environmental protection girl was anti-intellectual or why she was loved by so many people.

Maybe at any time, Europe will suddenly decline, and everyone will have to eat dirt.

Development is the last word!

Qin Yuanqing has always recognized this sentence, without development, everything will be empty.

China's economic transformation and environmental protection are also based on development. Because of the experience, everyone knows that the first thing people need is to solve the problem of food and clothing, and only after the food and clothing are solved can we talk about other things.

But maybe the Europeans are really too rich, and have been rich for too long, so that they forget what it feels like to be bitter!
Appreciating this beautiful landscape, Qin Yuanqing became even more proud of his motherland, because Huaxia has always been on the right path.

(End of this chapter)