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Chapter 325 Collider Meeting

Chapter 326 Collider Conference
a meeting room
"Leaders and experts, I suggest building a large-scale particle collider!" Academician Wang first spoke: "For Huaxia, this is the best opportunity to lead the world in fundamental physics research!"

Qin Yuanqing listened to Academician Wang's speech, and then flipped through it.Taking a look at the conference room for the materials of this meeting, besides Academician Wang, Mr. Yang and others, there are also Qiu Chengtong, plus Qin Yuanqing, a total of 13 top scholars.

Although this academician Wang was just elected as an academician last year, he has made some achievements in high-energy physics. He has been engaged in high-energy physics experimental research for a long time. In terms of neutrinos, he is the main proposer of the Daya Bay experimental plan, leading the completion of its design, construction and research. ; proposed and led the Jiangmen neutrino experiment.In terms of electron-positron collision, he led the design, construction and preliminary research of the new Jingcheng spectrometer on the Jingcheng electron-positron collider.

After graduating from Jinling University in 1984, Academician Wang went to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the L3 experiment led by physicist Ding Zhaozhong, specializing in the research of high-energy particles. For small achievements, he won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics last year, which has a single prize of up to 300 million US dollars.

And he proposed the large-scale electron collider in Huaxia, and he also signed several top scholars such as Qiu Chengtong.

"Building a large-scale particle collider can make us the center of particle physics research in the world and firmly establish China's leading position. At the same time, we can achieve localization in the following technologies and lead the world." Academician Wang said passionately: " This will not only allow my country to get rid of the restrictions of CERN and gain independent research and development capabilities in the high-energy field, but also allow my country to become the center of high-energy physics in the world. It will attract tens of thousands of top scholars from all over the world to settle in my country like CERN in Europe. It can effectively improve our country's international image."

"If a large collider cannot discover new particles or new phenomena, it will also give us a deeper understanding of the physical world, just like the Michelson-Morley experiment did not discover the ether, but it has a great impact on physics, especially the establishment of the theory of relativity." It plays an important role." Academician Wang continued: "The circular collider is an ideal Higgs particle factory, and the Higgs particle is the most important window in the current unknown particle physics research."

Several other co-signing scholars also put forward their own views. Originally, the center of high-energy physics was about to be transferred from Europe to North America, but it was because of the establishment of CERN in Europe that it consolidated its position as the center of high-energy physics in the world. Tens of thousands of It is certainly a stark example that the physicists who plan to work at CERN provide intelligence for European development.

"Mr. Yang, you are a two-time Nobel Prize winner in physics, and you are engaged in theoretical physics. You are an expert in high-energy physics. Do you think we should build a large particle collider?" The leader looked at Mr. Yang and asked road.

Although it was said that six top scholars jointly signed the submission proposal, the superiors did not directly make a decision, but held a demonstration meeting to demonstrate whether it is necessary to build a large particle collider.

After all, the construction cost of 2000 billion is not a small amount. Even if it is not invested so much in a year, it is still a large sum of money. Although Huaxia has had financial surpluses in recent years, it cannot be a loser.

That's why we have today's meeting.

"Experts and leaders, from a scholar's point of view, I am very opposed to building a large particle collider at this time." Old Yang said slowly.

When the others heard the words, their faces changed. Before the sound, Mr. Yang had not only opposed the construction of a large particle collider.After all, this is already the fourth time.

In the past, China was poor and there was nothing to do. From an economic point of view, it was justifiable, but now China is rich, and the country is so rich that it can completely afford the money. Why should it be opposed.

Don't you know that the construction of a large particle collider is beneficial to China and Chinese scholars? China is far behind Europe in high-energy physics. Isn't it because Europe has CERN and can continue to discover, so there are a large number of papers every year.

But Mr. Yang didn't seem to notice their faces, and said clearly: "First of all, I think the scientific goal is unclear, and 2000 billion may be in vain. It is still unknown whether new particles can be found, and the investment is huge when the goal is uncertain. What is the value of the financial and material resources? After all, 2000 billion is not a small amount. After it is completed, it will require a large amount of operation and maintenance costs every year. It can be said to be a bottomless pit. It will not be realized within 50 years. Not to mention the estimate of 2000 billion in the proposal, but I think It is very likely that 2000 billion is not enough, and if it is built, it may need 3000 billion, or even 4000 billion."

"Furthermore, the key technology is not in hand, which squeezes other scientific research funds. In the context of no revolutionary technology, many technical details need the support of Europe and the United States. Even most of the technologies need the support of Europe and the United States, which means that such a large Investment, in the end, has to be handed over to European and American companies.”

"The most important point is that China's advanced physicists currently account for less than 1% of the world's total. After the project is completed, it will inevitably be dominated by foreigners and make wedding dresses for others. Look at the younger generation of scholars, except for Academician Qin, which one can be called Can you become a top scholar in advanced physics? No, not a single one!" Mr. Yang said bluntly: "The feast of high-energy physics is over, and everything that needs to be discovered has been discovered. If we go one step further, input and output will be completely equal. Not directly proportional."

The prosperity and development of particle physics in the 70s and [-]s was called a "feast", which was comparable to the grand occasion of quantum mechanics at the beginning of the century.At that time, new experimental discoveries were like a blowout, and the theoretical work represented by the standard model, effective field theory, and quantum chromodynamics was equally brilliant, as well as string theory, loop quantum gravity, and grand unified theory. Further raise the theoretical work to a higher level.In this feast, a large number of godlike people emerged, such as Weinberg, Glashow, Gross, Yang/Lee, Witten, Wigner, Schwinger, Gellmann, Weltman, Hoft et al.

After that, the feast was over, and what was discovered later was all predicted and demonstrated before.

The biggest achievement in the physics field in the past 40 years is not the discovery of a certain particle, nor the discovery of a certain wave, but the solution of the Yang-Mills theory by Qin Yuanqing and the unified theory of strong electricity proposed by Qin Yuanqing.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Yuanqing has been regarded by many people as the greatest physicist and mathematician of the 21st century.

"Academician Qin, what's your opinion?" The leader named Qin Yuanqing. After all, Qin Yuanqing's opinion is the most important. Now Qin Yuanqing is a leader in the scientific community and a banner of the Chinese scientific community.

"First of all, a large-scale particle collider will always be built, but not now, nor on the earth. After the moon landing, a large-scale particle collider should be built on the moon." Qin Yuan smiled lightly: "Nowadays, the most important thing in high-energy physics research is not to build a large particle collider, but to train the corresponding talents. What do you do without talents to build this thing?"

"But." Academician Wang just wanted to refute.

"Okay, Academician Wang, this topic ends here." The leader interrupted Academician Wang, and the two Nobel Prize winners in physics objected, one of them was No.20 in physics in the second half of the 1th century, and the other was At present, the greatest physicists of the 21st century both hold a negative attitude, so what else needs to be discussed.

Academician Wang heard the leader's words and knew that the situation was over.

He couldn't understand that Qin Yuanqing and Yang Laohui were opposed, especially Qin Yuanqing. The construction of a large-scale particle collider would do no harm to Qin Yuanqing and would not affect Qin Yuanqing's status.

Moreover, Qin Yuanqing is so rich, 2000 billion yuan does not even have a quarter of Qin Yuanqing's net worth, so Qin Yuanqing can build a large particle collider by himself.

Qin Yuanqing didn't know what was going on in his mind, otherwise he would have scoffed at it, thinking too much, it's his business to have money, why invest in building a large particle collider.

Huaxia still has so many fields to solve, and so many places are still poor and backward. It is more cost-effective for him to use this money to help education in these places than to invest in building a large particle collider.

With the development of high-energy physics up to now, it is very difficult to make any breakthroughs. The gravitational force on the earth is also strong. It is difficult to invest 2000 billion yuan in the construction of a large-scale particle collider. Even Qin Yuanqing doubts it. It is whether the investment of 5000 billion yuan can produce substantial results.

On the contrary, if a large-scale particle collider is built on the moon, the effect will be much better. The gravity of the moon is much smaller than that of the earth, and there is no need to consider the land occupation.

This is the end of the meeting.

Qiu Chengtong, Tao Zhexuan greeted Qin Yuanqing, Qiu Chengtong said: "Unexpectedly, you would deny the large-scale particle collider and propose to build a large-scale particle collider on the earth. The idea is very good, but it is not practical at all. It is better to say never Build a large particle collider."

This time Academician Wang approached him, and he thought it was a great thing. It would greatly promote Huaxia's high-energy physics, and Huaxia is not short of money now, so it can be built. He even recruited Tao Zhexuan.

Tao Zhexuan smiled wryly, "This time I'm a good person, I'm not a person inside and out."

Qin Yuan smiled lightly and said: "The large particle collider is built now, and it is no different from ten years later, 20 years later, or even 30 years later. There are still many people in China who are very poor, with more than 6 million people whose monthly income is less than 1000 yuan, such a large amount of money can achieve great effects in many fields."

Don't look at China's rising step by step, but in fact there are still many problems in China, such as the development of the central and western regions. The development of the western region has now become a major strategy of the country, and it continues to invest trillions of funds every year to stimulate the development of the central and western regions. development of.

(End of this chapter)