What Luo Wenxuan was worried about did not happen.
In this kind of private occasion, no one would take the banter between friends too seriously.
In fact, as the secretary-general of the ILHCRC, his contribution was quite outstanding.
Lu Zhou also used a solemn tone in his speech at the official opening of the banquet. He expressed his highest gratitude to those individuals and groups who had made outstanding contributions to the ILHCRC and the verification of hyperspace theory.
"… Since the millennium, all the major achievements we have made in the field of physics are inseparable from the power of cooperation. If we don't have so many outstanding people, our work will be difficult to carry out, and we might not even be able to carry it out. "
"Thank you to all those who have contributed to this noble cause. Whether it is tedious, complicated, or seemingly trivial work, I believe that there must be some undiscovered value behind it. And one day, whether it's tomorrow or in the distant future, it will definitely be excavated and absorbed by our civilization. "
"Although fame and fortune are not our pursuit in this field, if we want to erect a stone monument to commemorate this moment, I hope that all of our names will be engraved on it!"
There was applause in the banquet hall.
The atmosphere of the scene was pushed to a peak.
People clinked glasses with each other to celebrate and commemorate this moment that was destined to be recorded in history.
Standing at the end of the crowd, the gray-haired Academician Lu raised his cuff and gently rubbed the corner of his eye. Professor Lee Yong-eun of the Jin Ling University Physics Department walked to the old man's side and spoke with a smile.
"Did you think about it back then?"
When Academician Lu saw that it was someone he knew, he quickly put down his hand and spoke seriously.
"Think about what?"
"I thought about how my student has grown to this level."
Academician Lu looked at Professor Lee Yong-eun, who was smiling. He was silent for a while and suddenly sighed softly.
He spoke in a somewhat emotional voice.
"I just thought that this kid's future development would definitely not be simple, so I tried my best to trick him into studying at my place. I didn't think too much about it …"
Academician Lu's gaze fell on the stage. He looked at the young face, and a gratified smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"I didn't expect him to fulfill all the expectations I had for him before the age of thirty."
…
Professor Lu was not the only one who did not expect this. Most people did not expect this.
He had just won a Nobel Prize medal, and in less than half a year, he had produced another Nobel Prize level achievement.
Unlike other Nobel Prize-level achievements, its significance had surpassed the discovery of the Higgs particle and the Z particle, and even surpassed the sum of the two.
Because of this, the Nobel Prize Committee was in a rather awkward situation.
If he were to win the Nobel Prize, he would have won the physics prize last year. So many people were still queuing at the back. Many of them had worked themselves to death and still hadn't managed to make it. It was really a little unreasonable.
Furthermore, according to the physics community's convention, if last year's prize was awarded to theoretical physics, then this year's prize would be awarded to condensed matter physics. It was not in line with the rules to award theoretical physics prizes two years in a row.
But if it wasn't awarded to him, who would dare to say that he was more qualified to win the award than hyperspace theory?
Even the Higgs particle wouldn't dare to say that he was more important than hyperspace theory.
After all, the discovery of the scalar boson only filled the loopholes in the standard model and saved a crumbling building. The discovery of hyperspace theory was equivalent to directly refreshing people's understanding of the high-dimensional world and the concept of space and time in the universe.
Using this special physical property, humans even had the hope of making mass matter achieve the reality of faster than light in a low-speed state.
It would be an understatement to say that it was the creation of the heavens and the earth.
However, Lu Zhou did not embarrass the Nobel Prize Committee.
In a media interview after the banquet, when a BBC reporter handed the microphone to him and asked him if hyperspace theory would bring him the second Nobel Prize in Physics in his life, Lu Zhou answered the question in a serious tone without thinking much.
"It's better to leave the nine million kronor prize and medal to people who need it more. Don't worry about me. In fact, I don't need more honor to prove anything."
As soon as he said this, the reporters surrounding him let out gasps of surprise.
The BBC reporter who asked the question before thought he heard wrong and couldn't help but ask.
"Excuse me, are you serious? You know, the Nobel Committee may see this news. If there is any misunderstanding, maybe — "
"Do I look like a joking person to you?"
Lu Zhou smiled faintly and continued, "Of course I'm serious, and I very much hope that they can consider some outstanding young people. Their research results need to be recognized and sponsored. In fact, if they don't plan to do this, I will consider setting up my own award to do this. "
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly boiled.
If this sentence was said by someone else, it would sound a bit arrogant.
However, when it came from Lu Zhou's mouth, no one would think that he was arrogant. Instead, they would think that he was too humble.
If he wanted to compete for the next Nobel Prize, there was almost no suspense. The Norbert Prize Committee would definitely award him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
After all, this was a discovery that would change the course of human history. Since the theory of relativity, no theory had been this outstanding.
But now, after Lu Zhou made such a "waiver", the selection committee in charge of the award could at least save a few strands of hair.
If Lu Zhou did not participate in the selection, Wei Hong and Professor Dobrik, who found the "gravitational wave formula of the Z particle", would undoubtedly become the popular candidates for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were the most promising candidates for the nine million kronor prize.
After all, the importance of this formula was personally acknowledged by Lu Zhou, and the conclusion in that paper also appeared in the form of a citation in Lu Zhou's "hyperspace theory" paper.
If they couldn't award the "hyperspace theory" itself, then other work in this direction could also be regarded as an indirect recognition.
The only unfortunate one was Luo Wenxuan.
If he had joined this research project earlier, he might have had a share of the nine million kronor prize money.
Unfortunately, he joined too late, and before he had the time to produce any particularly significant research results, he watched as the potential of the entire research field was dug out by someone single-handedly.
The reporters at the scene, as well as the physicists who were watching nearby, were all shocked by Lu Zhou's generous speech. The relevant news seemed to have grown wings, flying all over the world through the Internet.
Moreover, as it spread, it started to change …
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