Professor Felix had been in high spirits recently.
Not only because not long ago, he was nominated for the American Physical Society Award for his research on the origin of neutrino mass, but also because of the invitation from the ILHCRC's "Century of Physics" conference.
That invitation wasn't as simple as inviting him to a meeting.
Six physicists recommended his name to the ILHCRC, hoping that he would summarize the most prominent or crucial problem in the proposition of the origin of neutrino mass.
In a sense, this invitation was even more valuable than the awards issued by the general Physics Association.
Because it meant that the topic he studied had been recognized by his peers.
It meant that his influence in the research field had been recognized by the mainstream academic opinion!
Even in a place like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where there were many powerful people, this was something worth bragging about.
Although raising a problem wasn't as cool as solving a problem, he was excited when he thought that in the next century, the problem he raised would be regarded as a classic by tens or even hundreds of thousands of people.
It could even be said that this made him more excited than winning a medal from the American Physical Society! While he was handing in his thesis, he felt like he was walking in the wind.
At noon one day.
Professor Felix returned to his office after class. He was about to ask his assistant to pour him a cup of coffee when the phone on the corner of the table suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone, cleared his throat, and spoke.
"Hello??"
"Hello, this is the office of the ILHCRC conference organization department."
When Felix heard that it was a call from the ILHCRC, the expression on his face suddenly became happy. However, he did not reveal the joy in his heart. Instead, he leaned back in his office chair and spoke calmly.
"What can I do for you?"
In Professor Felix's opinion, there was almost no suspense that the problem he provided would be selected as the Century of Physics conference.
Not to mention that the origin of the mass of neutrinos was one of the cutting-edge research hotspots in the physics community today, just the research ideas summarized in the paper he submitted and the problems he faced in his current research were key research bottlenecks.
He couldn't think of any reason for the ILHCRC to exclude his problem from the list of 100.
However, just as he was full of confidence, the voice that came from the other end of the phone made his confidence instantly fall from the clouds to the bottom of the valley.
"I'm very sorry, Professor Felix … We have to regret to inform you that your paper failed to pass the preliminary selection."
It was as if he had been petrified. His whole body froze on the spot.
Professor Felix's mouth opened and closed. It took a while for him to come back to his senses. Like a frightened lion, he roared into the phone with a tone full of disbelief and anger.
"Failed … to pass the preliminaries? Wait a minute! What did he mean by not passing the preliminaries? Are you mistaken about something? "
"I'm sorry, Mr. Felix. This is the opinion of the judging committee …"
The staff on the other end of the phone tried to use a sincere and regretful tone to calm the angry Professor Felix. He said, "According to the voting results after the primary meeting, the proposition you proposed on 'how to introduce heavy Fermi field triplet into the standard model' does not meet our standards for the Century of Physics Congress's Questions of the Century. We are very sorry."
"I'm not here to listen to your apologies!" A roar interrupted the staff member's speech. Professor Felix, who had almost lost his mind, said in an angry tone, "This is unbelievable! Any scholar who understands physics will not deny the importance of the origin of neutrino mass in the entire high-energy physics research! "
The staff on the other end of the phone asked weakly.
"Maybe it's because of the proposition you proposed …"
"Impossible! Do you know my research direction? " Professor Felix's beard trembled. He continued aggressively, "I have been researching in this direction for a full 20 years! No one knows better than me what the most critical problem facing this topic is! Even Professor Lu can't do it! "
Faced with the aggressive Professor Felix, the staff member on the phone didn't know what to say.
He was just an intern. Although his major was indeed high-energy physics, none of the big shots working here would treat him as a serious physicist. Therefore, he didn't express any of his own opinions at all.
If you had to ask him what he thought …
Which of these two thousand physics problems was not seriously thought of by the invitees?
If you had to choose the 100 most representative problems, there would be 1,900 that were eliminated …
In essence, this was no different from the ILHCRC intern qualification examination.
"This … I'm very sorry, I don't know if Academician Lu himself is optimistic about your research, but the evaluation results are the opinions of the vast majority of scholars in the review delegation. I hope you can understand …"
"F * ck!"
Professor Felix angrily hung up the phone. His chest was heaving violently.
He had worked in the physics world for so long, and he had never been so wronged.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He suddenly stood up from the office chair.
The assistant standing next to the desk with a cup of coffee in his hand looked at Professor Felix, who stood up angrily. He asked nervously in a low voice.
"Professor?"
"Buy me a plane ticket to Shanghai immediately! I want the nearest flight! The closer, the better! "
Professor Felix ignored the nervous expression on his assistant's face. He reached out and took his coat from the clothes hanger, put it on his shoulders, and walked toward the door.
"Not up to the standard? I'd like to see what meets the standard! "
Looking at the office door slammed shut, the assistant stood there with her mouth wide open.
Even though he didn't know what happened …
But looking at the professor's angry look, it could only be an accident at the ILHCRC …
Regardless of what his assistant thought, Professor Felix, who left the office, drove back to his apartment and packed his carry-on belongings in the shortest time.
Without wasting a minute, after receiving a text message from his assistant that the ticket was successfully booked, he immediately went downstairs and returned to his car. He drove to the airport at the fastest speed, passed through the security check, and took the first flight to Shanghai.
Even though the last-minute first-class ticket made him feel a little distressed, when he thought of the "unfair treatment" he received in the ILHCRC review, the distressed feeling was immediately diluted by anger and grief.
He needed an explanation!
If the ILHCRC review team couldn't give him an explanation, he would go to Lu Zhou face to face and ask him why his paper was rejected!
He swore that if the ILHCRC or the chairman of the ILHCRC couldn't give him a reasonable explanation, he would not give up!
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