Lu Zhou asked Assistant Zhao to make him another cup of coffee. After about an hour, Lu Zhou quietly listened to Luo Wenxuan's experience at CERN.
"The Institute of High Energy Physics and the Institute of Space Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are mainly responsible for the design of the Lunar Hadron Collider. However, the Chinese research institutes don't have the experience of constructing the Large Hadron Collider, so we contacted the European Organization for Nuclear Research …
Theoretical research was no secret. Occasionally, when CERN had data that they couldn't handle, they would work with other research institutes around the world to solve it. This was how the Internet was born. Even though there was competition in some groundbreaking research, it was an international practice to work together to solve problems.
When the Europeans learned that China planned to build a collider on the Moon, they were even more enthusiastic than the Chinese. They immediately sent their best engineering team, as well as the designers of the LHCB and ALICE detectors, to Beijing. They also gave the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ten places to visit the Lunar Hadron Collider. They even took the initiative to pay for the relevant expenses.
Of course, this was not for free.
The reason why CERN was so eager to help was because they wanted to cooperate more closely with China in the field of particle physics in the future. When the Hadron Collider on the moon was built, more than half of the world's high-energy physics experiments would be carried out in space. This behemoth would create a possibility for the physics community to verify conjectures that were previously impossible to verify.
Luo Wenxuan was one of the scholars from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he had worked at CERN for the longest time. Therefore, he was naturally the leader of the delegation.
He had been living at CERN for two months, and his experiences there made him feel a lot of emotions.
"… Edward Witten hasn't been there for a long time. I asked the person in charge of CERN, and apparently, he quit his CERN office and returned his focus to Princeton University."
"It's not just Witten, a lot of knowledgeable old professors are gone. I walked around the lecture building, and most of the lecturers are new faces."
Luo Wenxuan looked at the faint steam on his coffee cup and sighed.
He wanted to visit his old friends, but many of them were no longer at CERN. They were either old, changed careers, or went to other research institutes.
"CERN is a place like this. Most people who are interested in theoretical physics will go there at least once." Lu Zhou touched the cold coffee cup with his finger and said, "It's just like theoretical physics itself. When the old people leave, there will always be new people."
"Let's not talk about this sad topic." Luo Wenxuan smiled and shook his head. "Speaking of which, I found something interesting in the past two months."
Lu Zhou: "What is it?"
Luo Wenxuan: "Do you remember? When I was at CERN, the big bosses' pastime was learning French. "
Lu Zhou thought for a while and nodded with a smile.
"I think I remember it."
CERN was a place where the smartest people in the world gathered. When a group of smart people gathered together, there would always be people who wanted to compete or show off their IQ.
It was obviously impossible to compete in mathematics and physics. After all, everyone's knowledge was about the same. Outstanding research results could not be explained clearly in a few words, nor could they be convinced.
However, if one could learn a language in a month or even a week or two, it would undoubtedly prove one's IQ.
This might sound ridiculous, but it was the truth. Many physics experts who came to CERN for the first time could go from not knowing French to being able to communicate with people in French in a month or two, or even a few weeks.
Not to mention that half of CERN's research facilities were in France. Therefore, learning French and giving reports in French could be regarded as an elegant pastime for the physics experts at CERN.
When Lu Zhou visited CERN, he did not have the opportunity to participate in this interesting activity. However, he still heard the professors he knew talk about it.
For example, Frank Wilczek once bragged to him about how he learned French in two weeks and then won a month's worth of beer from a French guy …
"The situation has changed a little." Luo Wenxuan squeezed his eyebrows and said with a smile, "There are a lot more Chinese clubs. Learning French used to be a fashion and a way to show off your intelligence, but now it seems to be learning Chinese."
"Learning Chinese?"
"That's right." Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Apparently, the official working language of the Moon Palace is Chinese. The first research results published on the official website are all written in Chinese. You know, using Google Translate to read theoretical physics literature is a disaster. Although it's not impossible, many scholars in related fields have to start studying Chinese grammar. "
"… That's really hard for them."
Lu Zhou smiled and rubbed his nose.
Speaking of which, he was the one who approved this.
Even though the Moon Palace staff didn't have any strict rules for journal submissions, the observation data published on the official website, as well as the experimental results collected, were all in Chinese.
Even though this increased the workload of scholars from other countries …
But there was nothing they could do about it. The Moon Palace was built by China.
In some sense, this was a projection of international power into the academic community.
As a necessary skill for scientific research, English was essential. However, it was also the responsibility of an academic leader to raise the status of their own language in the academic community through academic influence, thereby indirectly increasing the discourse power of their scholars in the international academic community.
If the work went well, the Moon Palace workstation would cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish a special comprehensive journal to publish the research results on the Moon Palace.
Not only would the research data produced by the Moon Palace be published, but the thesis itself would also be published.
"… Speaking of which, even though I didn't see my old friend at CERN, I did see your old friend."
Lu Zhou: "Mine?"
"Professor Franck Wilczek." Luo Wenxuan shrugged his shoulders and smiled. He then said, "He asked me to send his regards to you. Also, he wants to know how your research on the 750 GeV signal is going. CERN recently did another experiment, and they can't even see a 1 sigma signal. "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Then next time you see him, remember to tell him that when the Lunar Hadron Collider is built, I'll give him a clear answer … No matter what the signal is."
Luo Wenxuan smiled and said, "Really? I'm looking forward to it. "
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