The applause was like a thunderstorm.
It almost tore the roof off the auditorium.
Professor Klitzing, who was sitting in the middle of the venue, clapped his hands and spoke to Professor Keriber, who was sitting next to him.
"Excellent speech … What do you think?"
Professor Keriber also clapped his hands and smiled.
"I have the same opinion as you. It's just that, other than that, I think it's a bit unbelievable."
Klitzing turned his head and looked at him curiously.
"Unbelievable? What's unbelievable? "
"I always thought he was a scholar who focused on his own research and didn't care about things that had nothing to do with him. I didn't expect him to be that kind of person."
"I once looked for him, hoping that he would give us a chance."
"What chance?"
"The opportunity to touch the sun with both hands, or rather, the opportunity to share peace and prosperity together." Looking at the figure that had disappeared behind the door, Keriber narrowed his eyes as if he was reminiscing. He continued in a slightly emotional tone, "At that time, although he rejected me, I also suspected that I had misjudged him and was pessimistic about the future … But it turned out that I was wrong. He just brought the sun to earth in another way that could satisfy everyone's demands."
Energy was an eternal problem for any country. Once the problem of energy was solved, all the contradictions between the means of production and the relations of production would be solved as long as the materials were not particularly scarce.
The social changes that would be brought about by this would be extremely terrifying. It would even exceed the total impact of the previous two industrial revolutions on human society.
At the same time, the birth of this technology was bound to break the balance of the international order in a drastic way.
Faced with this power that broke the balance, how the various countries would react might be even more unpredictable than the plasma in the reactor core.
The slightest bit of carelessness, or even just a single misjudgment, could lead to consequences that no one could bear …
Professor Klitzing understood what Professor Keriber meant and smiled.
"Are you talking about controllable nuclear fusion?"
As a scholar, he didn't really care about the interests of politicians. Therefore, he continued in a relaxed tone, "I heard that the European Union and the United States paid a lot of money to get China to remove the nuclear core from the ban list … But if I remember correctly, wasn't that the result of a discussion among the various countries?"
Professor Keriber shook his head and looked away from the stage.
"Professor Klitzing, a country is also made up of people. Everyone's voice plays a role to a certain extent. The only difference is that some people's voices are as small as a mosquito, and some people's voices are louder than thunder and can't be ignored. This is both a right and a responsibility.
"He is the leader of China's academic community, the representative of all scholars in China, and the chief designer of the controllable fusion project. I can even say with certainty that China is willing to negotiate controllable nuclear fusion technology with other countries. The world is still operating on a peaceful track, and it must have contributed to this. "
At the same time, on the other side of the auditorium.
Professor Franck Wilczek stopped applauding. He squinted at Lu Zhou, who was walking down the stage, and suddenly spoke.
He suddenly spoke, "Our common topic."
Edward Witten, who was sitting next to him, raised his eyebrows and spoke with interest.
"What did you just say?"
"I mean, what he said." Professor Wilczek gestured with his hands and said, "This conference, as well as the idea of the upcoming International Lunar Hadron Collider Research Center, is to allow us to face the issues together."
Witten: "… Is that what he said?"
"Probably, maybe a little different … But that's what he meant." Professor Wilczek quickly changed the topic and said, "Speaking of which, there is finally a generous person willing to push our discipline forward … Are you ready? Mr. Witten? "
"Are you calling me?"
"Of course." Wilczek smiled and said, "You used to complain that CERN's collider was too weak, and there was no way to verify your theory. Now we have a bigger collider, and you have a good relationship with the person in charge."
Witten smiled and shook his head.
"I don't deny what you just said. This is definitely an epic moment for physics, but it's too early for string theory."
"Don't be so pessimistic, buddy."
"I'm not pessimistic, it's just that we don't have any means of observation to reveal the mysteries of a lower dimension. This isn't a problem that can be solved by the collider alone." Witten paused for a second and said, "But even so, it's still significant. Like I said, this is an epic moment. Whether it's in an academic sense or outside of academia. "
"Outside of physics?" Wilczek frowned and said, "I don't quite understand what you mean."
Witten smiled.
"My academic intuition tells me that the world is becoming a whole, like two intertwined strings. From now on, our physics will be more prosperous … But it's too early to say this, let's wait a little longer."
Wilczek muttered, "Is it too early? We won't be able to see it if we wait any longer. "
Witten laughed when he heard his old friend say this.
"Why does it matter? Princeton will see it for us, someone else will see it for us! "
…
After Lu Zhou walked off the stage, Mrs. Cramer, the chairman of CERN, went on stage.
This old lady, who was over 50 years old, spoke slowly but clearly. She expressed CERN's support for the upcoming International Lunar Hadron Collider Research Center (ILHCRC).
Due to various reasons, the academic community's speech was arranged in the center of the international symposium, before the political representatives.
After Lu Zhou and the CERN representatives finished their speeches, Director Li from the State Administration for National Defense of China, as well as senior officials from the aerospace departments of Russia, the United States, and the European Union, expressed their opinions on this project and gave their best wishes.
No matter what kind of thoughts they had in their hearts, no matter what kind of open and veiled struggles and games they were playing behind the scenes, at least at this moment, in the face of the century project that would determine the height of Earth's civilization, the hands of people from all over the world were tightly clenched together.
This historic scene was also recorded by the cameras on both sides of the auditorium, and it was broadcasted to tens of millions of televisions through the internet.
The opening ceremony quickly came to an end.
The first Lunar Hadron Collider conference officially began.
At the same time, for physics, a new era had begun with the end of this opening ceremony …
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