Chen Chen walked into Xia Yin's office and took a look around.
The office was very simple and did not have much decoration. The only distinguishing feature was probably the size.
This office was almost the size of Chen Chen's office in Eco Science City.
Xia Yin seemed to understand Chen Chen's doubts and said helplessly, "There's no other way. The total area of the building we built far exceeds the usable area. After all, the headquarters only has a few hundred people, so to make it look less deserted, we had to divide the office into a larger area."
"That's good, it's quieter with fewer people."
Chen Chen casually sat across the general manager's desk and looked at Xia Yin who had become mature and steady. He immediately asked, "Is everything going well in the company?"
"Yes."
Xia Yin curled her lips and asked, "Although we're called the headquarters, in reality, it's like a vase with no parents. The most we do every day is manage the website and release a statement. Other than that, there's nothing else. How can it not be good?"
"Actually, this place is also very important. The reason you don't feel that the headquarters is valued much is because it's not the right time yet."
Chen Chen took the coffee from the secretary and thanked her before continuing. "Besides, the headquarters is like the head of the Imperial Household. They can manage everything, isn't that good?"
"It's a pity that the head of the Imperial Household is a eunuch."
Xia Yin suddenly complained and then sighed. "But fortunately, your personal secretary, Aixen, has always been in contact with us. I heard that this Aixen is still an underage girl?"
“？”
Chen Chen tilted his head.
"I was wondering why you weren't interested in me. Turns out you're a lolicon!"
Xia Yin looked disgusted. "Pervert!"
Chen Chen saw that the topic was getting further and further away, so he had to say, "Let's not talk about that. Apart from visiting the company, I'm here for another important matter. In a while, I'll send a document to your email. There's a project application information inside. Prepare it because in the near future, you may have to represent Blacklight Biotechnology to meet the government officials of various continents. "
"What project?"
Xia Yin looked at Zhang Heng suspiciously.
"It's an investment project that involves tens of billions of dollars and the entire Earth Federation, so you have to go there in person."
Chen Chen replied, "To put it simply, I want to establish our own branch offices in the three major Sea Zones of the Central Continent, Eastern Continent, Southern Continent, Northern Continent, South America, Europe, Oceania, and Arctic Continent. Not only do I want to establish branch offices, but I also want to establish local research institutions and sanatoriums to expand Eco Science City to the rest of the world."
Xia Yin did not seem to hear him clearly. She looked at Chen Chen in shock. "Are you sure? Where did all that money come from? "
It was normal for Xia Yin to be shocked. If it was just the opening of branches and offices, any world-renowned conglomerate would have done so. However, opening Eco Science Cities all over the world at the same time was not something an ordinary conglomerate could do.
As one of the world's top corporations, Blacklight Biotechnology was indeed rich, but like most companies, it was all about market value.
Although Blacklight Biotechnology had never been listed, most of its money was invested in the construction of the Eco Science City. It was not easy to sustain a city.
"The money, of course, will be borrowed from the local bank."
Chen Chen's lips curled into a smile as he replied, "In this day and age, who would run a business with their own money? What if they lose money?"
"..."
Xia Yin was instantly speechless.
"When the time comes, the price and conditions will be in your hands."
Chen Chen said meaningfully, "Xia Yin, don't let me down."
"Okay!"
Xia Yin's eyes were filled with confusion at first, but then she quickly came to her senses. After such a long period of experience, she was no longer the naive girl she used to be. She was now a capable woman with superb means.
"In addition, you have another task."
Chen Chen continued. "That is to order the components needed for the Hadron Collider. You must purchase this from the European authorities in secret. I'll have the European consortium cooperate with you."
"What!"
After hearing this, Xia Yin was even more shocked. "Hadron Collider? Chen Chen, what are you planning to do? "
"It's related to research, you don't need to know the specifics."
Chen Chen did not explain. "This is your entire task. After so many years of experience, let me see if you can meet the requirements I have in mind?"
With that, Chen Chen did not linger here. He immediately stood up and left Xia Yin's office.
After leaving the office building, Chen Chen took one last look at the building and reactivated Little X's communication device.
"X, have Cheng Cao prepare the convoy, I'm going back to Namibia."
Chen Chen said in a low voice.
"Humph!"
A cold snort came from the headset, followed by Little X's muffled voice. "I've informed Cheng Cao, he's on his way!"
"Very good."
Chen Chen did not mind. He sat on the chair in front of the flower bed and stared at the traffic on the streets of Shangdu, his eyes as calm as an ancient well.
The reason Chen Chen wanted to buy the components of the Hadron Collider was not for any other reason but because he needed it.
It was just like how Blacklight Biotechnology began to encroach on the market around the world as its popularity grew, establishing branches all over the world. It was all a matter of course.
In fact, as early as two years ago, Chen Chen had the idea of building the Hadron Collider.
With the development of science and technology, mankind's understanding of the structure of matter also increased day by day. In the beginning, they used the naked eye to observe all kinds of matter around them, gradually developing the use of magnifying glasses, microscopes, and later, using high-energy physics research equipment and so on, gradually delving into the deeper structure of cells, molecules, atoms, and atomic nuclei.
Every new discovery would bring about huge social changes and technological advancements.
The discovery of the atomic nucleus and extrasuclear electrons led to the development of radio, semiconductors, television, radar, lasers, and X-ray.
The Hadron Collider was one of the devices used to observe the microscopic world.
The essence of the Hadron Collider was a particle accelerator. Its strength lay in its ability to increase the speed of particles to a very high level. When two particles of comparable speed collided, they may combine with each other, thereby forming a new type of particle.
In addition, even if high-speed particles did not collide, researchers could still find the laws of change in the microscopic world through the changes that occurred in the particle's motion, thereby laying a foundation for further research and development of the microscopic world.
At the same time, understanding the microscopic world could also help mankind better construct and adjust the macroscopic world.
In general, the larger the size of the Hadron Collider, the more effective it was. This was because the larger the size, the larger the internal operating space. This meant that the machine could provide more energy to the particles, helping to accelerate the particles better and faster. This way, researchers could obtain more accurate experimental results.
At present, the European Large Hadron Collider was the largest and most powerful Hadron Collider in the world. Its tunnel circumference was as high as 27 kilometers. To build it, the European scientific research team spent more than a decade and more than 8 billion US dollars.
It was obvious that it was not an affordable scientific research device, but a luxury product among technological products. Only a country with a strong economy could build and put it into use. It was even more difficult for a private enterprise to build such a device.
In fact, as early as 2014, the Mainland had launched a project. The Mainland planned to build a tunnel with a circumference of 100 kilometers, nearly four times the size of the world's largest Hadron Collider. However, this project was forcefully stopped by Professor Yang Zhenning in 2018. Since then, it had been aborted and had not been implemented until now.
At that time, the reasons given by Professor Yang Zhenning were simple. First, it was too expensive. Second, the probability of producing results was not high. Third, even if there were results, it would be meaningless within fifty years.
In addition, the most important reason was that after the project was completed, it would be led by foreigners. This was because there were only a few high-energy physicists in the Mainland at that time, so it would only benefit others.
The God particle.
The physics community had been looking forward to it for more than 40 years. It was the most likely particle to surpass the standard model. If it could be verified, then "Superstring Theory" could be like "Quantum Mechanics", removing the word "theory" and becoming "Superstring Mechanics".
"Superstring Mechanics" represented the ultimate theory of everything — the unification of the four fundamental forces.
At that time, from the smallest fundamental particle to the largest cosmic body, whether it was the nature of black holes or the origin of the universe, everything would crawl under the feet of the superstring...
Mankind had a dream. As long as the basic structure of matter was unified, the interaction of matter and the laws of motion and transformation were unified, they would be as omniscient and omnipotent as God.
Unfortunately, this dream had not been realized so far.
In fact, as early as the era of the United States and the Soviet Union, Northern America planned to build a Hadron Collider with a circumference of one hundred kilometers. However, over several years, more than two billion US dollars were spent, but the tunnel was not even completed. At that time, the Soviet Union collapsed, so this project was completely halted.
All of this naturally caused the group of supporters of "Superstring Theory" in the particle physics community to wail in grief.
After that, the European Hadron Collider went online. Its maximum power was 13 TeV. Although it was far from comparable to the Northern American project, it was still passable. However, after the much-anticipated collision experiment, there were no signs of supersymmetric particles for several years. In an instant, 99.999% of the original parameter space of the supersymmetric theory disappeared.
At this point, "Superstring Theory" was almost a pile of waste paper. However, there were still countless people who were willing to believe in its existence. This group of people believed that the reason supersymmetric particles could not be collided was because the power was not enough, so they came to the Mainland to lobby, which led to Professor Yang Zhenning's opposition.
Simply put, the Central Continent's Hadron Collider project was aborted because the scientific value was not strong enough.
However, Chen Chen was different. There were two reasons why Chen Chen wanted to build the Hadron Collider.
The first reason, which was also the fundamental reason, was that Chen Chen needed to build the technology he retrieved from Elysium — high-offset armor.
This isotope metal armor was known as the hardest and most stable material in the solar system. Not only could it be used as armor for spaceships, but it could also withstand the radiation from the surface of the sun, allowing spaceships to travel close to the stars.
So far, apart from the water droplets in The Three-Body Problem, Chen Chen had not heard of any material that was harder than this.
The second reason was that if Chen Chen wanted to build it, he would not need to spend tens of billions of dollars like the Central Continent. This was because Chen Chen had a trump card in his hand.
This trump card was the normal-temperature superconductor.
Just maintaining the low-temperature superconductor in the tunnel of a regular Hadron Collider would be a huge expense. The characteristics of the normal-temperature superconductor meant that Chen Chen would only need to spend one-tenth of the price to build a new superconducting Hadron Collider that was shorter in length but far more powerful than the conventional Hadron Collider.
This was Chen Chen's unique advantage.
Moreover, Chen Chen also wanted to continue down the path of grand unification. He wanted to see if the so-called "Superstring Theory" that could unify the four fundamental forces and claimed to be the ultimate theory of everything was true or false.
On this road of grand unification, there were several tall figures in front of him. After Galileo unified motion and stillness, Newton's Three Laws and the Law of Universal Gravitation unified the phenomena of heaven and earth, opening the door to the mechanical industrial revolution.
Maxwell followed closely behind and unified electricity, magnetism, and light with a set of equations. From then on, mankind entered the electrical age.
Einstein followed. He first used the Special Theory of Relativity to reconcile Maxwell's equations and Newtonian mechanics, unifying low and high speeds, then he unified matter and energy, and nuclear weapons came into being.
After that came the emergence of quantum mechanics, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac...
Finally, Yang Zhenning took the stage.
He took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and used a set of mathematical framework theory to unify the electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force, quietly winning the Nobel Prize. This mathematical framework was the aforementioned Yang-Mills gauge field theory.
Yang Zhenning's gauge field theory was comparable to Newton's gravity, Maxwell's electromagnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity.
Many people thought that Hawking was the most famous physicist of modern times, the only physicist comparable to Einstein. However, what many people did not know was that Yang Zhenning's Science City far surpassed Hawking's.
There was a saying in the physics community that Yang Zhenning was equivalent to half Einstein and twenty Hawkings. Although this was just a joke, it was enough to show that Yang Zhenning's contributions to modern physics were far greater than Hawking's.
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