At 10 a.m. the next day, the seminar was held in the large conference hall of the five-star hotel.

Professor Galfort was given a second-row seat in the middle and made his way to the venue.

This is already the best batch of seats, as some staff and pallets need to be arranged in the first row.

The keynote speaker at today's conference is Professor Takehisa Yamashita of the Department of Archaeology at Kyoto University, and Galfort is familiar with him.

After the master of ceremonies said the opening remarks, Professor Takehisa Yamashita went straight to the point.

“…… On behalf of the Department of Archaeology at Kyoto University, the Hakata City Museum, and the Hakata Archaeological Society, I would like to announce an exciting conclusion today.

For a long time, there has been a great controversy in the academic circles about the authenticity of the national treasure-level cultural relics, the 'Han and Wei King Seal', recently ushered in two major confirmatory evidence.

First of all, we took advantage of this exposition to invite the Jiangnan Prefecture Museum in the Oriental Kingdom to provide the 'Guangling Wang Seal' for loan exhibition, and at the same time, the archaeologists of our two countries have conducted accurate comparison and research on the shape and style of the two cultural relics, and believe that they are indeed products of the same era, and may even come from the same craftsman.

Secondly, we use the AMS, the ion accelerator mass spectrometer, which represents the most advanced technology for the identification of C14 isotope abundance in the world, provided by relevant experts in the East. After our rigorous experimental verification, it is confirmed that the age of the 'Seal of the Han and Wa Kings' is about 50 A.D., and the positive and negative errors are 20 years.

Below, we will publish the detailed evidence......"

Yamashita Takehisa talked eloquently, and behind him were some smelly and long technical details.

And Professor Galfort in the audience was already a little confused when he heard this.

"What? People in the East have actually built a C14 isotope measuring instrument with a positive or negative error of only more than 20 years? Our archaeological research institute at Stratholme University is still using an accuracy error of at least plus or minus 150 years! This is not scientific! Wait, I want to listen carefully to the details of this...... It seems that I don't understand, so I don't care, so let's write down the core elements first. ”

He didn't dare to refute rashly, but first worked hard to put some elements that he could understand on paper, and then asked his assistant to write down all the parts he didn't understand, or pick them from the meeting outline that had just been issued.

Then Galfort himself took out his mobile phone, hurried out of the conference room, and went to the door to make an international call.

"Willie, didn't you tell me before the summer vacation that the world's most accurate C14 isotope abundance measuring instrument was produced by your company? Do you know what the highest accuracy is in the world at present?"

The Willie he called, who was also a faculty member at Stratholme University, was engaged in atomic physics, but the highest title had only climbed to associate professor.

Later, people found that they were really not good at learning, but it was very awesome to find resources in the circle, so they went to the sea to join a precision instrument company, and full-time poured experimental equipment to their former alma mater.

Most of the measuring instruments used in Galford's research institute were bought by asking Willie. Now that there is a problem, of course, I have to ask him to report the after-sales service.

On the phone, Willie didn't know the current situation, and of course continued to fool brazenly: "Of course, Galford, I've always sold you the best deals." The people at MIT asked me for the goods, and the treatment was not as good as yours. ”

In fact, he didn't have the ability to sell any high-end equipment to MIT. MIT also has its own circle, its own brokers, and what benefits do people in another circle earn.

Galfort said angrily: "But I attended a seminar in Hakata today, and I saw that Fuso people were promoting an identification instrument from the Oriental country, which is seven or eight times more accurate than yours!"

"It can't be!"

Willie's reaction was the same as Galfort's half-hour ago, sounding so indignant that it didn't look like it was pretending at all.

"This guy either really doesn't know, or his acting skills are really good. Professor Galfort mentally gave the other party a verdict.

However, now is not the time to dwell on these, the primary purpose at present is to find out whether the equipment used by the Fuso people is really so powerful, and whether the conclusion is credible.

Professor Galfort began to ask: "I just recorded the main principle of the new technology mentioned by the other party, can you help me check whether it is possible to make something with such high accuracy if I follow this route." ”

In the final analysis, there is a serious disconnect between the archaeological and physical communities. Even if archaeology professors often check papers, they would not think of crossing circles to search for physics equipment papers.

Willie recorded on the other side of the phone, saying that he would immediately help him check the forefront of the industry.

"Hurry up, I hope to receive a call back from you before the morning meeting ends!" said Galfort, hung up the phone, and continued to listen.

About an hour later, Willie called him back.

Professor Galford...... I'm afraid the attempt of the Oriental people is true, we have already retrieved some of the results they wrote in July, which have just been published in some journals this month. However, I think this is unlikely, because our company has also evaluated that this kind of research and development will use the design concept of the ion accelerated collider, which is extremely expensive, and it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it.

So another possibility, is that they did borrow the idea of the particle acceleration collider in their design, but ended up cutting corners or not meeting the design targets. The specific parameters should be mostly bragging......"

Willie's words really hurt Professor Galford.

Because he didn't tell the truth, he poured water like crazy.

First of all, he said that the cost of research and development is inflated, even if it can be developed as long as 70 or 80 million, it is said that it is at least more than 100 million.

Then, he slandered the Chinese equipment, also because he was worried that his company would not be able to sell isotope centrifugal separators in the future.

Anyway, bragging and deceiving and stabilizing customers first is not a big thing to damage yin morality, of course, it is to deceive first.

Calfort: "So how do we question each other? I don't really care about the principle, I just want to know who has the best equipment." ”

Willy: "You can refute and cross-examine them like this, I have sorted out a few points for you, can you easily receive e-mail or fax?"

Galford: "Mail it." ”

Soon, an email arrived.

Galfort is going to use this mail to inspect the goods again.

……

Meeting site.

Some of the archaeological results of Professor Takehisa Yamashita have been introduced.

After all, the academic seminar has been held for two hours, and now it is close to noon, and there is more than half an hour to arrange for the guests to have a buffet.

The last sharing scholar of the morning on the stage at this moment was Gu Wan, who was responsible for introducing the instruments and data analysis used in this research.

Galfort had been on the phone for a long time outside, so he hadn't noticed Gu Play before. At this moment, I couldn't help but be surprised to see a young man in a black suit on the stage as the keynote speaker.

"How can such a stinky person be allowed to give a lecture in the Oriental Country? It can't be the child of a high-ranking official who has come to mix his qualifications, right? Sure enough, it is not as academic and transparent as our Oceania Country. ”

As soon as Galfort saw Gu Play's appearance and age, he directly figured out the shadows with the worst malice.

After a while, Gu Play finished speaking and entered the question session, and Galfort took the lead in standing up to find fault.

"This ...... Mr. Gu, I have a question about the weighing of the number of C14 atoms separated mentioned in the report. How did you do it, C14 atomic number error, down to a dozen, or even a single digit? As far as I know, the biggest difficulty in the industry is to confirm the number of isolated C14 atoms. ”

Professor Galfort thought that this question would resonate with many of his peers.

However, that scene did not appear.

After only two or three seconds, his instinct made him feel that there were a lot of strange stares looking at him.

"Aren't you questioning professionally enough?" he couldn't help but feel a little weak.

This kind of atmosphere, this kind of aura, he seems to have never experienced before.

Gu was playing on the stage, but he didn't answer immediately, but looked around the audience calmly and calmly, and asked, "Does anyone else have the same question?" It seems that my explanation just now was not thorough enough to take into account the understanding of some of the audience. ”

Most of the audience didn't raise their hands, and after at least five seconds, seven or eight people raised their hands.

Considering that there were more than 100 guests attending the lecture in the main venue, seven or eight people raised their hands was already a rare occurrence.

Gu Yu nodded at this time, and replied to Galford with a pleasant face: "Please note that when we separated the C14 atoms, we did not use the weighing method, but used the ionization method and the subsequent determination of the total charged number of the C14 ion cluster. This is clearly at least an order of magnitude more accurate than weighing. ”

Calfort: "But how do you make sure that the C ions are fully and fully ionized? C is a 4-valent element, which is relatively stable, and to ensure 100% ionization, it requires a very high potential. ”

Gu Wan: "Have you forgotten to pay attention to the previous indicator: our Faraday tube has a working voltage of 1 million volts, and the final measurement of the potential of the atomic cluster uses the same power supply as the Faraday cylinder used for acceleration, which is not enough to ensure absolute ionization?"

Galfort didn't know how to ask, so he subconsciously looked at the email on the laptop in front of him.

Gu Yu smiled, and he boldly asked: "This professor, the question you just now doesn't seem to have been raised by people in the archaeological community, how do I think it looks like the inherent technical bias of those manufacturers who make centrifugal separators, for example, California Instruments......"

"How do you know? Willie told me. Galfort's heart shook violently and he couldn't help blurting out.

There was a brief silence, followed by an irrepressible sneer.

No way, archaeologists don't really need too much emotional intelligence, because they all work with artifacts, and the working environment is mostly arduous fieldwork, so it is normal for them to have poor social intelligence and tactfulness than professors at other liberal arts universities.

However, at this moment, saying this kind of thing will inevitably give people a sense of the picture when Sima Zhao asked Liu Chan why he was so happy:

Liu Chan was paralyzed and recited his line from the orthodox church: "The grave of the ancestors, far away in Xishu, is sad in the west, and thinks about it every day." And Sima Zhao only said, "How can this statement be similar to what is being taught?" and when he went back, Liu Chan subconsciously admitted that "I was officially taught by orthodoxy."