Beijing Positron Collider Laboratory.

Although the personnel arrangement is in the state of three shifts, it does not have any impact on the normal operation of the entire instrument system.

As the experiment progresses steadily, 10 days have passed, and the Positron Collider crash test will end today.

"Stop accelerating!"

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, in the central control room of the laboratory, with the order of Academician Wang, the energy of the positron collider was cut off, and correspondingly, the ultra-high-energy laser emitting device and other supporting devices of various parts also stopped running at the same time, and the production reaction of antimatter ended at this moment.

"Report to each unit!"

"Injector is normal!"

"The transport line is normal!"

"The storage ring is normal!"

"The separator is normal!"

"High-energy lasers are normal!"

"The Beijing spectrometer is working normally!"

Listening to the normal reports from various units to the central control room, the corners of Academician Wang's mouth finally hooked up a smile.

After 10 days of continuous operation, it was a very severe test for both the manpower requirements and the stable operation of the instrument, however, it is gratifying that they have withstood this great test!

After the production of 100mg of antimatter particles has been completed, and now it has been fully delivered to the Penning ion trap device, the only thing that worries is whether the Penning ion trap device can withstand the test of storage for the next 10 days and the test of transition in the middle.

Still nodded with great satisfaction, and subconsciously looked at the young figure not far away, but Academician Wang found that Liu Feng frowned.

stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and only heard Academician Wang ask: "What's the matter, the experiment is half successful, you should be happy, why do you kid look sad." ”

Interrupted by Academician Wang's reverie, Liu Feng came back to his senses, shook his head and said: "Of course I am very happy that the experiment can be successful, but there is one problem that I have not been able to rest assured!"

Academician Wang raised his eyebrows and said curiously: "Why, you don't have confidence in Academician Tian?"

Enough antimatter has been produced and the original design goal of the experiment has been achieved, but in the next 10 days, the storage and transfer experiments of the Penning ion trap device will be carried out, and if one is not careful, it will cause a leak, then the harm will be great!

After all, that's a full 100mg of antimatter!

Therefore, Academician Wang thought that Liu Feng couldn't let go of this matter.

Liu Feng shook his head and sighed: "Actually, I am indeed a little worried about whether the Penning ion trap can withstand the test of 10 days of storage and transition, after all, this is 100mg of antimatter, which is enough to raze us here more than 10 times." But I always believe in my own judgment, and I also believe in the team of Academician Tian Xuelin, who have done all parts of the Pengning ion trap device to the extreme, even if they have turned a screw a few times, they have already memorized it by heart. If that could go wrong, then I couldn't think of anything else I could do to be successful. ”

"Then what were you worried about just now?" Academician Wang was even more curious, in this world, could there be any problems that worried this guy?

"Boss, I have submitted the production and purchase list of the Super Collider project, however, after so many days, Zhang Qin's side, there has been no response, I am worried that there may be changes here......" Speaking of this, Liu Feng clenched his fists.

Academician Wang also frowned: "On the European side, it stands to reason that we have already communicated with them, and they are still very happy to provide us with some parts of the super collider, are you worried that there will be problems here?"

"Yes!" Liu Feng's face was full of worry.

When he got up early this morning, he felt that his right eyelid was beating hard, which was a bad omen! After all, he had heard his mother say since he was a child that his left eye jumped into wealth and his right eye jumped into disaster, although this was just a superstitious statement, but Zhang Qin had never responded, and his heart had been at ease.

In the past, we didn't have enough manpower, let alone the accumulation of technology, to achieve complete control of the Super Collider, and we couldn't even put together a few cutting-edge research topics! Therefore, in the eyes of those people, our Super Collider project was completely a wedding dress for them, and those people were naturally happy to sell us things. ”

However, since the grand unified theory was proposed, the discovery of supersymmetric particles, dark matter and antimatter by the super collider has become a blowout trend, and more and more unknown particles and basic theories have been made up. The current situation is that we can completely cultivate manpower, and the technical reserves, no matter how backward our Huaguo's technology is, but the jujubes full of trees, once a rake goes down, we can always lay down two or three!"

Hearing Liu Feng's words, Academician Wang finally frowned.

To be honest, he hadn't really thought about these issues.

But I have to admit that Liu Feng's worries are very reasonable.

The formulation of the grand unified theory has undoubtedly pointed out the direction for the progress of basic physics in the coming decades; as long as they are not fools, scientists who are a little proficient in particle physics will probably be able to write several papers in this field.

It's like when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World of America!

A group of people who have been hungry and thirsty for decades, of course, will flock to develop this new continent.

But it is clear that the rabble can never have an advantage over the organized and disciplined groups, and therefore the people who can occupy the fattest parts of the New World must be the great rogue organizations of the world.

And among them, the EU and country M are definitely the hooligans of the hooligans!

Because these two hooligans are the only ones in the world who can have the strength to build their own super collider independently.

It's like a group of pioneers with the others empty-handed and unarmed, and these two hooligans driving excavators.

With the production tools that can produce and manufacture the super collider, how could these two hooligans watch the little hooligans of Huaguo compete for their piece of fat?

What's more, I have to push others and help others produce an excavator!

In the end, Academician Wang still sighed: "Perhaps, things are not as bad as you think......"

It's a pity that Academician Wang's comforting words were like a crow's mouth that opened the light, and a phone suddenly rang.

Liu Feng hurriedly took out his mobile phone and saw that it was really Zhang Qin's call.

"Liu Feng, I'm sorry, things are a little tricky......"

On the phone, Zhang Qin's voice sounded very serious, "In Europe, it's not as easy to talk as before, these days, as soon as we mention the accessories of the super collider, the people over there have been playing Tai Chi with us." ”

"I understand!" Liu Feng let out a long sigh as his worries came true, "Is there still room for things to be fought for?"

Zhang Qin on the other side didn't expect Liu Feng to look like he had expected it, thought about it, and explained: "On the European side, it seems that for the time being, we don't know the real purpose of building the super collider, otherwise they would definitely not play Tai Chi with us, but directly refused." I think it's very likely that they're waiting for the price to sell, so there's still some room for things to turn around......"

"Do you want to sell at the price?" Liu Feng's heart was a little more relaxed, it seemed that things had not yet reached the worst point, "Chief Zhang, how high do you think we can bear the price?"

After a pause, Zhang Qin said leisurely: "Then it depends on how anxious you are about these things......

……

XBY Country.

Madrid.

A Council of Ministers, the decision-making body of the European Community, was held here.

During the meeting, an issue concerning the ban on the sale of some equipment of the Super Collider to China aroused heated discussions among the people present.

In fact, more than 10 years ago, the Council of Ministers, the decision-making body of the European Community, convened a meeting to discuss the EU ban, and at that meeting it established five measures, including the suspension of high-level contacts with China, military cooperation and cultural exchanges, among which the relevant military measures were: "The member states of the Community suspend military cooperation with China and prohibit arms trade with China".

Later, this agreement has become the original basis for the EU arms embargo on China, and even on most high-tech equipment.

Strictly speaking, the EU Council's declaration is not strictly legally binding, because it does not specify whether the arms embargo covers all military items, including weapons platforms, non-lethal items or their components, nor the measures and procedures for implementing the embargo, but leaves the interpretation of these issues to the member states, which are interpreted differently by each country.

Some countries prohibit the sale of any military items to China, while others selectively ban them.

For example, Country Y explained that it did not prohibit non-lethal military items, such as avionics and radar, and limited the scope of the ban to "lethal weapons, including machine guns, large-calibre weapons, bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles, as well as components specifically used in the above-mentioned weapons, ammunition, military aircraft, helicopters, warships, armoured combat vehicles and other weapons platforms, and any equipment that could easily be used for domestic repression".

Therefore, this has led to the fact that some EU countries have unilaterally communicated with China.

such as

As soon as the deal was announced, Macrony was granted permission to sell £30 million worth of "heads-up displays" and radar equipment for Chinese fighter jets to China on the grounds that they were electronic equipment and not weapons.

However, despite this, since the announcement of this seemingly 'nominal agreement', arms sales between China and the EU have basically entered a stage of ceasement, and except for a small part of the exchange of interests, China has not imported any advanced weapons and science and technology from the EU in the past 10 years or so.

Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, in the same place, in the same place, in the same conference room, the matter of the ban on sales to China was mentioned again, and this time, the banned thing was just a small super collider part!

Therefore, many people are puzzled by this.

"I don't think a few small parts can make China a threat to us. After all, no matter how super the super collider of Huaguo is, it is only a proton collider, and it is not a superweapon. ”

"That's right, in this kind of research in the direction of fundamental physics, we still wish that China would invest more in this area, so why stop them? Are we still afraid that the Chinese people will make a mistake and inadvertently create a black hole to destroy the earth? This is really ridiculous!"

"Yes, that's right! And this is a huge order worth $2 billion! How many of us can be employed with $2 billion? And the price we pay is just some super collider parts that we don't know how much they can do!"

……

At the beginning, there was a voice of condemnation in the venue.

The targets of the condemnation are naturally those who initiated the embargo against China, such as CERN Rotating Chairman Leonel and ITER Project Rotating Chairman Reginod.

After all, in the Council of the European Community, there are also representatives of the interests of the manufacturers of the super collider.

The ducks in hand are about to fly, and it's no wonder that these people are not in a hurry!

In addition, there are people from Huaguo behind who are adding fuel to the fire, and these people can't sit still even more, and they have joined in the condemnation of the initiators.

However, as the initiator, Leonel's motives for launching the embargo initiative are easy to say.

After all

If Huaguo's super collider is built, it will become CERN's biggest competitor, and even if Huaguo's current talent and technical reserves in high-energy physics are insufficient, as long as there is a super collider, it is only a matter of time before all this is solved.

Considering that the ingenuity and diligence of the Chinese people are enough to solve the problem in the shortest possible time, therefore, as the rotating chairman of CERN, Leonel has long been full of a sense of crisis about the Chinese super collider project, and he must take the initiative to stand up to defend the interests of the EU in this regard.

As for the motivation of Reginord, the rotating chairman of the ITER project, it is very intriguing.

Maybe it's because of the same physicist, Lionel's previous conversation with him moved him - for the sake of the people of the European Union, the Chinese physics community can't be allowed to have a chance to surpass them; maybe the last ITER project was slapped in the face twice by the Chinese, and Reginold hated the house and Wu, so he couldn't let the Chinese people curry favor; but in fact, only Reginold understood what his motives were.

Why?

It's not because of Liu Feng!

Reginod completely understands that as long as there is an industry that Liu Feng is engaged in, this industry will be 100% subverted by this guy! And whether it is the M people or their EU side, they can only obediently give up the leading position in these industries!

Water treatment reverse osmosis materials are one of them;

The grand unified theory and the ignition experiment of controlled nuclear fusion are the second;

Fuan Ronie, a special drug for cancer treatment, is the third!

It is rumored that Liu Feng has been engaged in commercial research on controlled nuclear fusion projects recently!

Although Reginod doesn't understand at all what the connection between the super collider and controlled nuclear fusion is, as long as it is a project that Liu Feng is interested in and participates in, he will focus on it, maybe there is some kind of inevitable connection in it!

In short, as long as it is what Liu Feng wants, they will do their best to stop it!

This is not only because he was slapped in the face by Liu Feng in the last controlled nuclear fusion ignition experiment, but also because he attaches great importance to Liu Feng as a person, and worries about whether the controllable nuclear fusion project can still come out on top!

Therefore, it is necessary to stop the EU from selling parts for the super collider to China.

"Everyone, please don't be impatient!" Leonel was the first to stand up and give his reasons for banning the sale, "Although the parts of the super collider are not weapons of mass destruction, their importance to China and the degree of threat to us have far exceeded weapons of mass destruction!"

"There are two reasons for this. ”

"First of all, since the completion of the grand unified theory, the super collider has become the standard configuration on the road to cutting-edge physics! We all know that the atomic nuclear theory has opened up the existence of nuclear weapons, a weapon of mass destruction that can change the world pattern, and the value of the research and utilization of supersymmetric particles, dark matter, and antimatter opened up by the grand unified theory is very likely to far exceed the impact of nuclear weapons on the world!"

"And the super collider is exactly the standard configuration after the grand unified theory! As long as there is a super collider, it is equivalent to having a key that can open the door to physics in the future world! Now, we in the European Union have taken the lead in unscrewing this door with the key, and the treasure inside the door has also been completely opened to us, and I believe that we don't want a second person to open the door with the key, right? Even if there is, we must leave these people far behind!"

"Second point ......"

"The second point is for me to say!" At this moment, Reginald also stood up and took the initiative to take over from Leonel and said, "The second point is because we have every reason to suspect that Huaguo's super collider project is very likely to have a great connection with the controlled nuclear fusion project! Although we don't yet know what the specific connection is, what does the controlled nuclear fusion project mean? I believe everyone here knows very well ...... it."