Chapter 260: Time is Ticking
As soon as the data began to be transmitted, Lücho climbed aboard the nearest flight back to Munich, and every minute was precious to him.
The deadline for nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics is January 31, and it is already January, and even if the Higgs boson is discovered, it still needs to be confirmed and the time for the news to be disseminated, and if the deadline is for those who have the right to nominate to submit the name of Higgs to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lu Qiujian must find out the conclusive evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson from these data as soon as possible.
Whether to win the award a year earlier or a year later doesn't matter much to Higgs and the others, they have been waiting for forty years and don't care if it's a year late or a year late, and although Blauder's health is not good, it's not dangerous.
But this is different for Lu Qiujian! He only has two years left in Europe, and he must brush up his reputation as quickly as possible, but he doesn't want to keep Higgs to affect his chances of winning the award, and he can get him on the podium as soon as possible! Not to mention that this is also related to his gamble with Evans!
"Hello everyone, tell you a good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Back in Munich, Luqiu did not go back to rest, and directly pushed open the door of Professor Schiffer's laboratory.
"Of course it's good news!" Dietrich was the first to react, he rushed to Lu Qiujian's side with a snort and helped him take off his backpack, "Tell us what the good news is?"
Seeing that Ludwig, Karl, Frederick and the others also nodded in agreement, Lu Qiujian snapped his fingers, "The second experiment of the LHC was very successful! The odds of discovering the Higgs boson are quite high, guys! You now have a chance to become famous quickly, as long as you can find that set of key data first!"
"Wow! That's great!" Dietrich is still regretting the last stats, but he didn't expect the opportunity to make up for it so quickly!
After cheering, Ludwig weakly raised his hand, "Then, Lu." What's the bad news you're talking about?"
"The bad news is that you're probably going to be very busy lately, very busy!" Lu Qiujian sat in his place and turned on the computer, "When I came in just now, I had already asked the logistics staff to set up a temporary rest place in the empty room next to it! Before the Higgs boson was discovered, you can go to sleep when you are tired!"
Since the time to go back to sleep has to be saved, the heavy work that follows can be imagined, but no one present protested, on the one hand, Lu Qiujian's ability to show in the previous stage made them full of trust in the youngest guy in this laboratory, since he said that he could find the Higgs boson, then it was worth the hard work! On the other hand, no matter in that laboratory, once it was time for the experiment to be tense. Overtime like this is the norm, and they are all prominent figures in the younger generation of physicists in Germany, who have experienced this kind of thing before.
"I'll go back and get my pillow first! I can't sleep on the other pillows!" Ludwig was the first to react, and ran out of the laboratory as quickly as he could before his work began.
"I'm going to get my coffee too, I'm not used to the coffee provided by the school!"
"I'm going to get some clothes! I'm going to leave my pet in the care of someone else for a while!"
"I want to"
Soon, the people in the laboratory ran away, and Lu Qiujian didn't have as many problems as them, sitting alone in front of the computer to receive the data transmitted by CERN.
When they returned, they were all in good spirits, like soldiers about to go on a campaign, and with them came Professor Schifft, "I have already called the students who came to help last time." If I need to expand the staff, I will arrange it! Even if our school is not enough, I can temporarily borrow a group of people from the Technical University of Munich! As for the logistics service, I will also arrange for someone to coordinate" He also realized that this time was very different from the last time, and directly found a computer that no one used to sit down. "I'll do this job with you all at once!"
As a result, everyone in the laboratory began to work intensely and hecticly, even holding a pizza in one hand and a mouse in the other, staring straight at the computer during meals.
The reason why pizza was chosen. It's because it's easy to eat, it only takes one hand to eat, and soon the logistics staff will have to carry a stack of pizza boxes from the lab on time every day.
After all, Professor Schiff is a little old, and his energy cannot be compared with that of a young man. After working eleven or twelve hours a day, he went back to rest under the persuasion of Lu Qiujian, while Ludwig, Dietrich and others were busy for sixteen or seventeen hours a day, until they were really a little unbearable, and then went to the temporary rest room next door to squint for a while.
As for Lu Qiujian. It wasn't until thirty-two hours of work that the first break began, and after less than four hours in bed he returned to the laboratory, and after that, he worked no less than twenty hours a day.
After repeating the energy of the physical examination at CERN, Professor Schiff was a little relieved, but he still let the school arrange three groups of doctors to take turns to be on duty outside the laboratory, and he ordered him to see a doctor immediately if he showed a slight discomfort, but fortunately there was no unfortunate incident; although everyone's spirit was a little haggard, there was nothing wrong with their bodies, and they recovered even if they were a little tired and rested for a while.
It was close to twelve o'clock in the evening, the most exhausting time of the day, when a wave of drowsiness hit, and the sound of yawning sounded from time to time in the laboratory, and Dietrich's eyelids began to slowly droop.
Looking at the way he looked little by little, Lu Qiujian was about to let him go to the next door to rest, but he saw Dietrich suddenly become energetic, rubbed his eyes violently, and stared at the screen.
Hmm? His action made Lu Qiujian suddenly cheer up, last time he found that set of abnormal data, found signs of the existence of the Higgs boson, could it be that if this is the case, he is really a lucky guy!
"Lu, come and see what this is?" Dietrich's shout once again caught everyone's attention, and those who were beginning to get sleepy immediately turned their eyes to him.
Lu Qiujian also pushed away the chair and walked quickly to his side, leaned in front of the monitor and studied it carefully. (To be continued.) )
PS: In reality, Higgs Muyou was found in the Higgs boson and won the award that year, it seems that it is for this reason.