Hawking readily agreed to the gamble with Lu Qiujian, he didn't actually hope that Lu Qiujian's experiment would fail, but just wanted to add an interesting little story to the academic community.

After a short exchange, Lu Qiujian began to prepare for the experiment again, and after several days of intense and efficient work, the preparation for the dark matter experiment was nearing completion.

"The CMS particle detector has been commissioned, and the ATLAS particle detector has been commissioned," said Dr. Evans, who was in his office, reporting on the progress of the group's work.

"The electricity supply with France and Switzerland has been successfully negotiated, and they have given a timetable according to our requirements" This is the work on the energy supply side.

"The liquid nitrogen in the accelerator pipeline has been refilled, and the superconducting coil has passed the test without any problems!"

"The partners have been contacted and they are ready to receive the data!" reported Professor David Colin of the LHC Computational Grid Center.

"Very good, very good!" Dr. Evans said after listening to everyone's presentations, "Now that all the preparations have been made, let's start the experiment according to the scheduled schedule!"

"Okay!"

“OK！”

"No problem!"

The office suddenly resounded with an excited answer, accompanied by a few whistles, like a group of e-sports players who were going to participate in the competition, without the seriousness and solemnity of scientists, as if they wanted to use this form to make Lu Qiujian let go of his burden and become relaxed.

But I really wasn't nervous at all! Smiling and nodding his head to thank them for their support and kindness, Lu Qiujian felt fortunate for this excellent team at CERN.

"Lu, I heard you made a bet with Professor Hawking?" Davy Colin walked over and asked, "If you do have a record, you must give me a signed copy!"

"And me, but I didn't know you could play bass?" asked Dr. Lafayette, who squeezed in front of him.

"You know, I used to be in Princeton for a while, and I met with Professor Witten a lot! So the strings are no stranger! The bass has only four strings. It's easy to fiddle with!" Lu Qiujian joked, confusing Professor Witten's superstring theory with the bass's strings.

"When the experiment is successful and the gala dinner is held, you must put on a show for us!" Dr. Evans joined in.

"Yes, no problem! As long as you are willing to perform tap dancing, Doctor, I will definitely accompany you!" Lu Qiujian also coaxed, although Dr. Evans is from Ireland, he may not necessarily tap dance! Besides, they are all over sixty years old, and they don't know if they can still move!

"Hahahaha. When I was younger, I was the tap dance king of the whole school, and I only met my wife because of dancing!" I didn't expect Dr. Evans to really not be a guy, and he agreed to Lu Qiujian's suggestion cleanly.

After the commotion, the staff of each team returned to their posts and began the final preparations, and everything went smoothly according to plan.

Soon, the scheduled test time arrived, and Dr. Lu Qiujian and Dr. Evans came to the general monitoring room again with the core personnel of the experimental team, "The accelerator channel team reports on the preparations!"

"The accelerator channel is detected. You can experiment!"

"The ATLAS lab team reports on readiness!"

"The ATLAS experimental team is ready!

"Roger!CMS experiment team report on readiness!"

"The CMS experimental group is ready!

"Roger!Alice's lab team reports on their readiness!"

"Alice's lab team is ready!

All work has been inspected, and the facilities are ready for testing, just waiting for Dr. Evans to announce the start of the experiment.

Dr. Evans held the microphone, his mouth slightly open and closed again. After hesitating for a moment, he stuffed the microphone into Lu Qiujian's hand, "Lu, it's up to you to give the order to start this experiment!"

Dr. Evans is ready to wait for this trial to be successful. After receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich, he retired from CERN and left the position to him. Now take it as a hint to his workout and to the staff of the test team!

The rest of the experimental team were surprised by Dr. Evans's move, but they quickly regained their composure, and it was not news to Dr. Evans that he regarded Luciujian as his successor, and since the success of the Higgs boson experiment, he had handed over most of his work to Luqiujian, and Luqiujian had done a great job.

Due to various reasons such as Lu Qiujian's abundant energy, profound mathematical skills, and familiarity with the experimental process, except for some places that require more experience, to some extent, it can even be said that he is better than Dr. Evans.

The scientists, who had worked at CERN for many years, were well aware of the competence required for this work, and they did not fail to ask themselves if they would be able to do as well as he would be if they were to be transferred to the position of Lu Qiujian? The answer was obvious, if they were to this position, they would definitely not be able to match the efficiency of Dr. Evans, let alone Lu Qiujian.

"Lu, what are you waiting for, announce the start of the experiment!" Lafayette saw that Lu Qiujian was slightly stunned, and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder and prompted.

"It doesn't seem appropriate for me to do this work, does it?" Lu Qiujian hesitated, he knew the meaning of Dr. Evans's move, and he was confident that he would do this job well, however, he did not intend to tie his future to CERN, and when the work in Europe was completed, he would eventually return to China.

"No! No problem at all! You came up with the plan for this experiment, and you provided the theory! Most of the preparation was also carried out under your coordination! You have the qualifications!" David Colin followed suit.

"Yes, Lu, you can just agree! Others Dr. Evans have waited too long!" someone said with a pun, of course, they didn't dislike Dr. Evans, but they thought that it was not bad for someone to share some work for this respected old man, and Lu Qiujian was in charge of the experimental group just because Dr. Evans had to leave!

"Thank you, okay then!" Lu Qiujian took the microphone, cleared his throat, and officially issued the order, "LHC's first dark matter exploration experiment begins!" )

PS: It's a bit of a Kavin!