Dr. Voss then led them on a tour of the 27-kilometer-long circular tunnel, where proton beams were accelerated to nearly the speed of light before colliding to simulate the Big Bang.

and other high-end facilities such as the 10,000-ton ALICE (Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector, where they can vaguely see the graffiti left by scientists, who don't seem to be as stereotypical and boring as one might think.

"There was a little glitch with the equipment some time ago, and it took more than $50 million to fix it, and soon the next test can begin!" Dr. Voss said as he returned to the elevator.

The figure of more than $50 million was extremely easy to say from his mouth, and this tone was enough to make other labs jealous to the point of madness! Coach, I also want such a generous funding!

Well, more than $50 million is not much! It's just the cost of Figo's transfer from Barcelona to Real Madrid! But it's just the cost of a minor repair! On a football field, it's almost the same as the team doctor spraying an injured player's ankle twice, and two sprays are more than 50 million! Except for CERN, I'm afraid that the laboratory doesn't have this level.

"CERN has a lot of money!" Dietrich couldn't help but praise.

"CERN is financed by the Member States!", says Dr. Voss, who is born in Germany, proudly explains, "and Germany is the largest contributor among the partner countries, accounting for 20 percent of the total, and the largest number of scientists working here are from Italy, with more than 1,000 people." ”

"What do you think would happen if a staff member was negligent enough to stay in the tunnel while the experiment was going on?" Ludwig, who had a whim, imaginatively, "would he become Superman like the main character in Marvel Comics?" Well, like Dr. Manhattan?"

"Hehe, Ludwig, I'm afraid your heroic dreams are going to be shattered!" the knowledgeable Dr. Voss laughed and shattered his illusions. "The accident of being hit through the human body by a beam of high-energy protons has happened once in history, and the protagonist of this accident, Anatoly Bugorsky, is still alive and has not been born with superpowers. ”

"Eh, is there such a thing?" Ludwig's eyes widened, "Doctor, tell us about this incident!

"Mr. Bugorsky is a staff member of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Red Empire. By this time the elevator had returned to the ground, and Dr. Voss continued to tell the story of the legend as he led them back to the hotel, "On July 13, 1978, the Red Empire's largest particle accelerator, U-70, failed during the experiment, and Mr. Bugorski happened to be the staff responsible for handling the failure, so he put his head into the detector to test!"

"And then, what happened?" said Ludwig, nervously stopping.

"Then there happened to be a beam of high-energy protons moving close to the speed of light passing through here. Pierced his head!" Dr. Voss sped up, "According to his colleagues, Bugorski claimed that he saw a light 'brighter than a thousand suns,' but he felt no pain!"

He was rushed to the hospital immediately after the accident, where doctors had prepared for the worst, when the left side of his face was swollen beyond recognition, and after a few days it began to peel off its skin, and the high-energy proton beam had passed through his face and burned his bones. There is also damage to the brain tissue underneath. ”

Dr. Voss raised the radiometer in his hand, "That's one of the reasons I used this radiation detection just now, when Mr. Bugorski was exposed to up to 200,000 rads, and it only took about 600 rads of radiation to cause the death of a normal person. ”

But he was lucky to survive. Isn't it?" asked Ludwig cautiously.

"Yes, he's a tough guy!" Dr. Voss's tone was a little more relaxed, "not only did he survive the accident, but he even got a PhD, but it didn't affect his intelligence much. But he lost hearing in his left ear forever, his left face was paralyzed, and he often suffered from epilepsy. And because of tiredness, I can no longer work as long as I used to. ”

He is worthy of being the people of a fighting nation! His combat strength is really blowing up the sky! Lu Qiujian secretly sighed, if it were people from other countries, maybe they would have died a long time ago, right?

"Of course, you can rest assured that CERN and other high-energy physics laboratories have a perfect security system, and such a situation will never happen!" Seeing that they all had serious expressions, as if they were frightened by themselves, Dr. Voss hurriedly added, "There are strict regulations on the number of people entering and leaving the experimental area, and they will go through strict procedures to find out, and everyone has a special key, and the key will be handed back after they leave the experimental area, and the central control room will not start the experiment until all the keys have been collected!"

"And even if someone is forgotten in the experimental area, there is a perfect emergency call and escape system, did you just see the hammer hanging at the door? That is the one used to let the survivors smash the door in case of an emergency! We have done a lot of preparations like this, and in my more than forty years of work, there has not been a major accident!" Dr. Voss seemed to think of something, "Of course, there have been some things such as falling heavy objects and injuring people in the construction project, but we are trying to avoid these situations." ”

"Alright, the hotel is here, that's all for today's visit! When you're done with dinner, you'll have a good night's rest, and then concentrate on preparing for the meeting!I hope to see you here again in the future!" After dropping them off at the hotel, Dr. Voss took his leave.

"It would be wonderful to be able to work here in the future!" Dietrich braved the stars to look through the glass walls of the hotel and look at the places he had just visited!

"Yes, the HERA (Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator) in Hamburg can't be compared to this place at all!" Karl, an undergraduate student in Hamburg, echoed!

Just as they were fiercely expressing their yearning for CERN, a staff member hurriedly walked up to them, "Are you Mr. Lu Qiujian?"

"Yes, how can I help you?" asked Lu Qiujian after verifying his identity.

"Yes, we have received a lot of requests for interviews from the media today, and since the person they want to interview is you, we need to negotiate with you!" (To be continued.) )