"Although there is no hope for AMS to enter space for the time being, there is still work to be done! If you don't happen to be in Geneva these days, I'm afraid it will be a long time before you can see me! I made an appointment with Professor Cheng of Qilu University to go to him to see the latest research results on heat dissipation components! By the way, I will go back to my hometown to have a look!" Professor Ding Zhaozhong's hometown is in Rizhao, Shandong Province, and it is indeed a stop by to go to Qilu University.

Professor Ding Zhaozhong said that Professor Cheng is the chief scientist of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973 Program) of China, and also the chief scientist of the thermal system of the AMS project; he is only in his early forties this year, and he is young and promising compared with others; he once won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 02, and he also participated in the National Science and Technology Commendation Conference last year, so Lu Qiujian has a relationship with him.

"The thermal control system designed by Professor Cheng for the silicon microstripe trajectory detector is very good, and I met him once last year. Although Lu Qiujian only had a quick chat with Professor Cheng last year, his super memory allowed him to remember every detail of the conversation between the two.

"It showed exceptional temperature stability in thermal vacuum tests conducted by the European Space Agency. It can be said that without the silicon microstripe trajectory detector thermal control system, there would be no alpha magnetic spectrometer experiment. Ding Zhaozhong said approvingly, and suddenly he seemed to remember something, "Did you see him at the Huaguo Science and Technology Commendation Conference last year?"

"Yes, at the dinner after the conference, after the introduction of Director Chen of the Institute of High Energy, we chatted a few words, but unfortunately the time was a little short, and I didn't have the opportunity to ask him about some things about AMS at that time!" Lu Qiujian said with a little regret.

"You received the first prize in natural science that time, right?" Ding Zhaozhong has a close relationship with the Chinese scientific community, and the Huaguo Science and Technology Commendation Conference has not yet produced the big leak of the later generations, and his reputation has not been damaged, so he also knows the names and achievements of some of the main awardees, "When I was in the United States, I heard that the Poincaré conjecture was cracked by a Chinese! Unfortunately, I was busy at that time and couldn't visit Princeton!"

"The work of Professors Thurston and Hamilton and others has cleared the way for me, and all I have done is gently push open that door!" Lu Qiujian said modestly.

"Ho-ho. Ding Zhaozhong, Lu Qiujian said with a smile. "You are humble and almost hypocritical this time! Don't forget that I also have a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and to be honest, I was also interested in Poincaré's conjecture, Fermat's theorem and other world-wide problems, but after a few attempts I found that I was not the material and gave up!"

"If you study mathematics, you will definitely be a world-class mathematician, but you may not be able to achieve your current results! Your choice has made the world have one less first-class mathematician and one more experimental physicist who is far beyond the best! The entire physics community will be grateful for your choice!" Lu Qiujian also joked.

After the joke, the relationship between the two people became much closer, and Ding Zhaozhong introduced to Lu Qiujian with regret the role that AMS can play after entering space, "Lee Tsung-dao once said to me, 'Dark matter is the biggest dark cloud that hangs over modern physics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and it will herald another revolution in physics.'" And AMS is the hope that drives away this dark cloud. Because there is no atmosphere in space, there is not as much interference on Earth, we can detect much more cosmic rays than on Earth, and according to my calculations, AMS can collect 15 billion to 20 billion pieces of data a year after entering the national space station, which is much more than the data collected by scientists in the past 100 years combined."

Lu Qiujian quietly listened to Ding Zhaozhong's words, AMS detection and LHC detection are two ways, if you compare what happened in the history of physics, AMS's work is like Marie Curie refining radium in asphalt mines. They all searched for what they wanted from existing substances and information through a lot of work, while the LHC work was more like that of Glenn Theodore Sieborg, a chemist and president of the University of California, Berkeley, who used an accelerator-driven proton bombardment method to prepare a total of nine new elements, which not only won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but also was awarded a special honor by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - naming the 106th element on the periodic table after him. Breaking the convention that chemical elements cannot be named after living people, he, like LHC, chooses to make a new substance himself and then discover it!

These two approaches are not in conflict, and what the LHC can do is not necessarily what AMS can do. And AMS can also solve many problems that LHC can't solve!

The topic turned around around the week, and it was estimated that the time was almost up, and the atmosphere between the two of them was just right. Lu Qiujian finally said what he meant, "Professor Ding, have you read the experimental plan I sent you before?" I don't know if you can give me some guidance!"

"Don't dare to give advice, even if it's to communicate with each other!" After this period of discussion, Ding Zhaozhong was very appreciative of Lu Qiujian's strength, and in his heart he raised his already high evaluation of Lu Qiujian, "After reading it, I feel that it is extremely operable, if it can really be implemented - of course, this plan should also be implemented as soon as possible, and the beard will have a happy result, but there are some details I want to ask you what you think!"

"But most people at CERN still have concerns!" Lu Qiujian sighed in his heart, it is easier to persuade the top management of CERN to agree to his plan than to persuade the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States to agree to the space shuttle to carry AMS into space!

"Science is the subordination of the majority to the minority, and only when the minority overthrows the views of the majority can science move forward. Therefore, the review of experts is not absolutely useful, because experts are using existing knowledge, and scientific progress is overthrowing existing knowledge. It seems that Ding Zhaozhong has experienced the same experience as Lu Qiujian these days, and said with emotion: Lu Qiujian is an expert, and it is easier to communicate than a layman, and his communication with those politicians is called depressed.

From his tone, Lu Qiujian actually tasted a little heroic, and this spirit of courage and perseverance is worth learning from all those who are interested in scientific research.

After sighing, Lu Qiujian gave a detailed answer to the details that Ding Zhaozhong was concerned about, and the time for the exchange between the two sides far exceeded the appointment time, but Ding Zhaozhong was not the slightest dissatisfied, and repeatedly postponed his daily life, and finally discussed while eating, and finally was satisfied with the separation in the middle of the night, and made it clear that he would support Lu Qiujian's plan. (To be continued.) )

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