Chen Chen walked into Xia Yin's office and looked around.

The office is very simple, without too much decoration, and the only feature is probably the area.

This office is about to catch up with the size of Chen Chen's office in Life Science City.

Seeming to understand Chen Chen's doubts, Xia Yin said helplessly, "No way, the total area of this building we built far exceeds the usable area, after all, the headquarters is only a few hundred people, so in order not to look so deserted, we can only divide the office into a larger one." ”

"It's good, it's quiet with fewer people."

Chen Chen casually sat across the general manager's desk, looked at Xia Yin, who had become mature and steady, and suddenly asked, "Is everything okay in the company?" ”

"Okay."

Xia Yin pursed her lips and asked rhetorically, "Although we are called the headquarters here, in fact, my father doesn't love my mother, it's like a vase, and I take care of the website every day to make a statement, and there is nothing else, how can it be bad?" ”

"Actually, it's also very important here, and the reason why you feel that the headquarters is not taken very seriously is just because the time has not come."

Chen Chen took the coffee brought by the secretary and said thank you, before continuing, "Besides, the headquarters is like the general manager of the interior, and he can manage everything, isn't that good?" ”

"It's a pity that the chief of Ouchi is a eunuch."

Xia Yin suddenly complained, and then sighed, "But it's okay, your personal secretary Ex has been docking with us all along, I heard that this Ex is still an underage girl?" ”

“？”

Chen Chen tilted his head.

"I'll just say why you're not interested in me, it turns out that you're a lolita!"

Xia Yin looked disgusted, "Perverted! ”

Chen Chen saw that the topic was getting farther and farther, so he had to speak, "Don't talk about that, in addition to visiting the company this time, I have another important matter." Later, I will send you a document to your mailbox, which contains a project application information, you can prepare it, because in the future, you may have to represent Blacklight Technology to meet with the official executives of all continents of the world. ”

"What project?"

Xia Yin looked at Zhang Heng suspiciously.

"It's an investment project involving tens of billions of dollars and the entire Earth Federation, so you'll have to make a personal trip."

Chen Chen replied, "To put it simply, I want to establish our own branches in the three major Haizhou regions of Central, Eastern, Southern and Northern China, as well as India, the Middle East, North and South America, Europe, Oceania and Arcticism. ”

Xia Yin didn't seem to hear the words clearly, she looked at Chen Chen in shock, "Are you sure?" Where does that money come from? ”

The reason why Xia Yin was shocked is also very normal, if it is just to open branches and offices, as long as it is a world-renowned enterprise group, it has done this, but to open life science cities around the world at the same time, it is not something that ordinary groups can do.

As the world's top group, Blacklight Technology is indeed rich, but like most companies, the high is all market capitalization.

Although Blacklight Technology has not been listed, most of the money has been used to invest in the construction of Life Science City, and it is not so easy to feed a city.

"The money, of course, was borrowed from the local bank."

The corners of Chen Chen's mouth provoked a smile, and he replied, "In these years, who else uses their own money to operate through the Chamber of Commerce, what if they lose money?" ”

“……”

Xia Yin was speechless for a moment.

"When the time comes, what price and what conditions to negotiate, these are all in your hands."

Chen Chen said meaningfully, "Xia Yin, don't let me down. ”

"Good!"

Xia Yin's eyes were confused at first, but then she quickly came to her senses, after so much experience, she was no longer the innocent girl, but a strong woman with superb skills.

"In addition to that, you have a mission."

Chen Chen continued, "That is to order the parts needed for the Hadron Collider, which you must secretly buy from the official in the European region, and I will let the consortium in the European region cooperate with you." ”

"What!"

After hearing this, Xia Yin was even more shocked, "Hadron Collider? Chen Chen: What do you want to do? ”

"It's just about research, you don't need to know the specifics."

Chen Chen didn't explain, "This is all your task, after so many years of experience, let me see, can you meet the requirements in my heart?" ”

Saying that, Chen Chen didn't linger here, he stood up directly and left Xia Yin's office.

It wasn't until he left the office building that Chen Chen took one last look at the building and reopened Xiao X's communication device.

"X, let Cheng Chao prepare the convoy, I'm going back to Namibia."

Chen Chen spoke in a low voice.

"Humph!"

A cold snort came from the headset, and then Xiao X's sullen voice came, "Cheng Chao has been notified, he is on his way!" ”

"Good."

Chen Chen didn't care, he sat directly on the chair in front of the flower bed, staring at the traffic on the streets of Shangdu, his eyes were like a calm ancient well.

The reason why Chen Chen wanted to buy the hadron collider was not because of anything else, but because the demand had arrived.

It's as if Heiguang Technology has begun to encroach on markets around the world as it becomes more well-known, and it is a matter of course to establish branches all over the world.

In fact, as early as two years ago, Chen Chen had the idea of building a hadron collider.

With the development of science and technology, human beings' understanding of the structure of matter is also increasing day by day, from the beginning of observing various substances around us with the naked eye, gradually developing to the use of magnifying glasses, microscopes, and later using high-energy physics research devices, etc., and gradually penetrating into the deep structure of cells, molecules, atoms and atomic nuclei.

Every new discovery brings about great social change and technological progress.

The discovery of atomic nuclei and extranuclear electrons has led to the development of radio, semiconductors, television, radar, lasers, and X-rays.

The Hadron Collider is one of the devices used to observe the microscopic world.

Hadron colliders are essentially particle accelerators, and their power lies in their ability to increase the speed of particles to a very high level, and when two particles of comparable velocity collide, they may combine with each other to create a completely new particle.

In addition, even if the high-speed particles do not collide, researchers can find out the changes in the microscopic world through the changes that occur in the process of particle motion, thus laying the foundation for further research and development of the microscopic world.

At the same time, understanding the microcosm can also help humans better construct and adjust the macrocosm.

Generally speaking, the larger the volume of the hadron collider, the higher its utility tends to be, because the larger the volume, the more space it has to operate, which means that the machine can give more energy to the particles to help them accelerate better and faster, so that researchers can get more accurate experimental results.

At present, the European Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful hadron collider, with a tunnel circumference of up to 27 kilometers, and it took the European scientific research team more than 10 years and more than 8 billion US dollars to build it.

Obviously, it is not an affordable scientific research equipment, but a luxury item among scientific and technological products, which can only be built and put into use if the country has a strong economy, and it is even more difficult for private companies to build such equipment.

In fact, as early as 2014, Zhongzhou District launched a project plan, Zhongzhou District planned to build a tunnel with a circumference of 100 kilometers, which is nearly four times the size of the world's largest hadron collider, but this plan was strongly stopped by Professor Yang Zhenning in 2018, and has been aborted since then, and has not been really implemented until now.

At that time, the reasons given by Professor Yang Zhenning were very simple, first, it was too expensive; Second, the probability of producing results is not high; Third, even if the results are achieved, they will be meaningless for 50 years.

In addition, there is the most important point: after the completion of the project, it will inevitably be led by foreigners, because at that time, there were very few high-energy physicists in Zhongzhou, and they could only be reduced to other people's wedding clothes.

Some people may not understand why Yang Zhenning will oppose it, in fact, because the greatest scientific value of this hadron collider is actually to accurately measure the Higgs particle to see if this particle really surpasses the standard model of the existing physical framework, and this particle also has a famous name -

God particles.

The physics community has been expecting it for more than 40 years, and it is the most likely to break through the Standard Model, and if it can be verified, then "Superstring Theory" will be like "Quantum Mechanics", removing the word "theory" and becoming "Superstring Mechanics".

Superstring Mechanics, on the other hand, represents the ultimate theory of all things - the unity of the four fundamental forces.

When the time comes, from the smallest elementary particles to the largest cosmic objects, whether it is the nature of black holes or the origin of the universe, they will all have to crawl at the foot of superstrings......

Human beings have a dream that as long as the basic structure of matter, the interaction of matter and the law of motion and transformation are unified, they will be omniscient and omnipotent like God.

Unfortunately, this dream has never been realized.

In fact, as early as the period of the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony, the North American region planned to build a hadron collider with a circumference of 100 kilometers, but after spending more than two billion dollars in the past few years, it did not even finish digging the tunnel, and the Soviet Union collapsed at that time, so the project was completely stopped.

All this naturally made the group of supporters of "Superstring Theory" in the high-energy physics community wail.

Then the European Hadron Collider was launched, its maximum power is 13TeV, although it is far less than the project in North America, but it can be used improvised, but after the long-awaited collision experiment, no signs of supersymmetric particles have been found for several years, and suddenly, 99.999% of the original parameter space of supersymmetry theory is gone.

At this point, "Superstring Theory" has almost become a pile of waste paper, but there are still countless people who want to believe that it is real, and this group of people believes that the reason why they cannot collide with supersymmetric particles is because of insufficient power, so they will come to lobby the Zhongzhou region, which caused Professor Yang Zhenning's opposition.

To put it simply, the Hadron Collider program in the Middle-Continent region was aborted because the scientific value was not strong enough.

Chen Chen, on the other hand, built the Hadron Collider for two reasons.

The first and fundamental reason was because Chen Chen needed to create the technology he retrieved from Elysium—High Offset Armor.

This isotope metal armor, known as the hardest and most stable substance in the solar system, can be used not only to act as armor for spaceships, but also to withstand radiation from the sun's surface, allowing ships to travel close to stars.

So far, apart from the water droplets in "The Three-Body Problem", Chen Chen has basically never heard of a harder substance than it.

And the second reason is also because if Chen Chen builds, he doesn't need to have a budget of tens of billions like Zhongzhou District, because Chen Chen has a killer weapon in his hand.

This card is a room temperature superconductor.

The tunnel of the ordinary hadron collider, just maintaining a low-temperature superconductor is a huge expense, and the characteristics of the room-temperature superconductor are destined to cost Chen only one-tenth of the price to make a new superconducting hadron collider with a shorter length but much higher power than the conventional hadron collider.

This is Chen Chen's unique advantage.

Moreover, Chen Chen also wants to continue along the road of great unification to see whether the so-called "Superstring Theory", which can unify the four basic forces and is known as the ultimate theory of all things, is true or false.

After Galileo unified motion and stillness, Newton's Three Laws and the Law of Gravitation unified the phenomena of heaven and earth and opened the door to the mechanical industrial revolution.

Maxwell, on the other hand, followed suit and used a system of equations to unify electricity, magnetism, and light, and mankind entered the electrical age.

Then came Einstein, who first used the "Special Theory of Relativity" to persuade Maxwell's equations and Newtonian mechanics to unify low speed and high speed, and then unify matter and energy, and nuclear weapons came into being.

Subsequently, there was the emergence of quantum mechanics, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac......

In the end, Yang Zhenning came on the field.

He took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket, and used a set of mathematical framework theories to unify electromagnetic force, weak force and strong force, and quietly won the Nobel Prize, this mathematical framework is the aforementioned Yang-Mills gauge field theory.

Yang Zhenning's gauge field theory can be compared with Newton's gravity, Maxwell's electromagnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity.

Many people think that Hawking is the most famous physicist in modern times, the only physicist who can compare with Einstein, but what many people don't know is that Yang Zhenning's Science City is actually far more than Hawking.

This sentence is often circulated in the physics community, Yang Zhenning is equal to half of Einstein plus twenty Hawking, although this is just a joke, but it is enough to show that Yang Zhenning's achievements in modern physics are far greater than Hawking.