The applause was like a storm.

Almost tore off the roof of the Great Hall of 10,000 people.

Looking at the man who stepped down from the stage, Professor Kleezing, who was sitting near the center of the room, clapped his hands and smiled and said to Professor Kreber, who was sitting next to him.

"Very good presentation...... What do you think? ”

Clapping his hands as well, Professor Kreber said with a smile.

"I have the same opinion as you, except that there is more of a feeling that is incredible."

Cléching turned his head sideways and glanced at him curiously.

"Incredible? Unbelievable what? ”

"I always thought he was a scholar who focused on his own research and didn't care about things that had nothing to do with it, but I didn't expect him to be such a person."

"I approached him and hoped he would give us a chance."

"What chance?"

"An opportunity to touch the sun with both hands, or an opportunity to share peace and prosperity together," Kleber narrowed his eyes as if he had fallen into memory as if he had disappeared behind the door, and continued in a somewhat emotional tone, "Although he rejected me at the time, I also suspected that I had seen the wrong person and had pessimistic thoughts about the future...... But as it turned out, I was wrong, and he simply brought the sun to earth in another way that would satisfy everyone's demands as much as possible. ”

Energy is an eternal issue for any country. Once the problem of energy is solved, all contradictions between the means of production and the relations of production will be resolved when there is no particular shortage of materials.

The resulting social changes will be extremely terrifying, even surpassing the combined impact of the previous two industrial revolutions on human society.

At the same time, the birth of this technology is bound to break the international order that has long been barely balanced in a drastic way.

How countries will react to this upsetting equilibrium may be even more unpredictable than the restless plasma in the reactor core.

The slightest carelessness, or even a simple miscalculation, can lead to consequences that no one can bear......

Comprehending the meaning of Professor Kreber's words, Professor Kleezing smiled.

"Are you talking about controlled nuclear fusion?"

As an academic, he didn't really care about the exchange of interests between politicians, so he just continued in a relaxed tone, "I heard that the European Union and the United States paid a lot of money to get China to remove the core of the original fusion reactor from the ban list...... But if I'm not mistaken, isn't that the result of discussions among countries? ”

Shaking his head, Professor Kreber withdrew his gaze from the stage and spoke.

"Professor Klitzing, the country is also made up of people, and each person's voice plays a role to a certain extent, the only difference is that some people's voices are as small and insignificant as mosquitoes, and some people's voices are louder than thunder, which is impossible to ignore. This is both a right and a responsibility. ”

He is the leader of the Chinese academic community, the representative of all scholars in China, and the chief designer of the great cause of controlled fusion engineering. I can even say with certainty that China is willing to negotiate with other countries on the technology of controlled nuclear fusion, and the world is still running on the track of peace, and his contribution must be in it. ”

At the same time, the other side of the Great Hall of 10,000 people.

Stopping his clapping hands and squinting at Lu Zhou walking down the platform, Professor Frank Wilzek suddenly couldn't help but speak.

"Our common issues."

Edward Witten, who was sitting next to him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked casually with interest.

"Did you just say something?"

“…… I mean, what he said," Professor Wilzek tried to repeat with a gesture of his hands, "the idea of this symposium, and the idea of the upcoming International Lunar Hadron Collider Research Center, is to enable us to face the issues that we have to face together. ”

Witten: "...... Is that what he said? ”

"Probably, maybe a little different...... But that's what it means," Professor Wilzek snapped, quickly bringing the topic over, "and speaking of which, there are finally generous people who have stepped forward and are willing to push our discipline into the future...... You ready? Mr. Witten. ”

"Are you calling me?"

"Or else?" Wilzek smiled and squeezed his eyebrows, "You used to complain that CERN's collider was too weak and there was no way to test your theory, but now that there is a bigger collider, it just so happens that you have a good relationship with the person in charge." ”

Hearing this, Witten smiled and shook his head.

"I don't deny that the first half of your sentence is definitely an epic moment for physics, but it's too early for string theory."

"Don't be so pessimistic, man."

"It's not pessimism, it's that we don't have any means of observation for the time being, and it's not something that can be solved by the collider alone," Witten continued, after a pause, "but even so, it's just as significant, and as I said, it's an epic moment." Both in the sense within the academic and in the sense outside the academic sense. ”

"Outside of physics?" Wilzek frowned, "I don't quite understand what you mean. ”

Witten smiled.

"My academic intuition tells me that the world is coming together as a whole, like two intertwined strings, and that our physics will flourish even more from now on...... But it's too early to tell, so let's wait. ”

Wilzek muttered, "Is it still early?" We don't think we'll see it any later. ”

Hearing the words of the old friend, Witten smiled.

"What does it matter? Princeton will see it for us, someone will see it for us! ”

……

After Lu Zhou stepped down from the stage, he was followed by Mrs. Klemmell, Chairman of CERN.

The woman, who is over half a hundred years old, spoke slowly but clearly to express CERN's support and affirmation for the upcoming establishment of the International Lunar Hadron Collider Research Center (IMCRC).

For a variety of reasons, at this international seminar, the speeches of the representatives of the academic community were placed in the C position, in front of the representatives of the political circles.

After Lu Zhou and CERN finished their speeches, Li from the China State Bureau of Science and Industry and high-level officials from the space departments of Russia, the United States, the European Union, and other countries expressed their views on this project of the century and sent their best wishes on behalf of their respective countries.

No matter what kind of thoughts you have in your heart, no matter what kind of open and secret battles and games are behind this, at least at this moment, in the face of the century project that determines the height of the earth's civilization, hands from all over the world are clasped together.

And this historic picture was also recorded by the cameras standing on both sides of the 10,000-person auditorium, and was broadcast to tens of millions of TV sets in real time through the Internet.

The opening ceremony came to an end quickly.

The first Lunar Hadron Collider Symposium officially began.

At the same time, a new era for physics has opened with the curtain of this opening ceremony......

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