When I woke up, it was already ten o'clock.

When Lu Zhou finished washing, cleaned up and walked downstairs, the breakfast buffet on the first floor had been cleaned up, and the chefs were busy preparing lunch.

However, after learning that Lu Zhou hadn't eaten breakfast yet, the lobby manager of the hotel said very intimately that he could ask the kitchen chef to make a separate one for him. However, considering that it might add trouble to other people's work, Lu Zhou politely declined the manager's proposal, saying that he was planning to go out for a walk and eat casually outside.

Walking to the sofa in the lobby and sitting down, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and called Wang Peng, asking him to drive the car to the door of the hotel.

After getting into the car, Wang Peng skillfully drove the car onto the highway and asked Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the back seat.

"Where are you going?"

Lu Zhou thought about it, and originally planned to ask if there were any delicious snacks in the vicinity.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought that Senior Brother Luo seemed to have been sent by him to stay in Shangjing for almost half a year, and he hadn't been to see anyone in Shangjing for a day, so he spoke.

"Let's go to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"Okay."

……

It's already the end of February, and it's just over the beginning of March, and it's spring.

At this moment, although there is still a little coolness in the air in Shangjing City, there is no need to wear a down jacket to walk outside, a sweater and a jacket are enough.

It happened that the road conditions were good today, and in less than twenty minutes by car, the two of them quickly arrived at their destination.

After getting out of the car, Lu Zhou walked to the entrance of the Institute of High Energy Physics, registered his name at the doorman's office, and inquired about the department where the "Lunar Hadron Collider Project Team" was located, and then walked in the direction of the building according to the direction pointed by the doorman.

I walked to the door of the office and knocked on it, and the door quickly opened.

The one who opened the door was a little girl with glasses, probably the secretary of the office, who was obviously stunned when she saw Lu Zhou.

Looking at the little girl who was stunned, Lu Zhou asked politely.

"Hello, is Professor Luo Wenxuan here?"

Recovering from her surprise, the little girl stammered nervously.

"Ah...... Are you looking for, Professor Luo? He's ...... here."

Before she could finish speaking, the voice that was very characteristic of Senior Brother Luo floated over through the half-hidden door.

"Xiaojuan, who is at the door?"

Hearing Senior Brother Luo's voice, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile, and raised his voice as he walked towards the office.

"It's me, I've come to see you."

Before the words fell, a clanging sound suddenly came, as if something had fallen to the ground.

Suddenly put down the two legs that were on the desk, looked at Lu Zhou who appeared at the door, and Luo Wenxuan, who sat up straight from the office chair, his face was full of surprise.

"Hold the grass, Lu Shen?! Why are you here? ”

As soon as he heard Senior Brother Luo's greeting, Lu Zhou, who had just walked into the office, almost didn't fall, and after coughing lightly, he couldn't help but complain.

"It's okay for others to tease me, why do you call this thing too?"

"Isn't that my name smooth?" Luo Wenxuan touched the back of his head embarrassedly, smiled shyly and said, "In the past few days, people from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been discussing you, and listening to their Lu Shen Lu Shen all day long, I am about to be brainwashed." ”

Nodding his gratitude to the little girl who brought him tea, Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the sofa, asked with a smile.

"What to discuss with me?"

Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou unexpectedly: "You don't know? Haven't you followed the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences? ”

“…… Is there anything on the official website? ”

"The official websites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced the preliminary list of the co-opted academicians! Both lists have your name on them, and I don't know if you've noticed it, but the news has been going crazy on several academic forums lately. ”

Looking at what Luo Wenxuan said, Lu Zhou didn't interrupt him, but just smiled embarrassedly.

If he knew that he had not only entered the primary election, but had even passed the review of the school division in June, and was only one second round away from voting, he didn't know what the expression on his face would be.

However, it's good to know this kind of thing in your heart, after all, Director Qian gave him the convenience, Lu Zhou felt a little out of order no matter how he thought about it, and it was better to keep a little low-key about this kind of thing.

Finally tired of talking, Luo Wenxuan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, put down the cup and looked at Lu Zhou and said.

"So you came to Beijing to see me?"

Lu Zhou: "That's not true, I'm mainly here to receive the award." ”

Luo Wenxuan rolled his eyes and leaned back on the office chair: "I know so much, you can't lie to me." ”

"What's the good of lying to you, can you give me money?" Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "Speaking of which, how did the design of the Moon Hadron Collider go?" ”

Luo Wenxuan waved his hand and said: "There is nothing difficult in the design itself, the difficulty of this thing is not in the design, but in how to realize the design." The Chinese Academy of Sciences still attaches great importance to our project, and has transferred many experienced engineers from the BESII project team to join our project team, which has reduced our workload. ”

Although the positron and negative electron collider of the Shangjing spectrometer is not large, the sparrow is small and has all kinds of organs. The engineers who have participated in the BESII project are all top experts in the field of experimental physics in the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although the names of these people may not be ranked in the international academic community, this has little to do with their own abilities, mainly because experimental physics itself is not as easy to publish articles as high-energy physics, and there are not many opportunities to show their heads, and most of them work in obscurity behind the scenes of theoretical scholars. And this is enough to see from the tendency of awarding some world-class awards.

After hearing that Lu Zhou planned to build a collider on the crater of the moon, even though they knew that this plan would be difficult to realize, the experts of the Institute of High Energy Physics attached great importance to the project.

After all, it is too rare for the domestic theoretical physics community, which is seriously short of funds, to be willing to invest money in the collider, and no matter how unrealistic the plan sounds, they are not willing to miss this opportunity easily.

If you can't succeed after trying, it's a matter of ability, and if you don't even dare to try, it's a pity.

“…… In addition, recently, our project team successfully hooked up with CERN, and after hearing about our plan, CERN was quite interested, and at the beginning of the year, several engineers who had participated in the construction of LHCb came over to help us solve some technical problems. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou glanced at Luo Wenxuan unexpectedly.

"Will CERN send someone over there?"

Luo Wenxuan said with a smile: "Of course they weren't so happy at first, and when that group of Europeans heard that we were planning to build a hadron collider on the lunar surface, he thought we were making fun of them. "But when they heard that you were the person in charge of the project, they snatched the cooperation agreement and signed it without saying a word."

Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "What are they asking for?" ”

Luo Wenxuan: "Purchase the detectors of their partner manufacturers, and if conditions permit, leave them a few research places on the completed Moon Hadron Collider." ”

After hearing this, Lu Zhou nodded.

These are not very difficult requirements.

Compared with other fields, theoretical physics is relatively pure, and the exchanges between research institutions in various countries are quite close.

If conditions permit, there is certainly no reason for Lu Zhou to refuse European scholars to participate in the Lunar Hadron Collider project.

After all, research in the field of high-energy physics benefits the entire civilization, and this is not the mission of one country, but the cause that should be completed by gathering the wisdom of all mankind.

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Luo Wenxuan continued: "By the way, I've always wanted to ask you something. ”

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter?" You ask. ”

Luo Wenxuan asked in a serious tone: "To be honest, no matter how we improve the design scheme, the total weight of the entire project is more than the unit of 1,000 tons. If we do design this thing, do you really have a way to get it to the moon? ”

Facing Senior Brother Luo's serious eyes, Lu Zhou was silent for a while and said in an affirmative tone.

"I can promise you that I can do it, and even if I can't, I'll do it as best I can."

If he wants to project tens of thousands of tons of equipment on the surface of the moon, with the current technical capabilities of Star Technology, I am afraid that even if he sells all the shares of East Asia Power and the related patents related to lithium-sulfur batteries, it will not be enough.

However, this is only for now.

If we look at this issue from a development perspective, it is not unsolvable.

After the completion of the Xiaguang under design, it is not surprising that Star Technology's Earth-Moon transfer orbit delivery capability will rise to a new level. At the same time, the Aerospace Research Institute of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study and other domestic research institutions are also developing industrial equipment that can realize automated mining, smelting and production in outer space.

There are a large number of perovskite and system resources stored on the surface of the moon, and some not very precise structural components are completely possible to be produced on the moon through automated processing.

Of course, how long it will take to do this, it is difficult for Lu Zhou himself to give an accurate time.

After all, he was a good scholar, but he wasn't an equally good engineer.

The future is still very long, and he can only say that he will take one step at a time.

"Let's not talk about work matters first," putting the teacup in his hand on the table, Lu Zhou ended the topic and said with a smile, "I came to visit you this time, first, to see if you are still used to working here, and secondly, I came to invite you to dinner." ”

Luo Wenxuan glanced at Lu Zhou in surprise.

"When did you become so generous?"

Lu Zhou said speechlessly: "When did I say this, when have I ever been stingy?" Are there any good restaurants nearby? ”

"That's okay, I can't miss such a good thing," without saying a word, he stood up from the office chair, Luo Wenxuan continued with a smile, "It just so happens that there is a good restaurant near here, just follow me." ”