[Shocked! The news just announced by this company has made the national and even the world's academic circles fry! ——"UC Headlines"

【Tianqing Technology: Establish the "Tianqing Science Foundation" to inject 200 billion yuan every year to fund basic scientific research. ——"Shangdu Morning Post"

[Just now, the news announced by Tianqing Technology Group that this big action has swept the whole network! ] ——"Science and Technology News"

[200 billion basic scientific research funds, you read that right, this is a company that pays its own money and takes 200 billion yuan every year to fund basic scientific research! ] —— "Today's Headlines"

The news of the establishment of the Science Foundation has just been announced on the official website of Tianqing Technology for less than two hours, and it has been reported by major media on the front page.

At first glance, it makes people wonder if today is April Fool's Day, and then look at whether today is indeed April Fool's Day, the news announced on the official website of Tianqing Technology is placed on the homepage and a whole page is used to disclose the relevant details.

This operation shocked countless eyeballs from the outside world, and they were all dumbfounded.

"What about those who say that Boss Gu, as the richest man, has no public welfare intentions? Bang bang, my face is swollen. ”

"What other company boss has the courage to do so? Is there a pattern? Have this vision? Compared with other science and technology celebrities who come out all day long to load pens and have no practical action, Boss Gu's rank throws them 10,000 streets. ”

"200 billion yuan a year to fund basic scientific research? it! it!! However, I am uneducated, and I am in the world. ”

"Tianqing Technology is cheating!! Gu Zongliu's disadvantage (broken sound) !! ”

"If we are mistaken, Tianqing Technology is still seven or eight months away from the third anniversary of its establishment, how rich is this!!"

"I don't know how many there are, but according to the first and second quarter financial reports released by Tianqing Technology Group this year, the total revenue of the two quarters adds up to 396.5 billion, and you know how terrifying it is.

"It is worthy of being one of the 'twin stars' of private high-tech companies, and it is a fraud!"

"I'm curious how much profit Tianqing has?"

"Tianqing Technology has not announced its profits to the outside world, because it is not a listed company, and it is impossible to ask for mandatory disclosure of profits, but judging from this news, it is not difficult to speculate that it can make an operation that spends 200 billion yuan every year to support basic scientific research.

"Yes, even if you want to play like this, you have so much money."

"Why do I think Tianqing Technology is worried that the announcement of profits will frighten others and make other companies unbearable...... [covers his face]"

"I really don't rule out this possibility2333......"

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In the afternoon, the High Energy Physics and Technology Research Center of HKUST.

A twenty-five-year-old young man rushed to an office with a traditional paper newspaper and was so excited that he forgot to knock on the door and entered.

When he broke into the office, the young man first glanced at the desk and didn't see a figure, and after a moment of wandering, he immediately locked on an old professor standing in front of the blackboard full of formulas, and stepped forward excitedly and said: "Professor Wu, big news, big news, the whole academic community is a sensation, no, it's a fryer!! ”

"What is the fuss, the train of thought has been interrupted by you." Academician Wu Yueliang glanced back at him disapprovingly, and said angrily when he saw his mentality: "How can such a mentality make achievements in basic physics?" ”

The young assistant researcher endured his excitement and said: "Not a professor, this news is too important, this morning Tianqing Technology Group announced that it will set up a 'Tianqing Science Foundation' to fund basic scientific research projects that lack R&D funds, facing the whole society and 10 major basic science fields, this news has caused an uproar in the academic community." ”

Academician Wu Yueliang stretched out his hand and made a classic "tactical mirror support" action when he heard this, and said lightly: "So what? How many companies are willing to pay for basic scientific research now? I think most of the hype is like the majority, and there are also ten basic fields, and the cost of a high-energy physics experiment project alone is hundreds of millions of astronomical sums, and those capitalists who only want to make money will pay money to support the study of a one-to-twenty cycle just to observe a physical phenomenon? Come on, basic research still has to rely on the state, see what excites you. ”

It can be seen from these words that Academician Wu Yueliang is not interested in capital, and he is recently gradually forming a research group with two other professors in the academy to prepare for a space gravitational wave detection program.

In 2016, the North American Laser Gravitational Wave Interferometric Observatory (LIGO) announced that it had directly detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015, confirming the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, and the three physicists working on the LIGO project won the Nobel Prize.

Wu Yueliang's research group is going to carry out a space gravitational wave detection program, which has an advantage over LIGO, whose experimental equipment is on the ground and still has too much noise, and sending the experimental equipment to quiet space is more accurate for detection.

According to the two-year-long space gravitational wave detection plan demonstrated by Academician Wu Yueliang, it is composed of three satellites centered on the sun, in a regular triangular formation, each satellite is 3 million kilometers apart, and high-precision inter-satellite laser interferometer and no-drag space technology are used to detect and study space gravitational waves.

The detailed plan is divided into three steps, the first is to initially form a space gravitational wave detection capability in 2021; In the second step, it is hoped that a dual-star verification satellite with key technologies will be launched in 2024; The third step is to use the technology accumulation of double satellite verification satellites to launch a third satellite in 2034.

During the two-year demonstration period, Academician Wu Yueliang and others have already calculated how much money is needed for this plan, and the initial investment requires a budget of 1.27 billion yuan, and in a period of 15~20 years, the total budget of the entire space gravitational wave detection program will be about 11.8 billion yuan.

Last year, I applied to HKUST for funding for this research project, but it was rejected and the university did not approve it, for the simple reason that there was not so much money.

This made Academician Wu Yueliang very helpless, the University of Science and Technology received only 230 million yuan from the Natural Science Foundation last year, and 351 large and small projects were set up on this money, with an average of about 650,000 yuan for each project.

Last year, the state's total expenditure budget for basic scientific research was 111.8 billion yuan, which is of course an astronomical amount, but it is still overstretched when subdivided into major basic scientific research fields.

The rejection of the application for funding has made Academician Wu Yueliang's plan to build space gravitational wave detection far away, and seeing that the NSF Foundation in North America has allocated funds to fund the upgraded version of the LIGO project, that is, to send scientific research equipment to space, this space gravitational wave detection program is LISA, the NSF Foundation has put the first batch of funding into this project team, and started the project as soon as he got the money at the beginning of this year.

At this moment, Wu Yueliang thought of these things, and his good mood became irritable, and he waved his hand: "Don't bother me if you don't have anything." ”

After saying that, he looked back at the blackboard, erased a formula, picked up the chalk and fell into thought.

"Professor, Tianqing Company because it was established not long ago, you don't care about things other than research, you may not know much about this high-tech company, this is a world-class giant with an annual income of hundreds of billions, the science foundation they established is really not a small fight, and plans to inject 200 billion basic scientific research grants into this foundation every year, 200 billion professors, and only for basic research, Major basic scientific research projects or non-profit scientific research institutions that lack funds can apply to Tianqing Science Foundation for funding review, which is half more than the total amount of funds allocated by the state for basic research!! ”

Professor Wu Yueliang had just written a symbol L of orbital angular momentum on the blackboard, and when he heard the words of the assistant researcher, half of the chalk in his hand was accidentally broken.

"What do you say? Two hundred billion? How is this possible? Where did they get so much money? ”

Wu Yueliang turned around suddenly, his expression was extremely shocked, and he suddenly stared at his assistant researcher: "You kid won't come here to pick me up, right?" ”

"How dare I take you!"

The young assistant researcher couldn't cry or laugh, and immediately came to the old professor, opened a paper newspaper in his hand, and pointed to the headline on the front page:

"Professor, this is the headline news about the establishment of the 'Tianqing Science Foundation' by Tianqing Technology, which has written a brief description of the funding of 10 major basic science fields, and it is subdivided into as many as six or seven hundred fields, and among the dozens of subdivisions highlighted, particle physics (high-energy physics) is among them."

The young research assistant immediately found a few paragraphs in the news content, which were excerpts from the copywriting paragraphs on the official website of Tianqing Technology, and read:

「…… It is because of these scientists that we can see the beautiful and vast deep space, appreciate the distant and ancient universe, and know the hidden and incomprehensible truths. There are things we know and there are things we don't know. Science is endless, just as the will of mankind has been passed down from generation to generation, and as Albert Einstein said, the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it can be understood. It's the hard work of these interesting souls that lets us know that there are things we know, and we know that there are things we don't know, but there's more things that we don't know and we don't know, and we all want to know."

After reading this paragraph, he looked at the old professor and said with a smile: "There are as many as six or seven hundred basic scientific research projects, and high-energy physics is not developing well now, and it is about to become unpopular, but it can be highlighted, and there is a lot of content, which is no coincidence, so it can be seen that the leaders of Tianqing Science Foundation must pay more attention to high-energy physics." ”

Wu Yueliang looked at the contents of the newspaper: "This is true..."

The young assistant researcher excitedly continued: "Professor, since the school has no money for the space gravitational wave detection program, then we can apply for funding from the Tianqing Science Foundation, even if we don't pass the review, there is no loss, but what if it passes?" ”

Hearing this, Academician Wu Yueliang quietly glanced at his research assistant, and then without saying a word, he subconsciously made a "tactical mirror" action.

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