Chapter 113 International Union of Crystallography (8)
"Peter, what do you think is going to happen with this episode?"
"Ahh The man named Peter said disdainfully.
"Hey, even if everyone else is a foil, it's none of our business, I'm asking you how about this episode!"
"Johansen, the show is great, but it's also good news, isn't it?" Peter pointed to the group of reporters who had surrounded the classroom when they heard the news.
Since this conference was hosted by Canada, and it was also a very educational conference, Canadian television recorded all the presentations and meetings live. Although Junxin is a Chinese who has always discriminated against in Canada, Junxin's knowledge is enough to change all this discrimination, so it has also received key attention.
In fact, not all the professors who came had their own lectures, because of the large number of professors, only some of the professors had the task of reporting, and Junxin had an independent report, although it was because his research was related to the theme of the conference, but it also showed that his knowledge was recognized by the organizing committee. No matter how arrogant Canadians are, it is impossible to discriminate against such a person.
Johansen looked at the large group of Canadian reporters who had gathered outside, and even some reporters from international newspapers, and couldn't help but nod in agreement with Peter's words.
"There's a lot of big media out there, you see, that chubby guy is Monton Les Granger from the Toronto Star, and the pretty chick next to her is Suzanne from the Montreal Newspaper, I heard it's a French girl. And then behind her was the Vancouver Sun guy, who had grabbed the news with me a couple of times, and this guy always had a way of getting the news he wanted. Over there, it's..."Peter is obviously an old bird in the news media world, and basically the reporter who comes to him already knows where the other party belongs and simple information at a glance.
Johansen, on the other hand, was like a newcomer who had just interned, following Peter to get acquainted with the world of journalism.
"That's...The New York Times, right?"
"Well, there's a whole bunch of foreign media over there, and I'll see, oh my gosh, there's The Times, there's the Asahi Shimbun for the Japanese monkeys, there's the Washington Post and the Chronicle of Higher Education for the Yankees, and of course there's that. There are also reporters from the French newspaper Le Monde, well, and German and Italian journalists, oh, there are really a lot of people. ”
"It's just an academic presentation, how can there be so many people, Peter?" Johansen asked, a little puzzled.
"Not surprising at all, Johansen!" Peter is a very talkative person, of course, the premise is that you buy him all the food, drink, takeout, and other things, "As far as I know, the name Junxin has appeared several times in the world's top media, and when he just said to prove Modell's conjecture, I think the whole mathematical community was stirred, and I heard a friend of mine in New York say that Princeton at that time had the idea of inviting him to work directly at the Institute for Advanced Study. Later, he successively proved a conjecture he put forward, as if to prove the relationship between Fermat's theorem and a conjecture of Shenma, I don't know much about the specifics, anyway, it's a very big thing. Later, the discovery of quasicrystal, a material morphological structure, caused a sensation in the entire scientific community. As you can see, the International Union of Crystallography even changed the theme of the conference because of his research. ”
But no journalist has been able to visit a man who has done so much, and the only news about him is from what he saw in a few Chinese newspapers. So it's no wonder that this group of reporters is not crazy when they see him. ”
"He's amazing," Johansen said with a little solemnity on his face.
"Of course, if he wasn't important, I wouldn't have been sent here!" Peter said proudly. But he is indeed one of the aces of Canadian television, at least in the city of Toronto, he is the ace.
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"I would like to invite Professor Shechtman from Johns Hopkins University in the United States to ask a question." After answering a professor's question, Junxin glanced down and loudly nodded at Shechtman.
"Hello, Mr. Junxin. I've been in a trance since yesterday when we realized that I just learned your age, so I'm a little distracted just now, so I'm really sorry. My question is, in the process of quasicrystalline research, you first used mathematical methods to speculate, so is there a quasicrystalline structural substance in nature? What are the differences between naturally occurring quasicrystalline conditions and laboratory conditions? In addition, the current quasicrystalline has always been dominated by three metal elements, is there two or more than three, or even one kind of quasicrystalline substance? ”
"Okay, I've received your question." Jun Xin nodded at Shechtman and said, "First of all, to answer your first question, when I prepared the first quasicrystal, I had already taken into account the existence of natural quasicrystals, so for the geography of the world, especially the volcanic areas and some special places, I finally chose two places where natural quasicrystals may exist, one is the Tunguska zone where the Tunguska explosion is located, and the other is the Hatelka Lake in the Soviet Union, which was once considered to be a place infested by aliens. But it doesn't matter if there are aliens or not, the important thing is that the conditions and hydrological conditions of Lake Hatairka are a bit special, plus my intuition, I feel that there is a great possibility of quasicrystals in this place. ”
"As for the similarities and differences with laboratory preparation, I can only regret that I don't know. Because we do not know the exact formation mechanism of quasicrystals, and we have not obtained natural quasicrystalline substances for relevant research, so this problem is currently unsolved, and we need to explore and explore. ”
"The second question I think is okay, in terms of a quasicrystal with a two-dimensional structure, in the case of the Penrose puzzle, I think it is yes, the Penrose puzzle has only two diamond-shaped structures, and I think the formation of the quasicrystal also requires only two metal elements. As for the more than three metallic elements, because they have more complex configurations, I think they also exist, in fact, my laboratory is currently working on the empirical rules of the formation principle of quasicrystals, and at the same time trying to prepare more complex quasicrystalline structures. ”
"Thank you!" Shechtman nodded in thanks and sat down. And at this time, Ms. Dorothy Crawford Hodgkin, who had not spoken or raised her hand, finally raised her hand for the first time.