Chapter 1: Returning Home
In the Atlantic, a light breeze swept across the East Coast with a little coolness.
In Zone 1, Newark Airport in New Jersey, USA, in Terminal 3, two middle-aged men stand by the glass window of the observation deck, looking at the huge Boeing 760 parked on the tarmac.
In the clear glass boarding tunnel, a figure is walking towards the plane with a backpack on his back.
"You say, why doesn't he want to stay, is it so good to go back to China?"
Standing by the glass window, a middle-aged man in a suit seemed to ask his companions around him, and seemed to be muttering to himself.
Over the years, he has lost count of the number of times he has personally invited the other party to stay.
Even if you give him the honor of being a national academician of the first region, even if you give him the most relaxed and cooperative scientific research environment, trying to make him like it here, it will not help.
No matter what they do, they can't change that person's attitude.
On the side, another man in casual clothes and gold-rimmed glasses stared at the plane outside the window and shook his head slightly.
This answer may only be known to the person who has now entered the plane, right?
But in any case, they lost one of the world's top scientists today.
Lost a two-time Nobel Prize winner in physics and hailed by the physics community as the fourth man after Newton, Einstein and Maxwell.
At the same time, there is also the loss of a mathematician who won a Fields Medal, and the loss of a top researcher who can push the boundaries of the materials world.
Turning his head, he glanced at the middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes beside him, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.
He really wanted to ask what kind of price did the red country pay to let them go of such a great man of the century who was worthy of a city or even a country.
But he knew in his heart that these things were not something that his little Harvard physics professor could ask about.
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Late at night, a Boeing 760 loaded with passengers took off from Newark Airport in New Jersey, and Xu Chuan sat in the cabin, leaning against the window, looking out at the bustling city at his feet.
Fifteen years ago, not long after turning 21, he completed his university studies at Sanjiang Normal University, received his diploma and received an admission letter from Princeton University.
I thought that I would be able to return to China in four or five years at most to study abroad, but I didn't expect to stay in this unfamiliar country for fifteen years.
The reason for this is a paper published in the first year of his professorship at Princeton University, "The Mechanism of Nuclear Energy β Radiant Energy Accumulation and Conversion of Electrical Energy".
Later, because of this paper, he was invited by an atomic energy experimental institution to enter the atomic energy laboratory to carry out experimental research on the paper.
In two years, under his leadership, the experimental research on the mechanism of nuclear energy β radiation energy accumulation and conversion of electrical energy was successfully completed.
It was precisely because of this project that he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in his life, and at the same time, he was awarded the honor of being an academician of the National Academy of Sciences by the first district.
After the experiment was completed, Xu Chuan was also preparing to return to China.
However, the accident came, and on the day he left, he was temporarily banned from leaving by the other party on the grounds that he participated in the core secret experiment and involved the leakage of core information, waiting for the investigation to be clear.
This awaiting investigation lasted for a full decade.
As a researcher, Xu Chuan's sense of smell is not very acute, but after several unsuccessful attempts to return to China, he probably knew that he might not be able to go back.
Although I know some other professors, and I have teachers and Princeton colleagues and friends to help, these scholars are relatively weak.
Ten years of investigation, if you add the five years he spent studying abroad, he stayed here for a full fifteen years.
How many fifteen years are there in life?
But it's still too late, he is not yet thirty-eight years old, and there are at least two fifteen years left to show his talents.
The tree is thousands of feet high, and the leaves fall back to the roots; The tired bird knows how to return, and the wanderer misses his relatives. More than ten years have passed, and the hometown he desperately misses will be seen in more than ten hours.
Thinking of this, Xu Chuan had a smile on his face, and reached out and touched the backpack on his lap.
These are some of his scientific research ideas in the past ten years, most of which are some casual notes, and it is precisely because of this that these things can be taken away by him.
And at his feet, he has more scientific research results and information papers that have been left there.
But Xu Chuan doesn't care about these anymore, the knowledge is in his mind, as long as he wants to, it is not difficult to rewrite and develop it.
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The twelve hours of the voyage passed quickly, and the Boeing 760 made a perfect arc along the outer line of the Arctic Circle.
When the sun rises in the distance, the shoreline where the sea and land meet begins to turn red, and the fiery red tomorrow seems to tear through the darkness.
Looking at the sunrise in the sky, Xu Chuan couldn't help but smile on his face; In just over half an hour, he will be able to step into the territory of the motherland, and I hope that his talent will also make the motherland rise like this red sun.
Suddenly, a sense of weightlessness came from under his feet, quickly pulling his consciousness back to reality from the distraction.
"Planes, in a dive?"
The feeling of falling rapidly and the scenery outside the window made Xu Chuan's pupils shrink suddenly, and the chaos in the cabin made him realize something, but he couldn't do anything about it.
In just over a minute, with a deafening roar, the sea burst into flames, and the huge Boeing 760 disappeared into the vast sea, leaving only countless fragments of the body floating on the water.
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