In the ECERN central building, delegates from all over Europe quarreled fiercely with members of the Board of Governors.

It had been a long time since there had been a new membership, and the last time a new member had been admitted was in 1999.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Brazil, Turkey, Pakistan, Ukraine, or even Lao Maozi and the United States have all applied for membership, but none of them have agreed.

Compared with observer countries and cooperative institutions, member states are the real core of control, after all, funding and policy support are inseparable from these member states.

"There has never been a history of allowing non-European countries to join the membership state, even if it is a United States, it is not a member of us, if China is allowed to pass, we will not be able to account for the United States, nor can we explain to the outside world."

At the desk, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes expressed his opinion.

"Judea is also a member state, not a European country."

On the other side, the representative of Bulgaria made a calm statement and rejected the remarks made by the representative of Denmark on the other side.

Compared with the vast majority of Eastern European countries, Bulgaria and China have a lot of cooperation, and the relationship has always been very good.

Across the desk, the representative of Denmark, who had just spoken, rolled his eyes in his mind.

Judea, that is, Israel, is indeed a non-European country, but does it represent itself?

Everyone knows that it is not, it occupies the status of a member state, and it actually represents the interests of the United States.

Everyone here knew this, but he couldn't have said it at the meeting.

After all, the Jewish representatives are also here, so people will definitely turn their faces when they say this.

"Okay, everyone, that's all for today's debate for the time being, and the matter of Huaguo's application to become a full member will be voted on below."

David Gross, who was presiding over the meeting, stood at the head of the desk, interrupted everyone's argument, and continued:

"Please cast your votes."

As of now, there are 22 member states, and Judea is the only non-European country.

Each member state has two official representatives, one responsible for the administration of the government and the country's scientific interests.

However, each member state has only one vote, and although the Council seeks unanimous consent whenever possible when making decisions, in practice majority decisions are made through the principle of a simple majority.

With David Gross's words, the Bulgarian councillor was the first to cast their votes.

Suddenly, there was an extra yes vote on the side of the projection screen.

As the Bulgarian council delegates cast their first votes, the number of votes for the board of directors continued to increase on the projection screen.

There are those who are for, those who are against, and those who abstain.

In less than a minute, the directors have completed the voting in their hands.

Waiting for the last member state representative to cast his vote, David Gross looked at the projection beside him and sighed slightly.

But then, he opened his mouth and announced: "The final result of this vote is as follows:"

"The directors voted a total of twenty-two, of which eight votes were in favor, twelve were against, and two abstentions, and the number of votes in favor did not exceed two-thirds."

"In accordance with the previous rules, the meeting decided to veto Huaguo becoming a member state."

Professor David Gross solemnly reported the votes, and the final number rejected China's application to become a member state.

Although this result was expected, Gross still sighed in his heart.

In his opinion, China has had quite a lot of scientists in basic sciences since its development, and the achievements made over the years are representative.

Whether it's the Higgs particle, or the four-quark particle, or the five-quark particle, the Higgs decay ....... And so on, Huaguo's contribution is quite large.

On the other hand, one more Member State would require a significant increase in funding.

At present, the annual budget is generally about 1 billion Swiss francs (CHF, about 1.02 billion metres).

However, this figure is not fixed, for example, in 2015 it was 970 million meters, and in 2016 it was 1.09 billion meters.

This is because the costs are shared by all member states in proportion to GDP.

According to this calculation, if China becomes a member state, then next year, the cost will skyrocket by nearly 300 million meters.

This figure would have been higher if it had not been for the sake of balance, stipulating that each Member State could not spend more than 20 per cent of the total expenditure.

The fund of 300 million meters of gold is enough to carry out dozens of more collision experiments every year.

With dozens of more collision experiments every year, the probability of discovering unknown particles or unknown cosmic phenomena will increase by hundreds of times.

This can greatly promote the development of high-energy physics.

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As far as scientific research is concerned, China's participation is beneficial and harmless.

But for the member states, the accession of China is not such a wonderful thing.

For the sake of the fact that member states can share all kinds of technologies that have been born from China, many of which are in short supply in China.

The whole of Europe, and most, if not the vast majority of countries, do not want to see the rise of the red country in the East.

After all, most of the countries in Europe are the biggest beneficiaries of the current international order, with a small population and relatively large resources, and they can live very well by mastering a few core technologies.

And if China continues to develop, it will inevitably change the white supremacy international order in the center of Mio.

Once this order is broken, their lives will not be so good.

Therefore, even if the member states of China's application have already communicated with the governments of various countries many times in advance, they can still pay a lot of benefits, and most of them still choose to oppose it.

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After reporting the results of the vote, David Gross picked up a manuscript from the table and continued: "Next, the second item of this meeting will be carried out. ”

"Matters relating to China's application for associate membership."

"This matter is still to be voted on by the Board of Directors."

As he spoke, Professor Gross manipulated the computer in the conference room.

"Also, before the voting begins, please allow me to report on one more thing."

"In the past three days, we have received applications from 37 different national physical laboratories and institutes, as well as 127 top physicists."

"I hope to hold one or two, or more, lectures on the energy level channels of particles from mathematical calculations."

"Excuse me, I would like to ask if this has anything to do with China's application for associate membership?"

In the room, a member of the board raised his hand to interrupt David Gross's speech.

Gross lifted his glasses and continued without changing his face: "Of course it matters, because the only person who has mastered the method of calculating the energy level channel of particles from mathematics is in Huaguo. ”

"If you have watched the press conference some time ago, you should know that mastering this method can save millions or even tens of millions of meters of collision research funds for other high-energy physics laboratories every year."

"If we're lucky, we'll be able to refine the Standard Model and the Higgs particle ahead of schedule, and even find something beyond the Standard Model, such as dark matter and dark energy."

There was clearly some commotion in the office over Professor Gross's words.

Whether it is saving millions of dollars in scientific research funds every year, or the subsequent dark matter and dark energy, these things are quite attractive to any country and research institution.

Half of the members currently participating in the meeting are officials from Member States.

These people are basically elected from the governments of various countries, and they vote on behalf of member countries, participate in the formulation of major policies and policies, participate in the voting for the admission of new member countries, and communicate with governments.

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They don't usually pay much attention to their own collision experiments and physics developments, unless they make a major discovery. For example, the Higgs particle.

The other 22 directors are basically physical scientists from various countries.

This part of the people is the main person who negotiates the day-to-day development, such as the arrangement of the collision experiment.

At present, it is clear that not all the official representatives of the member states are aware of the details of the coupling phenomenon between Higgs and the third generation of heavy quark Yukawa some time ago.

Yes, yes, but the role of mathematics in this is not necessarily clear to everyone.

The time interval was too short, and many of the trustees who were physicists had not yet had time to report to their own countries.

"A mathematical method, doesn't he have to be? Can't we do it ourselves? ”

At his desk, a government representative looked at David Gross and asked.

Gross shook his head and said, "Of course not, theoretically, if someone can do this, we can do it too." ”

"It's just that if we do our own research, I'm afraid it will take a long time, maybe three or five years?"

"After all, he is the only one who holds the core of that calculation method, which is really important for him."

"If the original author had given a presentation, the time it would have taken other physicists to master this method could have been reduced to a few months."

Hearing this, some government representatives who did not know much about the details of this matter began to ask the physicists around them, and the whole conference room was in an uproar.

David Gross sat quietly in his chair.

He raised this point at the meeting today, not from the request from the public mailbox, but from Xu Chuan.

After all, there is no need to discuss with government representatives of various countries whether to hold a report meeting, but only need to communicate with Xu Chuan and obtain his consent.

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Regarding the number of member states that the motherland is applying for, Xu Chuan is aware.

But there was nothing he could do about it.

After all, he is currently only a small researcher, and even if he has achieved something physically, he will not be able to contribute to the decisions of the council, and he is not even qualified to make recommendations.

But it happened that in the past two days, David Gross approached him, hoping that he could hold two briefings to explain the previous method.

He took the opportunity to make a request to the President for a statement on the matter at the Meeting.

In exchange, he will stay for two presentations to explain in detail the mathematical methods used to calculate the optimal search for decay channels coupled between Higgs and Yukawa, a third-generation heavy quark.

That's why Professor Gross is bringing this up at today's meeting.

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