Chapter 537: International Conference on High Energy Physics

The next day, the capital.

At the door of the 'Huaguo Science and Technology Hall' on Fuxing Road, there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

Concierges standing at the doorway and on either side of the hall corridor greeted physicists and mathematicians with their signature smiles on their faces.

The top academics that used to be seen only in news reports can be said to be two or three bricks here today.

At the door of the 'Huaguo Science and Technology Hall', a young man wearing an inch shirt and having his hair trimmed with mousse looked at the crowd coming and going, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Senior Brother Xu is really amazing. ”

Standing beside him, the old man in a thin gray coat couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and said, "He is indeed the most gifted and accomplished of all the students I have ever taken. ”

After a pause, he glanced at his students: "If you could have one percent of his efforts, you wouldn't have graduated by now." ”

Standing here today are Chen Zhengping of NTU and Feng Xian, a newly admitted student after graduating from Xu Chuan.

Hearing this, Feng Xun couldn't help but touch the back of his head, and sneered: "Senior Brother Xu, that is too hard, I heard that when he was in charge of the controlled nuclear fusion project before, he didn't sleep for a week. ”

Hearing this, Chen Zhengping couldn't help but slap him: "What do you call this, you don't sleep for a week, then you don't have a sudden cough early, and you owe a beating when you say this." ”

was scalped by the tutor, Feng Xun didn't care, smiled innocently, and his eyes fell on the foreign faces coming and going at the door.

Looking at the students with an expectant face, Chen Zhengping said: "It's just your Senior Brother Xu who has this ability, and the number of international mathematicians and physicists present at this conference is at least three or four thousand. ”

"In the past, how could you kid have the opportunity to participate in this kind of top-level conference, I haven't participated in a few in decades."

"In this exchange meeting, don't sit there stupidly like in school, run more, make more friends, maybe the person you meet is a big guy in the world of mathematics or a big guy in physics."

Hearing this, Feng Xun nodded seriously, with excitement in his eyes, he thought about it, but still couldn't help but ask: "Mentor, you said that when I introduce myself, can I hang the title of Senior Brother Xu's junior brother." I feel like I can get to know more people this way! ”

Chen Zhengping glanced at him, and said angrily: "At your level, no one may believe him in the name of his junior brother, let's go, enter the field, don't be ashamed." ”

Speaking of which, he was a little envious of himself as a student.

After all, this kind of large-scale international exchange meeting that gathers the world's top mathematicians and physicists, not to mention his student, even himself, has not participated in it a few times.

In the past, the physics community held the most meetings basically on the side of CERN and the United States, and most of them were related to the field of high-energy physics.

After all, in the past, China's weakness in the field of basic science was recognized.

It is also difficult for the few places in the exchange meetings won by those top conferences to fall into their hands.

Like now, he doesn't even need to go out of the country, he can directly take a high-speed train in China, and he can chat with the world's top mathematicians and physicists.

It's really enviable.

Under the auspices of the Chinese Physical Society, the International Conference on High Energy Physics is progressing in an orderly manner.

When mathematicians and physicists from all over the world entered the venue in an orderly manner, in the backstage lounge of the Science and Technology Hall, Xu Chuan looked helplessly at the makeup artist next to him, and couldn't help asking:

"How much longer?"

To be honest, when he was told that he was going to put on makeup first when he came to the stage this time, he was confused.

This is the first time I was caught wearing makeup before going on stage to give a report.

The most important thing is that he can't refuse.

Hearing this, the young lady, who was picking out some highlights from the makeup box and preparing to touch up the dull areas of her face, replied softly: "It'll be fine soon, just add some highlight eyeshadow and treat your hair." ”

"Can't you just do without makeup?" Xu Chuan muttered.

To be honest, when the young lady with makeup took a powder brush and applied it to his face, he always felt like he was being painted by a stuccomaker

Ahem, while that would be rude to a full-time makeup artist, he does feel that way.

Sitting on the side, the familiar old man was also being fiddled with by the makeup lady, he turned his head to look at Xu Chuan with a smile, and said: "You are the most important person in this exchange report, and you are also the face of our country, and thousands of scholars outside are all coming for you." ”

Xu Chuan glanced at the old man, if it weren't for the old man's request, he would have refused to run away a long time ago.

Letting the makeup lady smear her face with highlighter powder, he said, "What they want to see is an academic report, not me." ”

After a pause, he continued: "What's more, I think I'm pretty handsome without makeup." ”

As soon as these words came out, the makeup artist's little hand, which was shining high, was obviously crooked, and she almost didn't wipe it on the tip of her nose.

The forced smile almost didn't give the cheeks an inflammation, and the young lady took a few deep breaths before she eased up, and explained with a smile: "There is a big difference between taking pictures with makeup and without makeup under the light, if you don't wear makeup, your face will be dull, and the photos you take are generally not very good-looking." ”

On the side, the old man also couldn't hold back, coughed lightly and explained with a smile: "On this kind of international occasion, proper retouching of makeup and making one's posture more clean and refreshing is also a necessary respect for others participating in the exchange meeting, just endure it." ”

For the old man, such an occasion is not the first time for him, it is very familiar.

But he always felt that his tone was like coaxing a child?

Then again, at Xu Chuan's age, there is not much difference between him and a child in his eyes.

What's more, in this case, it seems that there is no other way but to coax.

In the Huaguo Science and Technology Hall, the crowd is surging, and the large auditorium that can accommodate more than 3,000 people is full at this moment.

Scholars from all over the world are sitting here at this moment, participating in this grand exchange meeting.

Nearly half of the scholars who came to participate in a high-energy physics conference in the physics community were mathematicians, which was probably the first time in history.

Amid some noisy discussions, Edward Witten made his way through the crowd and found his seat.

To his surprise, sitting next to him were Pierre de Ligné and G. Faltins.

I don't know what the person who arranged the seat thinks, he seems to be divided into the system of mathematicians?

But Witten didn't care too much, they were all acquaintances anyway, and it was more convenient to communicate.

And to say that he is a mathematician, there is nothing wrong with it, after all, he has won the Fields Medal.

After saying hello to Deligne with a smile, Witten looked at G. Faltins, who was sitting on the side, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to come too." ”

Faltins glanced at him and said lightly: "This is a difficult problem in the field of mathematics, and I am a mathematician. ”

The corners of Witten's mouth twitched, and the implication of this was that he was not a mathematician?

Believe it or not, he flipped the table, he also won the Fields Medal!

Ignoring the poisonous tongue that he had no friend Faltins, Witten sat down and looked at the report desk, which was empty for the time being.

However, according to the arrangement in the meeting minutes, the first session after the exchange meeting began, his student gave a report on "The Existence and Proof of the Solution of the Young-Mills Equation".

While this was indeed the most important thing in the conference, the first thing that came out at a physics conference was a presentation on a mathematical problem.

Well, he's more of a physicist.

Shaking his head, Witten threw the thought out of his mind and began to communicate with Deligne instead.

As for Faltins, go alone.

However, this old friend with a poisonous tongue probably doesn't care, he is a scholar of the same nature as Pelleman, and he almost doesn't care about anything other than academics.

Speaking of which, he and Deligne's two students, Xu Chuan, are also similar to such a type of person.

At least outside of academics, he had barely heard of the student being interested in anything else.

As for the money, it seems that most of the money he earned through artificial SEI films and other research was also invested in various experimental research.

Time passed in the middle of the exchange and discussion, and at this moment, some of the lights on the stage, which had been turned off, suddenly turned on, attracting the attention of many scholars in the hall.

The cacophony of discussions and exchanges gradually stopped, and the hall gradually fell silent.

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, it was not the figure they expected that came out.

The first to take the stage was the old man who was often seen on the news and television.

Normally, a conference in the field of high-energy physics, even if it is an international conference, will not be present at the conference.

After all, he had so much to keep busy.

However, today, when CERN suspended its cooperation with China, for the development of the country's basic science, in order to show the world that China attaches great importance to the field of basic science, and to welcome scholars from all over the world, the old man chose to make a brief welcome and report at the exchange meeting after thinking about it.

Of course, the sheer scale of this conference is also one of the decisive factors.

This kind of conference, which gathers mathematicians and physicists from all over the world, may not be held once in a few years.

After the old man expressed a warm welcome to the scholars who came to participate in the academic exchanges, the chairman of the Huaguo Physical Society came to the stage.

Regardless of how the scholars here today are looking forward to the report on "The Existence and Proof of the Solution of the Young-Mills Equation", the theme of today's conference is the International Conference on High Energy Physics.

Of course, as the most important item of the conference, the report "Existence and Proof of the Solution of the Yang-Mills Equation", the Chinese Physical Society put it in the first item on the first day, which is enough to show its attention.

After the president of the Physical Society announced the brief process of the meeting, Xu Chuan, who was dressed in formal clothes, stepped forward to the stage under the watchful eye of all people.

Facing the gazes of thousands of scholars in the audience, Xu Chuan tried the microphone, and after confirming that there was no problem, he said in a steady and clear voice:

"It's a pleasure to see you here today, and while I know that most of you here are here for the solution of the Yang-Mills equation, I'm going to interject a few digressions here."

Some unexpected speeches attracted the attention of many people in the auditorium, and the eyes of many scholars who were looking forward to the proof report of the solution of the Yang-Mills equation were filled with curiosity.

At this critical juncture, they wanted to hear what the scholar, who was arguably already at the top of the academic world, had to say.

Is it for his homeland to speak of the upcoming Large Strong Particle Collider? Or is it a criticism of the United States for forcibly meddling in the cooperation between CERN and Huaguo? Or is it something else?

After all, with this person's character all along, it's not that he can't do these things.

It would be fine if others didn't mess with him, but it was clear that the U.S. meddling in the CERN affair had brought the large strong particle collider project he led to a standstill, and it would be even more strange if he didn't react.

Under the watchful eye of all people, Xu Chuan spoke smoothly: "From the birth of the universe, to the greatest miracle on the earth - the sprout of the first life underwater, to the giant beast of the Stone Age, to the first time that human beings walked upright, it is undoubtedly the greatest miracle of civilization that we can gather here today." ”

"In the long history of human civilization, every transformation is accompanied by laughter and tears; And every scientific progress has also witnessed the continuous evolution of human society. ”

"From the initial exploration of the unknown earth to the blue ocean, to the vast sky and the dark but full of twinkling stars and hope, each discovery has broadened our knowledge and brought us a richer world."

"Of course, they also leave us with more unsolved mysteries."

"For example, why the universe originated, such as whether time is reversible, such as in a dark deep space, what is driving the expansion of space, and so on."

"I believe that these problems are far from being solved by one country or one person."

"And that's the main reason why we're sitting here together today."

Glancing around the figures of thousands of scholars in the Great Hall, Xu Chuan took a deep breath and slowly spoke:

"If there is one common good for all mankind, it is the progress of science!"

The moment the words fell, thunderous applause erupted in the hall, surging like a tide, and the river flowed endlessly.