Into Unscientific - Chapter 425

  Chapter 425 Encounter on the plane

   While Lucas saw Lars.

   Lars, who had been paying attention to the entrance, also found his friend, and waved to him quickly:

   “Hey, Lucas, here!”

  However, considering the tight schedule.

  Lucas could only point to the watch on the arm of the other party first, indicating that he heard the other party’s greeting, but he needed to wait.

   Then he walked quickly to the dining table to get some bread, butter, blueberry jam, and a glass of skimmed milk, and then hurriedly came to sit next to Lars:

   “Lars, why are you here?”

   Lars shrugged when he heard the words, pulled up and down the lever of the suitcase beside him with a click, and explained:

   “Obviously, of course I went to Huaxia with you, let’s be a companion along the way.”

  Lucas just remembered that his good friend is also the chief manager of the BEBC Bubble Room.

  Although it is far from the Nobel Prize, it is still very easy to be a professor of a top university when it is benchmarked in the education system.

  From the perspective of rank.

  He does have the qualifications to go to Rongcheng.

   Then Lucas took two bites of bread, and suddenly thought of something, a teasing smile rose from the corner of his mouth:

   “Lars, if I remember correctly, someone seemed to say something yesterday, it seems to be”

   “If CJPL can produce results close to yours within three years, someone will eat the ax on the bronze statue of Maxwell in Cavendish Laboratory on the spot.”

  “.”

   Lars’s face showed a bit of stiffness, but he quickly returned to normal, and said with a straight neck:

   “Yes, I said that, but it’s too early to say I’m going to get slapped in the face?”

   “Not to mention whether the result was discovered by CJPL, even if it is, it may not necessarily be the real cold dark matter, let’s talk about it later.”

  Lucas raised his eyebrows, but did not speak.

  Since the Chinese Academy of Sciences chose Rongcheng as the location, no matter whether the results are true or not, it is obvious that the relevant report can only be made by CJPL.

   That is the Jinping Deep Earth Laboratory.

  Although rationality told him that the probability of the Chinese people making real achievements is not high.

   But if dark matter is really found.

  So whether it is for scientific research or embarrassment for friends, it is undoubtedly a huge boost.

   So think of it this way.

  If the Chinese did discover dark matter, wouldn’t that be a bad thing?

  Twenty minutes passed.

   After breakfast, Lucas wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue.

   took Lars and two colleagues and left the hotel.

  With Lars, the local snake, setting off together, Lucas and the others don’t have the trouble of calling a car with Uber, and can directly enjoy the benefits of CERN.

   After leaving the hotel.

  Lars guided them directly into a commercial vehicle that was already waiting here.

   More than half an hour passed.

  The commercial vehicle safely sent them to Geneva Airport.

   Followed by routine security checks, check-in, and waiting.

  Finally, when it was close to 7 o’clock in the morning, the group successfully boarded the small passenger plane of Lufthansa.

   Another hour passed.

  Where the tower was greeted by the white flag, the plane arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport smoothly.

  Lucas and others carried out the boring but smooth transfer process again.

  After waiting for several hours, I finally boarded a direct flight to Chengdu.

  Compared with the small aircraft of Lufthansa, the body of this cross-border flight is undoubtedly wider and much more comfortable.

   Due to the rush of booking time.

  Lukas and the two colleagues were not arranged in adjacent seats, but were seated separately. Next to Lucas was a single seat of unknown passenger identity.

   Fortunately, Lucas is not the kind of person who cares about such things. After all, it is difficult to buy tickets for cross-border flights.

  After taking your seat.

  He first asked the flight attendant for a blanket to wrap around his body, then put on the blindfold he brought and rested.

after awhile.

   There was a ringing sound in Lucas’ ear, and it seemed that his ‘neighbor’ had arrived.

  Lucas hesitated for a moment when he saw this, but he lifted his blindfold, ready to say hello to this temporary neighbor.

   After all, the next trip will take more than nine hours, chatting with neighbors is obviously a good way to kill time.

  The passenger sitting next to Lucas was a little old man in his fifties, with a soft face, silver hair combed very neatly, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a strong bookish air all over his body.

   At least the first impression given to Lucas was very good.

   At the same age as Lucas, it seems like someone who can talk about some common topics.

  So Lucas adjusted a relatively polite sitting posture, and took the initiative to say:

   “Good afternoon, sir, are you going to Rongcheng too?”

  The little old man had just sat down in his seat at this time, and after seeing this situation for less than half a second, he took the initiative to stretch out his hand:

   “That’s right, I have some business to go to Rongcheng. My name is Morton, and I’m from Sweden.”

   Lucas shook hands with him lightly:

   “Lucas Cuellar, the man across the sea.”

   “Cuellar?”

  The little old man repeated Lucas’ surname in a low voice, gave a slight snort, and looked at Lucas thoughtfully:

   “This surname is not very common, and it’s still called Lucas. Could it be that you are the Lucas from the Fermi Accelerator Laboratory?”

  Lukas was stunned for a moment, obviously a little surprised that a stranger could call out his name:

   “Mr. Morton, have you heard of me?”

   Received an affirmative answer from Lucas, the little old man named Morton couldn’t help but let out a haha, and said with a smile:

   “Of course, after all, Fermilab’s reputation is not small—at least in the scientific community.”

   “Let me introduce formally, Morton L. Groby, the former leader of the Cold Spring Harbor Bioinformatics Research Group.”

   “Morton L. Groby?”

  Lukas’s mind was spinning rapidly, and a general outline of a person appeared in his heart.

  Morton, L. Groby.

   A well-known biologist who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, a lifetime honorary academician of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a foreign academician of the Academy of Sciences across the sea.

   In 2017, he won the Lasker Award for his research on transplanted cells. He is currently one of the top biological leaders who has the best chance of winning the next Nobel Prize in Biology.

  Although the professional directions of Morton L. Groby and Lucas have nothing to do with each other, we have heard of such bigwigs to some extent—after all, they both work in top institutions across the sea.

   Then without waiting for Lucas to respond, Morton asked again:

   “Mr. Lucas, you went to Rongcheng this time, probably because of the press conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, right?”

  A simple word ‘also’ reveals a lot of information.

   At the same time, this seemingly coincidental encounter has a reasonable explanation.

   Lucas nodded and admitted:

   “That’s right, I was preparing to attend the press conference. It seems that Mr. Morton, we will drop by for a while after we arrive in Chengdu.”

   Then he paused, and asked hesitantly:

   “Mr. Morton, isn’t your direction bioinformatics and genetic recombination? Why.”

   Lucas hesitated for the second half of the sentence, but Morton L. Groby understood what he meant:

   “Why were you invited to a physics conference?”

   Lucas hummed.

  Morton L. Groby smiled, with a hint of emotion in his eyes:

   “Because among the main members participating in the press conference this time, there is an old guy who owes me a few catties and two vitex, and at the same time I am another person.”

   “Where are the reviewers for the first paper?”

   “Reviewer for the first paper?”

  Hearing what Morton L. Groby said,

  Lucas’s eyes suddenly showed a trace of astonishment.

   At this time, almost 20 hours have passed since the announcement of the Academy of Sciences, and public opinion has basically reached its peak.

  As the popularity increased, some less confidential content was also unearthed.

  For example, this meeting will probably have a scale of thousands of people, which is the highest-level scientific research conference in recent years.

Another example is that a group of old academicians from Huaxia arrived in Rongcheng collectively a few days ago—although the movements of national treasures like Mr. Wang are highly confidential, it is still possible to inquire about the itineraries of other old academicians. Nor did they hide their dynamics.

  For another example, although the results of this experiment came from the Jinping Deep Earth Laboratory, the contribution of the University of Science and Technology of China cannot be ignored, etc.

  In addition, the names of Academician Pan, Zhao Zhengguo, Ji Xiangdong, etc. are also mentioned from time to time.

but

  Even the youngest Academician Pan is not much different in age from Morton L. Groby.

   At the same time, if Lucas remembers correctly.

  Morton L. Groby had been working in Cold Spring Harbor until the beginning of last year, and returned to Europe for recuperation due to physical problems in March and April.

   And in accordance with Cold Spring Harbor’s executive regulations.

  P5 members in the organization, that is, members above the project team leader, cannot serve as journal reviewers during their tenure.

  That is to say, the review mentioned by Morton L. Groby should have happened after March and April last year.

  Add the description of ‘the first paper’, the object that Morton L. Groby refers to

  Maybe thirty at most?

  How can a young man at this age be so appreciated by Morton L. Groby and call him a ‘main member’?

   This is obviously very intriguing.

  Looking at Lucas with a surprised face, Morton L. Groby thought for a while and asked:

   “Mr. Lucas, there is a well-known Chinese MR technical expert named Lu Xiao across the sea. Have you heard of his name?”

   “Lu Xiao?”

  Lucas read the Chinese word jerky, thought for a moment, and nodded quickly:

   “Of course I’ve heard of it. It’s the Chinese who has never been an American citizen, right. I heard that he went back to China some time ago.”

   Then Morton L. Groby looked up at him and asked again:

   “Mr. Lucas, do you know the reason why Dr. Lu Xiao returned to China?”

  Lukas was slightly taken aback. Although he didn’t understand why Morton L. Groby brought the topic to Lu Xiao, he still replied:

   “I have heard that it is said that AstraZeneca and several pharmaceutical companies engaged in a public opinion war against a certain company in China. As a result, the video of the meeting was released by hackers.”

   “In order to calm the pressure of public opinion, AstraZeneca and the victim company reached an agreement, which included the clause for Lu Xiao to return to China.”

  The reason why Lucas knew about Lu Xiao’s incident was not because both of them had the surname Lu, but because Lu Xiao’s graduate school happened to be related to Lucas.

  The Fermilab he works for officially belongs to the Department of Energy, but the operating institutions are the University of Chicago and the URA.

  What about Lu Xiao?

   is one of the well-known alumni who graduated from the University of Chicago.

  Although he did not enter the education system, his name is still very famous.

  At the same time, with the increasing importance of MR technology in recent years, many companies want to include Lu Xiao in their pockets, so the spread of the name Lu Xiao is becoming wider and wider.

   As far as Lucas knows.

  The Fermilab where he worked once offered an olive branch to Lu Xiao, but was rejected by the other party.

  So Lucas has heard about Lu Xiao. After all, there are not many top Chinese who have worked across the sea for nearly 20 years but have not become American.

   Seeing that Lucas had heard about Lu Xiao, it was much easier for Morton L. Groby to explain:

   “Mr. Lucas, you may not know that the paper on the fifth-generation imidacloprid sold by that company is the manuscript that I wrote here.”

   “And the first author of the paper is the founder of that Chinese company, named Xu Yun, who is only 25 or 26 years old this year.”

   Lucas was slightly taken aback:

   “.Smoked fish?”

  Morton L. Groby speaks Chinese in general, but after passing through Lucas, a foreigner who speaks Chinese in a more general way, the pronunciation became such a weird word.

  But Morton L. Groby didn’t care about it, but smiled and patted Lucas on the shoulder:

   “Yes, smoked fish, trust me, that’s a capable guy.”

   “So Mr. Lucas, I am still looking forward to the press conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences this time. I can take you to a hot pot meal when I have time, aha!”

  Then the two little old men chatted a few more words.

  After discovering that the other party was a fisherman, the topic changed to what kind of fish they bought and what kind of fish they had caught.

  However, Xu Yun, who was the person involved, didn’t know that the conversation on the plane this time, let alone how much impact the unexpected meeting of these two little old men would have on him in the future.

  At this time, he was standing outside the exit of Shuangliu International Airport, preparing to welcome many domestic and foreign physics experts who were coming.

Of course.

  Compared with the pick-up a few days ago, the size of the pick-up team this time is much larger, and there are also a lot more people.

  At least Xu Yun and Lu Chaoyang don’t have to wait at the airport holding a sign to pick them up like before.

  There are two leaders of the pick-up group today.

   They are Hou Xingyuan, the top leader of the Academy of Sciences, and a senior official in Sichuan Province who is in charge of the scientific research industry.

  Academician Pan, Zhao Zhengguo, and several other relatively young academicians were also accompanying the pick-up.

  As for Tian Liangwei, Wang Lao, Zhou Shaoping and several academicians over 80 years old, they were not present.

   Among them, Tian Liangwei has little intersection with direction and physics, while Wang Lao and others have physical problems.

  Xu Yun and Lu Chaoyang were arranged at the end of the crowd, looking like two elementary school students shaking flowers.

   “Professor Lu.”

  Xu Yun glanced around and found that no one cared about them, so he whispered to Lu Chaoyang:

   “By the way, this should be the biggest physics conference ever in China?”

  Lu Chaoyang thought for a moment, then nodded decisively:

“no doubt.”

  Speaking of the history of modern physics in China.

   What may pop up in many people’s minds is the concept of backwardness.

But in fact.

  In the past few decades, the Chinese physics community has also had a bright moment, and has released many international-level results.

   Among them, the most famous international achievement release is undoubtedly the measurement report of neutrino oscillation matrix angle in Daya Bay.

  This result precisely measures the fundamental parameter of physics—neutrino mixing angle theta13.

  By comparing the neutrino current intensity and energy spectrum of multiple laboratory halls, the measurement accuracy of the oscillation amplitude reaches 2.8%.

   This is the most accurate measurement of the three neutrino mixing angles, and it is a real contribution to fundamental physics.

   But unfortunately.

  The site of the results conference was not held in China, but at the 30th International Conference on Neutrinos and Astrophysics held in Seoul.

  As for the largest achievement conference held in China.

   It is the quantum anomalous Hall effect discovered by academician Xue Qikun in 2013.

  This is also the first project in which Chinese people put forward a theory and then make corresponding results.

   This is an achievement close to the Nobel Prize level, because the previous integer and fractional quantum Hall effects have already won awards.

  After many years, a Chinese Nobel Prize may be born on the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

   Also worth mentioning.

   One of the discoverers of the quantum anomalous Hall effect was Zhang Shoucheng, who was introduced to die on the other side of the sea. What a pity.

At that time, more than 40 overseas physicists came to Mizuki’s report, including two Nobel Prize winners, four European Physics Prize winners, and a Dirac Prize winner, which is the highest prize winner in the field of international theoretical physics. .

  Single talk about gold content.

  That report meeting is undoubtedly the most glorious period since the founding of Huaxia.

  But that report meeting was a bit of a big cart before the press conference organized by the Academy of Sciences.

  Let’s not talk about China in this press conference.

  Even in the history of physics of all mankind, it is enough to rank among the top few.

It can be said like this.

  The end of World War II to the present.

   Except for the launch of gravitational waves.

  The rest of the black hole photos, the release of the Higgs particle, etc., are all inferior to the specifications of this press conference.

   This time it’s real.

   Gods gather.

Afraid of being told about hydrology, I will use it later in the intersection of the characters on the plane. In fact, I don’t really want to make this kind of reminder. Just like the character Weng Yujing appeared in the chapter of National Games, it is interesting for readers to think of it. But don’t remind me, some people will always say that such a chapter has written an irrelevant plot, hey.

  (end of this chapter)