The meeting between Simon and the three physicists lasted an hour, and they basically agreed on a plan for a large particle collider that is expected to invest tens of billions of dollars.
The specific cost cannot be estimated until the design plan is completed. However, the preliminary forecast is about US$30 billion, and it is US$30 billion over a period of 15 to 20 years. It does not require a one-time payment. On average, the annual expenditure is up to US$2 billion, which is not painful for Simon. itch.
The reason why the cost of the previous SSC plan, 22.5 kilometers, increased from US$4 billion to US$11 billion, and was finally stranded, according to the information Simon has read, was mainly because political factors interfered too deeply, and too many stakeholders wanted to start from that time. This is the reason why this is the largest scientific and technological engineering project in the world.
It’s similar to America’s fat and oily defense procurement.
This time, including the recently re-promoted ITER project, Simon will not let go of the federal support he can win, but he must ensure absolute control of the Westeros system. If someone wants to come in and suck blood, Simon would rather not have this support. If Washington is unwilling to provide sufficient support or even set up obstacles in return, Simon will decisively transfer the collider project to Europe.
Given Simon's current position, his perspective on many issues has gone beyond country distinctions, and instead looks at the entire human race.
Therefore, of course, political factors cannot be completely ignored as to where these large-scale science and technology projects are to be built, but they are not decisive. The key lies in whether the project itself can truly promote the progress of human science and technology.
Farewell to the three physicists again in the small square in front of the Shell Villa, watching the car leave, Simon was about to turn around and return to the villa, but Janet, who was holding his arm, gestured towards the artificial lake of the manor not far away, and saw There was a small figure sitting on a bench by the lake. Simon motioned to Girl A and others to help themselves, and strolled over with Janet, saying at the same time: "Is it time to bring Moore back? Is school starting now?"
After Veronica helped Simon complete the financial audit of the Westeros system, it was during the summer vacation when she left. The old man said he missed his grandson again, so he brought Melbourne back to Australia.
Janet snorted: "Dad is angry with you. He said that from now on, Mel will live in Melbourne and change his surname to Melbourne Johnston. He will sever the father-son relationship with you."
Simon's identity was not disclosed and he changed his surname to the Johnston family, which was the old man's greatest grudge. Otherwise, the Johnston family would be one of the most prominent families on the planet. In addition, the reason why he was angry must be because Simon had a new group of children recently. Simon did not hide this matter deliberately. The old man had always been very concerned about them, and it was not easy not to know.
Simon actually didn't have much objection to the old man leaving Melbourne in Melbourne. He was slightly worried that his children would be spoiled by Veronica.
Hearing what Janet said, Simon just showed a threatened expression and pretended to be curious: "What about your mother-son relationship?"
"Of course it's still the same," Janet said with a smile, knowing that Simon didn't mind too much, she leaned towards the man and said, "Actually," I'm still more interested in life sciences. "
Simon understood the woman's intention. Because of her age, Janet was more afraid of aging than Simon. It was not aging itself, but that she would age before him: "Anyway, you are personally responsible for this. It doesn't matter how much money you spend."
"The Solvay plan is still too slow, just like those girls you raise in Europe and Latin America who haven't grown up yet. I don't have time to wait. I'm currently asking them to develop a targeted training program to work with top leaders from all over the world. Cooperating with universities, we plan to select the best 10,000 college students from around the world and provide full scholarships to allow them to switch to various majors related to life sciences. In addition, there are plans to establish life science research institutes around the world," Janet said At this point, he frowned slightly and said distressedly: "However, I found that the most critical aspects of some research are legal and ethical restrictions."
Scientific research directly on the human body often encounters legal or ethical issues.
A typical example is the controversy in the field of embryonic stem cells.
This is almost a dead end.
Even if some research does not target living organisms, and will not harm humans themselves, such as embryonic stem cells, it is still prohibited by the laws of some countries, because in the eyes of some people, as long as it is research on humans, it is blasphemy. However, if we can only use mice or monkeys and cannot initiate research directly on the human body itself, then the mysteries of human life will never be solved.
Simon thought about it for a while and said: "Leave political matters to Joseph and the others. The reason why politicians in Washington adhere to conservative ideas is mainly to avoid offending conservative Christian voters. We don't need federal financial allocations. We can do it ourselves." Research, Washington will turn a blind eye. In addition, more laboratories can be built in countries without too strict legal restrictions. In short, it is not a big problem. You have to understand that the more people at the top of the pyramid, The more I want to live longer.”
Janet hummed, then glanced at Simon's expression: "Do you think I'm going to go crazy because of this?"
Simon looked back at each other: "What do you think?"
Janet tilted her head and smiled again: "I think if you are crazy, you must be more powerful than me."
Simon became a little more serious and said: "I just think that sometimes, if the human race wants to continue, it must put aside many irrelevant moral or legal concepts and consider the problem from the perspective of survival itself, because let alone the entire universe, Even though humans claim to be the masters of this planet, they are still as small as ants. The life of the earth has been 4.6 billion years, and human civilization has only been a few thousand years. It is really ridiculous to say that we are the masters. And if we want to continue, All available resources must be used.”
Janet listened carefully and was a little curious: "What resources?"
"Everything," Simon said: "However, from the perspective of the continuation of life itself, you should have seen some arguments. Human genes have actually been degenerating. If it continues for up to several million years, even if it does not encounter any famines or man-made disasters, this race will It will also disappear naturally, and this planet actually has a very, very large gene pool that we can use, but now, similar topics are taboo in the eyes of many people."
Janet blinked her eyes, a little disengaged, her tone filled with anxiety and inexplicable excitement: "You mean, people and animals?"
Simon smiled and touched Janet's head sideways: "What bad things are you thinking about? I mean, be microscopic. As long as there are genes on this planet that can be used by us, we can try them. I remember once I told you that our lifespan is basically determined by genes. Just like buildings, different raw materials and different structures can be preserved for very different years. Genes are equivalent to the most basic building materials of living things. , since we have a huge gene pool around us, we can fully utilize it for the better continuation and even evolution of human beings, instead of being bound by the so-called bioethics."
Janet nodded seriously, but suddenly said: "Then, if one day I grow a horn on my head, will you still love me?"
"Won't."
Janet picked up Simon's arm and started biting him, muttering, "Little bastard."
Simon allowed Janet to grind his teeth and said with a smile: "If you grow a horn on your head, it only means that you have mistakenly used genes that should not be used. I agree that humans should use the gene pool of the entire earth, but It’s not said that it can be used at will, a scientific and rigorous attitude is still necessary.”
Seeing that she was about to reach her daughter, Janet let go of Simon's arm and said, "Actually, I think many people should have the same idea as you, especially scientists."
"How to say?"
Janet said: "Have you not seen that many scientists are calling for the protection of the biological diversity of the earth, and more straightforwardly, the protection of the genetic diversity of the earth? If they don't have similar ideas to you, why are they advocating these? , I don’t think they are just pure environmentalists.”
Simon thought for a moment and nodded sympathetically.
As he spoke, he came to the artificial lake on the northwest side of the manor.
Under the protection of two waitresses, sitting on a bench by the lake, Seattle was playing with a toy that he had been interested in for a while.
Paper airplane.
Next to the little girl is a 30-centimeter cubic storage box, which is filled with paper airplanes. Directly in front of the bench, on a small pier protruding from the lakeside four or five meters away, is another similar storage box. There were already many paper airplanes in the box.
Although she must have noticed her parents approaching, the little girl remained indifferent and played with the paper airplane in her hand seriously.
The Simons did not interrupt, and stopped to watch patiently.
I saw the little girl weighing a paper airplane in her hand, and then gently throwing it up as if she was testing something. After a while, the girl raised the airplane in her hand, seemed to feel it for a moment, and then threw it. In the breeze in the seaside villa in autumn, a paper airplane folded from 32-karat paper made a crooked S-shaped flight arc in the air, and finally landed accurately in the storage box on the small dock.
Even though they had seen this scene many times, Simon and his wife still looked surprised when they saw the paper airplane accurately falling into the storage box.
Finding that her daughter was still indifferent to the arrival of her parents and was about to continue, Janet pulled Simon forward, picked up the storage box full of paper airplanes and put it on her lap. She sat down next to Seattle and said with a smile: "Baby , tell mom, how did you do it?"
Simon sat down on the other side of his daughter. Seeing Seattle silently continuing to play with the other paper airplane in his hand, Simon reminded him in a serious tone: "Don't turn a blind eye to your mother, or I will have no choice but to punish you."
The little girl paused after hearing this, and finally showed some distress.
You have to listen to what your father says, because you will really be punished.
Of course it's not corporal punishment or anything like that.
Rather, the little girl has already experienced that once her father is angry, he will arrange for her to do what a child should do.
Like Nick Jr. or other little ones.
The little girl felt horrified just thinking about it.
So she surrendered decisively, turned to look at Janet, and said in an obviously formulaic tone: "Mom, good morning."
Seattle is Jennifer's daughter. However, because she disliked her two stupid sons, Janet insisted that Seattle should be her child. She also insisted that the girl call her mother. Gradually, she got used to it. The little girl now treats both Jennys. Call your assistant Mummy, instead of calling your female assistant Auntie Jenny, as is the case in Melbourne.
As for Janet's question just now, the little girl naturally ignored it.
I really can't explain this.
The little girl felt that if she explained a lot of physical formulas in her mind involving the flight path of paper airplanes and even complex calculations related to chaos theory, not to mention whether her mother would understand it, the most likely thing would be that her father would understand it again. Let her be a child.
Seeing Simon's serious tone in warning her daughter, Jennifer was unhappy. She glared at the man, hugged the girl and comforted her affectionately. She no longer paid attention to Simon and said happily: "Come, mom, let's play with you."
Janet said as she also picked out a paper airplane and signaled her baby daughter to go first.
Seattle was a natural continuation.
Because all paper airplanes are newly folded, she doesn’t have the habit of using one paper airplane twice. It’s too boring. Therefore, we still need to test it first. Weigh the weight of the paper airplane in our hands, throw it up a little to confirm the structure of the center of gravity of the paper airplane, raise our faces, and feel the wind speed and even the temperature at this time.
Finally, I observed the environment from the bench to the storage box on the small pier, then lifted it and threw it.
This time, the flight path of the paper airplane was C-shaped. There was no doubt that it accurately landed in the storage box at a distance of 493 centimeters according to Yatou's visual inspection.
"Wow."
Janet marveled. In fact, ever since the girl started playing this game, she had invited professionals to analyze it. The professor at the University of California, who has extensive research on aerodynamics, watched the girl make 30 of 30 shots. He kept shouting that it was impossible and emphasized that this was unscientific. The devil was stunned for a while.
Dr. Malcolm, the chaos scientist in "Jurassic Park", gave a demonstration. To put it simply, a drop of water flowing down from one place on the back of the hand will never slide with another drop of water if it is interfered by countless subtle factors. Exactly the same traces.
This is chaos.
Chaos is not unpredictable, but too difficult. A typical example is weather forecasting. Because there are too many factors involved and humans have limited computing resources, meteorology has begun to sprout in the 16th century. Until now, humans are still The weather cannot be predicted accurately.
A little girl who was just over a month shy of 4 years old, without any instruments and using only her own mind, broke through a small miracle involving complex chaos predictions.
It's really small to say small.
If these paper airplanes are taken to a professional laboratory and various professional equipment are developed and designed specifically, including testing the physical structure of the paper airplane, testing the environment and even creating a specific external environment, a precise launch is also required. With this device, scientists may also be able to send a paper airplane to a storage box several meters away through complex calculations.
However, the professor from the University of Southern California said personally that such a device, including the corresponding experiments, cannot be built without a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Unless someone is crazy.
And when it comes to miracles, of course it is indeed a miracle.
Because the little girl's paper airplane game not only involves various complex calculations, but also requires the girl's own super perception of the surrounding environment, as well as the ability to accurately control her own limbs.
Without any link, it is impossible to get the paper airplane into the box.
Janet asked the professor why his girl was acting like this. The professor, who was still in a bewildered state, thought for a moment and could only give a guess. Probably, the little girl enjoyed the pleasure brought by such complex mental activities, just like ordinary children. Enjoy the same pleasure as an ordinary toy.
Finally, the professor also hoped to conduct some research on Seattle, but of course he was rejected because he signed a confidentiality agreement in advance and could not even make it public. He just received a payment and left disappointed.
The artificial lakeside of Cape Dume Manor.
The last dozen or so paper airplanes in the storage box were divided into half for each of the mother and daughter. The little girl repeated her game very immersedly, and made seven out of seven shots. Janet grabbed two more paper airplanes than her daughter, making nine shots. In the middle of the year, I got a little angry and acted coquettishly with my man. At noon, I wanted to catch a duck that my precious son had raised in the artificial lake and roast it for dinner.
The pair of mallard ducks raised in Melbourne have now become a group. Except for Jack and Emma, who are the sweethearts, a lot of them were indeed eaten by an unscrupulous mother.
What could Simon say but agree.
Janet asked the waitress to catch ducks. Jack and Emma must not be able to eat them. The other ones were just in time. It was autumn, when the ducks were getting fat.
Then I started discussing with my baby daughter.
What's so fun about paper airplanes? Why don't we study some knowledge about life sciences? In the future, let mom live to be 1,000 years old. If dad is so fierce, he can live to be 900 years old. Barabara.