Chen Chen walked into Xia Yin's office and looked around.
The office is very simple, without too many decorations. The only feature is probably the area.
This office is almost as big as Chen Chen's office in Life Sciences City.
Seemingly understanding Chen Chen's doubts, Xia Yin said helplessly, "There is no way. The total area of the building we built far exceeds the usable area. After all, there are only a few hundred people in the headquarters, so in order not to look so deserted, we can only Divide the office into a larger space.”
"It's good. There are few people and it seems quiet."
Chen Chen sat casually opposite the general manager's desk. Looking at Xia Yin who had become mature and steady, he immediately asked, "Is everything in the company okay?"
"good."
Xia Yin curled her lips and asked, "Although our place is called the headquarters, in fact, we are like a vase where we are just like a vase. We only manage the website and issue statements every day, but other than that, there is nothing else." How could it be bad?”
"Actually, this place is also very important. The reason why you feel that the headquarters is not taken seriously is just because the time has not come yet."
Chen Chen took the coffee brought by the secretary, said thank you, and then continued, "Besides, the headquarters is like the general manager, and can take care of everything. Isn't that great?"
"It's a pity that the chief supervisor is a eunuch."
Xia Yin immediately complained, and then sighed, "But fortunately, your personal secretary Akers has been communicating with us. I heard that Akers is still an underage girl?"
"?"
Chen Chen tilted his head.
"I asked you why you are not interested in me. It turns out you are a lolicon!"
Xia Yin looked disgusted, "Pervert!"
Chen Chen saw that the topic was getting further and further, so he had no choice but to say, "Let's not talk about that. In addition to visiting the company, I also have something important to do when I come here this time. I will send a document to your email later. There is a document in it. Please prepare the project application materials, because in the future, you may have to represent Blacklight Technology to meet with official senior officials from various continents around the world."
"What project?"
Xia Yin looked at Zhang Heng suspiciously.
"An investment project involving tens of billions of dollars and the entire Earth Federation, so you have to go there in person."
Chen Chen replied, "To put it simply, I want to build our own in the three continents of Central Continent, East, South, and North, as well as India, Middle Continent, North and South America, Europe, Oceania, and Arctic. We should not only establish branches of our own, but also establish local research institutions and health care centers to expand the life science city to the world."
Xia Yin seemed not to have heard clearly when she heard the words. She looked at Chen Chen in shock, "Are you sure? Where do so many funds come from?"
It was normal for Xia Yin to be shocked. If they only opened branches and offices, then any world-renowned enterprise group would have done so. But if it opened life science cities all over the world at the same time, it would not be an ordinary group. It can be done.
Blacklight Technology, as the world's top group, is indeed rich, but like most companies, it is all high in market value.
Although Blacklight Technology has never been listed on the market, most of its money has been used to invest in the construction of a life science city. It is not easy to feed a city.
"Of course the money was borrowed from the local bank."
Chen Chen raised a smile on his lips and replied, "Who else in business these days would use their own money to run the business? What if they lose money?"
“…”
Xia Yin was speechless.
“It’s all in your hands to decide what price and what conditions to negotiate at that time.”
Chen Chen said meaningfully, "Xia Yin, don't let me down."
"good!"
Xia Yin's eyes were confused at first, but then she quickly woke up. After so long experience, she was no longer the innocent girl, but a strong woman with superb skills.
"Besides that, you have a mission."
Chen Chen continued, "That is to order the parts needed for the Hadron Collider. You must purchase this secretly from the European authorities. I will ask the European consortium to cooperate with you."
"What!"
After hearing this, Xia Yin was even more shocked, "Hadron collider? Chen Chen, what do you want to do?"
"It's just related to research, you don't need to know the specifics."
Chen Chen did not explain, "This is your entire mission. After so many years of experience, let me see if you can meet the requirements in my heart?"
With that said, Chen Chen did not stay here, he stood up directly and left Xia Yin's office.
It wasn't until he left the office building that Chen Chen took one last look at the building and reopened Xiao X's contact device.
"X, let Cheng Chao prepare the team, I am going back to Namibia."
Chen Chen spoke in a low voice.
"snort!"
A cold snort came from the headset, and then Xiao X's muffled voice came, "Cheng Chao has been notified, and he is on his way!"
"very good."
Chen Chen didn't take it seriously and sat directly on the seat in front of the flower bed, staring at the busy traffic on the streets of Shangdu, his eyes like a calm ancient well.
The reason why Chen Chen wanted to buy components for the hadron collider was not because of anything else, but because the demand was there.
Just as Blacklight Technology has begun to encroach on markets around the world and establish branches all over the world as it becomes more famous, it is a matter of course.
In fact, Chen Chen had the idea of building a hadron collider as early as two years ago.
With the development of science and technology, human beings' understanding of the structure of matter is also increasing day by day. From the beginning of observing various materials around us with the naked eye, it gradually developed to using magnifying glasses, microscopes, and later using high-energy physics research equipment, etc., and gradually deepened to the deep structure of cells, molecules, atoms and nuclei.
Every new discovery will bring about huge social changes and technological progress.
The discovery of the atomic nucleus and extranuclear electrons led to the development of radio, semiconductors, television, radar, lasers, and X-rays.
The Hadron Collider is one of the devices used to observe the microscopic world.
The essence of a hadron collider is actually a particle accelerator. Its power lies in its ability to increase the speed of particles to a very high level. When two particles with similar speeds collide, they may combine with each other. This creates a completely new type of particle.
In addition, even if high-speed particles do not collide, researchers can find the changing laws of the microscopic world through the changes that occur during the movement of the particles, thereby laying the foundation for further research and development of the microscopic world.
At the same time, understanding the microscopic world can also help humans better construct and adjust the macroscopic world.
Generally speaking, the larger the volume of a hadron collider, the higher its effectiveness, because the larger the volume, the larger the internal operating space, which means that the machine can provide more energy to the particles to help the particles perform better. Accelerate faster so researchers can get more accurate experimental results.
Currently, the European Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful hadron collider in the world. Its tunnel circumference is as high as 27 kilometers. To build it, the European scientific research team spent more than ten years and 80 Billions of dollars.
Obviously, it is not an affordable scientific research equipment, but a luxury product among scientific and technological products. Only a country with strong economic strength can build and put it into use. It is even more difficult for private companies to build such equipment. Disaster.
In fact, as early as 2014, Zhongzhou District had launched a project plan. Zhongzhou District planned to build a super-large hadron collider with a tunnel circumference of 100 kilometers, which is nearly four times the world's largest hadron collider. And this However, the plan was strongly stopped by Professor Yang Zhenning in 2018. It has been aborted since then and has not been implemented until now.
The reasons given by Professor Yang Zhenning at that time were very simple. First, it was too expensive; second, the probability of producing results was low; third, even if the results were produced, it would have no practical significance within fifty years.
In addition, there is the most important point: after the project is completed, it will inevitably be dominated by foreigners, because there were only a few high-energy physicists in Zhongzhou District at that time, and they could only be reduced to others' wedding dresses.
Some people may not quite understand why Yang Zhenning objects. In fact, the greatest scientific value of this hadron collider is to accurately measure the Higgs particle to see whether this particle really surpasses existing physics. The standard model of the framework, and this particle also has a famous name—
God particle.
The physics community has been looking forward to it for more than 40 years. It is the most likely to break through the standard model. If it can be verified, then "Superstring Theory" can be like "Quantum Mechanics", with the word 'theory' removed and become "Superstring Mechanics".
"Superstring Mechanics" represents the ultimate theory of all things—the unity of the four fundamental forces.
By then, from the smallest elementary particles to the largest cosmic objects, whether it is the nature of black holes or the origin of the universe, they will all lie at the feet of superstrings...
Human beings have a dream that as long as they unify the basic structure of matter, the interaction of matter and the laws of motion transformation, they will be as omniscient and omnipotent as God.
Unfortunately, this dream has never been realized.
In fact, as early as the period when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, North America planned to build a hadron collider with a circumference of 100 kilometers. However, more than 2 billion US dollars were spent in the past few years, but not even the tunnel was completed. At that time, The Soviet Union collapsed and the project was completely stopped.
All this naturally makes the supporters of "Superstring Theory" in the high-energy physics community howl.
Then the European Hadron Collider came online. Its maximum power was 13TeV. Although it was far inferior to the projects in North America, it could be used at least. However, after the much-anticipated collision experiment, it had not been produced for several years. Signs of supersymmetric particles were discovered, and suddenly, 99.999% of the original parameter space of the supersymmetric theory disappeared.
At this point, "Superstring Theory" has almost become a piece of waste paper, but there are still countless people who are willing to believe that it is real. This group of people believe that the reason why supersymmetric particles cannot be collided is because the power is not enough, so they Came to lobby Zhongzhou District, which aroused the opposition of Professor Yang Zhenning.
To put it simply, the hadron collider project in the Central Continent was aborted because the scientific value was not strong enough.
But Chen Chen is different. Chen Chen built the hadron collider for two reasons.
The first and fundamental reason is that Chen Chen needs to create technology retrieved from "Elysium" - high deflection armor.
This kind of isotope metal armor is known as the hardest and most stable material in the solar system. It can not only be used as armor for spacecraft, but can also resist radiation from the sun's surface and allow the spacecraft to travel close to the star.
So far, except for the water droplets in "The Three-Body Problem", Chen Chen has never heard of any substance harder than it.
The second reason is also because if Chen Chen builds it, he does not need a budget of tens of billions like Zhongzhou District, because Chen Chen has a trump card in his hand.
This card is a room temperature superconductor.
In a general hadron collider tunnel, just maintaining low-temperature superconductors is a huge expense. However, the characteristics of normal-temperature superconductors meant that Chen Chen only had to spend one-tenth of the price to create a shorter one. But the power of the new superconducting hadron collider is much higher than that of conventional hadron collider.
This is Chen Chen's unique advantage.
Moreover, Chen Chen also wants to continue on the path of unification to see whether the so-called "Superstring Theory" that can unify the four fundamental forces and is known as the ultimate theory of all things is true or false.
On this unified road, there are several tall figures in front. After Galileo unified motion and stillness, "Newton's Three Laws" and "The Law of Universal Gravitation" unified the phenomena in the sky and the earth, opening the door to the mechanical industry. The door to revolution.
Maxwell followed closely behind and unified electricity, magnetism, and light with a system of equations, and mankind entered the electrical age.
Then came Einstein, who first used "Special Theory of Relativity" to reconcile Maxwell's equations and Newtonian mechanics, unified low speed and high speed, and then unified matter and energy, and nuclear weapons came into being.
Then came the emergence of quantum mechanics, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac...
Finally, Yang Zhenning came on the stage.
He took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and used a set of mathematical framework theories to unify electromagnetic force, weak force and strong force, and quietly won the Nobel Prize. This mathematical framework was the aforementioned Yang -Mills gauge field theory.
Chenning Yang’s gauge field theory can be compared with Newton’s gravity, Maxwell’s electromagnetism, and Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Many people think that Hawking is the most famous physicist in modern times and the only physicist who can rival Einstein. However, what many people don't know is that Chen Ning Yang's Science City actually far surpasses Hawking.
There is a saying that is often circulated in the physics community. Chen Ning Yang is equal to half an Einstein and twenty Hawkings. Although this is just a joke, it is enough to show that Yang Zhenning's contribution to modern physics is far greater than that of Hawking.