"I personally have always believed that experiment is the only criterion for testing truth. Theories divorced from experiments are like mirages. No matter how beautiful the building standing there is, we can only look at it from a distance."
"Starting today—"
There is a lunar research base.
Witten's eyes lit up and he said.
Just in time.
"But now, there's a new twist."
Wilzek said with a somewhat complaining tone: "Yes... I remember there weren't so many when I came here last time, at least not as exaggerated as now. Damn it, are they all here for the meeting?"
"Officially completed!"
After all, not everyone treats CERN almost as their second home like Witten. Many people may go there once or twice due to work or academic needs, but if there is no reason why they must go, some people may never go there again in their lives.
Professor Frank Wilczek at Shanghai International Airport.
"On this special day, on behalf of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee, and the IMCRC Board of Directors, I announce to the world-"
Almost the moment his right hand touched the microphone, the entire venue fell silent, as if you could hear a pin drop.
"That's it." The man smiled heartily, looked at him putting on the safety rope, and reached out to pat his shoulder, "Let's go, I'll take you to see what we did on the moon. You’ll be surprised!”
The atmosphere in the venue was pushed to a peak, and Lu Zhou's voice gradually became louder, going from calm to passionate.
At the same time, on the distant moon, a pyramid-shaped landing module was slowly dropped from the Yuegong orbital space station, and slowly fell on the silver-white lunar soil along the calculated trajectory, kicking up billowing moon dust.
After the opening speech of the chairman of the organizing committee of the conference, Lu Zhou, who also serves as the chairman of the IMCRC and the general consultant of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, walked smoothly to the stage and reached out to straighten the microphone.
"According to statistical probability, today should be the 'peak period'. After all, there are only a few flights from North America to here a day." After looking around, Witten said with some emotion, "God... there are so many people here." ”
"It's right near the International Convention and Exhibition Center. The main entrance here is less than two hundred meters away."
Looking at the staff member walking towards him, Yan Xinjue took the cable from his hand.
What’s more, we can see that China’s physics community has gradually reached the top of the world.
In fact, he was surprised enough along the way from the Jinling Space Launch Center to the Yuegong and then here.
Putting his acknowledgments at the front, and looking around the lively venue, Lu Zhou took about two seconds to organize his words and continued.
"That's a coincidence. I guess you and I booked the same hotel. Let's take a ride there together."
Facing the calm venue, he took a deep breath and continued.
"Since the turn of the millennium, the contradiction between experimental physics and theoretical physics has been growing day by day. The progress of our theoretical level has far exceeded the scope of experimental testing."
"The first test run of the collider will start in 5 minutes."
A new building is rising from the ground, standing in the east corner.
An astronaut wearing a lunar orbit construction committee insignia stepped off the lunar rover, and a kangaroo jumped towards him. At the same time, the man's voice also came from the communication channel.
Sitting in the audience, the gray-haired Academician Lu had a look of excitement on his face, and the veins on his hands clapped were bulging, as if he had used all his strength.
The moment the words fell, applause poured down like a torrential rain, filling the entire venue.
"Now, let us witness this glorious moment together!"
Later on December 17th.
…
"The low gravity and relatively vacuum lunar environment also allows us to build larger and more spectacular collider facilities there."
“Welcome to China, welcome to Shanghai, and thank you all for coming from afar to attend this grand event hosted by IMCRC.”
The No. 1 conference hall of the Convention and Exhibition Center was crowded with people, and it was dark as far as the eye could see.
"There are a lot of people living here... Speaking of which, where is your hotel?"
Not everyone is qualified to sit in the conference hall and participate in the meeting, but almost everyone who can get admission to the convention and exhibition center has found a way to get admission.
"Since the establishment of the project, the construction schedule of the Lunar Hadron Collider has been attracting attention from all parties. We have high hopes for it, hoping that it can test our standard model, and hope that it can discover new physics... "
"Witten? What a coincidence, you have just arrived here?" Looking at the old man with a kind smile on his face, Frank Wilzek had an unexpected expression on his face.
After untying the nylon locks that fixed his body and the pipelines of the life support system, Yan Xinjue took a deep breath of the oxygen supplied in the spacesuit and took the first step toward the outside of the cabin.
Some of them he knew, some he didn't know, and some he knew but hadn't interacted with for many years.
From now on, the voice of IMCRC will replace CERN as the center of physics in the new era, giving orders to the world's physics community, allowing physicists around the world to serve China's research, instead of leaving them to do peripheral work. His work has contributed to the building of physics in the Western world.
"Now, the day has finally arrived."
Located at the corner of the crater, a silver-white building stands there, almost integrated with the mountain.
No one is needed to maintain order.
Everyone was waiting for him to speak.
Just a year ago, when he was engaged in physics research with Academician Lu, he never thought that one day he would be able to set foot on the moon, let alone that this opportunity was provided to him by his junior brother.
That's the day the meeting starts.
It is also where the collider starts...
"Safety rope, the gravity environment here is very low. In order to avoid accidents, we will wear it when we go out of the cabin... You should have received training."
On the big screen, the picture changed, spanning a distance of 360,000 kilometers, and came to a gray land.
In his eyes, he saw more than just the completion of the lunar collider.
It also includes those who stood in the lobby of the Convention and Exhibition Center looking up at the big screen, and even those who could not make it here and could only learn about the scene through the live broadcast on the IMCRC official website.
December 18th.
Yan Xinjue smiled and said nothing.
In addition to those familiar names, if we are not close to each other in research directions, or communicate frequently at a few specific points, maybe even if we exchange business cards at a certain report meeting, it will be difficult to see each other again. .
…
"Lunar Hadron Collider—"
There is no need for anyone to remind everyone present to keep quiet.
"Thanks to the advancement of aerospace technology, our spacecraft has gradually covered the moon's orbit and can easily send construction equipment there."
Tomorrow is the start time of the conference. In order not to miss this grand event, he deliberately arrived here a day early.
In fact, it was not just the participants in Conference Hall 1 who fell silent together.
"Friends from Earth, welcome! Although I want to give you a hug, I'm afraid it will knock you out... Put this on first."
This is not a special day, but it is destined to be an extremely extraordinary day for the city of Shanghai.
If nothing else, he is probably the first physicist to have received formal astronaut training and set foot on the moon.
"This is?"
He has been waiting for this day for too long...
December 17th.
Along the way from the security check to the pick-up location, he lost count of how many colleagues he met.
He really couldn't imagine how he could be surprised after experiencing these things.
The world of physics is a very large circle, so huge that even a Nobel Prize-level scholar would have a hard time having a concrete idea of how big the entire circle is.
In the distance, a silver-white lunar rover slowly drove towards this side.
The thundering sound was like a huge wave, almost knocking over the ceiling of the entire convention and exhibition center.
Bathed in the applause that resounded throughout the venue, Lu Zhou curled up into a smile, raised his hands to signal, and quietly waited for the applause to gradually subside.
“Maybe there’s no EVA component in my schedule.”
Just as he struggled to squeeze out of the crowd and looked around at the street signs above his head, he saw another acquaintance he hadn't seen in a year.
In just one day, this city gathered almost 99% of the world's first-, second- and third-tier physicists, as well as practitioners in related fields.
Perhaps the natural sciences are selfless, and perhaps all mankind will benefit equally from these studies, but as a scholar who grew up in China, who doesn't want this honor to be won by one of his own
Wait for his announcement about the coming era of physics!