Faced with this situation, Zhao Yi didn't have a good way. He couldn't just kill him. Besides, except that Shi Gaolin needed to write this kind of paper to increase his reputation, Zhao Yi himself didn't need to become famous through this.
Originally, he wanted to use this major discovery to increase the academic status of local scholars at Tianwen University. After all, if he could win a Nobel Prize, it would have a huge encouraging effect on the domestic academic community.
Perhaps by winning top international awards, the domestic academic atmosphere can be changed, making the pursuit of scientific truth a lifelong dream for many people, and an academic atmosphere focusing on scientific research will be established.
However, Zhao Yi's wish came true because of bad luck.
In fact, apart from not being able to achieve this goal, Zhao Yi has no other losses. It doesn't matter if they don't admit it. Anyway, his companies will still increase their research efforts in the field of graphene.
From this aspect, it is actually more beneficial to Zhao Yi.
Because his companies were able to study graphene long in advance, by the time the outside world discovered the special characteristics of graphene, they had already established a large number of patent pools and had a large number of research results.
By then, with its technological leadership and the excellent performance of graphene, it will even be able to create more economic value for his companies.
However, this is not actually what Zhao Yi wants. His company wants to gain a leading edge in the field of graphene. In fact, there is no need to play this time lag. As long as he participates, major breakthroughs can be achieved in minutes.
Moreover, if graphene materials want to achieve huge development, they also need to achieve huge development in nanotechnology. Although nanotechnology was proposed very early, the development speed was quite limited, at least in the 1980s.
With the shackles of real technology, even if the world now knows about graphene, this incredible material, graphene cannot be put into commercial applications immediately.
Therefore, Zhao Yi still cares very much about increasing domestic academic achievements by winning international physics awards. Although this cannot bring short-term benefits, it can gain long-term and far-reaching significance.
Through this incident, Zhao Yi also realized that there is a huge gap in scientific voice between China and developed countries in Europe and the United States. If the country wants to achieve huge economic and technological improvements, scientific voice will be a battleground in the future.
Although Zhao Yi's companies have achieved great economic success, most of them have become Fortune 500 companies, and they are still quite high.
But after all, they focus on the field of technical applications, and their achievements in basic theory are not high. Even if they have very important basic theoretical discoveries, they choose to hide them temporarily because of their high technical practicality.
Qingnong Biological Laboratory and Cornerstone Materials Company have actually invested considerable amounts of money in basic theoretical research. Coupled with the technical and theoretical support provided by Zhao Yi, they actually have a large number of basic theoretical research results in their hands. .
For example, the Qingnong Biological Laboratory holds a large amount of biological genetic technology. If it is released, it will definitely cause a 12-magnitude earthquake in the world's biological field and push the world's biotechnology forward for decades, even hundreds of years.
Although Cornerstone Materials Company is not well-known internationally, it is the cornerstone of the reason why Zhao Yi's companies can unscrupulously develop new technologies and provide these companies with the various materials they want.
The reason why Cornerstone Materials Company was able to achieve such great achievements in a short period of time was not only the special material formula provided by Zhao Yi, but also the computational material technology theory provided by Zhao Yi.
High-level computational materials technology theory has made materials research, which was originally based on luck, more scientific and predictable. It is no longer like before, it was all based on guessing, imagination, luck, and time. Research.
With this calculable and predictable material research theory, coupled with the simulated material research provided by supercomputers, Cornerstone Materials can develop new materials in a short period of time to meet the research and development needs of sister companies.
If these technologies were all written and published, they would definitely win numerous awards. However, Zhao Yi did not want to take advantage of others, so he kept these technologies confidential and would only disclose some of them when absolutely necessary.
Just like the Human Genome Project, in order to promote the smooth progress of the project, Qingnong Biological Laboratory has to publish some technologies in gene sequencing and other aspects. Fortunately, these technologies are relatively basic and cannot generate economic benefits in a short time.
The only promising application is in genetic identification, but if you really want to engage in commercialization in this area, you will need to pay patent fees to Qingnong Biological Laboratory.
Therefore, if we want domestic science to achieve healthy and rapid development, we need the contributions of other scientists. Their research results are often not mature enough to generate immediate economic value, and they also require commercial institutions to invest more funds in follow-up research.
This kind of scientific discovery and technological achievement is very suitable for publishing scientific papers, rather than the technologies under Zhao Yi whose theories and implementation are quite mature. What is the difference between doing so and funding the enemy
More importantly, Zhao Yi's business group has achieved internal circulation in many aspects and does not need to sell advanced technology products externally to reap commercial benefits.
For example, the various new genetic plant varieties developed by Qingnong Biological Laboratory can realize commercial value without selling these plant seeds to other companies because of the existence of Baiwei Food Company.
This is still the case for subsequent improved livestock products. These research results can be sold to Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, allowing them to realize the final commercial benefits without worrying about leaks.
This is what Zhao Yi thinks is more difficult to deal with.
Moreover, a practical problem is that even if the country has won many international science awards, it still cannot have the right to speak scientifically. Most of the final scientific achievements have been taken away by countries that have the right to speak scientifically.
The reason is very simple. If our country's scientific discoveries want to be known to the world, they must be published in internationally renowned scientific magazines, and then they must be written in their language.
This seems to have nothing to do with it, but in fact it is a big problem. The scientific community all over the world needs to learn this language, otherwise they will not be able to obtain the latest scientific and technological information, and will become closed-minded, and will eventually fall behind in scientific research.
Learning another language definitely requires a lot of time and energy, and not all people with scientific talents also have high language talents. This dilemma can easily bury talents with good scientific talents.
The simplest example is that in order for our country to acquire Western technology, students must learn English from an early age, and English plays a very large proportion in learning, both in terms of time and scores.
This results in students whose English proficiency is not very good, but who are very talented in science, are obviously at a disadvantage in the college entrance examination, and can only go to some ordinary universities in the end, and have no chance to attend top universities.
In fact, the country is also aware of this problem, and the public often calls for reducing the proportion of English scores, but it still cannot change this status quo.
Why, it’s because we don’t have the right to speak scientifically. In order to obtain the latest scientific research information, we must learn other people’s languages.
If you are not good at language, even if you currently have good scientific talent, you will be out of touch with the world's scientific frontiers, unable to immediately obtain first-hand information from the scientific community, and unable to conduct research immediately.
Therefore, a large number of scientific research results are written in other people's languages, which is actually disastrous for researchers from countries that do not speak this language.
It's very simple. After all, there are only a few talents with good research literacy and language literacy. Most researchers often only have a certain talent in research, and these people are easily out of touch in scientific research due to language barriers.
Even if there is no disconnect, it still requires a group of top domestic talents who understand both language and science to translate it. This will take a certain amount of time and will virtually increase the cost of scientific research.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yi felt a little naive for his previous thoughts. How about winning a few awards? It's just about improving national pride. A few stimulants in the short term will have little effect in the long run.
Therefore, Zhao Yi must focus his energy and goals on fighting for the right to speak in science. Only by winning the right to speak in science can we prove that our country has truly become a scientific and technological power and a power with world influence.
Otherwise, in the end, it will just be someone else's fault, which is very detrimental to our country's technological innovation, and may even make others easier and hurt ourselves.
Seeing Zhao Yi sitting there, silent for a long time, Professor Shi Gaolin shouted a few words in a low voice. Seeing no response, he touched him with his hand to pull him back from these thoughts.
"I'm sorry, I just remembered something. Since this is the result, we don't have to force it too much. Anyway, they don't care about such a major discovery. We can just add time for research, which is a good thing for us. .
So I will leave the paper with you for now, and I will publish your paper after I make some arrangements. " Zhao Yi said.
Although he didn't know what arrangements Zhao Yi was going to make, Professor Shi Gaolin still nodded and agreed to Zhao Yi's arrangement. With his popularity, he had no choice but to passively wait for Zhao Yi's follow-up arrangements.
After bidding farewell to Professor Shi Gaolin and returning to his residence, Zhao Yi sat on the sofa and researched the follow-up plan. Although he was competing for the right to speak in science, the difficulty was quite high.
If it was really simple, it is estimated that any country with a little bit of brains would want to compete for it. Take Japan in the future, which has produced so many Nobel Prize winners, but they are powerless in this regard.
Compared with Japan, it is more difficult for our country. This is due to two reasons. First, our country lags behind Europe and the United States in basic scientific theoretical research and does not have the strength basis to compete for the right to speak in science.
Second, our country’s culture and civilization are quite special, and are naturally significantly different from the European and American cultural systems. When fighting for the right to speak in science, we will encounter many more difficulties and the level of confrontation will be much greater.
Therefore, if you want to compete for the right to speak, you must first not use particularly violent methods, otherwise it will cause a confrontation between the two civilizations and bring variables to the world situation.
Secondly, it cannot take a long time to achieve some results, because scientific discourse and scientific and technological research are complementary to each other.
With the right to speak in science, the development of science and technology will definitely be accelerated. With sufficient scientific and technological research results, the right to speak in science will definitely be strengthened.
If it takes a long time to plan and cannot have obvious benefits to domestic scientific development in the short term, then the role between the two will be very weak. It is completely impossible to rely on this natural pace to compete for the right to speak.
After all, both of them are much better than us, unless their entire civilization is unwilling to make progress and will rest on their laurels from now on, but this situation is very rare. (End of chapter)