Chapter 826

Let assistant Zhao help make another cup of coffee. In about an hour, Lu Zhou quietly listened to Luo Wenxuan's two-month business trip at CERN.

"The design work of the whole lunar Hadron Collider is mainly in the charge of the Institute of high energy physics and the Institute of space engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but the Chinese research institutions have no experience in the construction of large hadron colliders, so we have made contact with the European Nuclear Research Organization..."

There is no secret in theoretical research. Occasionally, CERN has data that can't be processed, and it will work with other research institutions around the world. This is how the Internet was first born. Although there is competition in some breakthrough research, cooperative problem solving is also an international practice.

After learning that the Chinese plan to build a collider on the moon, the Europeans were even more enthusiastic than the Chinese themselves. In minutes, they sent the best team of engineers and the designers of lhcb and Alice detectors to Shanghai for investigation. Then they gave ten places to the Institute of high energy physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and even took the initiative to bear the relevant costs.

Of course, it's not free.

CERN's gracious help is also a natural hope for closer cooperation with China in the field of high energy physics in the future. When the Hadron Collider on the moon is built, more than half of the world's high-energy physics experiments will be carried out in space. There was no condition to verify the conjecture before, and this giant will create the possibility for the physics community to realize.

Luo Wenxuan, as one of the longest working hours in CERN among all the scholars of the delegation from the Institute of high energy physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, naturally took up the banner of the head of the delegation.

He returned to CERN for two months, and his experience there also made him feel a lot.

“…… Edward Witten hasn't been there for a long time. I asked the person in charge of CERN. It's said that he has retired his office at CERN and focused his work on Princeton University. "

"It's not just Witten. A lot of learned old professors are gone. I went around the lecture building, and basically all the lectures were fresh faces."

Looking at the faint fog on the coffee cup, elder martial brother Luo sighed a little sadly.

This time, he was going to visit his old friends. As a result, many of them were no longer at CERN. They were either old or changed careers, or went to other research institutions with their tutors and bosses.

"CERN is such a place that people who are related to theoretical physics will go to it more or less once, and then walk from this crossroads to the direction that no one knows," he said, extending his index finger and gently touching the coffee cup that has become cold. "Just like theoretical physics itself, when the old people leave, there will always be new people to make up for it."

"Don't talk about this sad topic," Luo Wenxuan smiled and shook his head. "I found an interesting thing in the past two months."

Lu Zhou: "what's the matter?"

Luo Wenxuan: "do you remember? When I was at CERN, the usual pastime of those big guys was to learn French. "

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou nodded with a smile.

"I seem to have an impression."

CERN is basically the place where the world's brightest minds gather. When a group of smart people stay together, there will always be people who want to compete or show off their intelligence.

It's obviously impossible to compare mathematics and physics. After all, everyone's knowledge reserve is almost the same, and outstanding research results can't be explained or persuaded in a few words.

However, if you can learn a language in a month, or even in a week or two, it will undoubtedly prove your intelligence.

This may sound strange, but in fact, many physics bulls who come to CERN for the first time usually spend a month or two, or even a few weeks, to be able to change from being ignorant of French to being able to communicate with people normally in French.

In addition, half of CERN's research facilities are located in France, so learning French and holding a lecture in French can be regarded as one of CERN's elegant amateur pastimes.

When I went to visit CERN at the beginning, although Lu Zhou didn't have the chance to participate in this interesting activity, I heard the professor he knew there talked about it.

Frank vilzek, for example, once boasted about how he learned French in two weeks and then won a month's beer from a Frenchman

"There's a little change in the situation now," Luo said with a smile, squeezing his eyebrows. "There are many Chinese clubs there. Learning French used to be a fashion and a way to show off my intelligence. Now it seems that this fashion has become learning Chinese."

"Learning Chinese?"

"Yes," Luo said with a smile, "it is said that the official working language of the Moon Palace is Chinese, and the first materials of the research results published on the official website are all written in Chinese. As you know, it's a disaster to use Google translation to look at the literature of theoretical physics. Although it's not impossible to deal with it, many scholars engaged in research in related fields are forced to start to study the grammar of Putonghua. "“…… That's really embarrassing for them. "

Lu Zhou laughs and touches his nose a little embarrassed.

It seems that he approved it.

Although the journal papers submitted by the staff on the Moon Palace do not have rigid regulations, the observation data published on the official website, as well as the collected experimental results, are all in Chinese as the interface of the web page.

Although it adds a lot of work to scholars in other countries

But there is no way. Who wants the Moon Palace to be made by the Chinese?

In a sense, it is also a projection of international forces on the academic community.

As a necessary skill to be mastered in scientific research, English is certainly necessary. However, it is also the responsibility of an academic leader to enhance the position of the national language in the academic circle through academic influence, so as to indirectly enhance the discourse power of the national scholars in the international academic circle.

If the work goes well, the Moon Palace workstation will cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish a special comprehensive journal to publish the research results on the Moon Palace.

At that time, not only the research data generated by the Moon Palace, but also the Chinese culture of the paper itself.

“…… In other words, I didn't see my old friend when I visited CERN, but I saw your old friend then. "

Lu Zhou: "mine?"

"Professor Frank vilzek," Luo Wenxuan shrugged his shoulders and grinned, "he asked me to take his greetings to you. By the way, how are you doing with the signal research of 750 GeV energy area? CERN recently did another experiment, and even the signal of 1sigema's confidence was invisible. "

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "next time you see him, please tell him for me. When the LHC is built, I will give him a clear answer Whatever that signal is. "

Luo Wenxuan said with a smile, "is that right? Then I can look forward to it. "