"The last problem On the mystery of the trace of supernova sites, this proposition is recommended by the famous astrophysicist James peables. "

Imcrc headquarters conference room.

Standing in front of the conference room round table is Professor whittle from Brookhaven National Laboratory.

I saw him holding a piece of paper in his hand, glancing at the boat sitting not far away subconsciously, with a slightly nervous expression.

"The remains of supernovae are the tombstones of stars, the remains of stars that exploded at the end of the evolution process. They rise and fall one after another in the galaxy, just like the brilliant fireworks in the night sky, sending out deadly and charming charm..."

"What's puzzling, however, is that according to the prediction of supernova explosion rate and star formation rate, there should be about 20000 to 30000 supernova remnants that can be observed by us in the galaxy, but in fact, we have only observed less than 300 so far."

"99% of the supernova remains seem to be missing, leaving our view."

"The research on supernova remnants will have an important impact on our research in heavy elements, Galaxy Evolution and other fields. If we can find out where the missing supernova remnants have gone, we may be able to reveal a deeper physics mystery..."

Then, from the professional point of view, Professor whittle elaborated some existing progress or conjectures in this research direction, as well as the viewpoint of Brookhaven National Laboratory on this topic.

As he said, if we can reveal the cause of the disappearance of supernova sites, and even find out where the disappeared energy and matter have gone, it will greatly promote the research of Astrophysics and high energy physics.

After listening to this long statement, the boat pondered for a moment, and then put a tick on the notebook.

Attention has been focused on the boat since the beginning. When Professor whittle noticed the action of the boat, his tense old face relaxed a little and his heart relaxed.

Professor James peables is a big bull recently dug by Brookhaven National Laboratory. His biggest worry is that the land boat deliberately vetoed the proposal from Brookhaven National Laboratory because of the past things to put them on small shoes.

However, now it seems that Lu Zhou has no interest in doing so. At that time, he will be a gentleman by himself.

Although annoyed by the increasingly humble existence of Brookhaven National Laboratory in imcrc, whittle has no better way to deal with this situation and can only bear it for a while.

Looking at Professor whittle, who had bowed slightly and returned to his seat, Lu Zhou closed his notebook, pushed the armrest of the chair, stood up and cleared his throat.

"Let's get here first for the primary."

"A total of 522 problems were shortlisted, 22 more than expected."

"The final result is to wait until the meeting for the final vote. There are about two meetings in these days, on Wednesday and Friday It's hard for everyone. "

Applause broke out in the meeting room.

Facing the rising physicists, Lu Zhou nodded slightly and announced the end of the meeting.

……

After the meeting, Lu Zhou simply tidied up the things on the table and returned to his office.

But just as he sat down, even before the chair was hot, there was a knock at the door, and then a young assistant came in hurriedly.

"Mr. President, there is a strange man who wants to see you."

Strange people?

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.

"Who?"

Said the assistant with an embarrassed expression.

"His name is Felix. He claims to be a professor from the Physics Department of MIT. He claims to have been unfairly treated in imcrc. I hope I can meet you."

Originally, he didn't want to bother the boat with these little things, but that guy was so persistent that he just stood in the hall with a suitcase and couldn't persuade him to leave.

But this guy has some identity, and it's not easy to throw it out, so the front desk downstairs can only call the superior to ask for instructions, and finally it's spread here layer by layer.

"Professor Felix?"

There was no impression of the name at all, said Lu Zhou, frowning for a moment.

“…… If he wants to discuss some academic issues with me, you can tell him that I can spare half an hour at three o'clock in the afternoon. If he's just going to bother me with some boring trivia, you can ask him to give Secretary General Luo's contact information to him. "

"OK, OK."

Looking at the assistant leaving the office, the boat didn't say much, and continued to look up the minutes in his hand.

After lunch with a sandwich, Lu zhoucai stayed in the office until about 3pm, and came to the coffee shop downstairs, where he met Mr. Felix, who claimed to be a professor at MIT.From his dusty appearance and the suitcase at hand, the boat can roughly infer that he arrived here just after getting off the plane.

Moreover, most of the tickets are bought temporarily.

"Professor Felix? Nice to meet you. "

Looking at the boat warily, Professor Felix bowed his head.

"Me too."

Although he was not very angry in North America, he even lost his temper in the hall downstairs two hours ago, but after seeing the land boat himself, he could not help but lower his posture unconsciously.

No way.

After all, this big guy is really awesome.

From the unified theory of strong electricity to Hyperspace theory, the research results that shocked the world and the problems that puzzled hundreds of millions of people are as easy as breathing in front of him.

If we put our own achievements together with him, we may not even have to mention them.

Looking at Professor Felix, who suddenly shrank a circle and closed his mouth without speaking, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, then smiled and said.

"Anything to drink?"

"I've ordered a cup of coffee and it hasn't arrived yet."

"Is it? Give me a cup of black coffee, "Lu Zhou nodded to the waiter, then looked at Professor Felix, and went on with a kind face." I'm curious about what's making you come here from Boston so eager to see me. "

"Because I need an explanation!" His face suddenly became excited. Professor Felix's shoulders shook, he sat up straight from his chair, stared at Lu Zhou and said, "why did I sift out my thesis in the primary election?"

"This is the collective opinion of the review committee, and I just fulfilled my right to vote for the holy vote. If it fails, it's because it's not so appropriate --"

"you haven't read my paper carefully at all! I've heard of it! After you went to Shanghai from Jinling, it took you only three days to understand the subjects, "Felix said excitedly." since you are not going to take our research results seriously from the beginning, why do you invite me

Three days?

Lu Zhou smiled sheepishly, but he didn't tell him that he only spent two days, faster than the rumor.

Looking at professor Felix, whose face was full of excitement, he said.

"I have never perfunctorized any paper. I can swear by my reputation that every choice I make is to stand on the position of being a scholar."

"Is it?" Felix looked straight at the boat, his face full of doubts. "Are you sure three days will be enough for you to read all the papers?"

"Of course, I even remember your paper," Lu Zhou said with a faint smile, "introducing the heavy Fermi field triplet into the standard model to explain the source of neutrino mass. In other words, the application of type-III seesaw mechanism in neutrino mass origin research, am I right? "

This is what the land boat just remembered.

Although he had no impression of Felix's name, Lu Zhou immediately matched it with the paper he had read a few days ago after he explained his intention.

Professor Felix held his breath for a moment when he remembered his paper.

But soon he thought that he had been in the cafe, waiting for him for at least two hours. In this period of time, he has time to investigate his own data clearly, and quickly go through the paper.

“…… Did you check before you came? "

Looking at the apparent distrust on the guy's face, Lu Zhou couldn't help laughing.

Check before you come?

I'm sorry, he's not so busy.

"I have read your paper, whether it was just checked or not, and in my impression I did vote no, too. As for the reason, of course, it's because it really has nothing to study. "

"How could it be!"

"Don't rush to contradict me first," said Lu Zhou, looking at Professor Felix, who was excited to stand up. Lu Zhou smiled and motioned to him not to be excited until he got back to his seat. "Even if it's for your sake to come across the sea to see me, I have to tell you why I did it."

Just then, the waiter of the coffee shop came here with a cup of coffee.

Looking at the steaming coffee on the table, Lu Zhou reached out his index finger and touched the wall of the cup, then looked at the waiter and said politely.

"Can you lend me a whiteboard from the next office? And a marker. "

"Yes, sir."

Seeing the waiter leave quickly, the boat looked at Professor Felix, who was confused, and continued."You must have ten thousand reasons to contradict me just by saying it."

"In that case, I'll show you."