save the bachelors

Chapter 54

After Xiang Nan and Peggy entered CERN, they were busy attending various lectures and conferences until late at night before returning to the hotel exhausted.

However, although the two were tired, they both felt that they had gained a lot.

Especially Xiang Nan, in addition to learning knowledge, the most important thing is to broaden his horizons and expand his contacts.

Not only top scholars and professors, but also the editors-in-chief of top journals, various scientific research institutions, and high-level people from top universities are present today.

Getting to know them will be very beneficial to Xiang Nan's future development.

Of course, Xiang Nan also knows that the so-called network is not how many good people he knows, but how many good people know him.

The essence of networking is the exchange of interests.If you don't have the benefits that the family wants, then this network is equal to nothing.

Fortunately, Xiang Nan is not an ordinary person.His research on the Kyber belt is very clever, and he is the discoverer of TOI700d, and he is also well-known in the field of astrophysics.

Especially since he is still very young, only 26 years old, and he has a bright future.Therefore, there are also many people who are willing to get acquainted with him, which greatly expands Xiang Nan's network.

……

After returning to the hotel room, the first question I faced was how to sleep at night.

"..." Peggy looked at the double bed, her brows furrowed into a pimple.

Do you really want to sleep in the same bed with Xiang Nan tonight? !She wasn't ready yet.

"Don't worry, it's easy to handle." Xiang Nan waved his hand, and then asked the hotel for an extra quilt and laid it on the floor, "OK, you can sleep on the bed, I can sleep on the floor."

"How can that be? I'm your assistant, and I should sleep on the floor if I want to sleep." Peggy quickly stopped him when he saw it.

"Okay, I'm a man, and you're a woman. I can let you sleep on the ground, but can I sleep on the bed by myself? Then who am I?" Xiang Nan waved his hand, "Don't push yourself away."

"Raj, you are a bit discriminatory against women." Peggy shook her head and said.

"I'm not discriminating against women, but men's physique is generally much better than women's. The floor is so hard that it's not suitable for rest, so I should sleep." Xiang Nan explained, "I'm not discriminating, I'm facing reality squarely. ."

Peggy had no choice but to nod after hearing what he said.

After the two of them washed up, they went to bed.

To be honest, the floor is really not suitable for sleeping.

Mainly because it's too hard.Although Xiang Nan put a layer of quilt under him, he still felt a little flustered.

It's just that the words have already been spoken, and he is too embarrassed to go back on it, so he has to endure it secretly.

Fortunately, after a long flight and a half-day lecture, he was too tired, so he didn't hold back for long, and soon fell asleep.

……

Turning around, the alarm clock rang to wake them up.

"Peggy, get up quickly." Xiang Nan greeted.

Today is a great day for the ALICE trial, and they must not miss it.

"Yes." Peggy sat down suddenly, rubbing her sleepy eyes.

Seeing Xiang Nan get up from the ground and beat her back with her fists, she hurriedly asked, "Raj, isn't it uncomfortable to sleep on the floor?"

Xiang Nan grinned and pretended to be strong, "What's the matter, don't worry about me, go and wash up."

In fact, after sleeping on the floor all night, when he woke up early, he felt that all the bones in his body were sore.

But since it was his own choice, there was no point complaining to Peggy.

After washing up, Xiang Nan and Peggy had breakfast with the group members, and then drove to CERN together to watch today's hadron collision experiment.

After breakfast, everyone drove to the experimental center again.

Although they had come very early, when they arrived at the scene, they were surprised to find that the experimental center had gathered a lot of people.

Today is the first time that the Hadron Collider has been activated, and it is also the first time that humans have simulated the initial form of the universe after the Big Bang.

It can be said that this experiment itself is a ground-breaking feat. It is a great honor for all scientists to be able to watch this experiment up close.

What's more, this experiment will also produce a lot of data.These data contain the mysteries of the universe. If they can be deciphered, human's cognition of the universe will rise to a new level.

Therefore, everyone's mood is both anticipation and anxiety, and the scene is also full of solemn and tense atmosphere.

……

At 10:30, the ALICE test was officially held.

The first proton beam, as thin as a hair, was injected into the collider buried 100 meters underground.

Everyone held their breath and looked up at the big screen in the experimental center.

Five seconds later, the signal was displayed on the big screen.This proves that the experiment is going well.

Seeing this scene, everyone present couldn't help applauding.

Nearly an hour later, the first proton beam passed through the collider.

After another four hours of intricate tuning, a second beam of protons was injected into the collider in the opposite direction.

After some debugging, the first proton beam and the second proton beam began to accelerate respectively.

The full-powered collider will flow trillions of particles through the 27-kilometer-long underground tunnel at high speed, with a maximum speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, which is equivalent to 99.99% of the speed of light.

At such a high speed, the proton beam can make tens of thousands of revolutions in the tunnel per second, and the energy of a single beam can reach seven trillion electron volts.Two proton beams collide, and the scene is naturally particularly shocking, no less than Mars hitting the earth.

However, the proton beam is only the thickness of a human hair, and the collision process cannot be seen at all with the naked eye.

What people can see now is only the various data sent by the detector.

But even so, people are still very excited.

Everyone looked up at the screen, and their hearts were full of expectations.

Even though everyone has been standing for nearly six hours, and neither lunch nor dinner has been eaten.But no one was willing to leave.

Until eight o'clock in the evening, the ALICE trial officially came to an end.

But this is also a new beginning.

The ALICE experiment has generated a lot of experimental data that will be analyzed over the next few months and years.

From these massive data, the mysteries of the universe are parsed.Its difficulty is no less than cracking the password of the bank vault.

However, Xiang Nan had confidence in himself.

Because he had already consulted relevant papers and reports before he came, it was equivalent to mastering the secret key to cracking the password.

As a result, the difficulty of cracking is naturally greatly reduced.

At that time, everyone is still at a loss, and when Hao Shou is exhausted, he can take the lead, publish relevant papers first, and grab the fruits of victory before everyone else.

Therefore, Xiang Nan is now complacent.

(End of this chapter)