From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 194 Detractor

West of Geneva, Switzerland, on the border with France.

This is where CERN, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is located.

The Large Hadron Collider, known as the 'Large', is really big.

Before 2010, the largest particle accelerator in the world was the Tevatron accelerator in the United States, which belonged to Fermilab in the United States.

And its circumference is 6.28 kilometers.

After 2010, the LHC was successfully built. Its ultra-long orbit with a circumference of 27 kilometers made it directly surpass the Tevatron accelerator and become the largest collider.

And a circle of 27 kilometers is undoubtedly quite huge. It covers an area of ​​more than 50 square kilometers, making it one of the largest buildings in the world. Perhaps only the Great Wall can crush it in terms of length. .

At this moment, inside the LHC, there are a group of people visiting this huge building full of technology, and Lin Xiao is the leader among them.

He came to the LHC because of his previous proposal to recalculate the mass of the W boson.

Under his advocacy, the W boson mass recalculation project was established, relying on CERN, and CERN provides funding and venues. Of course, this is also the responsibility of CERN, which is to provide various conveniences for the research of high-energy physics. , This is the meaning of its existence, and the importance of Lin Xiao's project needless to say, of course CERN will fully support it.

As for the overall person in charge of this project, it is naturally Lin Xiao, including him who has now become an important partner of CERN.

For such a project, many high-energy physicists in Europe naturally did not want to miss such an important event, and joined in one after another. Now there are about 500 people in the whole project, excluding CERN graduate students and intern researchers. In addition, there are probably more than 100 first-class high-energy physicists.

This is obviously a luxurious lineup, and of course, their project deserves the participation of so many people.

The re-measurement of the mass of the W boson has always been an important issue in the research of high-energy physics.

This is because the W boson decays very fast, on the order of a trillionth of a second.

In such a short period of time, it is obviously quite difficult to directly measure its mass. In other words, they cannot directly observe the W boson at all, and can only calculate its mass through the products of the decay of the W boson , that is, by measuring the position and momentum of these particles, and then realize the calculation.

But no matter what, there are quite a lot of difficulties, which involve factors such as their calculation methods, software algorithms, and data collection and processing methods. Of course, it is also related to the collider, because if the collider If the collision energy is greater, more W bosons can be produced in one collision, and more W bosons mean more data, which is beneficial to their subsequent calculation accuracy.

But obviously, their LHC can't be used now, and it is still being upgraded and maintained, so they can only use past data to calculate, which means that they need to modify calculation methods, software algorithms, data collection and processing methods, etc. .

There is no doubt that this has a lot to do with mathematics.

As for Lin Xiao, who can be said to be one of the best contemporary mathematicians, these physicists who came to help Lin Xiao still believe in him. He is good at physics and mathematics. How did they accurately measure the mass of the W boson?
So everyone has expectations for this thing.

Of course, their project was not in a hurry to start. For Lin Xiao, it was the first time he came to LHC, so he visited the inside out of curiosity.

The LHC is located 100 meters underground, and it is huge inside, as if it is an underground shelter for all human beings in a doomsday movie.

Of course, the scene inside is not as messy as the shelter. The lights inside are bright, and there is a wide pipe in the middle. There are staff standing by to check the situation, and there are more pipes nearby.

The wide pipe in the middle is the core of the LHC. Inside is a long and narrow pipe filled with niobium-titanium alloy wires. Niobium-titanium alloy is currently the most economical superconductor, and it only needs the temperature of liquid helium to make It reaches a superconducting state.

For particle accelerators, it is very common to use superconductors to enhance their magnetic field strength. Of course, this also means a huge cost. After all, reducing all superconductors over 20 kilometers long to superconducting state consumes Energy is a huge expense. There are more than 400 tons of liquid nitrogen. After each collision, it takes more than four months to wait for it to return to normal temperature before they can release it.

Looking at these things, Lin Xiao couldn't help feeling in his heart, this kind of thing is probably a modern version of a miracle, right?
Its appearance full of sense of technology is probably the reason why so many physicists are willing to stay here.

"Lin, how do you feel?"

CERN President Fabiola Gianotti asked with a smile.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Very powerful."

"If you want, we are also willing to invite you to be our lifelong chief scientist. In the past, we did not set up this position." Gianotti said: "At that time, you will be able to enjoy many things. We are willing to provide you with Provide an annual salary of 500 million euros and a research grant of 1000 million euros, and if you have any important projects, we will try our best to meet your requirements."

"do you have any requests?"

"It's just that you can stay with us. As you know, we are planning to build a bigger accelerator, that is, the [Future Ring Collider], which is also led by our CERN. Its highest total collision energy value It will be as high as 16.7GJ, 30 times that of the LHC, and when it is built, this huge, energetic super collider will be dominated by you at that time."

"Stay here? Don't need to become a nationality?" Lin Xiao said jokingly.

"We will not force you, of course, if you want, we in Europe will also welcome it."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "The future circular collider is too far away, I'm afraid I'll have to wait until I'm in my 50s, and the CEPC that Huaguo plans to build is closer to me."

"What's more, I am a native of China, and I still hope to return to my hometown."

"Don't you think about it?" Fabiola Gianotti showed sincerity, "I heard that many people have been slandering you on the Internet in Huaguo recently. They don't cherish you so much, why go back? "

Lin Xiao was silent for a moment. There were indeed many voices slandering him on the domestic Internet. These voices seemed to appear suddenly. He also directly scolded him in private messages.

But after a brief analysis, he easily guessed that it was organized by other people, which made him a little confused. He didn't do anything now, but published two papers and became famous. Did it infringe on the interests of others?
But no matter what, the facts have been established, and it is impossible for him not to go back. At least, there are still quite a lot of people who support him, not to mention that people can resort to such indecent methods, probably to prevent him from returning to China?

Then he has to go back to the country even more, making those guys uncomfortable.

Afterwards, he said: "Society is very complicated, and Huaguo is the same. For this kind of thing, you don't need to care about it."

"Okay." Gianotti had no choice but to say: "You Huaguo people are the people I can't understand the most. You always want to go back to your hometown. It is difficult for us to understand such behavior. go wherever the conditions are good."

Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "Aren't there also many Hua people who have stayed abroad? It's just that there are more people who are willing to go back."

"But it's different from what we think it is. Maybe it's a cultural difference? Like Yang."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Maybe."

It is indeed cultural differences that can better illustrate this point.

In any case, there are quite a lot of people who are willing to return to China, at least compared to other countries, the return rate is higher, just like if European talents go to the United States, the possibility of eventually staying in the United States is obviously greater .

"Okay, I've finished reading it too, let's go back now, our project will officially start tomorrow."

At this time Lin Xiao said.

"Ok."

Gianotti nodded.

Then, they left here and returned to the research center on the ground, and then they are preparing to carry out their projects in the research center tomorrow.

……

Huaguo Shangjing, in a small rental house.

A man is browsing online news on the computer.

If Lin Xiao was here, he would definitely be able to recognize this man as Kong Huaan.

The current Kong Huaan is the most outstanding student of the School of Computer Science, Beijing University. He has also opened a company. With his own computer skills, he accepts various outsourcing. Now he is well-known in the industry, and any order is six figures. For the remuneration, major companies offered millions of dollars and equity incentive conditions, wanting to hire him.

Now, his family members no longer stop him, but are proud of his achievements.

In addition to this, he is secretly the boss of the [Shadow] organization that has recently become famous in the hacker world. His code name is [Terror], and he is respected by others in the hacker world.

It's just that he, who was already completely a winner in life, now showed indignation on his face. This indignation naturally came from those angry, even unsightly words on the screen.

"Why are you talking so much? I don't know why you are praising that kind of person. He is famous abroad. Do you think he will come back?"it's funny

"Return to Lin Shen, if I don't return to China, I will only call Lin÷"

"Stop bragging, don't bragging, what about Einstein and Newton, do you get paid for bragging like that?" 』

"Do you want to be like that old guy surnamed Yang, who made contributions abroad when he was young, and returned to China when he was old?" 』

……

Looking at these comments, Kong Huaan was filled with anger.

Although he didn't have many contacts with Lin Xiao, only occasionally, but he always regarded Lin Xiao as his benefactor and his only friend in his heart.

At the beginning, he asked Lin Xiao to download a software to prevent hacking, and for so long, he has indeed helped Lin Xiao intercept several intrusions, or data monitoring. For a scientist like Lin Xiao, his various data, of course It will attract some people's attention. For example, the software he uses collects all kinds of data on him. Similarly, some foreign forces have also invaded his computer.

And these were resisted by Kong Huaan's original software, even if he couldn't stop him, he would take action himself.

Some time ago, he heard that Lin Xiao was famous in the physics circle, and he was also happy for Lin Xiao.

However, seeing the deliberate slander against Lin Xiao on the Internet at this moment, he was very angry.

Then, he logged on to the webpage and entered a certain website, which was exactly the website he gave Lin Xiao at the beginning.

Then, he made a post in it.

[Reward: Find the person who slandered Lin Xiao on the Internet, as well as the person behind the scenes]

(End of this chapter)