From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 224 Half Good News

The palindrome conjecture is a more interesting conjecture.

To figure out what this conjecture is, one must first know what a palindrome is.

Palindromic number, as the literal meaning, if a number reads the same from the left and right directions, then it is called a palindrome number.

Such as 101, 32123, or 6666 and so on.

As for the palindrome conjecture, no matter what number with more than two digits is taken at the beginning,

Then turn this number upside down, and add the two numbers together, then repeat this process, and finally you must get a palindrome number.

To give a simple example, such as 59, the reverse is 95, two numbers are added together to get a number 154;

Then turn this number 154 upside down to get 451 and add it up to get 605;
Then turn 605 upside down, you will get 506, and then add the two numbers, you will get a palindromic number 1111.

This is a very beautiful conjecture.

Palindromic numbers not only have a beautiful structure in mathematical numbers, but also have a similar structure in Daxia literature, called palindrome sentences.

For example, "Lingshan Giant Buddha, Buddha Dashanling",
Another example is "A guest who lives in nature, but a guest in the sky", etc., are all beautiful palindromic sentences that conform to righteous thoughts and reverse thoughts.

At first glance, this conjecture, like other conjectures in number theory, is very simple.
I'm on the kind that I can do,

However, this conjecture has been found to be unresolved so far.

For Zhou Yi, it must not be difficult, but for the two rookie students, it must be challenging.

In the next few days, Zhou Yi's life was rather uneventful.

Everything is going on as planned.

In mid-November, Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Zhou Yihua Academy of Sciences, came to Zhou Yi's office.

Academician Wang Yifang is an experimental high-energy physicist and academician of many countries.
A bunch of titles and high achievements, otherwise he would not have been selected as an academician at a young age.

In 1984, he participated in the L3 experiment led by physicist Zhaozhong Ding at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

So the obsession with CEPC is stronger than that of Zhou Yi and Mr. Qiu.

Mr. Qiu is already the founder of differential geometry anyway, and the entire history of mathematics has its glorious page.
No follow-up.

However, for Wang Yifang, CEPC is an obsession among obsessions.

Having seen foreign LHCs and the technology applications brought by LHCs, I want to build success more than anyone else.

The appearance of Zhou Yi gave hope to high-energy physicists in the Great Xia Kingdom and even the whole world.

What the LHC can't do, maybe it can be done in Daxia.

In the office, Zhou Yi made a rare pot of tea, and said to Academician Wang Yifang:

"Academician Wang, sit down and talk slowly, I don't think we can talk clearly in a while."

Academician Wang was not polite, sat down directly, and said:
"Professor Zhou interrupted."

Zhou Yi said:

"Don't bother, tell me about the current situation. I understand that you should have prepared a lot before."

Academician Wang Yifang said:

"I did prepare a lot before, and even prepared a new detector separately, but there was no money, it was stranded, and it didn't make it.

In fact, we have been preparing all the time, but we were short of a leader. Unexpectedly, Professor Zhou actually persuaded Mr. Yang, which is really amazing. "

Zhou Yi said:

"I also put in a lot of effort. Otherwise, it would be very difficult. After all, I will most likely bear the expenses this time alone, so I need a reliable person to help me host it."

Academician Wang Yifang said excitedly:

"Professor Zhou, leave it to me at ease, I will handle everything well without any mistakes."

Zhou Yi said:

"Well. I also want to hand it over to you, but I will also arrange for other people to help. After all, foreign scientists may be involved in this. I don't trust them very much."

Academician Wang Yifang said:

"Okay, let me talk about our previous preparations. We have already selected two addresses, one in Pengcheng and the other in Qincheng."

Hearing this, Zhou Yi insisted:

"I don't choose either, I choose Mudan County, Yuzhou."

Wang Yifang was choked by Zhou Yi's decisive tone and was speechless. After a while,
Academician Wang Yifang said:
"Professor Zhou, you can't be willful. The geographical environment in Yuzhou is very difficult. The technical strength required is too great. Our current technology is a bit unrealistic."
It takes a lot of money. "

Zhou Yi shook his head, and said firmly:

"It has to be there, or I will change."

Wang Yifang:...

"Professor Zhou, before our CEPC project construction was divided into two parts, underground and surface.

The main body of the underground project is a circular tunnel with a length of 50-100km, a buried depth of about 100m, and a diameter of about 6.5m and its subsidiary tunnels;
At the same time, four experimental halls and several servo halls will be built along the tunnel.

The construction of the ground project includes an international science city with an area of ​​about 5000 mu, and several experimental branches with an area of ​​[-] mu.

The underground experiment hall and the surface part will be connected through several shafts with a diameter of about 15m to install colliders and detectors.At the same time, several vertical shafts will be built along the tunnel to install corresponding servo equipment.

Our location is Pengcheng, Guangdong Province.Even specific plans have come out, and save money. "

Zhou Yi smiled and said nothing,
money?
The last thing I need is money.

Now it's hard to buy me willing.

I saw Wang Yifang said:

"It is dominated by low mountainous areas. The terrain is generally high in the north and low in the south. It is adjacent to the Red Bay in the south. The elevation difference of the landform is relatively large, generally 20-800m.

The highest peak, Lianhua Mountain, reaches 1336m, and the southern elevation is below 10m. The terrain generally slopes from northwest to southeast;

Or go to QHD and the suburbs of the provincial capital of Hunan Province, where there is a whole rock 100 meters underground, and the drilling and blasting method can be used to excavate the tunnel to control the cost to the greatest extent;
It relies on the rock structure to support itself without reinforcement; it is only used for scientific research and does not require special decoration.

According to the experience of Daya Bay Experiment and Jiangmen Experiment, the cost of this kind of tunnel can be controlled at tens of millions of RMB/km. "

Tens of millions per kilometer, even if Zhou Yi was rich, he would take a deep breath.

One hundred kilometers is worth billions, no wonder it burns so much money.

Zhou Yi said:

"Okay, I have money, I can earn 5000 billion a year, so I don't have to worry about money.

There's so much money that I don't even know how to spend it, you know?

I sit here every day and do nothing, and more than 10 billion RMB is deposited in my bank card.

If the above wants to exempt me from part of the tax, it is estimated to reach 20 billion a day. "

Wang Yifang:...

Pretending to be a good one.

Wang Yifang never expected that the young man in front of him was so rich.

I heard about some projects with Liu Qingfeng before, but I didn't expect to make so much money.

The richest man in the country is nothing more than that.

In addition to shock or shock, and the feeling of being despised.

When you were still begging for help in order to save money,
Zhou Yi no longer regards money as money.

Wang Yifang calmed down and said:

"Since Professor Zhou Yi is not short of money, we can start it after our inspectors come back, but we have to make an agreement with the Yuzhou government."

Zhou Yi said:

"The government of Yuzhou is fine. In the future, no government will miss this opportunity in the core cities of the western region, or even the scientific research centers of the whole country and the world.

Of course, except for a certain Central Plains province. "

Wang Yifang said very eagerly:
"Professor Zhou, then do as you said, there is nothing that money can't solve."

The main purpose of Wang Yifang's coming to Zhou Yi was to persuade Zhou Yi to give up the location of Yuzhou.

After all, that place is really not very suitable.

Now that Zhouyi wants to insist, Wang Yifang has nothing to say, the one who pays is the uncle.

Wang Yifang said at the moment:

"Professor Zhou, let me give you a brief introduction to the CEPC physics white paper."

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"it is good."

Wang Yifang said:

"The people who participated in this project are mainly Chinese professor Wang Liantao from the University of Chicago, researcher Joao Guimaraes Costa, researcher Ruan Manqi, and researcher Wang Jianchun from the Institute of High Energy Energy;
As for the CEPC physical target, detector R&D progress, detector concept design plan, corresponding software, Higgs, BSM, Flavor Physics, EW+QCD, QCD+Higgs, etc., I will send you email later, and I will send students to send the materials to you come here.

Chinese Academy of Sciences is not far from Shui Mian University. "

Zhou Yi said:

"It seems that you have prepared well, and it has saved me a lot of thought."

At this moment, Zhou Yi's cell phone rang. Zhou Yi saw that it was Mr. Qiu's call, and immediately answered:

"Hey, Teacher Qiu, it's me, I'm Zhouyi."

A voice on the other end of the phone rang, saying:
"Zhou Yi, come to Old Man Yang's apartment, we already have a result."

Zhou Yi immediately said:

"Okay, I'll come right away."

Zhou Yi hung up the phone and said to Academician Wang Yifang:

"Go, go to Mr. Yang."

Wang Yifang said:

"Okay! With them coming forward, there must be no problem."

Zhou Yi got up and went to the office next door, and said to several students:

"work hard."

After speaking, he rushed to Mr. Yang's apartment.

Wang Yifang said:

"Professor Zhou is quite responsible to the students."

Zhou Yi said:

"Teachers for one day, teachers for life, their talents are not bad among their peers,
So I need to urge them from time to time, and I also hope that they can become successors in some fields of the Great Xia Kingdom in the future,

A country cannot develop without relying on just one or two people, and it must rely on the strength of the collective. "

Wang Yifang said:

"That's true, even in the field of mathematics, which is considered talent, we need to cooperate, let alone other fields,

In this era, individual heroism has long been eliminated. Don't the golden generations of Shangjing University also need to cooperate. "

As Zhou Yi walked, he said:
"Receive more students, give more attention to students, and the country will have more talents."

After a while, Zhou Yi and Wang Yifang came to Yang Zhenning's apartment.

This time the security personnel did not stop Zhou Yi. As for Wang Yifang being stopped, Zhou Yi notified Mr. Yang before letting him go.

Zhou Yi said:

"His responsibilities. Academician Wang should understand."

Wang Yifang said:

"Of course, if the country has an old man, if there is a treasure, I won't care about these details."

Not long after, Zhou Yi and the others sat in Mr. Yang's room.

Mr. Yang said:
"Old man Qiu and I talked to CERN for a long time, and they agreed to sell us two detectors. It's half good news."

Mr. Qiu took the words and scolded:

"These people are really ruthless. At the beginning, I gave them various ideas regardless of rewards."

Wang Yifang also sighed:

"Actually, we proposed the concept of CEPC-SppC in 2012, which made CERN feel urgent.

So CERN proposed FCC-ee, FCC-hh and CEPC-SppC accordingly. In November 2018, CEPC released the "Conceptual Design Report", and FCC also released its own "Conceptual Design Report" in January 11, and it is expected to start operation in 2019;
In the same month, CERN also released an upgraded version of the "Physical White Paper" of LHC, which adopted a very aggressive estimation method and declared that it would measure most of the properties of the Higgs particle very well before 2035, further squeezing the physical research space of CEPC. and time.

This is a strong posture that completely treats us as competitors.They are preparing for battle. "

It was the first time Zhou Yi knew these things.

Mr. Yang said lightly:

"However, their level is really not very good. We are the first to discover the shelled Higgs boson, and we will lose face."

Mr. Qiu said:
"We have enough mathematics talents here,
The people in my mathematics center alone are enough, not to mention there is a Zhouyi,
My student who is studying for a Ph.D. at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris can also call back to China,

What is worse is the talent in high-energy physics. "

Speaking of this, Mr. Qiu looked at Wang Yifang and Yang Zhenning intentionally or unintentionally.

Wang Yifang said:

"We still have overseas Chinese who can be invited back to China. Although some are yellow-skinned and white-boned, there are still many patriots. Now that we have the conditions and the treatment has improved, they will definitely return to China."

Zhou Yi said:

"There are many overseas Chinese, and they are indeed a resource that we can use. In addition, we must speed up the cultivation of talents in high-energy physics.
Not only high-energy physics, CEPC involves all aspects. "

Wang Yifang said:

"Without CERN, many of our current advances in biology, geology, environment, materials, condensed matter, etc. would not be possible.

Without high-energy physics, many examinations and treatments in hospitals today, such as MRI, PET, and radiation therapy for cancer, would not exist, or would not be so advanced, or would appear later, and the lives of many people would be shortened and the quality of life would be reduced. was lowered.

Without high-energy physics, there would be no or delayed touch screens, and smartphones would be a dream;
Without high-energy physics, there would be no WWW web pages, everyone would not be able to surf the Internet, and the Internet economy would be out of the question.The benefits that human beings get from WWW web pages are far greater than all the previous investments in high-energy physics. "

Wang Yifang's words made Zhou Yi and Qiu Chengtong look black,
Didn't you say this on purpose to embarrass Yang Zhenning?
He said that the feast is over, and now that these have been touched, we can only conduct research in other directions, or in-depth research.

At the beginning, Mr. Yang opposed the establishment of LHC from the very beginning, and he started to oppose it since the last century.

But at that time, it really couldn't be built.

Once it is established, it will really make wedding dresses for foreign people as Mr. Yang said.

However, after the decision-making leaders asked Mr. Li Zhengdao,
There are also the Institute of High Energy Physics, the Shangjing Electron-Positron Collider and the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and their major achievements,
There are also large scientific platforms such as our synchrotron radiation light source and spallation neutron source to serve the national scientific and technological circles.

Zhou Yi changed the topic and said:
"Two accelerators plus the new accelerator you prepared before, there should be 5-6, right?"

Yang Zhenning didn't care about Wang Yifang, but said:

"Counting the detectors of their innovative ideas, there are only six, but six are enough."

Wang Yifang's team has been preparing for a long time. Three of them have been prepared, and the fourth is still under planning.

It was delayed because of lack of money.

Zhou Yi asked:

"Which two detectors are they?"

Mr. Qiu said:
"The star detectors ATLAS and CMS are not available for purchase, but the other two relatively well-known detectors.

They are LHCb detector and ALICE detector respectively. "

Wang Yifang introduced:
"The role of the LHCb detector is to look for 'bottom quarks' and their 'antiquarks', which can help us understand why antimatter is so rare in the universe. It only monitors one side of the collision point.

The ALICE detector is the Large Ion Collision Experiment to study collisions of lead ions.

This collision creates a primordial fireball known as a quark-gluon plasma.

ALICE will also study proton collisions as a reference point for lead ion collisions. "

Old Mr. Yang on the side said:
"The LHCb detector is smaller in size and reputation than ATLAS and CMS, but no one dares to underestimate it. It brings more uncertainties to the race to find new particles."

Zhou Yi said:

"How will these two things be shipped back? And how much is the price?"

Wang Yifang said:

"Why don't you ask the military to help transport it, a large cargo ship with a military escort."

Zhou Yi gave Wang Yifang a blank look, this guy really dared to think about it, but with his current status,
With the joint name of Mr. Yang and Mr. Qiu, there should be no problem.

Zhou Yi said:

"can."

"As for the money, it's 400 billion."

Old Mr. Qiu said.

Wang Yifang on the side exploded, complaining:

"Grab money, why don't you grab 400 billion, I'm stupid, really think we are the winners?
Billions more expensive. "

Mr. Yang said:
"This is what we have worked hard to get. Can you build it yourself? Or use time to pile it up."

Zhou Yi said:

"Okay, money is not a problem. The intelligent voice system has harvested their wealth in various countries in Europe, Africa, Australia, America, and Asia.

You can only gain if you give up. Wouldn’t it be nice to reap more later?We have plenty of places to make money.

We need to take a long-term view, build it one day earlier, and earn their money one day earlier, or are they begging us to sell it to them, you know? "

"Okay, then I will personally receive these detectors, in case they cheat us."

Wang Yifang volunteered to say,
"It's obviously unrealistic for Mr. Qiu and Mr. Yang to go out and receive it personally.
It is not realistic to ask Professor Zhou to go out to receive it. If something goes wrong with Professor Zhou, the project can be shelved.

This is worse than killing me, Wang Yifang.

And regarding the performance of each detector, I, Wang Yifang, can be regarded as an expert among experts.

I will go there myself to ensure that there will be no problems. "

At this point in the matter, the dust has basically fallen to the ground, and the only thing left is to choose a location, and then write a letter to the above.

Zhou Yi said:

"it is good."


(End of this chapter)