Son of the Stars

Chapter 4 Dark Clouds
Infectious diseases known to humans must have three basic components-pathogens, susceptible populations, and transmission routes.Infectious diseases must be composed of these three components, and none of them can be dispensed with.

But from Yang Weimin's point of view, even if Lu Chen is right, the big crash spread through quantum mechanics may not be regarded as an infectious disease.

At least from a microscopic point of view, there are no "pathogens" in the entire transmission route.It's just that the direction of rotation of an electron has been changed through the inexplicable method of quantum mechanics, which seems to be a joke.

It is not so much an infectious disease as it is some kind of opportunistic genetic disease.Everyone is a bearer of the Great Crash from birth.And the process leading up to the onset is basically completely random—who knows what inexplicable electrons might suddenly get entangled?

The onset is random, and all human beings are carriers. It is completely impossible to prevent, and it is not even known where the source of the "onset" is.It's not so much a disease as a curse.

Of course, this is all based on the information revealed by Lu Chen on the phone and Yang Weimin's own understanding.In specific cases, well-designed and detailed experiments are still required, and a large amount of data can be obtained after repeated repetitions before a conclusion can be drawn.

Thinking of the experiment, Yang Weimin felt a little hot in his heart.

Although Lu Chen had bad intentions, he was right about one thing - this was indeed a major discovery enough to be awarded the title of academician.In addition to explaining the Great Crash, the discovery may even hold the promise of a cure for many terminal illnesses.

Yang Weimin himself is not an academician, nor is his teacher.In fact, except for the founding father of the "school", Yang Weimin's department has basically no achievements in scientific research.They are all teachers and doctors, but not very good or enthusiastic about scientific research.

Now, there may be major discoveries in the field of scientific research, which may even bring Yang Weimin the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences.This made Yang Weimin tremble slightly all over.

The trembling continued into the afternoon.

"Come, come, sit." In his office, Yang Weimin generously took out two boxes of good tea that only the vice principal in charge of finance could drink.Make tea and pour water by yourself, which is extraordinarily enthusiastic.

Mu Zhiran, who was being entertained, looked a little embarrassed, while Lu Chen looked calm and normal—a man who can PUA his mentor, of course, cannot shake his faith just because his mentor pours tea.

"Brother Yang, this is the situation now." After taking two sips of hot tea, Lu Chen started his new round of brainwashing tasks, "The committee originally received Zhiran's sub-system verification application, but now because of our Join, the entire sub-system verification application will have to start writing bids again.”

Mu Zhiran lowered her head and didn't speak, she was still not used to this kind of blatant way of defrauding her mentor.But in order to cooperate with Lu Chen, she had no choice but to bow her head and not speak - as usual, Dr. Mu's acting skills may be exposed.

In fact, feedback from subsystem verification has been sent back long ago.If the committee hadn't asked Mu Zhiran to build a "responsible and ethically compliant" internal team, there was a high probability that Yang Weimin and Lu Chen wouldn't be involved in this matter.

"I'm not familiar with this kind of bidding document, so I have to find another consulting company to write it." Yang Weimin just made such an opinion, and then denied himself, "No...we have to do this by ourselves."

If academician Tang needs it, it may be difficult to find a few big cows with three or four academician titles to cooperate, but it is really not difficult to pull out a top team in physiology, pathology or cell histochemistry.

To give an inappropriate example, the group of people engaged in biological research are like mastiffs wandering on the plateau.From the looks of outsiders, this group of people held dozens of high-scoring articles in their hands, as if they were extremely proud of themselves.But in fact, they are all hungry mad dogs.

At least one academician project can be brought out, that is a large piece of fragrant and soft braised pork.In the face of such huge benefits, many rules can be ignored intentionally or unintentionally.Some people may even dare to ignore Academician Tang's intervention and even retaliate, and conduct scientific research on this subsystem first, and then publish an article.

In short, jealousy can change people beyond recognition.In order to avoid trouble, Yang Weimin finally sighed, "Let me write the application documents for the second time. I have quite a lot of experience in dealing with the committee..."

Seeing that the instructor quickly completed the PUA on him, Lu Chen nodded and reported his planned itinerary, "I am on duty today, and Zhiran and I will go to the Physics Center to meet Academician Tang later."

"I don't have much personal relationship with Old Tang. It's right for you juniors to get in touch with them first." Yang Weimin nodded slightly, then frowned, "Be sure to be polite and don't spoil good things."
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Academician Tang is a workaholic, and he is also a person who is generous to his students and takes good care of his colleagues, but he is a strange person who is extremely cruel to himself.

Of course, the part of workaholics is actually not very unusual, any academician is a workaholic.If there is no fanatical pursuit of work or even hobbies, it is simply a dream to achieve academician achievements.

But the rest of the features are weird.Most of the other academicians have been labeled as "tyrants" at least hundreds of times in their daily work and teaching. The personality and habits of "workaholics" make them unable to tolerate procrastination by their students or colleagues. In order to make other people a helper rather than a hindrance to their research, personal attacks on others are only the most basic means of urging them.

But academician Tang is not a "tyrant", his methods are much more effective than other academicians.

Academician Tang himself is not in good health, and he often coughs or turns pale.

If a student or other colleague made a mistake in their work progress, Academician Tang would never directly complain like other colleagues.He will calmly ask the student or colleague to do other work, and then do it himself, working tirelessly to get the result.

In general, the entire Institute of Physics and even the physics community, even those who disagree with Academician Tang's theory must sincerely say "Academician Tang is a good person."

But now, Academician Tang Qinglong, a "good guy", sat behind his desk, and said with a helpless smile, "Doctor Lu, since you're here, can you show him first?"

The "he" mentioned by academician Tang Qinglong is a young man who was evacuated from the Mediterranean region.Due to the nuclear accident caused by the catastrophe, the Mediterranean area is now almost no man's land.After living in the Mediterranean region, Thomas was evacuated to East Asia, and was admitted to the Physics Department of Chuo University.

Today, Thomas is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Physics, and like Mu Zhiran is responsible for the research progress of a sub-project under the quantum communication project group.

Lu Chen couldn't hold back his yelling, it was all out of a doctor's respect for life.This status quo is too much-an adult male has a fever of 39 degrees Celsius every day and has been burning for five consecutive days.You still let him stay in the laboratory?

Egg whites will deteriorate at high temperatures. If you don’t go to the hospital after burning continuously for a golden week, do you have to wait until your brain is slowly cooked by the temperature and low temperature until it turns into brain damage?
The first meeting with Academician Tang when I came to the Institute of Physics turned into a sudden outpatient visit, which made the scene a little embarrassing.

Fortunately, Lu Chen still remembered his mentor's instructions, and he also remembered his profession.He quickly made up his mind, and went to the monitoring room of the collider, and sent the boiled brain mixed with boiled eggs to the hospital for treatment.

The design and construction process of the circular acceleration collider is not simple. Human beings are going to use huge energy to accelerate two particles to a speed above 99.99% of the speed of light, and then let the two particles collide accurately to simulate the universe after the Big Bang. The state of one millionth of a second.

The research field of the collider of the Institute of Physics is more "subdivided", it is a baryon collider.

Explaining the concept that baryons are a type of fermion to a layman is painful, difficult and pointless.So Mu Zhiran explained the value of this equipment with a very simple sentence, "Its cost is almost equal to one-twentieth of the total cost of the Mars landing plan."

"This is equivalent to letting a person whose brain is almost boiled into boiled eggs control six Mars landing spacecraft." Lu Chen walked in the middle of the team, conveying his anger and confusion to his girlfriend, "No one thinks Is this something wrong?"

"The collider has a very sufficient safety redundancy design. Although the control room is very close to the vacuum chamber of the accelerator, the walls made of special cement are four meters thick, and there is a one-meter-thick lead plate sandwiched between them." Tang, who was traveling together The academician explained, "Mr. Du of the Academy of Special Engineering said that this control room can withstand at least one thousand tons of TNT explosions. Even if Thomas really has mental problems, the control room can ensure his safety."

"Ms. Tang..." Lu Chen asked after being silent for a while, "Then you are not worried about the safety of the equipment?"

"Why worry about that?" Academician Tang Qinglong slowed down his pace, and he said slowly, "No matter how expensive the experimental equipment is, just buy a new one if it breaks down. The only thing I worry about is his safety—life is not something we can create or Make up for it."

Hearing this, Lu Chen wanted to say something in his heart but didn't dare—then you still make people have a high fever for five days and continue the experiment?
After entering the monitoring room of the collider and seeing the patient with his own eyes, Lu Chen was directly silenced.

He found that Academician Tang really couldn't be blamed for this matter - it was Thomas who locked himself in the control room.And he obviously has a mental problem.Anyway, Academician Tang stood outside the door and talked to the walkie-talkie for a long time, but the other party remained indifferent.

A young man with deep-socketed eyes "stayed" in the control room with a dull gaze, and the golden hair on his head completely lost its luster.They drooped lifelessly over Thomas's head, looking like some kind of seaweed that had just been scooped out of the water.

The central air conditioner in the room was heating up at full capacity, and Thomas, who was curled up in the ergonomic seat, was still wrapped in a thick blanket.

Seeing such a scene, Lu Chen was not surprised.It is normal to feel cold at 36 degrees when the fever reaches this level.But I don't know if such a long time of fever will damage his brain.

"Mr. Thomas, please open the door." Through the intercom, Lu Chen called on Thomas to open the door as soon as possible, "You are sick now, you have to go to the hospital as soon as possible!"

Thomas raised his eyelids and glanced at his upper right corner.

Then he lowered his head, stretched out his hand and began typing on the keyboard with difficulty.

"His mental state doesn't seem right." Mu Zhiran leaned into Lu Chen's ear and said, "Although Thomas was a bit introverted before, it's not like this..."

"His brain is almost like a boiled egg!" Lu Chen said angrily, "Which boiled egg is mentally normal?"

Mu Zhiran's eyes widened, "How can you tell the mental state of boiled eggs?!"
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The back and forth persuasion had no effect, and Lu Chen was not the only one who was impatient.

In the end, Academician Tang opened the huge poured iron door leading to the control room with the highest management authority.Led by Academician Tang, seven or eight people got into the passage.A group of people trekked for about 10 minutes before finally entering the control room and "controlling" Thomas who was curled up in the blanket.The ambulance had already parked outside the corridor, waiting to load people into the car, and then ran to the hospital with the sound of "the material is finished".

Thomas was definitely not in the right mental state, and he refused to leave his seat, and he certainly refused to go to the hospital.There was no justification for his refusal, not even an excuse—he just didn't like it.

Thomas was tied to the emergency bed, and the ambulance drove towards the hospital with the people.Academician Tang, Mu Zhiran and others packed up the control room.It is not difficult to see from the piles of automatic experiment statistics sheets on the ground that Thomas has not classified and archived the experimental data since he became insane.

This is understandable—no matter how crazy the boss is, he can't count on a boiled egg to sort out the experimental data.

Lu Chen was originally going to help out, but before he moved the printing paper a few times, his cell phone rang.

The call came from the junior sister who was on duty at the hospital, "Senior Brother Lu, why don't you come back and have a look? Bed 42 suddenly started to have a fever."

"If a lupus patient has a fever and you tell me to go back and have a look, will I still be alive?" Lu Chen dissatisfied, "What are you going to do next, to prescribe a glucose tolerance test for patients diagnosed with type [-] diabetes?"

"The fever is very serious. I have injected 1.5 grams of lysine pirin intravenously, and it is still 39 degrees five." The little junior sister spoke in a panicked voice, "Brother, come back quickly, I can't handle it."

Well, my junior sister has said so.Lu Chen put away his phone and prepared to leave in advance, "The condition of my patient has changed a bit... Teacher Tang, do you have time this afternoon?"

This time when Lu Chen came to meet Academician Tang, he planned to introduce himself and Yang Weimin, at least to lead the way for future cooperation.Unexpectedly, when they arrive, they will be arrested and taken to the hospital first, and academician Tang Qinglong has to preside over the sorting out of experimental materials.

Then we can only make an appointment next time.

Academician Tang himself was a little embarrassed, he nodded, and then motioned for Dr. Mu to give it away.

Mu Zhiran didn't care about her tutor at all, she frowned as she looked at the report in her hand, as if she was thinking about something important.

"How dare I ask her to give it to me." Lu Chen made a joke very consciously, and then walked towards the control room by himself.

Just before Lu Chen entered the control room, the sky was still clear, but after he walked out of the control room, the sky was already full of dark clouds.

Looking at the gloomy sky, he shook his head slightly, "I should have brought an umbrella with me."

(End of this chapter)