Chapter 424 Reactions from all walks of life
"They discovered dark matter, true cold dark matter, CDM."
Hear these words from Angus.
Even though Lucas has a Nobel Prize-level brain.
The whole person couldn't help but shut down for several seconds.
After coming back to his senses.
Sorry came out of his mouth subconsciously, covering the phone and saying:
"Sorry, Mr. Angus, maybe I am hearing hallucinations. Maybe you are saying that the Chinese have come up with a new version of CAD?"
“There are indeed many bucket-carrying men in their country, and they do have the ability and demand.”
As a result, he didn't finish his words.
Angus's low reply came from the other end of the phone:
"It's not CAD, it's CDM, Mr. Lucas, you heard that right."
"Besides, I am not joking. You can check the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They have sent invitations to all over the world."
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When Lucas heard this, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched hard twice.
If it is not held with both hands.
Now he probably can't even hold his cell phone.
Although it is true that he and Lars once said not to underestimate the Chinese people, it had not been three hours since he said this.
But he was referring to China’s scientific research potential, not its current strength.
[In a few years, China will be close to the scientific research strength of Europe and the United States] This kind of statement is indeed very objective in Lucas's view.
The result was unexpected.
China actually has a dark matter discovery at this time?
This is obviously outrageous.
After a while.
Lucas finally regained his composure. He took a deep breath and said to Angus:
"Mr. Angus, I will rush to China immediately tomorrow. I would like to trouble you about the air tickets."
After hanging up the phone.
Lucas quickly exited the address book interface, returned to the desktop and clicked on a blue-winged software.
"Chinese Academy of Sciences should be Chinese Academy of Sciences"
Lucas didn’t have much exposure to the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so he was a little jerky when typing it.
However, with the efforts of the two-finger Zen, he finally finished typing these letters.
Then press search.
soon.
A notice appeared in front of Lucas:
【Physicistsandphysicsenthusiastsfromallovertheworld，thisistheChineseAcademyofSciences.Nowwearesolemnlyannouncingthatwewillofficiallyannounceamajordiscoveryofcolddarkmatterat9:30a.m.YanjingtimeonFebruary5，2023!】
The location of the press conference is also attached below the announcement:
【Chengdu】
Lucas' eyes focused on 'colddarkmatter' for a while, and a trace of solemnity and shock flashed in his eyes.
It’s really cold dark matter.
It’s crisp and clear, leaving no room for word games.
Then Lucas thought about it.
I went back one page and looked at my friends’ updates.
As a well-known workaholic, Lucas' social account follow list is pure.
Except for a few relatives such as his mother, sister, wife, and nephews, the rest of the follow list is almost entirely physics-related accounts.
It’s not like many old erotic readers who follow Miss Welfare Ji as much as they do.
I only see this moment.
Lucas's attention page contains a series of content related to announcements from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The most common ones are doubts.
After all, this news is really shocking.
The representative of the questioning group is David Pulitzer of the California Institute of Technology. He almost took the initiative to take up the banner of questioning:
[Chinese? Dark matter? Can these two words be connected together? Are you kidding me? I tell you, they will 100% change their minds, just like they whitewashed the murderer who killed my child. It is extremely shameless! 】
Saw this news.
Lucas couldn't help but sigh slightly.
David Pulitzer.
This is also a well-known tragic figure in the physics community.
The physicist who has the same name as the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism won the Nobel Prize in 2004 and was once very proud.
But in the second month after the Nobel Prize was announced.
His youngest son, his wife and grandson died in a car accident in California.
The perpetrator of the car accident was a Chinese international student. He was speeding, taking drugs, inhaling laughing gas, and driving under the influence. He was 100% responsible.
Since there is no criminal extradition treaty between China and Haidong, the case was naturally prosecuted in Haidong.
California is the largest state across the sea that has not abolished the death penalty. It is also the state with the largest number of death row inmates awaiting execution. The state's San Quentin Prison holds the largest number of death row inmates in the United States.
Therefore, David Pulitzer’s appeal at the beginning was very clear:
Kill for life.
He refused all media interviews and made it clear that there was no room for concession
As a result, the parents of the foreign student who committed the crime traveled thousands of miles to the other side of the sea and spent a lot of money to whitewash the perpetrator into a "mental patient undergoing conditional release compulsory medical treatment." The sentence was only four years.
So since then.
David Pulitzer's favorability towards the judiciary across the sea and China has dropped to negative, and he has even criticized China in public classes many times.
Tell the truth.
Compared with other anti-China people, David Pulitzer is an abnormal black man, and his situation is excusable.
But on the other hand.
Some of his remarks have indeed tarnished China's image.
It can only be said to be a complete tragedy
There are many big shots like David Pulitzer who have doubts, and their attitudes are quite consistent:
I firmly don’t believe that China has created dark matter.
Lucas even saw his colleague Hercule Linden like a questionable comment.
Of course.
There are doubts, but naturally there are also industry leaders who expect and even believe.
For example, Anton Salinger, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expressed his expectations for this news:
[I have been an honorary professor at the University of Science and Technology of China since 1996, and have been exposed to many scientific research projects at Jinling University and Xi'an Jiaotong University. I know very well that China's scientific research level is improving rapidly, and their research on dark matter may not necessarily rank among the top in the world. , but it also has the ability to produce results. Those who don’t believe it can think about it or search for the dragon’s roar fifty-eight years ago]
In addition, below this tweet, Anton Salinger also added:
[I suggest that all colleagues take this opportunity to visit China. I cannot guarantee you whether the Chinese Academy of Sciences has actually discovered dark matter (because I have not received any news from the beginning to the end), but at least it can refresh your understanding of the country's economy and China. Business impression, okay, I’m going to the airport, see you all in Chengdu】
As a big boss who just won the Nobel Prize, Anton Salinger still has a lot of influence at this time.
For example, Lucas felt a lot calmer after reading this tweet.
Think carefully
It is true that he has not been to China personally.
His knowledge of China mainly comes from teaching foreign students and various papers. He only visited Ludao once in China fifteen years ago.
If I remember the name correctly.
There was something called Sha Cha Noodles and Bamboo Shoot Jelly that suited his taste quite well.
Whatever.
As Anton Salinger said.
Regardless of whether the Chinese Academy of Sciences has really discovered cold dark matter, it would be nice to take a trip to China.
Figured this out.
Lucas stuffed his phone back into his trouser pocket and called his two colleagues to continue heading to the hotel.
Actually.
It’s not just the Internet that has become agitated by this announcement from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
as the location of the event.
China's Internet media also ushered in a peak discussion of the topic.
The popularity was even higher than the original public opinion conference.
Less than half an hour after it was released, the entry #中文字幕av announces the discovery of dark matter, shot to the top of the lists of major media.
Tell the truth.
The moment many people saw this entry, they subconsciously thought it was some democratic theory.
Because there is precedent for this.
For example, Li Zifeng, a professor at Yanshan University, once claimed that he had overturned the theory of relativity and even bought himself a hot search topic with quite exaggerated content:
[Chinese scholars have overturned the theory of relativity].
Then Li Zifeng became more popular, and his image in China’s scientific research community became even brighter.
So when I saw this entry.
Many knowledgeable brothers and sword fairies subconsciously rolled up their sleeves and prepared to make a grand appearance and make a long speech.
But after seeing the three words ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences’ at the front of the entry, all the words suddenly melted into pieces.
140. That is the question mark on the upper limit of the number of words in a single comment.
【? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 】
Then in just one hour.
This entry has a bright red word "explosion".
Among them, the content of Tuantuan is the most direct:
[The Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the discovery of dark matter. Another great conjecture after gravitational waves has been proven? There are still four days until the truth is revealed, we will wait and see! 】
The user with the highest ranking in the comments below is called [Golden Jasmine], and the length is very short, less than two centimeters:
[Oh my god, really? 】
Ranked second is a complete comment, nicknamed [Milk Red Pink Head].
The content is also just four words:
[Front row photo].
Most of the comments in the building are short comments such as "crowding", "posting" and "taking photos".
The rest of the official media is similar.
It can be clearly seen.
After the severe crackdown at the public opinion press conference, some controversial comments with special purposes have significantly decreased.
Of course.
Just a lot less, rather than a complete cutoff - the latter is basically impossible to achieve without featured comments.
Therefore, under some unofficial big V accounts, you can still see some criticism.
For example, a comment called [Li Ning was kicked off the line]:
[Do those people at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who embezzle funds have this ability? What the hell? 】
[Brother Cheng died early]:
[The postgraduate direction happens to be related to dark matter. I can say responsibly that there is absolutely no strength to discover dark matter in China, and it is 100% embarrassing]
There are many similar remarks, and there are supporters and opponents below.
Most of the opponents are passers-by who do not have a deep understanding of domestic sophisticated projects and do not understand the real inside story.
For example, some people have vaguely heard of the Wukong detection satellite. When you mention it, they will often say "Oh, yes, yes, I seem to have heard of this satellite", but they don't know that it is a device for detecting dark matter.
Some compare dark matter to the curvature engine in science fiction novels, believing that it is a science fiction product that may not be discovered until hundreds of years later.
Supporter
In fact, most of them are passers-by.
But they believe even more in the country's scientific research strength - a large part of this is because the University of Science and Technology announced not long ago that it has proved the Mersenne prime conjecture, and some bloggers have uncovered previous news about the synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide, which has lifted everyone's confidence to a new level. high.
And except for both.
There is also a neutral party between the two, the so-called rational party.
For example, a popular science blogger who is certified by the National University of Science and Technology and whose Weibo name is [Zhajiangmian yyds] posted a ‘sense article’:
[I saw this hot search as soon as I woke up and couldn’t help but say a few words]
[First of all, the so-called leading party is the University of Science and Technology of China, not our University of Science and Technology of China. I hope you will not QQ Guoke]
[Secondly, the announcement from the Academy of Sciences stated that "dark matter has been discovered", but did not specify which type it was - dark matter is divided into generalized dark matter and non-generalized dark matter, and can be further subdivided into hot dark matter, warm dark matter and cold dark matter. 】
[Of course, the topic is so hot now, so the results will definitely not be false, but I personally think that at most it is warm dark matter]
Afterwards, the blogger did a lot of popular science around warm and dark matter, and then said something very daddy like an elder patting a junior on the shoulder:
[Even warm dark matter is pretty good, which means we still have the ability to discover unknown matter].
This blog post quickly reached the front page of Weibo and quickly attracted the opinions of some passers-by.
After all, hot and cold dark matter are both a bit extreme, so warm dark matter can be considered a compromise choice.
This approach is said to be more conservative or rational, but in fact it still lacks confidence.
Actually.
What few people know or notice is.
So far.
All results published by China through the official channel of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have never been suspected of fraud or exaggeration.
For example, in a series of announcements such as the first discovery of Weyl fermions, the first discovery of topological semimetallic states, the first observation of triple degenerate fermions, the announcement of the Sky Eye results, the announcement of the "Jiaolong" results, etc., what is supposed to be is actually what it is. .
If you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, you won't force yourself to do it.
It's just that the expression is a little different.
For example, results that rank among the top ten to top twenty internationally are generally described as "advanced echelon."
The results that are among the top ten or even the top five in the world are ‘first-rate’.
The top five to number one are ‘super first class’.
This expression is relatively euphemistic, but it is far from word play or exaggeration.
It's a pity that maybe it's because of my poor impression of the Chinese scientific research community, or because I've seen too much of this kind of news.
Many people actually do not realize that the Academy of Sciences never lies.
And the whole situation is slowly moving forward amidst the attention of all walks of life.
Two hours later Lucas returned to the hotel.
Fermilab sent three ticket information.
There are no direct domestic air tickets from Geneva, so Lucas needs to transfer to Paris first and then fly to China.
The flight from Geneva to Paris starts at 6:50 in the morning. Including traveling, check-in and boarding, they have to get up at least two hours in advance to prepare.
Therefore, after dinner, Lucas and his team went to bed early to rest.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning.
Jingle Bell——
Lucas was woken up on time by the alarm clock next to his bed. He yawned, finished washing up, and went out to meet two colleagues next door.
Follow the itinerary plan.
After they had breakfast in the restaurant on the first floor, they had to rush to the airport immediately.
As soon as I arrived at the restaurant.
A familiar greeting sounded in Lucas's ears:
"Hey, Lucas!"
Lucas looked over.
I saw my old acquaintance sitting near the entrance of the restaurant.
Lars. (End of chapter)