Chapter 428 Gathering of Gods (Part 2)
Mentioned before.
The big guys who came to the scene today all have high academic status, and most of them have given lectures such as English reports.
Therefore, the people around Xu Yun are either native English speakers, or have strong English listening skills.
It's just that out of politeness, they had not rashly interrupted Xu Yun and the little old man.
So after hearing the other party claiming to have taken Xu Yun’s first time
Swish——
Including Hou Xingyuan and the senior official from Sichuan and Chongqing.
Everyone was slightly startled, and then quickly took a small step back after recovering.
The action of taking half a step back is serious.jpg.
On the contrary, many of the reporters looked expectantly at finding big news.
After all, despite the fact that Xu Yun does not have any professional titles or hats in the scientific research circle, his introduction to people in the industry is either a student at the University of Science and Technology, or a disciple of Academician Pan.
But on the Internet outside the scientific research circle.
With the completion of the HKUST press conference, Xu Yun has gradually gained a certain degree of popularity.
After all, the press conference held by HKUST was so effective.
afterwards.
Someone who was interested also found a video of Xu Yun’s short speech a few months ago, during the live broadcast of cockroach eradication at the University of Science and Technology.
So much so that there are now some articles [How strong is Xu Yun of the University of Science and Technology of China actually?] [Whether Xu Yun of the University of Science and Technology of China, who has been slandered by foreign forces, has the potential to be a top scientist] [Will Xu Yun be a young man after the age of 40? [Is HKUST creating a god for Huadun Biotech’s products?] and other topics.
So if you can really come up with some breaking news
A reporter even thought of what Zhang Rui said when releasing the report at the public opinion conference.
really.
No female-specific bacteria were found in Xu Yun’s sexual parts, but it cannot be denied that there are no other male strains in his body.
It's a pity.
Before the reporter's thoughts were fully developed, the little old man took the initiative to refute the rumor with his next words:
"Classmate Xu Yun, I am Morton L. Groby. I reviewed your first paper. Do you still remember it?"
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It was not just the reporters who were knocked back to reality by these words, but also Xu Yun himself.
I saw him blinking in confusion. After a few seconds, a memory quietly emerged in his mind:
months ago.
After detailed discussions with Tian Liangwei, Xu Yun submitted a paper on fifth-generation imidacloprid to "NUCLEICA CIDSRES".
At that time, the reviewer Tian Liangwei recommended to him was none other than Morton L. Groby, a well-known biology guru.
So he was indeed the first person to review Xu Yun's paper.
Just
Why does it feel weird to say this from Morton L. Groby?
Could it be that when people arrive in Chengdu, they will automatically be given the buff of Kidu?
Looking at Xu Yun who seemed to be a little confused, Lu Chaoyang on the side couldn't help but gently poke his heel with his toe.
Xu Yun finally came back to his senses after being reminded by Lu Chaoyang.
He quickly grabbed Morton L. Groby's hand and shook it vigorously a few times with a very sincere attitude:
"It turns out it's you, Mr. Morton. I have admired your name for a long time. I even printed out the paper on combinatorial proteins that you published in March last year."
Xu Yun's warmth was partly polite, but most of it was sincere.
Firstly, it is because Morton L. Groby is about the same age as Tian Liangwei. From the perspective of a junior, he must respect his seniors.
Come on second.
It was because Morton L. Groby helped him a lot.
At the time of submission, Xu Yun was completely white, and even Huadun Biotechnology was not established.
Let alone international at that time.
He doesn't even have the slightest reputation in domestic academic circles.
Morton L. Groby was willing to serve as a reviewer for him, which was of great help to the drafting and publication of his paper.
What's more, the other party is now a top gene and protein expert. He has deep knowledge in some directions that Tian Liangwei has not gone deep into, but Xu Yun needs.
So Xu Yun had long wanted to meet this master, but he just didn't have the chance.
all in all.
Although today's first meeting process is a little bit subtle.
But after talking about it, there was still no problem.
After all, Xu Yunxing could sit and stand straight, and there was no way he could bend.
Otherwise, he would have given up on the oath on the spot and would not have made it.
It's a pity that Tian Liangwei is not in the pick-up queue today, otherwise it should save some effort.
Then Morton L. Groby enthusiastically introduced Lucas and Lars to Xu Yun, whom he met on the plane.
The former Xu Yun had heard the name but never met the person in person. When they met, he immediately remembered the other person’s background:
Director of the CDF Detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a well-known unlucky man who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize but twice encountered wall-mounted competitors.
Not long ago, there was a hot search overseas because of the voice of the furry bear. If nothing else, he should have something in common with Polyakov, the cheerful little old man who comes from the furry bear.
As for Lars
I really don’t know Xu Yun.
However, during yesterday's live broadcast, he had seen Lars speak on stage, so he also knew that he was from CERN.
Xu Yun and Academician Pan then put Anton Salinger and Morton L. Grobi on the bus to the city. Xu Yun sent a message to Tian Liangwei on WeChat and returned. to the original place.
At this time, a full ten hours have passed since the initial pick-up period.
Both Hou Xingyuan and the senior official from Sichuan and Sichuan were a little tired at this time, and occasionally yawned.
After all, for Lucas and others, it was seven o'clock in the morning in Europe when they left Paris.
Polyakov happened to arrive in Chengdu at that time.
But for Hou Xingyuan, or the local airport pick-up group.
Due to the time difference, the time they arrived at the terminal was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon in their hometown.
In other words, the local time at this time was already approaching midnight.
But Hou Xingyuan had no intention of handing over the scene to his deputy.
As if
It seems that some important person has not arrived yet.
So
Who is Hou Xingyuan waiting for?
Or is it one person, two or three people?
Think of this.
The curiosity in Xu Yun's heart overcame his fatigue, and he waited patiently with Lu Chaoyang.
About ten minutes passed.
Hou Xingyuan, who had been looking at his watch, suddenly stood up and quickly came to the entrance of the passage.
Ten minutes later.
When the time reaches zero in half a minute.
At the special passage, a little old foreign man appeared, being supported by someone.
This person's figure is the same as many of the big guys who came before, and he looks a little bloated.
His complexion is sallow, his sparse hair is all white, and his forehead to forehead is as smooth as a smooth braised egg.
However, the muscles on both sides of this person's face are very plump, drooping below the corners of his mouth, and his muscles tremble when he takes a step.
Seeing the situation, Hou Xing quickly walked into the special passage, came to the old man's side, and helped him personally.
Click click click——
at the same time.
The surrounding reporters also raised their cameras or camcorders, frantically taking notes.
Even some academicians are no exception.
Because the one who comes is worthy of this kind of formation.
Mentioned before.
before today.
The highest-level physics conference ever held in China was the discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall effect by Academician Xue Qikun of Shuimu University in 2013.
In the case where the previous integer and fractional quantum Hall effects both won the Nobel Prize.
Perhaps many years from now, the quantum anomalous Hall effect will also receive this honor.
Notice.
This is not YY, because there are many examples of delayed release of Nobel Prizes.
Take Eric Cornell, who arrived not long ago.
He achieved the Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995, but did not win the prize until 2001.
There is also the more famous Tu Nai Nai.
Tu Nainai extracted artemisinin as early as 1972, but she did not win the Nobel Prize in Medicine until 2015, a full 43 years later.
And actually.
Grandma Tu is not the Nobel Prize winner with the longest gap between achievement and award.
In the history of the Nobel Prize, there was one person who waited for 49 years from the time he made the achievement to the time he finally won the prize.
He is the little old man being supported by Hou Xingyuan at this time——
Peter Higgs.
He is also the person who proposed the Higgs boson, the God particle.
That's right.
The Higgs particle results released at the CERN conference in 2012 verified Peter Higgs's conjecture.
Many people may have been curious about a question when they were studying:
What would the universe be like if mass didn't exist?
You and I are as light as ghosts?
The answer is not so.
If the quality is not there.
First, the masses of quarks, W bosons, and Z bosons will all become zero.
Since only about 1% of the mass of composite particles such as protons and neutrons is due to the quarks they contain, their properties will only change slightly.
The mass of tauons and muons will also become zero, but they have nothing to do with real life.
But electronics are different.
The smaller the electron mass, the larger the atom's size.
When the electron mass becomes zero.
Atoms of very large size will be torn apart by collision with each other, and all nuclei and electrons will be mixed together.
That is to say, atoms cannot exist alone, and there will be no water, air, or world in which humans live. Everything will return to chaos.
Therefore, in our world, there must be a mechanism that gives quality.
But what does this mechanism look like?
The Standard Model of particle physics, the basis of our current physical worldview, has not provided answers for a long time.
Until 1964.
Higgs shows up.
He proposed the concept of the Higgs scalar field and established the Higgs mechanism himself.
in the Higgs mechanism.
W boson and Z boson are relatively simple and obtain their mass by applying the Higgs mechanism to the Higgs field.
Fermions gain mass by applying the Higgs mechanism to the Yukawa coupling of the Higgs field and the fermion field.
As for the particle that transfers mass, it is the Higgs boson.
The existence of this particle makes our world no longer chaotic, just like God in the West or Pangu in the East created the world.
So it was named Zheng Zha particle, wrong, wrong, God particle.
Unfortunately, like Hawking mentioned before.
If a theory is not finally confirmed, no matter how beautiful or logical it is, it will not win the Nobel Prize.
Just like Einstein, the reason for the award was not the theory of relativity, but the photoelectric effect.
How difficult is it to find the Higgs particle
Let’s give some data.
The Higgs boson only appears once in about every billion proton collisions, and its lifespan is as short-lived as the stingray:
It decays again less than a trillionth of a second later.
The Higgs particle therefore cannot be directly measured or observed, it can only be tracked through the decay products it leaves behind.
Unfortunately.
These consist of elementary particles, such as photon pairs, muons or Z bosons, while countless other collision products decay
They will also release similar or identical traces.
Therefore, trying to find the Higgs particle is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The LHC started in 2008, and it was not until July 2012 that traces of the Higgs particle were found.
This also put Higgs himself on the altar in one fell swoop.
Before the discovery of the Higgs particle, Higgs was probably a physicist ranked third in Landau's ranking.
But after the discovery of the Higgs particle.
He jumped directly to above gear 1.5, close to gear 1.
If Landau's ranking was subdivided without authorization, Higgs would probably be around 1.2 to 1.3.
Even in the overall ranking of physicists in human history, Higgs can still be ranked among the top 50.
in today's physics world.
He is probably in the same class as Gelman, who died in 2019, and slightly behind Yang, Glashow, who is in the ICU, and Weinberg, who died in 21 years.
To some extent.
Higgs is just like Makelele is a ball-blind evaluator.
Those so-called physics rankings where he can be seen are not necessarily accurate - because he may be ranked very high or very low.
But without Higgs’ ranking, it’s definitely not accurate.
Today, Higgs is 94 years old. He just had heart bypass surgery last year and his body has been recovering.
Xu Yun was indeed a little surprised that he could come to the scene in person.
But after thinking about it, this behavior is reasonable.
After all, dark matter has been the goal pursued by three generations of scientists
Whether Higgs is afraid of death or not, Xu Yun, as a non-party, does not know and is not qualified to make speculations.
But one thing is for sure.
If Higgs had not witnessed this press conference with his own eyes, he would definitely have regrets even if he died.
His thirst for knowledge outweighed his fear of death, so he was here.
Of course.
No matter how strong his thirst for knowledge is, Higgs' age is still there.
The nearly ten-hour long flight made him quite depressed.
Therefore, except for the senior Sichuan official who came forward to say hello, Higgs did not say hello to anyone and was quickly taken away from the scene.
After Higgs leaves.
Hou Xingyuan returned to his original position again.
And he remained standing and did not sit down.
Xu Yun noticed.
At this time, the latest flight on the flight information will land in twenty minutes.
Even if the visitor does not need to pick up his or her luggage, it will still take at least half an hour including the travel time.
That is to say
Given the other party's status or contribution, Hou Xingyuan would have to stand here for half an hour in vain.
Take a look at today’s physics world.
There are only three bosses in the world who enjoy this qualification.
Who could this be
About twenty minutes passed.
When the time is close to midnight.
At the end of the special passage, there was a sound of rolling wheels.
Half a minute later.
A middle-aged man in his forties appeared at the special passage pushing a wheelchair.
Sitting in the wheelchair was a little old man with a square face, gray hair with a little black shine, and a few age spots on his face.
More importantly.
This is a Chinese.
This is the first Chinese person to appear independently at the scene today.
The moment you see this person.
Bang bang bang——
No sign was needed, everyone clapped their hands.
Several young people even called out this person's name excitedly:
"Old Yang!" (End of this chapter)