From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

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?" 』

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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]

Chapter 194 Pooh!nausea!

Weeks passed.

In Kong Huaan's room.

At this time, he was looking at various private messages sent to him on the website he built.

These private letters reported the names, addresses and phone numbers of strangers.

A few weeks ago, after Kong Huaan's reward was issued, some people in his shadow organization quickly responded to his reward and went online to investigate those people who specially spoke ill of Lin Xiao behind his back.

However, most of these people are sailors, and in the end they will point to certain online sailor companies.

After the investigation of these online water army companies, it is often of no use, because they also don't know who hired them.

So Kong Huaan has not received any useful news.

As for why these sailors took on this kind of mission, wouldn't they think it would be detrimental to the future of their Huaguo?

Kong Hua'an didn't think about it at all. For the social dregs of the Internet trolls, they can get money if they have money. As for the damage to the country, they have never cared about it, and they might be complacent about it, just like these Internet When the water army was hired to damage the reputation of others before, they obviously never considered other people's feelings.

Maybe they have also been hired by some foreign forces to spread rumors on the Internet that slander their country.

Kong Huaan has nothing to say about this kind of people who have no father or mother. Just investigate the information of these people directly. As long as they have spread any rumors that constitute illegal facts before, then they will directly report to one of his uncles. That uncle works in the Ministry of Public Security and has a good relationship with his family. He treats Kong Huaan very kindly, so he has helped him with all these requests.

However, for those people who speak ill of Lin Xiao on the Internet, there is no other way for the time being, because the news released by these people is not considered to be rumors, but just insults, and some of them may also be accused by those who really do not have the ability to distinguish the facts. The navy brought the rhythm.

And if they are arrested just because of insulting online, it will not only be a kind of pressure on the network management department, but also form a certain amount of public opinion pressure on the management department on the Internet, so Kong Huaan didn't bother his uncle .

So what he has to do now is to find out who is behind the hiring of these cyber trolls. This kind of hiring and instigation is a crime.

Although he hasn't gotten any useful news so far, Kong Huaan is not in a hurry about it. Anyway, there is still more time. When the time comes, he will get rid of that guy before Lin Xiao comes back, and it will be regarded as a gift to Lin Xiao.

Thinking of this, a slight smile appeared on his face.

I don't know how Lin Xiao is doing in Europe now.

He didn't tell Lin Xiao about the things he did for Lin Xiao behind his back, and he did it secretly all the time.

This is what he can do, who regards Lin Xiao as his only friend. After all, he can't provide any help for the research Lin Xiao has done.

Without thinking too much, he continued to look at the private messages in the background.

However, one of the private messages attracted him.

"Suspected person behind the scenes... the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Wang Yi?"

Seeing this, he frowned.

This is finally a useful piece of news.

The Institute of High Energy Physics seems to have a relationship with Lin Xiao. After all, the physics theory that Lin Xiao is working on now is related to high energy physics, and his colleagues are enemies. Maybe for the Institute of High Energy Physics, Lin Xiao will influence To their benefit?

Kong Huaan's family background is not simple, which allows him to sometimes easily inquire about things that ordinary people don't know, such as those conflicts of interest in academia, which are very common.

So he clicked into this private message and read it.

However, in this information, no substantive evidence was given, it was just an inference.

Of course, inference is enough. For them, a logical and reasonable inference is sometimes enough for them to grasp the final clue.

"The CEPC led by the Institute of High Energy Physics may form a conflict of interest with Lin Xiao? In the future, after Lin Xiao returns to China, he may compete with the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics for the dominance of CEPC? So the Institute of High Energy Physics is likely to do this. matter?"

Looking at the news, Kong Huaan deduced in his heart that there was indeed such a possibility.

This news also included the news that Mr. Yang believed that Lin Xiao could make up for the talent vacancies in the Huaguo physics community, not to mention the conflict between Mr. Yang and the Institute of High Energy Physics.

All in all, these inferences are very reasonable. Even later, this person also found CEPC's recent expenditures. One of the expenditures is network expenditures. Although it claims to promote CEPC on the Internet, but There is obviously a problem with the amount of expenditure, so it is completely doubtful that this part of the expenditure is used to hire navy troops.

"Is it really the director?"

Kong Huaan became suspicious.

This inference is well-founded and convincing, but it is only speculation.

Of course, he can also try to hack into the other party's computer or mobile phone to directly inquire, but the risk is a bit too high.

Because the other party is an academician, God knows how well the country protects the information of such academicians, even he doesn't know, and once discovered, the consequences will be very serious, and they may even be regarded as spies.

This is why this person only gave a clue and did not directly find relevant evidence, so he must have such concerns.

However, Kong Hua'an only thought for a moment before thinking of a neglected place.

Although it is possible that Wang Yi instigated it, maybe it was done by someone else in the institute?

After all, for them, this is a matter of prosperity and loss.

A huge project like CEPC does not know how many academicians can be produced, and if Lin Xiao competes with them for the leadership of CEPC, it may have an impact on some senior academicians who are not elected.

So if it was really Wang Yi who did it, then there is a high probability that he also communicated with other people in the research institute.

So now Kong Huaan only needs to start investigating from those other people, maybe he can find clues, and those who are not academicians, such as the deputy directors, Kong Huaan is not so worried.

Because they are neither academicians, the Institute of High Energy Physics is not an important unit like the National Defense Research Institute, but more of an institute of basic science, so there is no need to worry about the protection of information for these non-academicians.

What's more, Kong Hua'an is for Lin Xiao, as long as it is to help Lin Xiao, he is willing to do it even if it is risky.

Then he checked the information of those deputy directors, and according to the alphabetical order, he identified his first target, Fan Min.

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