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Once disappointed to the extreme, seeing disappointment again, it is inevitable to worry about gains and losses.

Things have to start in 1983.

Due to the atomic bomb and the fact that it was still in the Cold War stage, all major countries in the East and the West paid great attention to the research of particle physics, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money. The first large-scale particle collider project in the United States was against this background. The project was established in 1983.

In 1986, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was designed with a total length of about 22.5 kilometers. This is the world's first large-scale particle collider project, more than ten years earlier than the final LHC project in Europe.

Although the budget has expanded from the initial US$40 billion to US$110 billion, from the Reagan era to the later Bush, the two presidents have been very supportive of this project. Unfortunately, in 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Cold War ended. The drastic changes in the political structure of the human world have also made the extreme scientific exploration projects like ITER's SSC, which has a huge investment but seems slim, no longer be sought after.

In the end, in 1993, the SSC project was shut down by the Clinton administration despite the cost of $30 billion to dig a foundation hole in Texas.

The entire physics community was in mourning.

Until today, a few years later, the three top physicists who worked hard for the SSC project at that time saw the dawn of hope again: Simon Westero intends to sponsor the large particle collider project in his own name.

Today is the first meeting between the two sides.

In the small square in front of the Shell Villa, after Simon greeted the three physicists, he did not forget to introduce the people around him, the two Jenny, and Emmanuel Brandt, who was temporarily brought in as a science consultant, and himself My personal assistant, Miss A.

The last little girl is naturally Seattle.

Introducing his daughter, Simon smiled and said to the three of them: "Mr. Lederman, my daughter Searle has just read your work "God Particle", Mr. Weinberg, your "Dream of the Ultimate Theory", Searle So have I. Oh, and Mr. Richter, Searle has read some of your papers."

Hearing what Simon said, the three physicists looked at the little girl who was at most four or five years old in front of them, with obvious surprise and doubt on their expressions, and even felt that Simon Westeros was probably making a joke with them. joke.

Simon didn't say much, and motioned for the three to enter the door.

Everyone sat down by the glass curtain wall with a wide view of the Shell Villa. Simon didn't talk too much nonsense, and said straight to the point: "Three, in the past few days, Aiman ​​has introduced enough problems about the particle collider to me. Frankly speaking, I may not understand as much as my daughter."

When Simon said this, Burton Richter, one of the three, once again looked at a certain little girl who was sitting next to her father with a slightly indifferent expression, and couldn't help but said: "Mr. Westeros, are you here?" Are you kidding us?"

Simon smiled and looked around: "Syl, say hello to the three gentlemen."

Seattle glanced at his father, then blinked at the three people opposite him, tilted his head slightly, then jumped off the sofa, and ran away without saying a word.

Looking at the figure of his daughter leaving, Simon could only shrug his shoulders: "Sorry, many times, I don't know what my daughter is thinking."

Emmanuel Brandt, who was tall and red-haired, said with a smile at this time: "Burton, that's true. Searle probably inherited the genius of the boss and has a high IQ. She has read some of the works of the three of you." , I can attest to this, it’s just that Searle doesn’t like talking very much.”

Burton Richter is a professor at Stanford University. He has dealt with Emmanuel who is currently hosting FusionTimes. He also knows that this red-haired girl has a high degree of Ph.D. in particle physics. Seeing her say that, think again The miracle created by Simon Westeros is somewhat believed.

Simon waited for Emmanuel to finish speaking, without entanglement with the matter just now, and continued: "So, I don't need the three to give me more science, I just hope that the three can use an example that I can understand to convince me to agree Fund a large particle collider project, and, as I discussed with Aiman, the 22.5-kilometer SSC project in Texas is still a bit conservative. I can directly fund the construction of a very large particle collider with a circumference of 100 kilometers.

When the three of them heard the figure of 100 kilometers, their heartbeats accelerated obviously, like a passionate young man seeing a beautiful girl.

Looking at each other, Leon Lederman was about to speak when Simon suddenly interrupted: "By the way, Einstein's energy formula, this Eman has already told me, you need to change it."

Leon Redman choked, he really wanted to give an example.

After all, it is the easiest to accept, and it has been proven and put into practical application.

So the three of them got together in front of Simon and started communicating. After a while, Burton Richter said, "Simon, how about giving you a more sci-fi example?"

"As long as I can understand."

"For example," said Burton Richter, "the ultimate goal of our particle physics research is to explore the ultimate microscopic rules of the universe. When we understand these rules, perhaps in the future, using the rules we have, we may The realization of ultra-long-distance space travel is not super-light travel, but that we can use our understanding of the ultimate rules to directly poke a hole in the cosmic space, and easily cross millions of light years to reach the other side of the universe. "

"The specifics are like this." Burton Richter said, rolling a piece of paper he had just taken out of his handbag into a paper tube: "This is the space of the universe, and the diameter of the paper tube is 1000 million light-years. We have enough rules, just like we have the rules of this piece of paper, so when we want to get from one side of the paper tube to the other side, we don't need to span 1000 million light-years, but flatten the paper tube, Then, poke a hole"

Seeing that Richter made a wrong hole in the center of the flattened paper tube with a pen, Simon nodded slightly, but asked, "How to flatten the space, and what do you use to poke this hole?"

Burton Richter smiled and said as a matter of course: "I know the physical rules of the pen and paper in my hand, so I can squeeze it flat and poke a hole. As for how to squeeze the space and poke a hole in it, Mr. Westeros, This requires you to fund our research. However, I can give some hypotheses, for example, antimatter burns through space through the method of positive and negative annihilation. Antimatter particles happen to be the target of the large particle collider.”

Chapter 1171 The Girl Playing With Paper Airplanes

The meeting between Simon and the three physicists lasted an hour, and they basically negotiated a plan for a large particle collider with an estimated investment of tens of billions of dollars.

The specific cost can only be estimated after the design plan is completed.However, the preliminary forecast is about 300 billion US dollars, and it is 15 billion US dollars over a period of 20 to 300 years. There is no need for a one-time payment. On average, the annual expenditure of up to 20 billion US dollars is no pain for Simon. itch.

The previous SSC plan, 22.5 kilometers, cost swelled from 40 billion US dollars all the way to 110 billion US dollars, and finally ran aground. According to the information Simon has read, the main reason is that political factors interfered too deeply, and too many stakeholders wanted to start from the time. The reason why this world's largest scientific and technological engineering project is allocated a piece of fat.

It is similar to the defense procurement of the United States.

This time, including the recently re-promoted ITER project, Simon will not let go of the federal support that can be won, but the absolute control of the Westeros system must be guaranteed.Simon would rather not have the support if someone wanted the Seychelles to come in and suck blood.If Washington is unwilling to give enough support, or even set up obstacles in turn, Simon will decisively transfer the collider project to Europe.

With Simon's current position, he looks at many issues from a perspective that goes beyond the differences between countries, but looks at the entire human race.

Therefore, where these large-scale scientific and technological projects are built, political factors cannot be completely ignored, but they are not decisive. The key is whether the project itself can truly promote the progress of human science and technology.

Seeing off the three physicists again in the small square in front of the Shell Villa, watching the car leave, Simon was about to turn around and return to the villa, but Janet, who was holding his arm, gestured towards the manor artificial lake not far away, and saw A small figure sitting on a bench by the lake, Simon motioned to Girl A to wait for others, and walked over with Janet, while saying: "It's time to bring Moore back, school is starting now?"

After Veronica helped Simon complete the financial audit of the Westeros system, it happened to be summer vacation when she left. The old man said he missed his grandson again, so he brought Melbourne back to Australia.

Janet snorted twice: "Dad is angry with you. He said that Mel will live in Melbourne in the future, and he will change his surname. Melbourne Johnston, I will sever the father-son relationship with you."

Simon did not disclose his identity and changed his surname to the Johnston family, which can be described as the old man's greatest grievance. Otherwise, the Johnston family is now the most prominent family on the planet, not one of them.In addition, the reason why he was angry must be because Simon had a group of children recently. Simon did not deliberately hide this matter. The old man has always been very concerned about their side, and it is not easy not to know.

For the old man to keep Melbourne in Melbourne, Simon actually didn't have much opinion. What he was a little worried about was that the child would be spoiled by Veronica.

Hearing what Janet said, Simon just showed a scared expression of being threatened, and pretended to be curious: "Then what about the relationship between your mother and child?"

"Of course it's still the same," Janet said with a smile, and knowing that Simon didn't mind too much, she leaned towards the man and said, "Actually," I'm still more interested in life sciences. "

Simon understands the woman's intentions. Because of her age, Janet is more afraid of aging than Simon. It's not aging itself, but that she will age before him: "Anyway, you are responsible for this aspect, and it doesn't matter how much you spend."

"Solvay's plan is still too slow, just like those girls you raise in Europe and Latin America who haven't grown up yet. I don't have time to wait. I'm asking them to do a targeted training program recently. In cooperation with universities, it is planned to select 1 of the most outstanding college students from all over the world and provide full scholarships to allow them to transfer to various majors related to life sciences. In addition, there are plans to set up life science research institutes around the world," Janet said At this point, he frowned slightly, and said distressedly: "However, I found that the most critical aspect of some research is legal and ethical restrictions."

Scientific research directly on the human body often touches legal or ethical issues.

Typical is the controversy in the field of embryonic stem cells.

This is almost a dead end.

Even if some research does not target living bodies, let alone harm humans, like embryonic stem cells, it is still prohibited by the laws of some countries, because in some people's eyes, as long as it is research on humans, it is blasphemy.However, if only mice or monkeys can be used instead of direct research on the human body itself, then the mystery of human life itself will never be solved.

Simon thought about it for a while, and said: "Let Joseph and the others handle political matters. The reason why the politicians in Washington adhere to conservative ideas is mainly to avoid offending conservative Christian voters. We don't need federal financial appropriations. Research, Washington will turn a blind eye. In addition, more laboratories can be built in countries that do not have strict legal restrictions. In short, the problem is not big. You have to understand that the higher the people in the pyramid, The more you want to live longer."

Janet nodded, then glanced at Simon's expression again: "Do you think I'm going crazy because of this?"

Simon looked back at each other: "What do you think?"

Janet tilted her head and smiled again: "I think you must be more crazy than me when you become crazy."

Simon was a little more serious, and said: "I just think that sometimes, if the human race wants to continue, it must put aside many irrelevant moral or legal concepts, and consider the issue from the perspective of survival itself, because let alone the entire universe, Even if it is this planet, human beings claim to be the master, but in fact they are still as small as ants. The life of the earth has been 46 billion years, and the human civilization is only a few thousand years. It is ridiculous to say that he is the master. But if you want to continue, All available resources must be mobilized."

Janet listened carefully, and was a little curious: "What resources?"