Chapter 144 Bang! (5k)

Because of the emergence of room-temperature superconductivity, it is no exaggeration to say that this year's Nobel Prize has attracted global attention.

Not only the Chinese people, but people all over the world are paying attention to this. Everyone's focus is on whether Chen Yuanguang can win the Nobel Prize in Physics for this epoch-making achievement of room-temperature superconductivity.

This is also the most discussed Nobel Prize in China. People have been following this topic since September, and the opinions of Nobel Prize judges can often be seen on hot searches.

With the publication of papers related to room-temperature superconductivity, experts from major research institutions visited the room-temperature superconductors kept by Jiaotong University, and news about the application of room-temperature superconductors in the field of quantum computers continued to come out. In China, everyone believed that there was something shady about not awarding the prize to Chen Yuanguang.

The leading countries are also concerned that Chen Yuanguang's paper published in Nature clearly stated that he adopted the one-dimensional superconductivity theory. Although this theory is not completely correct, as a component of the only confirmed room-temperature superconductivity theory on Earth, whether Korean scientists can win the Nobel Prize based on this achievement.

What the Koreans are concerned about is that the announcement of LK99 directly led to the Chinese creating room-temperature superconductors, but they themselves cannot synthesize it. It's impossible for them not to get any honor at all, right?

Chen Yuanguang hopes to receive this honor, but considering that there is no way he can go to Sweden to receive the award in person, he doesn't care that much about it.

On the contrary, Lin Jia and the outside world hope that he can win such an honor.

First, in September, Chen Yuanguang's paper on room-temperature superconductivity won the Citation Laureate Award from Clarivate, which is to some extent a prerequisite for the Nobel Prize.

The Clarivate Institute for Scientific Information believes that the winners' research results are generally considered to be at the Nobel Prize level.

During the award ceremony, they stated: "There is no doubt that Wright Chen's achievements in room-temperature superconductivity are higher than the Nobel Prize. It would be a pity if the Nobel Prize was not awarded to him."

In the history of the Citation Laureate Award, 64 Citation Laureate Award winners later won the Nobel Prize.

After the news spread back to China, it quickly ranked third on the hot search list. Because Clarivate is an American organization, Chinese netizens believed that the award to Chen Yuanguang was the will of America.

“This is the importance of the platform. This is the first time I felt how important it is to choose the right platform.

I can get an associate professorship at a top university in our province just based on this paper on room-temperature superconductivity." said Tian Can, a researcher at Guangjia Aerospace. After graduating with a doctorate, he joined Guangjia Aerospace and participated in the room-temperature superconductivity project. He is the second co-author of the paper.

There are many second authors of that paper, and all those who participated are co-second authors. The first author and corresponding author is naturally Chen Yuanguang.

After the Citation Laureate Award was presented, he chatted with his girlfriend and said, "Do you remember that I submitted my resume to a provincial university in my hometown? At that time, the staff in charge of recruitment said that if I wanted to go, I had to sign a promotion-or-leave agreement, and the 600,000 yuan settlement fee would be paid in five years."

His girlfriend said, "Remember, they came back to you?"

Tian Can said: "Yes, after they knew that I was the co-second author of the room-temperature superconductivity paper in Nature, they asked me if I was willing to switch to their company.

They are willing to give me an associate professorship.”

"Does it have a job?" The issue that the children of the four high-ranking officials in Shanhe are most concerned about is whether they have a job. Having a job and not having a job are completely two different concepts.

Tian Can said: "Yes, and there is no need to be promoted or leave, you will be assigned a position as soon as you go.

If I hadn't made the right choice before and came to Guangjia Aerospace, I wouldn't have had this opportunity. Even if I had worked as a postdoctoral fellow in my alma mater, they might not have given me the position of associate professor.

You still have to choose the right platform.”

Tian Can's alma mater is a 985 university in East China. After graduating with a Ph.D., only some third-tier cities, and those in economically underdeveloped provinces, were willing to give him a job.

His girlfriend asked, "So are you going?"

Tian Can first joked: "A good horse never turns back to eat the grass it has left."

Then he said, "Of course I won't go. What Guangjia Aerospace does is much more interesting, and the research funding here is incomparable even to my alma mater, and I guess Tsinghua and Peking University can't compare to it either.

I have to seize the opportunity. Guangjia Aerospace is probably the top scientific research institution in China. I once accidentally saw some people who recently submitted their resumes. They were all PhDs and postdoctoral fellows from top universities. If it were now, I might not be able to get in. "

Tian Can is well aware that he is extremely lucky and has managed to become the second author. This paper will undoubtedly become an indispensable paper in the history of science, and his name will also go down in the history of papers.

Sometimes choice is far more important than effort.

After the Citation Laureate Award was presented, various media outlets frantically asked the experts who were qualified to select whether the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Wright Chen. The experts' answers almost all maintained the same tone:
“Of course, Wright Chen’s results are amazing, and the synthesis route of room-temperature superconductors is a groundbreaking achievement.

He has made it into our final list, but as to whether he will win the award in the end, I think we still have to keep a little suspense.

There is still a little problem with Wright Chen's paper, that is, it cannot be reproduced and we cannot confirm the authenticity of the paper.

This will cause great trouble to the Nobel Prize selection.

There is no doubt that room-temperature superconductivity is real, but it is important to know whether this is a historical coincidence or whether Wright Chen really discovered its synthesis route.

We need more information to help us make a judgment, otherwise it will be difficult for us to make this decision.”

The judges' statements all pointed to one thing, that is, as long as Chen Yuanguang publishes the synthesis route of room-temperature superconductivity and research institutions successfully reproduce it, this year's Nobel Prize will be awarded to him without any suspense.

Western media reported the news with great fanfare, hoping to reach Chen Yuanguang's ears. Although everyone felt that no normal person would announce such important technology for the sake of honor, what if?
On Chinese social media, netizens unanimously criticized them for their wishful thinking:
“I have never heard that the Nobel Prize is awarded based on papers, isn’t it based on results?
Is room-temperature superconductivity real? You have come to see and test it. Do you have any questions? "

"Europe and the United States are just short of writing 'robbery' on their faces. They really don't have any shame at all."

"Give it if you want, forget it if you don't want. It's an honor for the Nobel Prize to be awarded to the God of Light, not the God of Light."

"It can be seen from the fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded to the proposer of the mRNA vaccine in 21, and not to Guang Shen. It was said that it was to thank them for their contribution to ending the virus epidemic. Who has made more contribution to ending the virus epidemic than Guang Shen?

Anyway, if we don’t give it this time, we will have no credibility.”

“The Chinese are too naive. The judges have made it clear that you give me the technology and I give you the award. This is an exchange.

But it's okay, as this has completely stripped the skin of European and American academic independence. These past few years have been like boomerang years.

Various boomerangs, led by donuts, run people, went to the hospital in America for a doctor's consultation for 15 minutes and the bill was 5760 US dollars. Even Teacher Chen Ping's 2000 RMB> 3000 US dollars had to prove such an outrageous inequality.

Freedom of speech and academic freedom are boomeranging more and more. Just wait, as China makes breakthroughs in science and technology, there will be more boomerangs to see.”

Chen Yuanguang is just at the southwest border. He is not missing, nor has he disappeared. He has not been disconnected from the Internet. There are people from China who are responsible for his food, clothing, and daily life.

After seeing the statements from the judges and Western media, Chen Yuanguang just smiled and did not express his opinion. When the Chinese side asked him whether he wanted to make a statement through official channels, he also refused.

I just posted a Weibo post: "It seems that everyone cares more about whether I can win the award than I do (laughing). If you have time, you can pay more attention to our rocket and space station projects.

Next year, Guangjia Aerospace will most likely launch its own space station and conduct manned space flight. Those who want to be astronauts are welcome to sign up.

Our requirements for physical fitness will be lower than the official ones, but we will have higher requirements for professionalism.”

Compared with official astronauts, because their goal is space mining, they need more professional astronauts, and the requirements for operational and psychological qualities are not as high.

Chen Yuanguang hopes to hand over more operations to the ground control console, and that astronauts will be more responsible for scientific research and manufacturing work within the space station.

So they plan to walk on two legs. On the one hand, they will cooperate with the government and invite experienced astronauts to participate. On the other hand, they still have to train their own astronauts.

After Chen Yuanguang posted on Weibo, netizens' attention was indeed diverted to Guangjia Aerospace's recruitment of astronauts.

"I am 985 meters tall, weigh kilograms, and am not nearsighted. Can I go to a university for undergraduate or graduate studies?"

"I just got out of the military, I served in the Air Force for many years, and I want to apply!"

"This should be the first time in history that a private organization has recruited astronauts. I think I have good physical fitness. Please give me a chance, God of Light."

The comments below are full of various personal conditions and photos. Generally, those who post the most are handsome guys, and the entire comment area has become a place for making friends. Because Chen Yuanguang said in an interview before that he wanted to lead everyone into the golden age, and the astronaut thing itself is very cool, most people have no chance to come into contact with similar selections.

At one time, the official application channel of Guangjia Aerospace received countless resumes, which made the human resources department feel that there were still too many outstanding talents in China.

On the other hand, when the Nobel Prize was announced in early October, as expected, no one related to room-temperature superconductivity won the prize.

Even though room-temperature superconductivity has been hailed as the most important scientific discovery of the year and the greatest scientific discovery since mankind entered the 21st century, various magazines have not been stingy with their praise.

But when you show an attitude of not making peace with the West, they have no hesitation in brushing you off.

After the award was announced, the media pounced on it like hyenas smelling a scent, and the most common question the judges were asked was why they didn't give it to Wright Chen.

They still maintained their previous tone: "You know this is a difficult decision to make.

It was not an easy decision for us to make when everyone thought that this year's Nobel Prize should be awarded to Wright Chen and his room-temperature superconductors.

We are doing this entirely out of respect for science. Wright Chen's room-temperature superconductor has not been reproduced anywhere other than his own laboratory, and we cannot guarantee whether the synthesis of room-temperature superconductivity was a chance discovery.

It would also be unfair if Wright Chen could win the Nobel Prize simply for his accidental discovery.

We made this decision out of respect for the spirit of science.”

The director of the Nobel Prize in Physics selection committee spoke out and improved on the old rhetoric.

They don't care whether the public buys it or not and remain as arrogant as ever.

"If this experiment can be replicated in the future, we will award the Nobel Prize to Wright Chen."

Naturally, there was an uproar in the Chinese media and social media. The official website of Frontier Technology Transformation Company simultaneously responded by stating that their room-temperature superconductor factory would soon enter the formal mass production stage and would be sold to the public.

They simultaneously released a video on their official website, which is a video of the trial production of room-temperature superconductors at the Frontier Technology Mianyang factory.

After the video was released, Chinese netizens became even more angry:

"Haha, the Nobel Prize has no credibility in my eyes. Is this your way of taking advantage of me? If you want my approval, you have to make your technology public. Is this also the spirit of science?"

“It is ridiculous that the most important scientific award can be decided by just a few people sitting together at a meeting without any investigation or analysis.

This year is indeed the year of boomerangs, and I was amazed by all the boomerangs I saw.”

What makes Chinese netizens even more disgusted is that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Mongi Bavendi, Louis Bruce and Alexi Ikimov, all American scientists.

Among them, Bawendi was Chen Yuanguang's professor at MIT, which made it difficult for them to criticize him. They said things like "how could you be qualified to win the Nobel Prize in front of the God of Light?"

Chinese netizens believe that Stockholm is deliberately trying to disgust Chen Yuanguang, which makes them even more angry.

But Bawendi did not feel happy at all after seeing the news, because it was not a good thing for him.

"Wright, you should be the one who wins this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. This result is entirely a product of politics," Bawendi explained to Chen Yuanguang on the phone.

Chen Yuanguang said: "I guessed it a long time ago. It's okay. I'm still young. Congratulations, professor."

Bawendi smiled bitterly: "This may not be a good thing. In the future, it will be recorded in history books that Dr. Wright Chen did not win the Nobel Prize in Physics the year he discovered the synthesis route of room-temperature superconductors. Instead, it was Mungi Bawendi who won the prize.

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics by dishonest means.”

Chen Yuanguang could hear the bitterness in Bavendi's tone. As a top scientist, winning this Nobel Prize would be a burden.

"Professor, you deserve this award. Don't take it too seriously. There will be a sentence in the book that Professor Mongi Bawendi is Dr. Wright Chen's mentor. This is the result of political manipulation."

Mongi Bawendi did not dwell on this topic any more, he knew he could not change the facts: “Wright, I will not go to the award ceremony.

I also plan to return to Paris. I am already going through the process and will be back in Paris early next year.”

In Paris, Joseph went to the first floor of the European Space Agency headquarters in the heart of the 15th arrondissement of Paris as usual to pick up his subscribed newspaper.

He has the habit of reading newspaper every day.

After getting the newspaper, Joseph slowly walked to the nearest Colonel Le's restaurant with the newspaper.

This is an Italian restaurant where he likes to have a latte and a sandwich in the morning.

I read the newspaper while eating breakfast, and then walked back to start my day's work.

The global public opinion focused on the fact that the Nobel Prize was not awarded to Chen Yuanguang. It was unexpected that an achievement of such level as room-temperature superconductivity did not win the Nobel Prize.

This is simply a joke. Many foreign scholars also think so, and there was a heated debate in public opinion for a while.

In the French domestic media, Wright-Chen and the Nobel Prize are hot topics, but not the biggest ones. The biggest topic is that France has mastered the technology of reusable rockets and successfully launched its own reusable rockets.

Just a few days ago, FSpace, a newly established company under Safran Group, successfully launched a reusable rocket, which successfully entered orbit and completed key components such as fairing and boosters.

This is a major breakthrough worthy of special mention for Europe, which has been committed to making progress in the field of aerospace, and France, which claims to be the light of Europe.

It is comparable to the successful manned moon landing.

"This is a victory for French aerospace."

The French media have focused on the technological breakthroughs achieved by French companies.

“France will play a leading role in Europe’s space industry”

"France remains highly competitive in the space race"

Naturally, the French media will not tell the public that the technology comes from China. They will only repeatedly emphasize that this is all France's own technology.

The German media will focus on the fact that France's reusable rocket technology comes from China, and they should also trade with China and not fall behind France in the aerospace field.

The English media was equally unwilling to be outdone and also mocked France for having engaged in unfair transactions with China for technology.

Joseph felt a headache after reading the print media, and what gave him the most headache was the attitudes of England and Germany.

Because for the European Space Agency, when its member states achieve technological breakthroughs, it is natural to give space transportation orders to the member states. This is a matter of course.

But Germany and England expressed strong opposition, believing that it should not be so hasty.

England left the European Union, but did not leave the European Space Agency, and they remain a member of the European Space Agency.

They started meeting to discuss this matter last week, and Joseph found that it was more difficult to give the order to France than to Guangjia Aerospace.

Just as he was reading the newspaper and thinking about how today's meeting should reach a balance between the three forces and come up with a preliminary agreement, a motorcycle sped past the Lovendal Avenue connecting the 7th and 15th arrondissements of Paris at a distant intersection.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" After several consecutive gunshots, Joseph fell to the ground.

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