From small town academic to chief scientist

The palindrome conjecture is a rather interesting conjecture.

To figure out what this conjecture is, you first have to know what a palindrome is.

Palindrome numbers, as the name suggests, if a number reads the same from the left and right directions, then it is called a palindrome number.

For example, 101, 32123, 6666, etc.

As for the palindrome conjecture, no matter what number with more than two digits is taken at the beginning,

Then turn the number upside down, add the two numbers, and then repeat the process, and you will eventually get a palindrome number.

Take a simple example, such as 59, which is 95 when reversed. Adding the two numbers will result in a number of 154;

Then turn the number 154 upside down to get 451, and add them up to get 605;

Then turn 605 upside down and you will get 506. Then add the two numbers and you will get a palindrome number 1111.

This is a very beautiful conjecture.

Palindrome numbers not only have a wonderful structure in mathematical numbers, but also have a similar structure in Daxia Chinese literature, which is called a palindrome sentence.

For example, "Lingshan Giant Buddha, Buddha is the great mountain spirit\

,"Another example is "I am a guest in nature, I am a guest in heaven", etc. These are all wonderful palindrome sentences that are consistent with righteous thoughts and thoughts.

At first glance, this conjecture, like other number theory conjectures, is very simple.

The kind that I can do well with,

However, this conjecture has not been solved so far.

For Zhou Yi, it is definitely not difficult, but for two rookie students, it is definitely challenging.

In the next few days, Zhou Yi's life was relatively uneventful.

Everything is going according to plan.

In mid-November, Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, came to Zhou Yi's office.

Academician Wang Yifang is an experimental high-energy physicist and an academician of many countries.

He has a lot of titles and high achievements, otherwise he would not have been elected as an academician at such a young age.

In 1984, he participated in the L3 experiment led by physicist Ding Zhaozhong at the European Nuclear Center in Geneva, Switzerland.

Therefore, the obsession with CEPC is stronger than that of Zhou Yi and Mr. Qiu.

Mr. Qiu is already the founder of differential geometry. The entire history of mathematics has its glorious page.

No follow-up.

However, for Wang Yifang, CEPC is an obsession among obsessions.

After seeing the LHC abroad and seeing the technological applications brought by the LHC, I want to build a success more than anyone else.

The emergence of Zhou Yi gave hope to high-energy physics physicists in Daxia and even the world.

What the LHC cannot do, maybe it can be done in Bactria.

In the office, Zhou Yi made a rare pot of tea and said to Academician Wang Yifang:

"Academician Wang, please sit down and talk slowly. I guess we won't be able to talk clearly for a while."

Academician Wang was not polite, sat down directly, and said:

"Professor Zhou, I'm sorry to bother you."

Zhouyi said:

"No need to interrupt, please tell me about the current situation. I understand that you should have made a lot of preparations before."

Academician Wang Yifang said:

“I did prepare a lot before, and even prepared a new detector separately, but I had no money and it was stranded and was not completed.

In fact, we have been preparing, but we are missing a leader. Unexpectedly, Professor Zhou actually convinced Mr. Yang, which is really amazing. "

Zhouyi said:

"It took me a lot of effort. Otherwise it would be difficult. After all, I will most likely be responsible for the funds this time, so I need a reliable person to help me host it."

Academician Wang Yifang said with excitement:

"Professor Zhou, don't worry and leave it to me. I will handle everything well without any mistakes."

Zhouyi said:

"Yes. I want to leave it to you too, but I will also arrange for other people to help. After all, it may involve foreign scientists. I don't really trust them."

Academician Wang Yifang said:

"Okay, let me talk about our previous preparations. We have selected two addresses, one in Pengcheng and one in Qincheng."

When Zhou Yi heard this, he said very insistently:

"If you don't choose, choose Mudan County, Yuzhou."

Wang Yifang was choked by Zhou Yi's decisive tone and was speechless. After a while,

Academician Wang Yifang said:

"Professor Zhou, you can't be willful. The geographical environment in Yuzhou is very difficult and the technical intensity required is too great. Our current technology is somewhat unrealistic.

It costs a lot of money. "

Zhou Yi shook his head and said firmly:

"It has to be there, or I'll replace you."

Wang Yifang:...

"Professor Zhou, our CEPC project construction was previously divided into two parts: underground and surface.

The main body of the underground project is a circular tunnel and ancillary tunnels with a length of 50~100km, a burial depth of approximately 100m, and a diameter of approximately 6.5m;

At the same time, four experimental halls and several servo halls will be built along the tunnel.

The construction of above-ground projects includes an international science city with an area of ​​approximately 5,000 acres, and several experimental branches with an area of ​​​​100 acres.

The underground experimental hall and the surface part will be connected through a number of shafts with a diameter of about 15m to install collider and detectors. At the same time, several vertical shafts will also be built along the tunnel to install corresponding servo equipment.

Our location is Pengcheng, Guangdong Province. Even specific plans have been made and it saves money. "

Zhou Yi smiled and said nothing,

money?

What I don't lack most is money.

Now money can't buy me.

I saw Wang Yifang saying:

"It is dominated by low mountainous areas. The terrain is generally high in the north and low in the south. It is adjacent to the Red Bay in the south. The landform height difference is relatively large, generally 20~800m.

The highest peak, Lianhua Mountain, reaches 1,336m, with an elevation of less than 10m in the south. The terrain generally slopes from northwest to southeast;

Or go to QHD and the suburbs of the capital of Hunan Province. There is a whole rock 100 meters underground. Using the drill and blast method to dig tunnels can control costs to the greatest extent;

It relies on the rock structure to support itself and does not require reinforcement; it is only used for scientific research and does not require special decoration.

According to the experience of Daya Bay Experiment and Jiangmen Experiment, the cost of this kind of tunnel can be controlled at tens of millions of RMB/km. "

Tens of millions per kilometer, even if Zhou Yi was rich, he would take a breath.

One hundred kilometers is worth billions, no wonder it costs so much money.

Zhouyi said:

"Okay, I have money, I can earn 500 billion a year, so I don't have to worry about money.

There’s so much money that I don’t even know how to spend it all, you know?

I sit here doing nothing every day, and more than 1 billion RMB is transferred to my bank card.

If the higher authorities want to exempt me from some taxes, it is estimated to reach 2 billion a day. "

Wang Yifang:...

Very good at showing off.

Wang Yifang never expected that the young man in front of her was so rich.

I had heard about the project I was working on with Liu Qingfeng before, but I didn’t expect it to be so profitable.

The richest man in the country is nothing more than this.

Besides shock, shock, and that feeling of being despised.

When you are still begging for help in order to save money,

Zhou Yi no longer regards money as money.

Wang Yifang calmed down and said:

"Since Professor Zhou Yi is not short of money, we can start it after our examiners come back, but we have to make an agreement with the Yuzhou government."

Zhouyi said:

"The Yuzhou government will have no problem. In the future, no government will let go of this opportunity to become a core city in the western region, or even a scientific research center across the country and even the world.

Of course, except for a certain Central Plains province. "

Wang Yifang said very enthusiastically:

"Professor Zhou, then I'll do as you say. There's nothing that money can't solve."

Wang Yifang's main purpose in coming to Zhou Yi was to persuade Zhou Yi to give up choosing a location in Yuzhou.

After all, that place is really not very suitable.

Now that Zhou Yi wants to insist, Wang Yifang has nothing to say. It is the uncle who pays.

Wang Yifang said at this moment:

"Professor Zhou, let me briefly explain to you the CEPC physics white paper."

Zhou Yi nodded and said:

"good."

Wang Yifang said:

“The people participating in this project mainly include Chinese Professor Wang Liantao from the University of Chicago, researchers Joao Guimaraes Costa, researcher Ruan Manqi, and researcher Wang Jianchun from the Institute of High Energy;

As for the CEPC physical goals, detector R\u0026amp;D progress, detector conceptual design plan, corresponding software, Higgs, BSM, Flavor Physics, EW+QCD, QCD+Higgs, etc., I will send them to your email later and will send students to deliver the materials. Come to you.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is not far from Shuishui University. "

Zhouyi said:

"It seems that you are well prepared and saved me a lot of trouble."

At this moment, Zhou Yi's cell phone rang. Zhou Yi saw that it was Teacher Qiu's call and immediately answered it and said:

"Hey, Teacher Qiu, it's me, I'm Zhou Yi."

The voice on the other end of the phone rang and said:

"Zhou Yi, come to Old Yang's apartment. We already have a result."

Zhou Yi immediately said:

"Okay, I'll be right away."

Zhou Yi hung up the phone and said to Academician Wang Yifang:

"Let's go to Mr. Yang's place."

Wang Yifang said:

"Okay! With them coming forward, there will definitely be no problem."

Zhou Yi got up and went to the office next door and said to several students:

"work hard."

After saying that, he rushed to Mr. Yang's apartment.

Wang Yifang said:

"Professor Zhou is quite responsible for his students."

Zhouyi said:

"Once a teacher, always a teacher. Their talents are quite good among their peers.

So I need to supervise them from time to time, and I also hope that they can become the successors of Daxia Kingdom in certain fields in the future.

A country cannot develop only by relying on one or two people. It must rely on collective strength. "

Wang Yifang said:

"That's true. Even the field of mathematics, which looks at talent, needs cooperation, let alone other fields.

In this era, individual heroism has long been eliminated. Don’t those golden generations at Beijing University also need cooperation? "

Zhou Yi said as he walked:

"Accept more students and pay more attention to students, and the country will have more talents."

After a while, Zhou Yi and Wang Yifang arrived at Yang Zhenning's apartment.

This time the security personnel did not stop Zhou Yi. As for Wang Yifang, Zhou Yi notified Mr. Yang before letting him go.

Zhouyi said:

"His responsibilities lie. Academician Wang should understand."

Wang Yifang said:

"Of course, if the country has an elder and a treasure, I won't care about these details."

Not long after, Zhou Yi and others sat in Mr. Yang's room.

Mr. Yang said:

"Old man Qiu and I have been talking to CERN for a long time, and they agreed to sell us two detectors. It's half good news."

Mr. Qiu took the words and cursed:

"These people are really ruthless. It was my fault that I provided them with various ideas without expecting anything in return."

Wang Yifang also sighed:

“In fact, when we proposed the concept of CEPC-SppC in 2012, CEPC, which thought it was the leader in the industry, felt urgent.

So CERN accordingly proposed FCC-ee, FCC-hh and CEPC-SppC. In November 2018, CEPC released the "Conceptual Design Report", and the FCC also released its own "Conceptual Design Report" in January 2019, which is expected to start operation in 2040;

In the same month, CERN also released an upgraded version of the LHC "Physics White Paper", using a very radical estimation method to claim that it will measure most properties of the Higgs particle very well by 2035, further squeezing CEPC's physical research space. and time.

This is a strong stance that completely treats us as competitors. They are preparing for battle. "

This is the first time Zhou Yi knows these things.

Mr. Yang said calmly:

"But their level is really not that good. We were the first to discover the unpacked Higgs boson, and we are almost embarrassed."

Mr. Qiu said:

“We definitely have enough math talents here.

The people from my mathematics center alone are enough, not to mention the Zhou Yi,

My disciples who are studying for Ph.D.s at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris can also call back to China.

What's worse is the talent in high-energy physics. "

Speaking of this, Mr. Qiu looked at Wang Yifang and Yang Zhenning intentionally or unintentionally.

Wang Yifang said:

"We still have overseas Chinese that we can invite back to China. Although some of them have yellow skin and white bones, there are still many patriotic people. Now that we have the conditions and the treatment is better, they will definitely return to China."

Zhouyi said:

"There are many Chinese overseas, and they are indeed a resource that we can utilize. In addition, we must speed up the training of talents in high-energy physics.

Not just high-energy physics, CEPC involves all aspects. "

Wang Yifang said:

“Without CERN, many of our current advances in biology, geology, environment, materials, condensed matter, etc. would not be possible.

Without high-energy physics, many of the examinations and treatments in hospitals today, such as MRI, PET, and radioactive treatment for cancer, would not exist, or would not be so advanced, or would appear later. Many people's lives would be shortened and their quality of life would be reduced. be lowered.

Without high-energy physics, there would be no or delayed touch screens, and smartphones would be a dream;

Without high-energy physics, there would be no WWW web page, everyone would not be able to access the Internet, and the Internet economy would be out of the question. The benefits that humans have gained from the WWW web page have been far greater than all previous investments in high-energy physics. "

Wang Yifang's words made Zhou Yi and Qiu Chengtong look black.

Didn't you say this intentionally to cause trouble for Chen Ning Yang?

He said that the feast has passed, and now that these have been touched, we can only conduct research in other directions, or conduct in-depth research.

Mr. Yang opposed the establishment of the LHC from the very beginning, and he has opposed it since the last century.

But at that time, it really couldn’t be established.

Once it is established, it will really make wedding dresses for foreign people as Mr. Yang said.

However, after the decision-making leaders asked Mr. Li Zhengdao,

There are also the Institute of High Energy Physics, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider and the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and their major achievements.

Later, we also had large scientific platforms such as the synchrotron radiation light source and the spallation neutron source to serve the scientific and technological community across the country.

Zhou Yi changed the subject and said:

"With the two accelerators plus the new accelerator you prepared before, there should be 5-6, right?"

Yang Zhenning did not argue with Wang Yifang, but said:

"Counting their innovative concept detectors, there are only six, but six is ​​enough."

Wang Yifang’s team has been preparing for a long time. Three projects have been completed and the fourth one is still being planned.

Delayed because of lack of money.

Zhouyi asked:

"Which two detectors are they?"

Mr. Qiu said:

“The star detectors ATLAS and CMS are not available for purchase, but the other two well-known detectors are available for purchase.

They are the LHCb detector and the ALICE detector. "

Wang Yifang introduced:

"The role of the LHCb detector is to search for 'bottom quarks' and their 'antiquarks', which can help us understand why antimatter is so scarce in the universe. It only monitors one side of the collision point.

The ALICE detector is a large-scale ion collision experiment that studies the collision of lead ions.

This collision creates a primordial fireball called a quark-gluon plasma.

ALICE will also study proton collisions and use them as a reference for lead ion collisions. "

Mr. Yang on the side said:

"The LHCb detector is smaller in size and fame than ATLAS and CMS, but no one dares to underestimate it. It has brought more uncertainties to the race to find new particles."

Zhouyi said:

"How do you transport these two things back? And how much do they cost?"

Wang Yifang said:

"How about asking the military to help transport it, a large cargo ship, and escorted by warships."

Zhou Yi rolled his eyes at Wang Yifang, this guy really dares to think about it, but with his current status,

With the joint signature of Mr. Yang and Mr. Qiu, there should be no problem.

Zhouyi said:

"Can."

"As for money, it's 40 billion."

Mr. Qiu said.

Wang Yifang on the side was furious and complained:

"Robbing money, why don't you grab 40 billion? Damn it, do you really think we are the bastards?

Billions more expensive. "

Mr. Yang said:

"This is what we strive for. Can you build it yourself? Or you can use a time pile."

Zhouyi said:

"Well, money is not a problem. The intelligent voice system has harvested the wealth of various countries in Europe, Africa, Australia, America, and Asia.

If you give up, you will gain. Wouldn't it be nice to harvest more later? We have plenty of places to make money.

We need to have a long-term vision, build it one day earlier, and earn their money one day earlier, or will they beg us to sell to them, you know? "

"Okay, then I will personally receive these detectors to prevent them from cheating us."

Wang Yifang volunteered and said,

"It's obviously unrealistic to ask Mr. Qiu and Mr. Yang to go out and receive it in person.

It is unrealistic to ask Professor Zhou to go out to receive it. If Professor Zhou has some problems, the project can be shelved.

This is more uncomfortable than killing me, Wang Yifang.

And regarding the performance of each detector, Wang Yifang is considered an expert among experts.

I have to go in person to ensure that there won't be any problems. "

At this point, the matter has basically settled. All that remains is the matter of site selection and writing a letter to the superior.

Zhouyi said:

"good."