Lu Yuanhua only noticed the deferential nods from people passing by and blushed slightly in embarrassnt, hurriedly turning back to feign a serious deanor.
Zhao Yi also attempted to listen attentively for a few minutes but found he couldn’t continue. The various leaders, academicians, and scholars who took the stage were reading lengthy ’papers’ that had nothing to do with him.
He noticed his Study Coin balance had dwindled to ’zero’ and decisively chose to continue resting.
An extra rest still costs two Study Coins!
Still, that’s better than none!
Zhao Yi looked around and simply propped his chin with his hand, slowly closing his eyes.
When Lu Yuanhua turned back to say sothing to Qiu Chengwen, he saw Zhao Yi ’huffing’ and sleeping soundly; his expression instantly darkened, and he fixed his scrutinizing gaze on Qiu Chengwen as if to say, "Why don’t you make him more alert?"
Qiu Chengwen spread his hands in a gesture of helplessness.
Zhao Yi had just had a substantial sleep and had caught the attention of so senior officials. Their looks seed to convey, "Academician Zhao must be tired. It’s good to rest more during irrelevant topics."
Can that be the sa?
...
Zhao Yi didn’t rest for much longer.
About half an hour later, the plenary eting akin to an ’opening ceremony’ concluded.
What followed were separate discussions.
Zhao Yi’s primary engagent was in the collider topic. He went with Qiu Chengwen, Lu Yuanhua, and others to an adjacent small conference room, which saw an entrance of about thirty to forty people.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Zhan Gang, sat in the central position, with the rest evenly seated on both sides.
Zhao Yi’s seat was near the front, just one person away from Zhan Gang’s left side, while Qiu Chengwen’s position was a bit further back but still prominent compared to the others.
Zhan Gang initiated the eting and went straight into the topics. He instructed an aide to discuss international microphysics research and developnt trends and ntioned the continuous surge of the dostic economy’s international influence, implying that since the dostic economy was catching up, the scientific research sector also needed to keep pace. It’s extrely challenging to overtake in all areas of scientific research in a short ti, so they needed to identify certain research areas to focus on and make breakthroughs.
The collider was one of these key areas.
Many dostic scholars voiced their support while quite a few opposed. The Departnt of Science and Technology was at a standstill about making a decision.
The gathering comprised top-notch dostic mathematical physics scholars and leaders of physics-related research institutions. By discussing together, they could arrive at the final decision.
Next, it was the supporters’ turn to report.
The main supporting institution for the collider was the Physics Departnt of the Science Academy. Rising to report was a familiar figure, the head of the departnt, Zhang Hongzhi, who was connected to Zhao Yi beyond the collider construction issue. For instance, Zhao Yi’s ’Supersymtry’ argunt was reviewed by Zhang Hongzhi, who was embarrassingly exposed for allegedly ’comnting without actually reviewing the paper’.
To salvage his reputation, Zhang Hongzhi told reporters directly, "I trust Zhao Yi because he is a top-tier mathematician and physicist. I am far behind his level, so there’s no need to review, just giving approval is sufficient."
He added a classic statent, "With Zhao Yi’s caliber, does a paper submitted to a dostic journal even need to be reviewed? As for , direct approval is all it takes."
His words resonated with many people.
Even now, academia may look down on Zhang Hongzhi’s character, but his academic achievents, contributions to the developnt of dostic physical academia, and influence within the national physical community, the Science Academy, and even at the state level could not be denied.
Zhang Hongzhi was the first to speak at the decision-making eting chaired by the Departnt of Science and Technology. He outlined the current state of international physical academic developnt and stressed that dostic scientific research facilities and environnts were far behind international developnts. "For instance, Professor Ruan, Ruan Wenye, has to rely on data from Europe for his research in microphysics, but the Europeans are not friendly towards us. Our team’s access to data and participation in experintal projects are restricted."
"If we had our own large collider, we could conduct our own experints and research, and our exploration into microphysics might overtake the world while attracting top physicists from around the globe."
"The economic and peripheral benefits that the collider project construction can bring need not be elaborated by . The large collider itself can play a foundational role in the research and developnt of dostic microphysics."
Zhang Hongzhi went on at length, essentially arguing that building a large collider would enable dostic microphysics research to soar and easily catch up with the world.
In a way, what Zhang Hongzhi said was quite reasonable; with a large collider as the foundation, each experint could lead to nurous discoveries. At the very least, it would allow the involved personnel to write many papers, giving the large collider significant importance in research findings, as well as the quantity and quality of scholarly papers.
Furthermore, the large collider would create many professional physics academic job positions and would surely prompt more physics talents to pursue theoretical physics research instead of transitioning to applied physics or other fields.
After Zhang Hongzhi spoke, two more supporters discussed the benefits of constructing the collider.
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