Lu Zhou didn’t care how curious Director Li was, he wasn’t willing to reveal a single word. In the end, Director Li had to give up.
Director Li left the office. He was walking along the corridor when he suddenly frowned and looked at his assistant.
“... Did I forget sothing?”
The assistant thought, “How would I know?”
However, he obviously wouldn’t say this to Director Li’s face.
“Of course not, you never forget things, sir.”
“No... I definitely forgot sothing.”
Suddenly, it was like a light bulb went off in Director Li’s head, and he was finally able to rember what he forgot.
Before he ca here he was talking with Academician Li Qingquan about how Lu Zhou should spend more ti living his life and that he should at least start making a family or sothing. However, when he heard that Lu Zhou had a new idea, he totally forgot about this.
“My god, I nearly forgot!”
Director Li turned his head and wanted to go back into the office, but he decided not to.
Even though he only just left the office, going back just to tell Lu Zhou to live a little was a bit weird.
This was a conversation that should be talked about over coffee; it wasn’t a serious topic.
“Forget about it.” Director Li shook his head and sighed. He said, “I’ll leave him alone.”
Assistant: “...?”
...
The announcent of ILHCRC’s experint plans for 2023 caused a huge sensation in the physics community.
The 750 GeV peak...
Before the announcent, the physics community made speculations regarding ILHCRC’s focus for the next year. People thought they would focus on finding a critical point of the quantum chromodynamics phase transition, or maybe continue to collide protons and verify the standard model, or maybe even try to explore dark matter...
No one thought that Lu Zhou would revive the unpopular 750 GeV experint, which CERN had failed to find any success with.
Discussions spread from physics forums to the general public.
A popular physics forum visitor wrote the following answer.
[It’s so nice to be noticed by the big nas in the industry. Who cares if you create any scientific research results? You’ll have millions in funding and at least a few papers to publish.]
While the entire physics community was debating this matter, various kinds of gossip spread like the plague.
There were rumors that a certain Nobel Prize laureate was disappointed about the ILHCRC’s decision.
There were also rumors that Professor Whittle, the representative from the United States, slamd the door and left the eting. This rumor was further strengthened with the Brookhaven National Laboratory press conference.
It was obvious that the Arican physics community, just like the Brookhaven National Laboratory, was displeased with the outco. CERN was less vocal with their opinions. Perhaps the other physics research institutes that were dissatisfied with the decision from ILHCRC would speak up.
But for now, it seed like the ILHCRC had not given in to Brookhaven National Laboratory’s demands. They almost totally ignored the Brookhaven National Laboratory and even arranged specific experintal tasks for various departnts.
The Brookhaven Science Associates seed to be irritated by the ILHCRC’s lack of reaction. A week after ILHCRC announced their experintal plan, the Brookhaven Science Associates held another press conference.
Professor Whittle was the one speaking at the press conference.
He was much more aggressive than last ti.
“I have to say that this is an asinine decision! Yes, asinine! Many excellent scholars have done many experints on the 750 GeV anomaly characteristic peak. If you doubt their conclusion, you should prove that your theory is worthy of verification. That is the standardized procedure!”
“But look what happened? That dictator chairman, Professor Lu, totally ignored the board of directors. He threw us an experint plan and wants us to fund his dream, his unrealistic dream!”
“No matter what he thinks about the 750 GeV characteristic peak, he should abide by standard procedures and discuss with the ILHCRC board!”
A reporter in the audience asked, “But Professor Whittle, the ILHCRC said they already held a eting and discussed it with the board?”
“That wasn’t a discussion at all!” Whittle said. It was like the reporter had ignited a fire in Whittle’s heart as Whittle furiously said, “I can guarantee that Arican scholars will not participate in this project! All of the researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory will not participate in this project!
“They can go waste their ti on their own!
“Ti will prove that we are correct!”
There was an uproar at the press conference.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory will not work with the ILHCRC anymore?
They are publicly going against the ILHCRC?
As the administrative director of the Brookhaven Science Associates, Professor Whittle’s words had weight to them.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory worked on the Manhattan Project and was directly under the administration of the US Departnt of Energy and jointly managed by the Brookhaven Science Associates.
The Brookhaven Science Associates had control over the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and they answered to the Departnt of Energy.
If Professor Whittle was speaking the truth, then things were about to beco interesting.
Regardless of whether there was a political factor behind this, one thing was certain was that the Brookhaven Science Associates was not joking around.
They already had theories to explain the 750 GeV characteristic peak; they claid it was nothing other than a quantum fluctuation.
As Whittle looked at the excited reporters, he couldn’t help but grin.
If Lu Zhou wants to waste ti on the 750 GeV peak, then he can do as he pleases.
But once the experint fails, we will have enough cause to hold him responsible and even impeach him.
Of course, they couldn’t impeach Lu Zhou by themselves. But if they cooperated with other research institutes that were dissatisfied with Lu Zhou’s actions, they might be able to take Lu Zhou down.
After all, the Chinese physics community did not have enough scholars to support the huge operation of the ILHCRC. In the end, they would have to cooperate with other countries.
Regardless of whether or not Lu Zhou would be removed as Chairman, the failure would be enough to damage his academic reputation.
Whittle had a clear plan in his mind.
Right now, he had front row seats to the show.
All he had to do was sit back and wait.
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