Edward Whitten had just lain down on his bed when he received the good news.
But for so reason, he didn't feel very excited, he even just felt regretful.
The discovery of Elent 119 was indeed a big deal in the academic world, the regret lay in the fact that the isotope discovered by the team only had a half-life proving that the new elent had existed.
Qiao Ze had published the neutron number of the elent's stable isotope in his paper.
But even if theoretically one knew the neutron number of an elent's stable isotope, synthesizing such an isotope in practice still needed overcoming many technical challenges, such as finding the right nuclear reaction, solving experintal design, equipnt capability, and many other scientific and engineering problems.
Edward Whitten was convinced that Qiao Ze's materials science model database definitely had a complete thod.
Even Qiao Ze had already begun to secretly organize a team to start the experint of synthesizing this new elent's stable isotopes, regrettably, these thods were not considered for publication by Qiao Ze.
Edward Whitten could understand that.
A stable new elent ant many new things, possibly involving markets worth thousands of billions or even greater. It also entangled so of the most basic competition.
Even if Qiao Ze didn't care and was willing to publish, he could be obstructed, not to ntion Qiao Ze also had no intention of publishing.
Besides, he had to leave tomorrow, first to CERN, then back to Princeton.
Big nas need to save face, and he could not possibly abandon everything at Princeton to stay in Huaxia indefinitely.
Fortunately, no matter how you looked at it, his gains this ti were trendous.
...
Edward Whitten's departure relieved Lv Bei.
Although he was very aware that soone of such stature was unlikely to do anything ssy,
that was after all Qiao Ze's office, and the pressure of these two people being together day and night was too much for him.
His most important duty was to ensure that Qiao Ze had a pure, peaceful, and safe research environnt, free from any disturbance, while also not leaking any critical information.
No matter how big of a na Edward Whitten was, to Lv Bei, he was a ticking ti bomb.
Especially since he really feared the man could fill Qiao Ze's head with how great the other side of the Earth was, and if Qiao Ze's heart were swayed, the trouble would be even greater.
But if Qiao Ze was willing to let Edward Whitten stay in the office, he had no say against it.
Yet if sothing did go wrong because of this guy, the bla would certainly not fall on Qiao Ze. Of course, it was even less likely to fall on Dou Dou, ultimately, it would be him getting the brunt of the scolding.
The tragedy of the little people.
Although if one were to be pedantic about it, Lv Bei no longer qualified as a little person, but in the end, it all depends on who you compare with.
Similarly, from any direction you looked, Romand Willy was not a little person either, even describable as having a high status and significant power. But compared to the real big shots, he still had to bow his head obediently.
Everything is relative.
The theories in science can equally be used to understand the rules of society's operation.
Forcing himself to buy another activation code again, spending this money felt no different from aiding the enemy to Romand Willy.
But there was no helping it.
His position wasn't sufficient to overturn the decisions made by the real big people. Likewise, he had no expectations for the outco of this model's execution.
Even though it was Langley who paid the money, none of Langley's experts were involved in this research.
He just had the computer experts strictly monitor the operation process of the materials model once activated, to ensure no other problems arose.
In essence, Romand Willy had done his utmost.
Although now it seed these efforts were rather futile, at least he could cover himself.
Getting stuck holding the bag was sothing he absolutely could not afford to be responsible for.
The competition had already beco fierce, and the current situation, in Romand Willy's view, ant the more their side did, the more mistakes they made. Regrettably, the big people did not see it that way.
In fact, Romand Willy had clearly pointed out in his report that given the current situation, in many high-tech fields, even if both sides were on par, the United States had already lost.
So at this critical juncture, there was no point in struggling unnecessarily with this matter. Instead, more decisive and more effective asures should be taken to address the issue. Moreover, it had reached a window of opportunity where resolve must be made.
Unfortunately, no one recognized his proposal.
After all, following his proposal would require first giving up too many interests in too many places on this planet.
Clearly, the big people did not have the courage for such a decisive act. Even if a truly wise person were willing, they likely could not command the regional lords.
Whether in the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, or even in the modern technological era, history has always been repeating the sa old pattern of long periods of division followed by unification, prosperity followed by decline, crisis followed by recovery, never changing.
Just the duration of this cycle varies.
In this process, the most interesting point is that many matters that at the ti seed insignificant or were asures introduced to solve certain issues, even seed effective at the ti, could beco the last straw that breaks a massive empire years later.
All declines are traceable, and even during this phase, countless heroic figures erge, attempting to save a failing structure.
Regrettably, in this phase, any change faced imnse resistance. What's most dreadful is that the imnse force represents the will that also believes everything they defend is for saving that structure.
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