Chapter 1032 Nobel Prize: How to Get Professor Xu to Receive the Award?

It has to be said that Xu Chuan's speculation about these Martian microorganisms is indeed quite surprising.

If the microorganisms and bacteria that infected the four astronauts were not naturally evolved, then there are too many things hidden behind this speculation.

Who created these microorganisms that can make the host "evolve"? Is there a prehistoric advanced intelligent biological civilization on Mars?

If it exists, where is this civilization now? Has it been destroyed or left the solar system?

In addition, to what extent will this Martian microorganism transform the host, and what is their purpose?

Is it to adapt to the space environment and alien planets, or to adapt to the changing Martian environment?

From their current exploration data on Mars, Mars is likely to be an environment suitable for the evolution and survival of life like the Earth more than a billion years ago.

Not only is there a vast ocean on it, but there is also a thick atmosphere and magnetic field protecting the entire planet.

Life in human understanding is undoubtedly extremely suitable for evolution and survival in this environment.

And as time goes by, perhaps in the distant past, Mars has also given birth to an advanced intelligent civilization similar to humans.

However, with the changes in the Martian geology, the disappearance of the magnetic field and atmosphere, they also disappeared.

As for whether they died or left the solar system, no one knows.

But in theory, the Martian microorganisms that still exist on Mars today may have been created by these "Martian civilizations" through gene editing.

The purpose is either to adapt to the changed Martian environment or to adapt to the alien environment, both possibilities are possible.

Of course, at present, the fact that the Martian microorganisms and bacteria that infected the four astronauts were artificially created is just a guess.

It can even be said that this guess is quite "out of line".

Although they have now discovered microorganisms on Mars, there is still almost no evidence to support the existence of advanced intelligent life on Mars.

In contrast, it is more scientific that these Martian microorganisms have evolved step by step into their current appearance as the Martian environment deteriorates.

Of course, this speculation about Martian microorganisms is not completely worthless.

Isn't it the true meaning of science to make a reasonable and bold speculation based on a phenomenon and then carefully verify it?

Although it is indeed difficult to accept the speculation that these Martian microorganisms may be artificially made, and the probability of occurrence is very small.

But in theory, even the smallest probability may happen.

At least before the origin of these Martian microorganisms is fully confirmed, Xu Chuan will not give up the research and investigation of his speculation.

Of course, before finding enough evidence to prove that these Martian microorganisms are indeed artificially made, he cannot make this speculation public.

After all, with his current status in the academic world, any remarks will be carefully or even "over-interpreted".

Once the news that there are advanced life on Mars that is comparable to human intelligence is made public, it is bound to cause considerable turmoil in society.

At the end of August, when Xu Chuan was studying these Martian microorganisms that infected astronauts.

On the other side of the Eurasian continent, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In the Physics Branch in a corner of the Institute's building, several members of the selection committee sat in an office again to discuss the selection of this year's Nobel Prize results.

Although who will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this year has long been determined, the headache for several selection committee members is which result to choose.

This kind of meeting that makes people sad and distressed is really exhausting.

There is no way, that person has created too many achievements in the past few years.

The five selection committees fell into a quarrel again, just like the first time they awarded him the prize.

Two of them believed that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics must go to the strong-electric unified theory, after all, this theory has opened up the future of the entire theoretical physics community.

But this argument was quickly refuted by another professor in the theoretical field.

If the strong-electric unified theory has opened up the future of the entire theoretical physics community, then the discovery of inert neutrinos, that is, Cτ particles, has opened a door to the world of dark matter.

Compared with the strong-electric unified theory, the field of dark matter is a brand new world, a new continent, and is more important.

George Smoot, from the University of Sweden and a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, believes that room-temperature superconducting materials and the mechanism of room-temperature superconducting materials are more important.

It is not only because of the important impact of room-temperature superconducting materials on human development, but also because this year is the year of materials physics for the Nobel Prize.

The last time the Materials Physics Prize was awarded was in 2010 to Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who made groundbreaking experiments on two-dimensional graphene materials.

In the following decade, all the awards that the Materials Physics field deserved were taken by astrophysics or theoretical physics.

This made Professor George Smoot, who has always supported Materials Physics, very unwilling, and he was determined to justify the name of Materials Physics this year and win a medal.

In previous years, after determining who would be awarded the Nobel Prize, there would undoubtedly be no quarrel.

But this year, in order to award the same person, the School of Physics is almost split into several factions. This is the first time since the establishment of the Nobel Prize.

Sitting at the head of the table, Professor Anders Ilbach, the chairman of the selection committee, looked at the several colleagues in the conference room who were still arguing with each other with a headache on his face, and his face was full of sadness.

In fact, awarding Professor Xu an award has already been decided.

But in addition to worrying about how to choose the results for the physics award, he was also worried about how to let Professor Xu receive the award.

After all, judging from the other party's whereabouts and the attitude of the Chinese side in the past few years, the other party has only been abroad a handful of times.

In other words, it is actually only once in a few years, that is, in 2022, I will go to St. Petersburg in Tsarist Russia to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Except for this accident, Professor Xu has never been abroad again.

Although I can understand the actions and choices of Hua Guo and the other party, after all, there are probably enough people in this world who want to kill him to go around the entire earth.

But for them, how to invite each other to receive the award is probably no easier than arguing over which achievement is more worthy of this year's Nobel Prize.

And in addition to awarding him the award this year, it is also difficult to choose the Nobel Prize in the next few years.

After all, that person's achievements are really enough to monopolize the Nobel Prize in Physics for N consecutive years.

Coupled with the fact that he is still so young, Anders Ilbach has no doubt that the other party can continue to make super achievements that are worthy of being awarded the Nobel Prize.

But he really has to monopolize the Nobel Prize for the next N years by himself.

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Anders suddenly thought of a solution.

As he was thinking, his eyes lit up, he clapped his hands vigorously, and subconsciously said: "That's it!"

In the conference room, several selection committee members who were arguing endlessly over the selection of the Physics Prize were subconsciously stunned and looked over in unison.

"What?"

In early September, after more than a month of lonely deep space navigation, the Hanhai space shuttle and two first-generation aircraft, carrying a large number of Martian 'specialties', finally arrived in lunar orbit.

Experts from various countries who have been waiting for a long time at the Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Station have entered the research state.

Due to the fact that this fleet carrying a large amount of soil, rocks, air, water ice resources and other "specialties" from Mars, the three space shuttles temporarily stayed in the lunar orbit.

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Including Tang Shengjie and Gui Haichao, who currently have no symptoms of infection and are staying on another first-generation space shuttle, they are temporarily arranged to be in independent lunar bases.

Until it is fully confirmed that the two are not infected with Martian microbial bacteria, or until scientific research and medical personnel find a way to suppress and solve the infection problem, they are prohibited from returning to Earth to prevent contamination of the Earth's ecosystem.

Those who are prohibited from returning to Earth are not just the six astronauts on the manned mission and the spacecraft carrying Martian specialties.

At the original international negotiation meeting, Xu Chuan compulsorily passed a key stipulation, namely:

'All the scientific researchers who went to the moon to study Mars microorganisms and bacteria, as well as the medical experts who treated the four infected people, once they started to study the Mars microorganisms and bacteria, they failed to find a solution, or they continued for more than 25 days. No one is allowed to return to Earth before safe isolation and inspection. ’

This regulation is stipulated to ensure that the Earth's ecosystem will not be infected when these microorganisms from Mars are studied.

Not only people, but also some equipment that has come into contact with Martian soil or water ice resources are strictly required to be sent back to Earth before the martial law is lifted.

All researchers and items are in a state of inaccessibility.

Only scientific research data can be transmitted back to the earth through satellites.

After seeing the powerful infection ability of these Martian microorganisms, Xu Chuan did not dare to relax at all against these Martian microorganisms.

Unless these Martian microbial bacteria can infect people on Earth along electromagnetic wave communication, it is impossible for these Martian lifeforms to come to Earth under such harsh conditions.

It has to be said that on the basis of being able to detect and study these Martian microorganisms through a variety of different equipment, and being able to use various living animals such as mice, rabbits, and rhesus monkeys to conduct experiments.

The research progress on these Martian microorganisms has exploded and the progress can be said to be rapid.

Soon, the first batch of scientific research analysis data was transmitted back to the earth through relay satellites.

In a small conference room at the Xiashu Space Base, a meeting on Martian microorganisms was held again.

Looking through the research materials passed back from the Yuexian Outpost Scientific Research Station, Xu Chuan had a thoughtful look in his eyes.

With the support of various scientific research equipment, the researchers involved in the study immediately figured out the shape of the Martian bacteria that infected the four astronauts and what the compiled products on them were.

Judging from the imaging of the Phenom high-resolution biological imaging electron microscope, the specific shape of this Martian microorganism looks like a centipede trunk covered with downy hair, which looks hairy, like animal hair.

But in fact, these tiny fuzz are all glass-ceramic-like structures composed of silicon-carbon compounds.

Including the thin film covering the surface of this microorganism temporarily named "Class A Mars bacteria", which is also a glass-ceramic silicon-carbon compound.

And to everyone's surprise, the core of this microorganism is a carbon-based RNA structure similar to that of a virus.

Researchers on the moon speculate that this is also the main reason why it can infect humans.

In other words, in a way, Class A Mars bacteria and diatoms on Earth can be regarded as close relatives.

Of course, if you want to talk about morphology, it is more like a virus on Earth.

It is wrapped in a layer of regularly arranged protein subunits (silicon-carbon compounds), which is called the virus's "capsid".

The material wrapped in the "capsid" is its genetic material, which can be continuously replicated and evolved in the body after infecting the organism.

But compared with the virus on Earth, this Martian microorganism is more complex.

Viruses are mainly composed of genetic material and proteins. They are a form of matter between life and non-life. Viruses do not have a complete cell structure and can only rely on parasitizing other people or animals to maintain their lives.

But this type A Mars bacteria has a complete cell structure, and it can survive by devouring two other smaller Martian microorganisms and bacteria that were discovered with it.

Compared to viruses on Earth, it is obvious that its life form is more advanced.

At the same time, the research results on Liu Yang's mutated body structure have also come out.

The structures that replaced her nails, skin, hair and other body tissues have a high degree of similarity with the shell of this type A Mars bacteria.

However, compared with the shell of type A Mars bacteria composed of materials such as carbon, silicon and oxygen, the shell that replaced Liu Yang's body structure is more like a silicon protein structure that has undergone another complex evolution.

From the current preliminary test results, this body structure has a series of characteristics such as extremely high cold resistance, heat resistance and radiation resistance.

It can remain active at at least minus 40 degrees Celsius and below 70 degrees Celsius, and can reproduce with a supply of nutrients.

That's right, it is reproduction rather than the "mitosis" of normal human cells to create offspring!

It's like giving birth to a child. When a silicon protein cell matures, it can give birth to the next generation.

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