Chapter 230 Nobel Prize Decision

Xu Chuan ignored the two people who were eliminated. He had made it clear a month ago. Today's assessment is the key to whether they can enter the project.

If they fail the assessment, they will not be able to stay.

It is impossible to enjoy the benefits here.

Although he has plenty of quotas for formal researchers, he can't waste them on these people.

Although a test paper can't completely screen out people with ulterior motives, at least it is too obvious to do so. It is okay to kick out people who don't take him seriously.

Just like Sun Heng, who only got 31 points, it can be said that he almost didn't read the paper he sent out, and didn't take the words of him as the person in charge seriously.

If this kind of person is not kicked out, will he be kept for the New Year?

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but the beginning period is also the best time to establish rules.

He controls the beginning, so there will be no big problems for a long time to come.

Just like a building, as long as the foundation is solid, it doesn't matter how many floors are built.

In the Magic City, Xu Chuan is selecting scientific researchers to ensure the purity of the team.

In the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, meetings are being held one after another.

It is approaching October. Every time at this time, this city, or even this country, will attract worldwide attention because of the Nobel Prize list.

Because according to the usual rules, the Nobel Prizes of various categories are announced on October 1st of each year.

But this year is a special year.

First, the Nobel Prize in Literature has stopped being awarded.

The reason is that Arnault, the husband of Swedish Academy member Katrina Frostenson, has sexually assaulted or harassed 18 women and is suspected of leaking the Nobel Prize winners.

This led to the resignation of several Academy members including Claes Ostergren, Kjell Espmark and Peter Enlund.

The Nobel Academy of Literature broke out a huge scandal, which stopped the evaluation and awarding of the Literature Prize.

This is also the first time that the Nobel Prize in Literature has been suspended since World War II.

Secondly, it is now September 30th, but the most advanced or most important Nobel Prize in Physics has not yet selected the winner.

It is said that the physics branch office has been hearing quarrels among the selection committee members these days, but there is no result.

As the deadline approaches, the last meeting of the physics branch was held in the quiet research institute.

In the conference room that does not look large but is full of historical atmosphere.

Five Nobel Prize in Physics selection committee members gathered here again.

At the meeting, the selection committee chairman looked at the two selection committee members, Professor Wolfgang Kettler and Professor George Smoot, who were almost completely opposed to each other with a headache.

The former supports the "breakthrough in the field of laser physics" to win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

The latter supports the "extension and application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem" to win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

The two elderly people, whose combined age is more than 130 years old, quarreled for nearly two months over this matter.

This is also extremely rare in the selection of the Nobel Prize.

Although there have been many cases in history where the Nobel selection committee members could not reach a consensus.

But like this year, it is the first time that the quarrel is so fierce.

Especially Professor George Smoot, who has nominated the results of "Extended Application of Xu-Weyl-Berry Theorem" for three consecutive years.

However, he just made a gesture in the past two years, and seemed to focus all his energy on this year. He and Professor Wolfgang Kettler almost quarreled with each other.

The two insisted on their own opinions, and neither could convince the other.

Shaking his head with a headache, the chairman of the selection committee knocked on the solid wood table and said: "Everyone, today is the last day of September. The other awards this year have been evaluated, and we are the only ones left."

"According to the annual custom, the Royal Academy of Sciences will announce the winners of the Physics Prize on October 4, but now, we still haven't come up with a result."

"Today, we must come up with a result no matter what."

In front of the oval desk, the four selection committee members looked at each other.

Indeed, no matter what, they should make a choice today.

In fact, the five selection committee members of the Nobel Prize in Physics still have no idea who should be awarded this year's Physics Prize.

The five people sitting here seem to be divided into three factions.

One faction is led by Professor Wolfgang Kettler, who advocates a ‘breakthrough in laser physics’.

The other faction is led by Professor George Smoot, who advocates the ‘extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem’.

The last one is the chairman of the selection committee, who has not expressed his opinions since mid-to-late August.

Regardless of the results of any scientific research project, he only conducts rational analysis and collects a series of data on the value, future, development, defects, etc. of the two results proposed in the debate between the two factions.

The last meeting began. After the five people exchanged opinions, the selection committee began to continue discussing the two nominations.

[Breakthrough in laser physics] or [Extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem]

After nearly half a year, the selection committee of the School of Physics finally selected two results from thousands of recommendations to compete for the final Nobel Prize.

It has to be said that this is a very difficult decision.

Even the selection committee members who have selected many Nobel Prizes in Physics find it difficult to make a complete choice.

Both results are great.

The breakthrough of laser is a light source that has brought revolutionary impact on the progress of human society.

In particular, the results of Professor Arthur Ashkin use optical capture and optical gradient force to manipulate tiny dielectric particles.

Not only did it bring optical tweezers to humans, but the extension of this research to bacteria, viruses and cells also indirectly promoted the development of laser surgery. The emergence of all-femtosecond myopia surgery has brought good news to countless myopia patients.

This is a great achievement.

And the latter is the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem.

Although this achievement cannot bring much value at present, looking forward to the future, I am afraid that there are not many technologies that can compare with it.

Once humans enter the era of interstellar navigation, it will bring humans a second, third, fourth and even more immigrant planets.

The results born from it are also quite great. Whether it is the discovery of the binary star system of Betelgeuse or the discovery of the ‘TRAPPIST-1’ star system, they are enough to be nominated for the Nobel Prize.

At the International Mathematical Congress two months ago, an astrophysicist even proposed that the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem may be far more than calculating the data of galaxies.

It may be used to break through high-dimensional space and open wormholes leading to distant space and time.

Although this is only an unconfirmed theory at present, the discovery of gravitational waves has provided a key parameter.

Waiting for when humans can find gravitons, perhaps they can use it.

There is no doubt that this is a greater achievement.

The only problem is that it has been on the market for a relatively short time, only three years now.

Compared with the former, it does not seem to have enough time to settle.

In the conference room, there was endless debate and chaos.

The chairman of the selection committee looked at the other members, listened to the arguments of both sides, and fell into deep thought.

Obviously, if this continues, there will be no results.

After a while, the chairman of the selection committee came back to his senses from his contemplation, and knocked on the table as he looked at the selection committee members who were still arguing and could not convince each other.

A crisp sound rang out in the conference room, drawing everyone's attention.

"Well, there is no point in arguing like this, and no one can convince anyone. As for how to choose, let's make a decision in the traditional way."

Clapping his hands, the chairman of the selection committee took out a stack of convenient tickets from his pocket and gave one to each of the four selection committee members.

"The voting is a registered system. Please use your surname, honor and faith to make the final choice."

The four selection committee members took the convenient tickets respectively, and took out pens or ballpoint pens from their pockets at the same time.

Seeing this scene, the corners of the corners of the chairman of the selection committee's mouth curled up.

He knew that such a plot would happen today.

With his head down, the chairman of the selection committee took out a pen from his pocket and wrote his name on his convenient ticket.

Soon, the convenient tickets were collected again.

Five convenient tickets, the chairman of the selection committee counted the signatures.

[Breakthrough in laser physics] One.

[Extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem] One.

[Breakthrough in laser physics] Two.

[Extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem] Two.

The selection committee chairman kept placing sticky notes on the desk, counting them as he placed them.

When the fifth sticky note fell, the sound of voting also rang out.

[Breakthrough in laser physics] Three.

After the voice fell, there was silence in the office, and Professor Wolfgang Kettler showed a bright smile on his face. He won.

The great achievement of the breakthrough in the laser field finally got the glory of its application.

Of course, he also attached great importance to the extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, but compared with the former, it was too young and needed some time to settle.

Maybe the future belongs to it, but not now.

Across the desk, Professor George Smoot looked incredulous.

He didn't believe that the extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem would lose to the breakthrough in the laser field.

Obviously, the extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem is more important and valuable, and it brings a broad future to mankind.

Why would the Nobel Prize give up the future of mankind?

In the front row of the desk, the selection committee chairman just smiled faintly, took out a sticky note from his hand, and solemnly placed it on the desk.

[Extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem] Three.

The calm words came out of his mouth, but attracted everyone's surprise.

Everyone in the conference room looked at the selection committee chairman with a blank face.

Aren't there only five selection committee members for the Nobel Prize in Physics?

Where did this sixth ticket come from?

Feeling the gazes of the crowd, the selection committee chairman smiled faintly and said, "These two achievements are indeed very excellent and both are worthy of the Nobel Prize."

"In the case of a difficult decision, why don't we award this year's Nobel Prize to both of them?"

"After all, the Nobel Prize has never stipulated that only one achievement can be awarded at a time, and it has never stipulated that the selection committee can only vote for one person or one achievement."

In the conference room, the other four selection committee members reacted instantly.

Their selection committee chairman voted for [Breakthrough in the field of laser physics] and [Extended application of Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem] respectively.

Three to three, the votes of both parties are tied.

This means that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two different achievements.

In the history of the Nobel Prize, this is not something that has never happened, but correspondingly, those research results basically belong to the same framework or are close to each other.

For example, the 1978 Physics Prize was awarded to the two fields of "Basic Inventions and Discoveries in the Field of Low-Temperature Physics" and "Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation".

Or in 1983, it was awarded to "theoretical research on important physical processes related to stellar structure and evolution" and "theoretical and experimental research on nuclear reactions that form chemical elements in the universe".

These different achievements basically complement each other, or the former has promoted the emergence of the latter to a certain extent.

Like this year, the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to two completely unrelated fields.

This is also the main reason why no one has thought of awarding the Physics Prize to both at the same time.

But it must be said that this is the most appropriate method.

In the Magic City, after screening the first batch of scientific researchers, Xu Chuan began to assign work.

Unlike the "Chuanhai Materials Research Institute", he needs to personally preside over the nuclear energy research to prevent unexpected situations during the research process.

If something goes wrong during the research process of lithium batteries, in the hands of formal researchers, it will generally catch fire and burn instruments.

More seriously, it will explode.

However, in formal research, even if there is an explosion, it is difficult to hurt researchers.

After all, there are signs before the lithium battery explodes, such as the battery temperature rises and expands like a balloon. This period of time is enough for researchers to prevent and deal with it.

But the research on nuclear energy is different.

This thing is much more dangerous than lithium batteries. If you are not careful, big problems will occur.

To prevent any accidents, Xu Chuan has to watch it personally.

For the project of 'Nuclear Energy β Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion into Electric Energy Mechanism', Xu Chuan first arranged to develop a material that can resist nuclear radiation.

In fact, it is the 'Atomic Cycle' technology studied in the previous life.

This technology was brought out when he met the old man in Beijing.

Of course, it was just a theory. In fact, no one except Xu Chuan knew what effect this technology could achieve.

But this did not prevent the theory from being transformed into practical results with the support from above.