After a simple greeting, everyone followed Ning Wei to pick up Jiang from the plane and set off for the hotel. Perhaps because the time and place were not very good, there were not many redundant chapters in the entire reception process.

Basically, everyone asked a good question and became familiar with each other.

There were also gentlemen who praised Ning Wei's talent and his beauty, and he was definitely awesome for men and women.

Thanks to this simple reception process, Ning Wei was able to pat his chest and said seriously that he knew what Geneva streets were like at around 4 a.m.

It's very quiet, there are no cars or people on the road, the streets look quite clean, of course, the street lights may not be very bright...

The hotel arranged by CERN is the ibis San Genipui Geneva, located in the Merlin area of ​​Geneva. It is only about 1 km away from the CERN headquarters in a straight line. Of course, if you drive, it will take about 2.2 km. However, in the words of Edwin George, if you take a bus to the CERN headquarters from the hotel, you will generally be able to arrive within ten minutes. If there is no traffic jam, the time can be shortened to three minutes.

How to say, this is probably the best arrangement. Basically, this is a high-end hotel closest to CERN headquarters, and the hotel level is directly down. Obviously, although the CERN supervisor showed a very friendly attitude towards Ning Wei's arrival, he obviously did not intend to let Ning Wei stay in CERN headquarters.

Perhaps because Ning Wei gave enough this time, or to express respect or apologize, CERN booked a whole floor of the hotel to receive Ning Wei and Jiang's security staff.

Yes, this time I came to CERN Ningwei for the scientific researchers who did not have any auxiliary, so there was no need for that.

Not to mention anything else, at least half of the world's particles are there, and high-energy physicists are here. Among the more than 1,000 physicists, there are many Chinese physicists. They are definitely more familiar with the operating rules here than domestic scholars, and their assistants have already contacted them early.

When they arrived at the hotel, everyone else left politely, and only Edwin George sent Ningwei to the room.

Ning Wei is not sure whether the luxury three-bedroom suite is the presidential suite. Anyway, the interior is standard European decoration. If you have to say it, it is probably better than the hotel he stays abroad in his life. He even prepared a special study room where he can talk about things or work.

After the waiter took the tip and left, Edwin George did not leave. Instead, after classmate Jiang politely stated that she went to the bedroom to pack her luggage first, she glanced at Liu Wei, then politely pointed to the direction of the study room and said, "Dr. Ning, if you still have energy, why don't we go to the study room to chat first?"

"Of course there is no problem, please." Ning Wei made a gesture of invitation.

Following Edwin George into the study, Ning looked at the showcase in the study and pointed to the drinks inside and asked, "Do you need a drink?"

"No, this time is not suitable for a drink. I have to prepare for a few simple conversations." Edwin George quickly refused.

"Okay." Ning Wei shrugged and reached the master seat behind the desk. He stretched out his hands and held the edge of the desk, which seemed to feel good.

Edwin George first asked politely: "How is it? Dr. Ning, are you still satisfied with the room?"

Ning Wei nodded and replied, "It's pretty good, I'm interested. But we are friends. The tradition of Chinese people is that friends don't need to be polite, Mr. George. So if you have any questions, just say it directly. As long as it doesn't affect my experiment, it's easy to say anything."

Edwin George smiled and nodded, then sat upright, hesitated for a moment, and after he sorted out his language, he spoke slowly: "That's right, Dr. Ning, because your experimental plan requires LHC. Generally speaking, after the LHC is started and run, it will last for six to seven months. We will decide this time based on the operating status of the LHC. The experiment time is about one year, and the next is the maintenance period."

"Especially since the previous year, for higher energy preparations, LHC has entered the stage of overhaul. Now some final finishing work has not been completed. And you also know that the cost of LHC is very high, so in order to ensure that everything is foolproof, the feedback from the engineering department will take at least half a month to start the trial startup."

"But I have coordinated it. Before the LHC is launched, other devices can be opened to you first. The only problem is that at this stage, everyone still has doubts about directly accessing the March data analysis system, because the AMS project we used to cooperate with NASA is now in a relatively critical period. You should also know about the AMS project. They are only one step away from proving that there is dark matter in this world. Now the data is in our Atesla control room..."

Hearing this, Ning Wei frowned and looked at Edwin George and said, "Mr. George, I can accept LHC to be started in half a month. This is a long experiment process, I can understand. But if the pre-experiment cannot be used with our own data collection system, it will be meaningless to me. This is what we agreed before. Are you planning to repent?"

Edwin George hurriedly said, "No, no, no, Dr. Ning, you misunderstood. In fact, the opposite is true. In fact, we hope to resolve doubts through sufficient communication, and then use the processing capabilities of the March intelligent data platform to try to analyze the data collected by the AMS project. You know, this project is planned to reliably rely on the magnetometer on the International Space Station to collect various information, but now the International Space Station is about to enter the countdown to scrap. Of course, these data can be sealed and analyzed slowly, but what if... a lot of investment has been made after all."

Listening to Edwin George's narrative, Ning Wei's expression became more and more strange, and then asked in a self-doubted tone: "Well, I'll do it, Mr. George, you mean that this AMS project wants to use our March data processing system to perform data processing, hoping to find evidence of the existence of dark matter through our only system, but only if I need to prove to them that our March data processing system will not have any impact on their data security?"

Ning Wei's tone obviously made Edwin George a little embarrassed, and he replied with a wry smile: "Dr. Ning, please understand that this project has been planned since the last century. Until now, it has really included too many people's efforts and a lot of historical data. It is normal to worry, right?"

Ning shrugged and said in an indifferent tone: "Of course I understand this, but I don't have any problems. But we also have confidentiality requirements for March's database and computing mechanism, so if we really want to connect the AMS project to our system for computing, I can only guarantee that the data will never be leaked from us. This can be signed, but if we want to disclose the computing mechanism or open the database, it is impossible."

Edwin George continued to smile bitterly, but in fact he could think of this result.

How do you evaluate the young man opposite?

People are very generous and can be said to spend a lot of money without any scruples when spending money. But in fact, compared with Ning Wei's dress, he spent 1 billion dollars in one breath just to do an experiment, and can only be described as simple life.

Yes, although Edwin George is the head of a scientific research institution, in addition to dealing with scientists, he also has many opportunities to sit with the rich and have lunch. His eyes are naturally vicious. He is even sure that Ning Wei's outfit will probably not exceed 200 francs.

What is the concept of 200 francs? It is probably that Ning Wei's whole body adds up, and its value is even one-tenth of the value of a bow tie for those rich people. But Edwin George knew that it would be a dream to ask those rich people to spend billions of dollars to sponsor a project that was still theoretical.

It is normal for such people to be difficult to deal with. It is impossible to use ideas that ordinary people can understand to guess what Ning Wei thinks.

Edwin George also knows such people, but most of them are academic masters. They are not more valuable than being so young.

"Okay, I will tell them your thoughts. Well, it's still late today. You can have a good rest first. You can have a walk in Merlin today. At nine o'clock tomorrow morning, I will pick you up to CERN on time to officially fulfill our contract. How about it?"

"Wait, can't you do today?"

"Uh...Dr. Ning, do you really don't need to rest? After all, it's more than 10,000 kilometers."

"Actually, I slept well on the plane, and I feel very energetic now."

"Dr. Ning should start tomorrow. As we communicated before, we still have some scheduled plans to deal with before the trial officially begins. Of course, if you have time at noon, I think Mr. Peter of Asmay will definitely take time to have lunch with you. Of course, I will come here after I finish everything in the evening."

"Okay, there is a saying in China that guests follow the host's will."

"Thanks!"

...

Edwin George politely said goodbye and left the hotel.

Then, under the arrangement of Liu Wei, Ning Wei and his classmates, moved to the room opposite that had undergone strict security checks, and they were completely settled.

Ning Wei felt that this level of caution had been slightly over, but Liu Wei showed the safety guide designated by March, leaving him speechless.

Fortunately, the newly replaced room is actually not bad, but there is a missing room, living room, master bedroom and study room.

The time was a little embarrassed. It was already five o'clock when Edwin George left, and it took another half an hour to settle down. Ning Wei was in good spirits, but Jiang was obviously not used to resting on the plane. So he stayed warmly with classmate Jiang for a while. Until he heard the woman start to breathe evenly beside him, he got up gently, left the bedroom and went to the study and turned on the computer.

I became interested in the AMS project not for my own experiment, but for the AMS project mentioned by Edwin George.

The full name of the AMS project is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Project. Simply put, it is to search for various matter and rays in the universe through magnetometers, measure various elemental components in the universe, and use them to analyze the origin and development of the universe...

Nearly twenty years have passed since the launch of the plan, and there are naturally many achievements. For example, the collected data proves that the strength of the proton flow cannot be simply described as a single power-law spectrum, and the proton energy spectrum index changes with energy. This discovery has also changed the general understanding of cosmic rays by humans over the past decades.

About ten years ago, there were rumors that there were six characteristics of excessive positrons generated by dark matter collisions, among which five characteristics, such as the start point, the rise rate, and the highest point, have been measured by the alpha magnetometer, but the last piece of the puzzle is still missing to confirm the existence of dark matter, and even make a theoretical model of dark matter.

But as Edwin George just said, ten years have passed, and whether dark matter really exists in the academic world still has not been fully proved, and it is still only observational evidence on paper.

To put it bluntly, the theory of dark matter exists based on the inability to explain existing theories in people's observations of the universe. Initially, astronomers observed abnormal travel speeds of stars at the edge of galaxies, exceeding expectations. Neither Newtonian mechanics F=ma or Einstein's general theory of relativity could be explained theoretically, because mass can be predictive.

This situation can only be explained unless there is a substance that has not been discovered by humans through various observation methods. After verification, if such matter really exists in the galaxy, this speed can match the observation, and thus the theory of dark matter is found.

But theory is just a theory after all. From a physics perspective, if you want to determine the real existence of dark matter, you need to find dark matter particles. The current mainstream idea believes that dark matter is a subatomic particle that does not interact through electromagnetic forces and does not have strong nuclear forces or weak nuclear forces.

Unfortunately, neither the AMS project nor the LHC collider collected evidence of the existence of new particles with this characteristic. Therefore, we can only rely on the indirect verification of the existence of dark matter, which is also the most important mission of the AMS project.

This kind of anxiety may be difficult for ordinary people to understand, but as a colleague, I would rather empathize with this anxiety.

After all, human life span is limited. How many people spend their youth on this project is to understand the logic of the universe. If they cannot prove this until death, that kind of regret is definitely more painful than if people have lost money and have not spent it.

It just so happened that the computing power displayed in March shocked the world again and the entire academic community at the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games. Naturally, there are more people who are tempted.

Of course, what attracted Ning Wei was the nearly 100 billion cosmic ray data collected by AMS experiment, which captured tens of millions of electrons and positrons. These data can be said to be the precipitation of time...

How to describe it? Some people call ancient company codes "Zushishishan". A little move may cause shit to collapse, so there is a saying that if the ancestral code can run, it will never move.

And the data of AMS also seems to be such a "ancestral shit mountain". At first glance, it looks all shit, but when you look closely, it is still shit, but it is certain that there must be gold in this pile of shit. The only question is, how can gold be separated from the shit mountain...
Chapter completed!