In the central building of CERN, representatives from all over Europe were arguing fiercely with the board members.
It has not added new member states for a long time. The last time it admitted new member states was in 1999.
After entering the 21st century, whether it is Brazil, Turkey, Pakistan, Ukraine, or even Lao Maozi and the United States, they have applied for membership status, but they have all failed to agree.
Compared with observer countries and cooperation agencies, member states are the core of real control. After all, funding and policy support cannot be separated from these member states.
"There has never been a history of allowing non-European countries to become member states. Even the United States is not a member of ours. If China is allowed to pass, we will not be able to explain it to the United States or to the outside world."
At the desk, a middle-aged man in a suit expressed his opinion.
"Judaism is also a member state, and it is not a European country."
Opposite, the representative from Bulgaria spoke calmly and rejected the remarks made by the representative from Denmark.
Compared with most Eastern European countries, Bulgaria has a lot of cooperation with China and has always had a very good relationship. Bulgaria will still choose to help if it does not go against its own interests and can help.
Across the desk, the Danish representative who had just spoken rolled his eyes in his mind.
Judaism, that is, Israel, is indeed a non-European country, but does it represent itself?
Everyone knows that it is not. It occupies the identity of a member state and actually represents the interests of the United States.
Everyone here knew this, but there was no way he would say it at the meeting.
After all, the Jewish representatives are here, so people will definitely fall out if they say this.
"Okay, everyone, today's debate ends here for the time being. Regarding China's application to join as a formal member, we will vote next."
David Gross, who presided over the meeting, stood at the head of the desk, interrupted everyone's quarrel, and continued:
"Please cast your precious votes."
As of now, there are a total of twenty-two member states, and Judaea is the only non-European country.
Each member state has two official representatives, one responsible for government administration and one responsible for the country's scientific interests.
However, each member country has only one vote. Although the Council will try its best to seek unanimous consent when making decisions, in practice most decisions are decided by a simple majority.
Following the words of David Gross, the Bulgarian directors took the lead in submitting their votes.
Suddenly, there was an additional vote in favor on the projection screen.
As the Bulgarian council representative cast his first vote, the number of council votes on the projection screen continued to increase.
Some are in favor, some are against, and some are abstaining.
In less than a minute, the directors had already completed their votes.
Waiting for the last member state representative to cast his vote, David Gross looked at the projection beside him and sighed slightly in his heart.
But then, he announced: "The final results of this voting are as follows:"
"There were a total of twenty-two votes cast by the directors, including eight votes in favor, twelve votes against, and two abstentions. The number of votes in favor failed to exceed two-thirds."
"In accordance with past rules, the meeting decided to veto China's membership."
Professor David Gross solemnly reported all the votes, and the final number rejected China's application to become a member.
Although this result was expected, Gross still sighed a little in his heart.
What scientists consider should be relatively pure. In his opinion, China has developed quite a lot of basic science scientists since its development, and its achievements in these years are representative.
Whether it is the Higgs particle, four-quark particles, five-quark particles, Higgs decay...etc., China's contribution is considerable.
On the other hand, if there is one more member country, the funding will increase a lot.
Currently, the annual budget is generally about 1 billion Swiss francs (chf, about 1.02 billion yuan).
But this number is not fixed. For example, in 2015 it was 970 million meters of gold, and in 2016 it was 1.09 billion meters of gold.
Because the funds are shared by all member states in proportion to GDP.
Based on this calculation, if China becomes a member of the United States, its funding will skyrocket by nearly 300 million yuan next year.
If it were not for the sake of balance, which stipulates that each member country's funding cannot exceed 20% of the total funding, then this number would be higher.
The funding of 300 million meters of gold is enough to conduct dozens more collision experiments every year.
With dozens more collision experiments every year, the probability of discovering unknown particles or unknown cosmic phenomena will increase hundreds of times.
This can greatly promote the development of high-energy physics.
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For scientific research, China's participation is beneficial and harmless.
But for the member states, China's joining is not such a wonderful thing.
For , member states can share various technologies born from it, many of which are in short supply in China.
Throughout Europe, most or even most countries are unwilling to see the rise of the red country in the east.
After all, most European countries are currently the biggest beneficiaries of the current international order. They have small populations and relatively large resources. If they master a few core technologies, they can live very well.
If China continues to develop, it will inevitably change the international order of white supremacy at the center of the United States and Europe.
Once this order is broken, their lives will not be so easy.
Therefore, even if the member states that China applied for this time had already communicated with various governments many times beforehand and could pay a lot of benefits, most countries still chose to oppose it.
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After reporting the voting results, David Gross picked up a manuscript from the table and continued: "Now, we will proceed with the second item of this meeting."
"Matters concerning China's application for associate membership."
"This matter is still subject to a vote by the Board of Directors."
As he spoke, Professor Gross took control of the computer in the conference room.
"In addition, before the voting begins, please allow me to report one other thing."
"In the past three days, our public mailbox has received a total of applications from 37 different national physics laboratories and research institutes, as well as 127 top physicists."
"I hope to have one or two lectures, or more lectures on mathematical calculations of particle energy level channels in physics."
"Excuse me, I would like to ask, does this have anything to do with China's application for associate membership?"
In the conference room, a director raised his hand and interrupted David Gross's speech.
Gross adjusted his glasses and continued without changing his expression: "Of course it is related, because the only person who has mastered the method of mathematically calculating the energy level channel of physical particles is in China."
"If you have watched the press conference some time ago, you should know that mastering this method can save millions or even tens of millions of meters of gold in collision research funds for other high-energy physics laboratories every year.
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"If we are lucky, we can use this method to complete the improvement of the Standard Model and the Higgs particle in advance, and even find something beyond the Standard Model, such as dark matter and dark energy."
There was obviously some commotion in the office regarding Professor Gross's words.
Whether it is saving millions of scientific research funds every year, or the subsequent development of dark matter and dark energy, these things are very attractive to any country and research institution.
Currently, half of the directors participating in the meeting are official personnel from member countries.
These people are basically selected from governments of various countries to vote on behalf of member states, participate in the formulation of major policies, participate in voting to admit new member states, and communicate with governments of various countries.
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They usually don't pay much attention to their own collision experiments and physics developments, unless they make some major discoveries, such as the Higgs particle.
The other twenty-two directors are basically physical scientists from various countries.
People in this group are the main people who discuss daily developments, such as the arrangement of collision experiments.
At present, it is obvious that not all official council representatives of member states are aware of the details of the Yukawa coupling phenomenon between the Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark discovered some time ago.
It is certain that we know this, but not everyone knows the role of mathematics in this.
The time interval is too short, and many directors who are physicists have not had time to report to their countries.
"Does a mathematical method have to be done by him? Can't we study it ourselves or can't do it?"
At the desk, a government representative director looked at David Gross and asked.
Gross shook his head and said: "Of course not. Theoretically speaking, since someone can do this, we can do it too."
"It's just that if we do our own research, it might take a long time, maybe three or five years?"
"After all, he is the only one who masters the core of that calculation method. This is indeed very important to us."
"If the original author gives a report and explains it, the time for other physicists to master this method may be shortened to a few months."
Hearing this, some government representatives who did not know much about the details of the matter began to ask the physicist directors around them, and the whole conference room became noisy.
David Gross sat quietly in his chair.
The fact that he raised this point at the meeting today did not come from a public mailbox, but from Xu Chuan.
After all, whether to hold a report meeting does not require discussion with the government representatives of various countries. You only need to communicate with Xu Chuan and obtain his consent.
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Xu Chuan knew about the membership quota that his motherland was applying for.
But there was nothing he could do in this matter.
After all, he is only a small researcher at the moment. Even if he has achieved some achievements in physics, he will not be able to influence the decisions of the board of directors, and he is not even qualified to make suggestions.
But just in the past two days, David Gross found him and hoped that he could hold two report meetings to explain the previous methods.
Taking this opportunity, he made a request to the chairman, hoping that he could talk about it at the meeting of member states.
In exchange, he will stay and hold two lectures to explain in detail the mathematical methods previously used to calculate the optimal search decay channel for the Yukawa coupling of Higgs and third-generation heavy quarks.
That's why Professor Gross brought this up at today's meeting.