As a rheumatologist who works clinically in a teaching hospital and has a girlfriend who is a physicist, Lu Chen is no stranger to the "committee" institution.
With the strong support of the coalition government, scientific research and technological development have received unprecedented attention. A large number of government-funded research projects have been rapidly promoted - as if the scientists as a group were not affected by the Great Collapse at all.
In Yang Weimin's words, science and technology workers are actually a group of hamsters raised in cages. You don't even need to give them any incentives, this group of hamsters can open books crazily on the running wheels of the cage. When the running wheels are not enough
Sometimes, hamsters will even eat less to get a chance to burn their lives on the treadmill.
This shows that involution is actually an instinctive reaction of living things.
In the past, there were few scientific and technological achievements and progress was slow, mainly because more hamsters could not get the running wheels. Today, there are fewer hamsters but more running wheels - the results are indeed increasing and becoming more and more obvious. p>
But in general, there are still more hamsters than running wheels. There is no way, the total amount of material in human society is always limited in a certain period of time. And in order to compete for the running wheels, this group of hamsters began to involute again.
They began to propose a variety of topics, from the utilization and preparation of dark matter to capturing and converting the energy of quantum fluctuations. Some even proposed using criminals directly as experimental materials and transplanting their brains that were damaged by the collapse.
Brain tissue from dead patients to see if the crash was contagious.
Many experimental plans and projects are aimed at "taking advantage of" from the beginning. However, some experimental plans themselves are... very inhumane, and may even pose a very serious threat to the entire society and even human civilization.
As a funder, the coalition government that also acts as a "guardian of mankind" certainly cannot tolerate such a situation. But if the government is allowed to review scientific research, the result will inevitably be that the government's management projects will become increasingly trivial.
The efficiency is low, and scientific research will have a serious tendency to "please" and "seek stability".
Ultimately, the coalition government decided to let the entire scientific community govern itself - and the Academic Council came into being.
The thirteen members of the Academic Committee are all academicians, and their appointments are based on random draws based on black-box photon measurements that violate Bell's inequality. Members cannot be re-elected, but there is no limit to the number of times they serve, and each term is half a year. The academicians of the Academic Committee need to submit a
The experimental project will be reviewed and approved. If a simple majority of committee members object, the experimental application will be rejected. Only with the approval of ten committee members can the hamsters get a new "running wheel".
This set of operating rules provides stable, relatively fair, scientific research project screening rules that match rights and responsibilities. At the same time, it also cultivates a group of "professionals" who form a lineup of academicians of the research committee and make profits from it.
In most cases, the committee is a passive organization. Unless an application is submitted, they will not take the initiative to pay attention to a certain experimental project group or research group. After all, many academicians are usually very busy, so how can they have the time to take the initiative to pay attention to things that have not been reported?
content?
Only those projects whose prospects and risks are equally eye-catching can have the committee convene a special hearing - if there are any issues, we will talk face to face.
Of course, in order to ensure the confidentiality of scientific research projects, the contents of these hearings may not be released until several years later.
Because of this, Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran looked nervous. It was one thing to go to the class teacher for help when they had nothing to do, but it was a completely different thing to be called to the office by the class teacher.
"You don't need to be too nervous." Tang Qinglong saw the worry and anxiety of his students. He smiled and reassured, "This time we mainly communicate with the committee. They have some questions they want to ask."
Mu Zhiran glanced at her boyfriend who was swallowing hard, and then asked Tang Qinglong, "Are you sure? Teacher, you have never been a committee member..."
Tang Qinglong rolled his eyes because he was such a good student. He had good intentions and wanted to reveal the content of the communication to them in advance, but you ended up questioning my qualifications?
After boarding the low-voltage maglev train, it took the three of them about an hour and a half to finally arrive at the Special Administrative City of Feuerbach, where the committee is located. It was originally agreed that Yang Jianmin would meet them here, but... they didn't arrive until they arrived at the entrance of the committee.
I discovered that the person standing at the door of the committee... was actually Watanabe.
"Why are you here?" Lu Chen was deeply shocked by Watanabe's appearance, "Where is Teacher Yang? Today is a hearing of the Academic Committee, Brother Yang still can't come? Are your rules too big?"
"This is force majeure." Watanabe's answer was as watertight and tooth-itching as ever, "We have submitted a written application to the committee and received the committee's permission - I will participate in this hearing as Professor Yang's agent.
Yes."
Hearings of academic committees are every scientific worker’s nightmare.
This is actually very understandable - when you are completely unprepared, a group of top experts and scholars in the field of human scientific research suddenly decide to conduct a thesis defense for you. The beginning is already very nightmare.
However, the even more nightmare is yet to come. Among the thirteen academicians, there are generally only two at most that completely overlap with your research field. The remaining eleven academicians either only partially overlap with your professional content, or they are completely irrelevant.
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However, the thirteen academicians all had to ask questions. This led to the following consequence - the questions of the two academicians were sharp and direct, and the questions of the three or four academicians seemed simple but were full of pitfalls deep down. The remaining academicians asked questions...
…You don’t even know how to answer.
An expert in the field of solid-state light-emitting materials came to attend the hearing. When an academician from the construction field asked, "Can this material of yours be used as a building material, and can its structural properties meet the LB-standard?" The expert wanted to die.
I have my heart.
What exactly is this LB-standard?
Also, why are academicians in the clinical field curious about the LD50 lethal dose of a light-emitting semiconductor?
What's even worse is that you have to answer these questions seriously - these committee members who don't know what to ask will also need to vote later!
How to answer these questions quickly, accurately and appropriately in a short period of time is an extremely important task for scientific workers. When Yang Jianmin was asked to answer, Lu Chen was worried that his answer was not appropriate enough. Now let this person start a fight at every turn.
Watanabe is here?
Are the academicians’ cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems okay...?
The office building of the Academic Committee is not too luxurious. The main building is just a three-story building with a two-story basement. The main building is an office space used by the permanent staff of the Academic Committee, and the actual place where the hearings are held is
The independent academic lecture hall to the west of the main building.
The academic lecture hall covers an area of about 7,000 square meters, of which about 5,000 square meters is a huge overall lecture hall - the lecture stage covers an area of more than 500 square meters, and there are tens of thousands of soft seats under the stage.
The scale is huge, but it is not useful at all.
When there are not enough people using the huge space, it is easy to give the users an inexplicable sense of oppression. Especially when under the huge rostrum, there are 13 academicians sitting sporadically on the numerous soft seats that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.