Jiang Yan Hai received an invitation from the Nobel Prize, but just as he had said before, he politely declined it.
In any case, he had never intended to accept a Nobel Prize from beginning to end. To put it bluntly, whether any award was authoritative did not depend on how long it had existed, but on whether it was recognized by everyone.
Only when everyone recognized it did it carry authority. Otherwise... it was really... nothing at all.
Could anyone strip the Nobel Prize of its authority?
Theoretically, it was possible. Nothing was eternal.
What Jiang Yan Hai was doing now had, in fact, also dealt a major blow to the Nobel Prize's authority—a tremendously sensational one.
Perhaps many people would say, Aren't you being a little too full of yourself? Is one person really that important?
For an award renowned for its authority, one person really could be that important!
It was very simple! If Jiang Yan Hai had achieved the most in physics and chemistry that year, then the Nobel Prize could only be awarded to him. If Jiang Yan Hai neither applied nor accepted it, what would happen if the Nobel Prize gave the award to someone else?
It was like an award called the World's Highest Mathematics Prize, one that everyone above elementary-school age disdained to enter, yet it was awarded to an elementary school student, declaring him the best mathematician in the world.
Would it still have any authority?
The answer was obvious.
The impact was not just Jiang Yan Hai talking casually. As the date of the Nobel Prize ceremony drew nearer, three physicists publicly announced that they were withdrawing their applications for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The reason was simple. Although they had made breakthroughs in physics that year, compared with