Just as Senior Brother Luo had said, it was an invitation.
To be precise, the invitation had not been addressed to him personally. It had been sent by CERN to IMCRC.
In the invitation, CERN proposed a worldwide summit of physicists on the theme of "Century Physics." It hoped that IMCRC would serve as the main organizer, bringing together the world's other major high-energy physics research institutes and leading scholars to discuss the future of physics over the coming century.
In fact, after hearing Senior Brother Luo's explanation, Lu Zhou was quite surprised.
For such a prestigious conference, bringing together the world's major high-energy physics research institutes to discuss the path physics should take over the next hundred years, he had never expected CERN to willingly hand the opportunity over to IMCRC.
But after giving it some thought, he understood the reasoning behind it.
CERN had handed over this opportunity to show off not because it did not want the glory, but because circumstances no longer allowed it to claim it.
For one thing, as the Lunar Hadron Collider had replaced the LHC and taken on the crucial task of exploring high-energy physics, the world's center of physics had gradually shifted to East Asia.
For another, there was a very practical problem.
It had run out of money...
Yes.
It had simply run out of money.
Ever since the Lunar Hadron Collider had been completed, CERN had gradually lost its justification for asking European Union countries for funding.
Compared with CERN, whose appetite was greater than a black hole's, and its endlessly hungry research projects, countries around the world also preferred IMCRC, where they could satisfy their physicists' needs with less money while still producing a wealth of outstanding results.
The leader of France, in particular, had said publicly more