"WTF!!!"
"Fuck!!!"
"One hundred million?!"
"That's insane! Has the Physics community ever offered a prize this high before?"
"Forget the Physics community—search the entire academic world, and you still won't find anything like this!"
For a field as far removed from practical applications as Physics, even Condensed Matter Physics, which was relatively closely tied to applied science, found it difficult to generate such enormous profits in a short period of time.
Though some wealthy people who had risen above base interests occasionally donated money to support research in the fundamental sciences, such a lavish gesture was still unprecedented.
Even by the exchange rates of many years ago, one hundred million RMB was no small sum.
Not to mention now. Fusion Power Plants in Saint Petersburg, Cadarache, and Los Angeles had been completed one after another, while the Interregional Power Grid stretched across the Asian continent. Supported by the energy network, the RMB exchange rate had continued to strengthen and was no longer comparable to what it had once been.
It was easy to imagine just how much that one hundred million was truly worth.
The boiling atmosphere nearly blew the roof off the conference hall. Outside, in the exhibition hall's poster area, the excitement was even more intense, like an erupting volcano that ignited people's shock, exhilaration, and the faint desire growing within their hearts.
Though quite a few people barely maintained their gentlemanly composure, they were still left dumbfounded by such extravagance, and some even let out rather unrefined cries of surprise.
Lu Zhou, standing in the conference room, could not see what was happening in the exhibition center lobby. Still, judging from the reactions of the many scholars in the hall, the effect of that one hundred million had been achieved.
With a faint smile, Lu Zhou cleared