Lu Zhou asked Assistant Zhao to make him another cup of coffee, then spent nearly an hour quietly listening to Luo Wenxuan recount his two-month business trip to CERN.
"The design work for the entire Lunar Hadron Collider is mainly being handled by the Hua Academy of Sciences' High-Energy Physics Research Institute and Space Engineering Research Institute. But research institutions in Hua Nation have no experience building a Large Hadron Collider, so we contacted the European Organization for Nuclear Research..."
There was little secrecy in theoretical research. Occasionally, when CERN had data it could not process, it would work with other research institutions around the world to handle it. That was how the internet had first come into being. Although they competed over certain groundbreaking research, working together to solve problems was also an established international practice.
When they learned that Hua Nation intended to build a collider on the moon, the Europeans were even more enthusiastic than the people of Hua Nation themselves. They immediately sent their best engineering team, along with the designers of LHCB and the ALICE Detector themselves, to Shangjing for an inspection. They then offered the Hua Academy of Sciences' High-Energy Physics Research Institute ten places on a visiting delegation, and even volunteered to cover the associated expenses.
Of course, this did not come without strings attached.
CERN was so eager to help because it naturally hoped to cooperate more closely with Hua Nation on high-energy physics research in the future. Once the collider on the moon was actually built, more than half the world's high-energy physics experiments would move into space. This colossal machine would also give the physics community the means to test conjectures that had previously been beyond its reach.
Of all the scholars in the visiting delegation from the Hua Academy