While Chen Zhou and Friedman were preparing for academic exchanges, the physics community gradually became lively.

With the start of the Nobel Prize for Physicists.

The name of Reina Wes, the discoverer of gravitational waves, began to appear frequently in the news again.

If Professor Wes did not win the Nobel Prize in Physics last year due to time issues.

This year, he is almost certain that he will win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

His voice can be said to be the highest among all candidates.

Of course, the discovery of gravitational waves is definitely not only Reina Wes.

Kip S. Thorne and Barry Barish of California Tech also contributed to the fact that gravitational waves were discovered at LIGO.

In particular, Kip S. Thorne is one of the leaders in the field of astrophysics under general relativity today.

Therefore, the discovery of a gravitational wave has led to three popular Nobel Prize candidates.

In addition, only the one who has the qualification to compete in the Nobel Prize in Physics is the big discovery in the particle physics community - the SLAC rubber ball experiment.

The person associated with rubber balls is naturally Chen Zhou.

As the "real leader" of SLAC's final collider experimental plan, Chen Zhou made great contributions to the discovery of rubber balls.

After the previous SLAC report, some researchers began to disclose some details of the rubber ball experiment.

At this time, the physics community and even the entire world truly realized what role Chen Zhou played in the rubber ball experiment.

Many physicists even bluntly said that it was Chen Zhou who used his own strength to find the legendary rubber ball for the entire physics community!

Therefore, at a time when gravitational waves have become a hot topic, rubber balls have become the only competitor.

And Chen Zhou has become the second most popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in addition to Reina Weiss.

Chen Zhou's popularity in winning is even higher than Kip S. Thorne and Barry Barish.

The topic of whether Chen Zhou can win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics has also caused heated discussions on the Internet.

There is a point here that is actually quite interesting.

That is, some people think that Chen Zhou is lucky enough. At the age of 21, he solved the Goldbach conjecture, solved the theoretical problem of rubber ball experiments, and discovered rubber balls.

He should be able to wait and let those who have made enough contributions win the Nobel Prize in Physics first.

After all, Chen Zhou is young enough, even if he wins the next session.

However, as soon as this view came out, I immediately received a lot of comments.

Some people list the age of the Nobel Prize winners every year and their reasons for winning, and then calculate the year and month of waiting for each winner.

Some people also responded as soon as they came up. The Nobel Prize evaluated their ability, not age.

In fact, there are far more than three professors from LIGO who queue up for Nobel Prize every year.

Later, there were many people who published a certain amount of research papers many years ago but could not be ranked.

And the Nobel Prize has never been said that it is a young age who should wait.

Everything depends on strength after all.

The discussions online are lively, and the discussions in the physics community are also exciting.

But the real headache is the Nobel Prize in Physics rating committee.

At this time, in the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden.

"Professor Carroll, can you tell me what your final decision was?"

In the office of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the committee member Professor Naldo Parker asked with a headache.

Originally, according to the Nobel Prize selection process, each Nobel Committee will issue a nomination recommendation letter before September each year, requiring the nominee to send back the list of recommended candidates and their achievements descriptions before February 1 of the following year and other information.

and recommendations.

Then each committee will hold a hearing for detailed review, and before June 1, a recommendation list will be submitted based on the feedback recommendation information.

Then entrust experts to investigate, review the investigation report, carefully discuss and evaluate, and strictly screen the list.

These preliminary preparations also show that the selection of Nobel Prize candidates has a rough range before February 1.

The new Nobel Prize will also be selected on the list feedback from February 1st.

However, Chen Zhou and the rubber ball experiment were conducted after February 1.

But the discovery of rubber balls is still an extremely important thing in the field of particle physics.

Even more, Chen Zhou almost led the rubber ball discovered by SLAC almost alone.

Then, this achievement and this contribution, naturally, the Nobel Prize Awards Committee cannot ignore it.

In addition, after Chen Zhou discovered the rubber ball, the award committee began to receive recommendation letters about Chen Zhou in succession.

They can't let it go, and it will be next year.

Therefore, the members of the award committee who already had a rough idea of ​​the list had to worry about whether Chen Zhou should win the award?

"I still stick to my opinion. The discovery of rubber balls is worth a Nobel Prize in Physics!" said the man, known as Carol, seriously.

Upon hearing this, Professor Naldo Parker glanced at Carol and said nothing.

...

When the physics community was in full swing to discuss the ownership of the Nobel Prize, Chen Zhou finally determined the itinerary for academic exchange with Professor Friedman.

Their first stop was CERN in Europe.
Chapter completed!