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Time froze at 19:30 in the evening, and just the live viewership of CCAV1 had reached 3 million. Along with the coverage from national media, social media, and international daily attention, the number of people tuning in to tonight's broadcast had grown to an uncountable extent.
The host for tonight was named Sa Xining, who graduated from Qingbei University. Actually, he used to be a legitimate host, but ever since he interviewed Ma Yun, he started to let loose.
Ever since then, in every variety show and hosting gig, audiences could hear him bragging, "Qingbei University is not bad," "I didn't take the college entrance exam, I was recommended," becoming the first generation of Versailles.
"Regret creating Alibaba Jack Ma, Qingbei is decent Sa Xining, average looks Gu Tunnue, the ugliest of the family Liu Yifei," this meme just emerged out of thin air.
As the host of tonight's press conference, it's believed that this will be a spectacular meeting.
"Good evening, everyone," Sa Xining appeared in the live broadcast, and the barrage of comments went crazy with "paying respects to the grandmaster."
"The Nobel Prize, in our eyes, has always been almost a legendary award. Until now, our country has only had two predecessors who received this award, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Prize in Medicine. However, in the domains of physics, chemistry, and others, our country was still a blank slate. But just the day before yesterday, we broke through the void in the field of Physics!"
Sa Xining's monologue was very provocative, and coupled with the background music, many Huaxia people actually felt a surge of emotion.
"Now, let's welcome this year's Nobel Prize in Physics laureates, the director of the Science Research Center at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, Professor Han Jinyu, and his student Zhang Menglong!"
"Whoo-hoo!" Applause rippled through the venue. In the academic circle, there is also star-chasing, especially among scholars who have studied dark matter for a long time. They regard the two as idols, and scholars both domestically and internationally appeared extremely excited.
Of course, there were exceptions. Those people scornfully looked at the others who were clapping around them, staring angrily at the two people on the stage as if they had stolen their scientific achievements.
"First, please introduce yourselves."
"Hello, everyone. I am Professor Han Jinyu from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology."
"The good man is me, I am Zhang Menglong!" Zhang Menglong continued his usual goofy style, drawing laughter from both the audience and the online comments.
"Hahaha, Mr. Zhang is really as witty as the legends say," Sa Xining, with his wealth of hosting experience, was unfazed by any kind of guest and handled the situation with eabullse.
"As the first batch of Huaxia recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics, I wonder what your current feelings are?"
"I am very excited and feel very honored," Han Jinyu had prepared numerous scripts for tonight's interview; he was even reciting them while using the bathroom this morning, "It represents the increasing strength of our country's scientific research and proves that we Huaxians are in no way inferior to anyone. We too can stand out among the many candidates for the Nobel Prize."
"I feel no fluctuations in my emotions, and I even feel like laughing a bit," Zhang Menglong appeared much more composed compared to Han Jinyu's fervent speech, "It's just a Nobel Prize, after all; it wasn't all that difficult."
Sa Xining's expression suddenly changed; he suddenly remembered the fear of being dominated during an interview with Ma Yun a few years ago.
"Mr. Zhang, could you share with us when you started preparing your research for this subject?"
"Actually, I hadn't planned on competing for the Nobel Prize in Physics at first," Zhang Menglong said, "But I think you all must have heard that our Jiangnan University of Science and Technology received 158 national-level scientific research projects this year. Many schools were unsatisfied, thinking our school's scientific research capacity is lacking, thinking we didn't deserve so many projects, suspecting there was foul play."
Sa Xining's face turned mournful; this was a live broadcast, after all, and spilling everything like this made him feel incredibly awkward as a host.
"So I was pissed off, it was simply intolerable, backing off would mean complete disaster," Zhang Menglong spoke passionately, "I was thinking, I must demonstrate some real strength to prove that the scientific research capability of our Jiangnan University of Science and Technology is the strongest. So, after a discussion with Professor Han, I decided to write a paper for a high-profile journal."
"So, you didn't expect to win the award initially?"
"Of course not," Zhang Menglong said, "I actually had no interest in the Nobel Prize in Physics and had only heard about it before. But strength doesn't lie; when we submitted our paper half a month ago, several editors and chief editors from publishing houses came running to Huaxia wanting our manuscript. I just randomly signed with one, and then I won."
"66666!"
"Damn it, got showboated by him again."
"I want to know the size of the mental shadow Sa's got now."
"Hahaha, from now on, Teacher Sa is going to undergo another transformation."
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"Mr. Zhang, Professor Han," Sa Xining maintained a high level of professional integrity as he continued, "our understanding is that your research group has always been engaged in the application of high polymer materials in the industrial domain. When did you start to turn your research direction towards fundamental physics like dark matter?"
"Our group has never specifically studied dark matter," Han Jinyu said, while giving Zhang Menglong a look.
"Yes," Zhang Menglong agreed, "actually, it all started from the internet criticism against our Jiangnan University of Science and Technology. We thought of many plans, but our polymer industry research is very difficult to gain high recognition in academia, so we Googled and saw that the dark matter topic hadn't made any progress in 100 years, and therefore we chose it."
"So...you mean to say, from the time you decided to research this project to the time you won the Nobel Prize in Physics, it was less than a month?" Sa Xining's expression turned uglier than if he had eaten shit.
"To be precise, it should be 23 days. We initiated the project, conducted testing, wrote the paper - all of that took, maybe five or six days in total. Actually, it was pretty tiring."
"Actually, we just wanted to prove our school's strength. This Nobel Prize was really just something we picked up along the way, nothing much to make a big deal about."
The pair on stage, one old, one young, played off each other perfectly, exemplifying "Versailles" to the fullest.
"Fuck!"
"Damn!"
"Can you believe it?"
"Tiring? People have been researching it for a hundred years without success, and you researched it for five or six days and claim it's pretty tiring?"
"This level of 'Versailles' is something probably no one else can learn in this lifetime."
"You might not believe it, but they only received the Nobel Prize because someone insulted their school, and in a fit of pique, they just casually picked up an award."
"Hahaha, this truly is a legendary experience," Sa Xining tried to smooth things over; had it not been for the live broadcast in front of tens of millions, perhaps billions, he would have smashed the microphone and left, "Both of you have thoroughly embodied the robust spirit of our Huaxia people. Regardless of the reasons, our Huaxia people indeed have the strength!"
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Sa Xining said, "So today, we also have many media friends and scholars in the audience who surely have many questions about your research. Let's give the floor to them."
A blond Western scholar was the first to stand up: "I am Sebek from the Royal European Institute of Physics, and I hold great skepticism towards your research achievements!"
Whoosh!
The crowd instantly buzzed with shock.
What was expected has come...
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