Chapter 728: The meaning of science lies in the future

"Tonight, I stand in this hall that has paid tribute to human wisdom for a hundred years, filled with awe. This honor belongs not only to me personally but also to all the peers who have worked silently in the field of energy materials, my colleagues, and our predecessors."

"..."

Xu Qingzhou spoke eloquently.

"The youngest Nobel Prize winner."

Göran Hansson smiled: "I really like that sentence—the essence of the Nobel Prize is that the award needs the scientist's historical achievements as selection material, not that the scientist needs the Nobel Prize."

The debate about Xu Qingzhou's age at the time was actually unnecessary, even a bit ridiculous.

He couldn't help but think of the conversation with Xu Qingzhou in the ceremonial car at the time.

Winning the Nobel Prize again...

He would go to welcome Xu Qingzhou again...

"Just a moment ago, I actually believed it."

Hansson shook his head, shaking off the terrible thought in his mind.

Among all scientists who have won the Nobel Prize twice, the shortest interval is 8 years. Even if Xu Qingzhou really wins the Nobel Prize again, by that time, he will have retired.

"We stand on the shoulders of giants, trying to answer the same question: how to make energy more safely controlled by humanity?"

"Let us raise our glasses together—to science, to humanity, to the endless light of life!"

Xu Qingzhou gave a simple speech in Chinese. Of course, for the last sentence, he translated it into English and invited everyone to raise their glasses together.

The speech segment passed like this. Song Yao took Xu Shouyun and the others to one side, while Xu Qingzhou went to greet the scientists he was familiar with.

Soothing music flowed in the hall.

"Professor Xu."

Xu Qingzhou had just finished drinking with Hansson and others when the physics prize winner Penrose walked over.

"Honestly, I think you should have taken both the Physics Prize and the Chemistry Prize."

Penrose shrugged and continued: "You solved the lithium dendrite and shuttle effect problems, which are closer to reality than my black hole theory."

"The meaning of science lies in the future, doesn't it?" Xu Qingzhou smiled.

Penrose shrugged, not committing himself.

The two said a few words and then separated. Xu Qingzhou also met Minister-Counselor Ke Honglang.

Ke Honglang's tone was full of emotion: "Professor Xu, this time you have really won a breath of fresh air for our Xia Nation's scientific community."

"I just did what I should have done," Xu Qingzhou said modestly.

"But it cannot be denied that Xia Nation needs this Nobel Prize medal to let the world see Xia Nation's progress."

"I believe that in the future, more young scientists from Xia Nation will step onto the international stage."

As a Nobel Prize winner, Xu Qingzhou was naturally one of the focuses of the banquet, because people came up to talk to him from time to time.

Xu Shouyun, Wang Xiaping, and the others were basically there to feel the atmosphere of the banquet. Looking at the people coming and going in the banquet, they would sigh to each other from time to time. You have to know that among the people present, any one of them would be a big shot outside.

Xu Qingzhou was just about to go find Old Xu and the others when an old man came over with a glass. "Hi, Professor Xu, we meet again."

"Very happy to see you, Mr. Klinger."

Xu Qingzhou clinked glasses with the other party and asked with a smile: "The W7-X stellarator achieved a stable maintenance of the triple product peak for 43 seconds through the OP2.3 experiment. I think you should already be preparing for the next stage of the experiment, right?"

"Yes, I have to say, your superconducting thin film helped us a lot. We hope to increase the stable maintenance time of the triple product peak from the second level to the minute level."

"A big move." Xu Qingzhou clicked his tongue.

Previously, they had achieved maintaining hot plasma for 30 minutes, which belongs to the basic long-time discharge index. The current 43 seconds belongs to the high-temperature operating state.

This means that they are one big step closer to the landing of controllable nuclear fusion.

"A year ago, I would have thought this was a dream, but now this dream is close at hand."

Klinger shrugged and said: "Alright, actually what I want to say is that the United States will also have big moves recently. You know, lagging behind for a year, they need to pull the world's attention back to the United States."

Klinger shrugged and said, "Alright, actually what I wanted to say is that there will be big moves over in the U. S. recently; you know, having fallen behind by a year, they need to pull the world's attention back to the U. S."