Chapter 58 58【The Light of India】
After eating, return to the office.
"Raj, what kind of project are you and Howard working on? They're still secretive, and you don't want me to know." Peggy asked curiously.
"This is really going to be kept secret for the time being." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "It's not targeting you specifically, but keeping it a secret from everyone."
"The confidentiality factor is so high?!" Peggy said in surprise, "You are not developing a time machine, are you?"
"Of course it's impossible." Xiang Nan laughed. "The time machine is full of logical paradoxes. Unless it is a **** who can ignore logic, no one can build it."
Then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't ask any more questions. When I can let you know, I will definitely tell you. When you shouldn't know, I won't tell you if you ask again." Xiang Nanbai He waved his hand and smiled.
Hearing what he said, Peggy became even more curious, she blinked her big eyes at Xiang Nan, and asked coquettishly, "Are you really refusing to tell me?"
Xiang Nan shook his head resolutely.
"Hate it! Even if you want to tell me now, I don't want to know." Peggy said coquettishly.
Xiang Nan smiled slightly.
After returning from the inspection in Geneva, the relationship between them went further, and Peggy was much more lively and cute than before.
In other words, she was originally a lively and lovely girl, but after the family accident that year, she sealed herself up layer by layer.
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Christmas, Xiang Nan didn't celebrate at all.
On the one hand, he is not American and does not believe in Christianity, so he will not celebrate it specially.
On the one hand, his friends don't like to celebrate either.
Leonard grew up with a shadow of Christmas.
Because their family does not send gifts to each other during Christmas, but each writes a paper explaining "the significance of the festival to human society". Then discuss in groups and grade each other, and he can only get a "C" each time.
Howard is Jewish, but celebrates Hanukkah instead of Christmas. He also invited Xiang Nan, Peggy, Penny, Leonard and others to his home for the holidays, but they were unanimously rejected by everyone.
Peggy doesn't like Christmas either. She was separated from her parents at an early age, and Christmas is a time for family reunions. So every Christmas was a sad day for her, not worth celebrating at all.
So Xiang Nan didn't hold a party, but passed it as if nothing had happened.
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After Christmas, the new year, 2008, soon arrived.
At the beginning of the new year, Xiang Nan, Howard, and Leslie started the development of the prototype of the quantum navigation system.
In the name of researching superfluids, they applied for a start-up fund, and then manufactured it according to the previous design.
Among them, Howard contributed the most. As an engineer, he is responsible for processing parts, assembling equipment, and manufacturing prototypes little by little from scratch.
Seeing this prototype machine gradually come to reality from paper, Xiang Nan, Howard, and Leslie were also very excited.
"At most another month, our prototype can be made." Howard said happily.
They have been busy for three months, sacrificing the rest time at night and leisure time on weekends and holidays, and expending countless energy, physical strength, and brain cells, and now they finally see the results.
"Don't get too excited, both of you, I need to be clearer here." Xiang Nan coughed lightly, "Now is a critical moment for the development of the prototype, and the more critical the moment, the more careful it is.
Each of us must keep our mouths shut. Except for the three of us, we are not allowed to reveal a word to outsiders. Otherwise, once the news gets out, our efforts will fall short, and our hard work may be in vain. "
Leslie and Howard were taken aback, then nodded.
"A few days ago, Leonard saw that I was with you all day, and quietly asked me what project I was working on. Fortunately, I didn't tell him at the time." Leslie said with fear.
"Yes, although Leonard is our friend, it is still inappropriate to tell him." Xiang Nan nodded.
Leonard is a good guy and very talented, Xiang Nan likes him very much. But it's a pity that he has Sheldon by his side, who is a troublemaker.
Once provoked, it will be terrible.
Selton has no sense of teamwork, confidentiality and legal awareness. According to Leonard, "He's the bad guy who escaped from the villain's lab."
If he knew about this project, he would definitely find a way to sabotage it. At that time, all their hard work will be for naught, so they have to guard against it.
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After the new year, in addition to being busy with manufacturing quantum navigation systems, Xiang Nan also found time to write three papers, "Evidence that the 125GeV Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Tau Leptons", "Evidence of the Large Hadron Collider's Left-right symmetry and the charged Higgs boson", "Heavy quark mass effect in the production of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider", etc., continue to score points for themselves.
The release of these papers has added brightness to the aura of Xiangnan's academic star.
not only made him the darling of Caltech's physics department, but also became a famous young talent in the field of physics in the world.
Even Raj's home country, India, has been reporting heavily on him, proud of his achievements.
The headlines of individual reports are so shameful that Xiang Nan is a little ashamed.
Such as "God's chosen son, Dr. Kusapari, under the guidance of God, successively discovered the second earth and the God particle that constitutes all things. "
《Light of India, discover the God Particle! ", "The pride of all India, Dr. Kusapari, who is superior in wisdom, has solved the millennium physics problem! "etc.
These reports have made Xiang Nan's popularity soar in India. Many top Indian universities, such as Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, etc., have invited him to give lectures.
There are even many universities that have hired Xiang Nan as a visiting professor. As long as he goes to give a few lectures every year, he can get an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, and he will be reimbursed for round-trip air tickets and hotels.
But Xiang Nan is busy with the research of quantum navigation system, so he politely declines these invitations.
Even so, his reputation in India remains unabated.
And this also brought great glory to the Kusapari family, which made the Kusapari couple very happy.
"Rajesh, you have done a great job of winning honor for the family." Dr. Kusapari praised.
"Raj, MAMA knew you were a good boy with abilities, and you did not disappoint me." Mrs. Kusapari also praised.
"Thank you PAPA, thank you MAMA." Xiang Nan also laughed.
"Rajesh, in order to reward you, Dad decided to give you a Maserati." Dr. Kusapari said again.
"PAPA, I drive this BMW very smoothly now, so I don't need to change the car." Xiang Nan immediately refused after hearing this.
"Okay, then I'll give you the money, and you can buy whatever you like." Dr. Kusapari said with a smile.
(end of this chapter)