A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

"Professor Carmen!"

"Good morning, Professor!"

"Professor, it's been a long time! I'm so glad you've finally shown up on campus. The coffee beans are pretty good today, would you like a cup?"

Ha, who says foreigners don't understand social etiquette? Isn't this just flattery?

When he arrived at the office, his teaching assistant brought him a stack of invitation letters: "Professor, these are the letters the office received on your behalf when you went to NASA."

"Also, this is the appointment request made while you were away. Please verify it..."

Professor Carmen picked up the appointment slip and flipped through it casually. Suddenly, a name he rarely encountered caught his attention.

"Frank Yang? Is that the Yang from Princeton?"

"Yes! He said that your best student supervised a great experiment, and given your attention to that student, he felt he should share this good news with you!"

"Oh? What's it about?"

"Quantum mechanics, he didn't go into specifics..."

Did he leave anything behind?

"some!"

As he spoke, the teaching assistant took out a tightly wrapped paper package.

Professor Carmen personally opened the package, ignoring the thick stack of documents inside, and picked up the handwritten letter on top first.

Looking at the familiar handwriting, Carmen sighed wistfully, "Money, my friend, I wonder how you're doing in which country..."

After reading the letter, Professor Carmen's eyes lit up: "Oh, Qian, if it's really as you say, then it seems you're doing quite well, and China is developing very well too, to have even proposed such an experimental method to demonstrate the wave and particle properties of microscopic objects?"

After a long while, Professor Carmen picked up the now-cold coffee on the table and drank it all in one gulp. Then, with a hint of amusement, she picked up the phone.

"Elmermas, do you have time to come to my office now?"

"Of course, Professor Carmen. I must say your call came at just the right time; if it had been any later, I would have been reporting to Oak Ridge National Laboratory."

"Oh, postpone your trip. Here's a paper; please come and take a look. Trust me, you won't regret it!"

A short while later, a middle-aged man who was somewhat balding appeared in Professor Carmen's office.

"Oh, Carmen. This isn't a paper about quantum mechanics, so how did it end up here? Are you tired of studying rockets and now want to explore the wonders of the microscopic world?"

"Hmm? China? Ha, those starving Easterners still have the mind to mess around with these things. What, do they want your guidance to get this paper published through you?"

Picking up the paper and looking at the long list of authors, Elmers, the director of Bald Eagle Oak Ridge National Laboratory, smiled dismissively.

"Elmermas, put away your foolish prejudice. When money was involved, someone was always suppressed... Besides, wasn't the high-energy laser your lab is developing also invented by Chinese people?"

"Hmm? This paper was supervised by 'Qian'? I'll take a good look at it then."

A person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Dean Qian was the one who suppressed countless geniuses of the White Eagle back then, and Elemas was one of those who were suppressed back then, so naturally he dared not be careless.

At the same time, the term "LASER" was also implicitly used to refer to "jiguang" in later generations. Yes, those big-nosed people no longer needed to write anything about "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"; they were simply called "jiguang." Isn't that great?

"Oh my god... are these Asians so clever? Using electrons to conduct the double-slit experiment?"

"Right, right, compared to the troublesome photons, electrons are actually a viable option. Look at this beautiful interference pattern..."

Putting aside preconceived notions, Elmermas, though specializing in high-energy physics, also has some knowledge of quantum mechanics, so he can see that this is indeed a successful experiment.

Elmers clutched the paper tightly: "Dear Professor Carmen, please allow me to take the experimental data here. If this paper is correct, I am willing to give a letter of recommendation, whether it is from 'Nature' or 'Physical Review Letters'."

As he spoke, the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory grabbed the documents and tried to run away.

Although their Chinese counterparts have already conducted groundbreaking experiments, even just replicating this important experiment based on data would be a significant achievement for Elmermas.

What's more, this paper holds a treasure trove of information! To this end, Elmermas didn't hesitate to name two top journals: the renowned Nature, and the equally renowned Physical Review Letters.

(A professor from Northwestern University later published a cover article in Physical Review Letters, and the university's banner was displayed for a full year. Strangely enough, the banner didn't fade even after a year.)

Professor Carmen gave a sneer as she watched Elmers run out of the office.

"Stop! This was a gift from my Chinese friends; you can't take it!"

“Oh my God! Professor Carmen, I need time to verify this! The sooner the better. Through this, my project might… Well, what other conditions do you have? I'll agree to everything!”

"Oh, my poor student, it seems that country is short of food lately. Could you use your influence to host a fundraising dinner?"

Elmers' mind was completely occupied by the new experimental hypotheses in the later parts of the paper, and he had no time to think about anything else.

“Professor Carmen, there’s no need for that. I happen to have a donation here, it’s from the Song family in Taiwan.”

"Hmph! This family is shameless. Their own people are still barely clothed, while they..." After a righteous speech, Elmermas pulled out a check.

Professor Carmen looked at the amount after receiving the check and exclaimed, "Wow, that's incredibly generous! A full two hundred thousand dollars!"

"Well, do as you please. I'm not in this field, so it's best if you take the lead..."

Watching Elmers walk away in a hurry, Professor Carmen flipped through the remaining documents.

Sure enough, Elmermas also took those forward-looking experimental conjectures.

"Ha, hypocritical capitalism. I saw through your change of allegiance the moment you switched sides," the old man muttered to himself.

"But isn't this perfect? ​​'Money,' that's what you meant too, right..."

Carmen pulled out a photograph, and her expression softened.

"Look at you back then, so full of vigor and ambition. I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to work together again..."

"Now, the old man will give you one last helping hand."

As he spoke, Professor Lamen reached for the phone again.

"Hello? Is this the National Accelerator Laboratory? This is Carmen. Hmm? Which Carmen? Theodore von Kármán!"

"No need to apologize. I have a groundbreaking experimental paper here. I wonder if you'd be interested?"

"Okay, wait an hour."

"Brookhaven National Laboratory, huh? Our friends in China have published another very insightful article. Are you... interested?"

……

And so, this lovable old man sold his goods to three different stores. As luck would have it, all of these stores recently received donations from Ms. Song Feifei.

Upon seeing the paper on the double-slit interference of electrons, these three national laboratories did not hesitate to transfer her donations under the guise of humanitarianism.

So, sometimes, knowledge really can fetch a price!

Of course, our little idiot has no idea what kind of huge wave his creation, made in order to avoid being spanked by Dean Qian, has stirred up.

He just felt dizzy...

Because his head was filled with a bunch of things.

I got hit!

It was caused by a bird strike...