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But to be fair, there's always evidence that can be provided.

For instance, the Star Project from back in the day aimed to redevelop a new spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon. Nine billion US Dollars were spent, but the cost greatly exceeded the budget, leading to the project's abandonment.

If Karsten Hegge could tolerate that, then the Texas-based Superconducting Super Collider project, after spending over two billion US Dollars, was suspended due to audit overruns... The SSC remains a forever pain in the heart of the US high-energy physics community.

Regarding Karsten Hegge's complaints, the person on the video call expressed respect through silence, then changed the topic: "Alright, Professor Hegel, I roughly understand what you mean. What if I told you that Edward Witten was involved in drafting this report? How would you comment on that?"

"Edward? He endorsed this report?"

Clearly, these words caught Karsten Hegge off guard, prompting him to pick up the report again, glance at it, and say: "That makes it easier to verify, just hold on. I can give Edward a call."

Karsten Hegge knows Edward Witten has already arrived in Huaxia, which is not a secret in the US physics community.

Nonetheless, Karsten Hegge still has Edward Witten's contact information.

Making a call doesn't literally mean calling; internet communication software has quite effectively replaced traditional phone methods. The only real limitation for instant communication might be the time difference. However, Karsten Hegge figured Edward Witten should be awake by now.

As it turned out, Edward Witten was indeed awake, and his tone even sounded rather helpless.

"Oh, Karsten, I know why you're reaching out to me. Right, about the collider? Yes, I can only tell you it's true, at least through computational simulation it's feasible. Facts will prove that a compact equipment structure can achieve high-speed particle collisions."

Once the call went through, Karsten Hegge didn't even have time for formalities or raising questions before receiving a reply.

"This... Edward..."

"Yes, are you wondering why I knew you'd ask this? Because since yesterday, my old friends have been nonstop consulting me about this. Emails, discussion groups, phone calls... God, believe me, I suggested to Professor Qiao to complete a paper to clarify things, but unfortunately, they see it as a waste of time..."

"Alright, Edward, can you calm down a bit? Trust me, I understand how you feel now! But you said publishing such a paper is just a waste of time? Please tell me, who are 'they' you're referring to?!" Karsten Hegge couldn't help but interrupt Edward Witten.

He can understand everyone's psychological need to show off; in fact, he sometimes has it himself.

But Edward Witten went too far.

The new accelerator theory is one of the cutting-edge academic research directions in the field of high-energy physics, with Nobel Prize-level achievements.

If a more powerful particle accelerator can indeed be designed based on this new theory, a Nobel Prize would definitely be within reach. And not just the Nobel Prize, but the Einstein Prize, Dirac Medal, Hertz Award... any physics-related award would demand a full set.

Not to mention according to the report, they've tackled the miniaturization problem of particle accelerators.

Putting that aside, its application in the medical field alone would solve all research funding issues for the rest of his life.

That means proton and heavy particle cancer treatment, medical imaging, and the production of radioactive isotopes would become simple and widely accessible. With low construction costs, training high-energy physics graduates would be simplified in the future.

While high-energy physics labs may not be everywhere, as long as major universities are equipped with such devices, graduate students could directly operate and conduct targeted experiments. Rather than thousands of scientists concentrating at CERN, all submitting project applications, making those without fame rely solely on vast feedback data for research.

At this point, the person on the other end of the call also gave a response.

"Who else could it be? Of course, it's Qiao and Peter... they think the main task at this stage is to construct the theoretical model within the energy parameters we can currently observe. Right now, what we're discussing is the issue of whether protons decay.

This relates to the Q(10) Grand Unified Model, and yes, there's a need to explain it to you. Q(10) is one of our recent research outcomes. Indeed, it's a 10-dimensional complex symmetry group, whose generators involve not only traditional Lie Algebra generators but also higher-order topological generators.

Oh, let me divulge a bit of our latest research findings. In the Q(10) model, the representation transformation of the Fermion Field includes higher-dimensional representations. These representations not only cover quarks and leptons of the standard model but also introduce new supersymmetric partner particles and topological state particles, making the entire theory intriguing.

But what's most intriguing is that when we introduce a complex Higgs field according to this theory, its vacuum expectation value leads to spontaneous symmetry breaking of Q(10). According to the derived interaction formulas, it eventually forms the symmetry group of the standard model along with a new topological interaction.

Through this new topological interaction, we've reached a very interesting conclusion. Protons will decay, and during the decay process, complex topological transformations occur. However, the decay won't take place within observable dimensions. But these involve understanding aspects related to Chern class and entanglement number, and we're unable to ascertain correctness at present.