In the previous timeline, Harrison Clark set the conference date for July 16, 2020, giving only seven days from the initial notification to the actual meeting.
This schedule was extremely rushed.
True scientific experts are rarely idle, with their schedules full of commitments, so even if their travel expenses are reimbursed, they can't simply drop everything and attend.
At that time, Harrison's tight schedule of seven days between notification and meeting caused headaches for many people.
Who could refuse an invitation from the author of "The Madman's Conjectures Collection," a genius who proposed dozens of epoch-making technological innovations in just a few months?
However, some people were just too busy and couldn't free up their time, so they had to send a student as their representative.
But what the scholars didn't know at that time was that Harrison Clark's tight scheduling was meant to screen participants.