The news of the successful superconducting antigravity experiment came from the School of Science's physics laboratory.
Several professors from the School of Sciences had completed the experiment and couldn't help but share their joy with others. There weren't many people on campus that evening, but the news was quite shocking; since it involved antigravity, it sounded very sci-fi, and many people came to know about it.
Fan Lei found out about it rather early, as he happened to run into Gao Yihua on the road.
Others learned about the news later.
As the message was passed around, not many people knew exactly how the experiment had succeeded, as the details became distorted in the telling.
For instance, the messages on the internet.