The daily life of American TV agents

Chapter 427 Brainstorming at Caltech
Alex is undoubtedly the best of the new generation of the Pritchett family. Lily and Alsace are too young to see anything now, but they have grown up.

Hai Li was expelled from the university early, and now she is attending a community college. Her status is basically the same as that of a domestic correspondence education. Anyway, there are not many places that admit it, so it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

As for Luke, whether he can go to university is still unknown. Manny is a little better, but at most he can go to an art university. If it is not from a good family background, he is no different from a beggar.

The last art university graduate Ron knew was Stuart, who is now relying on Howard's mother's soft food, and has just reopened the comic book store. Looking at it this way, it's really not much better than begging.

That's why Jie let out a sigh of admiration for old George. Compared with their children, his side is really far behind. The only advantage is that the third generation is born earlier?
"Thank you, Uncle Ron," Alex said gratefully, "Thank you for helping me win this opportunity to conduct research with top scholars at Caltech, my God, if my new classmates know that I haven't enrolled Just conduct research with the famous Sheldon, you will definitely envy me."

The time was five days after the Pritchett family gathering, Ron received an invitation from Leonard and the others to hold a brainstorming meeting, and just remembered that Zhijie asked him to take care of Alex a little more, so by the way, Alex Take it with you.

"I hope you don't regret it. Although Sheldon has a high reputation in the academic circle, he has a bad reputation among the students. I suggest that you better not mention your relationship with him to your seniors."

"Why?" Alex was a little puzzled.

"Of course it's because of the poisonous tongue. Believe me, as long as you spend an hour alone with him, you will have a strong criminal impulse."

"Okay," Alex still didn't understand Ron's words, but it didn't matter, she would understand soon: "May I know, is there any other physics professor besides Sheldon? Because You said that this is a brainstorming session where everyone touches inspiration together, so I think the level of other people should not be much different from him, right?"

"There are also experimental physicist Leonard, astrophysicist Rajesh, practical physicist Ron, and engineer Howard." Ron announced the names of his friends one by one, which attracted Alex's eyes. The two were taken aback when they heard it.

"A combat physicist? What's that?"

Ron waved his fist: "Is there any other problem?"

"Yes, why is there an engineer among your bunch of doctors? Isn't he a doctor?"

There's no way, it's really out of harmony to have an engineer among a bunch of Ph. D.'s.

"Yes, he's just an engineer, but he's one of the best engineers, and he's been in space," said the two. The two had arrived at the door of Shelton's apartment, and Ron opened the door directly: "Guys, let's Now, this is Alex, you've seen it."

"Come on, it's all about you."

Ron and Alex sat down next to Rajesh, which made Alex a little excited because one of her favorite majors was astrophysics, but Rajesh was more excited than her .

But not because of Alex: "It's so exciting, we're innovating! It feels like we're in The Social Network."

Howard is a little confused: "I've never seen that movie."

"Really?" Sheldon asked in surprise.

Rajesh: "That movie was awesome, I swear, and I'm not saying that because my man, Justin Timberlake, is in it."

Sheldon: "I have a Blu-ray, why don't we watch it?"

Rajesh: "Okay, I'll make the popcorn."

Alex stared at Ron inexplicably: "I remember you told me that this is a brainstorming session. Is your brainstorming tradition to watch a movie first?"

Ron could only stand up helplessly: "Hey guys, in just 30 seconds, we're going from 'together change the world' to 'together to watch a movie?'"

"So, are you talking about seeing it or not?" Sheldon asked with a confused expression while holding up the CD.

"Of course I don't read it!" Ron went to snatch the CD and put it back on the bookshelf: "I remember that you used to have a notebook for inspiration? Leonard, take it out, let's see what's in it It can be turned into reality, especially the military priority."

"I found it, it's here." Leonard took out the notebook and turned to the first page: "I haven't read it for many years, let me take a look, the first inspiration: robot girlfriend."

"This is my idea." Howard raised his hand.

Seeing that the brainstorming session had finally returned to normal, Ron breathed a sigh of relief, nodded at Alex, and stood next to her again, Leonard turned to the second page: "The robot girl?"

"That's my idea too." Howard raised his hand again.

"Wait a minute, I don't understand," Shelton touched the blind spot of knowledge: "Since you already have a robot girlfriend, why do you need a robot girl?"

"Hey, Sheldon, there are some things that you would never use to destroy your girlfriend."

"My God, after you have Bernadette, the field of robotics has really lost talent."

Alex pushed Ron with his arm, and when Ron turned his head, he immediately cast him a displeased look, as if to say: Caltech is such a thing?
Ron clapped his hands: "Guys, there are girls here! Pay attention to me! Leonard, after talking about all the inventions that Howard intends to use, let's just talk about the next one."

Leonard turned the page, turned the page, and turned the page again... Flipping through the notebook to the end, he finally found an unreliable idea: "I found one: ergonomic heated seat cushion, this thing sounds good, Whose idea is this?"

As a result, this time, Howard raised his hand again: "Mine, give up, that thing will vibrate, keep flipping."

Leonard shook his bottomed-out notebook: "It's gone."

Alex cast an unhappy look at Ron again: Caltech studies this every day?

Ron was looked at with a bit of a look on his face: "Forget it, Leonard, throw away that notebook, let's think of something else, what do you think? Again, it's best to have something related to the military, otherwise you don't want to Want to get more funding from me."

"You know, a lot of important innovations were inspired by science fiction, like the geosynchronous satellite, from an article by Arthur Clarke, the flip phone from Star Trek..."

"Yes! It's like the future mentioned in the movie "Back to the Future". It's less than a year away from now, so many things in the movie haven't been discovered yet," Alex's eyes lit up, following along Sheldon's words continued:
"Maybe we can try to make the hoverboard inside. This thing is easy to carry and makes no noise. If it is used in the military, it is definitely much better than a vehicle, right, Uncle Ron."

Ron was moved to tears. This was the most useful speech he had heard tonight, and it came from Alex, who was not yet in college.

Looking back at the Sheldons, those who watch movies watch movies, those who eat snacks eat snacks, or even compete with robot girlfriends, what's the point?
Even if Ron doesn't need it, at least he knows that replacing the abandoned doll with an electric one is not as fun as a real person!

If you have this spare time, can't you go out and have a wife?

"This is feasible at absolute zero, but we have to find a way to remove the temperature limit." Leonard followed Lex's thinking and began to think about the way of practical application.

However, the thoughts of the other three went astray again.

Rajesh: "I have an idea."

Sheldon: "I guess mine is the same as yours."

Howard: "We'll have to watch 'Back to the Future' again."

Sheldon: "I'll get the CD."

Rajesh: "I'm going to make popcorn~"

Alex black question mark face: "WHAT?!"

If it weren't for the modesty of a lady, Alex could not help but swear if she could restrain herself better.

"Stop it!" Ron had to get up again, snatching Sheldon's CD away: "No movies! No dirty jokes! No popcorn! Today we're just concentrating on our thoughts and inspirations, and we're ready for the next one. This phase of weapon research and development lays the foundation for the direction!"

"Please, don't you like reading comics the most? Now put yourself into those super villains, think about it, if you want to destroy a city, what weapon is the most convenient to use?"

"That must be a nuclear bomb." Leonard said.

"Yes, that's right, nuclear weapons, this idea is good, but it's okay to put nuclear weapons in the army, but for agents, there are still some problems. Maybe you can find a way to overcome them. Its size is too big. If there is a A small individual nuclear weapon would be much better for our agents to use."

"You mean the mercury bomb?"

"what?"

Ron turned his head, and Rajesh, who had just spoken, was also taken aback by him: "I mean the red mercury nuclear bomb, which uses mercury oxide antimony as the neutron source, so its volume and weight are greatly reduced. A small red mercury bomb The nuclear bomb is only the size of a baseball, but its explosive yield can reach tens of thousands of tons. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union both specialized in this kind of weapon.”

"Yes, I remember that there are corresponding relevant materials in Caltech's data room." Leonard nodded in agreement.

Ron was overjoyed and almost burst into tears. After spending most of the night, he finally heard something useful: "It's really great. This is what I want. What permissions do I need to check it? No matter what permissions , I'm going to apply now!"

"Wait," Howard pulled Ron's clothes: "It's useless to look at it. In fact, the nature of this information has been made public at Caltech, because Caltech has done many researches and demonstrations. It believes that this thing only stays In theory, there is no possibility of actually creating it, so it has been shelved."

"Okay, forget it." Ron's enthusiasm was almost extinguished by Howard's basin of ice water, but he still continued to ask: "Or, since the theory is established, is it possible that even if it can't be made into a weapon, it can be Can it be used as a small nuclear power battery? It can just solve the power supply problem of the power armor."

"I don't want to be as outstanding as Tony Stark's Mark series, but at least it doesn't take more than ten minutes to lie down, okay?"

"This..." The four scientists looked at each other.

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it's just that no one has ever thought of this possibility. In the Cold War era when the red mercury nuclear bomb was proposed, everyone's thinking was focused on how to generate greater destructive power. No one thought about using it as energy, but you With such a reminder, maybe we can try it.”

Leonard murmured to Ron that he had already begun to calculate the countless possibilities of this proposal in his mind, and the same was true for several other people, each with a computer, and began to calculate various formulas that Ron could not understand calculate.

Except Alex.

It’s true that she is a genius, but she is just a genius compared to ordinary people. The gap between Sheldon and the others’ real geniuses is like the gap between humans and gorillas. At most, she can be regarded as a slightly smarter gorilla. .

Among these people, even Howard, who looked the worst, didn't have a doctorate just because he was lazy and didn't want to take the exam, and his actual level was comparable to the others.

Therefore, not only Ron could not understand the formulas that Sheldon wrote on the whiteboard, but Alex could not understand them either, so she could only pretend to look up things with the computer to cover up the embarrassing situation that she could not understand. .

But right away, she stumbled upon something interesting.

"Uncle Ron, Uncle Ron," Alex whispered.

"Alex, I know what you want to say," Ron made a hush gesture, and said softly: "You don't need to feel inferior, let alone feel a lot of pressure. There are not many geniuses like them in the world. Well, I assure you, most of your new classmates are the kind of idiots you often see in high school, and you can still lead them with ease."

"Thanks," Alex thanked uncomfortably, "but that's not what I was talking about, Uncle Ron, maybe you should look at this thing."

Alex turned the computer screen to face Ron: "Someone just disclosed on WikiLeaks that there was a secret program called Solanum nigrum during the Cold War, which was also related to the red mercury nuclear bomb. The whistleblower claimed that at that time Someone already made that thing."

"Look, it's this weapon expert named Bailey. I checked the information and found that there is such a person. He also invented several kinds of nerve gas and other weapons. He is recognized as a super genius. If it is him, this person Is it possible to plant a red mercury nuclear bomb?"

Alex turned his head cutely to see Ron's reaction, but Ron didn't seem to listen to her words at all, frowning as he stared at the line of names on this disclosure document.

"Executive Agents: Frank Moses, Marvin Burgess, Joe Mason...looks like there's trouble."

(End of this chapter)