You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 526: Dark Matter
"I trust Academician Zhao~"

Zhao Mo's words made Tang Yao secretly relieved, but he did not show it. After saying such words of trust, he added: "I think America's purpose is not only to compete with us in scientific research, but also to engage in Small circles, this is what we have to guard against~"

To mobilize the whole country to deal with Zhao Mo, America's emphasis on "dark matter" made him and the superiors feel the pressure, because only Zhao Mo is taking the lead here, and the investment is relatively small.

With local advantages VS the opponent's national strength, even if the opponent is already on the decline, it will still feel threatened and thus put pressure on it. This is inevitable.

What's more, because the other side has maintained its advantage for hundreds of years and has soldiers everywhere, most countries in the world have listened to its call intentionally or unintentionally and are willing to contribute money and effort.

Of course, this time the other party paid real money, trillions of dollars. Even if most of it was taken away by the two research projects of controllable nuclear fusion and room temperature superconductivity, what was left was still a lot of fat. Is there any country that is not greedy?
In this case, it is impossible to say that there is no pressure.

Fortunately, Zhao Mo said everything with his confident and firm stance, otherwise his pressure would only be greater.

"Mr. Tang, this question of yours goes too far~"

Zhao Mo teased him, which was a tactful reminder to him that he didn't care about matters other than science.

Of course Tang Yao could hear it, he immediately laughed and ignored it, and asked instead: "Academician Zhao, according to your estimate, how long will it take for them to develop controllable nuclear fusion and room temperature superconductivity?"

However, after controllable nuclear fusion, especially after the birth of "Light of China" artificial intelligence, the update and iteration speed in the industrial field is obviously much faster than before.

Three to five years will be enough for our entire industrial level to form a big advantage, especially for some leading companies. It is certain that we are far ahead, and we cannot catch up.

Zhao Mo said without thinking: "If our technology is not leaked, it will take about three years. It mainly depends on how determined America and the others are, but this time they are so big, their determination should be enough."

Now that Zhao Mo has made his judgment, he feels that what Yu Dazui said is right. By extension, this year should be the year when the gap between other countries and us is the smallest!
After talking about other topics, Tang Yao asked the last question of the trip, or rather asked him to do a program to talk about dark matter.

Tang Yao went to a certain company for research not long ago. After listening to Yu Dazui's introduction, he said, "This year will be the year when other car companies in the world have the smallest gap with us in terms of smart driving." At that time, he was still a little hesitant.

Not to mention special departments, according to survey data from the industrial sector, social enterprises that used to need to innovate hardware on a yearly basis can now complete an innovation in half a year, or even three months in many cases. The speed is beyond imagination.

Zhao Mo didn't want to go.

Now that he has Zhao Mo's judgment, he feels more confident.

"I've seen many people talk about science popularization. Can I come up with anything new if I talk about it?"

Although these two have not yet exploded to the outside world and ordinary people have not experienced it deeply, the information submitted to the industrial sector shocked him and the superiors because the iteration speed was too fast!
Therefore, in this era, let alone three to five years, even half a year is enough to form a strong advantage.

If it were before, he would be anxious in three to five years, because in fact, there will not be much change in three to five years, because hardware innovation is usually based on years. Any other software, intelligence, cloud, supercomputing, etc., it seems that the updates and iterations are rapid, but the implementation is based on hardware. In fact, the gap between updates and iterations without hardware support is not big, and it is easy to catch up.

Tang Yao murmured, this judgment is a bit different from the assessment they convened the relevant domestic departments, but it is not big, it will only take three to five years.

"Three years?"

Even for large items such as cars, the update and iteration speed is very fast now, represented by BYD and X. BYD has always been deeply involved in batteries and automobiles, and it also manufactures mobile phones. It is in full bloom, with all parts interconnected and making progress simultaneously. It has now become the second largest player in the field of electric vehicles and is charging towards Tesla; a certain company is in the field of mobile phones. After the field is restricted, opening up new tracks saves lives. Therefore, smart driving of cars entering the market has grown rapidly with its super strong research and development capabilities.

Tang Yao persuaded: "That's definitely different. You are the magical Professor Zhao. What you say is more authoritative and convincing. At this stage, there are still many people who are skeptical about dark matter research. In addition, If you take action, you can also attract some scientists from other countries to come to our side~"

Zhao Mo realized that he was going to use him as an endorsement to get Li Heng, so he hesitated for a while and reluctantly agreed: "Okay."

Seeing that he agreed, Tang Yao was immediately overjoyed and said happily: "Thank you~" So, the next day, which coincided with the beginning of the annual semester, CCTV's "Let's Talk", which has been broadcast for several years, once again ushered in This is the second time Zhao Mo has been interviewed by this program.

Last time, Zhao Mo talked about mathematics.

Seeing Zhao Mo again, Xiao Sa's behavior was obviously more reserved than last time, and his words were naturally much more cautious.

Zhao Mo was smiling as always and very kind. Seeing that Xiao Sa couldn't let go, he immediately comforted him like a joke: "We are all so familiar, just be casual~"

Xiao Sa then laughed "haha", and the atmosphere at the scene suddenly relaxed.

"Professor Zhao, we all know that you are now the director and chief engineer of the Dark Matter Research Center. You are mainly studying dark matter. Can you explain to us what dark matter is?"

After the prelude, Xiao Sa asked the first question.

Zhao Mo sat on the chair, looking relaxed and casual. He smiled and replied, "Dark matter is something that our current science cannot see. We can think of it as a particle. It's just that our current science has not discovered it yet, and there is no evidence to prove its existence. We have only explained its existence in theory."

Xiao Sa made a joke and said: "So I have always thought that scientists are very powerful, capable of things that others cannot, like gods. Think about it, even if you can't see or touch something, scientists all know that it exists, and they can still think of ways to do it." Go find it, it’s amazing.”

Zhao Mo laughed and said: "Science is about theory, not imagination. It is far from the gods."

Xiaosa couldn't help but laugh, and then asked the second question: "Many people now say that dark matter does not exist, including the famous American physicist and astronomer Gupta James who has also stood up and publicly opposed it. Do you agree with him? the opinion of?"

Zhao Mo shook his head without hesitation: "I don't know where his views came from, but I can responsibly say that his views are wrong. In current scientific research, the existence of dark matter is very obvious. For example, in the Bullet Galaxy Cluster, two galaxy clusters happened to collide at high speed. The scientific community measured their mass centers through the weak gravitational lensing effect, and used X-rays to measure the position of the gas in the galaxy cluster, and found that the centers of the two did not coincide. It is enough to show that there is some invisible material, which accounts for the majority of the mass of the galaxy cluster, but does not emit light, does not emit X-rays, visible light and other wavelengths of light, so it cannot be detected by us. In addition, I have also been there. Mathematically, we see the existence of dark matter.”

"It means that if the mass center of the gas in the galaxy cluster coincides with the mass center of the galaxy cluster, it means that there is no dark matter?"

Xiaosa asked in agreement.

Zhao Mo thought for a while, nodded and replied: "Although it's not absolutely true, it can almost be said."

Xiao Sa nodded and asked: "What methods do we currently have for the study of dark matter?"

Zhao Mo: "There are many methods, mainly using detectors, such as cooled crystal detectors, inert gas scintillator detectors, etc. You can also use large particle collider to see if you can collide dark matter particles. These methods, It has been decades without much progress, so now the scientific community is turning to another research method to carry out research on axion dark matter. Simply put, it is to directly detect the center of the sun, or use axions to detect dark matter in a strong magnetic field. It can be turned into photons for detection, and so on.”

Listening to such a professional explanation, Xiao Sa couldn't help but jokingly asked the fifth question: "Which method are you currently using?"

Zhao Mo smiled humorously and said, "I won't answer this question because it's inconvenient for the public to do so."

Xiao Sa burst out laughing, not expecting Zhao Mo to say such a thing.

Of course, he also knew that this question was confidential, so he skipped the topic after laughing, and turned the stage to Zhao Mo, who started talking about "dark matter."

Zhao Mo spoke unhurriedly: "...Dark matter played a key role in the origin and formation of the universe, and has also affected every aspect of our lives. To give a simple example, calcium, manganese, zinc, Elements such as sodium were not formed in the early universe, but were formed by supernova explosions. However, if there is no dark matter, these elements will generate great speed when they are formed, which is enough to separate the supernova and become interstellar dust. , the dark matter formed enough gravity to take back these elements, and finally our galaxy recycled them and enriched them on the earth~"

"...Some people say that dark matter is too illusory, and the resources invested are a waste, and the resources invested should be put elsewhere. Although this statement has a certain truth, it is a headache and a pain, and it fails to grasp the situation. The main contradiction in social development. The progress in related fields brought about by dark matter research is the main purpose of investing resources in research. Of course, it is different now because I am here.”

"... Mathematically, I have discovered its existence, and what I am doing now is to find it in experiments. As for what dark matter will be used for after finding it, and what impact it will have, I don't know very well. The only thing I am sure of is that dark matter is the key to our interstellar civilization!”

(End of this chapter)