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Chapter 221: % Sure? That's Enough
The element carbon has always exhibited various magical properties.

Research on carbon has never stopped. In the history of the Nobel Prize alone, there have been many awards directly related to carbon, including the well-known graphene, whose discoverers Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

Then there was the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Robert Cole, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley for the discovery of fullerenes, or C60.

In addition to these direct discoveries, there have been quite a few important discoveries related to carbon.

As for why carbon can exhibit so many properties, it mainly lies in its unique atomic structure and chemical properties.

First of all, in terms of electronic configuration, the carbon atom has 6 electrons and its electronic configuration is 1s2s2p.

This enables carbon to form four covalent bonds because it has four unpaired valence electrons that can pair with other atoms.

It is for this reason that carbon can form a variety of structures, making carbon the basis of life and all life on Earth called carbon-based life.

"But so far, no theory has been able to fully explain the properties of carbon."

In the laboratory, Xiao Yi was holding a pair of tweezers in his hand, with a piece of nanoporous carbon material clamped on the tweezers, and his eyes were fixed on the nanoporous carbon.

The ability to control materials was activated invisibly, and then his vision entered the microscopic world.

By simulating the movement of electrons in and out of these apertures, he was able to observe that, occasionally, the speed of some electrons suddenly increased, as if they were flying directly through the apertures.

Even at the microscopic level, he could not observe what caused the electrons to speed up.

The level of detail that his microscopic vision can ultimately see cannot reach the electron level. As for why he can observe electrons, it is simply because the electron cloud increases the observability of electrons, which allows him to see the behavior of electrons.

As for the true appearance of the electron, he could not see it at all.

The sudden acceleration of electrons must be due to the characteristics of certain fundamental forces, and the microscopic perspective certainly does not allow him to observe how the fundamental forces work.

Therefore, if we want to analyze the principles that lead to electron acceleration, we still need to analyze from a global perspective.

After stroking his chin, Xiao Yi stopped mastering the materials, and then picked up Liu Xiaodong's previous experimental report next to him.

Liu Xiaodong not only tried lithium-sulfur batteries, but also tried some other methods. The simplest experimental method is to directly place nanoporous carbon in the middle, and then use a photoelectric emission device on the other side to use the electrons generated by the photoelectric effect to pass through the aperture. In this way, it is possible to observe whether the electrons will still be accelerated in the aperture without the interference of any other materials.

According to the final experimental results, the acceleration phenomenon still exists, so this completely excludes all other factors and proves that the electron acceleration phenomenon is related to the aperture.

At the same time, in addition to carbon pore size, it is not ruled out that any pore structure may cause this acceleration phenomenon.

So in Liu Xiaodong's experiment, he also looked for various other nano-scale porous materials, such as metal organic frameworks MOFs materials, covalent organic frameworks COFs, mesoporous silica and many other materials.

But in the end, only carbon porous materials can show the pore acceleration phenomenon.

"Carbon pore size..."

Xiao Yi pondered for a moment, and then began to use the principle of absolute electronicity to build a model of carbon aperture. He then began to manually calculate what changes would occur in the model when electrons passed through the aperture.

However, his calculations showed no acceleration of the electrons.

Simulation failed.

"So... there are still some undiscovered principles?"

Or is it an effect?
When it comes to effects related to electrons, Xiao Yi quickly thought of the Hall effect.

The Hall effect is a very important electromagnetic phenomenon. By applying a magnetic field perpendicular to the current in a conductor or semiconductor material, a voltage difference can be generated in the direction perpendicular to the current and the magnetic field.

The application range of this effect is very wide, and it can be found in fields such as sensors, magnetic field measurement and semiconductor research.

The Hall thruster made based on the Hall effect also has an outstanding performance in space, mainly because the Hall thruster has a very high specific thrust.

However, the principle of the Hall effect is very clear, but where does this aperture acceleration principle come from?
"Since it is related to electrons, it should be an electromagnetic interaction force."

"Silicon and carbon both have four electrons outside their nuclei, but silicon-related nanoporous materials do not have such pore acceleration, only carbon..."

All kinds of speculations arose in Xiao Yi's mind, but in the end, he made the final decision.

"The element carbon must be completely resolved."

Although there are quite a lot of studies on carbon, there are not many studies that can conduct a comprehensive analysis of this element.

Of course, the main reason for this is that scientists still don't know how many undiscovered properties carbon has.

Just like fullerene was discovered in 1985, it has been only 40 years since then, and graphene was discovered in 2004, it has been 20 years since then. Then there is magic-angle graphene discovered in 2018. Superconductivity will occur at a special interlayer twisting angle.

Of course, strictly speaking, the properties of magic-angle graphene are not only manifested on graphene. Other materials with similar two-dimensional layered structures may also exhibit similar exotic electronic properties, including superconductivity, under certain conditions.

But no matter what, these studies can show that carbon may still have quite a few properties that have not been discovered by human science.

The current carbon aperture acceleration problem can be regarded as one of them.

Therefore, Xiao Yi now believes that it is necessary to conduct a complete analysis of the element carbon from an all-round perspective.

This analysis may not necessarily reveal anything, but at least it can help people provide a theoretical guide when exploring other properties of carbon in the future.

It is not like the discovery of graphene, which was obtained by repeatedly sticking and peeling graphite with tape to finally obtain a two-dimensional structural material. There is a certain element of luck involved.

After making the decision, Xiao Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

At least there is a goal.

And compared to finding out the cause of carbon pore size acceleration, this goal is relatively easy.

He really had no good way to find out the principle behind the carbon aperture acceleration phenomenon. Liu Xiaodong had already done all the experiments that could be done. Apart from being able to observe the aperture acceleration phenomenon, there was absolutely no other data that could help explain this phenomenon, and it was almost impossible to find any trace.

Simply...

Physics no longer exists, and the sophons have invaded.

Well, of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration. At present, it can only explain the main reason leading to this phenomenon, which is hidden quite deeply.

Just like the principle of magic-angle graphene, it has not been explained.

Magic-angle graphene is a low-temperature superconductor, while Xiao Yi’s theory is about high-temperature superconductivity, so he did not achieve an explanation for the former.

"I'll be busy from now on."

Xiao Yi sighed.

If he wants to complete a comprehensive analysis of the element carbon, he will have to read a lot of papers, so of course he will be busy.

However, before that, let’s first finish the NS equation report that will begin in a few days.

There are less than 3 days left until March 15th.

……

Another two days passed.

For the lecture on the 15th, quite a lot of people had already arrived in Fei City on the 13th.

Feishi Airport.

As a plane that landed from Shangjing landed steadily at the airport, the tourists on board began to get off the plane.

However, what surprised many Chinese passengers on this flight was that for some reason, there were quite a lot of foreign tourists on this flight today.

There are not so many foreign tourists on normal days, at least on the flights to Fei City, there are not many foreign tourists.

After all, Feishi is not a famous city in China, and it does not have any outstanding tourist attractions. It can be said to be unknown.

Perhaps the most famous city in the entire Anhui Province is still Jinling...

"Hey! Terrence!"

In the exit corridor, passengers who had just got off the plane were walking towards the exit when suddenly a voice rang out.

Then, a Chinese man walking in front turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, and then said in surprise: "Charles? You are on this plane too?"

This Chinese named Terence is Terence Tao. His English name is Terence Tao. Abroad, people who are familiar with him basically call him by this name.

And Charles is none other than Charles Fefferman.

Both of them are top experts in the field of NS equations, so they will certainly not miss the proof report meeting of NS equations.

Of course, the relationship between the two is very close. The comment "If you are stuck on a problem, one way out is to get Terence Tao interested" came from Fefferman. In addition to this, Fefferman also praised Terence Tao a lot.

Naturally, the two of them became quite close.

"I didn't expect you to be on the same flight with me."

Fefferman spread his hands and said, "I can't help it. If I hadn't felt that your back looked familiar, I would have probably just thought of you as a Chinese." "Okay."

Terence Tao shrugged. There was really nothing he could do about it. After all, he was of Chinese descent. Since he came to China yesterday, he was basically treated as a Chinese by others.

Then he said, "No matter what, at least we have company now."

Fefferman smiled and said, “Of course.”

But at this moment, another voice sounded: "Oh? Look, I found something!"

The two were stunned and turned to look, then saw another giant in mathematics appear.

"Professor Qiu!"

The third person to come was Shing-Tung Yau.

His research on NS equations is also quite in-depth, and he is also an expert in fluids.

Therefore, he was quite familiar with the NS equations.

Tao's eyes lit up, and he immediately said to Fefferman, "Great! Charles, Professor Qiu is more familiar with China than we are. At least he can speak Mandarin. We don't have to worry about not having a tour guide next time!"

Fefferman's eyes lit up: "Oh! That's great!"

"Qiu, we two will be handed over to you from now on."

Qiu Chengtong smiled and made an OK gesture, "Of course no problem."

Then they stopped talking and continued walking.

Of course, in fact, when they arrived at the arrival hall, they could see a huge sign with "NS Equation Proof Report Conference and Feishi Mathematics Academic Exchange Conference Guidance Office" written in Chinese and English.

In order to prepare for this report meeting, the government certainly did not forget to prepare reception points at airports, train stations and the like.

After the three people arrived at the guidance point, they immediately got on a special car to the designated hotel under the guidance of the staff.

"Huh! To be honest, I have never been to China. Why do the news reports say that China is very backward and spends a lot of money on military expenses? But now I look around and it is not bad at all. No matter what I saw in Shangjing, there is a city called Feishi."

After getting in the car, Fefferman looked at the bustling scenes around him and couldn't help but sigh.

Both Shing-Tung Yau and Terence Tao smiled.

"You just need to listen to most of the news from the American media in reverse, especially when it comes to news about China."

Terence Tao said that he had been to China many times and had given a speech at Tsinghua University before, so he certainly knew the relevant situation.

Qiu Chengtong also agreed: "Yes, Fefferman, I think you should clear up the nature of the American media."

Fefferman spread his hands and said, "Well, it seems that I was a little too superstitious about what the media said."

Then he asked curiously, "By the way, do you think Xiao Yi studied the NS equation because of nuclear fusion?"

Qiu Chengtong said: "I think it is very likely, but he seems to have only studied the Greenwald limit, right? I remember that this matter was published in Science some time ago."

Tao Zhexuan said: "Although I don't know the specific situation, some time ago, the CIA asked our Presidential Science and Technology Advisory Committee to evaluate one thing, which is whether Xiao Yi has the possibility to research controlled nuclear fusion."

Feferman and Qiu Chengtong were both stunned.

"Oh my god, is this something I can say?" Fefferman immediately covered his ears in an exaggerated manner.

The CIA is notorious and they are well aware of it. Although the CIA is responsible for affairs outside the United States, they pretend to be the FBI in the country. Of course, the FBI pretends to be the CIA abroad.

"Hahaha, not really." Tao Zhexuan waved his hand: "There is no requirement to keep this matter confidential. After all, this matter is a bit too exaggerated no matter how you think about it."

"It's impossible that anyone really thinks Xiao Yi can develop nuclear fusion." Tao said, "When our committee received this assessment task from the CIA, we were all shocked. How could they ask such a question?"

Feferman and Qiu Chengtong both burst into laughter at once, and for a moment, the car was filled with a happy atmosphere.

However, they probably didn't notice that the driver, who only spoke Chinese, moved his ears slightly.

……

Soon, the car arrived at the hotel entrance near the Anhui International Convention Center, which is also the designated hotel for this lecture.

When they got here, they met several acquaintances who had already arrived. Of course, quite a lot of people recognized these three big names in mathematics and came forward to greet them. There were also some reporters who heard the news and came up to conduct a brief interview with them.

Time flies, and July 7th has arrived.

……

At 9:30 in the morning, at the entrance of Anhui International Conference Center, participants from all over the world and all over the country began to enter in an orderly manner under the guidance of staff.

Some people passing by looked at the door in surprise, and were very curious about what was going on there.

But soon, they learned the situation from a huge poster nearby.

It turns out that Xiao Yi was holding a lecture here?
Xiao Yi can now be regarded as a celebrity in their Fei City. People who work and live in Fei City can more or less see news related to Xiao Yi. It can be said that he is a role model in their Fei City.

Of course, the tens of thousands of jobs that Xiao Yi's solid-state lithium-sulfur battery patent has brought to Fei City alone are enough for the people of Fei City to express their gratitude to him.

So at that time, many people took photos and forwarded them.

As the news spread further, it didn’t take long before more and more people in the country knew about this incident, and the popularity of related news gradually increased.

However, Xiao Yi, who was in the backstage lounge at this time, was not very clear.

There was less than half an hour left before the report officially began, but his mood was exceptionally calm.

I even had the time to think back to the various research papers on carbon that I had read in the past few days.

He already had a basic idea of ​​how to proceed with the analysis of carbon.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened and an old acquaintance walked in.

Director Liu Cong of the Science and Technology Bureau.

"Xiao Yi, long time no see."

He greeted Xiao Yi with a smile.

Xiao Yi came back to his senses from his thoughts, glanced at him, and raised his eyebrows: "Director Liu, long time no see."

"It's been a long time since we last met." Liu Cong nodded. "I just had a meeting yesterday, and then I took a flight to Fei City at around six this morning. I've finally made it."

"How is today's report? Is it okay?"

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It's been so long, Director Liu still doesn't have this much confidence in me?"

"That's true." Liu Cong said with a smile.

"However, I am more concerned about another matter. We have received news that the White House has begun to pay attention to your research on nuclear fusion. What do you think about this?"

"Huh?" Xiao Yi was confused: "Why are they paying attention to this?"

This shit hasn't even started yet. At most, he just created a Greenwald limit. Can this get attention?

Do you think he is Doraemon?

Liu Cong smiled and said, "We are also curious about why they would pay attention to such things."

"But since they are paying attention, we have to be prepared to deal with it, so I also want to ask you about your thoughts on controlled nuclear fusion."

"Especially the fact that you joined the Plasma Institute, we all know about it."

Liu Cong became serious: "As long as you think you have a chance, the higher-ups will provide you with full support."

Xiao Yi was stunned.

So, just because he expressed his inclination towards nuclear fusion, he received such attention?

He was silent for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I am currently conducting a crucial study."

"If this key research can be successful, then I dare say that there is already a 30%... 20% chance of success."

When it comes to technologies like nuclear fusion, he wouldn't overstate his confidence.

"Twenty percent?" Liu Cong nodded and said, "That's enough."

(End of this chapter)