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Chapter 236 I guarantee it with my position, there is no problem with the conclusion!
Nuclear Engineering Industry Group, the main entrance of the artificial sun project base of the Nuclear Fusion Execution Center.

A large group of people were talking enthusiastically and walking inside.

Walking in the front were Zhang Shuo and Professors Song Ruifei and Shao Enjiang from the artificial sun research team. Following behind were Xue Baikun, Guo Hua and others, who were also talking to other researchers from the artificial sun team.

This time, Zhang Shuo led a team to the artificial sun project base to obtain some data and information on nuclear fusion research, and at the same time, he also hoped to understand the technology.

The artificial project research team was very enthusiastic about the arrival of Zhang Shuo's team.

In today's international mathematics and physics circles, Zhang Shuo has become one of the most influential figures. Even if all scholars are put together, his influence will rank among the top.

The theoretical and experimental research conducted by Zhang Shuo and his team has also been recognized by the country and even the world.

So far, the most influential research is the experimental discovery of gravitational field signals. The Nuclear Organization, Fermilab, and other top high-energy physics institutions all hope to obtain more experimental data and information, and also hope to communicate with Zhang Shuo's team.

This is a study that may represent the future direction of technological development.

The research on nuclear fusion is also very important and is considered an important energy technology for the future of mankind. The artificial sun project team has also received support from the country, but the level of support is definitely not as high as Zhang Shuo's research.

Before coming here, Zhang Shuo had communicated with the artificial project team, as he hoped to obtain some experimental data on nuclear fusion.

But when they first arrived at the project base, they did not discuss specific data issues, but instead talked to each other about research-related content.

The artificial sun project team is still very successful. They are operating the world's first fully superconducting tokamak EAST device and have achieved more than 400 seconds of steady-state long-pulse high-confinement mode plasma operation.

This is a world record for a tokamak device operating in high confinement mode.

The technical difficulties involved are very complex, such as plasma configuration confinement on a long time scale, high-power radio frequency wave heating and current drive, plasma-wall interaction, real-time diagnosis of key distributed parameters, and other cutting-edge physics and technology integration.

With so many complex and difficult problems to tackle, you can imagine how significant the results will be.

Zhang Shuo discussed nuclear fusion technology issues with Song Ruifei and Shao Enjiang along the way.

During the visit to the fully superconducting tokamak device, Song Ruifei and Shao Enjiang also introduced the main problems encountered in the research.

“There are two biggest problems to solve.”

Song Ruifei introduced, "One is the material tolerance, and the other is stability and controllability."

"Our research almost all revolves around these two questions, but in terms of progress..."

Song Ruifei pursed his lips and shook his head. "There has been little progress in the past year. We are looking for a new technology, especially when the temperature exceeds 1 million degrees Celsius, how to control the internal magnetic field and how to adjust the internal plasma channel. We hope to use this to minimize the requirements for material tolerance..."

He said a lot of things in succession.

These tricks are understandable. The most critical aspects of nuclear fusion research are materials, stability and controllability.

Nuclear fusion control technology sounds very advanced, but in fact, the technical problems related to the underlying reactions have been solved long ago.

One of the biggest limitations to the technology is the tolerance of the material. Because the reaction temperature is too high, almost no material can withstand such high temperatures. They have to use superconducting materials and technology to reduce heat conduction, but this also brings technical challenges.

Another point is stability and controllability. The reason is still ultra-high temperature and high pressure. Ultra-high temperature and high pressure are inherently unstable environments. Any slight change may lead to the reaction getting out of control.

After listening to many technical difficulties, Zhang Shuo also raised his own needs, "Have you ever conducted strength tests on deuterium-tritium reactions?"

Song Ruifei and Shao Enjiang were somewhat puzzled.

Zhang Shuo explained, "To put it bluntly, I came here mainly to obtain some experimental data on the internal reactions of nuclear fusion, hoping to use this to understand the basic force involved in the reaction - the strong force."

"Nuclear fusion data... to understand the strong force?" Song Ruifei was even more puzzled. "Although the reaction does involve strong force, we don't have any measurements in this regard, because strong force..."

He didn't finish his words, and he didn't even know how to say it.

Zhang Shuo understood.

The strong force is different from the electromagnetic force and the gravitational force, and there is no measurable indicator.

Nuclear fusion experiments measure internal temperature, pressure, concentration of various particles, reaction conditions and other data, and do not involve strong force issues.

Zhang Shuo continued, "I hope to use this to conduct theoretical research related to strong forces."

Now Song Ruifei understood.

He suddenly realized and said, "Basic force relationship model, source point theory!"

"Correct."

"You want to study the relationship between strong force and electromagnetic force?" Shao Enjiang also understood. "I have seen the relationship between electromagnetic force and gravity before. It is a very complex mathematical model. Is your gravitational signal experiment based on this model?"

Zhang Shuo nodded affirmatively.

There is nothing to keep secret in this regard. After the experimental results are released, any scholar with in-depth understanding will know that their experimental basis is the correlation model of electromagnetic force and gravity.

Even so, Shao Enjiang and Song Ruifei were still very surprised after getting Zhang Shuo's confirmation.

Shao Enjiang smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, I've seen that model before. It's too complicated, too complicated, too complicated! I really don't know how you did the experiment."

These are impossible to tell.

Zhang Shuo just smiled and then asked whether he could get the data.

This is the key.

Song Ruifei nodded directly and said, "Of course there is no problem. In fact, the data are all public and can be seen on the ITER platform. It's just that some detailed data have not been published. It doesn't matter which data you need."

"Thanks in advance."

Zhang Shuo also breathed a sigh of relief, at least the purpose of coming here was achieved.

The artificial sun project team does not care about the experimental data, because the data can only show what kind of technology they have achieved, and the key to technology is materials and control systems.

After discussing the data issue, they talked about other issues.

Shao Enjiang was very interested in Zhang Shuo's theory. He asked, "Professor Zhang Shuo, you are using this data to study the relationship between strong force and electromagnetic force, right?"

"So can this kind of research explain nuclear fusion reactions from a new perspective?"

He added, "I attended a meeting of the Nuclear Industry Bureau last month, and someone mentioned your theory. They said that the nuclear fusion problem could be re-explained from your theoretical perspective, so that we can study and solve the current difficulties in a new direction."

Song Ruifei also nodded, "Yes, judging from the current situation, whether it is the material or stability control problem, it will take a long time to completely solve it."

He said this with a wry smile on his face.

The artificial sun project team, including hundreds of other teams and institutions of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, are constantly working hard to research controlled nuclear fusion technology. The research is making frequent progress and there are many related reports.

But no matter how much progress there is, it is all small progress.

For example, South Korea's "artificial sun" project team successfully heated a plasma loop to over 1 million degrees Celsius and maintained it for a record 48 seconds.

This so-called "great progress" reported is also limited to the experimental research itself.

Whether it is four seconds, forty seconds, or four hundred seconds, it is too short compared to the continuous running time. What's more, the experiment only simulates high-temperature plasma, not real deuterium-tritium fusion, and the internal reaction is relatively stable.

Zhang Shuo is also aware of the situation of nuclear fusion technology. Many problems cannot be solved unless there is a qualitative breakthrough in materials science.

For example, we can manufacture special materials that can withstand high temperatures and pressures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius. For example, we have materials that can completely insulate against heat and can be used continuously.

and many more.

The difficulty of researching these materials seems to be even more difficult than controlled nuclear fusion itself.

"Maybe."

Zhang Shuo gave an uncertain answer, "We are still studying the relationship between electromagnetic force and strong force. Perhaps after a definite breakthrough, we can also demonstrate nuclear fusion."

"I'm really looking forward to it!" Shao Enjiang said immediately.

After discussing the main issues, they continued chatting.

Song Ruifei talked about international public opinion, "Recently, everyone is paying attention to our country's new anti-missile experiment. Zhang Shuo, you also know about it, right?"

"There were no anti-missile missiles at all, but the missiles over 500 kilometers away were destroyed. I don't know how they did it."

“Do we really have this technology?”

Zhang Shuo smiled and shook his head, "Maybe, maybe not. I read the news, but I'm not sure."

This is not a lie.

He did not participate in the relevant weapons research, and even the technical experiments only solved a problem for Tong Zhiguo's team.

The subsequent news is not clear at all, it’s all just personal speculation.

……

The anti-missile experiment was just a topic among Zhang Shuo, Song Ruifei and others.

But for Josh Abbott, it's not just a topic, the Information Administration has been busy with this for a long time.

Josh Abbott, along with dozens of his subordinates, were directly assigned by their superiors to continue searching for relevant information, including military and commercial satellite images, military radar detection signals, thermal sensing satellite signals, and so on.

The higher authorities hope to obtain more detailed data, and preferably find out the attack method of the anti-missile experiment.

There are two opinions in the international community on the issue of anti-missile missile experiments. Some people in public opinion believe that it is fake, and the experiment itself is an attempt to deceive the missile, as it contains a large amount of chemicals, which will produce a large amount of smoke in space.

The second is a new type of anti-missile weapon, but I don’t know the specific details.

The higher authorities were more inclined to the latter because they could not see the point in conducting two fraudulent experiments in a row.

Intimidation?

If the idea is to intimidate and demonstrate strong military power, wouldn't it be better to launch an intercontinental missile, demonstrate aircraft carrier technology or high-end fifth-generation fighter jets?
So the pressure was put on Josh Abbott, and his superiors hoped that his team could find clues related to anti-missile technology.

The problem is, I can’t find it.

Josh Abbott felt that he had not been so busy in more than a decade. He worked more than ten hours a day, constantly checking pictures and data information, hoping to find some information related to the so-called "anti-missile".

He and dozens of his subordinates were constantly looking for information, but in the end they found nothing.

Even if some data worthy of attention were occasionally discovered, careful study later proved that they had nothing to do with missiles.

The information cannot be found, which makes the higher-ups unhappy, and it’s scary to think about it.

The other party has mastered an undetectable anti-missile technology, and we don’t know what kind of technology it is.

What specific power does it have?
How large is the interception range, how accurate is it, and how wide is the coverage?
These are all questions.

Only by knowing the specific information can we find ways to deal with it. It would be terrible if we don’t have any information.

For example, will intercontinental missiles be intercepted?
For example, after a fighter jet takes off, will it be very unsafe? Even missiles at an altitude of 500 kilometers and a speed of several Mach can be intercepted, and fighter jets...

It feels like a gift!
After the incident, the aircraft carriers cruising in the western Pacific immediately moved 500 nautical miles away.

The military is mainly concerned about the fighter jets on the aircraft carrier.

When a fighter jet flies too high during training, for example, to an altitude of 10,000 meters, will it be treated as an "experimental target" and attacked?
By then, if they can't even detect it, will they think it's a fighter plane malfunctioning?
and many more.

These are all issues that must be considered.

All the pressure to find the information was on Josh Abbott.

Josh Abbott knew very well that if he could not find the relevant information, and any problems occurred later, such as the existence of anti-missile missiles, he might lose his job.

In the end, nothing was found.

Josh Abbott's team didn't find it, nor did the European Monitoring Centre it was working with.

They held several meetings to discuss the issue and all agreed that the public opinion analysis might be correct.

This may be an intimidation experiment, or it may be a study of the technology inside the missile. In short, it is not an anti-missile experiment at all.

Josh Abbott submitted a report to his superiors anyway, "This is our conclusion!"

"There is no anti-missile defense at all, nor is it any new technology. They may just be conducting an experiment related to missiles, that's all."

"The problem is the missiles themselves, not the anti-missile defenses..."

"I guarantee with my position that there is no problem with this conclusion!"

……

Zhang Shuo obtained the data provided by the artificial sun project team.

After returning to the theoretical center, he did not rush to study the data, but contacted the Institute of Nuclear Physics again, because the determination of the numerical value of the strong force and its inverse correlation with the electromagnetic force still had to be measured in real experiments.

The artificial sun is an international cooperation project. A lot of data is shared, and there are many international scholars in the team.

It is impossible for such a research team to maintain confidentiality.

In addition, it is impossible for their tokamak experimental device to be modified due to Zhang Shuo's experimental needs, even if it is just to add measuring devices.

Zhang Shuo still hopes to conduct experiments according to his needs, that is, to do specialized experiments, so he can only contact the Institute of Nuclear Physics. He wants to measure the electromagnetic circulation, hoping to be able to measure the electromagnetic signals generated by the medium material under an increasingly strong environment.

This experiment must be kept confidential.

However, the response from the Institute of Nuclear Physics was not satisfactory. “We still have a small tokamak device, but it has not been used for a long time. The last experiment was three years ago, and the reaction could only last for a few seconds.”

"The current stability is uncertain. Can a few seconds support the experiment?"

Zhang Shuo thought about it carefully and said, "I'll go take a look."

He decided to go to the Institute of Nuclear Physics to see the specific conditions of the experimental equipment.

If some modifications can be made to the equipment, perhaps the reaction control can be maintained for a longer period of time.

That way, you can conduct experiments later.

(End of this chapter)