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Chapter 286 Fluctuation Deviation! The Most Difficult Field!

With the support of the Science, Technology and Industry Bureau, and the experiments proposed by Zhang Shuo, the research preparation went very smoothly.

Tong Zhiguo put together a team and applied for a complete set of ion cannon generating equipment.

The next step is to design and manufacture the experimental device.

The research requires a built-in ultra-high temperature environment and heating the single-element ions to extremely high temperatures. They obtained information on the nuclear fusion tokamak spiral magnetic field device from nuclear physics research.

The main related components are the outer wall of the reactor, pipeline protection and radiation heating technology.

Among them, ray heating technology is very important. The research requires heating the elements in the vacuum reactor to more than 10 million degrees Celsius. Heating, maintaining high temperature and heat protection are all cutting-edge technologies.

The design and manufacture of such high-demand equipment is also very complicated.

Zhang Shuo had already established the design task of the experimental equipment.

The difficulty of this task reaches level B, and it requires 700 scientific research coins. It will still take some time to complete.

However, because there is a main direction and with the support of top engineering talent in various fields, research tasks are progressing very quickly.

The research process is somewhat similar to aircraft design.

Design involves many engineering and technical fields, including materials science, high-energy physics, ion physics, etc.

In addition, there are a lot of calculations to be done.

For Zhang Shuo, this was his first time designing experimental equipment, and it could be considered a new challenge.

However, the design itself is mostly engineering theory content. With technical support, the design research proceeds very smoothly.

In three weeks, Zhang Shuo led the team to complete the device design.

After the design was completed, the team held an internal meeting to discuss the design and improve each part.

The next step is to wait for manufacturing.

The first stage of work is to manufacture the main equipment, so that subsequent experiments can be carried out. Manufacturing is not so easy, and it is not possible to manufacture it by just handing over the design drawings to the factory.

The team needs to break down the design into a lot of parts, have the corresponding factories manufacture the various components, and finally manually assemble the equipment.

Problems such as component materials and performance will be encountered along the way, and various problems will also be encountered during the testing of each part.

These are the problems that Tong Zhiguo and his team are going to solve.

"It will take at least half a year."

Tong Zhiguo estimated the time. "The equipment is very complicated and needs to be connected to the ion cannon. The experiment has to withstand very high temperatures."

"The risk of nuclear fission reaction is very high. In addition to the ultra-high temperature environment of ions, the equipment and experimental base must also be properly protected..."

"More than half a year, or even more than a year, maybe even longer!"

Tong Zhiguo did not give a definite time.

Zhang Shuo could understand this. After all, it was normal to spend several years to manufacture a new large-scale equipment.

"It's up to you, Academician Tong."

He said to Tong Zhiguo very seriously, "This research is very important, and I also hope to start the experiment as soon as possible."

"In short, do your best, but remember that safety is the most important thing."

"Don't worry, Professor Zhang Shuo, we will pay attention to safety issues!"

After completing the design of the new experimental equipment, Zhang Shuo returned to the Source Point Theory Research Center, and soon after went to the experimental base of the Institute of High Energy Physics.

A new experiment is about to begin.

This time, more international cooperation groups participated in the experiment, including two large teams, one from Germany and the other from the Netherlands. The two countries have joined the International Chaos Field Research Organization through negotiations.

After Zhang Shuo arrived at the Physics Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics, he met with scholars from two international cooperation groups and welcomed their arrival.

Afterwards, they attended the Chaos Force Field Project Team Meeting held by the Science and Technology Department.

The meeting was led by the Science and Technology Department, and its content was naturally very important. The theme was to make decisions on the work of the new experimental base.

At the meeting, Teacher Wang announced that the site selection for the new experimental base had been completed.

The new experimental base was chosen in the northern coastal city of Qinwangdao.

More than a decade ago, when the Large Hadron Collider was still in the demonstration stage, the issue of the site selection for the experimental base was discussed.

Qinwang Island was chosen at that time.

The decision to build a large-scale experimental base now involves more investment than the discussion more than a decade ago, and the main core has become a chaos force field experiment. The site is still Qinwang Island, which shows that Qinwang Island is indeed very suitable for the construction of a large-scale experimental base.

The meeting decided to raise 50 billion yuan in advance and invest it directly in infrastructure construction.

Teacher Wang also discussed with others and determined the construction schedule for the experimental base.

According to the schedule, the construction time is scheduled to be completed within 'three years', which can be said to be a very short time.

In three years, a large experimental base will be built.

This plan surprised all the international group members attending the conference. If it were their country to build it, it would be impossible to achieve.

Three short years may only be enough to handle the affairs before the base is built.

However, for China, the construction itself does not take too much time. The most time-consuming aspect is the technology and equipment requirements.

For example, we encountered technical problems in construction.

Or maybe some equipment does not meet the requirements, or there is a problem with the design itself, and some adjustments need to be made.

These take more time.

……

After the plan for the new experimental base was finalized, the members of the experimental team returned to the base and prepared to start a new chaos force field experiment.

This experiment is basically the same as the last one, and can be understood as the second test experiment. However, in fact, there are many teams involved, and the experiments are all proceeding normally, so it is just a formal experiment of "slightly lower intensity".

The purpose of the experiment is to obtain more data.

Just like a particle collision experiment, it is not just a one-time experiment, but many times. Each experiment can obtain basic data. Only by putting more data together can we analyze information based on sufficient data.

Conducting multiple experiments and performing data mining based on the data is the most direct and effective way to study microscopic physics.

Although it was the second experiment, the personnel in the chaos force field experiment room were still a little nervous.

The experiment still carries risks.

The fact that the last experiment went smoothly does not mean that this one will be equally safe. An experiment that could cause two major accidents must contain risks. It is just unknown whether the internal safety protection of the main equipment is effective.

It only took a few minutes from entering the dangerous period to confirming that the experiment was over.

The laboratory staff passed the 'dangerous period' and could not help showing joy on their faces. At the same time, they were more assured about the safety of the device.

The particle collision experiment and the chaotic force field experiment were completed successfully.

The next step is to do data analysis.

With the experience from the previous time, and with more teams and scholars participating, the project team completed the data analysis work in less than a week.

When summarizing the data, a new problem was discovered.

Moreover, it is a major problem——

"The fluctuation deviation is too large!"

"Same experiment, compared with the previous experimental data, the fluctuation position deviation is more than doubled!"

The screen displayed a curve showing the fluctuation positions of the data from the two experiments.

Everyone in the meeting room looked over and found that the position of the wave in the new experiment was more than twice that of the previous experiment. If the wave represented the intensity, the strong transformation created by the new experiment was more than half of that of the previous one.

No matter in which scientific research field, the same experimental data cannot be classified as "normal deviation" if it is reduced by more than half.

Because the deviation was too large, the scholars present could not help but question, "Is it a problem with the equipment? Is the detection information inaccurate? Or is there a break in the flow at a certain location?"

"Physical hardware performance? Otherwise it wouldn't be like this..."

“I can’t think of any other reason at the moment.”

Many people suspected that there was something wrong with the detection device of the chaos force field equipment, which led to such a large fluctuation deviation.

Yu Fei denied it bluntly. He said seriously, "We have done many tests before the experiment."

“After we got the data, we conducted repeated tests and found that there was no problem with the equipment itself.”

In this regard, international scholars involved in front-line experiments can also prove that they are also involved in equipment testing.

Testing equipment is like measuring the accuracy of a weighing scale, which has fixed measurement standards.

If there is a problem with the equipment, it will be discovered during the testing process.

The question is, why are there such large fluctuations and deviations between the two experiments when there is no problem with the detection device?

Many scholars started thinking about it, and some even spoke at the conference, but after a long discussion, no conclusion was reached.

This also excited many people.

The lack of conclusion means that there is a lot of room for research. Every scholar involved in the experiment can conduct research based on the experimental data, and at worst can write a few papers.

Many research papers based on experimental data can be classified as theoretical physics. Even if they are a bit far-fetched, they cannot be said to be wrong as long as they are not disproven.

Here comes your chance to brush up your paper!

Some top scholars are also looking forward to conducting research using experimental data and solving this problem. By then, there may be some new discoveries, or even major discoveries that shock the world.

Zhang Shuo is also very interested in the issue of volatility deviation.

This is not necessarily a new physical discovery, but there must be some unresolved physical problem involved.

After the experimental meeting ended, most of the teams and scholars who came to participate in the experiment left the experimental base.

In the office of the Physics Center, Zhang Shuo, Xue Bokun, Yu Fei and others were also discussing the problem of experimental fluctuation deviation.

"It's not a problem with the testing equipment. It should be the strong position of the experiment itself, which has fluctuation deviations."

"But why?"

Many people are constantly thinking, but of course they don’t have any ideas.

They had thought about it for a long time before.

Zhang Shuo couldn't think of the reason for a moment, so he decided to set up a task to conduct research.

Xue Baikun suddenly frowned and whispered to Zhang Shuo, "I suddenly thought of a question."

"Tell me something."

Xue Baikun immediately continued, "Made of gold!"

Gold manufacturing involves technical confidential information, and he will not publicly disclose some reaction principles.

He continued in a low voice, "In the gold manufacturing process, the intensity of each ion cluster release is the same, but the amount of gold produced varies greatly."

"Sometimes, it's 100 kilograms, and sometimes it's even down to 50 kilograms."

"The situation now is somewhat similar..."

Zhang Shuo also frowned as he thought about it. There were indeed similar situations in the deviations between the two questions.

Gold is made by allowing mercury and lead elements to undergo a nuclear fission reaction, whereby they lose protons and transform into gold.

With the same strength and the same material, there is a huge deviation in the amount of gold produced each time.

The deviation can be as high as over 70 percent, which is an alarming number.

The understanding has always been that the control precision of ion cluster reaction intensity is insufficient. Now it is found that in chaotic force field experiments, the strong force fluctuations that occur in the same experiments also have huge deviations.

Maybe, is a problem?
Zhang Shuo was thinking about the task he had just created.

【Task 1】

[Research project name: Principle of fluctuation deviation in chaotic force field experiment (difficulty assessment: B).]

(The mission can be upgraded to S level.)
【Progress: 3.132%.】

(The task can be canceled. The current number of research coins required to cancel the task is 0.)
(The remaining progress requires 291 scientific research coins.)
"Three hundred research coins is not a high demand!"

“Maybe the research isn’t complicated, but it’s not easy to come up with the key information.”

"But, the mission can be upgraded to S-rank...?"

Until now, I have never seen an S-level difficulty task.

S-level, a representative requires more than 10,000 scientific research coins, and the research must be very difficult and complicated.

The current task is only level B, which is probably just to understand the principle of fluctuation deviation and does not involve expanded content.

After the task was established, the progress had exceeded 3 points, which probably indicated that Xue Baikun's idea was correct.

The gold manufacturing deviation and the fluctuation deviation in the chaotic force field experiment may be caused by the same reason.

What exactly is it?

In any scientific research, inspiration and direction are the most important and also the most difficult to break through.

Zhang Shuo chose '氪币' without hesitation, and immediately got the most direct influencing factor -

Weak force!

He thought about it carefully for a while, and then he felt as if he had suddenly realized something.

He looked up at the other people in the office and said, "Professor Xue just reminded me of a key point that I have been overlooking!"

Everyone else looked over immediately.

"Weak force!"

Others also started to think along the same lines.

Liao Zhenyu pondered and said, "There is weak force in hyperon decay, or in other words, weak force is involved in all nuclear reactions."

"If the cause is in the weak force, then the fluctuation deviation can be explained."

"But its principle still needs more in-depth research!"

Yu Fei sighed, "It's very difficult when it comes to weak force. Current theories have very little to do with weak force."

"Even in theoretical physics, which is a high-energy field, experiments are difficult..."

Everyone else nodded in agreement.

Both strong force and weak force are microscopic forces, but the effect of strong force is more obvious, with higher intensity and clearer manifestation.

Weak force is not easy for ordinary people to understand, let alone do research on it.

If you have been to middle school and studied physics, you will know that the weak force is one of the four fundamental forces. But what is the weak force? In what particles does it occur?

This question can stump most people.

(End of this chapter)