Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 292: Let me go to die!
The number of elements is finite.

There are a total of 118 elements in the periodic table, including 94 naturally occurring elements and 24 artificially synthesized elements.

Even if all elements are tested twice, only 236 experiments are required.

Element resistance experiments can be conducted on average every three days.

If we speed up, we can conduct one experiment per day on average, and all experiments can be completed within 300 days.

Tong Zhiguo saw hope for the end of the experiment.

Since taking over the new experimental task, he missed the easy nine-to-five life at the Science, Technology and Industry Bureau.

It was so leisurely and beautiful at that time...

Seeing the hope of the end of the experiment, my whole mental outlook changed. I worked very actively and made the whole team look positive.

Experiment, experiment again, and experiment again.

In the following month, the base conducted nine experiments, with an average frequency of once every three days, making the experimental base very busy, as if it was running non-stop every moment.

Zhang Shuo, Xue Baikun and Wang Qiang spent most of their time in the underground information room. Only when they needed to conduct experiments would they move to the base 40 kilometers away.

The underground information room contains detailed experimental data and can be used for various analyses.

Data analysis, which is the process of data mining, can find the commonalities and patterns in the data, and thus increase the understanding of elemental resistance.

In the process of continuous research, Xue Baikun and Wang Qiang have gained a lot. They understand the role of "regulating materials" and the research methods.

Simply put, it is mixing different elements together.

According to the characteristics and resistance of the elements, the elements are mixed together in a fixed proportion so that the resistance produced by their reaction reaches an optimal level.

The most suitable refers to stability and the ability to resist maintaining a fixed strong environment to promote nuclear fusion reactions and thus achieve a stable temperature.

Nuclear fusion reactions and elemental resistance need to achieve 'coordination'.

In the initial studies, it is very important to fix the temperature value.

Zhang Shuo directly set the value - 1500 million degrees Celsius to 1600 million degrees Celsius.

This value is related to the research on strong force conversion into electromagnetic force, which is carried out with the help of the small tokamak device of the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Within a specific reaction intensity threshold range, nuclear fusion outputs a clear current signal, and it is a strong current of direct conversion, which also means that the reaction intensity is stable and maintained within a fixed threshold range, which can achieve direct conversion of nuclear fusion into electrical energy.

There is no conversion of thermal energy into electrical energy, which reduces the intermediate links in energy conversion and makes the conversion efficiency very high.

This is also one of the technical foundations of hydrogen bomb batteries.

In the temperature range of 1500 million to 1600 million degrees Celsius, the experimental team detected strong electrical energy conversion, which can be considered as the energy escape being directly converted into electrical energy.

"So I think the conversion will be effective in the range of 1500 million degrees Celsius to 1600 million degrees Celsius, or even 1700 million degrees Celsius."

"No matter how high the reaction intensity is, it will exceed the threshold space, and it will be very troublesome to convert electrical energy..."

If the direct conversion of nuclear fusion into electrical energy cannot be achieved, the only option is to use the 'boiling water' technology to manufacture equipment similar to thermal power generators in thermal power plants.

The energy conversion rate of that kind of equipment is not low either, and may even exceed 40%. The disadvantage is that the equipment is too large.

The equipment is so large that it cannot be used in 'battery' technology, and the research and development of hydrogen bomb batteries is meaningless.

What we are studying now is the regulating material, which is also the core of the "hydrogen bomb battery" technology. The regulating material can utilize the resistance of elements to stimulate a strong environment that promotes nuclear fusion reactions.

If the reaction intensity reaches a certain limit, the strong environment stimulated by the regulating material cannot keep up, and the nuclear fusion has not reached the limit of spontaneous maintenance (100 million degrees Celsius), the reaction intensity and temperature will drop back to the threshold range.

What they do is to calculate the "element mixing scheme with the least deviation" based on the element resistance experimental data, that is, to develop a regulating material that can keep the nuclear fusion temperature between 1500 and 1600 million degrees Celsius.

As the experiment progresses, new tasks are also progressing at a rapid pace.

One month later, the progress exceeded 69%.

This progress may seem slow, but it is mainly limited by experiments. Without sufficient basic data support, further analysis cannot be carried out.

Zhang Shuo has been working hard on analytical work.

The progress of the mission is limited by experiments, but the continuous research has also yielded great results. While gaining a better understanding of elemental resistance, the mission can also make some progress. More importantly, some theoretical content can be accumulated.

……

On this day, a group of people came from the Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry.

Teacher Li, we’re here.

The team led by Teacher Li is not large in number, but they are all his direct superiors and top scholars.

Teacher Li came here specifically to check on the project. He also knew that Zhang Shuo had been at the experimental base and had not even participated in the chaos force field experiment.

Everyone knows how much importance Zhang Shuo attaches to the chaos force field experiment.

Now you don’t come to participate in the experiment?
"Element resistance experiment, is it so important?"

"You didn't even go to the Chaos Field Experiment? Teacher Wang even complained to me that the project had taken you away. I told him that this was also your project..."

Teacher Li talked to Zhang Shuo all the way.

Zhang Shuo smiled and said, "The chaotic force field experiment studies the basics and theories. In fact, it doesn't matter whether you participate or not. You can always see the data."

"That's true." Teacher Li nodded in agreement.

Even if Zhang Shuo went to participate in the experiment, he could not stay in the laboratory and could only go to the physics center to wait for the experimental results.

There is really not much difference between going and not going.

"How was this experiment? You've been here for a month. Have you gained anything?" Teacher Li asked curiously.

He didn't know much about the element resistance experiment, he just knew that it was an experiment advocated by Zhang Shuo, and it seemed to be related to some hydrogen bomb battery.

Hydrogen bomb battery...

No matter how you think about it, it’s too advanced!

There is no experiment on controlled nuclear fusion yet, so thinking about hydrogen bomb batteries is a bit unreliable.

Zhang Shuo smiled and nodded, "It's a great harvest. After a while, we will be able to achieve phased results..."

As he spoke, he suddenly frowned, and his eyes lit up as he thought about it. He immediately asked, "Can the Science and Technology Industry Bureau support new research?"

"What research? Tell me about it."

"Hydrogen bomb battery!"

"—?"

Teacher Li was a little confused and asked, "Isn't this research related to hydrogen bomb batteries?"

"I mean, we are researching the technology to make hydrogen bomb batteries," Zhang Shuo explained. "Academician Tong's experiment measured the resistance of elements, and we use this to study the adjustment materials."

"The next step is to study hydrogen bomb battery technology, which will involve nuclear fusion and complex device design, but first we need to complete stable nuclear fusion technology, which can also be understood as determining the role of regulating materials."

"Once this step is completed, we will have perfect hydrogen bomb battery technology, and we can use it to manufacture hydrogen bomb batteries."

"..."

Teacher Li understood, but was still incredulous. He asked as if to confirm, "Zhang Shuo, you mean that after we have the adjustment materials and measure the performance, we can make hydrogen bomb batteries?"

"That's right!"

Teacher Li immediately asked, "How do you control nuclear fusion?"

"Adjust the materials!"

"How to achieve outer layer protection? I mean, a hydrogen bomb, or nuclear fusion, the reaction will release huge amounts of energy."

Zhang Shuo nodded and explained, "The function of regulating materials is to make the nuclear fusion reaction stable, so that it will not explode like a hydrogen bomb." He thought for a while and said, "From this perspective, the term hydrogen bomb battery is a bit inaccurate. It should be called a fusion battery."

Teacher Li didn't care about the name. He continued to ask, "Even if we can achieve stable control of nuclear fusion, how can we achieve electrical energy conversion? For nuclear energy, we still have to build a power station first, right?"

"We already have the technology. We are working with the Institute of Nuclear Physics to study how to convert strong energy into electrical energy. We have already measured the data."

Zhang Shuo added, "That was a great achievement, and it was published in Source Point Physics."

"..."

After listening to this, Teacher Li was silent for a long time. He found that all the questions he had thought of had been answered.

and then?
Can hydrogen bomb batteries be realized?
No matter how you think about it...

He suddenly frowned and asked immediately, "Hydrogen bomb batteries, such a large project, the Science and Technology Industry Bureau can't afford it, right?"

The hydrogen bomb battery not only stably controls nuclear fusion, but also technically shrinks it down to make it into a battery. The project budget must be at least several hundred billion, right?
By then, the number of researchers and engineers required, as well as the demand for equipment and technology, will absolutely be astonishingly large.

The Science, Technology and Industry Bureau does not have the strength to lead such a huge project alone!
Zhang Shuo shook his head and said, "The Science and Technology Industry Bureau is good enough."

He explained, "We are not going to manufacture it now, but just test and adjust the performance of the material. We need a reaction confinement device and a team that understands nuclear fusion, or high-temperature particle matter confinement technology."

"The Institute of Nuclear Physics and Academician Tang Hua's team are enough."

“Just move their tokamak device here so we can conduct experiments.”

Tong Zhiguo never said a word.

Hearing about the need for a nuclear fusion research team and the need to move a tokamak device here, he immediately had a bad feeling and asked, "Academician Zhang, you don't want to conduct material testing here, or research and development of hydrogen bomb battery technology, do you?"

"correct."

Zhang Shuo nodded as a matter of course, "The environment here is just right, and Academician Tong, you have rich experience in this kind of research. When the time comes, you will lead the experiment, and we will work together to develop hydrogen bomb battery technology."

Tong Zhiguo half opened his mouth and didn't utter a word for a long time.

Hydrogen bomb battery technology research and development?
Leading the experiment?

The 'strong splitting' experiment was carried out by moving a tokamak device, and then an explosion of the size of a small atomic bomb occurred.

If we are now conducting 'hydrogen bomb technology research and development', wouldn't that mean we will have to have an explosion on the scale of a 'hydrogen bomb'?

That's so scary!
"Let's not talk about whether the research is successful or not. Should we consider moving the base four kilometers away... a little further out, to a hundred kilometers away?"

"Also, what if something goes wrong before the experiment?"

Tong Zhiguo's expression froze. It was the first time he realized that being 'experienced' was not a good thing. He felt that working from nine to five was a distant dream. What he should consider was how to ensure the safety of himself and his team.

……

Three days later, the nuclear fusion team of the Institute of Nuclear Physics received information from the Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry.

Tang Hua is already in semi-retirement, and most of the work has been handed over to Song Baoguo. When he has nothing to do, he doesn't even come to work to punch in.

But he still saw the information from the Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry as soon as possible.

Teacher Li said it was the "Tang Hua team". In comparison, Song Baoguo's prestige and influence were still too low.

"Send a team to conduct experiments related to nuclear fusion..."

“The research involves strict confidentiality.”

"Also, dismantle the Tokamak device and transport it over?"

The last request made Tang Hua feel familiar. He couldn't help but think of the first tokamak device in China that he led the team to build, and it was Tong Zhiguo who transported it.

Later, it was said that it was 'blown up'?

"Could it be Tong Zhiguo again?" Tang Hua thought of the exploded equipment and picked up the phone angrily.

A phone call was connected to Tong Zhiguo's assistant.

After waiting for a few minutes, I heard Tong Zhiguo's voice from the other side, "Old Man Tang?"

"it's me!"

Tang Hua questioned, "This project is you again, right?"

"Uh~~~"

Tang Hua understood the tone and said angrily, "I knew it! It's you again! You just don't like my research, right? You'll find a chance to move our equipment and blow it up, right!"

Tong Zhiguo quickly explained, "…It wasn't me, it was Zhang Shuo…"

"Don't mention Zhang Shuo, I'm just asking you, is this your experiment? Your project!"

"Forehead……"

"You have nothing to say, right? I knew it was you when I saw you were going to move the equipment. You had bad intentions and wanted to...have a son...you have a dirty mind..."

"#@￥%..."

"It's really Zhang Shuo!"

Tong Zhiguo was scolded and felt that he was more wronged than Dou E. He really didn't want to conduct any nuclear fusion experiments, let alone blow up the equipment.

How horrible!

A small atomic bomb, and a hydrogen bomb at that...it will kill people!
After Tang Hua calmed down a little, Tong Zhiguo explained seriously that it was Zhang Shuo who asked to use the tokamak device and so on.

After hearing this, Tang Hua said, "If Academician Zhang asks for it, then there is no problem."

"Not to mention using it for once, it doesn't matter even if it blows up again. For more important research, our fast equipment is being put to the best use."

"I'll let Song Baoguo lead the team..."

no problem?
Use things to their extreme?

Tong Zhiguo didn't want to listen any more. Why was Zhang Shuo just making the best of his situation? If it were him, he would be scolded?

Double standards are too serious!
After Tang Hua hung up the phone, he called Song Baoguo and told him about the requirements of the Science and Technology Industry Bureau.

"You lead the team!"

"This is a great opportunity to participate in a major research project with Professor Zhang Shuo!"

“You must perform well!”

After Tang Hua finished speaking, Song Baoguo asked in confusion, "Academician Tang, what is the specific research? Do you have any news?"

Tang Hua nodded and said, "The Science and Technology Industry Bureau only assigned the work, but I personally have some information."

"This time, the experiment was led by Academician Tong Zhiguo and was related to nuclear fusion, or more precisely, to the hydrogen bomb."

"Hydrogen bomb, restrained by a tokamak exosuit, and then experimented with."

"This is a major research project that has the attention of the top leaders. You must perform well, insist on standing at the front line to participate in the experiment, and carefully control every link..."

"Ula Ula~~"

Tang Hua gave a lot of instructions.

The more Song Baoguo listened, the more he felt something was wrong. A hydrogen bomb experiment? Confining the hydrogen bomb inside a tokamak device?
Won't this blow up?

Do we still want him to be on the front line and participate in the experiment?
"Is it because he retired and was upset that I took over the team, and then... left me to die?"

Song Baoguo was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)