Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 294 Research, Success!
“The experiment is real!”

“It’s totally feasible in theory!”

"Of course, the premise is that the conditioning material can play the desired role."

"From an experimental point of view, adjusting the material can control the temperature of the internal nuclear reaction, or in other words, the intensity of the reaction."

"As long as the effect of regulating materials is confirmed in the experiment, the research is feasible even if the temperature is not controlled within a fixed range."

"All we need to do next is to continue to experiment and study how to adjust the element ratio of the materials..."

At the meeting, scholars who understood the explanation and Teacher Li explained it seriously, with obvious excitement in their tone.

This experiment is to verify the effect of regulating materials.

Adjusting materials can help create a strong environment to keep nuclear fusion going.

The question is whether conditioning materials will do the trick.

In addition, what is the working principle? Or, how does the so-called "strong environment" increase the intensity of nuclear fusion reactions?

After the meeting, several scholars asked Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo went to the small office and said a few words casually, "According to my understanding, the mechanism by which a strong environment promotes nuclear fusion reactions is that it increases the probability of particle collisions within the reaction."

"For example, particles that originally passed by each other will collide with each other under strong conditions."

"The strong force environment also makes particles more active and increases the speed of the reactions, both for neutrons and individual protons."

He explained a few sentences and finally emphasized, "This is just my personal understanding."

"In reality, this is not certain, we can only infer based on experimental results and some theories."

"Everyone can have a different understanding, and as long as it is not disproven, it cannot be said to be wrong."

What Zhang Shuo said is indeed his own understanding.

Many of these things still need to be verified and are not certain, just like the standard model of particles. In many areas there are only theoretical analyses and no definite statements.

For example, the supersymmetry problem explained by the mathematics of string theory.

This problem can also be analyzed in other ways. Supersymmetry problems mostly use string theory mathematics, simply because it is more comprehensive and easier to understand.

What happens specifically at the microscopic level can only be inferred based on experimental results, and everyone may have a different understanding.

Therefore, Zhang Shuo emphasized that his views may not be correct.

Others responded by saying, "Academician Zhang Shuo is too modest!"

"He always says that, and he's right every time."

Tong Zhiguo cheerfully whispered, "Academician Zhang Shuo is like this. He won't be 100% sure about some theories or reactions, but what he says is just as good as gold."

Lu Ling immediately nodded in agreement.

Song Baoguo also said, "I think so too. Anyway, we are just doing experiments, so we should just listen to Academician Zhang Shuo."

Teacher Li is not interested in theories, he is more concerned with studying "possible success".

"It would be great if the research is successful!" he said excitedly.

The new physics direction is the main direction of future scientific and technological research.

The country has mastered four major technologies in the new physics direction, including gravity manufacturing, gold manufacturing, ion cannon and new nuclear energy technology.

The last three are essentially technologies based on nuclear fission reactions and can be classified into the same technology type.

What we are studying now is new technology, a super energy technology that can enable sustainable control of nuclear fusion.

If we can truly master it, and combine it with new nuclear energy technology, our country will become the leader in energy technology.

Energy technology!
What a lofty word!

Currently, the most advanced energy technology in the world is nuclear power plants, and the nuclear-powered reactors of aircraft carriers can be used as mobile energy.

The latter also has relevant technology in China, but in the face of new physics technology, the value of continuing research is not high.

The technology being studied now has directly "evolved" into nuclear fusion power, which is more efficient than nuclear fission energy and has no pollution, so its value is really too high.

Song Baoguo said, "Another point is that if the research is successful, it means that the application of nuclear power technology can be realized."

"Nuclear power generation eliminates the need for an intermediate environment, and the energy conversion rate will be very high..."

He talked about nuclear power technology.

This technology was developed by Zhang Shuo at the Tokamak Experiment Base of the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

After the research results were released, they attracted widespread attention in the international physics community.

But in reality, the results did not have much influence, most discussions were about basic physics, and there were very few follow-up discussions.

This is mainly because nuclear power technology is "too advanced" and people feel it cannot be applied at all.

For example, in the research paper they published, the highest temperature in each conversion zone did not exceed 5000 million degrees Celsius.

5000 million degrees Celsius is far lower than million degrees Celsius. Nuclear fusion reactions cannot be sustained spontaneously. What is the significance of nuclear power technology?
When talking about nuclear power technology at the experimental base, everyone else, including Lu Ling, suddenly realized why Zhang Shuo wanted to fix the internal temperature of the experiment.

Only under a fixed reaction environment can electricity be output continuously.

Teacher Li also understood that he could adjust the materials to control the reaction intensity, fix the reaction intensity to produce nuclear power conversion phenomenon, and then output electricity to the outside in a continuous manner.

Hydrogen bomb battery, all technical principles are smooth.

He was thinking impatiently.

"As long as the adjustment material can produce an effect, even if it cannot be researched now, it can be researched in the future."

"Technically, there are no more obstacles."

Everyone was discussing the principles of the experiment.

Zhang Shuo always felt helpless when thinking about the problem of 'strong environment affecting nuclear fusion reaction'.

The explanation he made was really just his personal understanding, but others regarded it as real physics and no one even questioned it.

This is the disadvantage of having high personal power and influence.

Everything you say will be regarded by others as an imperial decree, a fixed result, and real physics.

Come to think of it, it’s better not to say anything.

If you say you don't know either, others can continue researching, and many different opinions will emerge.

Maybe some ideas are just very innovative.

Academics should allow a hundred flowers to bloom.

"So don't say anything you're not sure about, and don't even speak out your own understanding..."

Zhang Shuo shook his head helplessly.

Of course, the most important thing is experimental research, and his mind immediately turned to the experiment.

So does everyone else.

Before, they were discussing what the experiment would be about, but now they are looking forward to it. They are excited and thrilled to be involved in such a major research project.

Tong Zhiguo is like this. Before he understood the experiment, he was worried about the risks, but now he is looking forward to it and no longer thinks about the leisurely life of working from nine to five.

The experiment is safe and the prospects are fascinating!

This will become a merit!
The only regret is that the experiment still needs to wait for some time. The location of the experimental base is too remote, and it is not easy to dismantle the tokamak device and transport it.

After all the equipment is delivered, it still needs to be assembled and debugged.

The wait lasted more than a month.

While waiting, Zhang Shuo returned to Eastern Suzhou and later went to the capital to participate in the chaos force field experiment, and gained a lot.

The data obtained from the new experiment has increased our understanding of the transformation of chaotic force fields and our understanding of strong force environments.

After the experiment, Zhang Shuo also published a paper in "Source Point Physics", the title of the paper is "The Transformation Correlation between Chaos Force Field and Fundamental Force".

The paper mainly describes the transformation from chaotic force field to basic force.

“We believe that the transition process will be influenced by the environment.”

“And when preparation occurs, it is already directional. The only difference is the time it takes to transform, which in many cases is instantaneous.”

"This change in formation is not random, but directly related to the environment, so the change is controllable."

The second half of the paper also explains the basic force relationship.

"The intersection point of the unification of the four great powers is the chaos field. In a way, it can be understood that the chaos field is the consistent expression of the four laws."

"In the mutual transformation of basic forces, they are first transformed into a chaotic force field, and then transformed into other basic forces..."

"This process is completed instantly..."

The weak force is not introduced in the research paper.

But in fact, the influence of weak force is very large, it’s just that the study is very complicated.

The mechanism of how the weak force works and how it interferes with the experiment has not yet been cracked, and the completion rate of the corresponding secondary tasks is less than 40%.

Zhang Shuo also has a certain understanding of the weak force experiment, but most of it is just mathematical analysis.

……

When everything was ready at the experimental base, Zhang Shuo arrived early.

Everyone at the base is looking forward to the experiment.

The first experiment was conducted in a low-key manner.

Teacher Li didn't come, and neither did any other teachers. We just agreed on a time and then went straight to the experiment.

The experimental method is to mix the regulating material and nuclear fusion material together, place them inside a vacuum reactor, and then use ultra-high temperature rays to heat them, while continuously monitoring the data during the process.

The experimental principle is very complicated, but it can be found that the practical process is very rough.

There is no need for magnetic field control of the tokamak device. The main equipment is the vacuum reactor and a large number of detection devices. The detection-related devices are obviously irrelevant to the experiment itself.

Now that everything is ready, you can start the experiment.

When the experiment was about to begin, Zhang Shuo, Tong Zhiguo, Xue Baikun, Wang Qiang, Lu Ling and others all fled to a base forty kilometers away to wait.

The on-site person in charge of the experiment was Song Baoguo.

The experiment is indeed suitable for the Institute of Nuclear Physics team to take over, because the direct reaction is nuclear fusion, the only difference is that regulating materials are added to the reaction raw materials.

In this regard, Song Baoguo's team is professional.

"Will the experiment be successful?"

After arriving at the base 40 kilometers away, Tong Zhiguo and others couldn't help but start talking, and then asked Zhang Shuo directly.

"I hope I can succeed, but it's normal to fail the first time."

Zhang Shuo was also somewhat looking forward to it, but at the same time he was prepared for failure. After all, it was the first experiment, and there would be uncertainties in the equipment control, including the data.

This is the truth.

Lu Ling thought of another question. He frowned and asked, "With so many people involved, is there a risk of technology leaks?"

He is a member of Song Baoguo's team at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Although everyone has signed a confidentiality agreement, there is still a possibility of leakage by some researchers in Song Baoguo's team.

They were just experimenters.

Zhang Shuo smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's impossible to keep it completely secret."

"Any technology that involves many people will have the risk of leaks. The key is what is leaked."

"In this research, adjusting the materials is the key."

"Professor Song's team is only responsible for the experiments, and the adjustment materials are mixed in an absolutely confidential environment."

"Each element and its content is controlled very finely. Any difference will affect the result. Therefore, as long as the key to adjusting the material ratio is controlled, nothing else matters."

The control of regulating materials is also one of the difficulties in applying the technology.

There is no step of adding specific elements in the current experiment. When nuclear fusion occurs inside the reactor, the sparsely proportioned regulating material elements may break down into other elements due to the influence of nuclear fusion and strong environment.

Although the rate of elemental reaction of the regulating material is very low, the function of the regulating material is to control the temperature. Long-term element loss will still affect the temperature control problem.

To maintain a long-term reaction, specific elements must be added in stages.

Certain experiments are still needed in this regard to determine the proportion of addition and to study the technology of adding elemental materials.

Of course, the above does not affect the experiment.

The important thing in the current experiment is to determine whether the regulating material is effective, and the way to determine it is that the nuclear fusion reaction can be maintained for a long time at a certain temperature.

"As long as it can last for more than ten seconds, the experiment will be a success!"

Tong Zhiguo said it with certainty.

The others nodded as well, while also keeping an eye on the news from the experimental base.

When the planned time came and the experiment was confirmed to officially begin, some people kept waiting for news from the base, while some people couldn't help but get excited and didn't want to wait for immediate news, so they simply went out for a walk, thinking that they would know the results when they came back.

That's what Zhang Shuo did. He, Tong Zhiguo, Xue Baikun and others went outside the base, strolled around and looked at the scenery. Later, they found a small hill and simply climbed up to take a look, just as if they were climbing a mountain.

After waiting for more than an hour, several people walked down the mountain together and returned to the base at a leisurely pace.

During the entire process, no one talked about the experimental issues, as if the experiment forty kilometers away had nothing to do with them.

When I got to the door, I heard Lu Ling's exclamation from inside the room, "The base sent a message saying it was successful!"

"It was above 1500 million degrees Celsius for 17 seconds. The subsequent reaction decayed very slowly and it was maintained..."

"It's 400 million degrees Celsius now, and we can still detect the heat in real time."

"If this were a regular experiment, the reaction would have ended by now. In other words, the effect of the regulating material has been verified..."

"us--"

“——Success!”

(End of this chapter)