Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 340 Shark spaceship, good news on the scene, Ying Bin: Really! Really!
Gravity spacecraft research base.

A double-door military vehicle drove up to the main entrance of the base on the main road.

Many people were waiting there early and when they saw the military vehicles approaching, they confirmed it and immediately went to meet them.

Among them was the head of the base, Liu Chengwen, chief engineer of the gravity spacecraft project, as well as several teachers who came to participate in the test flight of the new gravity spacecraft, as well as accompanying officials, scholars and other personnel.

The test flight of the new gravity spacecraft is very important and has received attention from many parties including the Air Force, Aviation Group, and high-level organizations. Several teachers arrived at the base in advance.

Several teachers took the initiative to greet him. This would have been impossible for other scholars, and only Zhang Shuo received such treatment.

Everyone who came to greet him was very enthusiastic. They rushed to shake hands with Zhang Shuo and helped introduce some people they had never met before.

After the polite greetings, the teachers did not try to grab the limelight, but let Liu Chengwen and Zhang Shuo walk together.

Liu Chengwen was the one who welcomed Zhang Shuo the most. Facing the test flight of the gravity spacecraft, he felt a lot of pressure.

He walked forward with Zhang Shuo, and said with a smile on his face, "Academician Zhang, you must take advantage of the time to give us some pointers on our work!"

This was not just a polite greeting, he really meant it in his heart.

The new gravity spacecraft is a product of technology stacking. The core hydrogen bomb battery and gravity technology were all researched by Zhang Shuo. Zhang Shuo is naturally qualified to guide the work.

The new generation of gravity aircraft has attracted so much attention, and so many teachers have come to the test flight. The most important thing is that no problems occur.

If there are any problems, it would be great if Zhang Shuo could point them out.

"Guidance is out of the question."

Zhang Shuo smiled as he walked, "That's all the techniques are. Engineer Liu, I believe you can do it well."

Liu Chengwen is also very confident, he is just under too much pressure.

After Zhang Shuo arrived at the base, he felt more stable. At least there was someone he could ask if he had any questions.

The new spacecraft was named Shark.

This is a very suitable name because the new spacecraft looks like a big shark. The Shark has excellent performance and is much more advanced than the previous generation Tengyun.

The biggest upgrade comes from the power system. The Tengyun is still propeller-driven, while the Shark directly uses high gravity as its power source.

Gravity itself has great benefits as a power source, and the most important thing is that the flexibility of the spacecraft will not be affected by weight.

Aircraft engines all have maximum thrust, and the weight they can push is limited, so fighter jets with high flexibility are all light fighters. When it comes to medium and then heavy fighters, flexibility will be greatly affected.

Flexibility can be understood as acceleration to some extent.

It is difficult for heavy fighter jets to have high acceleration.

For example, the famous B2 bomber has a very high weight, so its acceleration is difficult to compare with that of ordinary fighter jets.

In addition, the maximum speed is also affected by weight and cannot exceed the speed of sound.

Since gravity itself is the driving force, acceleration has nothing to do with weight. No matter how heavy the spacecraft itself is, the acceleration is the same.

This directly solves the problem of spacecraft flexibility.

The flexibility of the spacecraft is indeed a big problem because it is too heavy. The Shark uses a new gravity technology and does not require an extra-large ring pipe. It is much smaller than the original Tengyun, but its overall weight is also over 100 tons.

It is not easy to drive such a heavy aircraft, let alone achieve high acceleration, which is simply impossible with conventional aviation propulsion technology.

Another advantage of the Shark is that its shape design is more aerodynamic, which greatly increases the lateral flight speed of the spacecraft, even close to the speed of sound.

It would be terrifying if an aircraft weighing more than 100 tons could reach a maximum speed close to the speed of sound.

The more aerodynamic shape also makes the Shark more agile.

Although gravity technology does not need to consider the influence of the earth's gravity, it is flying in the air after all, and the flight process is still affected by air resistance. With a more scientific appearance, the performance will naturally be more outstanding.

This was the Shark's first official test flight. In fact, it had already conducted take-off and landing tests and even high-altitude experiments before.

"When the spacecraft was flying, it really looked like a shark swimming in the ocean."

Liu Chengwen was obviously very proud when talking about the spacecraft. "The spacecraft can be fast or slow. When it is fast as lightning, it can stop."

"In this respect, they may be more flexible than sharks, which cannot stop in an environment other than the seabed."

"In terms of appearance design, the spacecraft has three swing wings on the left, right and top, just like shark fins, making the spacecraft more flexible when changing direction..."

As Liu Chengwen was introducing, a group of people had already walked into the large operating room, and the Shark spacecraft was parked in the center.

Zhang Shuo's eyes lit up when he saw the spaceship, and he immediately walked over and walked around it.

This new spaceship does have a shark-like appearance. It looks more flexible and technologically advanced than the original Tengyun.

"It's really great. I can't wait to see it take off..."

Zhang Shuo said in admiration, and then asked, "Judging from the appearance, there should be room inside, right? Is there a design to carry people?"

"Academician Zhang, you really understand the technology!" Liu Chengwen sighed, "You can tell at a glance that there is space inside."

"Haha."

Zhang Shuo smiled and said, "The center should be a gravitational device, but it won't take up that much space. We have done a lot of experiments, and you must have improved the technology. The space we can use can only be smaller, not larger."

Liu Chengwen nodded in approval, "That's true."

He continued, "But it's not designed to carry people. There's only a separate space inside for carrying stuff."

"We first considered adding seats behind the cockpit, but later gave up and only designed seats for the pilot and co-pilot."

"This design is correct." Zhang Shuo affirmed, "Build the spacecraft first, stabilize the technology, and then expand other needs."

To carry people, it is not enough to just have space, but also requires supplies and other supporting facilities.

This is also the difference between air transportation of passengers and cargo.

Of course, the manned design is not complicated, but because the spacecraft is still under research, it is difficult to say that the various technologies are mature, and the designs that are not used for the time being have been postponed.

Zhang Shuo asked some more questions about the spacecraft, then left the operating room and went outside to visit the base with the teachers.

Then we went to have dinner.

In the restaurant, Zhang Shuo sat with several teachers, and there were many entourages and scholars listening nearby.

Several teachers asked about his work, and he briefly talked about the research work in the superconductivity laboratory and the needs of the chaos force field experimental group.

After Zhang Shuo finished speaking, Professor Deng asked curiously, "I have never been able to figure out the relationship between these studies."

"The Large Hadron Collider has just been built, and the Chaos Field Experiment has become even larger, but what is the use of this expensive experiment?"

He added, “It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with technology or anything.”

This is a question many people present have.

Most of the people present were laymen, and laymen, who knew about various new physics technologies, would feel that technology and chaos force field experiments were completely unrelated.

Including ion cannons, gravity technology, gold manufacturing, etc., these were all researched by Zhang Shuo himself.

Chaos force field experiment, what contribution did you make?
Zhang Shuo explained, "The chaotic force field experiment is the basis."

"If you want to understand the role of this, you can compare it with the original particle collision experiment. Particle collision research can let us know more about basic particles, understand more microscopic physics, and discover many new things."

"For example, neutrinos, Higgs particles, including the current analysis of cosmic rays, and some astronomical analysis are inseparable from research based on particle collision experiments."

"The same is true for the chaotic force field experiment, which studies the basis of mechanical transformation."

"The most basic foundation of any existing new physical technology is the transformation of chaotic force fields. Take gravity for example. The difference is that gravity is an instantaneous transformation of chaotic force fields. The same is true for the others. They are all instantaneous transformations."

"Instantaneous changes cannot be measured and studied, but the force changes in the chaotic force field experiment are a gradual process that can be measured over time. We can measure a lot of data from it and use it to improve basic theories and increase our understanding of new physics."

Zhang Shuo gave a brief explanation so that everyone else could understand.

Teacher Deng also nodded after thinking about it, and finally continued to ask, "Before I came here, I paid attention to the research on the chaotic force field. It seems that they are working on improving the device, right? To measure quantum entanglement?"

"What is the purpose of this research? I mean the ultimate goal, or is there a general direction?"

As they were talking, other people gathered around, especially some scholars, who were very interested in Zhang Shuo's explanation of new physics and chaotic force field experiments.

New physics is the direction of scientific and technological development and the core research direction, but most people do not understand new physics. The same is true for scholars.

This is mainly because the new physics is extremely complex, so complex that laymen cannot understand it at all. They only know some general contents but cannot understand the details.

Facing Teacher Deng's question, Zhang Shuo looked around and then said two words, "weak force."

"Weak force?"

Someone asked.

Zhang Shuo nodded. "To be precise, it is to study the role of weak force in the transformation of chaotic force field into other forces."

A scholar named Cao Qiming immediately said, "Academician Zhang, I'm not an expert, but I know that those new technologies don't seem to have anything to do with the weak force, right?"

“That’s why we need to study it.”

Zhang Shuo finished with a smile and explained, “There is a breakthrough in studying the weak force.”

"All technologies and experiments in the new physics direction have one common characteristic: the force field transition is unstable, which will lead to huge deviations in the final results."

"Gold manufacturing is very obvious. With the same materials, the same technology and the same strength, the final gold produced can even have a deviation of more than 50%!"

"If it were placed on any other experiment or basis, this level of deviation would directly confirm that something was seriously wrong."

Those who understood the situation could not help but nod their heads, "Indeed, the deviation is too big, so big that it is beyond the acceptable range."

Zhang Shuo said, "We think this is the influence of the weak force. In the process of the chaotic force field transforming into other forces, the weak force has a direct impact."

"The direction of the current chaos force field experiment is to study the cause of this effect and trace its underlying principles."

Zhang Shuo's explanation was simple and straightforward, allowing everyone present to understand a little bit.

He continued, "If we understand its fundamental principles, we may discover some new phenomena, which may contain new technologies and new physical logic."

"Therefore, this research is very important and is also the direction I attach the most importance to."

Everyone else understood.

Teacher Zhu asked, "Did you go to the superconducting laboratory to improve the chaotic force field experiment?"

"Yes, a superconducting material is needed."

"Have you found the materials?"

"There shouldn't be any problem, right?" Zhang Shuo said uncertainly. "I had made some breakthroughs before I came here, and asked Professor Wen Shumao to be in charge of the final experiments."

"If nothing goes wrong, the result would have come out by now."

"Uh~~~"

Everyone else looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zhang Shuo calmly said what they found incredible.

Demand for superconducting materials?
Should...it have been researched?

They seemed to understand why Zhang Shuo stayed in the super large laboratory for so long. It turned out that he was doing research on superconducting materials?

This may sound like nothing, but if you think about it carefully you will find the problem.

A certain experiment requires a superconducting material, but you find that you can't find one that meets the performance requirements, so you go to a superconducting laboratory to conduct special research on it?

Is this normal?

Of course it's not normal! Very abnormal!

"It's Zhang Shuo. If it were someone else, I would definitely think he was bragging..."

Many people thought silently in their hearts.

There was a professor named You who was studying superconducting materials. He asked curiously, "Academician Zhang, what kind of materials does the Chaos Field Experiment Group need?"

"Those with strong current carrying capacity have relatively higher critical temperatures."

What Zhang Shuo said was a bit vague.

Ying Bin said directly, "The current carrying capacity of 122 material is high, but the critical temperature is not high. The critical temperature of the best material now is only about K."

While they were talking, no one else paid any attention.

One reason is that they don’t understand superconducting materials, and the other is that they are already surprised enough.

Anyway, it has been researched, as for how much improvement it has made...

Is it important?
Zhang Shuo had only been in the superconducting laboratory for a period of time. As an outsider, in such a short period of time, even if there was only a small breakthrough in the research and the material performance was improved a little bit, it would be shocking enough.

However, some people are still concerned about improving material performance.

Ying Bin was very interested. He asked directly, "The critical temperature required by the Chaos Force Field Experiment Group..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw someone running over and pushing aside the people around him to come to Zhang Shuo.

It's Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang came over and exclaimed to Zhang Shuo, "There's news from Guo Hua!"

"Has it met expectations?" Zhang Shuo asked politely, clearly showing great confidence.

Wang Qiang nodded vigorously, "I got it."

"What are the details?" Zhang Shuo asked.

Wang Qiang looked left and right and found that there were so many people present, and he was obviously hesitant.

Teacher Zhu said directly, "If you have anything to say, just say it. It's okay."

"Just say it directly." Teacher Deng also said.

Wang Qiang saw Zhang Shuo again, and Zhang Shuo also nodded slightly.

He then said a number in an excited tone, "83K!"

Zhang Shuo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Critical temperature?"

"Correct!"

"How many?"

"83K!"

When Zhang Shuo heard the data confirmed again, he was stunned.

Ying Bin also reacted quickly and asked loudly as if to confirm, "83k? 122 materials?"

Zhang Shuo also said seriously, "Speak slowly and clearly."

Wang Qiang took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and then said, "The latest material has a critical temperature of 83K, and the current carrying capacity is 13% higher than last time."

"This performance is far beyond expectations, and the critical temperature of 122 material exceeds 80K..."

He said this with some excitement.

Ying Bin had already reacted. He walked over and grabbed Wang Qiang's shoulders, asking excitedly, "Really? 83k! 122 materials!"

"really!"

"That's great, that's great!" Ying Bin said excitedly.

There were many people around who didn’t understand the situation, but someone who did immediately explained, “The 80 material with a critical temperature of over 122K means it can be used in large-scale industrial applications.”

"If the manufacturing cost is not too high, it can replace the existing niobium-titanium superconducting alloy and greatly reduce the cost of use."

"The widely used mud titanium alloy has a critical temperature of less than 10K and needs to be cooled with liquid chlorine, which is very expensive..."

"This is a complete replacement and has great economic value!"

(End of this chapter)